The F-86 was developed before the MiG-15 entered combat service. The only thing the MiG did to the Sabre was make the Air Force deploy it quicker because the MiG spanked everything else the Air Force had.
Likewise the MiG-21 and F-4; the F-4 was developed not specifically because of the Fishbed, but because the Navy (and later the Air Force) wanted a modern fighter and it happened that the Fishbed and Phantom were the most modern fighters each side had in Vietnam; they weren't even the same class of airplane: the MiG-21 was a small, fast light fighter/interceptor and the F-4 a big, heavy do-everything fighter-bomber/interceptor, just as the F-16 and Su-27 were in different classes.
I'm not convinced that a bouncing bomb would have been all that effective against ships. The delivering aircraft still has to be close to the target, flying straight, low, and at a certain airspeed, and it's an unguided bomb so there's still a decent chance of a miss (several bombs missed the German dams, for instance). We had other planes that attacked low-and-slow; they were torpedo bombers and fell out of use after 1945 due to being excessively vulnerable to flak during their low, slow and straight attack runs.
In any case, we already had a fairly similar and effective attack method: skip bombing, which works with conventional bombs.
Some people aren't intelligent enough to understand that things are complicated and there are no simple answers, no one thing to blame for our problems. Those people tend to be teabaggers.
Despite John Ringo's alarmist fantasies, no.
That's extremely short-sighted. Eventually the economy wins because we have less of the pollution and other environmental damage from coal.
Austrian-school economics isn't evidence-based, so he doesn't care.
Sorry, no. That's a conspiracy theory website.
More like you're too busy chasing conspiracy theories to know when you're being mocked for it.
We have inflation becasue the Federal Government spends more than it takes in.
I stopped taking you seriously right there.
IMO pretty much any taxation and spending should be automatically indexed against inflation.
Then, of course, you'd have endless politicking about which inflation measure to use...
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Reread that. I said "excuse", and "excuse" I meant. I never claimed that was the real reason.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.