Well...that’s just conflating things. 4K is resolution alone. Backlighting is separate. That Sony (or whoever) included the former with advances in the latter is really irrelevant unless you’re down to comparing individual models. We’re having a high level discussion of the general technologies involved, so it doesn’t…

60”? None. 80”? Some. 100”? A lot.

Umm...no. The Sunnis were not our allies. They were Saddam’s allies. And we were doing even worse with the Shiites, because we assumed they were all Iranian proxies.

Actually, America *and* China have precisely *zero* claim to anything there. Nobody owns it, so they can build a base there, but that’s not the same as having a right to the land. Example: they get no say if America, or anyone else, wanted to park a destroyer 500 feet away from the shore. Hell, America could build an…

Not every antibacterial is like antibiotics. Most bacteria will not, for example, develop a meaningful resistance to alcohol, or direct UV light...ever. Things like that don’t just attack a receptor, or a protein. They start dissolving the whole cell. One mutation here or there doesn’t do a damn to stop that.

That is a sad, lazy defense. You bold the only two lines which aren’t offensively patronizing, and claim, what? That suddenly the rest, which provides *explicit* context as to his meaning, suddenly don’t matter?

No, autocrats are how this shit got started. The Sunnis of the Levant need to figure out how they want to exist as a nation and that can’t be imposed from high by Daesh, Assad or America. And that might take a generation.

Nice spin, but no. He was quite explicit about it. Here’s a line from that same recording

No tray, no cleaning, plus it’s getting mixed in with really, really hot air straight out of the furnace. Is there bacteria? Maybe. I’m not pulling the thing apart to check as long as the air isn’t musty.

Nope. Not even close. Congrats on being a tool, though. How’s it working out for you? Given how often you’re on here repeating tired lies of the rich and dishonest/stupid, I imagine you’re not working at all.

Ehh...Mitt Romney seems to have been pretty honest (for a national politician), which was kind of the problem. He believes some really awful, classist shit.

If my point had flown over BobS’ head any quicker it would have made a sonic boom.

Empty the water reservoir every day? Fuck that noise. If you need humid air, get one added to your furnace. Plus side, since the water tank is usually *right* next to the furnace, it’s fairly easy and cheap to just plug the humidifier into the piping.

No, you wouldn’t want to be the pilot who, though he shot down a Sukhoi, started WW3 and got a billion other people killed too. Can’t have much of a career when your country got mutually annihilated.

You’re trying to draw a distinction where none exists. If the SAMs and AAMs matter at all, its only because of the direct effects. If they don’t matter, then they wouldn’t have been brought up. He brought it up, at length, ergo that’s the view he’s advocating whether you or he are fully aware of it.

I stand corrected. Preventing nuclear war would be #2 behind the safety and integrity of member states. Bombing Daesh in Western Syria is correspondingly bumped down to priority #100.

These kind of pieces from FA have two consistent qualities:

Dude, you’ve deprived yourself. Some of the most memorable set pieces are in the last game, as is the conclusions to so many subplots from the first 2 games.

A-10 has the downside of being unsurvivable in contested airspace and being unsuited for the future of info-centric warfare. It’s basically a COIN aircraft these days. It’s actually overkill for that role. While it’s well loved, it’s purpose for existing is a niche that no longer exists.

See, statements like are espousing the same kind of ignorance that you probably are trying to argue against. Specifically: you can’t keep flying 40 year old jets any more than you can just keep patching a roadway forever. At some point it’s actually *cheaper* to replace them with all new kit.