NCD these days is a mixed hodgepodge of NATO propaganda, US defense industry propaganda, laughing at wacky military shenanigans around the world, and pornographic degeneracy involving military aircraft and other vehicles.

NCD started as a spin off from Credible Defense, which is a community where all articles have to be well sourced, arguments well reasoned, and citations are required. NCD has exactly none of those things.

The -V variant gained the Viper callsign. I don’t think it’s correct to call anything before F-16V “viper.”

Unlike many other military aircraft, Wikipedia does not have a complete accounting of every F16 in service–merely saying “4,500+”. So it’s a fair guess that there are still some non-Viper Falcons knocking about somewhere.

I went on the Naples subway once, and they were running full size 2-deck commuter trains on the subway. It was way overkill.

Says the FAA Designated Engineering Representative who is a full time Boeing employee who has a workplace on Boeing’s campus.

If it’s a federal life sentence, then surely it should be “federal prosecutors in Virginia,” not “Virginia prosecutors.” Confusing as hell. I thought this life sentence was in state court with a parallel case in federal court.

What they’re saying is this:

1. That land used to have nothin much on it, so it was cheap land, and the property taxes were low.
2. 30 million was spent on building the private wall. I don’t think this money came from the land owner. (This is the crowd funded Trump Wall, right?)
3. With the fancy new wall on it, the property is now appraised at around 20 million (or maybe whatever it was plus 20 million). Whether it’s 75 times or 100 times what it was before is not super important. The point is it went from not much to quite a bit.
4. Property taxes went up in accordance with the new valuation.
5. Property owner is probably not wealthy enough to pay the taxes, so big picture he can’t continue to own the property.

I think nowadays you can upgrade that “sometimes” to “usually.” It works out to about a 2.5% handicap to the Republicans.

Some airlines nowadays are trying to sell the exit row seats at a premium as an upgrade.

We should also mention that if you are uncomfortable with sitting in the exit row, federal regulations require the airline to reseat you in a different row on request. You don’t have to provide a reason why.

Wait. Did you really mean “decreasing” rather than “desecrating”? Because that’s hilarious.

Polaris goes in and out of North Star status on the 26,000 year precession cycle. So for the duration of humanity (let’s say 100,000 years), there have been decent chunks of time where it’s not in use.

Yep. Linux is a total pain in the behind to write applications for, because of API and ABI instability. Just ask notable Linux desktop application developer Linus Torvalds.

Australia and Canada, yes. India has a much more developed rail infrastructure.

The main driver for passenger rail success is population density–people per square mile or per square kilometer. The US, Canada, and Australia do not have enough population density in most areas to really support a passenger rail service.

There are parts or sections of the US that are starting to get the kind of density that supports trains, and trains do tend to appear when that happens.

That guy looks like he’s all belt buckle and no cattle.

Trump ordered the assassination of the top IRGC general when he was in office the last time. Biden has done nothing similar with Iran. To Iran, that’s a big difference in US foreign policy.

When I did absentee voting, the voter signature and voter id information were on a perforated slip attached to the outside of the envelope.

That way, the process is something like:

1. Look at the slip. Verify voter signature, eligibility to vote, and mark as having voted in the voter rolls.
2. Detach perforated slip from sealed envelope. Sealed envelope now contains no identifying information. (This envelope was mailed inside an outer mailing envelope.)
3. Entire sealed envelope and contents thereof goes into big bin of accepted ballots.
4. Later, election workers open the sealed envelopes from the bin and run the actual ballot papers through the scantron machine.

Or, uh, maybe this story is simply false and mistaken reporting.

In fact, it appears Israel was not a party to this proposal, which was floated by the United States. In order for a ceasefire to work, you gotta get all of the belligerents on board.

For what it’s worth, the BBC is putting the crowd size an order of magnitude lower (“tens of thousands”) than this headline, which seems to be based on self reporting from the protest organizers.

300,000 is just a teensy weensy hard to believe.

Depending on which mission this is it could be a lot shorter. The original PLSS backpacks had a two hour air supply. The LM was powered by batteries and could only sustain life for 48-72 hours depending on configuration. If they launch and rendezvous with the orbiting CSM, they can extend their survival by several days, but there’s functionally nowhere to go.

For my money the best way to go is probably in the suit, outside, and let the oxygen run out while the carbon dioxide scrubbers are still working.

That’s not NASA money. NASA doesn’t get any funding. It’s all Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin that have the reverse engineered anti gravity drive.

The stealth coating tech on the G5 fighters is just what they allowed to leak to the public.

The October Surprise comes in October. You can’t really predict it, or it wouldn’t be a surprise.