Recent content by jkochman

  1. Man in High Castle coming to DVD?,

    Amazon has no reason to release the show on DVD as getting access to the show is one of their ways to sell Amazon Prime. At least this is the case in the US. If your outside the US then I'm not sure what your options would be. However a year of Amazon prime would not be much more cost wise...
  2. Alternate Republic of China Air Force- ideas and discussion

    I wonder if there would be any issues with the US selling a strategic bomber to a country that borders the Soviet Union. I could see something like this really messing with any arms negotiations during the 1960's. Also keep in mind the US never historically sold any of it's strategic bombers.
  3. AHC/WI: The Video Arcade remains popular.

    I think if you kill the Playstation then you might have arcades do better in the US. The Playstation and subsequent PS2 and Xbox solidified consoles as the dominate form of gaming. In the mid to late 1990's PC gaming was very popular, but once PC gaming began to require expensive upgrades like...
  4. American fictional invasion of Russia.

    There was a book called Arc Light about an American invasion of Russia after a limited nuclear war. It was set in the mid 90's I believe. The Cold War ended differently I believe. The Soviet Union is still around, but more liberal. The war is set by a Rogue Soviet general tricking Russian...
  5. WI Turkey adopts a US-style highway policy?

    I spent about a year in Turkey and the drivers there are extremely aggressive. I think driving on a Turkish interstate like the autobahn or interstates here in the states would be very interesting.
  6. A Better Name For The War Of 1812

    The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back
  7. Survival of the aristocratic estates

    For most Americans, the British political system is oddly familiar, but at the same time very confusing. I know the members of the House of Lords use to be members due to there hereditary lines. There were recent reforms that changed that, but are there any members that are there simply...
  8. Black Knight/Arrow

    That's a good point. But with the old saying "hind sight is best" applies. I still think the gov in the Uk made the right choice. They had no way of knowing how the market would develop and the French would have proved tough competion. What I'm curious about is what portion of the commerical...
  9. Black Knight/Arrow

    I just purchased a nice coffee table book on the Space Race. You can get it here in the States at Borders for $9.99. It's got Ed White during his space walk. Anyway there's a nice little section on the British space program that primarly focuses on the Black Arrow/Blue Streak programs...
  10. Sino-Soveit Nuclear war

    I'm just finishing my Masters in International Relations and I just wrote a paper on Nuclear Deterrence so I thought I'd throw my two sense in. Now the whole computer virus thing for me isn't believable, but lets just let that be. The small size of the Chinese nuclear arsenal ment then...
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