I think his point was that the helicopter in his picture is actually in the Israeli inventory.

You still know more about the difference than the majority of contributors in the Gawker-verse (Tyler excepted of course). To many of them any of the above gets labeled “tank” and then they argue that they label is justified because “it is substantially the same thing.”

Wait. Calling in a false police report over the phone while masking the origin of the call isn’t already a federal crime?

So, after climate change has wiped humans off the planet?

But these sound like emergency provision for the very poor,

The best part of heated seats in my truck is that they come on, along with the defroster when the outside temp is below some threshold and you use remote start. When I lived in MN and was at work in the winter I would look out the window and hit the remote start. Then I would pack up whatever I was taking home and put…

And aparently free trips around the world. (just jealous)

I watched the new BSG series also.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally a defender of the F-35, but now you aren’t comparing apples to apples since “internal load” on F-35 is less than “full load” on F-18. I don’t have all the raw data at my finger tips but both the C and E have higher thrust to weight ratio than the F-35A with no ordinance and at MTOW…

I’ll bet that F-35 wasn’t carrying its full load either.

If you could get it to fire the hellfires without releasing them?

“cannot confirm or deny...”

I know what you mean, and I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but just to be clear...

Ok. so specify the quota they have to meet and lets move on.

That’s why he should have selected zone 5 to extend, and escape. He made a bad choice. In his case the maneuver worked, the Mig never got a clean shot, but I think it was a textbook example of what not to do.

I don’t mean to disagree with the major points at all. I would however like to point out one thing. In one sentence you deride a man for suggesting a paper authored by only women could benefit from a male perspective, and the very next line you criticize a conference for having all-male panels.

Most developed nations treat it like Social Security. The government collects a tax and pays it out to those who need it. It becomes a “cost of doing business” and means a small business isn’t pushed under if two women get pregnant at the same time.

You make a very good point. Especially the part about tips. I have no idea how the employee would make up for the missed tips.

The reason it is so is because for every person employed in those positions there are two waiting to take their place. Employees are easy to replace so no need to incentivize them to stay. (No advocating, just stating)

I think you just described what most developed nations actually do. It is a system like, or even part of, their social security (or whatever they call it there) program.