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Typhoid:: Sustainable Economic Development has been around a good while with the UN, World Bank, CIA, US State Department, USAID (US Agency for International Development), most if not all the western so-called NGO's, etc...endless list. Czech out their websites they are pretty cool if you are up on the eco-buzzwords. You just waded into the deep central core of foreign policy and you nailed it. Good call. Watch the carbon trading. The giant banks are supposed to be dealers in carbon credits. I've often wondered if carbon trading could catch on to give another 30 years of life to the debt system, backing the central bank currencies if the financial derivatives blow out -- carbon derivatives, or derivative carbon swaps, or something. In his second life, after Vietnam, Robert McNamara went on to champion global warming and Sustainable Development. I like to say McNamara created Sustainable Forest Growth (think about it) in Vietnam with that agent orange project. The corporation-government man who orders spraying agent orange on tropical jungle goes on to become high level global environmental spokesman. The irony is spicey. And if that ain't enough, he wiped out the two seat Ford Thunderbird. :angry2:

streaks, I found this, very interesting...the Air War designer poasts in this thread, and the Air Sup designer also. DESIGNER'S RESPONSE TO CLOSE.UP Air War review in F&M 10 Dave Isby, Designers Notes. ~> http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/546156/designers-notes

That's from my olde TE Learning Thread ~> http://combatace.com/topic/8781-terrain-editor-and-hfd/ Deuces( ) pushed me through the mud and it was worth it because now TE doesn't seem so bad, easy in fact, piece of pie. baff, same here, I can't tile, at all.

Fub that. Gas powered leaf blower. I like Husqvarna. Somebody at the [}{] forum poasted that they used a leaf blower. A few poasts later, somebody else poasted a one-liner....at least the guy has no leaves in his computer. One of the things I like about the [}{] is the funny way threads grow, and grow. Spiders mean no bugs (but ants maybe). I lived in a house full of spiders, and no bugs, except there were ants, from time to time. Dave:: Yeap. The spilled saturday night beer flows everywhere like avgas on a wing.

Thanks fellas/fellattes, very interesting discussion. MiGBuster:: That's why I am Lord of the Analogue! I've read that analogue can get out of hand; too many instruments or something. They say F-101 had a crippling cockpit workload but nobody writes exactly why. I've also read that glass is the way to go, with analogue backup, but it has to be done right. Is it ever? Odd perhaps, but when I did flying lessons, from the start I found myself very comfortable relying purely on instruments, and found myself flying at clear night with instructor very quickly. But then I had always read about aviation so that helped, and being a life long sky watcher allowed me to spot other traffic before the instructor, day or night. That impressed him. After a few solos including a short cross country I gave up for fuel costs and went to college, but my plan was to take my FAA flying exam at night. Loved night flying. What troubled me was stall practice and seeing how much practice I would need to confront it, especially at night. Scary creepy stuff there that I'd love to try in challenge but costs and college came first. I never like the HUDs I think mainly because the computer games including that realistic space simulator (forgot) never give you the option of adjusting HUD brightness, so you get blinded at night in the games. Shortsighted game design. In fact that's the reason I quickly gave up on that space sim, and other TheSims games, because the stupid game HUD always got in the way and was far too blinding bright at twilight/night.

Yeap. You take off from Thule in Greenland, and then fly SOUTH from Thule to the north pole, and beyond to your target inside the Soviet Union. Best we can do now. Bear in mind, the actual SAC vs PVO interactions, and targets, in my game, will be on the Soviet side of the globe, so that's where north is north. Now for the proposed true polar map which ya'll may be interested in, which way is north has no meaning on a 2D flat map. From a traditional astro/nav point of view, I suggest the prime meridian in Greenwich England be at the middle of the polar map's lower side. See the first poast of this thread on the first page about that. That gives US/Canada-vs-USSR a left-right face off, and so a neutral face off without either being north or south of the other. The real solution is TK making a 3D spherical planetary terrain engine. And I'm not gonna try to ask him. You feeling lucky?

gastoff:: Very very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Yes, on days with no contrails you won't see it happen easily. Years ago -- 1950s -- we (USA) had our bomber force train against our interceptor force, with some RAF bombers flying with our bombers, and I've seen some descriptions of what it looked like from the ground by a few who looked up and knew what they were looking at. Lots of contrails way up there chasing around the sky at very high altitude. It must have been an amazing thing to see. --- If you have nukes in Vietnam, you may enjoy thinking of also adding Russian crewed nuke SAMs. S-75 had a nuke version. Also consider S-125 and S-200 (nuke or conventional) as well if you are going way out fictional. Also maybe add 2k11 Krug (that big ramjet mobile SAM). Lots of fictional possibilities.

ignacioc:: Thanks! I got sidetracked big time recently, but yea if I can make some kind of basic tile mapping I'd put this up for download and it would be flayable but certainly not "finished" ... well maybe by 2073. It should be possible to use a mission editor or even maybe the game's campaign engine to put action in restricted areas since playing time is too long. For me, my goal is a very basic "simulation" of an air campaign, with the option to play in an airplane or just watch from inside the game world in some camera view, so I don't mind setting the game to run and forget about it for a day, just to see what happens. That's not at all like TK's thinking for the game.

hehe Well, if you were *very* near the pole, which way is North? Generallly, on the USSR+ map, PVO players will never fly too far from the Soviet Union, but SAC players will fly very far from North America. However, SAC players' time of most interest, and most of the targets, will be found on the Soviet side of the globe, hence the choice made here.

You can beat c by using skip waypoint -- that is hyperspace jump, or space warp. P, start with normal planes set to, say, 200 miles altitude. Very interesting -- rather simplistic -- what happens on the way down during re~entry. Like K poasted, set max height to a million meters. The max height is an invisible game ceiling you need to push up first. An old screenshot of my cirrus clouds taken from free cam view taken from a few hundred miles altitude. The terrain fogs out but you can still see a little land/sea border here, and a few of my contrails. A pair of B-52s (if I recall, these are years old shots) taken from maybe 20 miles altitude. U-2 and A-12 pilots would write about seeing contrails far below.

Typhoid sorry to hear that. Everybody gets bit by the system sooner or later. There was an autobiography I read years back, written by a guy who was a reporter during WW2. One thing always stuck with me was his story of what happened to new hotels in the DC area. After a *nice* quality hotel was completed, but before opening for business, the US NAVY would appropriate it for officer quarters...war time need. That is confiscation of private property. There was one hotel owner that knew this and beat the system by inviting all the DC congress members for a pre-opening celebration. The congress loved the new hotel, and indicated they would use it in the future. NAVY had to back off. The hotel owner got to keep his hotel and operate it as a business. I like to think of that episode as playing one criminal mob against another. Forgot the book/author name and hotel name. Neat story. Just thought of this -- we used the same confiscation tactics against the Japanese with insane success, waiting for them to complete Pacific island air fields (as best they could) and then move in and take them over, and really complete the hell out of them our style.

Do not pet your puppy.

Theoretically, higher priced HW music after her death could allow those who really want it to pay more than those who don't want it as much, thus reserving her work for those who want it most. I'd guess WH fans can all afford the music no matter the price, not sure, I never listened to her. At a local farmer market, there is a local chicken egg producer who always would run out of eggs before I could get there, and recently running out BEFORE the market on weekends. Pissed me off. He'd take "reservations" and I call BS on it. Rather cheap eggs too, less than others, cos he says its part "hobby." Result:: no eggs for me, since I don't want to wank around with "reservations" but just show up and buy, olde school. I told him to raise prices until he stops running out of eggs by the end of the market day. He did it. Suddenly, there were enough eggs for me, and everybody else who wanted them. The other day I got a few cartons and he thanked me profusely because now he is making more, while at the same time, not running out until near the market end. Then I had to test his understanding of Life, so I asked what happens if he starts to have eggs left over. He said he would adjust©® prices I said NO you lower prices. He was too afraid to use the word "lower." Anyways, I got my eggs now Happy like PiG in Slop.

Not a very original idea. We used to do that to astronomers, and bible translators, or maybe anybody thinking we could fly in the future.

Woa, now there's an almost herbal spelling mod.

Neat discussion here ~> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/01/27/Wedding_photographer_explains_prices Best quotes.... Cheze, 30 Jan, 2012:: The wedding industry is pretty much like real estate. Realtors persuade people to pay the most they can "afford," at maximum leverage. Wedding planners (or the imperative that "everyone does it") persuade people to exhaust their savings on an event. The net result is to leave the budget so tight or under-margined as to compound the risks of distress, default, divorce, and foreclosure. -- ...and the risk of debt, of course. I can't make a poast without adding that. jjl, 28 Jan 2012:: ....I say this as a wedding photographer myself. The best weddings I've photographed were not the most expensive ones. All that glitz is skin deep - and a few months later, nobody remembers it. Sure, your wedding seems really important when it happens, but it's your marriage that's important. Invest in that. Spend the $15K on something you actually might need - like an education, a car, a down-payment. If you can afford $15K, then party on... but, if you can't; don't spend it. Personally, I eloped... and the only photographer was my own camera on a tripod with a timer :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Industry pushes weddings. Marriage, not so important. Should we call the top in the wedding bubble?

Brain:: Wall Street = Red Square. Interesting. The banks did finance Leon Trotsky in the lead up to 1917. But the corrupted .gov has to be held accountable for allowing that. Canada arrested Trotsky on his way back to euro, but Washington ordered his releace. Reminds me of Delenn+Kosh telling Sheridan, to paraquote Delenn, "Trotsky must be releaced." -- one of my fave babblesodes because of its revelation of cosmic scope.

I don't have a problem with it, mainly because... On a related subject (SOPA)...Karl Denninger:: There's enough struggling new no~name artists out there to support and many don't use megacorps. I refuse to buy SONY products, except for the sensor in Pentax's K-5 camera. Fittingly, Pentax got better performance out of the SONY sensor than SONY could in its own sony cameras. If two cameras share the same sensor, the firmware makes or breaks the sensor.

Some good insights to read here. Astro thread about souls seeing the stars for the first time and panicking. Seeing a dark sky actually frightens some., at teh Cloudy Nights forum. -- Stars are like breakers on an ocean beach -- an inhumanly powerful, terrifying force. I never thought of it like that. Another one... -- I have forgotten the attribution, but it has been said that (paraphrase): "Life for most people consists of transiting between the insides of cars and buildings". And somebody brought up Asimov's book Nightfall. Brilliant. I always knew that Ancient souls knew the stars, cos they had to, for farming, navigation, religion, etc... Reminds me of when I moved from Mississippie to Flawrida and started salt water fishing for the first time. There was something, a social/cultural norm, they called a "tide chart" in the form of a plastic wallet card, like those bank debt cards. All the yahoos carried their tide cards in their wallets, like a male acceptance thing. Knowing where the moon was in the Earths' orbit, cos I always watched the sky, I never bothered to get a "tide chart" but I always showed up on time, in my freshwater mississippie truck, when the Blues were running in winter. Teh yahoos had no clue how I could do this, although some clicked with the reason and loved the idea. Nobody ever told em.

Forest not working here at all. Did TK change something again?

pee-51 won that war

Okay, an idea...if you have already extracted your Flightengine.ini... Double the Index, Vertex, (and maybe Texture) variables, one at a time, and see what happens. Ignore my numbers (!), start with what you have, or stock. If I recall, some models are very high polygon/vertex/texture, so *maybe* -- guessing here -- these numbers need to be raIsed for them to work, or you lowered the numbers too low for some models, like I did.

...even sometimes the cockpit shows but only for a second and game closes again. (Problem only with Euro-Typhoon ) One time, I saw exactly that, on a number of planes, SF-1 2008 (similar to WOE). In my case, I traced it to my agressive maximizing fps by lowering the numbers in Flightengine.ini's GraphicsSettings variables. I had to ramp some numbers back up high. Problem solved -- FOR ME. Your problem may have a different cause. Did you ever mess with the numbers below..? [GraphicsSettings] ZBufferDepth=24 MaxVertexCount=16384 MaxIndexCount=32768 MaxTextureCount=16384 MaxModelType=8192 MaxMeshPerScene=8192 MaxModelPerScene=8192 MaxLightPerScene=256 AspectRatio=1.333333 MinPixelSize=0 The culprit for me, if I recall, was I had too low a value for Vertex and/or Index, and had to put them back, maybe Texture too.. If needed, put the whole graphics settings text block back to stock, if you think your file is not.