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Actual Costs for the Space Station
Cujo writes "This article in space.com discusses what the actual costs of the space station have been since it was first proposed by President Reagan in 1984. Depending on how you account for the cost of shuttle launches, the number is well over $40 billion in the U.S. alone. It begs the question of what else could have been done with the same money and far superior management."
The Bush tax cut will cut the U.S. Treasury's revenue this year by about $15 billion, just for the top 1% of the U.S. population. Next year, those same 1% will take home an extra $26 billion (and it keeps going up: the cut is back-loaded from 2001-2010. By 2010 it's worth $121 billion per year to the top 1%.).
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So if the richest people in the U.S. hadn't had their taxes cut for 2002 and 2003, we could build another space station.
In spite of all the talk about how hard using GnnuPG is, I have always managed to train our customers in 30 minutes to 2hrs time to use it for basic encryption/decryption/signing of information. The installation was the most difficult part and thanks to people like Gustavo Valconcelos, it's getting easier by the day
Now, I DID buy PGP 7.1.1 at promo price. I had a support issue last monday and I've been waiting since then.
Meanwhile, everyone can download and freely use both commercially and personally WinPT+GnuPG from several mirrors, of which I offered my personal space, here.
It'll be interesting to see how this develops, particularly in the other languages, of which GnuPG + WinPT already support many.
Cheers,
F.
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Christ, I've no clue what he's talking about either.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Fourteen? Unless you're not counting Jeshua.