JediMaster

For one thing, costs are far higher here. By making the gov't pay to cover all these people, well, the money has to come from somewhere, so that means it comes from the taxpayers. Our gov't is so inefficient and poor at running things thanks to tons of bureaucracy and stupid laws quietly passed by special interest groups that we have no confidence in their running this well. It's sort of like the difference between starving or having just horse manure to eat. Neither option is appealing! The problem is neither side seems really eager to tackle the main problem--skyrocketing costs. If it was cheaper, a lot more people could afford it and those (far fewer) who couldn't could be more easily covered by the gov't...for less! So instead of tackling the root of the problem, we have them bickering over a bandaid that will likely not solve anything, but whatever it MAY solve will be offset by the NEW problems it causes. As it is we can't afford what we're doing, and Medicare is a program that only still exists because of the laws that say doctors and hospitals can't refuse it. Medicare pays them a fraction of the real costs, so what does that mean? It means they have to charge everyone who's NOT on it far more to compensate. Neither hospitals nor doctors are getting rich (other than a few surgeons), the lawyers are. Even the lambasted health insurance companies aren't making that much. Percentage-wise their profits are in line with many other industries and actually far less than you might think. I think Tupperware makes more profit! Malpractice insurance is a major cost factor but it's not being considered in these debates at all. I bet no one in Europe can retire on the money they get from a malpractice suit for the death of a spouse, can they? You can here, if your lawyer is good and the evidence is strong. Sorry for your suffering, pal, but just because a HUMAN error was made you don't deserve to live well for the rest of your life without working while the rest of us foot the bill in higher insurance payments, taxes, and bills.

Nice to see the Tomcat get its own holiday, even if the name is unflattering.

I thought it was supposed to be LazerCatz?

It disturbs me greatly when people are only willing to laugh at one side and not the other. That is the blind vision of the fanatic and it deserves to be exterminated.

If you're looking for a HOTAS that's not as much as the G940, I think you're in Saitek territory. The X52 or X52 Pro, I forget which, is about half the price of the G940 or comparable setups from TM or CH. You can look them up around the net and see. Not everyone likes their feel, but enough people obviously do!

It's doing it because of that wacky nonstandard URL. Commas and periods? Their IT department should all be forced to play My Little Pony Island Adventure for 100 hours straight.

I dislike everything on that list! For full disclosure, I also dislike about 85% of the menu at any restaurant I go to, so...

I've heard nothing, but I'm pretty sure FE2 is coming next, before anything else.

A city-wide spaceship over the stadium!?!?!?

This is for show. There's no way Russia will spend close to $1 billion for a Western naval vessel when they can/did build their own. A smaller vessel perhaps, but this costs way too much and is far too visible for it not to have negative repercussions on the home front. This is just like the mentioned exercises with Venezuela...letting the world know they still have the will.

Falcon is 1998 and Il-2 is 2001 while LOMAC was 2003. DCS:BS is newer but still looks a few years old. Birds of Prey took the Il-2 engine to the next level and looks great, while Storm of War should blow everything out there away.

Transformers' changes are easy to explain...the original paid no mind to things like physics. The movies attempted to. That's why you don't see Megatron turning into a gun that Starscream can fire, and it's why Optimus changed...so he would be big. If they made him out of the original truck design he would either be much smaller or the truck itself would need to be absurdly large. Besides, when people complain about things like that or the omission of Tom Bombadil from Fellowship of the Ring, they only prove they care more about details than the final result. In other words, the film world's version of rivet counters. There are so many other things to complain about that are legitimately wrong, like story or character, don't pick the irrelevant stuff or you risk your arguments being dismissed as nitpicking. Take Dune. Almost everyone liked the 1980s film more than the 2000 miniseries, but the film was wrong in 10x more ways than the miniseries. It was more accurate, but it was still a lesser effort.

Well, one is a skit, the other is clever editing and graphics which was unique for SNL.

Dune may be DOA, so don't worry too much about that. Ditto the Bioshock movie.

AI don't use simple engine model, they use complex (manual pitch adjust) plus know every trick there is to get max acceleration and max speed.

A lot more going on...good? Bad? Both? The media only gets things right when they've had zero time to think about something and just report. After that, the attempt to get ratings overpowers that.

If it wasn't for the horribly dated FX, the original would still stand today unaltered.

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/palin-2012-disaster-movie/ I was ROFL at this last night, they did it so well.

For more I think Lowengrin's DCG is the place to go for dynamic ones with a ton of options. I don't recall the link, but do a Google search for it for Il-2.

Forget Physx, it's not that important. The 5850 is a LOT faster than the 275, if you can find one. There are always driver issues of one type or another that come and go, it's not enough to worry about.

Hardware Wars was the BEST. "A tale of love, war, and household appliances." "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks goodbye."

Well, to much consternation I've been unable to find my F-19 manual, and I can't figure out why. I've found many others, including USNF and the USMF addon, Falcon 3 and OFT, Tornado, F-14FD, even LHX. All of my oldest ones however seem AWOL. I'm sure I'll find it someday by accident...

The next DCS module is the A-10, so it hardly makes sense for them to have an updated 3D model for it in LOMAC 2.0. Perhaps the other 2 planes are also planned at some point down the road. The Su-25T I don't think is, so this is a defacto DCS: Su-25T as well as Su-25 now.

Funny, I thought this was about the Mirage F1 at first, since there were certainly more of them built! It took me a minute to remember this old Mitsubishi design.

Didn't get a chance last night, but I'll check on it tonight.