It's because military spending is used as industrial welfare. A few years back, a group of US Navy Officers specified the follow on missile design to Trident II to be pretty "Same again, bu… (View Post)

They are very densely layered - the early ones. Later, he kept writing the same thing. A trick that he over used is that the more important an event, the fewer words it gets. In one the last books, a… (View Post)

One change I’ve noticed over my adult life, is that debate has changed from “Can we afford this?” to goal based “We must do x, y and z”. This has broken local government finance. As a start. (View Post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY Game Over, Man! (View Post)

My wife is still organising her sisters - as the eldest she got the job of looking after them. Dad was a drill instructor in the Peruvian Army. (View Post)