Haha. I think you need something a wee bit stronger than caffeine.

Sure, absolutely. Everything is relative, and there’s a level of subjectivity to it, which is why approvals aren’t handed over to a computer formula.

Yes, and part of what the FDA does is look at those side effects and compare them to the benefits. The bigger the benefit, the more tolerable the risk. Take chemotherapy, which has many awful side effects, but because it is often the difference between life and death, those risks are acceptable. However, if aspirin…

See, that post directly contradicts what you said before. You, right there, said you agreed with the statement that that one could buy 10,000 F-22’s instead of 2,500 F-35’s. The post before that says that isn’t possible, which means you disagree with what you parroted.

There’s only 2 US planemakers, sure, but when you take things to the international market, it appears your theory doesn’t hold too much water. All of the Gen 4.5+ jets are in the same ballpark. If one had a big cost advantage, you’d see it in the flyoffs for Israel, India or the Saudis.

The F-35 overpriced? Compared to what, an F-16? Those Vipers don’t cost $20 million anymore. The UAE’s F-16 Block 60’s cost $105 million per air frame, not including spares or R&D. That’s about what an F-35A cost the USAF for LRIP 8 (not even full production) including its engine.

Don’t bullshit me, Colin. When you parrot someone’s line, you are implicitly agreeing with it unless you explicitly state otherwise. Own your dumb mistake and move on.

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Yeah, but I’m convinced there was a fight between reality and satire around 2002, and reality lost. We’ve been living in a parody of the world-we-knew since.

The fact that you actually think that it’s possible to buy 10,000 F-22’s (which are MUCH more expensive) rather than 2,500 F-35’s is why I think critical thinking skills need greater emphasis in schools.

The V-22 has far fewer accidents per flight hour than the H-3 ever had.

I don’t think it’s the character so much as the repressively conservative (small c) appetites of comics consumers. The Azzarello/Chiang reimagining of WW was (mostly) amazing, because they took the most unique aspect of the character (a Greek epic hero in a modern world) and reveled in it.

I never had crashes on my Note 4, at least not nearly as bad as I had on the iPhone (3G? 3GS?) years ago. That’s not an Apple bash (to the Fanboy who read that and kneejerk assumed it was: fuck you) it’s what you expect to happen in the 3-4 years separating the two devices.

I bought a few of the hundred trill notes (which cost me like 3-5 USD per, holy shit at these prices). I just thought they’re cool. I never claimed that I, nor anyone I gave this to was a trillionaire.

Thanks for the article. It’s very hard to separate the good from the bad in this category. I might have bought the Acer Switch 11 right now if Acer made a version with 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately, it looks like 8GB is a premium feature, and the premium convertible category seems to have been taken over by the Surface…

Also, it’s a short leap from Java to C# (kinda like how Spanish and Italian are so damn similar), when means you can develop native apps for Android and Windows AND run cross platform Java apps for all of the above and just about everywhere else.

No, because Florida is terrible, and you know it.

Man...an XF8U-3...that was a badass jet. Though, if I had to buy one and only one item, it’d have to be the A-5 Vigilante. That jet was 20 years ahead of anything else.

Every sample has an outlier...

I don’t know. A lot of animals practice monogamous sex “til death do you part”.