Comment Re:Sad (Score 2, Funny) 676
See, this thing we're all doing here is like a conversation...
Damn, I thought we were doing conversion here...
See, this thing we're all doing here is like a conversation...
Damn, I thought we were doing conversion here...
Actually, the Russian K36 ejection seats are no more (or less) capable than the standard Aces II seat that all US fighters use.
If one is to trust wikipedia, then they must be more capable (or US navy and air force buy their wares abroad just for shit and giggles):
Zvezda is also Russia's primary manufacturer of ejector seats for Russian fighter aircraft. The K-36 ejector seat was studied at length by the US Navy and Air Force; IBP Aircraft opened up a factory in the US to manufacture it for the F-22 Raptor and the Joint Strike Fighter.[citation needed] The US Government, however, selected the Martin-Baker seat from the United Kingdom for their new fighter jet.
How does 30 minutes to cross the Atlantic sound?
Impossible. Shortest distance across Atlantic is ~2500km. If you want to cover it in ½ hour then your speed must be ~5000km/h. SR-71 has (had?) top speed of over 3500km/h... and you are suggesting of making plane that goes almost 50% faster?
Heat is not energy*, at least not useful energy.
FU! Welcome to Finland. I'll let you wait outside, while you reconsider how useful heat is...
Why would you want Google as a home page? I type "g search terms" (Opera, Konqueror) or just "search terms" (Firefox, Chrome) in the address bar to search Google (depending on the browser). Or "w search term" to search Wikipedia, or "k search term" to search the work wiki.
Because "g search terms" doesn't, as far as I know, make suggestions and thus save me from guessing the spelling. I usually just hit ctrl+t, g, down, enter and start to type.
I don't know what you're talking about? I had Civilization and Wing Commander on my Amiga 500 (68000/7 megahertz) computer, and they looked just as good as the IBM PC version. More importantly I can still play the Amiga versions, whereas the PC versions crash both my Win98 and WinXP machines. (That's why I hate using PCs for gaming.)
Then get your good old MS-DOS machine instead of those newfangled Windows thingys and try those games on that, or your comparison is like comparing apples and apple cider.
This being the case, something has to give. Either men need to stop behaving offensively, or women need to stop being so easily offended.
I'm finding that the latter is a popular suggestion here on
I also think a lot of people are taken in by a false dichotomy here. Women can (and should) do both; they can do their best to function in our society as it is while challenging its inequities.
No need to wonder: men don't want to grow up, we want to be immature some times, at least I want to. Take away all the fun and games and dirty jokes and you get very dull experience for a male used to that, especially if the work/hobby is the last place where he can have fun. Also men are more competitive (or are we?) and part of that is downplaying of others, maybe with not so nice words.
Of course there are real chauvinists everywhere and competitiveness and immaturity can be overdone, but in my experience generally women are more sensitive to that. Calling me dickhead nets you finger and FU, but try calling female dickhead and see what happens.
As a long time Battle Tech fan I must mention Megamek.
Quote from the wikipedia:
MegaMek is an open source, turn-based strategy computer game that simulates the Classic BattleTech board game. MegaMek is not licensed by or affiliated with WizKids or Catalyst Game Labs, the owners and publishers of the BattleTech line, but is nonetheless a faithful simulation of the game. Exceptions are a few trademarked items changed by the developers (e.g., changing 'Mech to Mek).
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
