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Yea I didn't really get what this Ruwan dude is going on about either.

Mate, the avergae bunker buster can penetrate up to 3 meters of reinforced concrete. I think 24 of those will do a hell of a lot of damage, since some of them were 1000kg bombs. I think anti government propaganda is clouding your better judgement. Only prob is, it would have been a massive waste if there were no VIPs at the camp.

According to Defencenet, SLAF used 24 bunker buster bombs to attack the 'X-Ray' base. If this is true I don't think anyone in that base would have had a chance to survive. But the bad news is, the pilots have confirmed there was no anti aircraft fire directed at the jets, which suggests that Prabha wasn't in the base. Apparantly truck mounted anti aircraft guns follows Prabha where ever he goes.

I don't think quality will be much of an issue as the plant will only be used for assembly. I'm sure all the high risk components like enignes, gearboxes, drive train ...etc will be brought in from their respective factories.

I saw some clips from season 10, it looks like its better than ever. I think Hammond crashes again, sometime later on this season in an Audi. Doesn't BBC 24 show Top Gear anymore?

Dude...I never said I was higher man because of my job. I was countering Arc Angels arugment of: "first of all, unless your a nuclear physicist, please don't justify your need to work abroad. Because unlike the other Lankans living abroad who have contributed to this thread, you are quite ignorant." I agree that your job's got nothing to do with it here, but I was making a point that not only nuclear scientists are justified working abroad. I would love to work in Sri lanka but I also want to follow my career path. That was it...I never mentioned my line of work after that. People just jump to conclusions! I follow the situation in Sri Lanka very closely, and I read from lots of different sources not just govt media. I'm back in Sri lanka at least twice a year (I was there in June) and all my family is still there. so I know whats going on in sri lanka. There are lots of short falls from this government but there are also lots baseless allegations against the government which people take for real. I say they are not guilty unless proven otherwise, and I still maintain that this the best government we've had in over a decade. Think back to JR, Premadasa, Ranil, Chandrika.

Alright, alright...I lied. I work in a burger bar...and its not even a high end one like Burger King but a real sh*tty, one off kebab joint run by Kurds... And thats even part time. But I just don't understand why are you guys so aggressive in the forum?

I was there too mate... I took a detour while i was designing the NASA space shuttle. I think i remember you, were you the skinny little runt who was the making tea for everyone?

Man, it was Velttle's fault he even admitted to it. And was seen crying in the garage. The FIA are trying to manipulate the world championship. Alonso crashing out was a big blow for them, interms of the ratings and publicity for the next two races. They want it to go down to the wire. Same reason why Mclaren had its points cancelled but the two drivers didn't. If Alonso and Lewis had lost their points , that would have killed this season and FIA would have lost so much revenue. In terms of the driver market for next year there are so many possibilities for next season: Adrian Sutil to Toyota? Nico Rosberg to Toyota? Alonso to Renault and Heki to Toyota? Alonso to Ferrari and Massa (and John Todt) to Toyota? It was reported that John Todt doesn't want Alonso at Ferrari but Luca wants a dream team Kimi and Alonso. So as Massa's manager is John Todts son, Massa and John might both go to Toyota for a phat pay cheque. Alonso to Toyota (highly unlikely but he might for a big pay cheque)? Nico Rosberg to Mclaren, Alonso to Ferrari, Renault or Toyota? Timo Glock 2007 GP2 Champion could come into the scene as well.

Yawn....

SeanD, the opinion poll was commissioned by LMD and conducted by TNS Lanka. So it does have some credibility. But I do agree with you about the rural population not being very concerned about the economy. I guess the people in Colombo are used to having the luxuries that come with good economic growth, and thats the reason why the UNP gets a lot of support in Colombo as they have a more capitalist approach.

Anyways, its good to hear the general opinion on the government, I think in this forum it has been established that the general veiw is that Mahinda's government falling short. However this latest opinion poll begs to differ: http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/7649 I think in Colombo people have lost faith in the Rajapaksha regime, however he still has a lot of support from the population who live out of colombo. Is it because Colombo feels the biggest pain from the down turn in the economy? Are people who live in the outskirts more patriotic and support the war and the cultural and religious stance of the president? Are people in colombo more susceptible to the Anti government propaganda of the UNP? Or does Colombo know whats really going on with corruption and human rights violations? The problem these days is that we can't trust the media, there are two groups, pro govenrment and anti-government. And you can beleive either because they are both equally as bad as each other. So how do we know what is really going on? Do we know that all these UNP stories about government corruption and deal with the LTTE are actually true? Has the presidents son imported an Aston Martin DB9 using the public's money? Has anyone seen him driving it regularly? I just think that when we hear rumours and read articles we need to keep this in mind.

I design jet engines...can you tell me where I can work in Sri lanka? More importantly where I can utilise my skill set in Sri lanka right now? Once I get more experience in different fields in the industry I definetly plan to return to Sri Lanka and contribute to the aviation industry. Whether it is developing the technology or in the airline industry. People like you cause the downfall of Sri lanka. You just sit on your ar** and bi*** about the state of the country and the people who rule it. I do admit Sri lanka politics is not the best of examples on how to run a country, but things are slowely improving and we need to be patient. Yes the economy has taken a hit, but that is mainly due to the war expendature. And tell me how the hell can we achieve a settlement when the other side doesn't want one?

Its good to see a lot loyal patriotic people in this forum. I'm all for that even though I'm working abroad, but there are no jobs in my field of work in Sri lanka. Hopefully I will one day get a chance to bring the knowledge to Sri lanka. I know there are certian characters in the government who doesn't rdeserve to be there, but that would be very hard to avoide in Sri lanka. Overall I think the government is doing a good job, it is very hard for them to fight a war and promote growth in the economy. Either we give Elam to Prabha and concentrate on the economy (a bit similar to what Ranil was doing) or try to end the war and take abit of a hit on the economy. Considering much of the gas and oil reserves are in 'Elam', what do you guys think is the best way forward?

Extract from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam's_Bridge): Vaishnava News Network and some other US-based news services suggested that it had discovered the remains of the bridge built by Rama and his Vanara army, that is referred to in the Ramayana, and that it was not a natural formation, basing their claim on 2002 NASA satellite footage.[16] Hindutva archaeologists and geologists have presented differing estimates. Thus, a team from Centre for Remote Sensing (CRS) of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchi led by Professor S.M. Ramasamy in 2003 claimed that the, "Rama's bridge could only be 3,500 years old" and, "as the carbon dating of the beaches roughly matches the dates of Ramayana, its link to the epic needs to be explored".[17] Such claims were rejected as untenable by experts. NASA distanced itself from the claims saying that what had been captured was nothing more than a 30 km long, naturally-occurring chain of sandbanks called Adam's bridge. It also clarified that, "The images reproduced on the websites may well be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen"[18] Prof. N. Ramanujam, Head, Post Graduate Department of Geology and Research Centre, V.O. Chidambaram College, astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar and a group of professors of Madurai Kamaraj University stated that Adam's bridge is a natural geographical feature which formed some 17 million years ago.[16][19] The survey conducted by Geological Survey of India likewise concluded the structure was a natural one, although its former director, S. Badrinarayanan, has contradicted this, claiming that such a natural formation would be impossible, since "ome boulders were so light that they could float on water."[20]

Even though Lewis disobeyed a direct team order, he didn't hold anyone up. Alonso purposefully held Lewis up, I think Alonso's engineer needs to be disciplined at Mclaren if he had something to do with it as well. Anyways, its all hotting up now, there are reports that Alonso has said either he leaves or Lewis leaves. And there's a rumour Alonso will go back to Renault before the end of this season. Ron Dennis will no way get rid of Lewis!

Nice car machan! I haven't seen this model before. Is that from Japan or Europe?

I think Europe only gets the ZHP version, because its a standard 231bhp. And I think its 221bhp in States, right? I don't think I'll do any mods to it for now. Its already killing me on fuel! Only thing i might do is to try and sort out the sound system, I don't think I can live with that. I was back in SL about a month back, and the car prices are a joke. Only good thing is you don't loose money on your car in SL, you can probably sell it for more after a year.

Yea you are right there man. 3 litre straight six is a beautiful sound track, beats Beethoven anyday. Yea its a manual, i'm not a big fan of autos. I got a good deal, 2001, 44k miles. £11k. So its worth shopping around. The guy I got it off got banned for drink driving. So he had to get rid of it quick time. lol. Yea that garage is bloody useless, you need to loose the side mirrors to get a car in there. Whats a ZHP man?? A guy came to buy my Type-R today, apparantly he had a BMW 318Ci and it got nicked a couple of weeks ago. They broke the glass, got into the car, put the hand brake down and pushed it into a truck and driven off! So I might try and get my car into that garage somehow.

Hey guys, I've finally got my hands on the 330Ci. After months of deciding, as you can see from the start date of this thread. One day I went for an impulse buy on e-bay! Its so good to drive, but I'm a bit dissapointed with the sound system. Any other BMW drivers found that as well? Check out the pics: Need to sell my Civic now.

Serious?? Thats crazy! Its a small world man. I did Aerospace and graduated in Sept 2005. We must have been at the same department, you were in George Begg right? I've still got a lot of mates there so i'm in Manchester almost every weekend, we should hook up man, drop me a mail: [email protected]. Right, I see. So its a bit like the 3 year rule for importing used cars. I guess it makes sense, because aircrafts are designed to have a life time of 20 years. We don't want old ass aircrafts flying around Sri lanka.

Thats how things are done in Sri lanka man, if its state owned. So Holiday Air s still hunting? I didn't know B737s and A310s are that hard to come by. There are sh*t loads of them around!

Sharkster, good to hear you an aero engineer too. I only did that one week holiday course at Ratmalana man, after A-levels. Then did my degree at UMIST in Manchester, I graduated in 2004 as well! Did you know Mini Olluwa at the Asian Avaition Centre? He was there as well. So what military aircrafts do you make equipment for? Any of the fighters like Euro fighter or JSF? I tried to get on the engines for the JSF man, but couldn't get security clearance!

So you are pilot uh? Thats good stuff, Sri lanka needs a low cost carrier independent to Sri lankan airlines. It'll make air travel more affordable to the middle class Sri lankan. Asia has only started catching on to the low cost concept lately. A320s are pretty good, I was at the Airbus assembly lines couple of months ago in Toulouse. I got to see the assembly of A320s,A330s, A340s and A380s. Man, the A380 assembly line is out of this world! Its the biggest assembly line in Europe, there were about five A380s being assembled when I went. Their whole operation is just unbeleivable. Its a good move to lease from Airbus, you can get good discounts these days because of the A380 problems they've been having and after they got over taken by Boeing last year for aircraft orders. Cool man, it sounds you are into your marine stuff? But I would be able to put up with living in Wales, Derby is bad enough! Plus there are way too many sheep there. I've been working at RR for about one and a half years. Joined in 2005 after Uni. The whole of manufacturing in the UK is going down, the labour is too expensive man. Only the specialist places remain.

Hey maliths, yea I am at R-R, there isn't much in Derby apart from R-R and Toyota. My dream is to get in to F1. But that seems to be a bit far away at the moment. What type of specialist vehicles are you involved in?