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Bill Gates -- there was a time -- Kepler and Tycho -- where the rich funded a lot of very basic science, while staying out as well. I tend to think that's when science made its greatest advances. Sadly, I don't think today's very wealthy are independent of the giant banking system so I'd place little faith in them as opposed to the wealthy men of the distant past. A quickie from uni....The dude who came up with the idea that matter could be described as waves was Louis DeBroglie, a wealthy French physicist after WW1. Now...I had a physics professor, and during a Modern Physics class lecture, when we were studying matter waves, this prof said...I swear I'm not making this up... Physics Prof:: That is sad. Cool guy though, but still. Typhoid has tiptoed away from this thread now. But, just to keep things fresh, if anybody wondered where all the fuss about "carbon" comes from, while real pollution is being ignored, its because of carbon credit trading. It turns out that the giant banks are the one's most hoping to do carbon trading, and since we all know the giant banks have bought the .govs, we can see why carbon is being pushed hard as the "new pollution."

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No, it wouldn't. A Red side pilot setting up for the attack run would NOT see any of it in 3D, except the cockpit and the X wings of his own ship, or the 3D solar panels in the case of the Blue side pilot setting up for intercepting the attack run. Yep. The Trench visuals would be far beyond the range finding of two humoid eyes separated by a few inches. Now as for the tiny model, well... Same thing in combat flight TheSims. I hope the TheSims Devs never go 3D because everything is 2D in the air warfare environment except the Player plane as everything else is too distant for simulating pilot vision.

I'd be rather proud to say I'm the first man to get run over by a B-36 and live. For ya'll who read about Strategic Air Command, ya'll heard that story, the dude who lined himself up between the twin nose wheels. I went looking a piece and found this; a fun discussion. Sorry no youtube vid. RUN OVER BY A B-36... AND LIVES TO TELL ABOUT IT! Apparently, possibly, Amber on page 2 is related, and if so, has a first person soul story on poast #25. A nice touch on poast #19. Amber::

2GB for free? A 400GB internal hard drive costs maybe 40$. That's 20 cents for 2GB. So that's not quite "free" but... edit...can't get my maths right UK, you like tape drives, and so do I but I can't afford them as far as I know. Do any of these online data storage firms back up customer backup data to tape? Scott Mueller says newer very high capacity hard drives are not as reliable as older drives: They went too fast in ramping capacity basically. Thus, I suggest one or three lower capacity hard drives for backing up data. Alternatively, Scott suggests the "enterprise" hard drives, used on a lot of pro servers and stuff, but they run maybe 2x the price. I'm running one now and I think I'd like to get more because of some strange happenings in the past with regards to corrupted files. If ya'll can afford tape, do that. **** But, if the "kewl" factor of trusting some online source for backing up highly valued data is the only way to motivate CombatAce's chronically un~backed into BACKING UP, then I'm all for it.

Each soul is not offered a car. "Volunteers" are entered into a "lottery." Judging by the "prizes," this project is targeted at the poor, while bank.gov corruption helps keep those men, women, and children in poverty. Stary, it is crazy, like Strange crazy. I used to follow this stuff when I was at uni -- totally on my own though. Not ONE faculty member wanted to talk about it, nor any "conservative" or "liberal" students....except some Africans, Asians, and Latinos. I used to tutor physics (well, everything) and I met tonnes of cool souls from around the world. Minimum wage job but man was it the greatest job I ever had. Julhelm:: Required by....?

You may be right. So many stories get changed over the years, or there were many smart men back then.

You'll be back. They always come back. I've had down times before, lack of time mainly. But, even then I planned to eventually get back to my SF Forever Project (FP). You could try something different, like First Eagle WW1, WW2, or something off the wall. I never actually PLAY the game, except for some joysticking as diversion from the FP. I never tried a campaign (yet). I maintain an interest because of the plane set I'm using to develop my own campaign -- think Duke Nukem Forever there. The mission for both sides, although not modeled in the game, sends me off finding resources in books, old articles, and online including interviews, and even some intriguing tibits shared on forums. The search for information is a fascinating end in itself. Here's my plane set, or an initial start, with many sub~variants not yet present. There are seeming oddities, but for good reasons. There are ex-LendLeace aircraft involved, and if you see light and heavy air transports, recall that P-51Dora pilots flying to or from Berlin would encountered German air transports. I use the air war over Germany as a foundational starting point for ideas or justifications. For example, RAF Bomber Command over Germany never retreated to low altitude with tail between legs, but stayed high and fought the electronic war. Some planes are renamed, The later hump backed Su-17M4 was to be called Su-19. I like that. This Su-19, and all the Su-17s, will be a short field swing wing supporting fighters, supporting things like Su-15s, like Bf-109s supported Focke Wulf "Boeing" killers. My MiG-23 is actually the Ye-152A prototype I've frankenmodded from Insky's J-8II, my -23M is the Ye-152M, and my MiG-27 is the "real" MiG-23. My B-66A is a panic rush by SAC/TAC to use A3D for high altitude use instead of waiting for B-66B. The F-109A and B are A-5A and B, in case I want them for penetration fighters. There were suggestions to use Vigilante as Air Force interceptor, so hey that sounds "kewl" and that's half the idea. Or as TK says: "nifty planes." You are from Sweden? I've considered using Sweden to support SAC and Bomber Command, with fictional air-refueling of SAAB fighters needed in my campaign theory, although obviously not in TK's game. Your thoughts on this would be nice. If anybody made nifty planes, it would be the Swedes. So for that reason, I must include them somehow, and that means giving them a role assuming air refueling. That's how I maintain fun in my game, while endlessly learning the real Cold War things that went down.

Capitaine V, I'm saving that quote. Thanks! Like borrowing more to get out of debt. I'd love to see Mark Twain's reaction to that war spin, if he had lived to see it. The smart man would see the Orwellian speak signaling the start of a long era of warfare. Apparently, there was a US Navy officer present at the armistice signing, and he said, or wrote, that he could tell that there will be another war in 20 years from then. If the story is true, he was off by one year. I don't have a source for that story though. This is another reason I think the whole thing was a setup...its a short and light PDF file. MONETARY REFORM: GOLD AND BILLS OF EXCHANGE by Antal Fekete You can finance wars like this only through massive debt, and somebody willing to "loan" paper to the warring sides, the paper being declared legal tender by cowardly "war" governments. Smedley Butler hints at this slightly, and he reserves special comments for banks in his late~in~life speeches on War Is A Racket.

There is a path, coming up from below, a very tiny bit off to the left. Move slowly when his chin turns to the left. That worked for me. Pretty nifty. Thanks!!

Yep, I'm not impressed, in fact just the opposite. What takes real courage is saying NO to stupidity and flying safely.

Man wonderful to see this. I'm tip~toeing away to SF-1 again (but at least 2008 not 2006 so easy there) ... so I can't use this stuff, but I'm glad to see TK trying this out. Question:: What limits on airplane types do ya'll think TK will have? I mean, I'd love to see TK sell a J-35 "Flygvapnet" or B-58 "Strategic Air Command" even if none of the stock games employ them. They are, after all, nifty airplanes as TK likes to say; two of the most Nifty ever.

Columbo Rules! ds, that link tells of a play Falk played in, one I never heard of. Its very interesting. Amazon has one book. I googled roundabout and found this review... Play review – “The Passion of Josef D” by Paddy Chayefksy As always, everything becomes relevant, here, at The CombatAce / Cold War Thudwire.

Nice. I try to run my Enviro with lower Ambient light, and SF cockpits become too dark. This helps. I usually brighten up things inside, especially the gauges. THANKS!!

Nasty things, sink holes.

I never tried a Strike Fighters campaign, just hand made single missions. If we could write our own campaign generators, we could generate missions that had "extra" flights coming along backing the player's flight, or the player's flight backing up earlier flights. Thus, backup would be out there when you get close enough to them in either visual range or radar range/cone (footnote*) so they engage....but we don't have a map~wide combat events record file we can read from to generate new campaign missions, like "eventlog" in IL-2/FB game, so the SF game is still effectively locked up in terms of dynamic campaign generators. There may be ways of getting around this, for example visually counting the combat losses using camera views and recording them on paper and inputing that data into the generator....what a mess that would be... * FREE Footnote: as of SF-1 2008, long distance radar engagement only works for ALL weapon loads when the flight is "targeted" to a specific flight, either friend or enemy. I found one could setup an abstract flight at the map edge where this won't ever get destroyed, although the targeted abstract flight being destroyed could be a good way to simulate destruction or degradation of surface surveillance radar or communications, as well as setting the targeted abstract flight to appear later during a mission, or landing or setting it up to be shot down by a nearby dedicated AA for this purpose. I'm straying off course here so...but in a way it all ties together.

Well, alcohol is poison. I stop at one 16oz beer, or "american water" as the Euros call it. I love the taste, but hate that poison feeling. And its a weapon successfully used against American Indians, kinda like Opium used by the hehe "drugacracies" against the Chinese.

That was dumb stunt. Nice to see some sense here. Although I hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning to look like this man exceeded his ability to think. If alcohol was involved, this turned out really lucky, as no victims in other cars or bystanders were hurt. Never heard of this guy, but I know everything about men that Party and drive. I've seen burning cars on the highway, nasty, vicious flames. Bad for the two fellas. ** Driving while sleepy is just as bad. Be careful, or at least don't kill anybody else in your stunt driving to get someplace "because I have to". Daily Mail has accident scene pics, rather serene that belie a gas fire. Very late at night, cops say high speed was involved, expensive sports car I guess. Classic stuff.

All of them. TX:: Mee Too. My fave by far is Marty Simon's work for LEXX sci~fi show, season 1 the movies, and later the series seasons 2 - 4. Very different, often very eerie, or sometimes fun, or comedic at times.

Well he did remove the wart. Some really dumb firearm accidents happen to men or women you'd never expect it to happen to, and so, those are the more embarrassing ones. This story does have more colour though. In UK -- "illegal firearm?" -- there may be a loss of gun cultural awareness to consider, and that could be said of USA to some extent as well, which is perhaps a goal of a bureaucratic bank.gov system -- birth a nation of dependents.

The new TKMD in SF2 is interesting, and I was pleasantly sup-rised to see the altitude limitations read from aircraft data.ini, but I prefer typing to scrolling. Once you go classical KMD, you never go back.

I mentioned marriage, along with the unique case of a Georgia girl. Strange, but I've worked around lots of travelers, and my two fave accents, to me the most beautiful sounds, are Georgia USA and Georgia EastEuro. aircraft, hang in their. I've corrupted my Controls file many times, but to fix it, I've just copied over a backup. That won't fix a joystick issue though....or maybe software joysticks have stuff to backup?

Agreed. Win-7 is what you want. If you just want to stick a toe in the water, I suggest Europe. I just got SF2 Euro, and the expansion pac. Its pretty nice. I mainly looked at the planeset. One of the big ones for me back in the old days was F-105. Folks, a flyable F-105 in a combat flight sim: when has that ever happened? Also, Hunters and all versions of Lightning in SF2 Euro. That is amazing.

Okay I don't know anything about fancy joysticks. I use a simple Saitek Cyborg Graphite -- it came with NO software at all; the way it should be. Other than that, extract the Viewlist.ini and try again. Once you get things working, make a backup copy of Viewlist.ini and the Controls folder. I backup copy my entire game folder to different hard drives and then DVDs and store them in the closet, and a few copies off-site in case of flood, fire, theft, asteroid, marriage, or that nuc in the Georgia swamp going off because two pilots (B-47, F-86Dora) -- BOTH pilots from MISSISSIPPIE -- collided like peanut butter and chocolate. There's debate about that nuc being a live round though. Don't take any chances. BACK UP when you get your game right!