R.I.P.: Star Trek Enterprise designer dies.
Link of the Day: | Diablo 3 Item Generator. Thanks Mankale. |
Stories of the Day: | Full sentence for virus writer after appeal fails. Hidden in every brain there lurks a poet. We just might not know it. |
Wild Science: | Simulation
shows effects of media on public opinion. Star survey reaches 70 sextillion. Pentagon Wants to Make a New PAL. |
Weird Science: | Capture of 200 dolphins sets off uproar. |
Image of the Day: | Dolphin Stress Test. Thanks anon@127.0.0.1 |
Follow-ups: | The On-Again, Off-Again Space Wedding. |
Thanks Mike Martinez. |
To put it concisely-there's a massive amount of waste on redunancy which is intentionally created by the MIIC in the first place in order to keep the money rolling in.
yeah! that way with a lower tech military a LOT more lives would have been lost in afghanistan and iraq!
Military spending should be slashed massively anwyay.
"Both the “left” and the “right” pretend they have the answer, but they are mere flippers on the same thalidomide baby, and the truth is that neither side has a clue."
- Jim Goad
So instead of a piece of software you'd rather have a headquarters company of 100 people, each of which needs a paycheck? Okay...
30 mil for some PDAs the guys at the Pentagon will never use anyway
So that's where the term "Jefferies' Tubes" came from...
You have to look at it from Hudson's point of view: Defending territory is a tough job, but it has to be done. As soon as you let one skunk across your borders, you might as well move out and let the skunks have the place. It's about RESPECT, damnit!