I hope you aren't being sarcastic when you say that( with a wink) :grin: Lest we forget though; one man's sarcasm is another man's irony. Well,...
Yes, and definitely more in keeping with Halsey's style of expressing himself rather than Nimitz's.
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You are correct about the radar and I stand corrected. Of course, my point , that it represents advanced technology is even more reinforced by the...
If this system is going to spread around the world several things will have to happen. The directed energy and radar technology required to field...
The data are entirely estimates. Most of the information compiled by the CIA as well as by other agencies that compile such data bases is based on...
In a nation of 27 million people the total number of people being killed by bothUS forces and by the insurgents is miniscule and not nearly of a...
Okay. I'll try. But I must warn you that if I completely forswear sarcasm it is possible that I will be forced to post only blank lines and empty...
I don't see why. My response of: seems entirely appropriate to me. As a Jeffersonian Liberal/ Libertarian/ Randian (take your pick, or all of the...
Yeah, but it may make a lot of people look foolish. I remember a few years back when the very idea of shooting down missles with lasers was...
Okay. You start. List the pros and cons as you understand them.
Putin is gonna be really pissed off about this when it's deployed. :grin: Modified 747 completes key testFrom correspondents in Washington...
I asked out of academic interest since such a statute would be clearly unconstitutional in the US. I'm left to wonder why you apparently feel...
Criminal charges? According to what statute? I would be curious to know what US jurisdiction has such clearly unconstitutional statutes on the books?
Why not? This forum is made up of two dominant groups; the larger being Euros and the smaller being Americans. Seems logical. Besides, with no...
What you say is true(up to a point). The point I would debate is that if a country is experiencing immigration to offset the aging population I...
We are in agreement; the account in question certainly involves some vivid imagination, along with some wishful thinking :grin: I would...
Life expectancy and death rate aren't the same thing. The list is broken down by country I just happened to note that nearly every western...
I like scanning the CIA World Fact book. Ocasionally you run across an intersting factoid that makes you go hmm. Where does your country fit in...
I don' think that there is any question that the US was not in fact neutral despite the neutrality laws hence my comment "Of course there was...