Posts by Taprisiot Madness

Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up

Re: Not sure what the big deal is

"the P-51 Mustang"

Apparently the British Air Purchasing Commission or whatever it was called, spent a whole lot of time with NAA, passing on some very highly specific operating specifications before they even arranged to order a prototype. So I think you could say that the P-51 Mustang was for all intents and purposes a British-US collaboration. Ironically, the only other two aircraft the US produced that came close to having similar performance - the Grumman Hellcat and the Chance-Vought Corsair: IMHO the best strike fighter US companies developed - were US Navy specifications.

Also in the Mediterranean the USAAF flew Beaufighters until Black Widows became available.

Bill Gates joins $170bn climate change investment club

Re: Given the time scales involved, just one word

Funny, we've just had a decade-long assault on a nation's right to refine uranium for peaceful purposes ending with it deciding not to refine uranium for peaceful purposes and instead rely on the established nuclear oligarchy/plutocracy.

Iran. US. Israel.

Can you say Hypocrisy? Or are we enthusiastically embracing the Inner Hypocrite?

Re: Victorian values

Well, given that green energy - less polluting, more efficient - is likely to be the Next Big Thing, and the nations and businesses that research and develop such tech are likely to come out on top, it would hardly surprise me that Bill Gates expects to get some ROI.

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

Re: This is all BS

"Donald not-the-duck Trump "

Well, with his opinion of China, he's definitely not Peking Duck.