...Today if you say something out-of-line to your son's college coach you get charged with making terrorist threats.

After 9/11 it all changed, yes. But there's always been something about closed spaces that makes people prone to emotional outbursts... and to think that some companies are seriously considering cramping the space even more... this is insane.

 

there's always been something about closed spaces that makes people prone to emotional outbursts...

I quit flying on airplanes when I quit flying on marijuana. When the day came that I couldn't drug myself out of the flight terrors, I just quit flying.

Still, there are advantages. I haven't been jailed for being a smart-Alec and I'm still an anal virgin. (Go, TSA!)

 

Today if you say something out-of-line to your son's college coach you get charged with making terrorist threats.

There is more to that story ... and the kid is in COLLEGE ... UCLA.

 

There is more to that story ... and the kid is in COLLEGE ... UCLA.

I guess I kinda figured that saying that the coach was "your son's college coach" rather implied that the son in question was in college.

I'm sure there's more to the story and it sounds like charging him with assault with a deadly weapon is reasonable. But I haven't heard anything about what basis they are justifying a charge of making terrorist threats.

 

I don't think we will ever find out the Paul Harvey ("The rest of the story") on this one as the charges were dropped.

 

I don't think we will ever find out the Paul Harvey ("The rest of the story") on this one as the charges were dropped.

Guess the option of charging him with "assault with a deadly peanut" wasn't in the books...

 

The media kept reporting that he was swinging a kettlebell. I wonder which size he choose?

Slightly larger than a peanut, don't you think?

 

The media kept reporting that he was swinging a kettlebell. I wonder which size he choose?

Slightly larger than a peanut, don't you think?

I didn't know that part... was he drunk?

 

From what I gathered, he attends a lot of his "son's" practices ... from there, it get's murky.

 

I saw some guy doing that at the gym. I wondered if he was preparing for the Highland Games...caber toss, rock carry, etc. He was jerking it off the floor in front of him and heaving it up higher than his face. He really looked like he was trying to damage his back!

What is that exercise called?
Self destructive?

 

So speaketh someone who has been there, done that, still recovering.

 

If he had an entire couch over his head, and was trying to navigate out a door (as I did), I might have been alarmed enough to warn him.

 

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I'll know that you counseled Diddy's lawyers when I hear he was practicing for the Highland Games and it was mistaken by the coach as an attack.

Nice.

 

It's interesting... but it seems like the requirement of dogfighting capabilities in newer designs has been in decline in the last few decades already. All of the avionics and weapons systems involved in the newest fighters has probably made that characteristic obsolete:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/military-dont-worry-expensive-fighter-jet-dogfight/story?id=32152912

 

It's interesting... but it seems like the requirement of dogfighting capabilities in newer designs has been in decline in the last few decades already. All of the avionics and weapons systems involved in the newest fighters has probably made that characteristic obsolete:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/military-dont-worry-expensive-fighter-jet-dogfight/story?id=32152912

Condensed Version:
I don't even need to be able to use a gun because I have a missile, and nothing hostile will ever get closer to me than the range of my missile.

I'm glad it's not me betting my life on that.

 

Condensed Version:
I don't even need to be able to use a gun because I have a missile, and nothing hostile will ever get closer to me than the range of my missile.

I'm glad it's not me betting my life on that.

I guess it must all boil down to maneuverability... it must be near impossible to make the sharp turns required for a dogfight in today's fighters

 

I guess it must all boil down to maneuverability... it must be near impossible to make the sharp turns required for a dogfight in today's fighters

The argument in the article you linked to is about an F-16 embarrassing an F-35 in terms of maneuvering. So...which one is, "today's fighter"? The one that can actually fight, up close and personal, or the new one that can't? Some people think the new one should not be adopted as, "today's fighter".

 

THE F22 was too expensive, but is was all of the above.

It sounds like the lessons of Vietnam were forgotten.

 

Maybe the first comment on the article page is appropriate:

The F-35 is performing beyond all expectations as a financial extraction platform for Lockheed-Martin and the foreign defense contractors who are building critical parts overseas for the F-35. It is a multi-national cash cow rewarding incestuous relationships between the defense contractors of the United States and its "allies." Its existence as a weapons platform continues to be secondary by design to its existence as a taxpayer-funded weapons development platform for the benefit of the private defense contractors here and overseas.

 

... It is a multi-national cash cow rewarding incestuous relationships between the defense contractors of the United States and its "allies."....

would you mind elaborating on your use of the i-word that I highlighted in bold in the previous quote?