If you will recall, at this stage of the F-22 program everyone was just as down on it. There would have been absolutely no support in congress (except for Georgia and Texas) for such a thing. It wasn’t until after the government decided to shut down the assembly line that the general public seemed to think the plane…

I think you misunderstand my point. I’m saying that all-white is no better or worse than all-chinese.

Who are you to question other people’s racial identity? So what if she was born to Caucasian parents. Her parents are not who she is. She identifies as a black woman. You should respect that. She isn’t doing this to mock anyone. This is no different than Caitlyn Jenner.

I don’t get the Kung Fu part. The character was half Caucasian and half Chinese. How would Bruce Lee (all Chinese) have been better? Would you have called it “yellow washing” if Bruce had gotten the role? Would the only acceptable way to cast the role been with someone of the correct mixed ethnicity?

Ten feet would probably be a new record when it comes to hostile intercepts

Sure, and you shouldn’t exceed the speed limit, and you should make full, complete stops at stop signs even when there are no other vehicles in the vicinity, and by the way, you shouldn’t yell at people behind the wheel because that is more distracting than anything else mentioned in this thread.

Or you look up and just see the light, not the car in front of you and slam in the back of them.

Yeah, the theory is that if an F-35 gets into a real maneuvering dogfight, a bunch of stuff has already gone wrong. Dogfighting is plan B (or maybe C) in the F-35.

Note that my point was that I’m NOT in AU. I’m in the US and I get that compensation package in the US. So you can dismount your high horse. The whole point was that people in the US can and do get those types of packages. So I don’t know what “labor culture” you are talking about. Sure, it isn’t mandated, but I…

I’m not sure what you mean by full capabilities. The original development program for F-35 is set to complete with the release of block 3F and Navy IOC. The program has defined the 3F (Navy IOC) configuration as “full capability” for the SDD phase. The plan seems to be switch production for all services over to block…

Note that the Marines are to be the first service to go live with the F-35 later this year. The are accepting aircraft that have less in the way of mission systems capability than the other services in order to speed up the transition.

So, iOS 9 is getting more Android features. Nice.

When I say I didn’t see anyone supporting a family, it is because everyone I saw was either 17 during nights and weekends or 70 during the weekdays. I really didn’t see anyone inbetween who wasn’t some sort of manager. I admit it is possible that some of these folks were trying to support a family, but it doesn’t seem…

20 years ago wasn’t exactly the dark ages. It isn’t like the officers were recording their notes into a Dictaphone and sending them to the typing pool where men and women (well, women) would transcribe them using manual typewriters and covering up mistakes with correction fluid.

The confusion seems to be that other countries require these great benefits, but the US does not require them and therefore nobody in the US gets these benefits, which just isn’t true. These benefits are just part of the total compensation package. My point was to show that you can get benefits in the US as good or…

The point isn’t just the time in court, although there are lots of costs there from the Judge and lawyers to ancillary personnel, the overhead associated with the court room, etc... But it is really the paperwork that has to be generated to get there along with the officer’s time to write up the reports and the…

There seems to be some confusion on this point, maybe not you, but some. I am not defending, just stating.

This isn’t going to help the manager’s attitude, only the worker’s.

But it doesn’t cost $1000 to “prosecute” somebody who’s driving with a suspended license.

The two separate holes on the top of the aircraft are (Front to back): 1 The vertical lift fan, with the single door that opens to the front; 2 the auxiliary engine inlet with two doors opening to the sides. The aux inlet is opened on the top to prevent debris kicked up by the fan from being sucked into the front…