Gentlemen,

We now witness the death of the Conspiracies Thead MkII

Regrets

I also thought I had broken in the beta forum. And found this in the internal news: Родина-мать зовёт! Translation: Mother Russian is calling!

So, 2.6 Easter Offensive confirmed?

I cannot think of any more degorative actions during an assembly than what Mrs Conway does.

She is preparing to take a photo of the guests (you know, even a cellphone camera needs to be set up unlike the commmercials would have you believe), and decided that kneeling on the sofa she would be at better height and more stable than bending the knees. There is another photo showing her photographing the guests, but I guess the haters didn't want you to know that.

In addition to boosted ailerons, P-38 also had more raw engine power (thrust/weight ratio) and better aerodynamics than 110 (once the automatically activating flap was installed under the rudder so that rudder wouldn't lose lift in a high-speed dive due to compressibility) so was the better fighter to begin with. The myth about P-38 being unable to fight if surprised is about half true: in the early versions the ergonomy had taken a backseat, so to transform the Lightning from travel to combat you had to turn and press about 20 switches and levers that were conveniently placed all around the cockpit. Of course, this was the byproduct of it having been designed to be an interceptor defending US eastern seaboard against ze Amerika Bombers, and would obviously take off in "combat mode" or at least the pilot would use the time to climb to altitude to make it so - no surprises there so plenty of time to pull those knobs. In later versions the controls were rearranged and some automated (and for example, the gunsight changed so that the lightbulb would not burn out after a few minutes), which made it easier to respond to surprises. Then again, these problems were not unique to P-38, devices like the Kommandogerät (automatically adjusted ignition, boost, mixture, propeller pitch, etc. based on throttle settings, RPM, engine knocking, etc.) were late-war inventions, so a pilot who was suprised was usually in big trouble anyway.

Also, in the Pacific theatre, basically every American fighter except Airacobra had to use zoom'n'boom, yo-yo, etc. tactics against the Zero (and other Japanese acrobatic planes). Airacobra suffered from its single-stage supercharger which limited it to low-altitude fights (critical altitude 3,5km), but down low it was faster and actually had better roll rate than Zero, which is why the Soviets loved it - they didn't need to fly high to gain long range, so could utilize it to the full. I can dig that the Americans needed to fly high to gain the necessary range to anywhere in the Pacific so it was in a wrong place there, but why the RAF never considered to use it against the low-altitude 190 Jabo attacks is a mystery (instead of abandoning the Airacobra because it was not suited for high-altitude fighter sweeps, what a surprise), considering that the chose solution ie. Typhoon was faster than the 190 but seriously outmanoeuvred if it caught its prey.

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Re why use two-seater twin-engined heavy fighters and light bombeers as night fighters, early radar sets were bulky and heavy so required a larger airplane to carry them. Yes, development was fast and later in the war radar would fit in a pod carried on a wing pylon on a single-engine plane (if the radar used a dish antenna: the "laundry rack" antennae favoured by the Germans were difficult to relocate to wings), but the early radar scopes were horribly unclear, so they basically required a separate radar operator who could dedicate all his time trying to make sense out of all the clutter and interference on the primitive screen.

Even with modern HUD's, large multi-coloured touchscreens, and whatnot, research still shows that a pilot's situational awareness is better if there is a guy in back keeping an eye on the radar, FLIR, etc. while the pilot concentrates on flying and hitting the enemy - this is even more pronounced when in air-to-ground role.

Razer Project Valerie revealed - 11520 x 2160 Laptop: CES 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnrOhvUA8o8

Running three displays at 4k resolution at "Ultra" settings, when most desktop computers have hard enough time doing it on one display (whereas muh consoles must rely on hardware scaling 1080p or even lower resolution to "4k")?

This thing won't be affordable for a few years at least and will be among the worst investments ever when brand new (cf. television sets, when $100k a few years back bought you a set now available at $1k).

So, recount did not bring any change or proof of tampering in any of the states involved, and Hillary's attempt to reverse the result in the Electoral College failed hilariously (more electors abandoned her than Trump!).

What next? Endless impeachment trials over some gaffe?

At least it's not World of Grunts.

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ID required to empty someone's bank account or being able to access their medical information should only be the case if everyone is automatically provided with ID via a mechanism that doesn't rely on going to some rare physical location that has short opening hours.

See what I did there?

Most of the countries of the world have mandatory ID cards, even in the rest a photo ID is usually required when dealing with the authorities/banks/etc., and in the real world all government offices are rare physical locations that have short opening hours, but there's this thing called "online application".