I would have guessed Marinette Marine in Wisconsin, which is where the current Freedom class is built, but I’m not 100% on that.

Pretending something hasn’t become an Internet meme because it existed before is silly.

Neither did Domo-Kun or cat videos, but here we are.

You’ve never seen the “People disagreeing with me in 3, 2, 1, ...” pattern before? Or you disagree that it is tired?

As for the rider, of course the collision was not his fault. I do not agree that he didn’t do anything dumb. I’m not saying he is stupid, but he didn’t do the smart thing here, especially with a passenger. I don’t see evidence in the video of how fast the car was going relative to the speed limit so I can’t relate to…

Influx of trolls that try to stifle conversation by using tired internet memes...

Angelababy (née Angela Yeung) is a popular Chinese actress, singer, and model who’s been referred to as the country’s answer to Kim Kardashian. But unlike Kim Kardashian ...

No, not typically. If the pilot was in a hurry to drop it, he would have performed an EJ (emergency jettison) and just kick all the stores off the plane immediately. If the pilot was experiencing any control difficulties at all, that is likely what happened.

Impossible to know. F-35 is a bigger airframe so a bigger target, may have taken a few more rounds. But the composites are more robust and the computerized flight controls are better and could compensate better than the F-16.

Sounds familiar. Canadian SeaKing replacement: Original purchase of 35 EH-101 helicopters to replace the SeaKing in shipboard ASW service. Four years later they announced that they would also use the EH-101 to replace the SeaKing in coastal SAR service. This new requirement caused design changes to support both roles…

That won’t happen and couldn’t have happened. While there have been smaller programs where major defense contractors have eaten a loss, when you start talking about programs this size, that could theoretically bankrupt a company, they aren’t taking those kinds of chances with the contract. This is why development was…

I don’t get the fuss. I so rarely use cash anymore I barely remember what the $10 looks like. It is purely symbolic gesture. “Give them a bill, maybe they’ll go away for a while.” Now if they started mandating pictures of people on credit cards... “No, we don’t take Andrew Jackson Express here, only George Washington…

Maybe do what all the other guys do and have a version that comes from the factory with crash bars, hand guards, luggage, and maybe a bigger wind screen.

Actually it should be Year/Month/Day if for no other reason than I can’t be bothered to sort by date using an actual date field rather than just increasing / decreasing numbers.

Yeah, that makes more sense. I was wondering why, driving 12 minutes through a populated area, he was the first person on the scene. It seemed like in an area like that someone should have been closer.

The terrible traffic in Indonesia is a complex problem caused by bad infrastructure, bad public transport, non-existent traffic law enforcement (+corruption), bad urban planning, and so on

All of that is “in-work.” Let’s just say it isn’t the highest priority for some folks right now.

This pass women over if they are “bitchy” only works because the studio can make just as much money with a different actress who will work for what is being offered. It isn’t like these negotiations are held in front of a TV camera. When you end up with actors like Robert Downey Jr. in a franchise like Ironman, there…

Is that what this was about? Hunger Games? I hadn’t seen any specifics about which movies were being discussed.

Do you honestly believe the exec’s at Sony are sitting around going “well, she’s only a woman, we should pay her less?” No, they have movies to make, profits to reap, and they will pay her what is required to get the job done. Not a penny more. Being bad at negotiation isn’t discrimination.