You mean raise it, right?

You mean lower than 1080p? What do you think this is, peasantville?

A Core I5 or I7 Intel NUC w/ SSD (Or Gigabyte Brix or equivalent with SSD) and you get everything in the tiniest possible form factor. If you’re worried about streaming, and can cover really loud fan noises with a ridiculous HT setup, Gigabyte Brix Gaming for localized, non-streaming fun.

That shirt would be perfect without that idiotic MERICA crap on the bottom. That just makes it embarrassing.

Never start a hot take with “as a Pats fan” - the whole world knows what is coming next.

When I heard this, after it was first released and heard the fox-1 call, the first thing I thought of is, that lead’s career is toast. There was a clear call for a weapons hold, there was never a call for weapons free that I could tell! When he put that master arm on, he might as well have handed in his wings. I also…

I would like a pound of what you’re smoking

Doubtful, seeing as even if Trump is elected next year, he wouldn’t be president until January 2017. So We’ve got a bit.

Yeah, I’m sure he did. Considering the politics of the era, the Pentagon was obviously going to paint this episode in favor of their crew, but I have no doubt that this was viewed as a fuckup internally.

The first thing he did was to descend. Was this done because he wanted to appear non-aggressive, similar to turning 30 degrees off-bore? Seems a better approach would have been to get between the bogies and the sun, gain some altitude and see if they want to follow. If they’re looking for a fight, you have the energy…

yes... that’s exactly what makes the recent Russian pokes and prods scary. At some point they are going to scare somebody enough to pop off a couple missiles...

The RIO did say that they were locked up by the MiGs at one point.

That RIO in the lead aircraft was an excitable feller.

Boredom? Just wanted to annoy the F-14s a little over international waters, maybe?

I have no qualms with them getting out of the pop culture business, I just hope they decide to return to the sports business.

My father was on the Spruance and would tell me stories about how they would mess with Soviet subs and play the Star Wars theme on the underwater speaker for the sub crew to hear.

Since the Spruance had a turbine, they even had a sign like on jets that said, “BEWARE JET BLAST”. Too bad the old bird was used up for…

“We felt closer to the Russian sailors than we did to the people back home. At least we understood each other.”

We used to play this chicken game with the Russians back in the ‘80’s. We were careful to turn off radars and to aim weapons down to the deck to preclude any excuse for a “misunderstanding” and I thought both sides, at least the men on the ships if not the men back at headquarters, pretty-well understood the game. I…

I almost said this to an out-of-town co-worker. The words were in my head and they were about to come out. She said something that lead to a tangent and I didn’t get the opportunity to speak (thankfully).

This looks like tilt shift. Even when I know it’s not.