Maybe it was sort of like the Enterprise shuttlecraft or captain's yacht? The mothership could have stayed safely in orbit.

They can't control the flow of information and keep the people in check through ignorance like they used to. Much harder to cover up church scandals like pedophile priests with the internet available to a wide population.

Time to become a Linux user - preferably an obscure distribution nobody has ever heard of.

One flew across the Sinai during one of the Arab/Israeli wars at mach 3+ and really freaked the west out. As it turned out, the engines would burn out if run for an extended time beyond Mach 2.5, and after being flown at Mach 3 the airframe was toast. (The plane in question never flew again)

Think of it as a single use SR-71.

The biggest problem with the Tiger 1/2 was spare parts and logistics Once they broke down, they were as good as lost. The other problem was weight. In most of Europe you can't going very far without crossing a river, and most bridges of the day couldn't handle something that heavy.

The western allies had a very few tanks that could take out axis tanks of the panther/tiger breed, including:
Sherman firefly - Modified to carry long British 76mm gun
90 mm Sherman variant

The best anti-tank weapons the allies had were their figher/bomber aircraft such as the rocket firing hawker typhoon and mosquitoes. They attacked from above where the armor was weak, and forced the germans to travel with mobile AA defenses.

And the Tiger used such bleeding edge technology and parts not in common with other German tanks, it quite often was lost due to breakdowns and lack of spare parts before it even saw battle.

The first models they rushed out to Kursk were catching fire on the battlefield!

That would make Canada's opposition liberals laugh quite loudly; The conservatives have insisted the F35 purchase is a done deal.

They had no problem taking one out with comparatively primitive weapons in the former Yugoslavia

http://www2.arnes.si/~lgrego7/f117-abstract.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk

Didn't Saddam invade Kuwait because he couldn't afford to replay them his loans for the Iran/Iraq war?

That would be strange.

Heavy power usage at off peak times is one of the best signs somebody is running a grow-op in their basement. I wonder if your heavy power usage at night will bring a friendly visit by black clad ATF members with sledgehammers and automatic weapons?

For the very paranoid:

cat /dev/random to your hard disk before creating an encrypted partition.

Of course it is about revenue; that is why you see local cops from towns many miles away chasing out of state cars on the freeway. Its all a scam.

My solution is to see all ticket revenue donated dollar for dollar to the UN. Then they can write all the tickets they want without any revenue generation conflict of interest.

Any DRM system is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. BD+ doesn't have to be broken, only one link in the chain and the whole thing falls apart. You just need a little HDCP stripper box between the legal blue ray player, and whatever you are using to copy. And there is now no physical way to invalidate the keys in the HDCP stripper box. They box could identify itself with an infinite number of working keys generated each time it is powered up. As mentioned in an earlier thread, the unencrypted raw stream can then be recompressed/encoded into any desired format. (Including BD+ and AACS free Bluray) As mentioned earlier, any good HW engineering student armed with the specs and an FGPA could make one.

The only way to stop this would be to start over with a new master key, which would brick every existing HDCP encumbered piece of hardware out there.

I can't imagine how any sane individual with even a trivial background in zoology could believe the literal story of Noah's Ark - how viable breeding populations of millions of species, many of which depend on rare and unique habitats for survival were collected from all over the world by Noah and his family, even the most remote places. (Hint: Inaccessible Island lives up to its name, even today) They somehow kept them alive for 40 days on a boat with bronze age technology. (Some of the reptiles I keep require special UVB lighting - I wonder where Noah found that?) They were then released and hopped, crawled and wiggled their way back to their homelands leaving no descendent's on the way, and somehow their environment wasn't destroyed by being submerged all that time. For example, the kangaroos all hopped back to Australia leaving no trace en route, and somehow found eucalyptus trees to chew on, (what did they eat during the return journey?) even though the whole continent had been underwater, and their food source should have been wiped out.

And what of all the freshwater fish? They should have been wiped out too when the salty seas flooded their lakes and rivers. Or did Noah's boat also include super size aquarium facilities as well?

I wonder who got the sh*t job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye