because every area facing cuts is always "critical".

Like this one?

http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

Over three-quarters of a TRILLION dollars on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that,

In 2008, two analysts at the RAND Corporation, a California think-tank that works closely with the military, programmed a computer simulation to test out the F-35s fighting ability in a hypothetical air war with China. The results were startling.

“The F-35 is double-inferior,” John Stillion and Harold Scott Perdue concluded in their written summary of the war game, later leaked to the press. The new plane “can’t turn, can’t climb, can’t run,” they warned.

$59.2B for development, $261B for procurement, $590B for operations & sustainment in 2012

For something that no one in the military actually wants.

Translations: The Israelis are not terrorists because they use the best technology they have access to in order to target their munitions. Hamas are terrorists because they use the best technology they have access to in order to target their munitions. I like your double standard.

Can you apply the same reasoning to a Blu ray or DVD you bought and own? I didn't think so.

As for Afghanistan, we didn't really do anything to them. Sure, we got Bin Laden, but by that time he was almost dead anyway and that was just for political posturing by Obama, not to stop any real threat.

You forgot to add that if Hamas was playing by the US of A rules they would be called freedom fighters for peace justice and democracy... not terrorists...

"Your son is fairly secure in his position as a full partner, but the firm's newest hires are scary. Most of them simply don't sleep, ever; they're at the office for days at a time without rest, and when they do take "time off", they're out skydiving, or rock-climbing, or just partying. Partners have always had the power in law firms -- but how long can they maintain power when their underlings are so much smarter and more ambitious?"

Senior technical person here, >20 years experience. Top performer, creative, award winner, generating new work,etc.

Annual performance review time... Supervisor says. "You're doing great. Your raise is at the top of the range we're allowed to give. You got a bonus. But, there's a bunch of scary smart fresh-outs coming in. They don't sleep, they're incredibly productive, they're cheap (50% of my pay), they aren't married, they don't have kids. What are you going to do to differentiate yourself?"

Your nuts. .

The true irony here, is that, automobile manufacturing is a now, and historically since it's invention, American staple. It's become a slap in the face to the buyer that, you no longer can fix your car. WE, only who we say can, fix your car. That's about the most un-American thing I've ever heard!

Well, if one of the LEDs in your modern headlights breaks, you're gonna need a completely new headlight unit. That can be a cool grand or two.

Well, except it's not a law ... not a natural law, not a man-made law ... it's an observation, that's about it.

You can call it a law all you like, but that doesn't make it true.

Ergo, meme.

Here I thought we were having an adult discussion on disaster scenarios and you want to talk about bullshit internet memes.

Fusion is just a pipe dream, like ftl travel. A better solution would be to kill all rich people and Americans.

no way. for a gigantic fragile rocket it came in extremely hot. it was probably moving at 50+ MPH when reached 50 feet of the platform. it didn't slow down much until it was less than 10 feet away. it was also wobbling as it came in.

as much as i'd like to say that was close, it wasn't.