From: jl@glen--canyon.com
On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:07:37 +1100, Bill Sloman
wrote:
>On 30/01/2026 5:43 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:24:59 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>>
>>> In article <69795271$0$21961$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
>>> bitrex wrote:
>>>> On 1/27/2026 6:03 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> The fundamental service johns tend to be paying for is for her to go
>>>>>> away afterwards, not to fall in love with them..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway I can't imagine professing my love for my GF after working all
>>>>>> day in the weapons biz, like: "What'd you do today, honey?" "Oh you
>>>>>> know, worked on some software for this thing that'll probably blow some
>>>>>> poor bugger's limbs or head off, maybe make him a paraplegic or his wife
>>>>>> a widow and kids orphans. Yeah I was really laying down some solid
>>>>>> murderbot code at Murder Inc. today! Anyway, glad to be home, love ya
>>>>>> babe. What's for dinner?"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe they just say "it's classified" and leave it at that. I can see
why.
>>>>>
>>>>> If this post was from anyone else, I'd assume they were just having a
>>>>> bad day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> John Larkin
>>>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
>>>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm just saying it's disappointing when the party of "small government"
>>>> gets all excited over militaria. The "problems" involved aren't
>>>> particularly interesting and the "solutions" are mostly buggy junk,
anyway.
>>>>
>>>> "Our A.I.-powered platform processes battlefield data in real time,
>>>> adapting to changing conditions without human intervention,� the
>>>> pamphlet says. “Neutralize more targets at a fraction of legacy system
>>>> costs. Deploy at scale to achieve overwhelming force multiplication
>>>> against sophisticated threats.� The pamphlet claimed a “future monthly
>>>> production� of more than 6,000 units.
>>>>
>>>> As usual the NYT pretty much just repeats their military-industrial
>>>> master's breathless optimism about the new junk verbatim. I could just
>>>> read the sales brochure
>>>>
>>>
>>> The military industry in China makes weapons.
>>> The military industry in USA makes money.
>>
>> The CCP biggies make the money.
>
>Nowhere near as much as their American equivalents.
>
>> There was just a giant purge about
>> that. Probably has to do with tofu-dreg missiles or something.
>
>More likely political differences of opinion.
>
>> The russians have the same issue: all the good parts have been stolen.
>
>Not all of them. The Ukraine keeps on getting hit by IRBM's.
>
>> When I was working in the USSR, all sorts of stuff was stolen from our
>> work site. "Why not, it doesn't belong to anybody."
>
>The bosses were silly enough to have hired you. More sensible employers
>might have done better.
More lame insults. Don't you bore yourself?
My time in Moscow was interesting. They treated "American Capitalists"
like gods and treated common russians like trash. Entirely backwards,
I thought.
We were transported in a warm bus onto a warm Aeroflot plane and given
hot tea, as a crowd of russians waited outside to board, in the cold
rain.
We could buy stuff in shops in Moscow that russian civilians were not
allowed to enter.
The russian women, not just the mobs of hookers, were all over us.
They wanted to marry Americans, and my single male co-workers usually
came home with a Russian wife. I understand that it usually worked out
well.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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