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Yeah? Name em.

Legal or no - doesn't matter, we'll still need "achievers" to dig our ditches, serve our burgers, and mulch our yards.

I think they're in Grove City water.....

It'll be a couple generations. You've got a TON of culture/history/resistence to it in the Navy and Air Force that has to be dismantled first. The pilot world is one of the biggest bastions of raging testosterone, resistant to change. The planes that tend to survive longest are the ones that prove to be the biggest weapons platforms: aka the B52, the F14, the Apache. If it can carry alot, a vehicle tends to remain in service longer than the vehicles that carry less. As the weapons themselves continue to get smarter and more autonomous, and there's no reason to beleive they'll get dumber any time soon, the more that range, capacity, and loiter time factor over stealth, manuverability, and speed.

mmm... tastes like Hollywood [ 10. May 2005, 11:02 PM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Private or Public? LLC?

OK, a little caller-commentary here: When someone posts a topic entitled "Your better half's car" and you respond with "Mom drives..." - you've got issues.

Wife drives a 2003 Saab 93 Sport Sedan. She loves it. Does great in the snow, and handles and brakes very well. Has enough power (for her)- as she'll use all the power she's given and it gets her into bad scenarios that even she admits she would probably not be able to recover from. (This is someone who once jumped a hill in San Francisco at 80+mph. Jumped. As in caught serious air. In a 90 Ford Probe. LX!) 180hp is all she needs, and its got the stability control and ABS to back her up in those "oh shit" moments. Saab 93 Sport Sedan - the perfect "Semi-sporty-driving-wife-car". EDIT: She just emailed me that she saw a red mustang (05) with white stripes and said "Oh I want one of those - you know, as a summer car. Convertible. The 06-07 Cobra, actually, do they make that in auto?" We're about to have a household crisis when the wife gets a more powerful car than me.......

+1 I re-vote for any car that flies and runs on banana peels.

Beautiful car. Props on the wheels and the front plate. I feel your pain on getting a black car to look that nice, so thumbs up! graemlins/thumb.gif

Its not chAirForce, its AirFarce.

+1 for Steve MqQueen's Mustang. Not so much because of the car itself but because of the whole package: The driving, the state of the car (it looked like a real car, used, dirty, etc), the sliding around on screeching bias plys, the bad-ass-edness of the driver himself (Nick Cage wishes he was 1/10th as cool as Steve McQueens left buttcheek). The Bullitt Mustang. #1 As for a car alone - I'd go with the white Lotus that Bond drove in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Playing on XBox Live is smooth and lag free. I'm running my xBox thru a wireless to my router then to the cable modem and even with those hops its still smooth as a baby's butt. BUT - having said that - the RACING that you'll actually get to do on Live is kinda boring in that its just hordes of the SAME OLD CRAP: Picka server and log on. "Oh, you have a 800hp skyline. Oh you're racing a 900hp WRX, and oh I see you've also bought all the upgrades on your EVO." Move on to next server... "Oh, you have a 800hp skyline. Oh you're racing a 900hp WRX, and oh I see you've also bought all the upgrades on your EVO." Move on to yet another server... "Oh, you have a 800hp skyline. Oh you're racing a 900hp WRX, and oh I see you've also bought all the upgrades on your EVO." And so on and so on and so on. The exact same rice, in the exact same set of upgrades, on every server. The only thing that changes is the paint scheme and how high the soprano voice is over the Voice coms. Try to find a Class D or C or a showroom unmodified car race? Not happening. So anyone wants to do some showroom racing, or something OTHER than the same old B1 or A1 modified boxcars, I'm game. IMO the best racing happens sliding around on under-tired, under-braked non race prepped cars. Anyone want to run a stock CTS V or a stock IS300 or a stock whatever, hit me up - CTS V Mowgli.

Good writeup Folkvang. But you need to relabel that - its full of spoilers. As you refuted the innacuracies, I now know pretty much everything thats going to happen in the movie, at least at a high level. Still a good writeup, but you should put a spoiler tag on the top. Now, having said that - did you actually expect that in a movie thats made about european knights + another (any other) culture that anything good or accurate will be said about the europeans? Won't happen. At least not until a prominent arab or other middle eastern director gets a crack at it. If its a european director it'll be full of self loathing and will raise whatever other culture/religion/peoples is in it up on a high pedestal. If its an asian director they'll, well they'll turn Musketeers into Kung Fu fighters. We're going to have to wait quite a bit for a good movie about european knights. [ 09. May 2005, 09:46 AM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Bah - ya got a big pile of the same ol' same ol' there, Berto. Best car in the game? Bone stock, raven black CTS-V. Yup.

No - its the beginning of the turnaround. Its amazing how much a company can get done when "bullshit time" is over. Fingers crossed. IMO - The unions and suppliers and product planners are about to, and need to, get a harsh lesson in reality.

Forza is locked at 30fps. And the game is coded to run at 480p. Resolution is determined by the code and limited to the hardware its run on.

d/l ??? torrent?

Havent signed up for Live yet. Don't want my pretty black CTS-V getting spanked online until I figure this gamepad thing out. Sucks that you can't map the controls exactly as you want it - I can't get used to braking and steering on the same side.

OMG FORZA IS THE BEST. GAME. EVAR. And I'm liking my new XBox too. Looks great on the 65" high def. But bleh it only runs in 480p. I could get GT4 in 1080i. Ah well, at least the game blows GT4 into the weeds. Best.Game.Ever. Microsoft > Sony true story.

My tip is this: whenever I have a car problem, I take it in to the dealer and have them fix it. I then sit in the waiting room and sip a mocha-chino. I like to see if I can get the remote for the TV when I sit down. In the mornings I reccommend the Today show, but in hte afternoon there's usually something good on the History channel. Then when its done I go out and look at it and nod, that way I make sure nooo mistakes. Then I sign the warranty slip, hand my empty cup to the service rep chick and drive off. Using this tip after multiple repairs I've yet to mar a single crease in a pair of slacks.

+1 on seen that color. Granted its in very clean condition, but still... fifteen grand for THAT? Man, people are suckers. Ten bucks says some twentysomething coughs up the asking price.

North Korea's got it covered.

Put a supercharger on top of an LS6 with no other changes and "boom" is right.

Yup - got my XBox purchase all set. I probably should wait for some reviews, but this gives me an excuse to buy an XBox anyway...