No one ever thinks about the poor military contractors
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we should melt down all those stupid toys and take all that money and keep people alive instead of blowing them up lol
GasBandit
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lol no
Now we just need to update the thing with modern avionics like Boeing did with the F/A-18 Super Hornet. The A-10 is an excellent plane, but I'm sure there are ways we could make it more effective than it already is. Certainly, we should look into what weapons systems we could upgrade it to use...
It is a testament to our current status of safety and peace that you feel comfortable enough suggesting that gutting the military will have no negative outcome.
Hope you don't mind, but I think this is more accurate.
Well, it can haul a payload of 16,000 lbs, so there are a lot of options.
One to look at would be the British Brimstone AGM, which is a definite upgrade over the AGM-65 Maverick. The Brimstone can fire at targets specified by a designator, which is useful in friendly troops or civilians are in the vicinity, and its tandem HEAT warhead is more effective against modern tank armor as well.
One to look at would be the British Brimstone AGM, which is a definite upgrade over the AGM-65 Maverick. The Brimstone can fire at targets specified by a designator, which is useful in friendly troops or civilians are in the vicinity, and its tandem HEAT warhead is more effective against modern tank armor as well.
GasBandit
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Really, the missiles are window dressing. The GAU-8 shreds everything just as good as it ever did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paveway
Paveway LGBs have long been standard kit in the A-10's arsenal, and yes, they get periodically updated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paveway
Starting in 2005 the A-10As have been updated to A-1oC. Mostly changing the steam gauges out for new multi-function displays. The A-10 drops nearly the entire arsenal of the Air Force. The next major change is to start changing out all the wings since they are 30-40 years old now.
Actually many of the wings are much newer than that, many of them were upgraded after sustaining damage during Desert Storm/Desert Shield. They were the plane of my Wing, then they closed my damn base.
Prisoners organizing, going on strike across America in response to poor conditions, abusive/apathetic guards, and low wages for forced labor.
Technically... it's not illegal to not pay prisoners for work. The 13th Amendment does make a specific exception to it. However, that was written in the age where prisoners would be growing food for use in the prison, maintaining the prison, or producing goods for the government. Prisoners today are used by for-profit enterprises to generate profit/eliminate costs. That... hardly seems in the spirit of "repaying your debt to society".
Technically... it's not illegal to not pay prisoners for work. The 13th Amendment does make a specific exception to it. However, that was written in the age where prisoners would be growing food for use in the prison, maintaining the prison, or producing goods for the government. Prisoners today are used by for-profit enterprises to generate profit/eliminate costs. That... hardly seems in the spirit of "repaying your debt to society".
And of course, necessitates a steady flow of prisoners.
Bernie is calling on Obama to halt the Dakota pipeline. I guess Bernie didn't get the memo that Obama doesn't have a spine anymore, and even if he did, apparently no one is required to listen to him despite that he's still in this job for two and a half months.
But hey, a shitload of bison showed up at the protest area, so that's kinda cool. Won't change anything, but it's the kind of symbolic moment you'd think would show up in the news or something, since most people don't know bison aren't uncommon to the area? Like, even as a puff piece? CNN, you've reported on less important things ... often.
"Liberal" media, my ass. I wonder if there'd be more protestors if more non-natives along the pipeline knew that if an accident happens, they're fucked too.
But hey, a shitload of bison showed up at the protest area, so that's kinda cool. Won't change anything, but it's the kind of symbolic moment you'd think would show up in the news or something, since most people don't know bison aren't uncommon to the area? Like, even as a puff piece? CNN, you've reported on less important things ... often.
"Liberal" media, my ass. I wonder if there'd be more protestors if more non-natives along the pipeline knew that if an accident happens, they're fucked too.
Today on the bus, I overheard two guys in the seat in the next row and the seat behind me--they wouldn't sit together and I can guess why based on their conversation. Essentially the only reason they're not allowed to kill gay people is "white man's law" and that white people are flooding the TV with the gay agenda to turn all non-white kids gay so they won't reproduce, thus exterminating every other ethnicity.
I learn so much on the bus.
I learn so much on the bus.
Where do you live? Remind me not to ride the bus there. And that's as a 6'7" white male hetero. I am afraid for your area.
It's not too bad ... during the daylight. Other gems from this conversation include that n******s gotta stop dressing like f*****s, and women try to turn their men into f*****s, and Satan influences us through TV, Facebook, and Instagram (okay, they're right about Instagram).
These were definitely the most venomous people I've heard on the bus in a while. Usually the back-of-the-bus preachers are a slightly more positive.
I do appreciate the three little girls a couple seats ahead who kept glancing back at the guys and giggling. Their mom was not so amused.
Sounds like Hoteps to me
Wasn't familiar with that term, but definitions 3 and 4 on Urban Dictionary, sounds exactly right.
also i missed this, but lol, i love getting the multi-cultural diverse opinions of the rainbow that is rural Canada
Well, here's another: You're a moron.
Are you also terrified of black people, or just insulting me for insinuating that living in a 90%+ white area/never meeting any POC might be a part of the reason?
It's because you think that with all the crazy related by @Zero Esc its the implied skin color of the speakers that concerns @Eriol. Not, y'know, them talking in public about killing gay people.
I'd be anxious about those black people, specifically. And I'd be concerned about the environment - that bus, that neighbourhood, whatever - that they feel okay about talking so openly, so publicly about hatred and murder. That's not an environment I ever encountered in Toronto.
Edit: We're also just guessing at their race.
Yeah, when I was living in China, I was like, Fuck these people--they're 99% Han Chinese so their lack of multi-cultural diverse opinions are shit.
I think you're arguing with a fantasy version of me.
The strange thing is that the first person to bring race into this - by saying they're "hoteps", is CDS. Neither Zero Esc, nor Eriol, implied these were black men talking. No no, these people who are talking about white privilege and the Man keeping them down must clearly be black, and thus, fear or anger at them is racially motivated. That's....you know, quite a leap.
I think you meant "WRONG! YUGE LIES!"
Seriously, if you don't feel like arguing, don't bait. Just "nah" really is quite annoying.
They felt comfortable doing so because they're idiots, not their ethnicity. There were other people of varying ethnicities, because that's the kind of area I live in, on the bus and no one was chiming in to their shit. Not to mention, one of the guys talked about how truthbringers like himself get turned away and "n******s always trying to fight me cause they don't want to listen to the truth." I'm pretty sure one of them isn't popular; the other one seemed like he probably keeps this shit to himself when he doesn't have a like-minded individual around him.
And I've heard people chime-in with the back-of-the-bus preachers before, sometimes to join them, sometimes to explain to them that yelling at strangers on a bus isn't exactly getting the message across. These two, no one wanted anything to do with them. There's a reason the seat near them was empty for me to take
.If it helps anybody, they were black. I kind of confirmed that already when Charlie mentioned Hoteps. I could've slapped that was a "I need this explained" but Null is right, we're getting kinda lazy, so I Googled it.
From Urban Dictionary:
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I was on the same bus with them for 15 minutes and they were speaking quickly, so there's too much to give a full transcript, but these descriptions fit those two's conversation perfectly. If someone really needs it spelled out, there were a number of other people on the bus who were black, white, Hispanic, Asian, none of whom were into this nonsense. Two idiots on a bus doesn't make an entire area terrible. For perspective, a guy I knew in some part of Canada years ago had an encounter with two neo-Nazis on a bus who tried to fight the bus driver, and the guy I knew, and made their beliefs pretty loud and clear. Doesn't mean all of Canada is a nightmare.
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I know you're joking, but I had a friend from Taiwan and that's pretty much her sentiment. I never knew the term "mainland Chinese" before I heard her say it like it was a four-letter word. I wonder if I lost contact with her after my wedding because she found out my best friend is Chinese. Shit, I never thought of that before. That'd be horrible.