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Not enough... but we can always modify the cargo bay...

what a lovely idea, and put a couple of 105 mm on the left side, along with a chain gun and have a bay for SBDs, I bet the C-17 can carry a few dozen of those without a problem.

Upgrade weapons? I had no idea there was an AC-17 in the works, I wonder if they really mean buying a few new planes.

Then we'd have too bomb that Iranian factories right? As for the home grown airline, it was going to happen sooner or later. It's just business at the end of the day, and part of it makes me wonder how much of a hand US companies had in the Chinese aviation industry. They are investing in Japan as a hedge against the Russians.

Naw, Godzilla just needs to go under water and the battleship is doomed.

I saw part 6, who was the girl that blanka was doing>

Actually, four right? But that said, I don't mind psychotic Gundam pilots, as long as we have a reasonable story. Especially if the normals (people like Sergei) can come up with a way to beat the psychos. The problem with SEED and WING was that no matter what the normals did, the uber powerful always won out. If 00 changes that trend, then we have a winner.

I know I'll see it, but to me, Indy 4 is still everything that is wrong with Hollywood, they can't help but resurrect older series and drag out has beens like Harrison Ford to do sequels. The lack of creativity is just sad. That said, I wonder if they'll do a 3-D version of this movie. Technically, those are quite spectacular.

Interesting problem, there are a couple of good points so far. My thoughts on the small business: 1. What is the local geography like? How many other local towns within say a 100 mile radius? 2. What is the population mix of the town your friend is in? How many kids and so forth? The reasoning is this, he has a very small size customer base to deal with, he is going to take a significant loss of video rentals no matter what he does unless he improves the size of his customer base. I mean quite literally, if a place like a Blockbuster is having problems, a small business will definitely take it on the chin. So, the ideas: 1. Go adult videos 2. Start doing video games. (longer rental periods of course) Go with the more popular titles if you can. 3. Increase service to a larger region, this depends on geography, and use the netflix model, mail out video rentals over long time frames (say period of a month or so), don't do subscription fees, since that'll force him to increase his stocks. Set up a website. 4. Some marketing is definitely needed, by that I mean if he has to put up small signs around town (think telephone poles with web address) that'll be good, if he can do local areas, even better. 5. If he goes web, he needs to make sure that his system is constantly updated so people pulling things from the web can see what's going on. I have to say, this is a tough business to be in. Remember, if your customer base has access to the web, everything your friend is providing can be pulled off of the web, legally or not.

Bah, it would've been better if there was some type of plot device written in... like somethings are immutable. Remember Charlie from season 1. I like that idea. But right now, superpower seem to be trumping any logic in how people might use those powers. Peter being a prime example.

Because Sergei is interested in special model sales. Duh.... specially colored models always do better than plain colored models, see Zakus... Outside of this, I finally saw the episode, and it was good. Gundams are still overpowering, but Sergei is definitely using his brains, I wonder if he can pull out a victory of some type, or if we end up seeing overpowering gundam win purely on capabilities, which would be indication of yet another cop out.

Ha ha, that's funny, if Storm really did that, she'd be a 800 pounder, and would have to keep eating to keep up her metabolism.

One entertaining thought for the day. Since the virus was never released, there is no worldwide epidemic right? So, in essence, didn't Peter just erase Caitlin right out of history? She never died, never came back, she is just gone. As for the whole blood thing, I can see how this can become real ghoulish really quick. For the show to be pulled back from disaster, Peter and Hiro need to die. And Ando too, because right now, he has no purpose, other than Hiro's buddy. Sylar should live, the more I thought about how they screwed up Sylar all this season, the more I liked how well they finally depicted Sylar in the last couple of episode. Sylar with only a few powers can be an interesting villian, after all, he smarted his way out of potential death situations in the last episode.

you know, I shouted YES Poor HRG,

I wonder if a blood transfusion for Sylar will make it as though he gained Claire's powers. The question that still isn't answered is what the hell happened that Sylar was shanghaied into Mexico. As for Claire, dying might not be bad, it could certainly help put HRG's character in a new direction, may be even darker than before. As for Bob, well, he is a one man ATM, I suppose if the heroes ever got their own hall of justice, Bob would be financing that build. But all in all, if Bob died, I wouldn't care very much, as an antagonist, he is rather blend.

Sounds like more reasons to buy additional F-22s. And make mods to turn the -23s into strike fighters. Hmmm, Boeing's designed new tech eh... oh, high speed bombing.

Please let it be the newbies, they haven't done anything worthwhile yet, and if they go, I wouldn't care much at this point. What's annoying is that the storylines aren't as well connected this time. For example, what did Parkman go through the motions for last week anyhow, and now we don't see him this week. What was the point? What happened to Nathan? Does anyone even care?

I agree, too much Micah, Nicki, the copycat, the illegals, and so forth. Sylar is back, which is good, oh, I hope he gets his powers back, but, somehow, Mr Sark is just not that interesting. I could see him being more entertaining if there weren't so many more characters around, but sigh, this season is just not that good. Hope next season is better. Oh yeah, if the writers for this season's heros come back, don't let them in the door.

holy crap, it's Kujira... that's Japanese for whale apparently. I learned something new on my recent trip. By the way, for those who are curious, they (whales) taste like beef.

I like the idea of Hiro's revenge, at least the way I outlined it. That way, Kensei would never be dead, but of course, he would effectively never be alive either. Just forever doomed to repeat his life over and over without ever knowing. I would like to have understood the power of the remaining originals, especially older Nakamura.

That's true, but Godzilla also has atomic breath.... and Yamato was much slower, only 28 kt. The thought about modern tanks is that they might do well in open area, but not in cities where their manueverability is highly restricted.

Unless the stupid thing can swim, in which case, a battle ship might be in trouble. For example, we could always rebuild the Yamato, and put it in the middle of Tokyo bay.... heh heh, but against Godzilla and the host of Toho, poor Yamato would stand even less chance than it did against the 3rd fleet.

I was being sarcastic, unfortunately, I saw the movie. Only an idiot would release weapons in the middle of a city, and play hide and seek with a monster that was shown to be so damned agile. I like the defense industry line up, but when do you think they would decide it was nuke time?

Hmmmm, I wonder which airplane is your favorite for delivering ground support. Actually, I think in the trailer, you do see F-16s going over the city, somehow though, this situation cries out for Apache gunships. Hell, they did a bang up job against Godzilla (US version).

How scary would that be... imagine if he can level up all his abilities, he could be bloody invincible. This makes me wonder if Peter is already effectively ageless due to his association with Kensei.