From: Alienthe@hotmail.com   
      
   Kevin Calder wrote:   
      
   > In message <1986a2df.0412030142.1482ac92@posting.google.com>, FixinDixon   
   >  writes   
   >   
   >> Lucky CP-stard!  I think my trips gonna have to wait a few years - the   
   >> presence of my new fem-bot is causing my wallet to enter into a state   
   >> of International Monetary Crisis (if anyone wants to make a donation   
   >> to help build it some huts....)   
   >   
   > My friend an I have been discussing the viability of buying a crappy   
   > piece of land and putting some metal shipping containers on it to live   
   > in.  They don't cost too much, are built to survive at least 15 years   
   > being battered about at sea and dashed with salt spray.  With a little   
   > welding you could use them as modular rooms.  If you get an unserviced   
   > plot with no road access you might even get to opt out of paying council   
   > tax.  But anyway,   
      
      
   Isn't that mre or less out of Snow Crash? I also think mobile   
   military headquarters use a similar scheme, ust with added   
   frills such as NBC protection...   
      
   I saw someone started a rent-an-office on hourly basis using   
   containers. You ask for "your" office and a free container is   
   brought into place and filled with your filing cabinet while   
   chairs, table, flowers and whatever is part of the standard you   
   rent. You could extend that to normal offices, making the   
   annual office trek simpler. New projects are staffed, people   
   move to closer offices, cleverly losing a few days of work   
   along with numerous bits and pieces. Much simpler then to unplug   
   your office from the building and reattaching it where you   
   want.   
      
   >> Anyway, enjoy your trip, and make sure you pop along to Hiroshima and   
   >> Nagasaki (sp?).  2 places that I insist on taking myself before I die   
   >> of radiation poisoning from my mobile.   
   >   
   > Absolutely.  I'll be making my way to ground zero at the first   
   > opportunity I get.  I'm sure they will have a 'total obliteration tour'   
   > or something.   
      
   In Hiroshima there is no entry to the dome itself, the building   
   at ground zero. It is not safe. The aiming point was probably   
   the rather distinct T-shaped bridge. The Sadako Sasaki memorial   
   is well worth visiting, you can't miss it with all the colourful   
   paper cranes there.   
      
   In Nagasaki ground zero is marked with a small, simple monument.   
      
   Not sure about tours but both cities have museums.   
      
   Both cities were levelled. 10 years later they were rebuilt   
   to the point you could not see what had happened.   
      
   ==<)   
      
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