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07-01-2015 , 12:33 AM

Paul D

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.and a forgot the word like before pun.

gg

07-01-2015 , 01:06 AM

campfirewest

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The thread title confuses me.

07-01-2015 , 01:52 AM

hornbug

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ju ly = you like

it rhymes if you're a mumbler.

07-01-2015 , 07:33 AM

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At around midday on the 16th American police will shoot dead their 500th* victim and/or suspect of 2015.

* that is reported, given no one official at the DOJ etc actually keeps count.

07-01-2015 , 10:46 AM

Namath12

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F16 > F35

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the...igh-1714712248

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The test pilot flying the F-35 makes it very clear that the new jet, even in its ideal configuration without any external stores, was no match against a Block-40 F-16C in a less-than-ideal configuration with a pair of under-wing fuel tanks:

Even with the limited F-16 target configuration, the F-35A remained at a distinct energy disadvantage for every engagement.

In dogfighting, energy is everything, and if your enemy has more kinetic and potential energy for maneuvers than you do, then you’re toast.

The report even goes into what is akin to a fairly desperate move usually only used in one-on-one air combat maneuvers, known as a rudder reversal, that the F-35 is apparently decent at performing at slow speeds. The fact that this was even detailed in the report as a useful tactic is telling. In reality, using such maneuvers means you are probably going to die if any other bad guys are in the area as it rapidly depletes the aircraft’s energy state, leaving it vulnerable to attack.

Another area that the test pilot highlights on is the F-35’s abysmal rearward visibility. David Axe from War Is Boring writes:

And to add insult to injury, the JSF flier discovered he couldn’t even comfortably move his head inside the radar-evading jet’s cramped cockpit. “The helmet was too large for the space inside the canopy to adequately see behind the aircraft.” That allowed the F-16 to sneak up on him.

The report goes on to make other telling remarks about the F-35’s air combat maneuvering performance. It should be noted that the aircraft’s flight software can probably still be tweaked to offer a little wider envelope for pilots to traverse during a hard turning dogfight, but seeing as this test occurred this year (almost a decade after the first F-35 flew), the amount of extra agility that can be squeezed out of the F-35 is most likely marginal at this point. Also, the aircraft flown in the test, an F-35A, is the most maneuverable F-35 variant of the lot, being capable of pulling 9g, while the carrier capable F-35C is capable of pulling 7.5g and the short takeoff and vertical landing variant, the F-35B, is only capable of pulling 7g.

Seems like $400 billion well spent!

07-01-2015 , 04:01 PM

MrWookie

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Blistering hot take overheard from a boorish American Southern white old dude at a restaurant in Normandy: the burning of the black churches across the confederacy are probably the work of a black arsonist, and "they" (unknown whether he means "the blacks" or "the media" or "liberals," but they're practically all the same anyway) will try to blame it on a white guy.

07-01-2015 , 05:06 PM

2/325Falcon

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It's probably atheists.

07-01-2015 , 05:11 PM

bobman0330

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An early surprise attack in the War on Christmas.

07-01-2015 , 11:05 PM

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SKYNET IS HERE!

Robot Crushes Contractor to Death at VW Motor Plant in Germany

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The robot grabbed the man and pressed him against a metal plate, crushing his chest, Hillwig said. The man was resuscitated but died a short time later at a hospital, he said.

07-01-2015 , 11:08 PM

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Low Key

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the robot said, or the dead guy said?

07-01-2015 , 11:38 PM

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Man pleads guilty to playing the 'knockout game'

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It was back Nov. 24, 2013 when federal investigators say Barrett was out looking for a .... person to target in the so-called "knockout game." As part of the game, someone is punched and the attack is captured on video.

Prosecutors say Barrett recorded the attack on his cell phone.

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/29...on-elderly-man

07-02-2015 , 12:33 AM

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R.I.P. Sir Nicholas J Winton, one of the greatest heroes of any generation: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/01/europe...ary/index.html

07-02-2015 , 01:30 AM

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I've just gotta say this out loud. The kind of thing that's happening to donald trump because of his vile remarks about mexicans makes me feel icky. I dunno about such a disproportional response to someone expressing a (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad) view.

Plus like, did we get new info about trump? Like given his whole body of work in the political arena is this really the last straw?

07-02-2015 , 01:31 AM

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I mean, absent everything I'm super rooting for trump on the debate stage for maximum LOLS, and of course if he's on the stage someone less crazy isn't.

07-02-2015 , 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by goofball

People ending business relationships with him because he's a vile POS and it's bad business for them to be associated with him makes you feel icky? Why? That makes no sense to me.

Did you feel bad for Donald Sterling too?

07-02-2015 , 04:54 AM

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Apropos of nothing and maybe better fit for the gun control thread, but for me this is much more a 'gullible media' story.

I mean...wat:

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http://www.koat.com/news/albuquerque...g/33899308?xnl

Former CNN anchor and Manzano High School graduate Lynne Russell told Action 7 News she and her husband Chuck de Caro were robbed at gunpoint around 11:30 p.m. at the Motel 6 near Coors and Iliff.

De Caro worked as a correspondent for CNN.

Russell said they were exhausted Tuesday night and decided to go to a motel to rest. She had gone to the car to get something when a man put a gun to her head, dragged her back into the motel room and demanded her valuables.

"The man pushed me inside, I was airborne, literally. And (I) landed on the bed, and that was about the time that Chuck came out of the shower," Russell said. "The man was just wild. He was pointing the gun, and the way that he was acting, it was as if he'd done it before."

Russell said she and her husband legally carry handguns, and they had them in the motel room.

For a moment, she said, it looked like the thief just wanted her husband's briefcase.

"He came over, grabbed the briefcase, and I thought for a moment he was just going to leave because he had something," Russell said. "Then he turned around and he opened fire. My husband returned fire. And he's a better shot."

According to police, both men fired multiple rounds.

I mean uh, so, we're supposed to believe:

1. former CNN anchor and her hubby are just "exhausted" for some reason so they go to a motel, due to "exhaustion"
2. Random robber confronts lady with gun, brings her BACK to her room. Who the **** does that, dragging a lady around at gun point? Precisely no one.
3. Random robber randomly grabs a random briefcase. What is this, Let's Make a Deal? You can have our wallets, my jewelry, or you can trade it all in for the Mystery Briefcase?
4. With stolen thing in hand, robber THEN turns around and opens fire, because like most robbers, once you have your stolen goods, now you're going to shoot up the joint? Yeah, that's what most robbers do?
5. Turns out hubby and anchor are in fact heavily armed in their motel room. Curiously despite exhaustion, lady is retrieving stuff from the car, husband is showering, and you know despite all this tiredness they had the wherewithal to arm themselves in their motel room. Seems like a very exhausted couple here.
6. Gun fight erupts

Now of course this is a big victory for guns, and a tremendous FU to gun grabbers, look how this nice armed man shot up the mean motel robber. But whatever, I couldn't give two ****s about that debate.

My point here: There is a 0.00% chance CNN anchor and husband aren't involved in the drug trade. Anyone incredulously reporting this story as like some random acts of violence at a motel are insulting their audience.

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07-02-2015 , 05:08 AM

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2/325Falcon

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Maybe they were selling guns not drugs.

07-02-2015 , 05:10 AM

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DVaut1

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Maybe that. Maybe I should be more generic and say there's a 0.00% chance this story played out like the CNN anchor lady said it did. Maybe guns, maybe random or paid sexytime gone bad, maybe drugs, who knows, but like "stopped at random motel, went to my car, got mugged, dragged back to my room, just so happens we're all armed and decide to shoot it out over the briefcase" isn't what happened.

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07-02-2015 , 08:08 AM

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Plus, the husband was just getting out of the shower, so, like, presumably he's naked. How did he get to his gun while an armed man was standing there? Did he have it on him to begin with? Who the hell is that paranoid that they carry their gun into the shower with them?

07-02-2015 , 08:33 AM

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An example for anyone confused about why it is states seceded.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_texsec.asp

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We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

07-02-2015 , 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by goofball

Of all the people to feel sorry for, Donald Trump has to be the absolute most implausible. If you wanted to stick up for that British scientist who got fired for sexist comments, it would be a little plausible, but this is different. This is not some random schmuck who offhandedly said something stupid in a public forum and it went viral. This is a politician (sort of) giving a prepared political speech that just happened to be, in part, about how Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists!

And who is supposed to be reacting disproportionately? Is it the Latinas involved in Miss USA who quit their jobs rather than be associated with racism? Are they overreacting? Presumably the corporate sponsors are working on the assumption that being associated with Trump will hurt their brand more than it helps. Maybe that's a misjudgment, but I doubt it.

07-02-2015 , 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by goofball

I mean, we knew he was a racist ******* already, but that doesn't mean this isn't newsworthy. Like, when Romeny dropped his 47% speech, it didn't tell us anything new about him, but it was still a thing. I guess it's fair to question why Macys or whoever was ever doing business with him in the first place.

07-02-2015 , 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Money2Burn

07-02-2015 , 09:46 AM

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Trolly McTrollson

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To some extent, I blame the media's, willfully obtuse, kid glove treatment of Trumps other racist dogswhistles. Like, when he asks for Obama's birth certificate, it's reported as a kind of goofy conspiracy theorizing and not the hateful racist invective that it is. When he's calling Mexican-Americans raping scum, it's pretty much impossible to not call a space a spade.

07-02-2015 , 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Did you feel bad for Donald Sterling too?

makes a lot more sense to feel bad for Sterling than Trump, I mean the stuff Sterling said was in (what he thought was) the privacy of his own home rather than, like, a public announcement

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