Too many unions only exist to self-perpetuate. We need a law that caps the Union president’s pay at some fraction of the union’s average pay(I think we need the same thing for congressmen tied to their district’s average pay as well). I’m thinking something around 125% the average union workers pay.

This deal puts the cost of an F-16V at $118-$121 million. It’s rough analog in F-35-land is the F-35A, which has a current cost of $89.2m, to drop to $80m once we move from low production to high production. The -B costs $115.5m and the -C costs $107.7m. Both the B & C are still in LRIP and we don’t know the high…

As with any job, it’s all down to your bosses, and her current one is pretty awful, so she’s not super happy with her job at the moment.

At least at a federal level, the USCG damn well will tell a Malaysian captain what he can or can’t emit from his ship. My wife (who is in the USCG) has forced ships to stay at dock/anchorage for less than that. She once forced a Ukrainian captain to stay at the dock from mid-December to mid-January because a faulty…

I’ve got a 2-fer. On my ‘98 328is, every time I floored it, the traction control would turn off. When I popped the hood the plug for the throttle body that the T/C would be unplugged. I plugged it back in, then the next time I floored it, it would turn off and I’d pop the hood and find it unplugged again. This…

Jag/LR owners would likely welcome BMW reliability with open arms.

At his best in 2013 he hit 42 doubles, 53 HRs, 138 RBIs while batting .286 while slugging .634 and an OPS of 1.004. That was good for 1st in HRs & RBIs for the entire league and 2nd in OPS and total bases in the AL. And he was no worse than 6th in all 3 categories in 2015. When he was on, he was on fire, and was…

I’m not arguing that the C8 isn’t a better deal, it is. But saying the Supra barely looks different from the GT86 is like saying the C8 barely looks different from the C7. Yes there is a familiarity there, as there is with virtually any 2 cars from any product lineup, but they are not identical looking cars, and it…

Maybe an extremely drunk one-eyed man wearing prescription glasses that aren’t his at night might mistake a Supra for a GT86, but anybody else would be pretty hard pressed to make that mistake.

If you actually read the rulebook, it doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t beat the throw. Interfering with the fielders ability to catch the ball is against the rules, full stop, he should have been called out and Weiters moved back to 2nd.

In 20 years of driving I have had 4 people attempt to run me off the road. Every single one of them was in a truck. 1 actually intentionally sideswiped me then tried to claim to the Cop that I rear-ended him. In 3 of the cases all I did was pass them, 2 on a four-lane, one on a 6-lane, I never even moved in front of…

Austal already won half the LCS contract. They build them in the US, so the pork-pursuing politicians still get their kick-backs.

Who is claiming the DDG1000 was $1.8bn? The lowest-end number I’ve seen is $3.5bn.

Low-powered directional antenna pointed upwards towards a communications satellite. Directional isn’t a big deal as it only needs to know where it is and where the satellite is to keep in touch.

I see this:

You’re right. Nobody on a bicycle has ever killed or injured anyone.

uhh...the Supra is rated at 335hp. If it’s drag times are consistent with similar cars running at the 382 mark, that means it’s underrated by 50hp, or nearly 15%. That would amount to a fairly significant underrating.

You use fins. You can also artificially extend the range by gliding, trading velocity for distance.

Artillery shells absolutely can be shot down. They are just a bit of a harder target. The C-RAM, which is the land-based version of the Phalanx is able to engage and defeat artillery rounds as well as mortars and rockets. The Phalanx likely has the same abilities, but I haven’t seen anything to verify that. In terms…

Mine stems from the belief that nobody should be forced to use their body to keep another person alive. Much like you can’t force someone to donate a kidney to someone, you shouldn’t be forced to carry a baby if you don’t want to. Having said that I am generally against abortions, but I also believe that I(or anyone…