Re: NationalJournal.com - Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C.

[Phil]

Call me a cynic if you like (most people do), but this is just like some of the innovative-but-cheap defence methods championed by politicians here in Europe. I'm now accepting bets on the following:

1. It will cost three times as much as predicted;
2. It will be blind in heavy rain;
3. It won't be deployable when it snows;
4. It won't work in bright sunlight. Or at night. Or on Thursdays.

Mind you, that's the European version I'm talking about.

Phil M1GWZ


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On 27 Jul 2013, at 23:45, Andre Kesteloot <andre.kesteloot at verizon.net> wrote:

> On 7/27/2013 18:23 PM, Alberto di Bene wrote:
>> On 7/27/2013 4:03 PM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
>>> NationalJournal.com - Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles -
>>> 
>>> http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/don-t-be-alarmed-by-the-drone-blimps-hovering-over-d-c-they-re-here-to-stop-cruise-missiles-20130726
>> 
>> Copied from that article :
>> 
>>> According to Raytheon, the units will protect a city at 500-700 percent less than the cost to 
>>> operate the reconnaissance planes necessary to maintain the same amount of coverage.
>> 
>> Maybe my math is a bit rusty, but IMHO a saving of 100% means bringing the total cost to zero.
>> So, what a saving of 500-700% does mean ? Do they actually gain, instead of spending, money doing that ?
>> Please enlighten me, thanks 73  Alberto  I2PHD
> Dear Alberto,
> 
> I am sorry to tell you that yours is the "Old Europe" way of looking at accounting.
> Clearly you fail to understand how Washington Government Mathematics     work.
> 
> Yes, per that statement from Raytheon, we gain between 500% and 700% with two Blimps (Just imagine: if we had 4 blimps, we could be overprotected...)
> 
> That is how we balance our books. (We call it QE3, Quantitative Easing  3, to the tune of $40 Billion a month (yes Siree, a mere $40B).
> 
> If only Italy (and Spain, and Greece. and Portugal) used the same WGM (Washington Government Mathematics), the EU would not be on the verge of bankruptcy.
> Now, if we only could teach Detroit how to understand the same modern accounting principles...
> 
> 73s
> André N4ICK
> 
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