February, 2013: North Korea announces new, home-grown Medium-Artitude Rong-Endurance (MARE) drone.

See, if they'd just declare themselves at the border like they ought to, there wouldn't be a problem.

There is a silver lining in all of this, at least.

My point was that most people had horses back then - their maintenance requirements were apples to oranges [no pun intended] compared to cars, even as bizarre as they were back then. Had one not had access to a car in 1910, the thought of having to put fluids in it at all would have seemed alien, as their horses…

"Bloody told you so, mate!"

Tying in Jalopnik scandals to Gizmodo scandals?

That's actually pretty scary to think about, really.

One would think it would make sense, yes. Either that, or have those critical KAM (Keep Alive Memory) systems run off - *gasp* - a regular car battery. That way, if that dies, you either jumper it or just spend $40 on a new one.

One of the first things you learn in journalism is to deal with absolutes as little as possible, as there is almost always an exception. If you say, "You will definitely be in a better financial situation etc. etc," you will just encourage people to a) try that, and b) complain bitterly when they find themselves to be…

Not invalid, just not entirely relevant. It is sort of relevant, in that [most] everybody knows, after 100 years of gas automobiles having been around, that you have to change the oil if you want them to live. I doubt if you'd asked around in 1910 that everybody would've known about oil-change requirements in cars,…

At least they aren't going the Ford route on this problem, by initially saying, "That's a normal characteristic of a high-performance vehicle," then continuing on to say "Clearly the problems are caused by owners not knowing how to drive manuals, and it has nothing to do with us having made our transmissions in China."

I'm waiting for old CASS parts to come onto the market via DRMO. They have PFSs (Precision Frequency Standards) that are essentially atomic-clocks-in-a-box, and output the same 10Mhz signal. The old ones have CFSDs (Central Frequency Standard Distribution) that output both 10Mhz and 20Mhz frequencies.

There are no poor mice, except Apple mice.

Well that's kind of my point. It's impossible to accurately recreate real life on a computer screen, and beyond a certain level it's pretty stupid to try. I've spent plenty of time looking down rifle sights, and frankly I'm A-OK with the crosshairs on my computer games. In fact I generally turn off things like head…

And that's really all there is to say about that.

Meanwhile, the US government is furiously scribbling notes.

Ten hardpoints. Honestly not bad. That's how many the Super Hornet has.

And everything else is stupid.

To be fair, prop jobs generally have straight wings, which give much better low-speed lift (think F-14 Tomcat), and can climb much faster on take-off than their swept-wing bretheren.

I think the answer to this question can be best answered by another question: