A whole new meaning to "General Failure writing to device".

There are a few sentences left here. But hurry up and read them before they edit it further.

Some years ago, Boeing was slapped with $500 million in fines by the DoJ. Within a few weeks, the Pentagon cut Boeing a check for .... $500 million for "additional expenses".

When you are the only source for some hardware, you don't pay fines. The taxpayer pays fines. And sometimes, you even make a profit on the transaction.

Is that so?

If they detect a police car parked behind the billboard, they switch to a large picture of a policeman parked behind the billboard.

The person you are standing in for is probably the son of some PLA general. And you still have relatives in China. So you will be returning and the general's idiot kid will be attending Harvard. And going on to be a CEO.

So, yes. This is typical executive behavior.

Well, there goes my weekend.

Otherwise known as a free market economy.

Punish these companies how exactly? Refuse to give them any more US contracts? Then they just move offshore and serve the Chinese, Russian, Indian and other markets openly. And that's one less source our military has. If you can identify individuals within these companies that knowingly sold to restricted customers, perhaps you could throw them in prison. But in my experience with DoD contractors, you'll either get a sacrificial goat or they will wreck their own companies defending the good old boy network.

... some techniques for dealing with anoying objects buzzing around.

Just think of a drone as a big mosquito.

If it carries a few ounces of anthrax or ricin, then yes.

Silly jokes aside, TFA said nothing and made no implications that increased spending on science and space would come out of any welfare programs. The idea that any potentially available tax funds automatically 'belong' to any one program and any allocation otherwise constitutes 'theft' is bizarre. Even muggers are willing to acknowledge that the money in my wallet is still mine up to the point that they relieve me of it and run. So your selfish attitude places the common criminal's morals above yours.

Yeah, its a shame. My 7 year old was just looking at her paycheck from the sneaker factory and complaining about how much the government takes out.

To Pluto?

Maybe the guy who wrote the payroll program.

... 'Fats'.