no I'm talking about the part where poor Americans who join the armed forces go to foreign countries, are asked to kill people and sometimes die themselves
you cannot talk about (re)building the military without discussing the decades and billions wasted pursuing pipe dreams and failed ideas
right now we are building an LCS that will be scrapped within a year of it being put to sea...we still have LCSs that even haven't had their keels laid...which will meet the same fate! say it out loud: "we don't want the LCS and will scrap them...can you build us eight more please?"
do you think the Chinese Navy is ordering boats they don't want?
and try spending some money on people, and I don't just mean better soldier pay...look at the pathetic physical condition of today's soldiers...what % of the armed forces are medically obese? go watch random military videos on youtube and see the guts hanging over the belts...its just pathetic
well Stewart always had the choice of going it alone and building out Slack as its own brand, but he took the $$$
he had the same experience with Yahoo buying Flickr so its not like any of this should have surprised him...he still consented to the acquisition of Slack
no difference here from the WhatsApp guys who took a ton of money and then pooped on Facebook...be happy you got the money and understand that you agreed to be acquired
> Cars are getting so big that people can’t drive them
and likewise, people are getting so big they can't drive their cars...
in Texas, police officers in some municipalities have requested that their vehicles be modified to elevate the steering wheel...they literally cannot jam their stomachs between the seat and the wheel, and if they push the seat back far enough they cannot reach the pedals
doctor tells patient to lose weight. patient does not comply, and is even heavier next year