My friend is an Air Traffic Controller (formerly AF now FAA). His instructor used to be stationed in Florida. One night he had an aircraft call in and request FL550, he said "If you can make it up there it's all yours" the response he got, "Descending now..." I laughed my ass off to that story and apparently they did…

We did in the 90's. Certain people and young minds like to learn how things work. If its new and its available, you can bet a child will be at the helm somewhere. You see kids with serious racing setups because of their fathers all the time.

"Don't fly it like that."

You called me an Xbox fanboy for having a preference... Actually read your last comment. You're not just a Sony fanboy, you went full pony.

Remote Play was the biggest false promise of all. Then years later, they finally enable Remote Play for most of the game library... of an entirely new console that you'll have to spend $400-$500 on. Not feeling sorry for Sony on this one.

The event you are talking about took place in 1954. However, 40 years later in 1994 in the Budapest Memorandum, Great Britain, the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia agreed that the Ukraine would transfer all of its nuclear arsenal (left over from the old Soviet days) to Russia. In exchange, Russia, the U.S. and Great…

This helps put the Mi-26 size in perspective:

Just played this game for the first time and after an hour or two in I already had busses and cars causing mayhem like they were controlled by other players. I was pleasently surprised by that happening.

Best part of GTA is the random shit that happens without you doing a thing

Are serious? GTA San Andreas and GTA IV are vastly different games. Right down to the shooting and driving, you know, staple mechanics? GTA IV was very much a cartoonishly dark New York simulator.

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"I really hope there is room in a tight military budget for the Warthog."

I don't get this logic. Why not just not play the games. Since when is it acceptable behaviour to take a product you didn't compensate them for because you don't agree with their business practices. Just because it is easy doesn't make it right.

You are correct. Apologies.

Putin is surrounded by NATO and he feels threatened, so he wants to make sure that NATO does not do anything stupid.

Near a base... near a dam. That they use to block the flow of the Euphrates.

all i say is google dan carlin's common sense podcast episode 'poking the bear' and see one of the most intellectually fascinating and unbiased arguments on this subject.

I had no idea C-17s had a laser missile defense system.