Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

LINK TO THREAD SEVEN

BREAKING NEWS

Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.

Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.

[JustPiper]

Thanks for 'that; reminder DL, Ike was my favorite President!

[WestCoastGal]

OK opposite of SD would be north, an hour north of HB would be approximately Malibu.

Aha Barbra Streisands house!!!!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Good for you! You threw down the gauntlet.

[Velveeta]

I wasn't encouraging you to name names, I wouldn't want a lawsuit to befall you either.

I think I get where you're coming from now. :-)

[JustPiper]

Then those posters should be duly ashamed and Cut it out! You know who you are and take 'debates' to mail!

[Myrddin]

You have two alternators that you wish to run in parallel. On your desk is a frequency meter and a phase meter. What must you do before connecting both alternators to the same bus? What happens if you connect them with a 20 degree phase angle mismatch?

I know the answers from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

I asked for your professional assessment of the exposure of New York City to a blackout if all coal fired plants went offline because the rail bridges supplying the coal were destroyed. If you don't have sufficient knowledge to address the question, then just say "I don't know". It's no reflection on your skills or knowledge. Your input was solicited because of your prior involvement in power and blackout issues.

I'm asking the question because my program sponsor at the Federal Railway Administration is concerned about monitoring 55 critical rail bridges. My current work involves monitoring railcar bearings using digital signal processing techniques to identify a frequency signature against a database of known defect frequency signatures. This defect analysis is a spinoff of work my group did for the Navy to identify defects in the E2C aircraft engines. We're also working up an analysis profile for the titanium diapraghm coupler between the engine shafts of the Osprey aircraft to detect approaching failure. I do have an little experience with rotating shafts in critical machinery.

Back to the topic. Is New York exposed if we lose the coal fired power plants?

[JustPiper]

OK now center around a hotel near the with suites and we got it ;) How about one near Pepperdine?

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I love it! This is a great story.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Now see what you helped do, nully, your friskiness got JP pissed at me for defending _Jim. I have a soft spot in my heart for most people and it can be a weakness that only gets me in trouble! So many times I restrained myself from butting in and adding my 2 cents when feathers got ruffled on this thread, but I couldn't resist today with _Jim. I am a pacifist, a volatile pacifist, but a pacifist nonetheless. :)

[JustPiper]

I have never posted an EOM message before, don't have a clue if this one is significant?

Subject: You see I tell you something wonderful will happen

Date: Sat 05/29/04

This day allah bring us glorious victory in the battle against the infidels and amerikkkans. Khobar will tell you that this is beginning of end of the infidels that now run the thiefdom in the land of two cities. Soon they will becarrested and executed as non-believers and
concubines of the west. The land of two cities will soon return to the trus Islmaic state. Iraq will be Islamic state and Afghanistan will follow. Uprising is coming everywhere and attacks will begin inside Amerikkka. Laugh as you wish you have not much longer There are truths to the words of EOM you will see you amerikkkan will all burn
and suffocate in the next attacks.

EOM
Islamic Bayan Movement
__________________
"My Jihad is bigger than your Jihad"

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Yes, Ma'm. We all heard that. You Chicagoans are a hearty bunch! LOL!

[JustPiper]

Sweetie, you are one person I will never be pissed at!

Nully, CUT IT OUT!

[null and void]

Yes ma'am. *looks down* *shuffles feet* I'm sorry.

[WestCoastGal]

[null and void]

*cringing* yes ma'am.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Amen. Quix this is your best post:)

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

You are right about this. I don't even know _Jim but he was baited. This isn't the first time this bunch has baited someone I am sure it wont be the last.

_JIm took care of himself.

[Domestic Church]

"Only the jihadis can prove _Jim and others who share his training and position wrong"

Here's hope and prayer they *can't* prove _Jim wrong. I'm on the fence on this one as well and I was hoping for more edification as it has been over 25 years since I frolicked with kilovolts. I do think Myrddin raised an interesting question regarding the supply of coal and maintaining grid integrity if coal was taken out of the picture. How much of a brownout factor (if any) would that trigger or is that already a covered nonissue? Isn't there enough nuclear energy driving the grid for security?

[Jill St Claire]

Quix, I agree with what you said, all I am saying is that reveal the sources or state that it is speculation, assumption, or what one believes based on their life experience.

To say there is a specific threat to a particular entity is not credible to me based on assumption, opinion, or speculation ESPECIALLY if one states those assumptions, etc., as being factual.

There are enough threats going on out there that we do not need someone to throw in more than what there is just to get hits on their sites.

I have a problem with someones integrity and credibility when greed overrides the truth where lives, or peoples livelihoods are involved! If the truth is not good enough, then one needs not say anything, at least IMHO!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

You know, _Jim would probably say, "Why the heck did you [meaning me] get involved?" I am sure he doesn't care. But that is my soft soft; I always feel like interceding to make peace (even if I myself leave hurricanes wherever I go!). Instead of restraining myself this time, I jumped in. I probably shouldn't have. I wish I didn't because I know it really is none of my business.

Thank you nully, _Jim and all others for not telling me to butt out.