From: user@example.net   
      
   On 1/27/2026 5:32 PM, Don Y wrote:   
   >> "Ukraine has become a fast-feedback, live-fire test range in which   
   >> arms manufacturers, governments, venture capitalists, frontline units   
   >> and coders and engineers from around the West collaborate to produce   
   >> weapons that automate parts of the conventional military kill chain."   
   >>   
   >> Coders and engineers falling all over themselves to sell their souls   
   >> out to the war machine and the State like the filthiest of $2   
   >> prostitutes, sad stuff indeed..   
   >   
   > I think this represents a potentially huge paradigm shift for the   
   > arms industry.  Instead of million dollar, radiation hardened bombs,   
   > built by a select few "qualified" contractors, "sticks and stones"   
   > seem to be effective!   
   >   
   > Suddenly, "players" without deep pockets can become significant   
   > adversaries!   
      
      
   Players without deep pockets have proved significant adversaries (of the   
   US at least) for 70 damn years!   
      
   Maybe the US military should've hired a qualified contractor like Vo   
   Nguyen Giap as a consultant instead of hanging a POW/MIA flag on every   
   post office and pretending the Rambo movies were actual history..   
      
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