sparkomatic
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I prefer this version, actually...
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cooking oil? who needs that much grease? very nice rig by the way!
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Yeah...but that 24-hour clock thing is annoying sometimes...like when he flew from NY to LA (commercial nonetheless)...you frakkin try that...no way! Takes 4 hours at La Guardia just to find a frakkin parking place... And what, please tell me, is cool about torturing suspects?
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US withdraws Nuclear arsenal from the UK
sparkomatic replied to MigBuster's topic in Military and General Aviation
Of course...but I want flames instead of racing stripes...you always want that deuce-strip down the top and you know how that clashes with my shades...let's go with Blue and Silver flames this time...maybe sell some ad-space to either Pepsi or USAF, what think ye? -
I hate clowns...but that one was alright...and this one hot Japanese woman that works at the mall here on Sundays (she is like a 12 on a 10 point scale...except of course in the clown suit) But I still hate clowns...worked for too many over the years
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EU is rather scary...cant seem to forget that every time the Europeans get together in some sort of Pact or Treaty or Union, then the rest of the world ends up losing blood after not a long while...
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Say what you will, but the sun does not set on the American Flag...either on humanitarian missions or defending freedoms of others (as well as Her Own)...we are present on every continent and in every sea... Not to mention one of my favorite quotes, ever: "There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power. But what we have found over the decades is that unless you do have hard power -- and here I think you're referring to military power -- then sometimes you are faced with situations that you can't deal with. I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan. So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world. [Applause.] We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works." *** and, still: "And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, "Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us"? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are." Cheers
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US withdraws Nuclear arsenal from the UK
sparkomatic replied to MigBuster's topic in Military and General Aviation
Fine, but I am not sanding the paint off this time...gives me the sneezes -
F-16 Aggressors in Alaska
sparkomatic replied to Sparkchaser2010's topic in Military and General Aviation
whoa...must...stop staring at Jimmybib's avatar...but...its...so...wonderful...it....... -
Dave, you know I have to ask...how does it compare with iL-2 ?
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what was MacGyver's job anyway? Kind of like Magnum, PI...how did he get all of that money? At least in Knight Rider it had a semblance of an origin...then of course was forgotten like all other TV shows... Oh, cast my vote for MacGyver...though the potato gun taking out the radiator (and thus ending the pursuit) was a bit of a fetch...
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10-D is a rather capable missile and the idea is not strange at all...think about it...at altitude the only things in front of you would be those that you dont want in front of you...so not being able to particularly "control" the missile is not really a factor...hurl the silly thing at range and if it hits something well then that is one less thing to deal with...if not, they are relatively cheap. It also works against current tactics...but that will take quite a while to explain and no, 3wire games do not model tactics correctly at all, so no need to explain it here. In conclusion, it is not only possible but practical...it is not silly...and the -9x is also a BVR heater cheers
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whats not to like? especially after we conquer hyperspace...
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EA has not won any new friends...I do not even play BF2 on line and think this is calous.
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Tu-22 Iraqi green camo
sparkomatic replied to Muesli's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - File Announcements
I personally saw this one: -
Cheers!
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How mature can a B-52 get exactly!
sparkomatic replied to MigBuster's topic in Military and General Aviation
If by "storage" you mean gutted and put in museums... -
US withdraws Nuclear arsenal from the UK
sparkomatic replied to MigBuster's topic in Military and General Aviation
wonder when we are going to pull the flying saucer parts out of there as well? -
something realy weird
sparkomatic replied to ronan's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
had fun when flying an iL-28 and the tailgunner managed two kills...so why doesnt the #2 - #4 fighters manage anything but a guy eating a sandwich in the back of an airplane swacks two? -
XB-70...and more?
sparkomatic replied to Cupcake's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
"who throws a cupcake, honestly?" -
thought this was a thread about going to Wal-Mart at 0100 on a Tuesday...try it...quite the ego-booster
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How mature can a B-52 get exactly!
sparkomatic replied to MigBuster's topic in Military and General Aviation
One thing one must note though is that it is only alive still because of the community...those guys will take on anything...NOT saying that "other" bombers wont...but you have to give credit to those guys...if they honestly thought it would prolong their beloved leviathan, they would convert it into a tanker in 0.3 seconds...bolt a radome on top of it and call it Buff-WACS...they will do it. So that is part of it I think, the attitude of the community. Again, not scruffing the guys with the sexiest airplane with four afterburners (they know who they are) for that is one mean killing machine...just BUFFS are, well, BUFFs. -
J-8II Finback WIP
sparkomatic replied to 76.IAP-Blackbird's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - Mods/Skinning Discussion
Awesome, this is the PLAAF fighter that I actually think is rather cool, the "big nose finback"...dont care if 4 very talented people make it and release it, will download each one and thank them profusely... cheers! -
easy...do what I do and ignore the whole thing...then vote based on the number of french fries in a McDonald's happy meal divided by the number of fat people in line at aforementioned McDonald's in New Jersey looking angry...add the number of Tuesdays since your last dental exam and then divide by the cube root of your tire pressure (aft, starboard tire of course)...then assign the following values - if the solution is an even number (you know, divisible by two) assign that a Republican vote - if the solution is an odd number (eh...not above) then assign that to the Liberal Party of People You would not trust to watch your own children (also know colloquially as the Democrats) - if you are uncertain, vote for whatever party Ralph Nader or Ross Perot ran for (it doesnt matter, the US has a two-party system with some odd cousins thrown in for humor) - if you cannot do math, join the Communists Party (why? first go learn to do math, then ask) - if you find this offensive, then show me up and dont vote (that will teach us!) Thank you for your support Note: I am in no way a "Republican", period (they scare me). Note 2: aft, starboard side would be the passenger side, rear tire if you are an American...any other country could figure the correct tire without having to read the notes.