A few years back, we were borrowing $1.3 trillion a year -- you could have cancelled the entire military AND taxed 100% of the income of the rich and (assuming they continued to work for $0 a year) still would have needed to borrow $150 billion a year.

A better question is is Apple the new Microsoft? Or the old Apple, for that matter. Of course Microsoft is still the old Microsoft.

Now that The Man is gone, and forever this time, upper management will move back to the non-innovating, don't shake the tree types waiting for their stock options or golden parachutes to kick in. A Confederacy of Do-Nothings.

Trying to effect change, eh?

well the most fun hack was using a kodo beast and a raider to ensnare and devour a level 10 red dragon and suicide the kodo in an enemy base where the level 10 dragon proceeded to kill the enemy for me.

the best hack ever was using a boot floppy to take a user password which i knew and put it in the root password's shadow file which i had forgotten the root password for, and then rebooted and got into Debian as root, and proceeded to load x as root. it was my laptop though, i just was kinda trying to stop relying on windows 95 and use freebsd and debian linux.

and why do they all have houses families kids and favorite movies and favorite books, and high paying jobs in wet lush paradise cities where they only fade away when the hard drive fill up.

note: i'm not claiming i can do this, i only have 25 GB blurays to store it on so it probably cuts off. but really i mean why the hell do we need 100 years of chat logs for every single marine made in any starcraft game ever played.

would you kill me if i told you every single password to every single account of every single computing account? on every platform ever imagined, with up to 2048 bit password legths in an automatically compressed (only used space of passwords not 2048 bit for every single password) format in rot 13 encryption?

windows 3.11 for work groups could only record 30 seconds worth of music in pcm format with the built in tools.

"Either that, or the money is really going somewhere else and the F-35 development program is a scam."

CHEMTRAILS!

"But how many US pilots have been in an actual dogfight since, say WWII"

John McCain. You might have heard of him. He ran for president a while back.

Positive ID is obtained with IFF. Not sure why you'd have to wait until visual range for that.

TFX. The Navy's desires were built into the F-111 and they decided they wanted the F-14 anyway. This is the same story.

Procurement isn't about getting the right weapon. It's about exercising a decision-maker's ego and getting votes back home.

My experience is that people who show up for a product or service (or pizza, whatever), get what they ordered and are content ... do NOT generally stop what they're doing to run off and tell the world, "My $10 pizza was satisfactory." Anybody who has ever worked retail (and paid attention) can tell you that a hundred happy customers will simply return for more business when they want, but not take time out to communicate to the business or to anyone else that they're happy customers. Life's too short, they just carry on. People who are truly dismayed about their experience, however, will take to every communication method they can dream up to make sure the world knows of their displeasure. And some of the people who do that are just plain nuts, or have very poor judgement, or are either hobby-level or professional trolls. That's who we all hear from, well out of proportion to the real-world experiences of most people. And the internet echo-chamber tends to greatly amplify that effect.

I have many machines and windows doesn't slow down on me. I have seen it happen to others though.

I thought it was separating a stage, though it looked a little "big", but the announcer wasn't announcing it. Then a "second stage" separation seemed to occur, and that was wrong because there was only supposed to be one. Then a thousand shards started falling.