Comments on: Navy 1, Hydrazine tank 0

By: freefallingbomb

freefallingbomb — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:04:19 +0000

A (literally?) CRUSTY U.S. American just scorned my impeccable French hygienic habits and refined toiletterie accessories, saying: “On top of all this the French are rude and do not shower frequently!”. Now I’m miffed:
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/050921_dirty_hands.html
http://www.webmd.com/news/20060828/2-out-of-3-americans-dont-wash-hands
Son, don’t go near the Cowboys
Please stay away.
Son, don’t go near the Cowboys.
Please do what I say…

By: Old Crusty Chief

Old Crusty Chief — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:14:54 +0000

re: Freefallingbomb
Your rather a bit mouthy for a citizen of a post-colonial has-been country that hasn’t won a battle since Napoleon, builds crappy cars, has the WORST airport in the world (CDG), and lives in fear of Arab branleurs.
On top of all this the French are rude and do not shower frequently!
Vous p

By: Old Crusty Chief

Old Crusty Chief — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:32:06 +0000

Can someone please help me remember why it was that we saved the French (twice) last century?
If the French would stick to their strengths: food, wine, and lovemaking we’d be far better off as a whole than when they fiddle with things they are just so demonstrably awful: engineering, politics, and warfighting. (Veuillez me pardonner, Byron.)
Freefallingbomb is a perfect example of why I love France but so often just can’t stand the French. He/She is likely just a clacqeur for the PCF; IOW just a useful idiot for the Communist Party in France.
Are you are anything like the KKE (Communist Party of Greece) stooges I knew when I lived in Greece? Arrogant little gobshites whose primary achievements were plastering the towns with snazzy posters, spray painting the hammer-and-sickle everywhere, and being generally uncivilized at rallies and marches. Mind you, among all the invective about the horrors of capitalist society, the evil that is America, and the promise of a Worker’s Paradise, among all these these things what stands out is the image of youths singing the Internationale in their designer clothes, smoking Marlboros, and driving BMWs.
Cheers Comrades,
Chief B.

By: freefallingbomb

freefallingbomb — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:26:06 +0000

To the poster "slntax": You wrote: "The reality is that the Chinese are using every method possible to steal American military tech for a future war with Taiwan. Dont believe me?" and "I say actions speak louder then words" You're a classical victim of what I call "the chicken-thief syndrome": If you spot a typical bum reaching into a fine dressed shopper's pockets (wanting money for food) you reflexively howl "Grab that thief!", but if you read for example a headline in a shop-window saying that your company's or your bank's etc. famous W.A.S.P. C.E.O. retired, quit or even got fired for incompetence, with a 100 million dollar pension ("compensation"), you don't even think a single second about it and stroll on leisurely, minding your own life. Your revolt against "Chinese spies" only reveals the same grass-root perspective: 1) In the '60s the U.S.A. kick-started Japan's post-War economical ascent (creating a chimera in the process) by placing large orders to the oozing Japanese heavy industry (ammunition and other items for the Vietnam War, because of their favourable geographical location and low wages, back then). In the following decades, the Japanese were initially accused of manufacturing only cheapish, kitschy, sloppy, short-lived goods, especially of being "copy cats" of every possible Western gadget. Today, I believe, the U.S.A. wouldn't really mind trading all their industrial secrets and patents for the Japanese ones. Do the Japanese spy on the U.S.A. or... the other way around? Things change... Lesson learned, lesson forgotten, now the U.S.A. insist on repeating the same mistake with China too. Their economical miracle is still only 20 years young, therefore China STILL can't compete honestly with U.S. American, European or even with Japanese quality products (which include, as you pointed out, weapons = top technology), relying on huge outputs of cheap goods instead, exploiting especially the "advantage" of their own ultra-low wages. That's why it still makes ( EXTREMELY short-sighted...) sense for the U.S.A., for Europe and for Japan to outsource the production of all labour-intensive, low-tech stuff ("slave work") to China, retaining only the design bureaus and labs in their countries of origin. But Chinese genes are the same as Japanese genes, their perfectionism is the same, only their History was different. The Chinese are also 10,4 times more people (= a larger internal market that helps national companies grow and evolve before going abroad) and China itself is 25,4 times bigger than Japan (= more material autarky = more political independence + more price stability, etc.). And on the day the Chinese know exactly as much as the Japanese do, they'll be even MORE advanced and richer than the Japanese, because their bigger critical mass allows them to engage in MORE large national projects of ANY nature! In simple words: Having the same knowledge, the Chinese will have the same QUALITY , but simultaneously MORE QUANTITY OF IT than the Japanese! Maybe that explains too how the first Chinese A.S.A.T. test-shot was an immediate success... But who is fomenting = worsening this "game", helping the Chinese to become that very monster that's going to destroy all our descendants' - even the Japanese's! - life-styles and perspectives, in the next two or three generations? Mainly YOU U.S. Americans (again...), YOUR OWN elected, "loving", "patriotic", "impeccable", "born again" politicians to be precise ("the people's democratic representatives, throbbing with Fatherland Love"), each time they give the Chinese unfair trade advantages: From constantly pardoning instead of confiscating imports in excess of the agreed quotas to agreeing to trade IMbalances and different trade rules in the first place to not forcing them to reduce highly CO2-emitting industries the way we do, etc. etc. etc., and all this under the immutable spell of the "sanctity, infallibility and untouchability of Capitalism"! I can't even MENTALLY CONCEIVE what drives your politicians to deprive their own nation, even their own personal kids and everybody else too potentially of a future (of a survival?), when every small man on the street already understood the absurdity of this course!!! (Same goes for that other open secret called the "North American Union" too...) What, do you think, is this all leading up to? So, before (unjustly or impulsively) accusing any Chinese Commerce Attach

By: Okach

Okach — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:10:56 +0000

Good shot, good kill. I worked on that project back in the late ‘90s and knew we had something that was going to work, even with the usual fits and starts.
As for the America as Chinese province commentary, I’d point out the obvious — if there was no America to rail against, it’d be hard to whip the proletariat into shape with visions of taking on the Great American boogeyman. Same deal with Russia. Anyways, gonna be a mighty interesting Summer Olympics. Kinda hard to whitewash the streets with that many foreigners around…

By: Takeo

Takeo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:40:55 +0000

Congrats to a job well done to the US Navy.

By: slntax

slntax — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:32:36 +0000

freefallingbomb
you are right. however just because the chinese are capitialist. doesnt mean that all the sudden we are best friends. i mean the nazis embraced capitialism. the reality is that the chinese are using every method possible to steal american military tech for a future war for tawian. dont believe me? check this out.

story on feb 8 chinese spy tries to steal tech from a c-17
http://www.ocregister.com/money/chung-china-chinese-1983494-space-technology
people say that have problems understanding chinas long term military and politcal goals. i say actions speak louder then words.

By: syntax

syntax — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:19:18 +0000

What’s the need for an expensive & extensive GMD network when the Aegis equipped destroyers can do the same?
What can the GMD do that the Aegis system cannot?

By: Ward

Ward — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:00:51 +0000

Thanks for the detail, Jim. And dig the Filter reference, Grandjester. Rock on.

By: FOARP

FOARP — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:40:14 +0000

Didn’t they originally have to postpone the launch because of a rough sea state?