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Comment Re:No offense, but citations please? (Score 1) 104

Well, I won't research numbers for you (if you really wanted them you would have dug out numbers to support your point and proudly posted them), but consider that much of that 25%of GDP goes either to keeping people alive at home (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) to trying to make people dead overseas. And you can call them "Entitlements" as you wish, but Social Security and Medicare are insurance that workers pay for with every paycheck. I will not argue that we are spending way too much killing people overseas, but also note that much of the waste there was brought to you by private industry (hint: google Blackwater)

Also:
The Big Dig in Boston was not a Federal Project. The substandard materials that were used were substituted by private industries attempting to rip off the government. (in the name of maximizing profits).(hint: google Big Dig)
The cost overruns on the F35 were from Lockheed Martin, the private industry tasked with developing the aircraft.

Comment Re:Not a flying car (Score 1) 83

Motorcycles do not have bumpers and do really poorly being hit head on by a Suburban at 60 MPH. (And in reality few autos with bumpers, air bags, crush zones, etc will do really well hitting a Suburban at that speed).

Perhaps you don't recall that cars didn't have all this safety equipment as recently as 30 years ago. The reason that early imports got great fuel economy was that they were really light-the original Honda Civic was powered by the 750cc motorcycle engine and could not likely pass any modern crash test. It was hardly more than a 2 seat motorcycle in a box!

So making this "street legal' would just involve changing the definition of "street legal" for special case vehicles like this. Maybe rate them as experimental as some of the home-built airplanes are rated by the FAA,

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 369

Did you read TFA? (oh, yeah right-this is /.)
>>>
The consensus among military officials and bipartisan security experts is that nuclear reductions enhance U.S. national security. As the Nuclear Posture Review says, "Our most pressing security challenge at present is preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism, for which a nuclear force of thousands of weapons has little relevance."
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I'll let you google "Nuclear Posture Review"...

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