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Thanks gec, I tried that last night - no joy. Some people are having peculiar problems with it. I'll try to just get rid of it and roll back to IE9. Uninstalling the update seems to have rolled things back to IE9, everything seems to be working now ......till the next time Microslave messes with my system.

I can't use anything off the menu in the MP, if I try to bring up the compass - 404 Anyone have any idea why this is happening? Any of you mission planners have a chance to see if IE 10 works for you? Roll back to IE9?

We used to look for AV programs that didn't use too much processing power but I was just thinking today how little that matters now. I'm flying a 10 year old flight sim made when processors were 1 mhz. Now we have multi-core with at least 3 mhz and framerate hasn't been an issue for years. The old issues aren't really that important.

The ammo shortage is a real problem for us too. Surplus can still be had in military calibers but guys are complaining they can't even find primers for reloading. I'm doing more rimfire shooting now and holding on to my center fire. No way anything from the CommBlock is getting down there. They're fine exporting your manufacturing over there so they get a better bottom line but they don't want you having any of the advantages. New ITAR regs make it much harder for us to get anything good up here either. I'm finished with Brownells - just too much of a pain to order anything. Couldn't get stocks (over $100), scope mounts(scope rings OK?), sights, optics or blades before, now anything attached to a rifle is verbotten. They cancelled my muzzle brake and broken shell extractor order. Shell extractor.. really? I had to pay $180 for a Smith Enterprises brake up here, same one at Brownells for $80. Seems the states with the dumbest policies are also the ones in the deepest financial trouble. You might want to look at freestateproject.org New Hampshire is friendly towards and actively seeking liberty minded folks.

AV programs piss me off by the way they want to take over the system. Any recommendations on one? Effective but arms-length? Good idea on the USB stick though.

Yesterday I came home from work to find a message on my comp stating that AVG has isolated an infected file. The file was il2fb.exe. I looked and scanned and nothing. Ignore. Then I see Win7 updates ready to instal so I do that, reboot and I no longer have an il2fb.exe anywhere. No shortcut, no exe in the game folder. A system restore brought it back but I had that cold fear in the pit of my stomach for a while.

I think some of you are mistaking the rest of Canada for where I live. Ontario is the center of "you will pay for me to sit on my a** because I have no desire to work" scum sucking socialism. I'm sure you don't want to hear about our $150 SKS rifles either so ........... I'll show you the ones on sale ....$75 http://www.marstar.ca/dynamic/product.jsp?productid=74819 Here is my latest purchase. http://www.bugasalt.com/

Some good news. These guys who have real balls have said "if our civilians can't buy this stuff we won't sell it to law enforcement either". I love Americans ....real ones. Not those pussies in office or the corporate dweebs but the real men the country was formed on. If large manufacturers step up as well this will be a landslide. What they don't get is that most of their market is to civilians anyway. 5 years after confiscation most big companies would be finished without the civilian market. Firearms Equality Movement - http://patriotpost.us/editions/17147

As the name implies they're all based on the M14 action. Semi-auto. Most are .223 cal though they do make a 7.62 x 39 version. Mini-30, I wouldn't consider anything less. We're pretty lucky up here in Canada as we can get the Chinese copy of the M14 in NATO 7.62 x 51 (.308) with forged receivers(they bought all the original tooling). Even springfield is using cast ones these days and they want 2 to 3 thousand for one.. The rest of the rifles aren't very well made, crap rear sights, barrels often out of index. But you can tune them up as good as any if you spend a few hundred and aren't afraid to get dirty. Can't beat the $450 price tag. Sometimes they have a promo. $650 for a case (1040 rounds) of ammo and another $200 gets you a rifle. They aren't tack drivers, it's a main battle rifle, but they'll usually do 2 -3 MOA out of the box. I have 2. As for confiscation.......I think (or I seriously hope) that if they do something so blatantly against your constitution that you would feel morally obligated to disobey. Up here they pulled a registration of long guns. The compliance was about 50%. Half the owners said F** off. A few years later they scrapped the registry. YAY us. If they pull something like a confiscation, pack em in a sealed 6" PVC tube and bury them. Then I suggest a "boating accident". So sorry, all guns at bottom of lake.

I have the X52 but I only use the mode rotary wheel to change "comm channels". I use the clutch button as my transmit key bound to different keys for each mode. Mode 1 is my regular transmit to channel(F7). Roll it to mode 3 and the transmit button is bound to F5 that transmits to all channel commanders. Mode 2 (bound to F6) is reserved for specific whispers. Either to "last whisper received" or my flight leader or the flight of bombers I'm escorting. F9 is my hotkey to activate channel commander status. Another trick- I use one of the toggles on the stick for gear down. Bind the pinkie+gear down toggle to a key. Then set up that key as a macro for 50 strokes of that key. When flying something like an I-16 you just hit pinkie+gear down toggle and it automatically cranks the manual gear down 50 times. Unfortunately you also have to do a separate one for pinkie+gear up.

I think I remember when installing the programming software it asks whether you want to install magic mouse software. Might be a long shot but you could re-install the software and watch for that option. I have the same setup and my cursor doesn't move so it could also be a mechanical problem with the switch off center at rest.

This is Canada. The aftermarket is so limited here by population and it's impossible to ship anything gun related across the border(thanks idiot regulators). Forget any sights, scopes, barrels, stocks, knives. Flashlights ok unless "weapon" is in the description. But I do keep looking for the right deal. We have some advantages but not many. We can still get com-block exports - the forged M1A (M-14) stuff is still coming in but flying off the shelves as fast as it gets here. We still have a decent ammo market but that's drying up fast too. Right now looking for a shotgun that won't scare off my tiny wife. I'm starting her off with a Mossberg 510 mini.

I can hardly fault you for your buy because I bought a Win 1300 myself for turkey hunting. Then you find it's almost impossible to get aftermarket stuff and used parts because they're so rare. Been looking for a second hand short barrel for years. Remington and Mossberg seem to have the aftermarket parts market to themselves.

A sad day for the Dogz. ~S~ BG

NASA has a sightings calculator. Plug in your location. It's easy to spot with the naked eye. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

2130 CET is I think 1530 EST? Every Tuesday? Is this 2130 a hard start? Or lineup for 2200 If traffic is in my favour I might possibly make it by then unless daylight savings time gets in the way.

Beautiful and functional Propnut.

I have the Saitek Pro Pedals. They had quite a few years of hard use- at least 2 hrs/day, maybe not so much anymore but they still work as new. A quick check shows the Combat pedals at twice the price - $200 in Canada. I'm pretty happy about the value spending $100 on pedals. I would have to think hard at $200. For sure Track IR and a good stick/throttle first though.

I have the X52. Elevator trim and prop pitch on the throttle. Use that all the time. Rudder trim is a hat switch on the stick. Aileron trim on the keyboard - not many planes have it. Every now and then I'll spawn and have my aileron trim full to one side - funky in an airstart. I use the INS and PAGE UP for the trim, HOME centers. You could probably use the buttons below (DEL, END, PAGE DN) for rudder, I find it just as easy to put some toe pressure on the pedals. I usually just fly with my toes anyway, I don't put my heels on the pedals unless I'm braking. I used to use the mouse wheel on the throttle for prop pitch but same problem, it would sometime start at 50% (try a carrier takeoff at 50% pitch)so I moved it to a rotary.

A bit of rudder as you enter the turn (before aileron) will make your aileron input quicker. In real life sticking the ailerons into the airstream causes yaw in the opposite direction of the turn. Rudder counteracts that. You're supposed to lead the turn with rudder. At low speed when a wing starts to drop you raise it with rudder. Overdo a high G turn and the inside wing will drop first into a snap roll. Save that with a large stab of rudder.

I originally had CH pedals, they had an internal short after a year. Saitek's now for maybe 5 years. Much prefer the wider spacing.

The last thing we need right now is more government handouts, more government programs. The government is incapable of doing anything efficiently. Everything they touch is a waste of money, costing 5X what it should - your money, my money. In tough economic times Fascist governments have fared the best weathering the storm. True Fascism is "government supporting, almost working for industry". What we need most is jobs and economic encouragement. That brings prosperity for all those who don't mind working to paying their own way. That's what we got in this election, the closest thing to fascism we could get minus the nutbar dictator(some may not agree) and the Gestapo (they've already been developed by the anti-gun Liberals in our case). This was our best option to keep too much of the shit sandwich that's looming on the horizon from sticking in our teeth. Five surgeons are talking. #1 The first, an Ontario surgeon, says: " I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered. " #2 The second, a Quebec surgeon, responds: " Yeah, but you should try electricians. Everything inside of them is colour coded. " #3 The third, a B.C. surgeon, says: " No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside of them is in alphabetical order. " #4 The fourth, an Alberta surgeon, chimes in: " You know, I like construction workers.... those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over. " #5 But, the fifth, a Newfoundland surgeon, shut them all up when he observed: " You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine, -- and the head and the ass are interchangeable. "

Happy Easter everyone. I'll be in the garden between rain storms. Building a proper frame to trellis my climbing things - peas, beans, kiwi, cucumbers, sweet potatoes- a pergola I think it's called. Or just digging to expand my growing space. All my idiot neighbors took their leaves to the curb last fall, I collected a lot of them, put em in a pile. Now they are buying compost at $100 a yard and I'm taking that pile of composted leaves to expand the garden.

The way they'll make this work is to devalue the dollar till they have enough to pay it off. ie make the dollar 1/10th what it is so they can print 10 times the amount. Sounds a lot like "quantitative easing" doesn't it? Protect yourself from that. Have stuff, not dollars. All "stuff" will go up in price. Start with what you need most - you have to eat 3 times every day so that is a good start. Storing food that will keep, most important for your long term plans is a place to grow some food that won't store well. Clothes, tires, shoes etc will never be cheaper than right now. Badaim probably has enough guns already but more ammo is a good idea...... For a year investors have been leaving financial areas and going to commodities - stuff. That and natural shortages have been driving prices way up. Food has pretty much doubled. Gold has been fairly flat(up 25%), silver has tripled- gone from $15 to $45 in the last two years- may be ready for a correction of sorts. It will be a short one so if you're ready you could do well there. Gold will go to $2000 soon and is a good place to shift your paper money. This is not to make money, it's to preserve the value of your current wealth as your dollars loose their purchasing power. Any old silver coins, pre-64 dimes and quarters, are now worth 10 times face value. A dime is a dollar, 4 quarters= $10. I suggest you start to learn and be ready. A good place is the http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ . I suggest starting with April 14's Episode-643- Modern Financial Survival. Do what you can now to lessen the impact of what is about to happen to us all.

For a time till the debt is paid off? Lets assume that The Gov stops ALL spending. Lets assume that they throw 100 million per DAY at the debt. At that rate do you know how long it will take to pay off the debt at current interest rates?? Over 300 years. If you want to have that in terms we can all relate to Your income is $50K per year. Your mortgage payments are $75K per year. How long can that go on? As long as you can keep getting another loan to cover the shortfall. Understand that the interest alone on the debt is now EQUAL to the largest portion of the budget - military spending at 600 billion. Just the interest, no principal at all. By 2020 interest alone will be 800 billion. http://www.profitconfidential.com/stock-market-advice/debt-gone-mad/ They will seize all or part of your 401K as a "loan" and they'll give you fixed income bonds in return. Your money will no longer be yours. Stop contributing now. Put it somewhere safer.