Debian... Very unfortunately... http://www.neowin.net/news/debian-drops-xfce-reinstates-gnome-as-default-desktop

This post was written from a Gnome 3 + Debian + Ancient 32 bit laptop which I run as an experiment. So far, it's probably the 2nd worst GUI after Unity I have ever used and this includes Windows 3.1 and CDE and anything that was around in late 80s/early 90s...

F-16 getting old and being a lawn dart... The only air to air combat loss of an F-16 I can remember was a dogfight between two NATO countries: Greek Mirage won, Turkish F-16 lost. That's one lawn-dart we should be buying more.

Wright brothers patented a lot of the mechanics of the aircraft they built and later prevented Curtis & other US aviators from progressing. By the time the Great War had started, European aviation was greatly ahead of the USA's efforts.

A bottle of cider is not one of your daily fives...

Must I remind everyone that the massacre in Gallipolli campaign was mainly Churchill's fault, him being the First Lord of the Admiralty and drawn the plans of the operation and insisted on pressing onwards? Almost half a million died in that little piece of land, probably one of the bloodiest battles of WWI.

You should come and visit England, the land of the Sunshine!

Using DVDs for backup is already more expensive than buying a 2-3TB disk and storing that.
And disks are faster. DVDs as backups are dead unless you want to store very small amounts of data (4.7GB? Who cares about 4.7GB any more?)

Currently I'm buying USB3 ext storage disks and moving my DVDs onto them. It is cheaper, takes less space and works faster.

Ah, an other person who has drunk the US NAVY's cool aid.
US carriers are notoriously vulnerable to diesel submarines who run on batteries. On nuclear subs, the engine never gets shut, they are inherently noisier than diesel submarines. More than once US Carrier fleets got a nasty surprise when a submarine surfaced quite near to them. (shame, link for Daily Scarymail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited-guest-Chinese-sub-pops-middle-U-S-Navy-exercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html#axzz2JgOdt8mi)

Russians have been working on a hypersonic cruise missile for a long time, so do the US, both have failed. There are a number of supersonic cruise missiles and all stealth cruise missiles in US's inventory have been mostly retired. China, France, of all countries, India, have supersonic cruise missiles which are significantly harder to intercept, especially since 3rd and 4th gen Aircrafts are no longer interceptors and significantly slower than their 2nd gen cousing (F-4 could do M2.5, Foxbat was M3.2). Anti-aircraft missiles are point defenses, they can shoot down a subsonic or supersonic missile but struggle with a hypersonic one.

The original article assumes an enemy (*cough*China*cough*) is going to fire all of their subsonic and supersonic missiles first to force USNAVY to spend their missiles in their AEGIS cruisers and then promptly sink then with their modern, hypersonic missiles. It is possible but not likely.

One thing to remember from WWII: The bomber will always get through.

The expensive bit in a rocket is not the warhead.

It is known to anyone with a bit of history information. See wikipedia and other sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War#USA_rotary-wing): 5086 US army, 270 USMC.

USAF also didn't come out of it completely clean with their planes, 5.25 million sorties, 1737 lost to enemy action.

Helicopters are notoriously complicated machines, it doesn't take much to destroy one.

Yeah, and such tactics worked perfectly fine when done by English and Russians in Afghanistan so it must be true.

Also remember the glorious American Victory in Vietnam where villages and towns were wiped off the map daily, napalm and carpet bombing got used liberally...

Sheesh....

I'm always shocked with the poor grab of history of Americans.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cuba#The_first_US_occupation_and_the_Platt_amendment and the sentence "After the Spanish troops left the island in December 1898, the government of Cuba was handed over to the United States on 1 January 1899. The first governor was General John R. Brooke. Unlike Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, the United States did not annex Cuba because of the restrictions imposed in the Teller Amendment."... And around that section. Cuba was always intented to be taken over completely eventually, the politics of WWI intervened...

From the wiki, the sentence shows how corrupt the whole thing was:"In the presidential elections of 31 December 1901, Tomás Estrada Palma, a US citizen still living in the United States, was the only candidate."

America was fiddling with other governments way before CIA was founded.

Short answer: If the moon was a perfectly uniform sphere with a perfect gravity gradient (as you would assume in in high-school physics), yes. In real life, the moon is seriously lumpy and that plays havoc with the long-term low-altitude orbits.

I can assure you, Labour government was and LibCon goverment is doing everything what US tells them...