Or, don't work well.
Does nobody remember the lessons of the infamous F-111? It was going to replace fighters, attack planes, light bombers, nuclear strike bombers, for both the Air Force and the Navy.
The plane went WAY over budget, and in the end, the the F-111 turned out to be a pretty good light attack/recon aircraft, but not much else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Instead of a plane that's excellent at say, dogfighting, you get one that is mediocre at dogfighting. And VTOL/STOL. And attack.
It's like using a leatherman when you could be using actual tools.
This is exactly what we need in the US. Unless and until they stand up to these corporate/government censors, public opinion will continue to be lead by whomever has the most cash.
F-105: thunderchief
F-111: Aardvark/Raven (BTW: turned out to be a pretty decent attack plane/anti-radar "Wild Weasel"
F-15 Eagle
F-18 Hornet
Story pretty much correct though.
DF is an ALMOST great game. The problem is not the graphics so much...it's the utterly confusing command/menu system. The strange progress of its development, for example, implementing bees and armadillos in the face of game-ending crashes or utterly useless military commands, is also frustrating.
When one of the parties has much higher environmental and safety regulations. Of course, this why the wingnuts will tell you we need to dismantle our regulatory systems. Yay! Race to the bottom!
For example, they KNEW that the BOP (blowout preventer) was not functioning correctly. one of the 2 control systems was out, and they had been bringing up pieces of the rubber seal in the test fluid. They were cutting corners on their cut corners.
You'd think this would serve as exhibit A to silence all the "GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R GOOD" nutcases in the USA today, but unfortunately it does not seem to have had that effect.
Not at all. They're all against big government, unless they are trying to cram their "morals" down your throat, or looking for a handout, or diverting tax money to their corporate overlords.
Because they are going to need some, and soon. EVERY time they make a change to the privacy scheme, it's ridiculous and gets the whole user base riled up.
Apparently you've been missing for the past 8 1/2 years. The Bush administration was using non-official email accounts to conduct official business, 'cause, you know, they never wanted anyone to know what they were doing.
While I generally like Rep. Grayson because he doesn't roll over and take it in the ass from the republicans like most democrats do, in this case he's going to end up streisanding this wingnut blogger.
That's because it was a crappily designed PLAYER. The underlying video technology was fine, but whoever created that player really screwed it up. My former company was able to make some very cool Silverlight 2.0 players.
Ronnie promised us that SDI would make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete". I think he didn't quite understand how hard that is.
Oh, I don't know; I'm pretty sure he did. You see, the whole idea of SDI was to start something very expensive that Just Might Work. That meant that the Soviets had to try to copy us, and the effort caused their rickety, barely-functional economy to collapse, bringing down the whole Soviet Union with it..
Riiight. And that's exactly what Ronnie was thinking about when he shoveled all that money to SDI. "Let's do this because we know the Russians can't possibly keep up and it will bankrupt them!"
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Or, don't work well. Does nobody remember the lessons of the infamous F-111? It was going to replace fighters, attack planes, light bombers, nuclear strike bombers, for both the Air Force and the Navy. The plane went WAY over budget, and in the end, the the F-111 turned out to be a pretty good light attack/recon aircraft, but not much else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... Instead of a plane that's excellent at say, dogfighting, you get one that is mediocre at dogfighting. And VTOL/STOL. And attack. It's like using a leatherman when you could be using actual tools.
Sounds like one of the few places in the defense industry that's got things right lately.
This is exactly what we need in the US. Unless and until they stand up to these corporate/government censors, public opinion will continue to be lead by whomever has the most cash.
Oh well, i guess it's back to the jet powered flying squirrel suit.
Sounds like that's exactly what they were doing. UNLIMITED data plans, shouldn't, you know, have a LIMIT.
F-105: thunderchief F-111: Aardvark/Raven (BTW: turned out to be a pretty decent attack plane/anti-radar "Wild Weasel" F-15 Eagle F-18 Hornet Story pretty much correct though.
Why do you have a hammer in an instrument stand in your kitchen?
...and we LIKED it!
DF is an ALMOST great game. The problem is not the graphics so much...it's the utterly confusing command/menu system. The strange progress of its development, for example, implementing bees and armadillos in the face of game-ending crashes or utterly useless military commands, is also frustrating.
...poisoned by Foxconn in China!
When one of the parties has much higher environmental and safety regulations. Of course, this why the wingnuts will tell you we need to dismantle our regulatory systems. Yay! Race to the bottom!
But...why?
For example, they KNEW that the BOP (blowout preventer) was not functioning correctly. one of the 2 control systems was out, and they had been bringing up pieces of the rubber seal in the test fluid. They were cutting corners on their cut corners. You'd think this would serve as exhibit A to silence all the "GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R GOOD" nutcases in the USA today, but unfortunately it does not seem to have had that effect.
Not at all. They're all against big government, unless they are trying to cram their "morals" down your throat, or looking for a handout, or diverting tax money to their corporate overlords.
..while California doesn't even have a budget. This isn't their job.
Because they are going to need some, and soon. EVERY time they make a change to the privacy scheme, it's ridiculous and gets the whole user base riled up.
Bet they know what the engineers are doing...
Why is it that corporate types never understand that if the white hats have found it, the black hats have too...and are exploiting it.
Apparently you've been missing for the past 8 1/2 years. The Bush administration was using non-official email accounts to conduct official business, 'cause, you know, they never wanted anyone to know what they were doing.
While I generally like Rep. Grayson because he doesn't roll over and take it in the ass from the republicans like most democrats do, in this case he's going to end up streisanding this wingnut blogger.
One of the features of Diablo that made it more replayable than Diablo 2 was the generation of random(ish) maps....will this be included in D3?
What's not to understand? It clears the nose!
That's because it was a crappily designed PLAYER. The underlying video technology was fine, but whoever created that player really screwed it up. My former company was able to make some very cool Silverlight 2.0 players.
Ronnie promised us that SDI would make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete". I think he didn't quite understand how hard that is.
Oh, I don't know; I'm pretty sure he did. You see, the whole idea of SDI was to start something very expensive that Just Might Work. That meant that the Soviets had to try to copy us, and the effort caused their rickety, barely-functional economy to collapse, bringing down the whole Soviet Union with it. .
Riiight. And that's exactly what Ronnie was thinking about when he shoveled all that money to SDI. "Let's do this because we know the Russians can't possibly keep up and it will bankrupt them!"
The weapons are virtually undetectible until it's too late.
Yes, because launching a big freakin' rocket (big enough to put stuff in orbit) will go unnoticed.
You don't need a big freakin' rocket....the first successful ASAT was a missile launched from an F-15.