Tuesday, February 29, 2000

Military Spending Hmm, I just found out that the F-22 Raptor will cost about $200,000,000 a piece. Multiply that by the 300+ the Air Force wants to bring into service between 2005 and 2015 and that's an obscene amount of money. 2:13:00 PM     F-22 Raptor Yesterday I was talking with Mary at lunch about something I had read where Bill Bradley had indicated he wanted to eliminate the F-22 Raptor program as a cost saving measure if he was. Considering the F-15's it will replace are about 26 years old and the technological advances we've made since they came out (stealth technologies, more powerful computers, thrust vectored engines, classified stuff, etc.), not to mention the money we've already invested in developing the F-22 that didn't strike me as a good course of action. Our conversation moved on to other things that I did actually like about Bradley and I didn't think anything more of it. Then last night I happened to flip to a program on the Discovery Channel about Air Force test pilots and it spent several minutes discussing and showing footage of the F-22. Nothing like a good coincidence I always say. 1:26:00 PM     Thrilla Called Mozilla The latest Mozilla build seems pretty snappy on Windows 2000. I guess I need to find some really taxing sites and see how it does with those. 11:53:00 AM

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