I think you are misinterpreting, or maybe I am. Let me try an analogy. I go to a really seedy bar in a bad neighborhood and proceed to get ripping drunk. I then pay my tab by pulling a big wad of bills out of my pocket and peeling off a C-note for all to see. I then leave out the back door into a dark alley. At this…

Hillary just approved it a couple of days ago. Congress still gets a month to override. Then the paperwork will start in ernest. That’s right, there is no contract yet, so this thing is not a 100% certainty. That alone could take a year, but I would hope they’ve been working on that for a while. Once that’s done then…

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…

You could cut an hour out of the movie and lose nothing of value.

Meh on Gravity. Although I do think it qualifies as science fiction in that what they did was so far out of the realm of possibility it was fantasy like. I don’t think anyone needs to see it.

Having seen ET, I don’t think it belongs on this list. People would be just fine skipping it. Maybe if you are 8 years old, but even then watch the original.

What about model aircraft that actually require skill to fly? From back when model aviation was a gentleman’s pursuit. Before every joe sweatsock could waddle down to Fry’s and pick up a self stabilized quad copter and fly it using his iPhone.

Some historians speculate that the “Sea Peoples” may have been involved. These aggressive boat people show up in Egyptian records around 1200 BC. They could have been the people who brought the walls down in Mycenae or they could have been the refugees fleeing from their ruined cities. We don’t know.

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.