It's as though every factory in our society had an advanced fire safety system – smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, sprinklers, high pressure hoses, fancy fire extinguishers – while everybody's home had nothing.
They used teargas and water hoses to disperse the protest, and arrested a few people.
Most people would argue fire brigades work better if they actually use their hoses.
Firefighters strung hoses down entire blocks in side streets on either side of the avenue, which was filled with emergency vehicles with flashing lights.
The house's ability to rotate is thus limited only by the length of the hoses at full stretch.
They use high-pressure hoses, mounted on barges, to churn up the river bed.
In a conjunction surreal enough to inspire disbelieving exchanges between strangers, the country was afflicted by both floods and would you credit it?—a drought-induced ban on householders using hoses.
Meanwhile, the detection equipment, medical systems and industrial seals and hoses arms of Smiths seem to be faring better away from aviation.
Why then, did your correspondent see distinctly antediluvian water hoses sticking out of the bottom of racks at the IBM booth?
This is where the hoses come in.Pete Beckman, who leads Argonne's effort to break the exaflops (a billion billion flops) barrier, says that supercomputing, though of little direct relevance to most computer users, is always the first to grapple with many problems that bedevil hardware in data centres, desktops and mobile devices.
They are now spraying taxpayers' money at the financial crisis like firemen with hoses.
