Donald Trump

is working with the Clintons   0 votes - 0 %
can't keep feeding his ego   2 votes - 18 %
has a bet with some other rich person to see how far he can get   3 votes - 27 %
is working with Cruz, so Cruz appears sensible   3 votes - 27 %
is not as good as the original German   3 votes - 27 %
wipo   0 votes - 0 %
 
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have you been to Syracuse? by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #3 Wed Dec 09, 2015 at 08:46:19 PM EST


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I've driven through Syracuse by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Dec 09, 2015 at 09:04:29 PM EST
And even stopped at the bus/train station.


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the air port. oi by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #13 Thu Dec 10, 2015 at 08:19:13 PM EST


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Every sizeable German town has a by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Dec 10, 2015 at 01:17:54 AM EST
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. It's like looking for Peachtree in Atlanta.

"To this day that was the most bullshit caesar salad I have every experienced..." - triggerfinger

I would believe that in the areas formerly known by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Dec 10, 2015 at 09:08:45 AM EST
as East Germany, but in the areas formerly known as West Germany?


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Yep. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 0) #20 Sat Dec 12, 2015 at 01:11:18 AM EST
Liking Communism is de rigeur these days.

"To this day that was the most bullshit caesar salad I have every experienced..." - triggerfinger

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communism is good. by the mariner (4.00 / 1) #22 Sun Dec 13, 2015 at 08:00:42 AM EST
come for the sickle, stay for the hammer.

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Universes by johnny (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Dec 10, 2015 at 08:38:06 AM EST
I like the idea of shared fictional universes with a benevolent instigator/show-runner. Especially if that show-runner/first writer makes some money at it. *

I like your description of the kind of writing that would not be condoned in that world.

The old "futuristic" terminal at JFK, I forget its designation, used to be the worst I had ever encountered. Substantially more third-world than anything  I experienced in Africa in the 1970's. But they finally decommissioned it and put some nice new ones into service. "Took ya long enough!"

References to Nordhausen & Gravity's Rainbow appreciatively noted.

* Still waiting for this to happen to my Mind over Matter universe, what what. I did a bit of my own fanfic, re-imagining Acts of the Apostles as Biodigital. So far I'm not rich like Hugh Howey.

She has effectively checked out. She's an un-person of her own making. So it falls to me.--ad hoc (in the hole)

I think the publisher helped push it by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Dec 10, 2015 at 09:29:01 AM EST
Baen seems to have a lively internet presence, and a good stable of authors.

The description was a paraphrase of what Eric Flint has previously written. He got flooded with martial arts instructors stopping in Grantville, F-15's flying over at the very second it went back in time, people with trunks full of computer manuals and modern medicines and rare items.


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An F15 would be useless by lm (2.00 / 0) #14 Fri Dec 11, 2015 at 06:12:26 AM EST
One afternoon worth of fuel and no satellites would make it nothing more than a curiosity in short order.

Good luck even finding the necessary tools to make the armaments useful if taken off of the plane.

Come to think of it, that might actually make for an interesting story.


Kindness is an act of rebellion.
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It's was already done in 1968 by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #15 Fri Dec 11, 2015 at 07:19:30 AM EST
Hawk among the sparrows, by Dean McLaughlin.


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Honorable mention also goes to... by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #16 Fri Dec 11, 2015 at 07:50:12 AM EST
The Final Countdown. Must remove the blonde wig and air guitars, because this is not that song by Europe, but the movie starring a time travelling aircraft carrier.


Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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Also, fuel wouldn't be a huge issue by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #17 Fri Dec 11, 2015 at 08:59:21 AM EST
as diesel would work well enough, and heavy equipment and trucks from the mines and power plant came through, so there are plans to get diesel from the small local deposits, and maybe biodiesel.


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Quality by anonimouse (4.00 / 1) #18 Fri Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05:07 AM EST
..aviation fuel is refined to higher standards than your average diesel fuel.


Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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Right, but with no spare parts for PMs and UMs by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #19 Fri Dec 11, 2015 at 11:08:50 AM EST
just how long will an F-15 be capable of flying?


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Some A-10s can run on alcohol-based biofuels. by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #21 Sat Dec 12, 2015 at 01:30:31 AM EST
THAT should be America's national bird.

"To this day that was the most bullshit caesar salad I have every experienced..." - triggerfinger

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Quantity by lm (2.00 / 0) #23 Mon Dec 14, 2015 at 05:45:34 AM EST
Those birds burn through fuel like nobody's business. Small local deposits and biofuels aren't going to cut it unless they've got a dedicated infrastructure already in place.

Kindness is an act of rebellion.
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