I have no problem with stealth. My issue is that a fighter needs guns. Period. Otherwise, it is just so much meat in a can.

All you need to do as add denim shirts to your wardrobe. Just throw one on and leave it unbuttoned and untucked. Get the kind with a pocket so you can carry a couple of pens and a 6" steel ruler.

Man, I absolutely love A-10's. The best damned purpose-built aircraft I've ever seen.

Do you remember the shit storm when it was time to let another contract to build more? The press called it an expensive pork barrel project. Idiots.

That attitude is what caused the Navy and the Air Force to purchase the F-4 Phantom: The first fighter that only had stand-off weapon (missiles).

After MIGs started shooting them (using their on-board guns) out of the skies like so many pigeons, the error of the brass's stupid fucking idea sunk in and started the mad rush to produce gun pods for the Phantoms.

A fighter that's out of missiles is also defenseless.

The F-4 was the reason that the F-8 Crusader is also known as, "Mig Master" and "The Last of the Gunfighters." The F-8 Crusader had the best kill ratio of the Viet Nam War.

Okay. Class is over.

Leave them behind when the rest of us get the chance to leave this mudball.

I agree with you. I might need to skip some things for a few months, but it'll be worth it.

We used rosin-core solder or, when necessary, applied additional solder using squeeze bottle applicators and acid brushes.

Soldering was a great job. The quality of the finished piece was the only factor that was important. We were always told to make each connection as though it had to get to the moon and back. It wasn't about speed, so much as it was your work being as close to perfect as was humanly possible, repeatedly.

I held a Class C Micro-Min Repair certification in the service. I used to live to solder. Long ago I could repair multi-layer circuit boards with burn damage (i.e., holes where burnt components used to live). I could remove the surrounding damage, then replace missing substrate and tracks as I restored the PCB, eventually ending up with a board that functioned as well as the original. I spent 8-12 hours a day looking through a microscope to repair boards. It wasn't all glamorous board repair, though. A lot was the everyday, run-of-the-mill component replacement: ICs, lead components, surface mounts. Even wiring harness repairs/rebuilds. I loved it all. The smell of melting rosin core solder and the whine of handpieces and ball mills used to get me excited ;-)

Twice, actually. But I ran away and no one knew.

Microsoft Windows: "Kevorkian Approved©" for critical life support applications.

But since we know that to be true, I guess we can all sing like the Who: Won't Get Fooled Again (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Won%27t-Get-Fooled-Again-lyrics-The-Who/761EF79AAB42FA9C48256977002E72F9)

I'm just wondering when the revolution begins. I don't think that the younger generation realize how dire the situation really is since most of them have less than a zero's interest in history. If they'd even take the time read music lyrics that were being sung 50 years ago, they'd easily see that things are even worse now than they were before.

When does the shooting start?

LOLOLOL

What a stupid idea it was to go down that path. Now that the idiots in the us gov't have opened pandora's box, I'm sure we'll all soon have the opportunity to see the code up close and personal.

"an ICE spokesman says the intent isn't to deter piracy but to educate the public that pirating DVDs and Blu-rays allows you to skip the bullshit and get right to the movie."

ICE: what a bunch of maroons.

Can you think of anything else as plain? If you do a google search for mike adams, you'll find that there are literally thousands of them.

Well, holy shit. I just did a search for Trentthethief. Who else has been using this nickname? Damn it.

I guess it was inevitable. Now I need to consider whether or not to continue with it.

Ah, yes. I see. Thanks for expanding on that.