"Right now, conventional wars in developed countries are probably suppressed primarily by the advent of cheap handheld video cameras, satellite uplinks and cable news networks. The public just won't stomach live carnage on their TVs perpetrated by traditional governments..."
Really? The Israelis and Palestinians are happy killing the hell out of each other and it's televised. When three thousand Americans and persons from 80 other countries were murdered live on TV, alot of people thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread.
Don't fool yourself, when Nation-States feel the need to exercise geo-political power through the use of military power, all the TV cameras and reporters will not stop it.
China won't care one bit about the world press when it needs to move into Taiwan or the Spratly Islands to keep the expansion happy members of the Politburo appeased. Nor will the United States or Japan back down when China moves.
The A-10 was designed for one role, knocking out tanks in Central Europe. It has crappy speed, crappy handling and a great gun - for knocking out Main Battle Tanks.
By the time the F-35 replaced the A-10, there will be a new generation of fire and forget millimeter wave radar guided anti-tank weapons which the F-35 will be able to carry and use from a greater range and with greater leathity than the 30mm gun on the A-10. The threat environment the F-35 will face is much different than what the Warthog was designed to face.
"Close air support requires serious armor and armament."
It sure does, in the 1980s. In a realm of precision guidance and fire and forget systems, CAS can and will be performed by the platform with the best standoff missiles and sensor systems.
A Warthog carried a 4,000 pound gun system in the nose, why saddle an aircraft with that when Hellfire and Brimstone missiles are lighter, longer ranged and more efficent?
Actually, to fly a fighter, in the US, you have to have at least a 4 year degree from a school with an ROTC/NROTC program, or from a Military Academy. So it's not going to be 19 year olds, in the Second World War, sometimes, but since 1950, it's not been that way.
"Fighters are not called Tomcat, Eagle, and Falcon without reason."
Tomcat - because Grumman's carrier based planes were always given a "cat" name, Hellcat, Panther, Bearcat, Tiger, Cougar, Tomcat.
Eagle - Because the name Mustang II was now a copyright of Ford, and because the national symbol of America is the Eagle.
Falcon - because the Air Force academy is the Falcons, and because it was too sensable to give it a single name, it was saddled with Fighting Falcon, not a real kickass name.
The all-out wars between nation-states in Europe and Asia pretty much petered-out after the end of the Second World War.
Western Europe has not fought a bloody, drawn out affair in the last 60 years like they used to do. Japan hasn't invaded any neighbors or threatened world stability, the Soviet Union was stopped from over-running democratic movements at the post-World War Two borders.
I'll say that the A-bomb stopped more killings than it created.
The F-22A is a replacement for the high hour F-15 A/B and C/D models of single seat interceptor and the two seat trainer versions of those aircraft which are in service with the United States Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserver, Israeli Defence Forces, Saudi Arabian Air Force.
The F-35 is a replacement for the F-16, Sea Harrier, Harrier GR, Harrier II, F-104, FA-18 A/B and other older single-seat fighters in service with the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Dutch, Belgan, Israeli militaries and possibly the Turkish and Italian, as well as others.
The F-35 is a single seat, single engined aircraft with a top speed of about Mach 1.3. The F-22 is a single seat, twin engined aircraft that can go Mach 1.4 without turning on it's afterburners and has a higher celling than the 35.
In short, there are 2 new fighter planes coming out because there are different roles that need filling.
Right now, the world of Combat Aviation is at a crossroads, the first crossroads since the end of World War Two.
1. Build aircraft that support a fragile and expensive pilot and be limited from a design and performance stand-point
2. Build UCAVs that have the same level of reliability as 1950s and early 60s jet fighters, and leave the pilots out of the loop and safe at home.
While the remote aircraft idea isn't new, the technologies involved are at the point where it is a do-able product. And right now, the UCAVs in the United States have about the same level of reliability as the single engine jet fighters the Navy and Air Force had up to the Phantom came into service.
I've had XM in my Chevy C/K-1500 for about three months now and I've been very happy with it. If you listen to the radio a lot, or travel a lot in the car, or live in the boondocks, I would recommend XM Radio.
Here are the basics; you need a deck that is XM ready, or a system that has an adapter, an antenna, and a receiver. The receiver is a boring box that goes somewhere out of sight in my case, the antenna is small and went on the roof, and the deck replaced my old crappy Delco built in 1987.
The quality of the programming can't be beat, and it is very high quality sound.
What I have preset on my deck.
104041424465
The guts of the system
My CD PlayerMy Satellite ReceiverMy AntennaXM RadioRock and Roll
Very happy with the service and the programming.
They were during the Berlin Airlift, and on US, UK, IJN, Dutch Aircraft Carriers doing combat operations from 1935 to now.
http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/quickfax.htm
16 Apr 49 * CALTF mounts a maximum effort known as the "Easter Parade": 1,398 sorties (one landing in Berlin every minute), 12,940 short tons.
"USA: C-47s, C-54s. Five C-82s, 1 C-74, 1 C-97 (flew temporarily) * UK: Dakotas, Yorks, and later Hastings. RAF chartered commercial carriers to supplement its own efforts, and charter companies flew a wide variety of aircraft. Australian, New Zealand, and South African air forces sent crews to fly with British Royal Air Force but no aircraft. "
Title: The Jollity of the History of PC Gaming Synopsis: Promoting learning of games through looking at how games have evolved in terms of development (wads replaced with pk3), what goes into game creation (gameplay, AI, graphics, multiplayer, etc.), and explore the mirth of the games themselves. We will look at multiplayer games in these terms, as well as in terms of game genre, to better organize the learning experience.
* Exploring the evolution of game development and what games are compossed of (WADS to PK3, sprites to models, etc.)
* Looking at how game series have progressed and changed betwee each sequal and the kind of thinking that goes into early stages of game planning (gameplay, graphics, multiplayer support and the like)
* Discuss how game mods have helped progress game development and help shape the gaming industry, as well as how game modifications occur
I and three student leaders worked on the structure, and we did it for 4 days. Quake3, UT, some Red Alert 2.
The piece on the NRO called for the United States to pull out of individual Articles of the OST, not to scrap the entire treaty.
As for lasers as WMD, they are not by any stretch of the imagination WMD's called for in any current missile defence plans. if you call all lasers WMDs, then the Shuttle, Mir and the ISS are all capable of being equiped with weapons of mass distruction.
The United States Senate didn't ratify Kyoto, the Senate had shown that it wasn't going to ratify, so the President put the final nail in that coffin.
I doubt there is anything benign at the heart of the current leadership of the UN.
The United Nations was founded by the victors of the Second World War, as a way to organize and make sure the refugees, chaos and disease caused by that turmoil and the other conflicts of the 1920s and 30s was dealt with in a timely and humane manner.
Today I see an entity that is attempting to create a World Government headed by hacks from Third World despotic regimes.
You might call my views Flamebait, or nationalistic, but having done alot of reading of United Nations reports in the last few years, I get the feeling that the United Nations isn't moving in a positive direction.
The United States Armed Forces have thier own networks, thier own sats, thier own bands of the EM spectrum, you can't compare what they have to the Private and Public sector bandwidth and costs.
He could buy it on eBay, get an assload of low interest credit cards, buy a bunch of shit at Corporate CC rates, file for Federal Bankruptcy protection, give the stuff he bought to friends and family, pay himself a million dollars, resign and let the creditors fight for the remains, and then get a job as a corprate restructuing CEO/CFO. ;)
In the 1970s the Federal Government mandated a 55 MPH speed limit, over the disagreement of the Western States (Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Utah, Nevada.) The States sued in Federal Court and won. Then the Feds decided to withhold Federal Highway funds. The states moved to 55.
Then in the early 80s, the states also went to Federal Court over the 21 year old drinking age, and won that they had the right to have it at whatever age they decided, then the Feds threatened to withhold Federal Highway funds.
In the middle of the Reagan administration, thanks to a mostly Republican States-rights movement of Senators and Reps from the West, the Federal Governement allowed states to first raise the speed limits on two and four lane state highways, then on the Federal Interstate system.
I once passed a Montana State Trooper on I-90 doing 105 in my Beretta GTZ and he waved.
IMO, speed limits, drinking ages, and blood alcohol levels for DUIs should be a state issue, not a Federal issue.
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"Right now, conventional wars in developed countries are probably suppressed primarily by the advent of cheap handheld video cameras, satellite uplinks and cable news networks. The public just won't stomach live carnage on their TVs perpetrated by traditional governments..."
Really? The Israelis and Palestinians are happy killing the hell out of each other and it's televised. When three thousand Americans and persons from 80 other countries were murdered live on TV, alot of people thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread.
Don't fool yourself, when Nation-States feel the need to exercise geo-political power through the use of military power, all the TV cameras and reporters will not stop it.
China won't care one bit about the world press when it needs to move into Taiwan or the Spratly Islands to keep the expansion happy members of the Politburo appeased. Nor will the United States or Japan back down when China moves.
The A-10 was designed for one role, knocking out tanks in Central Europe. It has crappy speed, crappy handling and a great gun - for knocking out Main Battle Tanks.
By the time the F-35 replaced the A-10, there will be a new generation of fire and forget millimeter wave radar guided anti-tank weapons which the F-35 will be able to carry and use from a greater range and with greater leathity than the 30mm gun on the A-10. The threat environment the F-35 will face is much different than what the Warthog was designed to face.
"Close air support requires serious armor and armament."
It sure does, in the 1980s. In a realm of precision guidance and fire and forget systems, CAS can and will be performed by the platform with the best standoff missiles and sensor systems.
A Warthog carried a 4,000 pound gun system in the nose, why saddle an aircraft with that when Hellfire and Brimstone missiles are lighter, longer ranged and more efficent?
Actually, to fly a fighter, in the US, you have to have at least a 4 year degree from a school with an ROTC/NROTC program, or from a Military Academy. So it's not going to be 19 year olds, in the Second World War, sometimes, but since 1950, it's not been that way.
"Fighters are not called Tomcat, Eagle, and Falcon without reason."
Tomcat - because Grumman's carrier based planes were always given a "cat" name, Hellcat, Panther, Bearcat, Tiger, Cougar, Tomcat.
Eagle - Because the name Mustang II was now a copyright of Ford, and because the national symbol of America is the Eagle.
Falcon - because the Air Force academy is the Falcons, and because it was too sensable to give it a single name, it was saddled with Fighting Falcon, not a real kickass name.
The article talks about the F-32 and F-35, as you said.
The F-22 project has been underway since right after the Gulf War when the YF-22 was picked over the YF-23.
Well in a way the A-bomb did stop a kind of war.
The all-out wars between nation-states in Europe and Asia pretty much petered-out after the end of the Second World War.
Western Europe has not fought a bloody, drawn out affair in the last 60 years like they used to do. Japan hasn't invaded any neighbors or threatened world stability, the Soviet Union was stopped from over-running democratic movements at the post-World War Two borders.
I'll say that the A-bomb stopped more killings than it created.
The F-22A is a replacement for the high hour F-15 A/B and C/D models of single seat interceptor and the two seat trainer versions of those aircraft which are in service with the United States Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserver, Israeli Defence Forces, Saudi Arabian Air Force.
The F-35 is a replacement for the F-16, Sea Harrier, Harrier GR, Harrier II, F-104, FA-18 A/B and other older single-seat fighters in service with the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Dutch, Belgan, Israeli militaries and possibly the Turkish and Italian, as well as others.
The F-35 is a single seat, single engined aircraft with a top speed of about Mach 1.3. The F-22 is a single seat, twin engined aircraft that can go Mach 1.4 without turning on it's afterburners and has a higher celling than the 35.
In short, there are 2 new fighter planes coming out because there are different roles that need filling.
Right now, the world of Combat Aviation is at a crossroads, the first crossroads since the end of World War Two.
1. Build aircraft that support a fragile and expensive pilot and be limited from a design and performance stand-point
2. Build UCAVs that have the same level of reliability as 1950s and early 60s jet fighters, and leave the pilots out of the loop and safe at home.
While the remote aircraft idea isn't new, the technologies involved are at the point where it is a do-able product. And right now, the UCAVs in the United States have about the same level of reliability as the single engine jet fighters the Navy and Air Force had up to the Phantom came into service.
The one to survive and thrive will be the one that gets in the most production cars/trucks.
GM - XM
Ford - Sirius
Toyota - XM
DC - No plans
Those are the only ones I know about.
It's a 1991 Chevy Extended Cab, but the Delco hardware was made in '87.
So? I like Country, classic country to be exact.
And it's only first cause thats the order on the dial.
Sorry about the formatting, I was rushed here at work.
In order -
Classic Country
Hard Rock
Industrial/Metal
Metal
Classic Alternative
Classic Hip-Hop/Rap
I've had XM in my Chevy C/K-1500 for about three months now and I've been very happy with it. If you listen to the radio a lot, or travel a lot in the car, or live in the boondocks, I would recommend XM Radio. Here are the basics; you need a deck that is XM ready, or a system that has an adapter, an antenna, and a receiver. The receiver is a boring box that goes somewhere out of sight in my case, the antenna is small and went on the roof, and the deck replaced my old crappy Delco built in 1987. The quality of the programming can't be beat, and it is very high quality sound. What I have preset on my deck. 10 40 41 42 44 65 The guts of the system My CD Player My Satellite Receiver My Antenna XM Radio Rock and Roll Very happy with the service and the programming.
I'll sell this low UID for $5000 US.
Come on, Daddy wants a new G4 Tower and an iBook!
I'm from Eagle Butte :)
Wheat, Corn, Buffalo, ammunition, firearms, cattle, dinosaur bones.
South Dakota used to have 150 Minuteman missile silos, and B-52s. Now it has a bunch of B-1Bs
There are 700,000 people there, 1 Representative, 2 Senators, 2 freeways, Mount Rushmore and the Corn Palace.
They were during the Berlin Airlift, and on US, UK, IJN, Dutch Aircraft Carriers doing combat operations from 1935 to now.
http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/quickfax.htm
16 Apr 49
* CALTF mounts a maximum effort known as the "Easter Parade": 1,398 sorties (one landing in Berlin every minute), 12,940 short tons.
"USA: C-47s, C-54s. Five C-82s, 1 C-74, 1 C-97 (flew temporarily)
* UK: Dakotas, Yorks, and later Hastings. RAF chartered commercial carriers to supplement its own efforts, and charter companies flew a wide variety of aircraft. Australian, New Zealand, and South African air forces sent crews to fly with British Royal Air Force but no aircraft. "
On that note.
UT was pretty good on my G3 233 overlocked to 283 with a Voodoo 2 card.
Then it was alot better on my G3 466 with a meg of cache and a Radeon card.
UT ain't bad on some 600 P3s with software rendering. It's playable.
Heck, in my server room I have 2 G4 867s with GeForce 2MXs, thats good enough to get the job done.
And the Powerbooks floating around here are all running ATi-128 or Radeon.
At my workplace, which is a private K-12.
It was a class even.
Title: The Jollity of the History of PC Gaming
Synopsis: Promoting learning of games through looking at how games have
evolved in terms of development (wads replaced with pk3), what goes into
game creation (gameplay, AI, graphics, multiplayer, etc.), and explore
the mirth of the games themselves. We will look at multiplayer games in
these terms, as well as in terms of game genre, to better organize the
learning experience.
* Exploring the evolution of game development and what games are
compossed of (WADS to PK3, sprites to models, etc.)
* Looking at how game series have progressed and changed betwee
each sequal and the kind of thinking that goes into early stages of game
planning (gameplay, graphics, multiplayer support and the like)
* Discuss how game mods have helped progress game development and
help shape the gaming industry, as well as how game modifications occur
I and three student leaders worked on the structure, and we did it for 4 days. Quake3, UT, some Red Alert 2.
The piece on the NRO called for the United States to pull out of individual Articles of the OST, not to scrap the entire treaty.
As for lasers as WMD, they are not by any stretch of the imagination WMD's called for in any current missile defence plans. if you call all lasers WMDs, then the Shuttle, Mir and the ISS are all capable of being equiped with weapons of mass distruction.
The United States Senate didn't ratify Kyoto, the Senate had shown that it wasn't going to ratify, so the President put the final nail in that coffin.
I doubt there is anything benign at the heart of the current leadership of the UN.
The United Nations was founded by the victors of the Second World War, as a way to organize and make sure the refugees, chaos and disease caused by that turmoil and the other conflicts of the 1920s and 30s was dealt with in a timely and humane manner.
Today I see an entity that is attempting to create a World Government headed by hacks from Third World despotic regimes.
You might call my views Flamebait, or nationalistic, but having done alot of reading of United Nations reports in the last few years, I get the feeling that the United Nations isn't moving in a positive direction.
On the Military point.
The United States Armed Forces have thier own networks, thier own sats, thier own bands of the EM spectrum, you can't compare what they have to the Private and Public sector bandwidth and costs.
He could buy it on eBay, get an assload of low interest credit cards, buy a bunch of shit at Corporate CC rates, file for Federal Bankruptcy protection, give the stuff he bought to friends and family, pay himself a million dollars, resign and let the creditors fight for the remains, and then get a job as a corprate restructuing CEO/CFO.
;)
Why not?
A Euopean company just bought America's second largest beer brewing and distributing company?
In a Free Market, you should be able to buy whatever you want as long as you meet the terms the Regulators establish.
In a case of an American company buying a European backbone, they would have to meet the terms of both the EU and the US FCC and FTC.
South Dakota, where I am from, held out too.
The Gov didn't sign the law till 10 pm on the night before the Federal Government would have cut off the Highway Funds.
The limit wasn't changed because of speeding.
In the 1970s the Federal Government mandated a 55 MPH speed limit, over the disagreement of the Western States (Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Utah, Nevada.) The States sued in Federal Court and won. Then the Feds decided to withhold Federal Highway funds. The states moved to 55.
Then in the early 80s, the states also went to Federal Court over the 21 year old drinking age, and won that they had the right to have it at whatever age they decided, then the Feds threatened to withhold Federal Highway funds.
In the middle of the Reagan administration, thanks to a mostly Republican States-rights movement of Senators and Reps from the West, the Federal Governement allowed states to first raise the speed limits on two and four lane state highways, then on the Federal Interstate system.
I once passed a Montana State Trooper on I-90 doing 105 in my Beretta GTZ and he waved.
IMO, speed limits, drinking ages, and blood alcohol levels for DUIs should be a state issue, not a Federal issue.