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On morning thought

So what is the probability of two fish meeting when these fish swim in infinite ocean for infinite period of time?

In other words - why is it that things rather happen than not?

Or is it limitation of our perception of reality that makes us notice things that do happen and not notice things that do not happen?

On truth

The truth is - life sucks and then you die.

On small surprise

For some reasons I do not want to discuss I need to work late hours. Seems like whole Nairobi went to sleep and I am the only up working... Asshole.
Anyway - I was recommended one CD by Barbara Streisand. And it actually is not bad. Phew, who would have thought?

On JSF - again!

Read this.

I seem to remember to have written couple of years ago that it was Pentagon who wanted to push JSF program and have one universal platform for USAF, USMC, USN, National Guard and also RAF, Canadian AF and whoever wanted to hop along the program wagon.

Then it turned out JSF was going to be a compromise between contradictory requirements and some participants wanted to bail out. Namely - USAF and USMC. But they were told they can't as their part of the program is instrumental.

And now, after they have wasted gazillions of dollars and many years, they want to kick USMC out. Heh, funny. This actually is funny...

On morality of corporations

I remember in the good old days, when I worked for Der Konzern there was this huge scandal that some NSN bosses were found to bribe some poeple to get some contracts. Initially it started with something like 200M Euro, then reached (AFAIR) 1.2B Euro. Soon after the scandal was made public the big bosses were sacked (yeah, right - sacked my ass) but der Konzern started to do some damage control and internally it launched some programs to increase morality awareness of the staff. All employees had to go through web-based training on Code of conduct: what is good what is bad, where the thin line lies, the line that divides favours / gifts from bribes, etc.

This week we all have been brainwashed on similar topic. I do not even want to go into how bad it was (especially compared to what NSN had done) and how it all started by implying all of us are thieves, crooks and generally people of no morality. I felt offended. I know - this is Africa - but I still am learning not to expect too much. Had something like that been done in Europe - we all would sue the company and drive new Aston-Martins.

My point is - there were some decisions made here in my field that from technical point of view make no sense. I am strongly convinced that some money changed hands under the table (it always does ;-). Question is - are they trying to preempt something?

On visual change

Google allowed for more advanced template modification so I changed a bit blog appearance for this and my other site.

On legen... wait for it - dary performances

Well, it's been talked about for years, now thanks to miracle of Internet I (and you) can see for yourself ;-)

On F22

I disliked F22 since its inception. The very moment USAF issued a tender for 5th generation fighter and two main contenders were YF23 and YF22, I knew YF23 was superior machine and at the same time I knew that's exactly why USAF / Pentagon would choose less capable but cheaper F22. And while F22 still is superior to F35, looks like it's not as hot as previously thought. Or rather... too hot ;-)

Now, there is this yearly event called Farnborough Airshow. And this year some dudes laid their hands on FLIR and made a movie of F22 in infrared. Google for it. And looks like this stealth fighter has kinda large IR signature. AIM9 Sidewinders of all countries - enjoy!

For brave and adventurous

Haven't tried myself (I try to stick to more organic, hand-rolled stuff ;-)
Still, an interesting read.