Yes, he is still as innocent as the UCMJ allows for, but theres no bail and in those trials the defendant doesn't have the same rights as other Americans would.
How about all the Anarchists, Communists, unionists and Populists from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries who were imprisoned, deported or beat down by police, pro-corporation forces or commercial intelligence forces like the Pinkertons?
Assnage could just be disappeared or killed by someone like the CIA, MI6, FSB, Mossad and within a five years he'd just be a conspiracy theory.
It worked just fine with Gerald Bull. He is just a footnote now.
Soviet and Russian poisoning assassinations get headlines, Israeli and American shootings generally don't get as much press or attention because, well random killings happen all the time.
When/if Assnage goes after Russia or Israel he'll end up dead.
Same in the United States, older cars that didn't have seat belts are exempt from seat belt laws. Even in things like a '69 Camaro that have the old style two point shoulder belts that are tucked up along the headliner.
Alot of the Torah is interesting, figuring out the oral histories, traditions from other regions/religions and history of the Jews in the region. But the Christian stuff is alot of derpy insanity.
I don't believe in it, but the Rapture is in the New Testament of the Bible.
The primary passage used to support this idea is 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, in which Paul cites "the word of the Lord" about the return of Jesus to gather his saints.
"According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words."
That's from Paul's Letters, so it dates from at least 52 CE
Tax Breaks are not government money unless you believe that all money belongs to the government and they dole some of it out in the form of not taking it away when you work for it.
A tax break means less money paid by an organization because the added benefit from the program will bring as much or more money in as taxes on other things.
It doesn't make any sense because we don't know what it did up there.
It might have been accessing other nation's spy satellites and mirroring what they were watching. It might have been a test flight for a orbital strike vehicle, changing orbits and simulating attack missions.
Fact is you and I don't know what its for, but the USAF and the White House know enough about the mission to fund it, so we can't really judge to if it makes sense.
USN/USMC are going to have to suck it up and buy alot more Super Hornets, probably finally fund and get those towed decoys and USAF is going to have to suck it up and buy more F-22s and F-15SE and F-16 block 60s
I don't worry so much about PAK FA. Late Soviet and Russian OMG-it's-so-awesome military programs either flounder in development hell or the Russians only build 14-15 of them.
I remember reading in Soviet Military Power from 86-89 that the Mi-28 was coming and it would be a game changer. The Russians finally got some operational Mi-28s in 2006 and they have 28 of them. Venezuela is getting 10 someday.
Then we had the Ka-50/52, that was supposed to be even more awesome. The Russian Federation finally got 25 of them 24 years after first flight.
The best program the Russians have had was the Su-27/30/33 and they've drug it out as long and far as the Americans have with F-15 and 16. However from the Indians at Red Flag and Mountain Home pre-Red Flag, the Su-30MKI's AL-31FP engines are even more FOD susceptible than NATO fighters are
If the development of the Eurofighter Typhoon, F-22 and F-35 have shown a fifth generation fighter program takes a ton of time and a whole lot of money and industrial infrastructure. The Russian Federation might have the cash and brain power, but their industrial infrastructure is dated at best and they don't have a great history with brand new programs in the last 30 years.
I agree that F-35 is a very troubled program, but with late model F-15/16s and the overwhelming numbers of F-15s/16s/18 E-G and the F-22s we have, the Iranians, Chinese, Indians don't have the numbers of front line fighters to cause a true "fighter gap".
All out fight between the US and Russian Federation, yeah 440+ Su-27/30/33s and a couple hundred MiG-29s and about a 100 MiG-31s will kill alot of Americans, but realistically there will never be a full out conventional fight between Russia and the US.
US Navy and Marine carrier fixed wing aircraft of the last 30 years would be... A-4 (not in service), A-5 (not in service), F-4 (not in service), A-6 (not in service) EA-6 (in service), F/A-18 A-D, F/A-18 E-G, A-7 (not in service), F-14 (not in service), E-2, F-8 (not in service), C-2. S-3 (leaving service), AV-8B.
With arresting wires this class of ship could trap jets and prop planes, but without catapults it can't operate large STOL/CTOL aircraft
The USCG could buy a Tarawa class LHA like USS Nassau when it leaves US Navy service. Bigger, training manuals, facilities are here, and it still has engines in it.
US ships that carry V/STOL aircraft have longer decks than most other nation's carriers, so the Harriers can either VTOL or do a long rolling takeoff into a headwind.
USS Nassau (LHA-4) is 833 feet long, USS Wasp (LHD-1) is 844 feet long while HMS Invincible (R05) is 689 feet long
The 1092 foot long Nimitz class have four steam powered catapults for launching larger aircraft
The US has has a V/STOL for over 35 years in the form of the Harrier and Harrier II.
They don't operate off US Super carriers like the Enterprise or Nimitz classes, but off the amphibious warfare ships of the LHA and LHD classes, what most other countries call a carrier the US classes as an amphibious warfare ship.
F-35 is suposed to be the successor for the US and UK's Harrier fleets.
Currently the US Marine Corps has 99 McDonald Douglas/Boeing built Harrier IIs in service
No carrier has been damaged or even fired on by modern supersonic antiship missiles in over 35 years of their existence, so how can you say that carriers are obsolete because of them?
A carrier never sails alone, and for the US, the Aegis cruisers and destroyers carrying a large number of Standard surface to air and anti-ballestic missiles will make it hard for supersonic ASMs to get to a carrier. Hell the US Navy is already figuring out how to stop China's rumored anti-carrier ballistic missile.
The threat of ASMs to carriers has never kept the US from deploying a carrier anywhere in the world, even the Iranian Silkworms didn't keep the US out of the Straights of Hormuz or the Gulf of Sidra in the 80s or the Taiwan Straights in the 1990s.
She's not that old, commissioned in 1980. The US still has two Tarawa class LHAs from that period, the Nassau and Peleliu, although LHAs are about twice the displacement of Invincible.
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Because you can't trust someone who is looking at decades in prison to clean up his explosives on his own.
There are legal .50 handguns in the United States, 12.7 x 33mm Action Express or .500 SW are legal but a 13mm isn't legal.
Yes, he is still as innocent as the UCMJ allows for, but theres no bail and in those trials the defendant doesn't have the same rights as other Americans would.
OK, for ideology Bull is a bad example.
How about all the Anarchists, Communists, unionists and Populists from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries who were imprisoned, deported or beat down by police, pro-corporation forces or commercial intelligence forces like the Pinkertons?
Assnage could just be disappeared or killed by someone like the CIA, MI6, FSB, Mossad and within a five years he'd just be a conspiracy theory.
Nope, he has not been court marshaled yet. He is still being held in Quantico. He is looking at a minimum of 52 years.
It'll be a military trial, so chances are he'll be found guilty and appeals are less forthcoming.
It worked just fine with Gerald Bull. He is just a footnote now.
Soviet and Russian poisoning assassinations get headlines, Israeli and American shootings generally don't get as much press or attention because, well random killings happen all the time.
When/if Assnage goes after Russia or Israel he'll end up dead.
I'm in a full sized truck alot of the time, hard to see the lower stop lights, much easier to see a center tail light.
Same in the United States, older cars that didn't have seat belts are exempt from seat belt laws. Even in things like a '69 Camaro that have the old style two point shoulder belts that are tucked up along the headliner.
Alot of the Torah is interesting, figuring out the oral histories, traditions from other regions/religions and history of the Jews in the region. But the Christian stuff is alot of derpy insanity.
I don't believe in it, but the Rapture is in the New Testament of the Bible.
The primary passage used to support this idea is 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, in which Paul cites "the word of the Lord" about the return of Jesus to gather his saints.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Thessalonians+4&version=NIV
"According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words."
That's from Paul's Letters, so it dates from at least 52 CE
Tax Breaks are not government money unless you believe that all money belongs to the government and they dole some of it out in the form of not taking it away when you work for it.
A tax break means less money paid by an organization because the added benefit from the program will bring as much or more money in as taxes on other things.
It doesn't make any sense because we don't know what it did up there.
It might have been accessing other nation's spy satellites and mirroring what they were watching. It might have been a test flight for a orbital strike vehicle, changing orbits and simulating attack missions.
Fact is you and I don't know what its for, but the USAF and the White House know enough about the mission to fund it, so we can't really judge to if it makes sense.
Yea, but even with declining numbers of Hornet Cs, the 350+ plus Rhinos make the USN, what, 3rd largest air force in fighter/attack alone?
Boeing's production costs and delivery costs of F-18E/F are actually declining while F-35 costs are spiraling upwards faster than an F-22 can climb.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/09/super-hornet-price-tag-spirali.html
F-35 is going to be too damned expensive for the Navy, Marines and USAF to buy (if they ever get done) and to operate
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/01/chart-f-35bc-operating-costs-v.html
USN/USMC are going to have to suck it up and buy alot more Super Hornets, probably finally fund and get those towed decoys and USAF is going to have to suck it up and buy more F-22s and F-15SE and F-16 block 60s
I don't worry so much about PAK FA. Late Soviet and Russian OMG-it's-so-awesome military programs either flounder in development hell or the Russians only build 14-15 of them.
I remember reading in Soviet Military Power from 86-89 that the Mi-28 was coming and it would be a game changer. The Russians finally got some operational Mi-28s in 2006 and they have 28 of them. Venezuela is getting 10 someday.
Then we had the Ka-50/52, that was supposed to be even more awesome. The Russian Federation finally got 25 of them 24 years after first flight.
The best program the Russians have had was the Su-27/30/33 and they've drug it out as long and far as the Americans have with F-15 and 16. However from the Indians at Red Flag and Mountain Home pre-Red Flag, the Su-30MKI's AL-31FP engines are even more FOD susceptible than NATO fighters are
If the development of the Eurofighter Typhoon, F-22 and F-35 have shown a fifth generation fighter program takes a ton of time and a whole lot of money and industrial infrastructure. The Russian Federation might have the cash and brain power, but their industrial infrastructure is dated at best and they don't have a great history with brand new programs in the last 30 years.
I agree that F-35 is a very troubled program, but with late model F-15/16s and the overwhelming numbers of F-15s/16s/18 E-G and the F-22s we have, the Iranians, Chinese, Indians don't have the numbers of front line fighters to cause a true "fighter gap".
All out fight between the US and Russian Federation, yeah 440+ Su-27/30/33s and a couple hundred MiG-29s and about a 100 MiG-31s will kill alot of Americans, but realistically there will never be a full out conventional fight between Russia and the US.
And the Argentines dropped dumb bombs at it, but none of that makes the carrier concept obsolete.
Not great for tactical deployment?
You never heard about the Falklands War have you? - 20 air to air kills with no losses when deployed 12,000 miles.
Marines used them successfully in Gulf War.
F-16s have never been carrier based.
US Navy and Marine carrier fixed wing aircraft of the last 30 years would be...
A-4 (not in service), A-5 (not in service), F-4 (not in service), A-6 (not in service) EA-6 (in service), F/A-18 A-D, F/A-18 E-G, A-7 (not in service), F-14 (not in service), E-2, F-8 (not in service), C-2. S-3 (leaving service), AV-8B.
With arresting wires this class of ship could trap jets and prop planes, but without catapults it can't operate large STOL/CTOL aircraft
The USCG could buy a Tarawa class LHA like USS Nassau when it leaves US Navy service. Bigger, training manuals, facilities are here, and it still has engines in it.
US ships that carry V/STOL aircraft have longer decks than most other nation's carriers, so the Harriers can either VTOL or do a long rolling takeoff into a headwind.
USS Nassau (LHA-4) is 833 feet long, USS Wasp (LHD-1) is 844 feet long while HMS Invincible (R05) is 689 feet long
The 1092 foot long Nimitz class have four steam powered catapults for launching larger aircraft
The US has has a V/STOL for over 35 years in the form of the Harrier and Harrier II.
They don't operate off US Super carriers like the Enterprise or Nimitz classes, but off the amphibious warfare ships of the LHA and LHD classes, what most other countries call a carrier the US classes as an amphibious warfare ship.
F-35 is suposed to be the successor for the US and UK's Harrier fleets.
Currently the US Marine Corps has 99 McDonald Douglas/Boeing built Harrier IIs in service
HMS Invincible's airgroup was responsible for 21 Argentine aircraft kills.
Then in the world of subsonic and supersonic ASMs it served for another 23 years, not sure that the Exocet did anything to any dreams.
No carrier has been damaged or even fired on by modern supersonic antiship missiles in over 35 years of their existence, so how can you say that carriers are obsolete because of them?
A carrier never sails alone, and for the US, the Aegis cruisers and destroyers carrying a large number of Standard surface to air and anti-ballestic missiles will make it hard for supersonic ASMs to get to a carrier. Hell the US Navy is already figuring out how to stop China's rumored anti-carrier ballistic missile.
The threat of ASMs to carriers has never kept the US from deploying a carrier anywhere in the world, even the Iranian Silkworms didn't keep the US out of the Straights of Hormuz or the Gulf of Sidra in the 80s or the Taiwan Straights in the 1990s.
She's not that old, commissioned in 1980. The US still has two Tarawa class LHAs from that period, the Nassau and Peleliu, although LHAs are about twice the displacement of Invincible.
Most of the P-Zeros are (Y) code which is over 186 mph.
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