Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by paganel on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:34AM
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> I would rather the military be less capable, because its current capability is being used for offensive, not defensive purposes.
Same here, that’s why I’m glad this contract went to MS instead of AWS, as I see the latter as being technologically better than MS’s cloud solution.
Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by vonmoltke on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:16AM
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> insisting on spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined.
While the US military expenditures are ridiculously high, they're only ~34% of worldwide expenditures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
> I don't understand why so many people are, at the same time, so enthused by the idea of starving government (Because they think most of its services are a waste of money), while at the same time, insisting on spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by mmmeff on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:12AM
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This comment gave me woke cancer.
Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by ploxolo on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:58PM
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So I take you approve of Trump's decision on Syria?
Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by senderista on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:56AM
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He advanced a long-term goal that I agree with (disengagement from Syria) in a manner I found stupid and immoral (abandoning the Kurds with no security guarantees and leaving potentially tens of thousands of IS prisoners free to escape).
If it's less capable, it's less likely to get embroiled in stupid imperialistic adventures.
Edit: I don't understand why so many people are, at the same time, so enthused by the idea of starving government (Because they think most of its services are a waste of money), while at the same time, insisting on spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined.