What I fail to understand is how you can be accurate with a dumb projectile at 100-nautical miles, especially at sea. Is this simply marketing talk, or can they can they really hit a 100 meter building or other ship from 100 miles away given sea movements and weather?

You are correct we have the most technological advanced military in the world, but you are incorrect that we are not the biggest. After 20 years of spending more on our military than almost all other nations COMBINED, we have both the most advanced and the biggest military in the world. We have more stealth fighters than some countries have PILOTS.

There is a fundamental difference between software and cars and french fries, cars wear down very quickly, and french fries are consumable. If you sell used software it is 100% identical to what you bought. This makes it such that every new game competes with every single previously released game. Luckily we have technological decay somewhat.

I'm sure its sponsored by GM companies. The point is why even mess with it, we have food that we can grow now that isn't GM, in fact if anything we need to diversify our food supply and go the opposite direction, different breeds of corn, wheat, soybeans instead of the same 3 that are grown in every field. The other massive problem with GM is a company can control and patent a seed, once it dominates and is entrenched they slowly squeeze the profits and life out of small farms and into larger companies.

I do all of the above. I spent a considerable amount of time optimizing the loading code path, I have the details somewhere, using memory caching techniques, ensuring the cache isn't blown, serializing disk access, etc, all led to massive performance improvements. When you are reaching a point of diminishing returns on that, why not upgrade the computer? I built my 2500k over a year ago and it was around $1500, pretty much a no brainer upgrade for that price.

Well let me dig up my test results spreadsheet from when I first got my 2500K CPU, times are in seconds to complete my task in Visual Studio 2010, first set of numbers is the system at stock clock, second set is overclocked at 5GHz, during my game development most of my day consists of building the game, loading the game and testing out changes or additions, therefore the reduction from doing that in 32s vs 21s is absolutely huge, even doing code changes that don't require a total rebuild I am waiting 3s less. It may not sound like a lot but when you are focused any time saved is very important, you can only be focused for so long.

build debug from clean 12.9 6.9
built already, go and load all effects and units 8.2 5.6
at title screen all loaded, start medium map 19.6 14.3
modify main.h build load to splash scrn 3.4 2.1
modify main.h load into medium map 31.9 20.9
modify main.h optimal load no sound, small map 16.9 10.3
running in game, modify main.h apply changes 10 6.7
average 14.7 9.5

system is 2500K, C300 SSD, 16GB memory

Wow I can't imagine trying to debug that, I get frustrated just having to step into more than 10 functions lol. So how did they ever find the problem and reproduce it?

Totally, even more likely though the plane didn't even fail, it "failed". Meaning the government wanted it to fail, wanted to have it captured, wanted us to believe Iran is evil, and wanted another bogus media trampling of Iran so they will have more support to go to war with Iran when the time comes. FALSE FLAG!

Warren Buffett being the primary shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway he can choose to pay himself a salary and be taxed 35%, or be paid in capital gains at a rate of 15%, and here is the key, capital gains are distributed AFTER Berkshire Hathaway has already been taxed on those profits at the corporate rate of 35%, thus making his effective tax rate 45%. For a more standard businessman who talks about his excessive taxes all the time I direct you to Peter Schiff http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7ZkKqC5-Wbw#t=320s

You can tax every single person in the country 100% and it isn't going to balance the budget over the next 10 years. Anyone who thinks the rich isn't paying their fair share hasn't thought it through. What is their fair share? 30%, 40%, 50%? Most rich are paying 45% in taxes currently, when the bush tax cuts expire it will be North of 50%. Why should a rich person that makes $1M pay $500,000 for the same services and protections from their country that a poor person that contributes absolutely nothing to society and receives $25,000? The more we reward people for doing nothing, the more they will do nothing, and this is exactly what is happening, the people who control capital hill are represented by the same people who take everything and pay nothing, and worse who actually live off of the government.

Quite ironic that capitalist USA has become a country of socialists and crony capitalism, and communist China has a less regulated and freer economy than we do.