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From Contact: > "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - Hadden For once, art has under-imitated the hyp
by bradleyland 14y ago
From Contact:
> "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - Hadden
For once, art has under-imitated the hyperbole that is our life.
- moron 14y agoLumping it all under "government spending" is burying the lede a bit.
- bradleyland 14y agoI'm not sure I follow. I'm not telling a story here, just pointing out a funny tie in from a piece of pop culture. There's probably something more subtle that I'm missing, because I'm dense like that :)
- zandorg 14y agoAnd that pop culture was written by Carl Sagan, who is no stranger to this subject!
- MiguelHudnandez 14y agoBuilding two is hardly twice the cost. The design and development work has surely got to be more costly than fabrication, assembly and installation. Not that this nit-pick changes the nature of the discussion.
- excuse-me 14y agoThat's the point of the joke. In the real world you can build two bits of identical high tech equipment for little more than the cost of one - in military procurement the normal rational rules of supply and demand don't apply
- bradleyland 14y ago1) My comment wasn't meant as a serious critique of the situation 2) Econ isn't my forte anyway C) You have my permission to stop being pedantic and laugh D) I switched from numbers to letters, lest anyone develop the impression I am at all serious :) When you make bullet lists like this, you can throw in a smiley emoticon and it will confuse at least a handful of people 6) Hope this made your Monday a little brighter :)
- olliesaunders 14y agoPure class. I love this guy.
- ytadesse 14y agoI'm with you on this Brad. This is also the first thing came to mind.
- molmalo 14y agoSame here! I thought "Just like in Contact!!" :)