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.
> "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.
Not that this nit-pick changes the nature of the discussion.
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
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 :)