That’s not what that article actually says. It actually says near time costs have been declining (as I said). However a decision by the USAF to reduce the full rate production to 60 (from 80) per year will result in a projected extra cost of $30B due to lower economies of scale and having to stretch the supply base…

NASA needs a good, clear mission that won’t change with the next President before we should roll a dump truck full of money up to it. NASA has been rudderless since Apollo was cancelled. ISS, frankly, is *not* worth the $150 billion spent on it. That’s enough cash to fix actual problems. You can also build a lot of…

People *still* bitch about the F-35 and that program has been at or below projected cost for a decade.

It’s really great how you managed to turn this travesty and OP’s sharing of his/her life into something about you and how you’re special and good and should not be grouped in with bad people, because you’re good and special.

TBH, the biggest thing keeping the Navy from deploying tactical nukes again would be all the bitching from the USAF, who currently own the “flexible response” (that is “less than WW3") mission via the B61 variable yield gravity bomb.

The weapons themselves work, just too well, or so the theory goes. There is a belief that America wouldn’t use nukes that have “too big” of a boom outside of WW3. So they don’t deter a country like Syria from gassing Americans because nobody thinks we’d be so cruel as to wipe Damascus off the map in retaliation. They…

Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany, and yes, even Greece didn’t crash and burn because of debt levels or the printing press. Their main problem is that their economies was broken. Zimbabwe because they decided it was a bright idea to break up all the big farms and hand the land over to anyone regardless of ability to actually…

Well, for WV, building an entire economy solely on coal. NM, the result of kicking every Native American off their land and tossing them in the ass end of the desert. Every other state, the Civil War and Segregation.

Well, the colonies were obviously devasted with some kind of weapon of mass destruction. Chemical (implying another terrorist type attack) or nuclear (implying infiltration of the military). Either fits with what we’ve seen. Nuking some major bases (and/or the Pentagon) while making clear that several more bombs are…

Health care was, and remains, a crisis from the early 90's to this day. Either people don’t have, it’s unfordable, complicated, or just doesn’t cover needed services. Maybe all of the above.

Obama totally misread his mandate. People wanted him to get revenge on the bankers and get people back to work (admittedly, those two goals kinda conflict). Healthcare could’ve come later.

Me or OP is bullshitting?

Beginning a sentence with “and” is not against any formal rules of English. Like anything, it’s best used in moderation. This usage is actually pretty good. Breaking the blurb into two sentences emphasized George as an afterthought, driving the joke home.

The Undiscovered Country is a story about getting old and fearing change wrapped in a story about racism wrapped in a allegory for the fall of the Berlin Wall with an Abe Lincoln analog tossed in for good measure.

Touche.

“Because Nazi” is a acceptable justification for video (or real life) violence all by itself.

Cost of labor is not why Apple is still in China. That’s why they moved there in the first place, but cost hasn’t been the driving factor for 5 years.

Price might go up a whopping $10. There is very little labor in an individual iPhone, like anything that’s produced by the tens of millions. China isn’t that much cheaper than America these days.

The army hasn’t executed ANYONE in almost 60 years (and THAT was for rape/murder).

Oh geez. No, we don’t execute idiots in wartime. And no, this isn’t symbolic of some great decay of society. There has *always* been stupid people in the service (as stupid people are everywhere). Entire ships have been sunk by them. Most of the procedures in place are intended specifically against single points of…