That's how it is now, how often do you see new car dealers selling both Ford and GM?

We have things like this already in New Jersey, such as the Lotus dealer in Hopewell.

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Not the sugar industry, the corn industry. High Fructose Corn Syrup creates more jobs in the midwest growing corn than sugar plantations in the Caribbean do.

The railings are designed to be far enough away that no matter how long your arm is you aren't going to be in danger of losing it to the roller coast zipping by.

This could be solved by a handheld the device for policemen to hold up that the cars can easily recognize, the same device could be used by construction companies (or built into new slow/stop spinny signs)

They not have been economic for those roles in the 80s and 90s, but compared to the costs of developing the DDX there are extraordinarily more economic.

Voting in the primaries is what is really important, there's usually an anti-establishment candidate in every party whether they be Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich or similar. If you aren't in a "swing state" you may as well vote third party anyway. I have voted third party every presidential election I have voted in because my state always picks the one of the two top guys I would prefer regardless.

Never understood why they don't offer pre-painted sets; then again their unpainted minis are so expensive I can only imagine what pre-painted would cost.

Our problem is that we believe the best way to stabilize Iraq is to force it to maintain unity under the borders dictated by the end of World War 1, while not recognizing there are three distinct cultures there who have a lot of bad blood betweeen them.

Honestly it is better that he doesn't, otherwise all the papers would simply be attacked ad hominem based on who pays the grants. You want to discredit his work, attack the science in it, not the funding for the science.

How are carriers cheaper to crew and maintain? Realistically we would only need two battleships in the Navy, and if we wanted to build new ones they could be much smaller than the Iowas and require a smaller crew while still wielding 6-10 16in guns

The purpose of the battleship is no longer for engaging in ship-to-ship combat but as a floating mobile artillery platform to support the troops on the ground. In our past engagements with them (the Gulf and Vietnam) they were praised for their immense usefulness.

Our entire Navy is one of floating glass cannons anyway, the battleships are at least tempered glass.

The cost to modernize each battleship was estimated by the navy to be about 500 million dollars (back in the early 2000s), a Zumwalt class destroyer costs 3.45 billion (not including the R&D costs). Granted the Zumwalt is the F-35 of the navy, but congress loves blowing money on military equipment.

Same goes for ammunition. A 16 inch shell is about $500, a tomahawk missile nearly 1 million. Missiles certainly have their role, but we have completely eliminated our naval artillery when it is still useful and cost-effective.

I assure you I know quite a LOT about battleships, and though all are decommissioned that doesn't mean the design or concept is obsolete. They are out of service in the US for purely political/lobbying reasons. They are out of the service in the rest of the world because everyone else gone with a sea denial strategy.