JediMaster

I was unaware Madden could discuss anything without a telestrator.

Those sunglasses part of the uniform?

No matter what you might think, it 100% has to be better than AvP Requiem!

Those are strakes, not the same as canards. Canards implies a flying surface, whether or not it's movable or (like the Viggen) has movable surfaces on it. A strake is a glorified wing fence stuck somewhere else and is far more common. The F-16, Su-27, and many others have strakes. In this case, the strakes are just placed where the canards were.

I really dislike programming. My Cougar's files all consist with either ones I've DL'd and slightly altered for my use or converted FLCS/TQS profiles I used before. Actually, half the commands on my profiles are rarely used. I use the ones that are needed for fighting usually. Things like gear, comms, and fancy avionics commands I usually just do on the keyboard because it's easier to remember them most of the time! I just want to have an idea which way I should go because I've basically been disappointed with the Cougar almost from the first month I had it and this will have to last me at least another several years!

They did a great bit about it on the Daily Show last night, with Stewart claiming it was going to be his signature sign-off like Cronkite's "And that's the way it is." "Good night, and keep %^ing that chicken!"

That desk wasn't designed to hide wires, that's why you have so much trouble with them. There are other styles that make it almost impossible to see them. When I got my latest desk the wife was very insistent on finding one that would maximize wire-hiding!

How different can it be from L4D?

I don't have time for a sim that's not fun, bottom line. To those who say "being a true sim IS the fun"...hooray for you. Don't be surprised almost no one else feels that way, though.

Actually, it's not just that disagreeing makes you a racist, it now apparently implies a whole rainbow of negative connotations. You can't tell someone they're wrong anymore without it being instantly considered a personal attack on everything that person stands for, believes in, and is a part of! Tell a Dem they're wrong and you're a racist, you're a fascist, you're stuck in the last century, blah blah blah. Tell a Rep they're wrong and you're a communist, you're against family values, you're against America, blah blah blah. Tell some shmo they're wrong and you're calling them a liar, an idiot, AND insulting whatever religion/politics they support! We've reached the point where you have to agree 100% with one side or the other or you're dismissed as a member of the other side! They don't want you on their side if you only agree 80%, oh no, you have to agree with it all.

Anyone have a G940 yet other than our reviewer? I'm looking for a consensus. Specifically, my Cougar at 4 yrs old (along with my 15+ yr old RCS) is getting long in the tooth and I don't really want to buy another one just to go thru this again in a few years OR pay extra to mod it. My 2 choices right now are both $300--the G940, or the CH HOTAS setup (at $100 for each piece). The G940 has FFB, split throttle, Hall sensors, and is receiving great published reviews. The CH setup is time-proven (to the extent I wish I'd bought it 4 years ago instead of the Cougar when my FLCS/TQS setup had to be replaced), does NOT have FFB (since FFB can be a pro and a con depending on circumstances), and is enjoyed by thousands of simmers. I'm just fed up with my Cougar's center play and spiking and throttle rotary issues and I'd like to replace it with one or the other sooner rather than later.

Just because some of the people that disagree aren't racist doesn't mean you can claim none of them are. I've heard quite a few statements thrown about under the guise of politics that are definitely racist, and I'm not talking about big public figures, I mean just regular people at work and around town. Now, would this opposition still exist if Hillary had been elected? Of course it would, and then I'm sure in addition to the legitimate policy differences there would be underlying sexism as well. The Democratic primary race was full of veiled sexist comments thrown at her and veiled racist ones thrown at him on the public stage, and on the street the comments were blatant. So you can maybe rattle off the name of 100 people who are NOT racist, but you can't state there aren't ANY. Carter as usual has done little to help, but he's not 100% wrong either. He's just exaggerating. It's like there are 10 criminals in an administration and one side claims there are none and the other claims they're ALL criminals. Neither side is right, but are just both wrong in a different way! Oh, I'll bet we wouldn't have seen any of these seniors saying "we're scared of Hillary!" if she had been elected. They would've called her a socialist and maybe even a "pinko commie", but you know they wouldn't claim fear. Remember, they don't just say "I'm scared of what Obama is trying to change", they say they're scared OF him and say he's trying to destroy the country. To quote David Bowie, I'm afraid of Americans, because of their unflagging capacity to lie to even themselves about their motivations. I NEVER heard people make so many comments about how the President was going to be killed before he had the chance to run for reelection before!

Maybe, but what about that weather??

Actually, I was going to say it gets LESS interesting. I'm beginning to wonder if these "crazed denizens" as you call them are operating out of a sense of blind faith. They pinned their hopes on this title, they paid good money for it, it HAS to end up better than it is right now, doesn't it? So HOW DARE YOU try and cast aspersions on it! If you do, and people listen, they won't get enough sales! Not enough sales = lack of development time to turn the thing into what they had hoped it would be. So it's in their own best interest to suppress any negative feedback on the game and drum up as many sales as possible so that the investment they already made will be justified!

Old equipment is bad for multiple reasons, including decreased safety, increased maintenance costs/resources, and the political appearance of it. The US has planes far older than that, of course (B-52s!), but we don't ONLY have planes that age, we have many that are newer as well, although I believe the average age is around 20 yrs old. While those RAF birds are indeed capable of taking on the local air force without much effort, their antishipping/AG capabilities are far more limited due to the Typhoon being designed as air superiority/interceptor and not multirole. Fortunately precision munitions means any plane that can carry them can become a capable and even formidable ground pounder, but you need to put in the time and resources to make that happen and the Typhoon's progress there has been slow. That's why Harriers and Tornados are still being used for the ground roles while the air roles are being supplanted by the Typhoons.

Exactly, it's supposed to revert to a holding pattern if contact is broken. I think there's also an RTB option, not sure if that's used or not. To just fly off wherever is bad, so is this the fault of the onboard programming malfunctioning, or do the large number of Predator losses indicate a problem with the basic concept of how it works? We seem to lose more of them percentage wise than any other UAV.

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-09/when-drones-go-wild-air-force-shoots-them-down I've heard several USAF officials state the Predator/Reaper isn't what the USAF wanted or needed, but it was the best solution available when the need arose. If they had to do it again from scratch, they'd have a different system. Of course, how much of these incidents are due to the individual platform and how many arise from the procedures devised to use them is major issue.

Especially if you want to keep that carrier against determined adversaries.

There are few worse ways to die than from cancer.

LOL, I actually saw that happen once from the ground, only a mile from my house! It was a month or so before the 2004 elections, and the local stadium (as in maybe 3 miles from my house, some MLB team does spring training there) was holding a rally with the President and his brother, our governor. AF1 flew into Patrick AFB, and Marine One flew him out and back escorted by all these other helos (saw them fly past less than a mile north of my house). The rally was like 12-2 or something, and around 1 I was driving back from lunch when I saw this tiny high-winged piston tail-dragger flying south over I-95. Now we see planes like that around all the time with the local little airports, but I knew the rally was going on and I thought "Huh? There should be a no-fly zone here!" I mentioned it to my wife, then turned to look at the plane which was now behind us JUST as an F-16 buzzed him at VERY close range, firing flares. I mean, the plane was under 2000ft altitude, maybe under 1000ft, and I think had a top speed of 90mph or something, so the F-16 wasn't going to be doing any escorting. I guess the guy was flying VFR and had his radio off or something? Anyway, he was forced to land at Merrit Island airport where he had some serious 'splaining to do. I will say this, though...in my opinion the CAP failed. That plane flew within a mile of the stadium at low altitude. Had it been filled with explosives it might have made it there before they could stop it. Had it been filled with some chem/bio weapon that could spread the stadium could've been affected even if it was shot down before actually reaching it. I found this online, tells what kind of plane it was (but it was an F-16, not F-15, not that the media ever gets that right): http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/24/Decision2004/New_Florida_identity_.shtml This link has some pics from people there: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254813/posts

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I sit in the center, which means I disagree with everyone at least half of the time.

I've no idea why college students seem to largely be drawn to leftist idealogies, other than perhaps they themselves have nothing but ideas and feel like they shouldn't have to work hard for decades to have something, so why not have everything equal? That will save THEM a lot of time and effort! On the flipside, you'll notice past middle-age most people tend to head to the right because they've spent decades to get what they have and they see no reason why it should be taken from them to be given to someone else!

If someone makes a real RB4, I'm there. Again, assuming it's not some junk with the RB name slapped on.

Don't you mean "wear pink"?