Marketing exercise? The Brits are already just as pregnant with this as the US. This was actual testing.

You realize that all major defense development contracts are cost plus, right? Upgrades and such can be fixed price, but major developments almost never so. There is actually a reason behind that. If the government really knew what they wanted from the outset, they would go fixed price, but they don’t, or they want…

They could have, but it still wouldn’t have given anywhere near the capability they will get with this jet. Seroiusly. Not even close. The US Marines are in such a hurry to replace their harriers that they are taking F-35’s with lesser mission capability in order to get them operational this year. And the Brits have…

There are two doors behind the cockpit. The first one, big one hinged at the rear, is the opening for the lift fan inlet; the second one, smaller doors just behind the first one, is the aux engine inlet.

What could go wrong? Well, it certainally WON’T be a lack of funding from congress. It’s almost as if they did it that way on purpose.

I am not suggesting we accept it or ignore it, I’m suggesting that, when it comes to allocating enforcement resources, we have bigger fish to fry. In any case, as far as gaming, any short term solution is going to have to be technology based.

Whether you think these threats are carried over or not, the victims have no way of knowing if they are going to be the real life victim.

Which underlying problem? That people can be mean to each other, or that men can be mean to women?

Well, since I was specifically talking about those that follow through with online threats, yes, it is a small percentage of the population, even including those that follow through with online threats against males. I would have thought that would have been clear from the context.

Interesting question. I just asked my wife and she said she was generally treated much better once she switch her game name to something that would give away her gender. Most of the remaining harassment is from 14 year olds that don’t believe that she is female.

SWATing seems to be a pretty real thing.

I wonder what altitude (I can’t really tell from the video) they were at when this happened and why the lower guy decided not to cut away. If they were at an altitude where normal mortals would start a stack they should have been well above the safe cut away altitude. This, in theory, would have reduced the load on…

Oh, come on. I grant that his almost rabid F-35 hate calls into question his objectivity on the subject, but this isn’t simply a news aggregator site. He is genuninely adding editorial content in most cases and we should all expect some spin in these articles. At least he is backing his position with information and…

That’s no moon!

Leaving the climate issue alone for a minute. This thing he just did with the supposed tribunal, we don’t know if this is a real thing or more whitewash BS like we’ve seen before. We have no idea what is going to come out of it. And if they find reason to believe that a Bishop did something wrong are they going to…

We tell the new guys that they make a highly classified AC-17 variant.

What do you suppose would happen if you were sitting in a field or a park a mile or so away from an airport, sort of near the approach but not directly under, and launched a model rocket as AF1 was passing by to land?

Huh. I’m grandfathered on unlimited with VZW and I don’t see any change at 2 or 3 GB. I do see crappy speeds during busy times, even at the start of the billing period. But at other times it’s fine, even when I go over 5GB. In my case I think the area is just over-subscribed.

If the War College is essential to teach our combatant commanders the strategies they need to win in battle, then Pentagon Procurement History College is needed so that we don’t keep reliving the costly mistakes of our past.

And yet we keep re-electing our senators and representatives who are supposed to be the ones protecting us from this. In a way, they are worse than the defense industry, because at least the defense industry is relatively honest about it. Yeah, we’re here to make money. Now we can make more money if we have great PR…