I think you seriously underestimate the level of desperation the US military was operating under during WWII. We were so desperate that we were willing to give a race of people who had been enslaved and was currently segregated from the rest of society the chance to not only fight in the front line, but to operate…

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Of all the things that I think Obama has done wrong, that’s not one of them. With the terms that they were offering us, the Iraqi government was making it abundantly clear that they wanted to take full responsibility for whatever clusterfuck happened next in their country. The Iraqi government made their beds and now…

It’s like an airline crash. There were a lot of links in the chain that led to that disaster. The general clusterfuck that followed made how we handled Iraq after the fall of the Saddam regime look like the Marshall plan. Once you start removing links, it’s harder for a disaster to happen. Having all the properly…

As far as his opening statement about how the military is not there to transform the culture by “trying out some ideas people think would make us a different country and more diverse.” This is a pretty narrow and historically troubling point of view. Just read about these guys whose level of service was also seen as a…

Now you can give your D the D.

Not including a steerable nosewheel is kind of like having a solid rear axle or open diff on a modern sports car. I know that every feature that gets added to an airplane also adds weight, but there comes a point where the “simplify and add lightness” mantra makes things worse.

I’m glad I never wasted my money learning to fly on a DA-20, then.

So you just ground steer it with the toe brakes then?

I’m thinking that this plane has a damaged or worn out shimmy dampener. Either that or the connection between the rudder pedals and nose gear broke.

Neutral: Is That Really The Last Of The Car Hacking Problem?

I, for one, have no problem with Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran being the only countries to have a nuclear deterent capability. There is no way that this could possibly lead to bad things.

I don’t even consider it a form of professional racing at all. It’s the WWE on wheels.

All computers are capable of being hacked, it’s just the fundamental nature of how Turing machines work. Whether or not a computer’s security is worth the time needed to circumvent it is a different story. Any remote keyless anything is going to be a weak spot and anything connected to Bluetooth is going to be even…

Whatever, I’ve killed better men than you.

“Soul” is the word that is used by enthusiasts to try and spin all the glaring and sometimes even dangerous faults about their favorite car into features. It’s a word that means whatever you want it to mean and thus means nothing. To the fanboy of an MR car like a 911 or an MR2, its tendency to snap oversteer is just…

Why do you think it’s an abomination?

I find it intriguing that the more SAFER barriers NASCAR puts up, the more these types of collisions occur.

I just had an epiphany. The only way to make a good sequel to this movie is to somehow have Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard on the same team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

According to Wiki Commons (which was the first result in a Google image search) this was taken in May of 1992 at Barksdale AFB.