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Senor Beavis

Footnote #

Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 11:51 GMT

HARDCORK? Did you lose focus in the middle of writing that tortured acronym?

Chris Bradshaw

@ Senor Beavis #

Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 15:22 GMT

That next-to-last letter should be a C, unless my algorithm is way off... :-)

Thumbs up because you don't offer an more appropriate alternative :-D

heystoopid

Hmm #

Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 21:58 GMT

Hmm , it would probably cost them one tenth of that by funding a certain program at the University of Queensland , who even when working on less then a cent in the dollar paid to their rivals are still lots of Mach ahead of the nearest US equivalent so as to speak !

Charles Manning

Why you need an enemy #

Posted Tuesday 18th December 2007 22:53 GMT

You need to have an enemy to justify all the money spent on the military toybox.

The cold war was neat: a sophiisticated enemy with nukes and supersonic aircraft etc. They'd launched Spuntik and were proven to be technologically advanced. Lots of opportunity for the lab-coaters to spend up to advance military technology.

The modern enemy is portrayed as an unsophisticated camel-fiddling ay-rab so it is very hard to justify development of hypersonic aircraft to combat that lot.

9/11 must have been very frustrating for the military. They had aircraft carriers etc that could destroy any military force, yet had nothing to stop a few punks with box-cutters.

Rich

Unmanned troop transporter #

Posted Wednesday 19th December 2007 01:53 GMT

Bet that'll piss the grunts off! "Of course it's perfectly safe for you lot. We just wouldn't want to risk any of our highly trained pilots in the thing"

Rich