I’m just saying that, like every other military upgrade, the F35 will be put in place and will work just fine at killing people for a generation of pilots who will become fond of them ... warts and all. Then, when these are inevitably replaced, people will bitch about what comes next all over again - citing a bunch of …

Yeah ... but that airplane was Russia’s move to achieve parity with America’s *CURRENT* generation. It’s an upgraded SU-27 - mainly to compete with our F15s..

Honestly, just getting the media’s focus on the important bits of the report itself - with Mueller being forced to agree on the record that he’d likely indict anyone else has quite a bit of value.

The thing with Franken’s resignation is that the entire point was to create a distinction between the GOP and Democrats ... to provide the Democrats with a clear moral high ground on issues of sexual impropriety. And, as far as that goes, it initially seemed like a reasonable stance for a caucus getting ready to throw…

Well ... at least now that he’s undermining unions from the outside instead of from within people will stop pretending like he isn’t basically poison.

A very tight pucker.

The worry isn’t commercial competitors entering the market with a similar system - I think the point was military adversaries using detailed technical knowledge to undermine the system’s battlefield performance.

Your point only makes sense if Turkey could somehow put pilots in the S-400 and fly ‘em. As it sits, they just need to find a new airplane to fly now ... after pouring billions into the program and getting nothing to show for it.

If they have the blueprints ... it’s not reverse engineering.

What’s this video of than?

Thing is, people have bitched about every change in military hardware to come along since humans moved away from making war with rocks and pointy sticks.

FWIW ... this has eventually happened on almost every type of controller I’ve owned. I can pull out a PS3 controller that does it right now.

Bravo.

Technically the Greenpeace activists only had to fork over $460 each.

84 is but a spring chicken in the Senate.

Who is this “he” you are now talking about? Did you suddenly make this about Trump?

I don’t disagree that having her leave the senate would be one hell of a loss.

Hmmm. I own a chopped ‘77 sportster and haven’t really liked new HDs in quite some time. These look kind of cool, honestly. I’d ride the hell out of it.

I obviously need to get better at expressing myself. Yeah. That was my entire point. (And also why it’s absurd to pretend like this thing was “spoiler free”. How the hell is broadcasting the primary conclusion - essentially a huge chunk of the documentary - not a massive frikkin spoiler? )

Just to be clear. If we are including “border security” with the military, the only role for a military in that context is to oppose and thwart military attacks from the armed forces of opposing nations.