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New downtown lab hopes to build software for the Air Force in under 12 parsecs
By adamg on Mon, 05/07/2018 - 8:40am
BostInno reports on the opening of the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab near North Station. It's a military "start-up" aimed at shortening the time it takes to build software to help run planes and stuff, and hopes to ramp up to 300 employees.
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You know that "parsec" is a unit of distance, not time...
...right?
Use the force, Luke. Or Google
Yeah, I know, I know. Talk to the Han.
Hey wait a mile
Parsecs ain't a measure of time !
Sure it is
in a long galaxy ago in a time far, far away.
Divide by rate
Now it occurred to me as he drove away
D= R x T
Nothing cuter...
than using terms from a beloved film for another DoD boondoggle that keeps the nerds from feeling guilty about who they work for.
They'd like to avoid any Imperial entanglements
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Right..that's why they work for the Pentagon...
Where you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...
Incorrect on 2 Counts
The top category of the wretched hive of scum & villinainy currently occupies the White House - next in line is the NRA headquarters which is tied with the offices of the US Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority leader.
Secondly, given Putin’s demonstrated goal of re-instituting the USSR approach to the world, military R&D by the US seems like a prudent move.
Ya think?
Putin's approach seems to have worked spectacularly in the fact that despite the trillions wasted by the Pentagon on toys that don't work the guy with one aircraft carrier and shitloads of hackers that aren't featured by Bostinno took over the Executive branch while the Pentagon sat there with their thumbs up their asses.
Then tell me how the money wasted on military R&D stopped that.
You are conflating a bunch of issues plus
If you see the world as a glass half empty than there is little I can say to convince you otherwise. Cynicism can be useful when applied prudently...cynicism about everything renders your opinion to irrelevancy.
What would you have the military do that our politicians won’t? Are you suggesting that DOD should have acted unilaterally to stop Putin’s actions or they should’ve inserted themselves into the election to prevent Trump from being elected? Interesting proposition.
Seems to me, I recall, multiple intel agencies (to include DIA) warned us that a cyber war was underway yet our elected officials (e.g. Mitch McConnel) refused to acknowledge the facts or take action.
As for military waste - it certainly exists but declaring everything they have done as bad, useless or a failure is false.
Right?
How many times has this country won a war since 1945? And as far as politicians go, it’s not my cynicism more than fact that rule number one after your office assignment is never fuck with the military or their budget.
Ask Paul Wellstone.
uh oh
Two Counts? This is getting out of hand.
I find your lack of faith disturbing
N/t
Wrong
When Star Wars was first aired on broadcast TV, the scene with that line was immediately followed with a commercial break featuring a Citibank ad.
Please bother to read the
Please bother to read the article the next time you make a comment. It's AF personnel working in a 'Silicon Valley' manner to deliver software faster. Military folks adopting civilian culture.