Praise Jebus! Someone said it all, so I didn't gave to!

Ha! I know how that one goes! I, sadly, don't have a cassette player, but I'm not letting my copy of that tape go anywhere!

I still have my cassette copy of Catch-22's demo, 'Rules of the Game'!

THIRD WAVE SKA TAKEOVER!!!

My office is right under the flight line of Joint Base Charleston, and I get to see these flying low outside my window daily. They're LOUD mothers!

Actually, we just got the GLK last weekend, but we've put a couple hundred miles on it. I can't say anything about reliability, but it's based on the C-Class, and we had no real issues with that. The sunroof started making a weird 'pop' noise when it was closing, so they took the glass out and replaced the tracks,…

I don't think you're ready for this jelly..

I drove a Murano awhile back (maybe like 2011?) and didn't really like it. The inside was smaller than it should have been, and it just didn't feel like a vehicle I'd like to drive. Then again, I don't particularly like Japanese vehicles, I trend much more heavily towards American or German autos.

I actually love the look of this thing. People lambasted me in the comments when this design was first released, but I don't care. That grill is so much better than the outgoing model.

My wife just traded her 2012 C300 Sport for a 2014 GLK350. It's fantastic! I wanted the Bluetec, but they didn't have one on the lot, and when she gets it in her head that she's getting a new car, that's it.

In what way? They barely increased the price, and with the stated numbers, included destination and delivery.

Larger vehicle, with that much power, and all of a sudden you want it to be $5k less?

My first car was a gold '88 Topaz, and while it was shitty, rusting, smelled like mildew, and made me bury the go pedal to the floor just to hit 80, I drove it for about 50k miles between high school and my first year of college. I crashed into a bunch of things, so it was repainted at MAACO, and the amount of orange…

Unfortunately, due to security classification, I can't speak in any specific terms. What I can say, is that AEGIS BMD is designed to intercept exo-atmospheric, post-boost, pre-reentry ballistic missiles. It's been a few years since I worked these programs, but I'd make a wager that they're working on intercept…

All defensive systems are based around a layered defense model. At the center of the model is the carrier, and nothing should ever get near her. Outside the carrier, you have layers of picket ships, focused on different types of defense: destroyers and cruisers handle area air defense (AAW), anti-submarine warfare…

Thought this would be fire and forget, huh?

It's interesting to see someone bring up NIFC-CA. I was the sysadmin for NIFC-CA, back when it was nothing more than a six computer proof of concept . I could never have imagined that it would grow to be such a big part of AEGIS and ship self-defense.

Which is why the US now deploys AEGIS BMD, in addition to the CIWS. Layered defense.

Can you cite an incident, other than the USS Stark (where the CIWS was in standby mode), when a CIWS system failed to intercept?

I worked AEGIS as a systems engineer for almost a decade, and I've never heard of a Burke deploying without a CIWS. Source?