I think one issue that gets overlooked is the fact that mass production has shut down on many of the components, and will not be restarted. The program does limited lifetime buys of electronic components, for example, to cover sustainment, but to re-start the line you would have to re-design much of the avionics…

Are you seriously minimizing the rape of small children because many of them were white? I’m going to say something, and it might hurt, but it needs to be said, and you shouldn’t get mad and go into denial, you should really think about it. You are being racist.

Straight outta Compton was nominated for best original screenplay.

You mean the children victims of sexual abuse that he is standing up for? This isn’t a contest to see who is the biggest victim, but you wouldn’t know it from the reactions around here.

How many rotor blades required for a multicopter?

This way they get to collect the money but don’t have to pay out. I have no direct evedence that this was intentional, but I wouldn’t put it past an insurance company.

Samsung really missed the boat when the forgot to patent “Phones with screens bigger than 4 inches”

oh, I have no issue with your statement, just clarifying that rule is going away. I have only owned bikes with 75 or fewer horses and only once or twice wished I had more while on the street. While I have ridden several with a lot more, and I do like getting the drive out of the corners and into the straight you can…

That was supposed to be eliminated as of the first of this year.

It looks like a rolling commercial for Monster Energy

They need the GoPro stickers on the landing gear bay doors and on the pylons. Maybe they could get sponsored.

So “Krobert” is a country now?

I used to see them sitting down to smoke. With the prevailing sentiment against smoking, they probably forgot why they sit, they just do it out of habit.

The ironic thing is that you thought any of it was newsworthy.

You get that where this building is located, that’s chump change?

It is one thing to say that the Academy didn’t meet an arbitrary unwritten quota of ethnic minorities. It is yet another to point out specific cases where an actor (for example) was nominated when a more deserving minority actor was passed over. Who should have been nominated? It wasn’t Lee or Pinkett Smith.

So, there are the BET awards and the Image awards. What else would she want? A more narrow show with only the motion picture industry?

She wasn’t “penalized” for asserting her innocence. She got the sentence as a result of going to trial. Others were given a break because they agreed to save the state the cost of prosecution, defense, and otherwise conducting the trial. Not to mention putting all the victim’s family through the waiting game.

Not sure NIMBY applies. I always thought of a NIMBY as someone who thought something was a good idea, but they didn’t want it nearby (e.g. fire station, school, public housing). I don’t think the people along this route necessarily think this is a good idea at all.

Sure. I don’t think they are even there yet. In the end, the government (i.e. elected officials) have to decide to initiate the process. Right now the reps for the locals are just lobbying against it. Not a big deal, yet.