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I prefer Katie Holmes

What? I just upgraded to VHS! You're telling me my VCR is no good anymore and I have to upgrade again? :blush2: Ok seriously, I'd go with the flash drives. They seem to be getting larger, faster than any disc form.

There have always been doubts about the phoenix. It was derived from the AIM-4 Falcon, which was known as the "20 thousand dollar turn signal" because it couldn't hit jack. An F-14E or F-22N/AFX would have been a better choice going up against Su-30s that are quickly becoming the standard non-western fighter in stock by world airforces. By all the figures I've seen the bug is slower, has less acceleration and range than the tomcat. With more loiter time, higher bringback ability and larger payload (saw somewhere the D could carry more on its fuselage than the bug on wings) might have been more cost effective, even if the plane and maintenance was more expensive and timelier. Anyway, we have a what if worthy tomcat replacement in SF as Julhelm's F/A-24 "Shadowcat" already.

Tried CA_Starry's mods lately?

Took this baby out for a test flight and what do I get?....... Freaking Mig-15s! (you were expecting CTD until then right?) I was expecting a flanker or mig-29 for a real test of its abilities. Great plane though! another long awaited addition to the modern aircraft fleet.

SNL just isn't what it used to be

Brings us back to that community developed game post from a while back. If a big community got together working on a flightsim project, something might get done.

What!? I'm the most staunch PC game supporter in the world. Somewhere in the depths of EA and ubisoft, Sony and M$ croneys made deals with them for their new consoles to be their primary platform. Also, you can pump out 3 console-crap games a year for the cost of 1 good PC game. And brainless 12 year olds will buy it if its marketed right. And with sports games, they can recycle most of the code and assets over and over and over again. Kind of like TK does, but not half as impressive.

Is there any way to get the information from the terrain tutorials MajorLee had on his site? I remember instructions about how to exclude a particular texture from different areas of the map, but can't find any similar instructions anywhere. What I need to do is have the northern part of a map be in a european/temperate appearance, the middle be a mediterranean/semi-arid and have the south and east be plain desert.

Thanks! It's all text editing then? This is gonna take a while.

I got a perfect score on a test I was sure I bombed because the professor couldn't read my handwriting, but the little she translated looked right

How would you know what I look like? ......oh yeah, that cspan class vid! Well I do look like **** on camera

Now how does this work with stuff where there's a group of people involved, but not all of them are on the list? There's alot thats out by TMF and other collaborations uploaded by Dave, but worked on by 3 or 4 more people not on the list.

I think its an alpha problem thats been around longer than the widesky mod.

Don't think they do, otherwise I'd be glued to it. I've yet to understand the appeal of Ice Road Truckers....how many times can you watch an 18 wheeler driving on ice?

Yeah, this is getting too much like ranting on facebook. But don't attribute everything to DNC propaganda (unless you fairly attribute everything you say to RNC propaganda) But they have permission to drill in many areas where they are not, because its not as cheap to extract. They've been pushing for drilling in ANWR for decades, even bush sr. opposed it, there's also the key part of the name: Wildlife Refuge, not Oil Reserve. Obstructionist isn't pursuing alternate forms of energy. The problem is oil and more oil is treating the symptom, not the disease. If you're having chronic pain that can be fixed by surgery, even though its expensive, is it better to just keep a morphine addiction going to avoid the pain and not fix the cause of the pain, and be more expensive and dangerous in the long run? It does go both ways, Bush's vetoes are obstructing any attempts by the democratic congress to address the problems with their plans. So until a new president (I really hope if McCain is elected he'll return to the concept of compromise and won't simply veto everything the democrats do for the hell of it) is elected, nothing gets through unless someone keels over and gives the other everything they want. When exactly do you sleep then? Maybe thats the problem, you're so wound up on caffeine Do at least recognize Fox is just as bad as MSNBC though, just that you agree with it more. And Fox's reporting is pretty bad. I remember a story from a few months ago something dealing with a fighter where they mentioned its infra-red and heat seaking missiles Never occured to them that those were the same thing.

I'm not trying to hang vietnam on conservatives or republicans, just answering to neverenough pinning LBJ's increases on JFK. As was the rest of the start of the post. It's not merely the "ooh ahhh" wowing effect he's having on people. It's that he is motivating people to become involved again. People who never knew a word of politics are paying attention now and an active and aware citizenship is the most important thing to a democracy. He's promised to review every executive order by bush and rescind those that overreach presidential authority for one. Renegotiating trade aggreements to help american workers, sorely needed here. Given the international "rockstar" tour, as president, our respect in the world will return (and thus our security and influence) We'll be able to work multilaterally, while McCain will continue the same America does whatever the hell it wants approach. And yes, there should be more drilling, there should have been more refineries built also. The thing about ANWR is that oil companies have plenty of land leased where they could drill, but simply aren't. Once they're using up where they can drill, then we can talk about opening new areas.

We had a presence in Vietnam well before JFK. Did you know Ho Chi Minh was previously very pro american? He helped us against Japan in exchange for us backing their independance after the war. He based the vietnamese constitution off of ours, then we turned around and backed the french. We were there right after the french got creamed and pulled out. McNamara(slimeball) was the one micromanaging things actually. How is fighting poverty a bad thing? Jimmy Carter, sorry about that, our bad. Not quite sure how a peanut farmer became president, but Gerald Ford's lack of understanding the cold war was a big reason. As for foreign policy, should we have raised tension with the soviets and provoked world war 3? Clinton's interventions.....WTF? 2 interventions are mistakes, but a lack of intervention is also a mistake? I don't hear anyone criticizing Bush's Haiti intervention do I? Kosovo was a UN/NATO action, and we didn't have any boots on the ground. Rwanda, deserved intervention though. Food prices were just fine until the cost of transporting them (oil) skyrocketed. But are you actually criticizing alternate energy when oil is over $120 a barrel? Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean the dog poop? He can't unless he knows the job is offered to him. "Without any of the so-called "tax breaks" your guys promised but refused to deliver." Who's been in control of congress the past 12 years before 2006? Since 2006, bush simply vetoes anything the democrats do to help. Err, the democrats have been calling for spending cuts all the same....the only ones claiming democrats are about to go on a spending spree are republicans and their attacks. "We coupled the largest drop in revenue in history ABSOLUTELY WRONG. That is not true." So the government made the largest cut in taxes (haven't seen much here, but we don't make hundreds of millions) But the government had the exact same ammount of money flowing in? Defense cutting would have happened regardless of who was in government. Without the soviet union, the massive spending was totally unnecessary. Then why have we lost so many (real) jobs? We've been losing mid-high level knowledge based jobs. People with multiple master's degrees can't find work. My father has only had sporadic work since the tax cuts (which favor shipping jobs overseas) While most jobs being created are low end retail/service jobs. The only fields with good salaries that are growing are nursing and teaching. Notice businesses haven't been hiring much, they keep a skeleton staff, layoff as many people as possible and work the ones who keep their jobs to the bone. Show me a single company hiring thousands of people. The unemployment figures are also extremely misleading. The figures are for people receiving unemployment benefits, which run out after six months. So if you're still unemployed after six months, you drop from the statistic. Nor does that take into account underemployment, people having to take jobs way below their experience and education (the local home depot is staffed almost exclusively by outsourced IT workers) It would be the largest tax increase because its the end of the largest tax decrease. They basically balance out to the pre-bush level, under which there was plenty of growth (and the wealth gap was shrinking, not growing) Wars? WWI - attacked by germany, hardly needless. WW2 - attacked by Japan, same deal Korea - defending against aggression ( to say korea was unjustified would be to say vietnam and the gulf war were completely unjustified as well) Iraq is without a doubt the most expensive war in history. To date, nobody has leveled with the public what the true original cause for war was. So until something shows otherwise, it looks like they simply wanted to go to war for the hell of it. Only because of the botched job has iraq become a threat to our national security. I'm really beginning to think the internet is a link with an alternate universe. Because all McCain and the republicans have done is attack, while every one of obama's ads have been about his campaign promises. The only DNC attack ad I've heard or seen is the one with the baby and 100 years in iraq statement. Whereas McCain outright accuses obama of being responsible for high gas prices, the republicans are the ones who attack people's patriotism, not democrats. The bush crowd's strategy is to divide, thats universally recognized. They get on their "moral" high horse and refuse to compromise about anything to get something done. I distinctly remember the utterly careless response from the federal government before and after, I'll have to go find the articles, but its the other way around. Never mind things like the comment barbara bush made about how the (toxic) FEMA trailers were a better quality of living for the poorer people in New Orleans. So let me get this straight? liberalism failed to prevent nuclear war with the soviets, put a man on the moon, provide healthcare for the extremely poor and old, end segregation and ensure equal rights for minorities, turn around a gigantic deficit from the reagan years. Tell the vast majority of europeans and canadians that liberal principles have failed. Why are the most thriving states all predominantly liberal? True conservative principles work once a stable equilibrium has been attained. If republicans followed conservative principles after the clinton years, we'd be fine. The Neoconservative corporatist ideology we've been dealing with has utterly failed America, and people are finally shaking off the fear and realizing it.

Did you ever expect otherwise?

So how is that any different from Cindy McCain? What tax bracket are you living in? Your logic is extremely fuzzy. How exactly have the bush tax cuts worked out? We coupled the largest drop in revenue in history with the largest increase in spending in history. A budget surplus was immediately turned into a deficit. When have liberals ever caused a mess? The market screwups from deregulation, nope, free market conservatives. The most expensive and needless war in history? conservatives. The only time since the great depression we didn't create more jobs than we lost? conservatives. Unprecedented divisivness? conservatives. The failure to respond to the greatest humanitarian disaster inside the US? conservatives. But then again, I'm being unfair, what's being passed as conservative isn't conservative at all. Why not talk to some people who are classic conservatives. What happened to fiscal responsibility? What happened to individual liberty?

I don't see how anyone can look arrogant in comparison to the bush gang. Really, what makes him so much more arrogant than McCain?

errr, beyond speaking ability and bringing a refreshing change to the white house, the comparisons are weak. And that information about goldwater and reagan comes from a book highly critical of democrats and republicans. Anyway, we've had a long eight years of continuing reagan's policies, they haven't been working. As for money, well look at the broader picture of donors across several elections, the right has nothing to complain about.

Sounds like some cheapo pornstar name or something they'd put as a myspace or screenname, not a real legal name.

Not in a million years, even conservative republicans then wouldn't be conservative republicans now. The Goldwater/Reagan crowd was always the lunatic fringe in the party and somehow they became the party. And the arrogance is astounding, where did they think they received sole ownership of patriotism or the right to define what is American? But don't take it from me, take it from lifelong republicans from that time who remember republicans like Eisenhower or Rockefeller firsthand.