Here, don't want to leave you without at least one citation.
"The aircraft’s low in-commission rate and high cost of maintenance were both disturbing and frustrating. The aircraft and its systems were complex and new to the Air Force, and spare parts were short. More dramatic and more important to its reputation were crashes. "
That's for the infamous F-105. Interesting article at
The lawn dart statement is based on the high loss rate per 100,000 flying hours in which the F16 far excels. The name stuck because it is highly accurate. Name a modern aircraft that has a higher loss rate. I don't say it can't be effective in blowing things up but then tomahawk cruise missiles excel at that too. The jungles of Vietnam are littered with F-105s.
The only real advantage of the F35 is the Stealth. The disadvantages are primarily price and only one engine. I think the survivability of the Super Hornet will be much higher.
The main problem I have with the F35, besides the ridiculous cost, is that it's another idiotic single engine fighter like the F16 (lawn dart) which is so wrong for a combat aircraft. Redundancy is everything in a combat aircraft and when you lose an engine in a single seater the only option is to grab the eject handles. The number of F16's that could have survived if they had just had that extra powerplant I don't know but I do know that they crash at an unhealthy rate, over 342 according to an article I read back in 2011. I see no reason to believe the F35 with one engine will do any better. Especially if they can't figure what's up with the tubine blade problem. I think the F35 is just Lawn Dart 2.0
I have to say that the sex drive doesn't give a shit. It's like ugly girls in the absence of pretty girls. Suddenly they start to look damn good. If you don't get any pussy for a long time they look fucking fabulous. After a few weeks you just want to get laid and your mind adjusts to anything it has to in order for it to work out.
The best bet of all. Competent and an Ass Kisser. Really you do have to sell yourself, it is not enough to be good but you have to make sure the idiots you work for notice that you are good.
In some ways my father, who is now 87, is as sharp as ever. In others not so much. He seems to trust complete strangers now where years back he would have been suspicious. It's perplexing. He lives alone since my mother died 3 years ago and washes clothes, cleans house and even drives to the grocery store and shops. Despite that he is as trusting as a child now and buys any sob story he gets. I'm going crazy dealing with it.
I find that it matters not where you work. If you keep your mind on your work instead of kissing ass and politicking then you are likely to find yourself getting overlooked. The exception is the small shops usually where the manager is also the owner. Things that directly hit his wallet tend to get noticed more.
Not all. My wife worked for the Department of Defense years back and they contracted to have a financial system programmed for the Air Force to a company in California. The guy who ran the company ran it out of his house and all his programmers worked from home. Meetings were conducted over the phone mostly although he did visit her office a few times. It was a very sweet contract and this guy's overhead was almost nothing. That was back in the late 90's.
Kind of extreme.......well, maybe not. My father is elderly and it's like he's under assault by these low life scum. There are so many organizations that live off of these kind of scams. I'd like to see drastic action taken.
Worse is how they get people to testify against others by offering them time off their sentence. They can't offer you 100,000 dollars to testify against someone but they can say "testify that you saw him shoot the victim and we'll drop your sentence from life to 10 years." Hell I'd rather have the 10 versus life than a million dollars. It is buying testimony no matter what they say. If I'm on a jury all a bought testimony is good for is corroboration of viewable facts at best.
Part of the problem is the pay is so bad now they end up with many people who shouldn't be doing any job that gives them any kind of authority whatsoever. The job and the pay sucks so the major perk is your ability to abuse the power vested in you by people that should know better.
This is why I feel drugs should be legal. I don't do them and don't feel any desire to poison myself and don't like to watch other people destroying themselves but the war on civil rights justified by drug laws is worse than legalizing drugs.
I doubt that if you insisted they'd fight it. I paid 12 grand in 100 dollar bills for a car once at a dealer and he didn't blink at it. I was actually surprised and asked him what the biggest amount of cash he'd ever received for a car was and he said 79 thousand. I was kind of shocked and asked him was it a problem and he laughed about it and said a lot of his customers were drug dealers and didn't do business any other way. If you want to do business then the customer is always right. I was carrying the cash because I had been looking at cars from private owners as well as dealerships and didn't know how much I was going to pay and having driven 150 miles to Atlanta didn't want to have to go back home and have my bank write a cashiers check so I packed cash and a Ruger.357. I wouldn't have tried going through an Airport with it....they don't like guns.
I hate to say it but Nvidia is making it happen now. They've managed to make installing graphics drivers totally painless. Hell it's easier than Windows! I'd love an open source driver that works but unfortunately I can choose AMD and have shitty graphics speed or I can fly with Nvidia. My religion just isn't strong enough.
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Here, don't want to leave you without at least one citation.
"The aircraft’s low in-commission rate and high cost of maintenance were both disturbing and frustrating. The aircraft and its systems were complex and new to the Air Force, and spare parts were short. More dramatic and more important to its reputation were crashes. "
That's for the infamous F-105. Interesting article at
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj98/spr98/werrell.html
The lawn dart statement is based on the high loss rate per 100,000 flying hours in which the F16 far excels. The name stuck because it is highly accurate. Name a modern aircraft that has a higher loss rate. I don't say it can't be effective in blowing things up but then tomahawk cruise missiles excel at that too. The jungles of Vietnam are littered with F-105s.
The only real advantage of the F35 is the Stealth. The disadvantages are primarily price and only one engine. I think the survivability of the Super Hornet will be much higher.
The main problem I have with the F35, besides the ridiculous cost, is that it's another idiotic single engine fighter like the F16 (lawn dart) which is so wrong for a combat aircraft. Redundancy is everything in a combat aircraft and when you lose an engine in a single seater the only option is to grab the eject handles. The number of F16's that could have survived if they had just had that extra powerplant I don't know but I do know that they crash at an unhealthy rate, over 342 according to an article I read back in 2011. I see no reason to believe the F35 with one engine will do any better. Especially if they can't figure what's up with the tubine blade problem. I think the F35 is just Lawn Dart 2.0
I have to say that the sex drive doesn't give a shit. It's like ugly girls in the absence of pretty girls. Suddenly they start to look damn good. If you don't get any pussy for a long time they look fucking fabulous. After a few weeks you just want to get laid and your mind adjusts to anything it has to in order for it to work out.
I wonder what they'll do when they kick 80 percent of their customers off?
it wasn't funny
The best bet of all. Competent and an Ass Kisser. Really you do have to sell yourself, it is not enough to be good but you have to make sure the idiots you work for notice that you are good.
In some ways my father, who is now 87, is as sharp as ever. In others not so much. He seems to trust complete strangers now where years back he would have been suspicious. It's perplexing. He lives alone since my mother died 3 years ago and washes clothes, cleans house and even drives to the grocery store and shops. Despite that he is as trusting as a child now and buys any sob story he gets. I'm going crazy dealing with it.
Tizen isn't done yet I think.
I find that it matters not where you work. If you keep your mind on your work instead of kissing ass and politicking then you are likely to find yourself getting overlooked. The exception is the small shops usually where the manager is also the owner. Things that directly hit his wallet tend to get noticed more.
Not all. My wife worked for the Department of Defense years back and they contracted to have a financial system programmed for the Air Force to a company in California. The guy who ran the company ran it out of his house and all his programmers worked from home. Meetings were conducted over the phone mostly although he did visit her office a few times. It was a very sweet contract and this guy's overhead was almost nothing. That was back in the late 90's.
Kind of extreme.......well, maybe not. My father is elderly and it's like he's under assault by these low life scum. There are so many organizations that live off of these kind of scams. I'd like to see drastic action taken.
Worse is how they get people to testify against others by offering them time off their sentence. They can't offer you 100,000 dollars to testify against someone but they can say "testify that you saw him shoot the victim and we'll drop your sentence from life to 10 years." Hell I'd rather have the 10 versus life than a million dollars. It is buying testimony no matter what they say. If I'm on a jury all a bought testimony is good for is corroboration of viewable facts at best.
Part of the problem is the pay is so bad now they end up with many people who shouldn't be doing any job that gives them any kind of authority whatsoever. The job and the pay sucks so the major perk is your ability to abuse the power vested in you by people that should know better.
This is why I feel drugs should be legal. I don't do them and don't feel any desire to poison myself and don't like to watch other people destroying themselves but the war on civil rights justified by drug laws is worse than legalizing drugs.
Those dogs will alert on anything they are told to. I've seen that in practice.
Local cops aren't much of a problem it's the Feds that think everyone is a criminal until proven innocent.
I doubt that if you insisted they'd fight it. I paid 12 grand in 100 dollar bills for a car once at a dealer and he didn't blink at it. I was actually surprised and asked him what the biggest amount of cash he'd ever received for a car was and he said 79 thousand. I was kind of shocked and asked him was it a problem and he laughed about it and said a lot of his customers were drug dealers and didn't do business any other way. If you want to do business then the customer is always right. I was carrying the cash because I had been looking at cars from private owners as well as dealerships and didn't know how much I was going to pay and having driven 150 miles to Atlanta didn't want to have to go back home and have my bank write a cashiers check so I packed cash and a Ruger .357. I wouldn't have tried going through an Airport with it....they don't like guns.
You selfish person, there are others that need that cash. Pay up bitch!
You have remarkable vision to quickly grasp the possibilities where so many see only problems.
I'd say the world's best turd poisher was Gates. Windows is the biggest stinking pile of shit ever and it sold better than anything. That turd shines!
Sometimes things that are ironic can be both true and amusing.
I never said he didn't program but from everything I've read Allen was the star of that show just like Gates was the star at marketing.
I hate to say it but Nvidia is making it happen now. They've managed to make installing graphics drivers totally painless. Hell it's easier than Windows! I'd love an open source driver that works but unfortunately I can choose AMD and have shitty graphics speed or I can fly with Nvidia. My religion just isn't strong enough.