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All of the planes in NATO Fighters are converted to Series 2 in NF4+.

And Frank and Dodd remain free. Sad.

For the Japanese, the needs include maintaining a credible deterrence against Russia, China and North Korea. China being the biggest military threat. OK, so you can choose between, say, 100 F-22s or 300 of some off-brand aircraft. When figuring the total cost of ownership you have to factor in the need to recruit, train and deploy 3x more pilots. Maintain and provide spares for 3x more aircraft, as well as recruit train and support a larger number of maintenance and logistics personnel. You also have to buy, store and maintain as many as 3x more weapons and stores, including training rounds, etc. You have to purchase and store up to 3x more fuel. You likely need to buy more tankers to support the operations of a larger fleet. You need up to 3x more basing area. So is the value proposition of buying more cheaper aircraft as good as you think it is? So, if you put a squadron of F-22s in combat, fully integrated with their AWACS to leverage the Raptor's unprecedented electronic integration, exactly what do you think has a chance of touching it? Of course no plane is untouchable, but...wait a sec...no F-15s ever lost to enemy aircraft...on second thought maybe untouchability is achievable.

Even if HAL does have good production quality control, it can't make up for flaws in design, which is what seems to have caused this crash. Modern aircraft can't fly without their computers, so it is mind-boggling that irreversible switches to turn off that computer should be in a place that is accessible in flight. Why not behind an access panel or actually on the computer itself in the avionics bay? To lose such an expenise aircraft and a life due to misplaced and confusing switches is a real shame.

I've done that to myself more times than I care to remember. Ugh.

Pretty close to that myself. Probably keep a WOI install until SF2I comes out then go the full monty.

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NEVER LISTEN TO THAT SONG AGAIN!!!! Sounds like a Twilight Zone plot. Seriously though I was really enjoying watchin Pitchmen. If was fun to see what went on behind the scenes of Billy's commercials.

Nuts!

Fouga...that's hot.

We need to retain the jobs, we need the fighters, and we could really use the Japanese business. And from his perspective I don't see why adding another few billion to the deficit really makes a difference.

Everything you listed seems to be from a good manufacturer, which is probably the most important thing. Super-cheap off-brand stuff is where you usually run into problems. On a high-end system like you've specified, my only additional suggestion would be to get a small, fast HDD to use as a dedicated drive for the swap file. Connect this to a separate SATA channel from your main HDD. I use a 36GB Raptor for this job and it allows the system to remain very responsive when under a heavy load. Oh, one other thing...make sure your GTX 260 is one of the later models with 216 cores enabled instead of the original model that only had 192 cores active.

There was an AP story about it this morning. The twelve additional F-22s and the alternate engine program for the F-35 are the two major programs they mentioned as being against Obama's military sensibilities.

Forward-Looking Infrared pod. Not all A-7s were modified to carry it. Typically, beginning in the late 1970s, one of the two A-7 squadrons deployed on each carrier would be FLIR-capable. The FLIR pod allows an infrared image to be displayed on the radar scope, which has benefits at night and in other low visibility conditions. In the A-7, it is not a targeting pod.

Probably. I've been running a C2D 3Ghz processor over clocked to 3.6Ghz for a long time now and I still feel no need to upgrade. I think it will be viable for at least another year or two.

Obama has now threatened to veto the spending package because of the extended F-22 production and other things he has proclaimed unnecessary. I guess those worn out F-15s will have to soldier on.

I guess we will have to lock this then after all.

I swear to God is it so difficult to stick to remembering the positive things about him?

Another fine plane you've gotten us into!

When I lived in Virginia Beach in 82-84, we used to carry our boom boxes on the school bus and his music was a staple.

In fact, god damnit, this is our site and we will talk about MJ without any more crap. I'm cleaning this up and will re-open. OK, cleaned. If you don't have anything good to say, then kindly steer clear. I've got a whole stash of MJ jokes myself but this is not a good time. Let's try to focus on how good a performer he was, and how nearly all of us over 30 have great memories of him and his music before his life became a freakshow.

Mark my words, someone is going to come here tomorrow freaking out thinking that TW has been hacked or has closed down.

Damn shame, too. Whatever stupid things he did, we could have remembered his music and the good times we had listening to it years ago.

Kind of crazy how nostalgic this makes me.