Lack of oxygen, possible deafening roar (depending on where the door was), people screaming. I’ll bet that was one hell of a ride!

So what, if any, difference in thrust is there between a static test like this and full burner while flying? I would think during the static test there is a lot of energy being expended hoovering in all that air, while in flight you’d have somewhat of a ram effect.

It’s amazing how people can read whatever they hell they want into anything. You read those quotes and think he’s trying to say “Stupid rookies get rattled and throw at our batters”. I read them and get “Stoopid rookies get rattled, their emotions are running high, their control suffers and the end result is they hit…

Screw that. If I'm pitching and an aluminum bat wielding Frank Thomas comes to the plate I'm going to kick and scratch at the mound enough that I create a decent sized foxhole. When I do get around to throwing a pitch I'm going to look like an army recruit throwing a live grenade - toss, flop to the ground, cover head…

looks like Mickey Rourke with some kind of palsy

My hope is there is at least one old-school metal fabricator still on the AM line and when the first one of these gets to his station he flies off in a fit of rage and takes a cross peen hammer to every executive that signed off on this pile of crap.

Still not as fast as her old man went last year on the same strip: 3.965 at 324

Judging by that man's face, he'd fly into combat with a Swordfish style ball bearings 'n c4 vest on. If he got shot down and captured he'd be sure to take some ISIS assholes with him.

Yep. Abdullah/Christie in 2016!

That car can't be AWD. The kid down the street with the clapped out 240SX said that AWD cars always understeer.

Kenny Bell approves.

Does the Phalanx radar sweep 360 degrees or is the radome just that shape for its R2D2ish good looks? If it doesn't sweep it looks like you could turn the Phalanx into one hell of a mechanical bull type ride - stand on one rung, grab another, let the radar start tracking gulls and HANG THE HELL ON!!!

Speaking of gulls…

Something I've never been quite clear on - is the the 30mm DU's tank busting ability based on the armor on the top of the tank being thinner than on the front of the hull and turret? Meaning would a single round punch all the way through? Or is the key to the system that there are multiple hits in the same area with…

Yep. All for the look. What good does the fire suit do with no head and hand protection?

We did look at it, or specifically SmartOS but ran into an issue with support for our Athlon based hardware.

I don't do nearly as much sysadmin anymore so I don't really get a say. The guys seem happier with their Linux o' the month.

...a special transatlantic flight to get him out of the country

Yep. ZFS was killer. We had a couple boxes that we managed the OS but a customer ran a couple applications on. I never told but I automated hourly ZFS snapshots. Twice I got panicked phone calls "We damaged a bunch of records in the database!". Bump them off line, zfs restore from snapshot, restart their services,…

Christ I miss having our servers running on Solaris. Something just doesn't seem right about the network, write up a DTrace script and boom you've got all the info you could ever want. What process had what port open, what process made what system call to send data over the wire, log all system calls involving sending…

Ostertag used to try the same line on the girls at KU.

And just think, there is a sizable number of people here in the States that insist the EPA should be disbanded and environmental issues are nothing but a bunch of lies spread by the left so they can hand this country over to the UN.