Let me rephrase, in case my reply was obfuscated by a lack of caffeine:
I went to a Burger King not 2 months ago, and got a Whopper. The Whopper was the size of a Whopper Jr.
Still hungry, I go get a Whopper Jr. That turned out to be 3/4 of the size the Jr *used* to be in the 80's.
Same at Wendys, and yes, same at McD's, in the past 2 months. I was taken aback every time.
Now when I want a burger, I go to Char-Hut and get a Big Bite. It's exactly what the name says.
So I dunno where the two rags you pointed me at get their stats from, they're lying. What they say does not apply in Florida. If the burger weighs more now than before, it's because they're pulling a Subway and loading them up with even more rancid tomatoes and wilted lettuce.
Pick up a rifle and choose your side. I believe there are three sides:
1. Corp people that rule and wish to continue ruling and the government that serves them
2. Regular folk who want to work and give themselves and their families a better life than their parents had, and the government they serve
3. Bottom-feeding slack-jawed consumers that feel entitled to a large variety of money and services while expending the smallest amount of energy they possibly can to earn a living.
I know what side I'm standing with. Do you know which side you're on?
Will you be sure of your choice when the power goes out, the fires and riots start, TV and and network goes dark, and all you can hear is ham radio and faint am / fm from improvised transmitters peppered by the sound of gunfire?
For the first time in my life I'm actually serious about getting a ham license, with code and put together a modest but capable radio shack. It may come in handy. Always wanted to do it, as an idle back-burner hobby type idea.. but now it's on the front burner. .
All of this kinda happened in the middle of the last century, not quite as you write, but close enough.
What bucked it was a huge war. The victors made off like bandits, then slowly squandered the booty over the past 60 years.
Even the losers profited: Japan and Germany in particular also made off like bandits, while Russia and any territories they picked up suffered badly.
I think what this world needs is another huge world war. Sounds crazy, no? I think it IS crazy. It also may make for another Golden Age.
Face it, people -- the ride is over. What we do now will be crucial. We can't let the same thing happen again. We can't let the 1950's - 1970's happen again (in terms of greed, corruption and runaway mass production and mass consumption). The past 30 years have been a very steep descent into oblivion, the race to the bottom is almost at an end.
High Fructose Corn Syrup, cholstesterol-laden fries, highly refined bread? I think they're been working on that more humane way for a goodly four or five decades already..
Not around here they aren't. Based on my own sampling of fast food joints * , the vast, VAST majority of people working at the Big Franchise fast food joints are of one very specific demographic.. and it isn't Latinos, legal or not, and they're not white, either.. nor Indian, nor Hatian nor Jamaican nor...
Draw your own conclusion.
All Wendy's is doing is create more unemployment and potentially a few more criminals. But who knows, maybe this will actually improve the customer experience, not having to deal with an illiterate who seems bothered that you're interrupting their daydreaming to you know, take your order. (That's from a recent encounter at a Subway shop. I wanted to tell her "Excuse me, but am I bothering your daydreaming?) She had the most "Ugh, you're bothering me" look on her face.
* I barely eat at places like Wendy's McD's, Burger King, etc. It takes a rare combination of "starving" and "need food now" to compel me to go do these kind of joints. I gave up on them due to the food quality going down, the Big Mac is smaller, the Whopper is smaller, the Wendy's burger is smaller... all of them smaller than they were 10 years ago. Coupled with incompetent obnoxious staff and obnoxious patrons.. well.. who the fuck wants to eat there?
Some places do have self-serve cashiers... Home Depot, Winn-Dixie come to mind. You scan it, bag it, and pay for it all by yourself.
Much faster than the human cashier, except I've observed a large chunk of the population aren't up to the technical challenge of scanning their items, bagging, and paying for them. Don't know if it's an age or cultural thing.
Then again, I bet those folks have a house full of flashing 12:00s!
Drones aren't just Predators, Global Hawks and those terrible little quadcopters Maid in Chian.
Maybe it's time the non-Luddites wake up and small the machine-made coffee! I'll give a few examples I came up with for jobs that can be droned out -- just by looking around me.
1. Fast Food Workers. Instead of a surly cashier taking your order and then a surlier worker bee behind the counter putting it together -- badly -- you'll walk up to the customer service touchscreen, and punch 1 for Big Mac, 2 for Quarter Pounder, etc. Or make it voice-controlled, it can't be any worse than a drive in today. Point is, a machine will take the cardboard-like patty, put it on a bun, dress it, put the other bun on, grab the fries, put them in the cup, put the whole mess in a bag and slide it out to the customer. No flying required! Unless you do the flying for Rule of Cool -- people would pay extra to see their burger fly to them at the table.
2. Shelf Stocker at the grocer's. Mobile automated mini forklift with grabbing "hands" on "arms", barcodes, some logic to deal with misplaced and stray items, and boom! Done! How many stockers y'all see on your typical visit to the grocer's? One machine could do that. Take it further - a brand-new supermarket with shelves that stock themselves from central conveyor belts under the floor. No drone required!
3. Teacher. "A is for apple. B is for Buy N' Large, your very best friend." It's coming.
Our future is either Mad Max -- a total collapse, Idiocracy -- barely functional mediocracy, or Wall-E, a less insulting version of Idiocracy.
Point is, the droids are coming. I'd rather see them used to help humanity - think of a semi-sentient or fully sentient droid like Mahoro, C3P0 or Persocoms like Chi, rather than taking the lowest-end jobs which keep people employed, even if they need to work 3 jobs to make mortgage or rent. If there's no McJobs, then what?
I don't see how this coming Drone Revolution will make for more jobs. I really don't. Maybe I'm suffering a lack of imagination. This isn't like the buggy whip maker (who could've survived by making car horns, sirens, etc) or the Industrial Revolution. This will make for just two classes of people. Those who have, and those who have not. Guess they'll have to invent hunter-killer machines to keep the proles in check, because such machines will be cheaper than having cops or military on hand to keep the proles in check.
A Grand Touring car is a sporty, medium to large car that can nip you from Italy to Scotland, or from Florida to Alaska, in posh, comfortable style, and where possible, much throttle-induced hooning silliness.
Think Aston Martin, think big Ferrari like a 599 or F12 or FF.
Do people still do the traditional Grand Tour of Europe? Used to be a 'thing' to do after high school and before college.
I honestly hope this Indian outfit fucks it up beyond all repair and recognition.
Such an outcome would do nothing to help the displaced workers, but would signal the newspaper company's leadership and shareholders that maybe, just maybe, this was not only a dick move, but a poor technical one, to boot.
Really -- I wish the newspaper the absolute worst.
Because human beings exist, and we are not content consumption machines.
Utter rubbish. Media, manufacturers and retailers have hitched their wagons to the star that is Mass Consumption and they did it decades ago. He's talking out of both ends or can't see the forest for the trees.
Warner Bros made 3 cartoons in the 50's, directed by Friz Freleng and paid for by Albert P. Sloan (That's General Motors). "By Word of Mouse," "Heir Conditioned" and "Yankee Dood It." Don't bother looking in youtube, I checked and couldn't find them. I do have them in my shelf of DVDs. Heh. Anyway, those 3 toons, despite me being an absolute ink-and-paint addict, boil my blood instantly.
Their theme? Mass Production and Mass Consumption. They were brainwashing material. Ugh.
I don't understand this Topolsky fella. Maybe he isn't a Content Consumption Machine, and I'm sure many here at/. aren't either, but the world is FULL of those machines. Except now, they don't own shit (streaming != ownership, there's no permanence like with physical media) and most distressing for people who make and sell shit -- no one wants to pay for anything.
Media will crash worse than retail did. I hope it burns to a cinder and that from the ashes, a better type of "media" arises.
Just use iPhones and other iToys. Im' sure bought in bulk they can get 'em for 50Â per unit.
They're so well encrypted the government is on a whaaaambulance about it, no?
Well, fucking put your money where your noise-hole is, and use that very same uncrackable* technology the turrrirrrists are using! **
*/. readers know there's no such thing as uncrackable
**./ readers know so far nothing super cray-cray incriminating has been found on that San Berdnadino phone. I'm sure it was helpful for parallel construction, tho.
What's so bad about that? Hardware stability, software performance, all of these are good things.
Oh... riiiiight, the fucking shareholders. That's the problem. They expect the gravy train to always run run run. It won't. Get used to it. The number of available scams (er, new product "innovation") are dwindling.
I expect smartphone makers to refine what they have, listen to customer feedback, and forget about trying to out-do each other.
This is why my next phone will be the iPhone SE, or its descendant. I don't want a bigger screen or a thinner phone. I don't need a bigger screen or a thinner phone. I do want what I have right now, a decent camera, a fingerprint reader, and reasonably sized phone that won't double as a fucking surfboard if I would put a keel on it.
Comprende, Apple, Samsung? I don't want your stupid micro tablets like the 6S and Galaxy. That's why I've not rushed out to get the 6 or 6S -- or the SE for that matter. My 2.5 year old 5S does all I need, and does it very well. I'll replace it when it either breaks, or the battery fries or some other catastrophe happens to it. And it'll be a four-inch phone, guaranteed.
I don't care what any of you people think, I love the four-inch screen and heartily applaud Apple for listening to people like me and making a well-made, non-plasticky premium four-inch phone.
Do I sound a bit defensive? You bet your sweet bippy I do. All I hear from friends and co-workers is "wah wah wah big screen skinny phones rulz and if you don't like it you're a strange weirdo" and I'm thinking "those fucking 5+ inch phones just don't fit my hands right!"
Form is dictated by function. To me, huge phones don't function as I use them. So fuck off, big phone. Thank you apple, for making a nice, well-made little phone again. I'll buy it when I need it.
How to define unfair? If it can turn inside others to get a gun or short-range missile firing position, if it can't be readily seen on radar, if it can track and kill multiple targets at once, if it has enough power to streak away and come back quickly, that makes it unfair. That's why that breed of airplane is called "air superiority fighter." Their mission is to sweep the skies clear as fast as they can.
Other "unfair" airplanes have been the F-15, the mig 29, the Super Hornet, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others, maybe the Eurofighter.
But, the F22 is more unfair than the above. Now, it's hard to find links to published results of dogfighting tests, but there's f-15 pilot quotes out there saying that in exercises, a flight made up of many F-15s got bounced by just 2 F-22s and within seconds all the 15s were dead. The comments from the F-15 drivers are "didnt' see them, didn't hear them."
I've heard of 2-on-18, 2-on-8, and so forth. Invariably with the same result.
Now, dogfighting (that's gunfighting) with a "dirty' F-22 puts it at a disadvantage. Enough of a disadvantage that 22s have been "killed" by Eurofighters and Mig 29s in simulated gunfights. "Clean," on the other hand, the 22 is an excellent dogfighter.
But all that talk of unfairness and capabilities assume all pilots are equal. They are not. In a gunfight, I'm betting on the meaner, wiser, more experienced pilot, regardless of what he's flying.
Here's some plane pr0n, just because I think the F-15 is the most beautiful of the modern fighters.
It can't really replace the A-10, because it can't be Low, Slow and Ugly. In fact the USAF is shopping around for a real A-10 replacement, that project is just getting put together now. I wonder what a new real ground-pounder will look like.
F-35 is a shitload of money, when an F-16 will do the job quite nicely albeit not as stealthily.
It is a shitload of money, when an F22 - currently the most unfair airplane in history - will do the job better
It is a shitload of money, when even the F15 - the former most unfair airplane in history - will do the job better, albeit not nearly as stealthily. The Eagle is still formidable, the Mudhen has proven to be just as good.
It's a shitload of money, when the brutal truth is it, and the F-22, are likely the last two manned fighters we make. =o( Drones this, drone that, those who have tasted flight cannot be content driving a drone. I wouldn't.
This thing is an El Camino, it doesn't know if it's a muscle car or pickup truck.
Phone-wise, I upgrade either when it smokes, breaks or just becomes so sluggish with later OS versions that I want to chuck it out the window.
Fortunately, things like the 5S still run 9.3 very well, my desktop is nearly 10 years old, and my laptop is around 5. The laptop smokes the desktop, but for what I use these.. it don't matter. It just don't.
Hard to believe the progenitor of this engine - the GE90 - and the airplane that uses it - 777 - are over 20 years old now.
It still boggles my mind that a single GE90 will make a 747 take off, cruise and land. GE has a 747 testbed, and the GE90 looks positively gargantuan next to the once-huge JT9s the 747 was born with. Yes, once upon a time the JT9 was the biggest fan. (note that the GE test bed uses GE CF6 fans, which are roughly analogous to the JT9, size-wise)
Thrust-wise, the GE90 and now this one are just ludicrous. So's the Trent from RR.
I miss the 707 with the JT3D. That's a proper airliner!;o) The screaming bzzzz of the baby fan, and the whiiine of the old turbine leaving behind perfume of kerosene and four trails of smoke!
This is what happens when you Facetwat addicts post every stupid cat video, check in into every restaurant you go to, and post every little thing that happens to you -- people start using you to make even *more* money than before.
Enjoy your oversharing. It'll bite you in the ass someday. Maybe now, maybe soon, maybe a long time for now.
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Let me rephrase, in case my reply was obfuscated by a lack of caffeine:
I went to a Burger King not 2 months ago, and got a Whopper. The Whopper was the size of a Whopper Jr.
Still hungry, I go get a Whopper Jr. That turned out to be 3/4 of the size the Jr *used* to be in the 80's.
Same at Wendys, and yes, same at McD's, in the past 2 months. I was taken aback every time.
Now when I want a burger, I go to Char-Hut and get a Big Bite. It's exactly what the name says.
So I dunno where the two rags you pointed me at get their stats from, they're lying. What they say does not apply in Florida. If the burger weighs more now than before, it's because they're pulling a Subway and loading them up with even more rancid tomatoes and wilted lettuce.
Cool story, bro -- but I don't live in NY, I can only tell you what I see where I live.
Yes, a revolution is coming.
Pick up a rifle and choose your side. I believe there are three sides:
1. Corp people that rule and wish to continue ruling and the government that serves them
2. Regular folk who want to work and give themselves and their families a better life than their parents had, and the government they serve
3. Bottom-feeding slack-jawed consumers that feel entitled to a large variety of money and services while expending the smallest amount of energy they possibly can to earn a living.
I know what side I'm standing with. Do you know which side you're on?
Will you be sure of your choice when the power goes out, the fires and riots start, TV and and network goes dark, and all you can hear is ham radio and faint am / fm from improvised transmitters peppered by the sound of gunfire?
For the first time in my life I'm actually serious about getting a ham license, with code and put together a modest but capable radio shack. It may come in handy. Always wanted to do it, as an idle back-burner hobby type idea.. but now it's on the front burner.
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So people should be paid just for existing? That is the premise of UBI, no?
Let me ask this: How do you feel about the Kardashians making all that money just for breathing? Have they contributed anything of value to the world?
No. They're a leech, a parasite. And people worship them for it.
Now imagine a world full of that.
All of this kinda happened in the middle of the last century, not quite as you write, but close enough.
What bucked it was a huge war. The victors made off like bandits, then slowly squandered the booty over the past 60 years.
Even the losers profited: Japan and Germany in particular also made off like bandits, while Russia and any territories they picked up suffered badly.
I think what this world needs is another huge world war. Sounds crazy, no? I think it IS crazy. It also may make for another Golden Age.
Face it, people -- the ride is over. What we do now will be crucial. We can't let the same thing happen again. We can't let the 1950's - 1970's happen again (in terms of greed, corruption and runaway mass production and mass consumption). The past 30 years have been a very steep descent into oblivion, the race to the bottom is almost at an end.
High Fructose Corn Syrup, cholstesterol-laden fries, highly refined bread? I think they're been working on that more humane way for a goodly four or five decades already..
Not around here they aren't. Based on my own sampling of fast food joints * , the vast, VAST majority of people working at the Big Franchise fast food joints are of one very specific demographic.. and it isn't Latinos, legal or not, and they're not white, either.. nor Indian, nor Hatian nor Jamaican nor...
Draw your own conclusion.
All Wendy's is doing is create more unemployment and potentially a few more criminals. But who knows, maybe this will actually improve the customer experience, not having to deal with an illiterate who seems bothered that you're interrupting their daydreaming to you know, take your order. (That's from a recent encounter at a Subway shop. I wanted to tell her "Excuse me, but am I bothering your daydreaming?) She had the most "Ugh, you're bothering me" look on her face.
* I barely eat at places like Wendy's McD's, Burger King, etc. It takes a rare combination of "starving" and "need food now" to compel me to go do these kind of joints. I gave up on them due to the food quality going down, the Big Mac is smaller, the Whopper is smaller, the Wendy's burger is smaller... all of them smaller than they were 10 years ago. Coupled with incompetent obnoxious staff and obnoxious patrons.. well.. who the fuck wants to eat there?
I'm starting to half-suspect it has already happened. x.x
Some places do have self-serve cashiers... Home Depot, Winn-Dixie come to mind. You scan it, bag it, and pay for it all by yourself.
Much faster than the human cashier, except I've observed a large chunk of the population aren't up to the technical challenge of scanning their items, bagging, and paying for them. Don't know if it's an age or cultural thing.
Then again, I bet those folks have a house full of flashing 12:00s!
Drones aren't just Predators, Global Hawks and those terrible little quadcopters Maid in Chian.
Maybe it's time the non-Luddites wake up and small the machine-made coffee! I'll give a few examples I came up with for jobs that can be droned out -- just by looking around me.
1. Fast Food Workers. Instead of a surly cashier taking your order and then a surlier worker bee behind the counter putting it together -- badly -- you'll walk up to the customer service touchscreen, and punch 1 for Big Mac, 2 for Quarter Pounder, etc. Or make it voice-controlled, it can't be any worse than a drive in today. Point is, a machine will take the cardboard-like patty, put it on a bun, dress it, put the other bun on, grab the fries, put them in the cup, put the whole mess in a bag and slide it out to the customer. No flying required! Unless you do the flying for Rule of Cool -- people would pay extra to see their burger fly to them at the table.
2. Shelf Stocker at the grocer's. Mobile automated mini forklift with grabbing "hands" on "arms", barcodes, some logic to deal with misplaced and stray items, and boom! Done! How many stockers y'all see on your typical visit to the grocer's? One machine could do that. Take it further - a brand-new supermarket with shelves that stock themselves from central conveyor belts under the floor. No drone required!
3. Teacher. "A is for apple. B is for Buy N' Large, your very best friend." It's coming.
Our future is either Mad Max -- a total collapse, Idiocracy -- barely functional mediocracy, or Wall-E, a less insulting version of Idiocracy.
Point is, the droids are coming. I'd rather see them used to help humanity - think of a semi-sentient or fully sentient droid like Mahoro, C3P0 or Persocoms like Chi, rather than taking the lowest-end jobs which keep people employed, even if they need to work 3 jobs to make mortgage or rent. If there's no McJobs, then what?
I don't see how this coming Drone Revolution will make for more jobs. I really don't. Maybe I'm suffering a lack of imagination. This isn't like the buggy whip maker (who could've survived by making car horns, sirens, etc) or the Industrial Revolution. This will make for just two classes of people. Those who have, and those who have not. Guess they'll have to invent hunter-killer machines to keep the proles in check, because such machines will be cheaper than having cops or military on hand to keep the proles in check.
A Grand Touring car is a sporty, medium to large car that can nip you from Italy to Scotland, or from Florida to Alaska, in posh, comfortable style, and where possible, much throttle-induced hooning silliness.
Think Aston Martin, think big Ferrari like a 599 or F12 or FF.
Do people still do the traditional Grand Tour of Europe? Used to be a 'thing' to do after high school and before college.
I honestly hope this Indian outfit fucks it up beyond all repair and recognition.
Such an outcome would do nothing to help the displaced workers, but would signal the newspaper company's leadership and shareholders that maybe, just maybe, this was not only a dick move, but a poor technical one, to boot.
Really -- I wish the newspaper the absolute worst.
Dammit, ALFRED, not Albert! T.T
The Preview button, it did not save me!
From TFS:
Because human beings exist, and we are not content consumption machines.
Utter rubbish. Media, manufacturers and retailers have hitched their wagons to the star that is Mass Consumption and they did it decades ago. He's talking out of both ends or can't see the forest for the trees.
Warner Bros made 3 cartoons in the 50's, directed by Friz Freleng and paid for by Albert P. Sloan (That's General Motors). "By Word of Mouse," "Heir Conditioned" and "Yankee Dood It." Don't bother looking in youtube, I checked and couldn't find them. I do have them in my shelf of DVDs. Heh. Anyway, those 3 toons, despite me being an absolute ink-and-paint addict, boil my blood instantly.
Their theme? Mass Production and Mass Consumption. They were brainwashing material. Ugh.
I don't understand this Topolsky fella. Maybe he isn't a Content Consumption Machine, and I'm sure many here at /. aren't either, but the world is FULL of those machines. Except now, they don't own shit (streaming != ownership, there's no permanence like with physical media) and most distressing for people who make and sell shit -- no one wants to pay for anything.
Media will crash worse than retail did. I hope it burns to a cinder and that from the ashes, a better type of "media" arises.
Just use iPhones and other iToys. Im' sure bought in bulk they can get 'em for 50Â per unit.
They're so well encrypted the government is on a whaaaambulance about it, no?
Well, fucking put your money where your noise-hole is, and use that very same uncrackable* technology the turrrirrrists are using! **
* /. readers know there's no such thing as uncrackable
**./ readers know so far nothing super cray-cray incriminating has been found on that San Berdnadino phone. I'm sure it was helpful for parallel construction, tho.
What's so bad about that? Hardware stability, software performance, all of these are good things.
Oh... riiiiight, the fucking shareholders. That's the problem. They expect the gravy train to always run run run. It won't. Get used to it. The number of available scams (er, new product "innovation") are dwindling.
I expect smartphone makers to refine what they have, listen to customer feedback, and forget about trying to out-do each other.
This is why my next phone will be the iPhone SE, or its descendant. I don't want a bigger screen or a thinner phone. I don't need a bigger screen or a thinner phone. I do want what I have right now, a decent camera, a fingerprint reader, and reasonably sized phone that won't double as a fucking surfboard if I would put a keel on it.
Comprende, Apple, Samsung? I don't want your stupid micro tablets like the 6S and Galaxy. That's why I've not rushed out to get the 6 or 6S -- or the SE for that matter. My 2.5 year old 5S does all I need, and does it very well. I'll replace it when it either breaks, or the battery fries or some other catastrophe happens to it. And it'll be a four-inch phone, guaranteed.
I don't care what any of you people think, I love the four-inch screen and heartily applaud Apple for listening to people like me and making a well-made, non-plasticky premium four-inch phone.
Do I sound a bit defensive? You bet your sweet bippy I do. All I hear from friends and co-workers is "wah wah wah big screen skinny phones rulz and if you don't like it you're a strange weirdo" and I'm thinking "those fucking 5+ inch phones just don't fit my hands right!"
Form is dictated by function. To me, huge phones don't function as I use them. So fuck off, big phone. Thank you apple, for making a nice, well-made little phone again. I'll buy it when I need it.
How to define unfair? If it can turn inside others to get a gun or short-range missile firing position, if it can't be readily seen on radar, if it can track and kill multiple targets at once, if it has enough power to streak away and come back quickly, that makes it unfair. That's why that breed of airplane is called "air superiority fighter." Their mission is to sweep the skies clear as fast as they can.
Other "unfair" airplanes have been the F-15, the mig 29, the Super Hornet, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others, maybe the Eurofighter.
But, the F22 is more unfair than the above. Now, it's hard to find links to published results of dogfighting tests, but there's f-15 pilot quotes out there saying that in exercises, a flight made up of many F-15s got bounced by just 2 F-22s and within seconds all the 15s were dead. The comments from the F-15 drivers are "didnt' see them, didn't hear them."
I've heard of 2-on-18, 2-on-8, and so forth. Invariably with the same result.
Now, dogfighting (that's gunfighting) with a "dirty' F-22 puts it at a disadvantage. Enough of a disadvantage that 22s have been "killed" by Eurofighters and Mig 29s in simulated gunfights. "Clean," on the other hand, the 22 is an excellent dogfighter.
But all that talk of unfairness and capabilities assume all pilots are equal. They are not. In a gunfight, I'm betting on the meaner, wiser, more experienced pilot, regardless of what he's flying.
Here's some plane pr0n, just because I think the F-15 is the most beautiful of the modern fighters.
Tribute from Bloom County
I say it's the answer to a question never asked.
It can't really replace the A-10, because it can't be Low, Slow and Ugly. In fact the USAF is shopping around for a real A-10 replacement, that project is just getting put together now. I wonder what a new real ground-pounder will look like.
F-35 is a shitload of money, when an F-16 will do the job quite nicely albeit not as stealthily.
It is a shitload of money, when an F22 - currently the most unfair airplane in history - will do the job better
It is a shitload of money, when even the F15 - the former most unfair airplane in history - will do the job better, albeit not nearly as stealthily. The Eagle is still formidable, the Mudhen has proven to be just as good.
It's a shitload of money, when the brutal truth is it, and the F-22, are likely the last two manned fighters we make. =o( Drones this, drone that, those who have tasted flight cannot be content driving a drone. I wouldn't.
This thing is an El Camino, it doesn't know if it's a muscle car or pickup truck.
Nigel Shiftright, is that you?
Phone-wise, I upgrade either when it smokes, breaks or just becomes so sluggish with later OS versions that I want to chuck it out the window.
Fortunately, things like the 5S still run 9.3 very well, my desktop is nearly 10 years old, and my laptop is around 5. The laptop smokes the desktop, but for what I use these.. it don't matter. It just don't.
So yeah.. when it smokes, I replace it.
"I'm your biggest fan"
Hard to believe the progenitor of this engine - the GE90 - and the airplane that uses it - 777 - are over 20 years old now.
It still boggles my mind that a single GE90 will make a 747 take off, cruise and land. GE has a 747 testbed, and the GE90 looks positively gargantuan next to the once-huge JT9s the 747 was born with. Yes, once upon a time the JT9 was the biggest fan. (note that the GE test bed uses GE CF6 fans, which are roughly analogous to the JT9, size-wise)
Thrust-wise, the GE90 and now this one are just ludicrous. So's the Trent from RR.
I miss the 707 with the JT3D. That's a proper airliner! ;o) The screaming bzzzz of the baby fan, and the whiiine of the old turbine leaving behind perfume of kerosene and four trails of smoke!
..."FROM now..." not ..."for now." Oy. I blame acute caffeine deficiency and not hitting Preview.
This is what happens when you Facetwat addicts post every stupid cat video, check in into every restaurant you go to, and post every little thing that happens to you -- people start using you to make even *more* money than before.
Enjoy your oversharing. It'll bite you in the ass someday. Maybe now, maybe soon, maybe a long time for now.