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Re:Iowa Spent $50M to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started by jrmurad on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @12:53PM (#9571461)
> “Four years is light years in technology,” [the local official] said.

I wonder whether the journalist purposely used this as the article's final sentence to demonstrate that politicians don't "get" science/technology... or maybe relating a length of time to a distance slipped past the writer and editor(s) as well.

Re:Iowa Spent $50M to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started by jpg0rd0n on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @01:02PM (#9571521)
I thought that was a bit ignorant to throw in there too, but sadly, have gotten used to seeing nonsense like that in "serious" articles.