JediMaster

What? Don't go in for Services?!? Don't you mean "Force Support"? :) Besides, what can be better than making people ID cards?!?

She sounds like the chick from Chasing Amy and other Kevin Smith flicks. Ugh.

It is funny though that they spend all this money on troops and machines and then fail to buy enough munitions to fight more than a few weeks. Eternal optimism?

Doing B-17 bomber intercepts in 262s at 10k was ridiculous, you had to go high. In fact, most of the late war planes were made for that. Also, if you were in a 51 you did better high, that bird wasn't made for sea level scraps. Of course, none of those planes were in the original design document, unfortunately, so the game just never was right up there.

I didn't know the 44 had contrarotating props like the Bear.

You mean the Aces Expansion Pack for Il-2:FB? Yeah, high alt flight was very disappointing in Il-2, it was always better to stay under 10k ft or risk noticing the Earth has the diameter of the Moon.

Oh, is that all? I thought this was supposed to be some sort of "big" update!

*Qubecois look around wondering why no one is paying attention to them*

Actually, the single largest killer of Americans are...Americans in cars. Many are "own goals", some are passengers killed by the one they allowed to drive them, but others are just innocent bystanders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. More are killed by that every year than every soldier we've lost in the past decade combined, and unlike those soldiers they died for nothing. So look at the restrictions placed on getting and keeping a driver's license compared to those for flying on an airplane. It's enough to make me decide to drive halfway across the US rather than fly. Even before the TSA it was safer to fly than drive, but that wasn't good enough. I just don't accept that the goal must be zero. It's not possible. What really bugs me is all the changes that have been made even afterwards. Shoes. Liquids. They try something once and forever after we're stuck with a new restriction? Then airlines charging for bags. I like to fly. I despise airports and their so-called security. If possible, I will never fly again.

Still better than the F-16 which will become a death trap.

LOL, Jon Stewart claimed those were NOT pics of him because he knew him 20 years ago when they shared a beach house with some other friends. He said "no, that's not him!" This is a guy with such a complex about his size that he's going to claim that pic is him rather than say he's innocent!

I'd like to not live in fear. Unfortunately, the US Gov't won't allow it. I'd like the TSA abolished and a return to pre-9-11 security measures. If we lose an airliner or two a year, too bad. There's no way to be 100% safe, but it is possible to make security so bad that you're basically immobilized and the enemy wins by default. My threshold is 10,000. If fewer than 10,000 people a year are killed by terrorists, we can keep things as is.

Many of these so-called Third World countries have crap for an AF but a formidable ADA network. Syria is rumored to have SA-17s and 22s. You can bet Israel wants F-35s to let them operate closer to those guys than their F-16s will let them.

It's the reason Florida is crowded.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain I am the eggman, they are the eggmen I am the walrus

Looking pretty good. Almost a shame to spend time flying over that when it looks to be better enjoyed on the ground!

One thing to note is not everything on Amazon is DIRECT from Amazon. Note carefully, it may say "from XYZ" (in which case you won't get free shipping no matter if you're over $25) or it may say "from XYZ fulfilled by Amazon" (which means Amazon doesn't carry it but have designated that merchant as their de facto source, so it's almost as good as direct from them). If possible, I prefer to get direct from Amazon (less uncertainty) but on occasion I have bought from one of the other merchants. Still better than buying on ebay. There I've usually paid 95% of the price but gotten something that looked like it should've cost 50%!

Oh right, THAT'S what woke me up this morning. I'd forgot and thought it was thunder or something...

A new refinery was scheduled to open very soon but there was a big explosion because they rushed the production in an attempt to alleviate the sanction pressures.

It was some sort of mouse.

Oh fruggled gruntbuggly, thy nicturations are unto me!!

Actually, anyone who has read Dune will know that Paul was called "Mahdi" by the people of Dune because of the prophecy. I can't imagine that Iran is currently run by Maud'dib.

Not to Vogon Constructor crews.

So he's actually trying to position himself as the Mahdi, replacing Khamenei, while he gets his aide in to be his own successor? Really? You know, it explains a lot.