Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On 5/30/25 16:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 30/05/2025 20:21, % wrote:

Joel wrote:

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:22:51 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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Well, I guess that’s over, now that Elon Musk has left the building.
That’s the end of DOGE, without “saving” anywhere near the trillion
dollars he originally promised.

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Comes as a *total* shock, lemmetellya.

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Let's say they had cut that much with this DOGE BS (not that it's 100%
a stupid idea, of course, but they were not approaching very
rationally), wouldn't the proposed tax breaks offset it?  Wouldn't we
still be spending a large fortune every year on the damn military?
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no because there would be tariffs that go to trumps pocket

 Military spending is pretty low in reality.

It is not low but the latest tools are fabulously expensive though as
un-piloted aircraft take the load off bombers and fighters whose pilots
will go to observational planes to check out the accuracy of our unmanned
devices.

 And it is a *pragmatic* program, whereas so much is spent on purely *moral* initiatives to employ people who think they can therefore tell how to run your life better than you can yourself.
 

So spending millions then on ineffective equipment was worth it to find out that
unarmored personal carriers for example waste the lives of trained and equipped
soldiers combined with home built explosive devices.
Pragmatically we need to return to a world in which civilian contractors are
extraneous to the missions.  Civilian contractors not only who build less effective
weapons and vehicles but who enrich themselves by selling the next "great thing"
to the generals. Civilian contractors who are empowered to ignore the military rules
of engagement and are uncivil to the indigenous populations and persons.
bliss