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    in Military and Aviation

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    Yeah your right Boberro. I should have just posted that to another thread. As for what it has to do with Lock-On. It shares some of the same instruments and avionics as an Su25T. I thought some of the 3D modelers might want it.

     

    Did you at least like the pic?

     

    Yes, I very much like the Su-22 :)

    Countdown to War

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    Posted

    Total US Aid in 2009 was ~40 billion dollars. Compared to a deficit of a trillion dollars it is easy to see that aid programmes are not particularly important to understand the US debt situation. :P

     

    In whole amount of debt it is not huge. But 40 billions is 40 billions which moved outside. For 40 billions you can do few things in own country, can't you? :D

    The end of free PC hardware market in Europe.

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted · Edited by Boberro

    The biggest diference between the 2 is that brazil has alot more Job opportunities, Salaries are not that different, and brazilian everyday life costs are growing up too.

     

    Northern Europe, germany and Switzerland offers better salaries because there is lack of qualified people there. The demand is great and I might take a decision to jump ship instead of sacrificing my hard work to pay for the debts caused by 30 years of mediocre leadership here and everywhere else.

     

    If you have a chance to get better perspectives - do it. We do same in Poland. We are constantly told, we are the "green island on the red Europe" and other bullshits but really Poland live in one big crisis for 20 years.

    Without Germany large amount of people would have had much worse situation. In area where I live (quite large Silesia) without German and Netherlands seasonal work (or stable full job there), nothing would have been here.

    Countdown to War

    in Chit-Chat

    Posted

    I think ZQuickSilverZ meant just money which US give away for various donations, help. Example for Kenya US gave 120 millions - Russia 1 million. For Somalia US donated for about 38 millions. Russia, China nothing. There are much more such situations - if US had acted like others they could have spent money for own purposes and needs. But they didn't.

    freetrack and DCS games

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted

    I have built 3 FreeTracks model, till I found the best one. It is important to make it solid, not fastest as possible.

     

     

    1. Have you read and used general size template for FreeTrack?
    2. What model do you use - LEDs or flash stripes?
    3. What are dimensions of your model in mm.
    4. What camera and how far you sit from the camera.

    FreeTrack settings are important too but it depens of the model.

     

     

    I had the same symptom as you do in Black Shark. When I moved head up, it zoomed to the mirrors. I had to correct model and dimensions.

    Countdown to War

    in Chit-Chat

    Posted · Edited by Boberro

    Well, to be fair, we (sweden) has been there and we're paying it off. Technically the debt is always being paid, since it is usually in the shape of obligations with a defined maturity, but obviously some countries are using new debt to take care of those maturities. The big deal is that in a lot of cases these instruments cannot be paid off early in the same way you might be able to pay your credit card bill early if you so desire - if the obligation is set to mature after 20 years, then that's that.

     

    But it is definitely possible to reduce your debt. In '95 our national debt was equal to roughly 80% of the GDP, today it is just over 30% (the lowest it's been since the 70's oil crisis). You pay off the debt basically through sorting out your finances to ensure you don't have a deficit, and then pay your maturities and don't use new debt for anything beyond standard liquidity measures - and for those you make sure to use short-term obligations or similar, not those rediculous 20-year obligations we've seen some of the euro-zone countries forced into issuing to save themselves right now.

     

    Another thing to remember is that as long as you don't take in new debt and have a living economy, the debt to GDP ratio will steadily decrease. For example, in end of 2010 our GDP was ~3 300 billion SEK, our debt was ~1 151 billion SEK, or roughly 35% of GDP. In '95 our GDP was ~2 300 billion SEK - if our debt had been stationary from then, it would then have been ~50% of GDP and we could, in 16 years, have gotten a 15%-point decrease even without making an effort to reduce absolute debt. (We have paid reduced absolute debt as well, so we have inflation, GDP growth and real debt reduction to thank for our relatively small debt.)

     

    But basically, the nature of the game is that if you just let enough time pass, debt will be reduced even if you don't pay it, simply because your economy will be growing and inflation will be eating on the value of the debt. Now, of course, reducing the US debt to manageable levels through that alone would take a LOOOOONG time... :P

     

    Problem is you need stable growth rate - the best all time. I don't say growth at 1-2%. which is nothing. But more 5%+. In this case you are right - debt will be repayed itself IF you don't increase expends in meantime. But between the time of the repayment start to the end you have to face against social discontent for years (few dozen sometimes). After some time people just go on streets or abandon country which leads to other troubles.

    Personally I think more and more about option zero. Reset all and build new economy rules, or strongly improve current one, but I don't see it happening even now at all.

     

    Slightly old figures (2010), but:

     

    Greece: 143% of GDP

    Italy: 119%

    USA: 62%

     

    Now ofc, the USA is higher up than that now, and numbers like these are always a bit problematic to judge since a lot depends on how you cound domestically held debt, and in the case of the USA you also have the fact that it, to a relatively great extent, owes itself money - that is, some of the debt has the federal government loan money from state institutions (for example, you could borrow money from a state pension fund).

     

    This then creates debt that is techincally debt just the same, but is still a bit different. Compare to the interest-carousel used by many companies to reduce taxes: a group of companies that are owned by one and the same company, and act in different countries, loan a lot of money from each other. This ensures that everyone has interest payments to everyone, and with the right kind of timing you can then ensure that even though everyone is profitable, none of them is paying taxes - that happens in the mother-company, which is placed on a suitable island. :)

     

    Compare two countries, both with same debt, ect ect. You will look other way for USA and Greece - this is why I think USA will really not bother to repay (which doesn't mean they don't want to slow down progress of debt), because they can allow itself not to. Who will threat them? Nobody Who will threat Greece, Spain? Most of countries :)

    Countdown to War

    in Chit-Chat

    Posted

    We are not going to war any time soon, we don't have money. My government borrows 40 cents for every dollar it spends. Our debt to GDP is now at 100% and we continue to borrow ... USA credit rating was reduced few months ago.

     

    Iran can just sell its oil to China and India, even at lower price if it has to.

     

    Do you really think this debt is to be repayed? Almost every country (on the West) has enormous debt... which I highly doubt is meant to be paid off.

    Linux - Native or via Wine

    in DCS Wishlist

    Posted

    I agree with many things you all said, above, except that Linux, for desktops/home users arent a big slice of the market... ...since the early 90's, Linux is growing super fast... ...

     

    Ya ya ya, super fast and still Linux has about 1-4% of users. Windows at least 85%, really fast progress :)

    Desperately seeking fps for BS2

    in Bugs and Problems

    Posted

    Hey guys... I don't have second monitor. I can't use laptop to show Shkval because you can't plug in cable from main computer to laptop - it won't show picture. Also there is no way to transfer picture via LAN (AIEST doesn't work). So I think about just making Shkval window in the game, such like this (long time ago in BS1):

     

    screenshot002zg.jpg

     

    But to make this Shkval visible only when I want it (now it is persistent), example by pressing key.I guess it is possible but don't know how to crunch it yet :(

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