As someone who lives in one of the countries who got suckered into the F-35, this program has been nothing but lies and bullshit since it was announced.
As an American I apologize to you. The F-35 should never have been built, the money should have gone to continued production of the F-22.
However, many air-air combat aircraft are pressed into air-ground roles
This wouldn't be necessary if the Air Force wasn't obsessed with retiring the A-10. But then again, maintinaing an already existing airframe is much less profitable than government contract for R&D and production runs for a new airframe, and any general worth his stars would jump at the chance to leave his mark by helming the procurement of a major weapons system.
The first time I ran out of gas, I nearly had a heart attack as the car put up 3 warning signs and asked if I wanted to be directed to the nearest gas station.
The HUD must not be all that great if you keep running out of gas multiple times.
How exactly would a court force the government to do this?
Individual civil sanctions just like with any other contract.
While it's a mainstay of many movies from the 1960s and 1970s for criminals to disguise themselves using highly expensive plastic surgery, I'd hardly call it "common", no.
Just grow a beard to hide that distinctively shaped chin, or pluck your eyebrows.
Everyone deserves equal opportunity, right?
Nope, low-income boys have to pin their hopes on basketball or football if they want a chance to escape poverty; unless they live in a rural area, in which case it's meth.
A poll of polls?
No, we should "pole" the politicians. As in, beat them with a heavy metal pole, and then hoist them up on one.
One problem is that the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act has been interpreted by the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit the calling of cellphones through automatic dialers, in which calls are passed to live interviewers only after a person picks up the phone.
I know some people that the pollers could outsource to that have seemed to have found a very easy workaround to this problem.
"Hi, this is Rachel from polling services....."
Now, as a competent, dedicated law enforcement professional who is committed to making this project work for the good of society, you're going to need to test it. Thoroughly.
You need a lot of pictures of people with tattoos, preferably not covered by too much clothing. And you're going to need to double check that the image recognition is correct for every match.
Once you've done that, you'll need to start applying the same algorithm to video sources. Again, with careful checking to verify that the system is working correctly.
Where on the Internet are you going to find a huge volume of images and video featuring people with exposed tattoos? And how, exactly, did you just convince the government that it was your job to spend all day watching them while calling it science?
Probably the best way to roll this out would be to target and identify repeat offenders. If you have someone currently incarcerated, you can take good clear pictures of them revealing their tattoos which could then be matched to images of tattoos from crimes committed after they are released/before they were incarcerated.
MY one concern is this:how good would it be at recognizing altered tattoos or ones that have had additional tattoos added to or applied over the original tattoo? Want to help get away with murder? Every time you kill someone just add a tattoo to your sleeve, incorporating a previous tattoo so that it is altered enough to render this method ineffective. Plus you get the added benefit of having a souvenir/reminder of each criminal act. Think the Johnny-23 character from the movie Con Air.
tackle football (NFL doesn't like it, anymore).
Miss the days of players deliberately making helmet-to-helmet tackles without penalty? If you want to have the brain of an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient before you can run for the Senate, go volunteer yourself, Sparky.
I miss the days where a player would be taught to break down, plant their facemask in their opponents chest,wrap up, and drive through. No shattered knees, no concussions. Now their idea of tackling is dropping their heads and launching themselves at people's knees.
I have close to 10 firearms myself, but I certainly don't have an M249, a 203, or kevlar with ceramic plates-all standard issue for military. An enthusiast might be better armed than your average patrolman who has a
You can buy all of those things. Some are expensive, an M249 very much so, but you can buy one.
Body armor isn't that expensive, in relative terms, even a M203 40mm grenade launcher isn't that expensive.
While they might not be prohibitively expensive (except for the case of the M249), and I know you can buy what are labelled as 40mm "flare" launchers, but good luck finding explosive rounds for it. And as for body armor, I know you can buy basic Kevlar for a few hundred dollars, but I am not aware of any being sold at your local Army/Navy store that come with the ballistic plates. Really, the people who can afford things like that are the kind of people that aren't going to cause problems anyway, they just want to go out to a track of land they own and blow crap up.
It's still the same now. An enthusiast that buys his own weapon likely has a much better piece of equipment than someone that just has standard issue gear.
There are even catalogs used by the troops for enhancing their own personal gear while on personal deployment.
I have close to 10 firearms myself, but I certainly don't have an M249, a 203, or kevlar with ceramic plates-all standard issue for military. An enthusiast might be better armed than your average patrolman who has a
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