JediMaster

The problem is with modern jets SO expensive to develop let alone buy, how many countries can afford to do it anymore?

They really love those giant one-piece main gear doors, don't they?

Anyway, all I can say is...there's more to art class than making copies of the Mona Lisa.

I didn't think it was possible but they made Vikramaditya sound Russian! Maybe it would be spelled Wekramaditye?

The saddest part is their leaders KNOW this is BS. They perceive our "open and free" societies intrinsically weak because our leaders are constantly explaining themselves to us. They exploit that to try and hamper our actions. You think they actually like China or Russia for continually foiling attempts to force them down a particular path? No, they're just playing us against each other for their own benefit: see Pakistan's ISI for a perfect example. When you hear Taliban publicly sympathize with the US over frustrations in dealing with the ISI...

Quite simply, regardless of our military and/or economic power, they do not respect us. Not our leaders, not our cultures, not our people. They are somewhat at a loss to explain why they are behind us, but it does nothing to shake their sense of superiority and their faith that eventually we will collapse under our own inadequacies and they will rise to fill the vacuum.

I can't say I honestly blame them for their lack of respect in our leaders. Our leaders are accorded respect based on their responsibilities, but the people holding those spots usually don't DESERVE it. Sort of like that old film King Ralph, where John Goodman was 57th in line to the throne or something and becomes King when a freak accident wipes out the other 56 members of the royal family. Sure, he got the throne, but did he really earn anyone's respect? Of course, he just fell into it. Most of the politicians sell their souls over and over again to get where they are.

Thanks to the Cold War, the US often behaved shamefully when dealing with other countries because the #1 priority was the Soviet Union, and if we aided one of the world's worst dictators so he wouldn't let the Soviets build a base in his country, or let us spy on them from inside his country, that was fine, right? Worked great in Iran, too! In the US, our 4 year election cycle gives the false sense that "everything changes" every new administration, but the reality that the parties don't want you to see (because then you'd never change who you voted for ) is that very little does change, because as Brain said the money doesn't change. It comes from the same places, it goes to the same places, the country follows the same path. There are irregular blips like the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but that's because it was really personal and not business, and the money there was just from people for whom it was personal.

The rest of the world isn't fooled, though. They see the name on the letterhead changes, but the country's actions don't. So naturally, since we talk about how we're run "by the people", they feel free to blame every single one of us for everything they perceive that the country does wrong. Since we have no innocents, they can freely target us all.

It's a space station!

*SZ crashes thru front of CA with stolen car*

Paging Lex Luthor, time to buy some future beachfront property in Western India and SW Kazakhstan...

"Goodbye old Middle East. Hello, NEW Middle East...MY Middle East!"

Yes, the President was wrong when he supported a NATO operation to help remove Khaddafi from power, and now he's wrong because he's not doing ENOUGH against a few protesters/terrorists. It's a lose/lose situation, and frankly I'm tired of it. I say let the whole area burn. Pull out all US presence, don't waste money on so-called "aid", and let them sink or swim on their own. Why do we have to help all these countries anyway? Oil?? Don't make me laugh, we don't get any from these places anyway. Instead, every time there's instability it's an excuse to make the oil prices jump so the companies can make more based on a perceived supply problem that doesn't actually exist.

What I like of course is that a few terrorists from one country or another kill US citizens, and we're supposed to believe "Hey, it's not the whole country, it's just a few crazies". But ONE American makes an offensive comment and it's the fault of all 300+ million of us? Really? Way to prove how peaceful and understanding you can be! But that's as it always is...everyone is allowed to insult the US and we're supposed to take the "high ground"...unless it scores political points to blame the administration for NOT acting. Yet the US has to be certain to never EVER offend anyone else, or it deserves whatever it gets?

Screw the world.

Last time this was tried for a flight sim was Back to Baghdad...except they did NOT deliver. They made an F-16 combat trainer with no real "sim" accompanying it!

Sounds like the Ka-50 or Su-25T--with no AP functioning they are HIGH workload just to fly let alone fight in.

It might be easier to take another plane and hook up holographic projectors to make it LOOK like a 105.

I prefer the forward quarter attacks, but not true head on. In other words, hit them forward of their 3-9 line, either between 10-11 or 1-2. It presents a larger profile than a head-on, less movement across your FOV than a true attack on the 3-9 line, and relative safety from the tail guns.

On a related note, I was LOL when the latest album by The Offspring came out and the final track was titled "Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell."

http://www.amazon.com/Days-Go-By-Explicit/dp/B008BIZ06M/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1347473541&sr=1-1&keywords=offspring

Anyway, like many others I won't abandon SF2 any more than I have abandoned other sims. I may fly it more or less depending on mood, and I may at some point cease buying future TW products if they fail to interest me. Doesn't mean the SF2 I have now won't still be fun.

Even if all the modders gave up today, how long would it take to thoroughly fly and get tired of ALL the mods we have?

Is that .DLC file in the DLC directory in your SF2 program folder? Also check your option.ini and make sure that DLC = true there.

That seems to indicate 2, 3, and 4 are all acceptable, although obviously only #3 could net you the top scores. Seems you could get a 3.0 with a 4 wire.

Oh, I know I always take 4 9's and 4 7's when I fly the F-15 in FC2!

Actually, the 120 is a decent replacement for the 9's. Use it as a dogfight missile and you get better range with roughly the same PK!

But wingmen don't let wingmen do BVR with 120s...in FC.

Uh...aye aye, Captain! Heh heh, heh heh!

Turkish F-4E next??

The problem is there's always more #2.

My wife flew to Rhode Island the day before. She was stranded there when the airspace was shut down, she got the last rental car in the city to drive back and left late that day...she passed north of Manhattan, but saw the smoke in the south. I was stuck here powerless to do anything.

My cousin was working in the 2nd tower and made the smart decision to get out after the first plane hit. She was halfway down the stairs when the 2nd hit, said it was the most horrible single moment in her life. She passed firefighters going up the stairs, said they never came out. She was still running away from it when it collapsed. Her bloodstained shoes (from the blisters she got from running in "business appropriate" shoes that are really unsuitable even for walking in) I believe were donated to the 9/11 museum. I posted the story she wrote for her newspaper in NJ here last year on the 10th anniversary.

I don't get the uproar either. Who cares what he did in Vegas? If you didn't break any laws (or at least get arrested for it), then so what?

The 940's biggest problem, the reversal bug, is that Logi doesn't consider it a bug. They claim that is by design, and they refuse to change it or allow it to be changed in the drivers.

On top of that, the drivers are aging and despite reassurances and claims that a newer version is being worked on it's been over 2 YEARS now since the last release. Literally 8/30/2010, or 2 years and about 2 weeks. They've released an integrated driver for some of their things, but the 940 isn't one of them. Of course, the G27 wheel uses the same software and it's working fine...but then it was just in a better state at release.

So, the drivers are functional and other than the reversal bug it works fine, but Logi's treatment of the issue has caused a lot of bad feelings. FWIW I've had a 940 since a couple of months after release. I did have to open the throttle and the rudders to loosen the overly tight wires that were causing spiking in some readings (no idea why there wasn't more slack in the design), but since doing that it's been rock solid.

I have no experience with the Saitek, so I won't comment, you can easily look up other's opinions on that yourself.

Here's another Stumper.

 

Easy, that's the Fugly Glasshouse. You can tell just by LOOKING at it.

IIRC there was an SFP1 version made six years ago. We really could use an SF2 one, yes.

If we destroyed it, those foolish humans would realize something's wrong or send more, we just need to convince them there's nothing to see here, it's all boring red dirt, maybe they'll go away.

Oh, hey Marvin! Haven't seen you in awhile. Where's my Iludium Q-37 Explosive Space Modulator???