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I was quite impressed by this:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)-IainB (July 31, 2013, 09:55 PM)
Sounding the alarm: Ars speaks with vocal NSA critic Sen. Ron Wyden
Reading the article, I would suspect that the title and its apparently poorly-written content may be deliberately misleading so as to encourage clicks from indignant and gullible readers.
I would suggest that it is probably quite untrue that the TSA are enabling people to bypass an absolutely essential and mandatory security check by paying an $85 fee. Given the government's security imperative, it's an absurd assertion.-IainB (July 29, 2013, 09:17 PM)
How to harvest your own insects for food
Can a new insect-breeding device make eating insects more appetizing?
This is only an issue because some people really are that dumb.-Stoic Joker (July 29, 2013, 06:04 PM)
Well let's see now, after 12 back surgeries and my back is still "out"......Ouch!! It hurts just reading that.-Tinman57 (July 27, 2013, 07:18 PM)-MilesAhead (July 29, 2013, 09:35 AM)
Tinman's post really made me sad; so much pain! Is this why you went for the tinman name? I really thought it was a tribute, rather than a self-description!-Curt (July 29, 2013, 04:48 PM)
Saw this one for the first time a couple of weeks ago, really made my day.
-Jibz (April 26, 2012, 01:15 AM)
Hate airport fondling? Pay the TSA $85 for hands-off screening
If you're not enamoured by fondling as part of the airport screening process, then the TSA will let you pass -- for a fee.
Filtering particles that small is a difficult problem. I don't think your wet/dry vac would be all that effective. I'm sure it would get some, but how much is another question.
Probably an airtight housing for the printer would be a good start. At least contain the dust while printing.-Renegade (July 27, 2013, 08:51 PM)
and you can bet that somebody will make a good docu-drama film about this child-grooming at some stage, and that the censors will likely as not just let it alone because it depicts "real life", no doubt thus providing lots of good viewing for closet paedophiles whose prayers for a good, legally authorised wet-dream will have been finally answered.
I wonder, if that happened, whether it could be construed as being “injurious to the public good”, and thus censored.-IainB (July 27, 2013, 07:24 PM)
Truly, idiocy has no bounds.
It used to be that the sky was the limit.
As for an air tax... that has already been proposed. (No - I'm not kidding.)-Renegade (July 27, 2013, 02:43 AM)
I wonder if it will come to the point where ISPs like Comcast will be forced by law to allow fiber optic services to lay in cable along the same trenches/byways/channels .. whatever the term is .. similar to how the phone company was finally forced to let competitors use their lines? That would really shake up the world!! 1 Gb/s service for $19.95/Mo.-MilesAhead (July 27, 2013, 02:50 PM)
Print an air filter.-Deozaan (July 27, 2013, 02:46 PM)
$25 for a bag of laundry?Man... I'm so cheap I won't even use the coin-op machines at my apartment and just beg family or friends to let me come do laundry at their place. There's no way I'd waste that much money on a load of laundry.
-Deozaan (July 27, 2013, 02:22 PM)
From another perspective, since I also don't like hassle, let's say another reason this is expensive depending where you live. In my sections of Queens NYC I walk across the street *any time I want* between 8AM and 4PM-ish and drop off my laundry. It's done in a few hours. Then I walk back and pick it up. A "medium bag" is about $12. If I drop it off much later than 4 it just slides into the next day.
I'm no expert penny pincher, but $12 laundry isn't going to be the thing that sinks me! Not when it saves 4 hours of nuisance!-TaoPhoenix (July 27, 2013, 02:36 PM)
But even when I lived in an apartment back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the apartment had it's own private washing machine and dryer....
I near peed myself when I read that. Throwing out the mice? Wow. The depths of idiocy in government just knows no bounds.-Renegade (July 26, 2013, 09:14 PM)
You really should see a doctor about that Renny! Followed by opening a porn site!-TaoPhoenix (July 27, 2013, 02:01 PM)
The F35 JSF?!?!
The term alone is already becoming more and more "dirty". That plane is a lot like Google actually...that plane is already so long in beta that alternative fighter planes are already taken out of commission because they themselves already become too old.
I think that plane was intended to replace the F16 in the Dutch air-force for more than 10 years now, each plane costing almost twice as much as initially specified by the manufacturer. Only last week the first one is delivered to see if it up to the task.
If you would ask me (and I know that no-one did) that plane is either too advanced for its own good or aeronautical engineers are not as good as they once were.
Day late, dollar short anyone?-Shades (July 26, 2013, 11:18 PM)
@T0Man - Mea culpa - got careless with the dates.
FWIW, Wikipedia is citing the maximum speed and cruise speed as both at .92 Mach, and citing the USAF as its source for the specs. Seemed odd to me that both speed specs were the same, but I'm no expert. You might want to go in and do an edit.
Had a fighter jock who first saw action around the end of Viet Nam tell me that by the end of that war it was pretty obvious dogfighting was over. He told me at the speeds the fighters were moving even back then it was already becoming impractical. And on a head to head pass, all other factors being equal, whoever fired first usually won. So the name of the game became more to sneak up and shoot first rather than go mano a mano with an enemy pilot. He said once the new "smart" weapons systems and support from E-6B Looking Glass aircraft and satellite recon all came online, it then got down to who had the best technology. He said his feeling was the fighter pilots were slowly becoming highly trained delivery boys whose main role was to cart the new weapons around until you were close enough to let them off the leash so the "chip-brain" inside them could decide what to do next.
Said he was glad he got out when he did, which was right after Desert Storm. (He's a bit crazy IMHO, but he's still a great guy.)-40hz (July 26, 2013, 11:00 PM)
ast I heard the SU37 wasn't even in production. Either way, they're trying to play "catch-up" with the F22, F23 and the Joint Task Fighter, which not only have vectoring thrust, but are also stealthy. The F35 JTF also comes in a V-STOL model that can take off and land like a helicopter.-Tinman57 (July 26, 2013, 09:38 PM)
No... that was a reply to ren's talk about the most maneuverable Russian fighter. But even going back, they're trying to catch up in terms of avionics more than anything else. Which is what decides those things in most engagements these days.-wraith808 (July 26, 2013, 10:42 PM)
you'd want the most advanced Russian aircraft in a dogfight.-wraith808 (July 24, 2013, 09:45 PM)
Speed has its place in air combat. But most of the consensus on modern air warfare has pretty much relegated dogfighting to the dustbin of military history. As was noted, when it comes to modern long-range weaponry and satellite/ground coordinated tac-intel and support, being fastest no longer matters. Having the best "eyes," being the stealthiest, and having the longest striking range will outweigh raw speed every time. The original stealth fighter (the F117 Nighthawk) was only capable, by design, of subsonic flight. And it didn't much matter. [Note: According to official reports, in the thousands of combat operations conducted between 1984 and the Nighthawk's retirement in early 1992, there has only been one incident where of an F117 was shot down, and a (disputed) second incident where an F117 was seriously damaged by enemy fire.]-40hz (July 25, 2013, 09:15 PM)
I remember they described an SU (IIRC) fighter that could hover while oriented vertically, fall backwards then fly upside down. (I don't recall the model number or if they'd mentioned it.) Kind of like this:
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They'd seen it in defense videos and claimed that there wasn't anything in the west that approached the maneuverability of that particular jet.-Renegade (July 24, 2013, 08:59 PM)
http://www.globalsec...rld/russia/su-37.htm-wraith808 (July 25, 2013, 08:53 PM)
