Comment Re:What about other devices? (Score 1) 421
Microsoft could have used that defense too - Don't like Windows? Buy a Mac. It goes both ways.
Nevada already has a higher unemployment rate than surrounding states
Bingo. Just the savings in unemployment compensation and Medicaid that Nevada pays will be a big chunk of it.
Every single space program* is currently for peaceful purposes.
Every space program from the 1950's on has been primarily for two purposes: 1) Espionage 2) Missile technology. Science is a distant third but has always been used as the front for PR purposes.
Their philosophy/purpose was expressed in these following selected sentences:
The first principle of our movement must be anti-imperialism.
In order to fundamentally change the whole system of military, political and economic domination, our solidarity movement must fight imperialism in its totality.
The independence struggle of Puerto Rico is a strategic wedge of Latin American revolution that penetrates into the U.S. itself... In response to US imperialism, 5 armed clandestine political-military organizations in Puerto Rico, and the FALN in the US are attacking key US military and corporate targets and leading a growing people's war.
If she had admitted she was a member but had left it years ago she probably would have been okay. But lying about it in the interviews cost her the job.
I'd like to see both awarded a minimum number of flights (say 1/4 or 1/3 of total planned) at a fixed maximum price
In an ideal world, sure. But in the real world neither the government nor either company could afford that. NASA has to pick one and fund it.
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.
