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Spit's wheels retract outwards, those look like they retract inwards.  Tail's the wrong shape, and I don't think there were any spits with both a 3-bladed propeller and a bubble canopy, and none of the bubble canopies had that much framing. My guess is that it's a Yak-3 or Yak-9, although that...

Depends a lot on what the PLA looks like by the time they start talking about a unification process.  Isn't the PLA/PLAAF/PLAAN trying to move towards a professional, better equipped service?  The gulf between the two services might not be as far in 10, 20, 50 years

Wouldn't be surprising.  Entering service in 1972, the original design's almost as old as TOW Some selected countries from the Wikipedia (I know, I know) operator's list. Bosnia Chad Egypt Iran Iraq Kenya Lebanon Morroco Pakistan Turkey Uruguay I'm kinda surprised the French were using ATGMs...

Sounds like a good arguement for heavier estate taxes as well, actually.

With those gas-sucking cigarette boats?  How about you promise to use the bodies to fertilize a new tree plantation?  A carbon-neutral plan for pirate eradication!

I'm hoping that they go back to the longer polling station hours in BC.  The 7am to 7pm thing very nicely brackets morning and evening rush hours, and Vancouver traffic was absolutely abysmal today. Cast my ballot with an hour to spare, but if there had been one more stupid driver stalling on...

You forgot to add crumbling infrastructure, low birth rate, high death rate, and a nice slew of environmental problems left over from the good old days. http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8896844

My neighbours moved to Vancouver from Taiwan back in 1994.  The father is a dentist, and four years later, he still wasn't able to practice, so they moved back to Taiwan while renting out their house here and dropping by every year to check on the paperwork.  They didn't move to Vancouver for...

Right off the bat, I think she's got serious competition in Yulia Tymoshenko

That looks about right.  The need of some institutions for capital right now means that they may be compelled to sell off their most valuable parts, either as a condition of a government bailout or in an attempt to keep themselves afloat.  The inability for these firms to troll around for the...

I wonder if that attitude will change when pension funds start to disclose their losses.  Given the interest rate those need to produce, they can't be parked in the safest of investments.  Are they insured in any way?

Hey, is it me, or will you have aircraft crossing paths if you use both landing areas at the same time?  :o

You sure that's their's and not some trimaran concept?  That's a really weird deck layout

The old capital and labour inputs into the production black box  ;) But then, the demographics of the donor countries suddenly become of huge interest of us.  China still has plenty of peasants and a deep pool of unskilled migrant labour, but the wage increases in the industrialized areas...

You have mentioned before that 'Culture Matters'.  Do you think the demographic crunch will lead to a change Europe's culture?  For that matter, shouldn't Russia's demographic problems come to a head before those of Europe?

I don't think the US has built non-nuclear subs in close to half a century now.  They could employ Americans, I suppose by hiring a Swedish or German firm to train, equip, and license a US shipyard to do so, but as a BC resident... that screams 'Fast Ferry' to me.  It might even be cheaper to...

It'll reach across the straits, yes.  From Taipei to Fuzhou with range to spare.  I wonder if the long range may have been specified in case Taiwan decides it needs to assert sovereignty over some of the disputed islands in the area that are claimed by multiple countries.  IIRC, they work from...

Interesting; I had no idea that the Chinese had good military relations with Thailand, but maybe I was thrown off by Thailand's use of Western military equipment. Not mentioned are Thailand's relations with Vietnam, with which China's relations might be cordial, but not particularly friendly. ...

That's the one; the local-produced Dauphin/Panther

Isn't their main medium chopper these days a locally produced Eurocopter Panther?