I could use a new printer to replace my Lexmark from 2000...I did just buy a new digital camera.

Woot! Chance at a free iPhone? Awesome!

I'll miss George Harrison and I've honestly never heard too much about Beth Llewelyn, but good riddance to Perrin Kaplan.

I cannot stand her know-it-all nature and self important attitude; not to mention the fact that a good majority of the information that comes from her is always retracted or corrected in one way or another.

Didn't Dell used to sell stuff for Acer, or was it that Acer used to make the computers Dell sold?

You've severely misunderstood my comment.

A.) Amusing. lol

B.) Dar.

C.) Uh, the DoD is there to protect us from everyone and everything, not just Iranians.

D.) I did: "You've got to be kidding me; that is the most absurd thing I have ever heard! Nothing like the US government pawning off its responsibility to the greedy in corporate America." The rest had to do with Congresses spending habits.

FYI, I have no idea who that "coffinzm" is.

Anyway, to reply to you in my own words...

No, I'm not being anti-military, as in the sense of being against the U.S. service personnel or the military in general.

My point was that, if Congress can just hand over trillions of dollars a year for projects they know nothing about and may have little to no practical value and never see the light of day, telling NASA - who let's Congress know what they plan on doing - to "go corporate" is a poor way out.

NASA is a *government agency*. Telling them to sell ad space to earn some outside income would be like telling a U.S. soldier to wear a McDonalds label on their uniform so they could pay for their body armor or helmet supports.

It's a problem for Congress and they're just too lazy to deal with it.



P.S. - Trust me, I'm not some hippie. I know what the DoD and DARPA are there for and when it's kill or be killed, I'm certainly not going to lie down.

Yet, honestly, I'd rather see some of that money go to education, FEMA, Medicare or Social Security.

I mean, a bullet's a bullet. No matter how aerodynamically made or new the propellant, the end result will always be the same.

You've got to be kidding me; that is the most absurd thing I have ever heard!
Nothing like the US government pawning off its responsibility to the greedy in corporate America.

How about this Ken Calvert?
Rather than approving trillions of dollars a year for the DoD's and DARPA's "Black Projects" and other research projects to kill people a little more efficiently, how about you divert some of that money to agencies that actually do things to *help* people.

It’d be a nice change for once.