All well and good, but being openly vulnerable at work is the perfect time for an opportune bully to drive you out of a job. Careful out there.

How many cars, including a couple of McLarens, has Rowan Atkinson crashed?

I'm patiently waiting for the first home-enthusiast SAM suitable for anti-drone use...

Actually offered for sale through Neiman-Marcus, they apparently built more than a few of them......

Given enough low-latency secure bandwidth and a little bit local situational intelligence, any fly-drive-float by wire thing can be remote controlled.....

I need a wallet that is just big enough to double as a passport holder. Needs to have an internal slot to grab the cover page of a passport and then fold up decently.

Dust off the old arsenal ship concept, give it the legs to hang with a CVBG, but also the brains to be capable of independent action and host/mothership a dozen or so true LCS hulls. Something like a stretched LPD-21 hull with two or three Mark 54 guns geared for LRLAP. Recycle the CWIS and Mk41/57 VMS clusters from…

best/worst guess: one of the aft stabilizer booms ripped off as the ship went trans-sonic

Well, seeing as I own 5 shares of RCI Entertainment just for fun, I may as well buy a few shares in Ferrari for the same reason.

The Spirit of John Paul Vann lives on......

The Sovs used to, and presumably the Russians still do, have a serious fuck-ton of pre-set launch locations whose position is known with a high level of precision. These don't have to be anything more than a metal plate screwed into a tree along the side of a road somewhere.

From a tactical-surprise and survivability…

Where do I begin?

The 15 months I was in Sarajevo (spanning two Christmas seasons) in the bad old days bunkering down in what was once a pretty decent international airport but was as the time a target field for Serbian artillery amateurs to practice their craft.

Was going for the camo effect rather than the alien abduction effect ;-)

Once rented a Sanurai in South Africa for a self-guided safari tour. I swear that after 500 km, every single window on the thing had popped out of their moldings at least once. Went through five rolls of green duct tape and two tires.

08-12 Mitsu Eclipse. Yah, it weighs more than a Corvette with half the power, but there is loads of tinker room in the aged Galant chassis to vastly improve steering and handling. The revised heads on the V6 in the 08+ models frees up a a few more HP but a lot of torque and stretches out the dealer service interval…

I didn't know that about the CS fleet rotation, thanks!

Could be that once AB realized that Skymark was going to cycle the airframe at 6x what a mainline carrier would (20-25 a week va 6 a week on the mainline), they panicked and decided that being a real airbus wasn't their line of business. Or their design point.

It might just take a court case as bizzare as this to establish that snark isn't a valid journalistic vehicle.....

Swing weekend. Five couples. One couple had recently had a threesome with a woman who sounded for all the world like my SOs sister.

I'd much rather have one of these:

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