I've seen bamboo used in China for scaffolding in the construction of steel and concrete buildings 20+ storeys tall.

Woohoo! We've found the new "... on the Internet!"

You could try logging in.

(You didn't get modded down--ACs post at 0.)

I guess I'm not hip, but I felt the need to look up "Elbonia".

Alas, the Wikipedia entry is quite sparse, and the entry on the Dilbert Wiki appears... to have been written by Elbonian-speakers.

Ah, well.

Yeah, how about a write-up in English?

It's not a field in which I've conducted extensive research but that doesn't surprise me.

Apparently Off-Topic is the new "I'm covering for the fact that I'm a fucking imbecile who just doesn't get it".

Sorry I've no mod points today, mate.

Sez you.

That's a pretty lame attempt at a troll, considering that you can buy video cameras about the size of your thumb on Amazon.

+100.

Does it matter? FWIW, I'm a Buddhist, and most of the Founders were Deists.

Why should anyone bother, when you keep doing such a wonderful job of proving it yourself, just like you do here?

Oh! I almost forgot---How did you like the postcard?

I'm sorry, did you have something to say about personal freedoms and reproductive choice? Doesn't seem much like it.

This appears to be what he's implying, don't you think?

And yet families in Western countries are dramatically smaller than than they were a century ago--which some would see as the result of acquiring reproductive freedom, including the freedom *not* to have more kids than you want to or think you can afford, etc.