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Great version! (I'm listening to this right now) Awesome song.

I'll get you the spiders... You want brown recluse, funnel web, black widow, or a variety of tarantula?

I'd be happy to help, just PM me.

Don't insult me. I have trained professionals to do that.

Try eating a LOT of butter. Cook your eggs in butter, fry burgers in butter, fry potatoes in butter, use butter on almost everything. It also tastes better than most other non-stick cooking oils. (just don't burn it) Good recipe: melt 1-2 tablespoons of butter in a pan at medium heat, put in a tortilla, and fry until there are dark brown spots and the entire thing is crispy. (press it flat if it starts to puff, but try to keep pressure off as much as possible) Flip occasionally, make sure to coat the tortilla thoroughly in the butter. Do 2 at a time. It is a very dense collection of calories that tastes exquisite. (and is remarkably healthy for you)

I am still a huge fan of Shadowrun. (4th Edition) I used to GM, and have a few detailed (and extremely fun) campaign outlines, but I suck at actually being the GM. (I just have too much fun trying to make my characters do weird things, and then freaking out the GM when I get critical rolls to do nearly impossible things) My last session of GMing:

Heading to bed.

The problem with saving on the ships (and the same argument was given by the US Navy) is that it's cheaper in the long run (10-20 years) to make a supercarrier (that means CATOBAR/EMALS instead of STOBAR/STOVL) with the current 'outdated' aircraft, than it is to make a light carrier with an F-35B loadout over the same period. It's not just the initial build cost you have to take into account, but the operating costs of repairing and refueling the aircraft. The F-35B is about 100x more expensive to repair and 3x more expensive to fuel for the same flight time when compared to existing carrier-based aircraft, and it would have far fewer combat capabilities. (much shorter range aircraft that carry fewer and shorter range munitions, and it's far easier to damage or destroy) I'd personally take the supercarrier with larger loadouts, more aircraft, better mission capability, and lower long-term cost. The initial cost of just the ships comparing the Gerald R. Ford class to the America class, the difference is $2.5B. ($12.68B and $10.17B, Nimitz class is only $4.5B) The aircraft cost (America class amphibious assault ship) is 6-20x F-35B US$142M, 0-12x MV-22B Osprey $72.1M, 0-4x CH-53K King Stallion $84.9M, 0-7x AH-1Z/UH-1Z Viper/Venom $27M, 2x MH-60S $28.1M, compared to (G.R. Ford/Nimitz class) 12-14x F/A-18E/F Hornet $60.9M, 10-12x F/A-18C/D Hornet $29M, 4-6x EA-18G Growler $68.2M, 4-6x E-2C Hawkeye $176M, 6-8x MH-60R $42.9M. Total cost comparison of aircraft alone is (America) $2.3-$2.9B and (G.R.F./Nimitz) $2.25-$3B. Add in the unspecified compliment of vehicles in the well deck, and it further narrows the price gap. (probably some number of LCAC hovercraft at $45-75M each and possibly some number of ground vehicles) If they were really worried about saving money, they wouldn't have made the F-35 at all, as it doesn't really lower the initial cost significantly, but increases the long term cost massively. (AV-8B Harriers are only $30M, less than ¼ the cost of the F-35B with the same combat capabilities, and much lower maintenance costs) Best bet for saving money would probably be building a somewhat upgraded Nimitz class ($6-$10B) and loading it with conventional aircraft.

2 years isn't much for a government run entity... I would be surprised if information is updated before the 5 year mark.

2 Chicken Chimis, and a glass of Dr.K.

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I still have trouble understanding the need for the program itself... VTOL/STOVL is impractical for our current military, and very expensive for a much lower performing vehicle. (helicopters perform MUCH better in hover-type combat, and modern fighters perform MUCH better in forward-flight type combat) STOL is practical, but that doesn't even come close to requiring the amount of spending this program has used.

Command & Conquer series, (one of the biggest successes in strategy game history until EA bought Westwood Studios) and Starcraft series (really a sci-fi venue for strategy games) as well. If you want, you can even fairly easily mod C&C Generals... I have a half finished mod to allow the laser general to have an orbital insertion power with laser armed infantry. (and it was balanced at one point too)

Date of the article was 29 January 2012... You can easily determine exactly what information they were referring to from that, if you really wanted to, instead of demanding that I do all your research for you.

You couldn't verify that people say things when asked in interviews? You couldn't verify that the studies exist? You couldn't verify that the people exist? You couldn't verify that the article exists? Try looking at these quotes... If you don't believe that someone said something reliable to this media outlet, why should you believe any articles ever released anywhere regardless of content, or for that matter anything you don't experience first-hand... Heck, why not go all the way and not believe your senses can ever be reliable in any situation, because if you do enough drugs they stop working right. Great, now I'm going through and quoting the whole damn article that you obviously refused to read.

You may be a recent addition to the forum, but you feel like a long-term member.

Mice repeatedly clicking, and keyboard key depression sounds.

3 - It's simultaneously a round, and pointy number.

God, speaking of being a 10 year old. I went back and looked at some of my first posts on this forum. Wow, I was a child when I was 14. I acted like someone who had just discovered what a meme was and was determined to use them in every sentence. Embarrassing really. I'm glad that I've matured a little bit since then. ... I think. You have, significantly. I think we might need a poll to determine our age demographics on this forum, most of us act like we're experienced in life.

Getting ready to go upstairs and get a drink, then play games.

Here they are, in all their glory!

Very interesting and odd. Have more, I want to hear the rest of the story.

It requires features from the graphics expansion module, and there is currently no way to emulate it. Reason: why build code to emulate some really complex hardware that is required for only one game ever? (I know, someone should do it anyways)

Are the sources provided in the article not to your liking for some reason, or are you just acting like a petulant child for no reason?

Revived for evidence that predictions aren't all they're cracked up to be... We still are using oil like crazy with no apparent end in sight.