Pentagon May See Higher F-35 Costs, Delays Up to Three Years
BartSimpson @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:54 pm
desertdude desertdude:
From whatever I know, having met Americans and people of the US military and have seen in the media and not trying to be dis respectfull or making generalistaion. The average American is not a very bright spark.
I also seen stuff although done in humour like Jay Lenos Jay walking where the average joe/jane is quizzed about basic general knowledge of America and the world and the result is quite dumbfounding really
I also seen stuff although done in humour like Jay Lenos Jay walking where the average joe/jane is quizzed about basic general knowledge of America and the world and the result is quite dumbfounding really
Bear in mind that Leno is only showing the interviews that were funny. He's a comedian so that makes sense.
I'll agree that the average American is not always the sharpest tool in the shed. Yet it is often astounding what some of these people are capable of accomplishing.
What is still our greatest strength is our collective ability to innovate. So far, the leftards haven't completely 'educated' that out of our culture. Maybe it's no coincidence that some of our greatest inventors never finished college and that most of our millionaires never even graduated high school.
I haven't written us off yet. Neither have a lot of Americans. And that's a good thing for the whole world.
desertdude @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:00 pm
I know, I know like I said it was done in humour and it wouldn't be funny at all to show the people who did get it right. But kinda weird I did notice in the end of that clip that the grand father in the family got everything right, showing a decling standard of education perhaps ?
Anyways I myself don't put much faith in paper qualifications for someone being smart. You might be trained in one subject matter/feild or occupation but that wont automatically mean your a smart person.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:11 pm
it just goes to show how education has gone into a tailspin.
EyeBrock @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:12 pm
I blame the teechers.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:14 pm
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EyeBrock @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:19 pm
I speek Mankunion wiv a hint of Doublin.
Tman1 @ Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:23 pm
bootlegga bootlegga:
It's been bandied about on CKA for years, but as our experience with the Avro Arrow taught us, developing a front line indigenous fighter plane is monumentally expensive.
Not really. You just need a government that actually follows through with such an incentive and its not as 'monumentally' expensive as buying used crap and wasting billions on repairing them for the next 50 years (slight exaggeration). Cost or not, it put thousands of people to work and it can still work in Canada if we have our own military industry.
BartSimpson @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:24 pm
Tman1 Tman1:
Not really. You just need a government that actually follows through with such an incentive and its not as 'monumentally' expensive as buying used crap and wasting billions on repairing them for the next 50 years (slight exaggeration). Cost or not, it put thousands of people to work and it can still work in Canada if we have our own military industry.
Total agreement.
I've long advocated that Canada needs to get back into the shipbuilding industry and then also it makes sense for Canada to establish itself in a military aircraft niche.
The aircraft thing would be easy to do.
Take these fantastic, Canadian-produced planes, install military avionics and add some guns and hang some missiles off the wings and you've got a spiffy platform that can be used to patrol Canadian frontiers and it'd also be an attractive export.
