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This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:

...a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:

... Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:

...and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)

This was a new factory with new machines purchased from Turkey. The contractor is spending $200 million to unwind the deal with the Turkish company. The replacement machines are from a US company (at likely an even higher cost).

Its a long article to answer the "why" raised by the headline.

The "why" is this:

• the government wanted this plant producing shells fast
• the government wanted a newer version of the shell produced than was produced in the past
• the fastest way was to buy tooling/machines that made the old version and try to adapt those toolings/machines. Everyone seemed to know this was "high risk and high reward".
• the "high risk" didn't pay off. The tooling/machines built to make the old version simply couldn't make the new ones at the right quality that was acceptable
• the fix is to buy new tooling/machines capable of making the new version of the shells, and this is what's happening, but it will take time before the new tooling/machines are in and new version of shells are being produced

my whatsapp profile picture shows me with an Israel flag around my shoulders

...and....

I literally feel like I'm around a bunch of brainwashed people

ItsTheSamePicture.jpg /s

@cm0002@suppo.fi is making you eat the onion here.

This sounded nothing like Reagan would ever say so it immediately made me suspicious. A quick check showed this was actually a quote from Máo Zédōng from 1937.

Only to come on here and see… what my country is doing.

Don't let the bastards of the world do this to you. Go out today and inject some kindness back into the world even in the smallest of ways:

• buy socks and give them to a homeless person
• interact with someone in a service industry face-to-face and genuinely tell them how much you appreciate what they do and that they helped you today
• pick up a piece of trash on the ground and dispose of it properly
• even just hold the door open for someone else

All of these things and more make you a force of good. Sometimes it is very hard to do this for ourselves, but it can be easier to do for others. You don't need to move mountains, for each of us individually even the smallest pebble is enough. You can look behind you as see the positive ripple effects from your actions. Be a reason the world is a better place today than it was yesterday because YOU are in it.

I think another thing IBM was counting on was OS/2 Warp came out about 6 months before Win95 so folks were expecting a radical change in OS.

Those aren't kids to worry about. Those are kids to put into advanced classes because they've got some great understanding of complex topics and problem solving skills.

I know you're joking, but what would result if this actually happened would be after 1 week 99% of the laptops would never be powered on again and simply be handed back in at the end of the term.

“but at least you got free email and a homepage so you could put up HTML pages with animated GIFs“

Aw happier days. So much creativity and the ability to communicate with other humans. Meeting randoms was a fun gamble!

95% of people would put an "Under construction" gif and never another update to that web space.