digital and carts are different. Does google make me use google play to load an MP3? no but apple makes you use itunes

can i use chrome in IOS??? No!... (not really anyway)

can I keep ticking off things I can do in other OS's that I cant do in osX or iOS?? yes

get tired of hearing it all you want, it doesnt make it any less true

oh dont get me wrong, I say the same thing you just did many many times. but with everything that is happening right now, im just saying its not impossible, just highly unlikely.

I wouldnt be upset personally thomas jefferson said it needs to happen from time to time....

and the president (sitting and previous) hasnt???? smh

Citations????

IMO when jobs came back, thats when i gave up on apple. I was a huge fan in the powerPC days, but since the ipod, it seems they have decided that user lockin is more important than anything else

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well, this will be a big talking piece for the presidential hopefuls. So far it looks like Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders are the only 2 who are on the side of the people when it comes to this.

after this week it seems it is about time to break out that battle flag once again

Well, alright, lets take close air support in Afghanistan. What would have been the cheaper, easier-to-maintain solution with better time on station?

I distinctly remember it being promised that the F-35 would beat anything but an F-22 in air-to-air combat, at a fraction of the price. It was not part of the original concept for the system but it was definitely sold politically as being capable of acting as a poor man's F22.

I wonder about the helmet mounted display, whether that's something you'd consider absolutely necessary in an aircraft whose job is to hit surface targets in contested airspace.

To be fair, that was not the original justification for the thing. That was mission creep.

I think the original impetus was to have something stealthy that could do ground strikes in enemy territory. And it makes sense to do a naval version of the same thing. If they'd just focused on that they'd have been done a long time ago with a solid design, which of course in engineering nearly always turns out to be more versatile than you planned for. Adding STOVL and the whizbang helmet (cool as that may be) as necessary elements of the system turned this into an "everything for everyone" project, which almost always turns out less versatile than you hoped.

Sure you can identify scenarios where the A-10 is useless. But in the last twenty years it's been extremely useful in a number scenarios we've actually faced.

The idea that a system ought to play every role in every conceivable situation is why the F35 performs none of them very well. In hindsight the idea of accommodating the Marines' need for a STOVL aircraft in the same basic design probably dictated too many compromises in the plane's other roles.

ive never seen it written that way before is all. its always just lockheed in anything i ever see

anything apple decides is not approved

and thats not your decision to make. you cant simply say you know what? they guy has a lot of money that i think id rather have.... it doesnt work that way (nor should it)