JediMaster

Yes, they'll hold the bodies for 2 years just to use as leverage. What's really sad is this because they believe THEY are the ones in the right. I guess they needn't concern themselves with doing anything wrong, they're justified in ANY action they take.

I will see it the afternoon of the 19th. Just rewatched BB a couple of weeks ago, hadn't seen it in about a year. Can't wait.

Who knows? A campaign promise and $4 won't even buy a gallon of gas. However, if all the troops now in Iraq were in Afghanistan instead, things would be going very differently there, that is certain.

Those planes were designed to be maintained by a conscript army with inadequate (by Western standards) training and short supplies of spares. They succeeded in doing things most Western planes would've collapsed doing. I'd much rather belly land a Russian jet than a Western one, that's certain!

...because Iran's AF is mmm-mmm-good?

What I don't know is the fuel storage capacity of those smaller carriers. Props and jets use different fuel, plus props use the more volatile of the 2 (which is one reason the USN wanted to go all-jet on carriers ASAP), and that makes extended ops more difficult.

I remember in the 90s a pair of F-15s shot down a Blackhawk or two in Iraq in the no-fly zone due to a breakdown in comms with AWACS. They asked, AWACS said "clear", it wasn't. However, the other thing to remember is with each passing year the commercial air traffic just goes up. The odds of accidentally shooting down another airliner (after both the USSR and US did it in the span of what, 10 yrs?) would certainly give the higher-ups pause. Of course, the F-22 can probably sneak up on the 6 of another fighter and get a look before engaging, but that's about it.

IIRC, there were some F-15s that carried 120s during Desert Storm, but none were fired. It was sort of an OPEVAL for them before the IOC was reached. Of course, the biggest thing used then that wasn't yet operational were the J-STARS.

I saw ESB at a 3 screen theater in Miami. I remember standing in line for 2 hours. I also remember someone had a radio they were listening to and "Funkytown" and "Cars" played.

LOL, is it a helicopter that never learned to hover??

I don't think the AI do that in any sim. The "cobra" is a "post-stall" maneuver and pretty much all AI routines say "avoid the stall". Only LOMAC has it, but it's a scripted event that only the player does.

Other than the "hundreds" of militants I've seen no figures for the numbers of friendlies involved. Likely we won't know as that would be covered by OPSEC I would think.

I remember the early hours after the disaster as everyone was wondering WTF happened. It was quite some time (a day? two?) before the reverse angle shots showing the burnthrough of the O-ring on the booster were made public. In the meantime, people were instead speculating on the SMEs blowing since it happened when we heard "Go throttle up" from the orbiter. In fact it was just a coincidence, but that seemed unlikely at the time. I remember I had just recently watched the miniseries "Space" on TV which started with the multiple rocket failures the US space program suffered in the 50s and wondering what had happened all day until I got home (since there was no TV in the school I was in to see the news...which was odd as my elementary school years earlier DID have them in most classrooms...whatever). When I saw the actual footage I remember feeling hollow that it seemed so banal.

Well, if it's an attack by planes, helos, or cruise missiles, Harriers can NOT compete with an AEGIS cruiser. I think they carry close to 100 missiles and can launch them at dozens of inbounds in mere seconds. Against surface vessels, subs, ground forces on land, an AEGIS is worthless!

I was wondering how one "drove" a percussion instrument.

The main thing about the Flogger was how high-maintenance it was compared to the 21 and earlier jets. The 3rd world countries that were often given the planes found them difficult to keep in combat shape as a result. That's why the 21s are still around and getting upgraded more than the 23s. Didn't really matter how good the plane was when it was sitting in a hangar!

Yes, but IIRC they always fired the IR missile first because of concerns the IR would lock onto the RH missile's plume otherwise.

Was that the free MP-only one? I can't recall.

JMS is indeed doing the screenplay to World War Z, I just don't know what the production status is. Shaun of the Dead is the best I've seen. Beating up zombies with pool cues to "Don't Stop Me Now" is pure inspired genius. Valve is coming out with a zombie survival game called Left 4 Dead, I believe.

A contractor at our base was recently penalized for doing work that wasn't in the contract, to help out, free of charge. They LOST $300,000 in award fees. It's not just the contractors that need to own up, the gov'ts contracting rules are SERIOUSLY screwed up. A company decides to do something extra for free...and you TAKE money from them for it?? When you have those kinds of people in charge of what the contractors do, this is what happens.

Or wouldn't it have been far easier to just build newer Harriers if the old ones were worn out? Certainly cheapest idea. Resurrecting an old 60s design that was long ago abandoned and trying to "update" it to 21st century specs sounds so...NASA.

What a stupid conspiracy. OMG THEY BLAMED ONYL ONE BOOSTER BUT BOTH WER BAD!!!!!!!!!1111111111111 The JFK/Area 51 guys would laugh them out of the building of their tinfoil convention. It was a real simple sequence of events that NO ONE has ever disputed. O-ring failure. Jet of flame bursts EXT. Explosion shatters shuttle and sets boosters free until range destruct. I've been where Challenger is buried. I've seen the Columbia debris on the floor of that hangar. The idea that anyone would INTENTIONALLY do it is so ridiculous that it doesn't warrant ANY consideration--there's no reason for it!

Paul McCartney and John Lennon...ok, neither was actually the "lead" because they switched off, but that was part of the brilliance!

That file is the one used for copy protection by PF. It sits in the root of the directory. You say "PF" but you don't mention others, so I take it you're not using a merged install with Il-2:FB and AEP? If you're using PF by itself, did you download the proper patch for it? I don't recall the last patch released for PF alone, but I think it was 4.04. You do NOT want to use 4.04m, that is the merged install patch. Since PF installed itself into a different folder than Il-2, it's possible if you used the wrong patch it would look in the wrong folder for that .dll file. Since you're reinstalled PF several times already, I'd go to Ubisoft's site and find the latest PF patch and try that.

I've got a cheap Motorola that I use to make an occasional phone call. It gets text spam every once in awhile. I find I have no desire for anything more in a phone...because it does what a phone is supposed to do. I have a Zen for my MP3s and it's great, no proprietary format crap. MP3, WMA, WAV support.