EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Special Forces Valhalla: FID with no restrictions

Genocide Tendency posted:

LoL if you live in the northeast and have plans for Thanksgiving

8lbsofanalsex posted:

I remember it being yellowish and it causes really bad coughing and burning sensation in the lungs and eyes. From my experience it also clears your sinuses out pretty well since I was congested as hell at that point in basic. So going out to visit a local riot might be good for anyone suffering from congestion right now.

zombie303 posted:

I feel like I've been lied to. Your crossed rifles...

You just raped my brain.

zombie303 posted:

Same, but infantry. Shouldn't you have crossed sabers?

Bolow posted:

Lapel cams are a better use of funds then giving them loving MRAPS at least.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

What's going on in Afghanistan these days?

Stultus Maximus posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Swastika

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

They're ready for you, Gordon. In the test chamber.

psydude posted:

In other Iran news, it's widely believed that they're behind the massive computer espionage campaign that came to light on Tuesday. Specifically, this one targeted companies and organizations charged with developing, operating, and securing transportation infrastructure.

lightpole posted:

Is presumption of innocence not a thing anymore even if he most likely is not?

not caring here posted:

Must've been by accident.

Zeris posted:

Which of you gassed the furry convention in Chicago?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-19-hospitalized-thousands-evacuated-in-gas-leak-at-rosemont-hotel-20141207-story.html

FAT SLAMPIG posted:

saw more people post that some old video game guy died than people post about pearl harbor

zombie303 posted:

Stultus Maximus posted:

Holding a 72 hour sit-in hunger strike for gender-neutral bathrooms.

Jalopnik posted:

The F-35 program continues to work through a litany of problems, but this one is almost laughable. According to the USAF, the troubled fighter cannot use gas from standard green colored USAF fuel trucks if it has been sitting in the sun. Considering that these jets will most likely find themselves operating in the desert or in somewhere in the scorching Pacific, this is a big problem.

Sadly, the answer for the F-35's fuel finicky conundrum, one of many heat related issues with the jets since their testing began, is being addressed outside of the F-35 aircraft itself, in the form of repainting standard USAF fuel trucks with bright white solar reflective paint.

Clearly it is not tactical in any way to be driving a giant white potential fuel-bomb around a battle zone. This is especially true considering that the F-35B variant is supposed to operate 'forward' from austere fields. Still, the solar reflective paint job, that costs around four grand for each truck, seems to be less expensive than fixing the issue on the jet itself, as there is no word of that happening.

Senior Airman Jacob Hartman, of the 56th Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS), a fuels distribution operator at Luke AFB, describes the situation:

"We painted the refuelers white to reduce the temperature of fuel being delivered to the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter... The F-35 has a fuel temperature threshold and may not function properly if the fuel temperature is too high, so after collaborating with other bases and receiving waiver approval from (the Air Education Training Command), we painted the tanks white."

Chief Master Sgt. Ralph Resch, the 56th LRS fuels manager added:

"We are taking proactive measures to mitigate any possible aircraft shutdowns due to high fuel temperatures in the future. It ensures the F-35 is able to meet its sortie requirements... This is the short-term goal to cool the fuel for the F-35; however, the long-term fix is to have parking shades for the refuelers."

Luke AFB is not the first base to run into this issue, with Edwards AFB discovering the problem and initiating the fuel truck repaint solution some time ago. The USAF has some hope that the reflective paint process can be applied to a similar green color as the standard issue refueling trucks used by the USAF. A test will soon occur with a white truck and a green truck, with both being painted with a special solar reflective coating, to see if the green truck plus the reflective coating will keep the F-35's life-force cool enough under the sun for the jet not to have to shut down immediately after start-up due to heating issues.

What is most telling about this strange story is that the USAF thinks a long-term solution to the F-35's warm fuel problem is to park their fuel trucks under purpose-built shade structures. Yet isn't fixing the aircraft's low fuel temperature 'threshold' issue itself more of an honest, robust and logical solution? Like so many things F-35, maybe the operating margins are just too thin for an affordable aircraft-based fix to be plausible.

The F-35 channels its strong thermal loads, accumulated by the powerful avionics and sub-systems on-board, as well as the engine, into its fuel. So really, the fuel works as a giant heat sink. If the fuel is already warm upon start-up, there is less capacity to exchange the heat from their aircraft's simmering systems. Therefore the jet must shut down or risk overheating. A clever design that most likely lightens up the jet and leaves extra room for weapons and fuel, but one that may have very little room for adaptation.

The simple fact that the F-35 is one finicky eater even after many years of development and costly design changes, along with the reality that bright white fuel trucks may become standard issue on F-35 flightlines, are just more sorry reminders of how this supposedly super-capable fighter will come with a long list of limitations and operational caveats, along with its one and a half trillion dollar bill.

Fister Roboto posted:

Every time someone posts about the F-35 I think of this:

Victor Vermis posted:

I guess I should've put "justice" in quotations.

The idea that there are otherwise intelligent people out there who believe that (institution) needs to be purged of EVIL from the bottom-up or outside-in is something I always thought of as being solely in the wheelhouse of anti-govt gun-loving nutjobs, but here we are.
"Popular culture oppresses the populace! ...Police officers in the U.S. are treating non-compliance like some kind of crime! ...Human beings are flawed and capable of dishonesty, unless their privilege score is lower than mine! ...Ignoring my stupid reactionary bullshit = insulating yourself in your own white male echo chamber!"

I always hoped the country would go left of our current "left". I had no idea that it would be this instead of socialism. loving gross. I can't wait for the police state.

ActusRhesus posted:

I'm just amused by how many people think I'm a dude based on my posts, and the apparent privilege shown therein.

I've truly reached equality.

Casimir Radon posted:

We'd have to give it to them for free, otherwise they'll pay for it by stealing from regular people who matter.

Potential BFF posted:

If I could unfunnel that raghead's lunch out of his rear end I would, if only to shut you people up. The fact of the matter is you can't unhummus an rear end with talk, you cant unhummus an rear end at all. There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns and what manner of unknown an rear end hummusing constitutes cannot be determined with our current understanding of the butt feed. I do know, however, that we dumped a pureed lunch tray of nutritious and lawful nourishment into that man's rear end with the best of intentions. When you delve into buttlunches you confront the founding principles of our nation. A nation were an rear end full of whipped pasta and pine nuts can be rectally administered to a man that only days before was balls deep in a goat, camel, sheep, or perhaps even a young protege, an act that hearkens back to the halcyon days of the ancient city states of Athens or Sparta. Regardless of what he was banging, this man, this hero, took a butt full of lunch for team USA and he did it with prolapsing, hemorrhoid bursting, gooch tearing gusto. Perhaps he was an enemy, but an enemy with his rear end full of Wednesday's halal option B is an enemy that cannot plot the destruction of a tower, the bombing of an abortion clinic, or the administration of acid to an immodestly dressed strumpet's face. You can turn a wedding into a smoking, giblet spattered crater and turn the cacophonous whine of whatever people in that toilet of the world listen to on a broken radio into the music of death with a Hellfire, a JDAM, or a good old fashioned red blooded gun run, but those steaming mounds of pulped foreign flesh haven't had their butts filled with freedom and an empty rear end is an rear end that breeds the most dangerous sort of fanaticism. Man's ultimate purpose is to die, be it at the hands of famine, disease, or even at his brother's hand. In the grand cosmic scheme we are dust motes, briefly glistening in the shaft of sunlight that encompasses the entirety of our collective mortal existence and we owe it to ourselves as Americans to ensure that our memory is burned into the minds of every man, woman, and child in the third world before they are swallowed by rising tides, devoured by disease, or ripped apart by the screaming wings of justice we throw down from on high.

Valar Morghulis

Richard Bong posted:

How much do LAZORS wear out when you use them? What is the cost per burst, is gunnery training trivially cheap now? Or would it be the capacitors that wear out?

CBJSprague24 posted:

At one theater in Texas in the original Interview premiere time slot, Team America will be shown instead. America gently caress Yeah instead of Seth Rogen is a net win if I've ever seen one at the movies.

e- https://www.yahoo.com/movies/texas-theater-to-show-team-america-in-place-of-105491244997.html

SperginMcBadposter posted:

I thought all the computers in NK were props to make them look like less of a shithole.

ManMythLegend posted:

I hate conversations like this because, like, I want to participate but I can't remember which stuff I know is classified and which stuff is not.

One of you dorks start a SIPR or JWCS GiP so we can do this right.

Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:

was it that airsoft dorklord who you had the same av as? whatever happened to that shitstain anyway?

LA Times posted:

North Korea says U.S. government 'deeply involved' in Sony film

North Korea’s defense department asserted Sunday that the U.S. government was “deeply involved” in the making of the Sony Pictures comedy “The Interview” and threatened to “blow up” the White House, the Pentagon and other U.S. targets if Washington launched an assault to retaliate for the cyberattack on the studio.

The FBI last week said North Korea was behind the hacking of the studio, which led to the release of corporate emails and leaks of full-length films, scripts and other sensitive material. The cyberattack prompted the company to cancel the theatrical release of “The Interview,” which centers on a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

U.S. authorities said the hacking bore strong similarities to a North Korean attack on South Korean banks and other facilities in 2013.

In its statement Sunday, the North Korean National Defense Commission denied having launched cyberattacks on South Korea and again denied culpability for the Sony hacking, saying it was unaware of the hackers’ place of residence.

But the commission praised the Sony hackers’ “righteous deed,” saying the film was an incitement to terrorism and adding that the studio got into “serious trouble and paid a due price.”

President Obama has said the U.S. would respond to the attack, but has not specified how. North Korea on Sunday warned against that, saying the country had already launched a “counteraction.”

“Nothing is more serious miscalculation than guessing that just a single movie production company is the target of this counteraction,” North Korea said. “Our target is all the citadels of the U.S. imperialists who earned the bitterest grudge of all Koreans.”

“The army and people of [North Korea] are fully ready to stand in confrontation with the U.S. in all war spaces, including cyberwarfare space, to blow up those citadels,” the statement added. "Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole U.S. mainland, the cesspool of terrorism, by far surpassing the 'symmetric counteraction' declared by Obama."

The bellicose statement from the government in Pyongyang came a day after the North proposed a “joint investigation” with the U.S. into the source of the cyberattack.