JediMaster

On the flipside, most Europeans have far smaller commutes than those in the US. When your country and population are both smaller than my state (Florida), things are more compact. The reason the speculation in oil exploded in the last 10 years was the 2000-2001 recession. To get out of it, interest rates were bottomed out. The stock market was also not so great at the time, so money was put in two primary places: real estate and oil. The real estate bubble didn't just pop, it exploded, and we're STILL reeling from that. The oil prices, however, due to their international nature and the supply often being in Bad Nations is still free to go all over the place. Oil prices will drop when interest rates climb high again and the Filthy Rich can make themselves richer on other projects than the simple buying and selling of oil. With real estate in the crapper and interest rates so low that I can't remember the last time I earned more than 1% at the bank, the Filthy Rich have limited opportunites to make themelves filthy richer other than oil.

Generally speaking, if it does it will suck. The SP parts of games designed for MP historically are afterthoughts that, while functional, stretch the definition of the word "game".

My answer is I would use a Jedi Mind Trick to make him point the gun at himself while he THOUGHT it was pointed at me. That or I drop my pants and as he averts his eyes to avoid seeing my lightsaber I run.

Supply and demand are no longer relevant. They have SOME effect on oil prices, but only SOME. The rule of the day is now perceived supply and demand. The great thing about perception is no amount of facts will alter it, not in today's society. Allegations, threats, and rumors are far more influential. So the US has more oil and gas sitting in tanks waiting to be used than ever, but the price still goes up! Why? Because the supply MIGHT drop. Maybe. If the following 15 conditions are met, we could be in trouble!!!!! So quick, bid higher on the next oil contract!!!! The reason the price of oil goes up when it has no business going up is people make money off that. Doesn't matter that the rest of us lose on it, the Privileged Few make money, so it happens.

That stronger fuselage is also quite a bit heavier IIRC. Not a problem for a mud mover, but not so great for ACM.

Mars' polar caps are shrinking. Man isn't there. Solar radiation intensity drops by the square of distance, and as Mars is ~2x farther from the Sun than Earth, it gets ~1/4 the solar energy. Yet its polar caps are shrinking. Connect the dots.

Yes, I loved its predecessor, F-19. I played TONS of that, back when it was my only modern jet sim. I had Gunship (but had largely stopped playing it by then), F-19, SWOTL, CYAC, and I think that's it. I loved F-19's debrief, which went further than TK's because, in addition to telling you what happened when, there was a map with an Indiana Jones-style line drawn across it showing where you were when the incidents occurred. So you could see how you made a 180 and ran when the MiGs fired on you!

Yes, I too would like the winner to be the person who picked closest to NOW. Ok, NOW. Alright...NOW.

Did you update your SB drivers?

An air campaign against Iran is hard to predict. It could go any way. A ground campaign, well that's easy. It would be a cluster%#&@ of epic proportions. Of course, any action likely to impact oil prices (and the problem is oil speculators LOOK for reasons to raise the prices, like Mahmoud sneezing, a car wreck in Saudi Arabia, or a whale farting by an offshore rig in Nigeria) would make the entire world situation worse without any shooting even having to start. That's what Iran has over us. We don't get oil from them, we don't care. Yet other countries do, and on top of that they can affect a vital supply route with very little effort (a ship attacked here, some mines there). We'd have to spend a ton of resources to hurt them, and they have to do very little to hurt our economy. Sure, we're hurting their economy now, and that makes it more likely they WOULD hurt ours of course. So, if Iran decides to play the oil supply card, THEN I can see attacks in their future under the "nothing left to lose" theory. As long as they merely threaten to hurt the oil supply without actually doing so, only Israel would dare go after them.

Unfortunately, the gameport was declared obsolete long ago. You can forget getting them to work in Vista or 7. With XP, you should be able to still use it, I used my TM FLCS/TQS/RCS combo until I got my Cougar in 2007 I think. That was because that year I got rid of my old SB card w/gameport and switched to a card without. Trying to use the mobo's gameport was an exercise in frustration (horrible spiking and other connection issues) so I went USB. Frankly, in 2012 you really have little choice. There are gameport-USB adapters out there, but getting them to work is tricky. Generally they work for simple sticks, but a HOTAS like my old TM combo was insta-fail. The only add-in gameport I know that ever really worked were the SB cards, but Creative stopped supporting those old cards years ago now. Other than that, you might be forced to get a USB stick of some type.

Russia's last ME outpost is Syria, so their interest there is purely strategic. They don't give a damn about Asssad himself, they just want to keep their position. Likewise, China doesn't care about him either. They just have a vested interest in keeping the UN out of "internal affairs" because they don't want the UN one day knocking on THEIR door. So Iraq invades Kuwait, they're on board with kicking them out. Vague rumors of WMDs and general "he's a threat" talk, and they oppose intervention in Iraq. China's motto has always been "what happens in *insert country name here* stays in *insert country name here*."

From what I understand while the helos fly like Arma a bit, it doesn't play like it. After all, all you have is Seattle to fly around in I think?

We need space-based power. Or fusion. Either would remove our reliance on foreign sources.

Hmmm. I suppose *CRACK* could be classified as "mechanical" then.

Israel does everything its own way and generally keeps quiet about it, so don't be surprised it's hard to find concrete info.

I know the F1 is coming after NA, I just mean that as far as a "full" title goes, the ground work will be largely laid out for a SA title. We'd need Brit carriers, likely the Harrier would get an upgrade/facelift, but considering the timeframe TK has picked (late 40s thru 1982) it's one of the few famous conflicts he's not touched on yet besides Korea (which we know he has plans for "eventually"). Unlike Korea, though, I think it would take far less work for Malvinas/Falklands.

This didn't belong in the BSG forum, so I moved it here assuming you're talking of SF2 and not SF1. Either way, flying the Harrier should be common to both series. As for the Harrier, IIRC like said the Harrier only does VTOL at low unarmed weights. Usually it's STOVL because fully (or even mostly) loaded the engine doesn't have the thrust to take off with no aero assistance. So short rolling TOs with or without ski ramps is the name of the day for a Harrier heading out.

Accidental annhilation? Was this malfunction electrical, chemical, or hysterical?

The combination of smoke and dust causes truly disgusting formations inside PCs. Years ago I worked for PC shops and regularly had people bring in their machines just loaded up with this muck. There were also some that had living inhabitants, from spiders all the way up to mice! Anyway, the PC needs more regular cleaning the dirtier the environment it exists in, and as far as what your lungs look like... I wouldn't want MINE to look like that.

I'd think SF2: South Atlantic would come next. After all, it was 1982 and we already have Harriers and Skyhawks and Mirages, we'll have naval combat, etc. Dante might need to hurry up though.

Yes, those were the 2nd and 3rd titles in the Dynamix Aces series, after Red Baron.

You mean like Australia? Or in more recent times, Alcatraz.

What I would go for would be a series titled Call of Booty.

What? Germans are always played by British actors with fake German accents, doesn't this thing know how it works??