That it has. The current gen are impressive machines, as are the old ones, and kids love seeing them. It is like a Tonka truck dream come true, or as my 3 year old put it shaking with excitement "They have a super dump truck and a super super dump truck!" when he first saw the 100 ton and 240 ton truck up in Virginia, MN.

Thanks I will have to check that out, and probably dump a large number of hours into it. At least now I can put my OCDness with maps to good use instead of just mapping way too much of my home town, and trails in northern Minnesota.

I was just countering that somewhat implied point that they weren't using massive machine. At the time they were using the largest available but those don't hold a candle to the current monsters that are used in mining the largest ever removed ~220 cubic yards of material at a time. Or for an actual shovel instead of a dragline there are these electric monsters which I have seen similar ones in action.

Hey I can distinguish 24 colors as that is all my family could afford when I was a kid.

Well at the time they were using the most massive equipment available to the point that a whole new class of steam shovels was created specifically for the project. They were rail mounted 105 ton (US tons and that is the vehicle weight not capacity) steam shovels. You can see one of the 6 prototypes for the project here. It has a 2 1/2 cubic yard bucket instead of the original 5 cubic yard one (changed because the iron ore was substantially denser) and was also converted to crawler tracks to run in the iron mines of northern Minnesota but is the only remaining one of the prototypes. While this shovel never worked on the Panama Canal the only other surviving example of this type of shovel that may have is in much worse shape and exists in upstate new york. They were built on a 40' railroad box car which houses the boiler with an additional 8' added on to the back for a coal hopper with the boom and arm attached to the front.

Someone mod parent up.

While I agree that we do need a logically coherent set of laws and rulings that doesn't seem to be what we get.

Using your groups the actual numbers would be more like .00001% of the people on the list are in group C, .00002% of the people on the list are in group B, and the vast majority 99.99997 fall into group A (these number are at least within a couple of orders of magnitude of the actuals). This isn't a list of terrorists, but people with ties to terrorism with what ever criteria the rather incompetent government uses for defining ties to terrorists. I would be willing to bet it assumes 2 degrees of separation at least so you know someone who knows someone type of thing means you have ties to terrorism.

That assumes that the general probability of any random person has a 50% chance of having ties to a terrorist (I leave it to the reader to figure out what in the hell that actually means). In reality depending on how having ties to a terrorist is defined the list is either phenomenally accurate (nice tight definition where 80% of the general population meets the definition).

I believe the official line from the government is:

Not quite. Remember this is supposedly a DB of people with connections to terrorism which means you know someone who knows someone kind of thing. I am not sure how many degrees of separation one needs to not be considered to have connections to terrorism. I am surprised the number is as high as it is given the governments previous statements on such things, since I figured using their normal methods of classifying people they could have just loaded the U.S. Census Bureau DB and then claimed that only 0.001% had no connections.

Belarusian uses a Latin-style "i" in place of the typical Cyrillic short i... So you can still phish admirably with "paypaI" and never leave Cyrillic. e, x, c, y, i, o, p, a: how many words can you make?

Old people always invest in dividends for cash flow.

He's not really any different than my parents, other than scale.

Haven't you heard that the next Tesla model will fold and only weigh 40 lbs, to solve problems exactly like this.