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Jura The idiot
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just found in cyberspace (no warranty!) what's funny to me that landlocked Central European countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia compare to the states without sea access: Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas; while Poland (relatively short sea border of 440 km) to Pennsylvania 
but that's all a coincidence as Switzerland "matches" Florida heheh
Now I used google to locate the source:
but that's all a coincidence as Switzerland "matches" Florida hehehNow I used google to locate the source:
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The scammers that called me yesterday called back today. This time the guy sounded more Indian and it wasn't the same person as yesterday. I told the guy off and hung up the phone. Interesting because I knew who was on the line before he even spoke. First he called and no one answered when I picked up the phone and I hung up. That happened with yesterday's call. Then the phone rang again. I experience that with long distance calls and cell phones. I did more research on the number they gave and it seems it was for a cell phone... a burner so it can't be traced? Not sure if their calls are actually coming from the number they gave me but the first red flag is why not a toll free and extension number.
Not sure how they got our info to call but that's why I always send my taxes snail mail and not electronic filing. All electronic filings are sent to India to be processed.
Not sure how they got our info to call but that's why I always send my taxes snail mail and not electronic filing. All electronic filings are sent to India to be processed.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I saw a TV news story on it. I don't remember if it was local or national news. This was early on in the electronic filing era so they may have changed policy since then but then the NSA outsources work too... Edward Snowden... That's why I send my tax filings snail mail because it's too expensive for them to send over to India. That's what I remember was mentioned if people don't want their tax filings sent to India. It has to be done locally.
I use to work for a software company that dealt with outsourcing to India. We would here stories of how some people got hold of social security information of Americans (I don't know if this was from the IRS outsourcing) and then extort money from the companies they got the info from. You don't hear about it that much because it deals with a lot of private companies that outsourced work to India so they didn't want it to be advertised that this was going on.
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[size=+3]China's Aizhai Suspension Bridge[/size]
The Aizhai suspension bridge in China's Hunan Province, is the highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel suspension bridge in the wolrd. It's deck height is 1,102 feet (336 m) above the valley floor, and it's main span is 3,858 feet (1,176 m). The building of the bridge was a part of a larger G65 Baotou-Maoming Expressway extension project, called the Jishou-Chadong Expressway, a forty mile (64 kilometer) section with more than 18 tunnels along its length through the mountains. It was built between October 2007 and December 2011, and completed ahead of schedule. The brige had an intial temporary opening for the Spring Festival of 2012, and was then officially opened on March 31, 2012.
Aizhai bridge itself connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting the time needed to traverse the canyon below from almost 30 minutes on the older, conjested roads in the canyon, to about one minute as vehicular traffic moves across the bridge at 50 miles per hour. A walkway was built under the roadway for pedestricans to use to cross the bridge on foot. At night, over 1,880 lights illuminate the bridge so it can easily be seen by air, and also for miles around the mountanous terrain.
Here are a number of pictures of the bridge, first as it was being completed, and then opened, and now as it is being used:
The Aizhai suspension bridge in China's Hunan Province, is the highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel suspension bridge in the wolrd. It's deck height is 1,102 feet (336 m) above the valley floor, and it's main span is 3,858 feet (1,176 m). The building of the bridge was a part of a larger G65 Baotou-Maoming Expressway extension project, called the Jishou-Chadong Expressway, a forty mile (64 kilometer) section with more than 18 tunnels along its length through the mountains. It was built between October 2007 and December 2011, and completed ahead of schedule. The brige had an intial temporary opening for the Spring Festival of 2012, and was then officially opened on March 31, 2012.
Aizhai bridge itself connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting the time needed to traverse the canyon below from almost 30 minutes on the older, conjested roads in the canyon, to about one minute as vehicular traffic moves across the bridge at 50 miles per hour. A walkway was built under the roadway for pedestricans to use to cross the bridge on foot. At night, over 1,880 lights illuminate the bridge so it can easily be seen by air, and also for miles around the mountanous terrain.
Here are a number of pictures of the bridge, first as it was being completed, and then opened, and now as it is being used:
[size=+3]China's Aizhai Suspension Bridge[/size] - continued
Here are some maps of the G65-Baotou-Maoming Expressway, showing the Jishou-Chadong portion and the exact location of the Aizhai Suspension Bridge:
The Chinese G65-Baotou-Maoming Highway in China
Section of the G65 including the Jishou-Chadong portion
Location of the Aizhai Bridge in Hunan Province
Here are some maps of the G65-Baotou-Maoming Expressway, showing the Jishou-Chadong portion and the exact location of the Aizhai Suspension Bridge:
The Chinese G65-Baotou-Maoming Highway in China
Section of the G65 including the Jishou-Chadong portion
Location of the Aizhai Bridge in Hunan Province
solarz
Brigadier
Holy ****, you really need some guts to do something like that!!