By that definition, just about everything the military operates is obsolete. The B-1, B-2, B-52, F-15, F-16, and F-18 were all developed with the Soviet Union in mind. Are they obsolete too?
Since you asked, yes: they are.
Manned fighters and bombers are vastly more expensive than missiles and unmanned aircraft, and the need to keep the pilot alive is the hard limit on their performance.
We need to make certain that we remain ahead of CHina.
We won't do it by wasting vast amounts of money trying to maintain a global empire. China doesn't have the costs of keeping troops bases in 130 countries around the world.
The only thing that fallacy shows is that if someone breaks your window, you've lost the choice of where to spend some of your money. But it doesn't drain the economy, as you claim.
Oh, and you got that wrong, too. Go read Bastiat and try to learn something.
Saving $330 million per plane not built, your government could set up factories to build an awful lot of other things instead and pay for a heck of a lot of training to give workers the skills to do work in other sectors.
Better still, we could leave that money in private hands, to be saved or spent on whatever people choose of their own free will.
The time to cancel this project was the day the Berlin wall came down. The money spent on a single f22 can pay for a lot of counter-terrorism operations. Hell, we probably could have bought Bin Laden from the Taliban for $100M in cash.
Are you putting us on, or are you really that dense?
The F22 program spends millions of man-hours and billions of dollars on activities that contribute no net improvement to the wealth of the country. People building F22s are people NOT building anything that we can buy to improve our standard of living. They may as well be breaking windows and repairing them, or digging holes and filling them back in again. War production is not wealth.
No. The prrogram diverts resources from the productive sector to the military sector. The people working on the f22 program are people not working on production that actually increases our wealth.
I would expect the fiber to be replaced with a laser diode right on the cylinder head in the near future. IIRC, you can already get IR laser diodes with quite enough power output to ignite a gasoline-air mixture.
This guy spent 14 years in prison based solely on the decision of a single judge, without any kind of trial.
Looks like two of his constitutional rights were violated. We have a right to a jury trial for any dispute involving an amount of money over twenty dollars.
My guess is that some applications were allowed only because the people reviewing the code didn't have a clue as to what it actually does, or how bad it actually is from an attack perspective.
I concur. As i've mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, Apple did make mistakes, but their mistake wasn't in rejecting the app in question, it was in approving other apps that use the PhoneGap.
Obviously, you have no idea what "stagnation" and "stability" mean. The pace of innovation in the iPhone OS, and in third-party apps that run on it is excellent, and the stability of the platform is a major contribution to that.
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By that definition, just about everything the military operates is obsolete. The B-1, B-2, B-52, F-15, F-16, and F-18 were all developed with the Soviet Union in mind. Are they obsolete too?
Since you asked, yes: they are.
Manned fighters and bombers are vastly more expensive than missiles and unmanned aircraft, and the need to keep the pilot alive is the hard limit on their performance.
-jcr
We need to make certain that we remain ahead of CHina.
We won't do it by wasting vast amounts of money trying to maintain a global empire. China doesn't have the costs of keeping troops bases in 130 countries around the world.
-jcr
The only thing that fallacy shows is that if someone breaks your window, you've lost the choice of where to spend some of your money. But it doesn't drain the economy, as you claim.
Oh, and you got that wrong, too. Go read Bastiat and try to learn something.
-jcr
This sounds rather like an anti-Semitic remark to me, Sir!
No, an anti-semitic remark would be to claim that all jews support the activities of the criminals I listed.
-jcr
Saving $330 million per plane not built, your government could set up factories to build an awful lot of other things instead and pay for a heck of a lot of training to give workers the skills to do work in other sectors.
Better still, we could leave that money in private hands, to be saved or spent on whatever people choose of their own free will.
-jcr
The time to cancel this project was the day the Berlin wall came down. The money spent on a single f22 can pay for a lot of counter-terrorism operations. Hell, we probably could have bought Bin Laden from the Taliban for $100M in cash.
-jcr
Are you putting us on, or are you really that dense?
The F22 program spends millions of man-hours and billions of dollars on activities that contribute no net improvement to the wealth of the country. People building F22s are people NOT building anything that we can buy to improve our standard of living. They may as well be breaking windows and repairing them, or digging holes and filling them back in again. War production is not wealth.
-jcr
No. The prrogram diverts resources from the productive sector to the military sector. The people working on the f22 program are people not working on production that actually increases our wealth.
Google for "broken window fallacy".
-jcr
I would expect the fiber to be replaced with a laser diode right on the cylinder head in the near future. IIRC, you can already get IR laser diodes with quite enough power output to ignite a gasoline-air mixture.
-jcr
OMG, that's worse than a rickroll.
What is seen can not be unseen. Don't click that link!
-jcr
Oddly enough, even though I'm American, the first two such countries that sprung to mind were Uruguay and Uganda.
-jcr
WTF are you talking about? It's China that has that one-child policy, not Lithuania.
-jcr
Them, too.
-jcr
All of these men have robbed others of billions of dollars, by participating in a massive fraud. Were you not clear on that point?
-jcr
Try it out and let us know how that works for you.
AC wins the thread. Well done.
-jcr
Not enough...
It is rather disappointing that Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Timothy Geithner, and Bernie Madoff haven't sought to atone.
-jcr
I wonder why their rate is so high.
-jcr
No jury could possibly find any other way than he was in contempt.
A jury could find that he wasn't able to pay, as opposed that he wasn't willing to pay.
-jcr
This guy spent 14 years in prison based solely on the decision of a single judge, without any kind of trial.
Looks like two of his constitutional rights were violated. We have a right to a jury trial for any dispute involving an amount of money over twenty dollars.
-jcr
I didn't see any difficulties developing apps for Windows Mobile in VS, for example.
Hey, if you were comfortable developing for that platform, you're welcome to it. Somebody's got to do it I guess, and better you than me.
-jcr
How can you not know that apps are submitted in compiled form?
Oops. I said "build", what i meant was "pass the automated tests". I tend to think of unit testing as a build phase.
-jcr
I thought you worked for apple.
Not lately.
-jcr
the fraction could be pretty large. ...or it could be a couple of dozen people out of a pool of ten thousand. I'm more inclined to believe the latter.
-jcr
My guess is that some applications were allowed only because the people reviewing the code didn't have a clue as to what it actually does, or how bad it actually is from an attack perspective.
I concur. As i've mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, Apple did make mistakes, but their mistake wasn't in rejecting the app in question, it was in approving other apps that use the PhoneGap.
-jcr
Obviously, you have no idea what "stagnation" and "stability" mean. The pace of innovation in the iPhone OS, and in third-party apps that run on it is excellent, and the stability of the platform is a major contribution to that.
-jcr