JediMaster

Windows 9 will be out before Win 7 is cut. Besides, Vista will go before 7.

I think they're fatalistic. They think "well, worst that could happen is we die." I don't think that really bothers them as much as it does us. I saw an analysis of Putin that seemed spot-on--he's worried about Russia's place in the world, its legacy, its reputation, far more than he's worried about any individual Russians. If a few hundred or thousand die, big deal, as long as Russia's world standing goes up in the process. That's an equitable trade to him. He misses the USSR not for how it was, but for how it was seen. He wants Russia to be a superpower, not a regional power, and if some Russians or Ukrainians or whoever die to accomplish that, oh well. This thing in Ukraine isn't over yet, it's just in a temporary lull.

He's going to be in 3? I just saw that it was coming out in Dec a few weeks ago, they'd kept it pretty low key.

Wow, it's 5 years old already! Yet still current...

And thus begins the slippery slope. Who is to determine parenting that is substandard? Do we prevent people with "problems" from having children? Do we just rip the children away from their parents if they develop them? It's very easy to say "we need to fix the people", but in practice it's pretty much impossible. The jails don't work--they don't deter, they don't rehabilitate, they just take a small number of the problems off the street. When our so-called leaders in DC are incapable of coming to any sort of agreement about what America should be, with half saying it should be the ideal of modern Western Europe (as if America is Europe) and the other half wanting 1950's white America (Ozzie and Harriet redux) and neither side willing to compromise any more, because getting elected now is about playing to the base and not those wavering in the other party, I have serious doubts they will provide ANY leadership.

Good AI has long been the bane of flight sims.

Where do you think the Iranians got the design? They reverse-engineered the LODs!

Good old Otto.

Last time I saw him was in the first Night at the Museum film several years ago. Still quite good.

BTW, don't limit yourself to airborne skeet. It's perfectly reasonable to blast it when it's on the ground, too. Only when all are finally eliminated will we be free of their tyranny!! Grenades in skeet nests are very effective.

This is the result of allowing Russia to gain leverage. The only ones who would stand against this are too afraid to. Either militarily or economically, Russia could hurt them more than they're willing to take over this issue. So instead they decide a lot of loud grumbling and fist waving is as far as they're really willing to go.

I will admit I do not understand the prices at all. While some rifles are very high-tech, why is the price of a basic pistol so high? In other words, why does it cost more than 3 iPads? If no one told me what they were, I would guess the prices at $300 or so for a basic pistol tops.

The argument fails because there are only 3 things you can regulate in this matter: The guns The ammo The person The 2nd Amendment specifically limits regulation on the first and by extension the second, since letting people have guns but outlawing ammo is nonsensical. You want to advocate regulating people? Is that not by definition then a nanny state, or a police state, or a thought-controlled state, or any of those buzzwords? After all, wasn't the purpose of the 2nd Amendment to provide a barrier against such a state of regulation in the first place??? So to assert that in order to make the arming of the citizenry less dangerous we need to crack down on THEM, not the guns, is the most blatant case of violation of the spirit of the law in order to uphold the letter if ever I saw it.

I liked LB the first time I saw him.

Note that the directory won't appear until after you run the game IIRC. Just installing it doesn't put the folder there.

I was wondering how "action" and "slow motion" could be in the same sentence.

As the F-5A first flew in 1959 and the F-5E in 1972, while the F-15 first flew in 1972 and the F-16 in 1974, I think you have your sequence of events a little backwards there. The F-5 was never built for the US (although it was used for aggressor purposes), it was built for poor low-tech allies like South Vietnam that couldn't afford or maintain planes like the F-4. The F-20 was built as a competitor to the F-16, but it never had a chance in the US, and the clearance to export the standard F-16A (as opposed to the doomed-to-fail F-16/79) killed any chance it had. But it was smaller than the F-16 and would never have lasted in production for over 40 years like the F-16 has because it would've run out of room long ago.

I thought he was First Officer Obvious?

Yes, every channel has its own standards that it self-enforces. As I said, they usually follow the broadcast practices for the most part unless they have something to gain specifically. For instance, I've noticed lately that Comedy Central and Syfy have allowed mild swearing on late-night broadcasts that normally would not be. But there are no laws preventing them.

Exactly. Some abilities you are born with (mostly the athletic ones), but the ability to be civil or not is not one of them. It is learned, but it is also a choice. You choose how to respond to your life.

I'm a Chicken Hawk and you're a chicken! Now are ya gonna come quietly, or do I have to rough ya up??

The number of wounded is many, many times higher than the number of dead. Of course, some of the most damaged mentally are not the ones who suffered serious physical injury.

Yeah, it really amazes me how people can make snap judgements. Now some will take it too far, and say we shouldn't be judging the guy caught robbing your house either, which is just stupid. Give people the benefit of the doubt. No matter their appearance, they could be smart, dumb, good, bad, whatever. However, once they show who they are, don't make apologies for them like "it's all they know" or "they had a bad childhood" or whatever. Some of the best people in the world were raised and lived their entire lives in misery. Some of the worst people were born and raised in lives of privilege.

Is it gov't money? Yes? Then it will not be.

Cable TV is not regulated. Broadcast TV is. So Cartoon Network, which is cable-only, can do whatever they want. Now in practice they try and keep it "safe" to avoid the wrath of special interest groups and such, but there's no actual law barring them from anything.