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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by chris_wot on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:33AM (#21407000)
Did the guy seriously not consider what would happen if they were fired into the CBD, and the massive and tragic consequences if that had happened?

I'm not at all surprised that he has been shunned. What he did was treacherous and could have caused terribly casualties.

Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by wyldfire on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:20AM (#21407896)
> what would happen if they were fired into the CBD

This apparently refers to the Central Business District of Sydney [1]. I was trying to sort out what this had to do with Cannabidiol but it just didn't fit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_central_business_distri...

Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by NamTaf on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:02AM (#21408229)
CBD is by no means Sydney-specific, just FYI, it’s a commonly used term in the English-speaking world. Due to the new-world situation of Australia’s cities, the CBD and downtown/city centre basically always overlap (I.e: there’s no ‘old town centre’ separate to the highrise district), so Aussies just refer to it all as ‘CBD’.
Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by loeg on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:22AM (#21408395)
The term CBD isn’t used in the US, as far as I’ve ever heard. That’s probably why some commenters will be confused. I am only familiar with it because of a former coworker from Melbourne.

(Seattle is sort of similar in that there isn’t really an old town center, or rather it’s directly adjacent to the downtown highrises (Pioneer Square).)

Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by twic on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:38AM (#21408556)
It's not used in the UK either. Or rather, it's a technical term in human geography, probably used by geographers all over the world, but it's only in Australia that it's used in everyday language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_business_district

Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by kingofpandora on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:40AM (#21409308)
I believe it's used in New Orleans. That's the only place I'd heard it before going to Australia.
Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by loeg on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:30AM (#21409851)
Perhaps I should have said "widely used." :-) I have never been to Louisiana, but I've been to several states.
Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by nsxwolf on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:23AM (#21408400)
I never heard CBD until the first time I went to Sydney, but I understand it's common. I think in the US we tend to name our CBDs instead, like Chicago has "The Loop" and most places just say "downtown".
Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by basch on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:55AM (#21408763)
Isnt it used in Dallas sometimes? Dallas also has a separate Uptown from Downtown.
Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by Sendotsh on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:45AM (#21407659)
He sold rocket launchers to bikies. He bloody well knew exactly what he was doing. He got off light.