[56498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 923Mbits/s across the ocean
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas F. Calvert)
Mon Mar 10 08:10:47 2003
From: "Douglas F. Calvert" <douglist@anize.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10303081553500.28137-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Date: 10 Mar 2003 08:10:12 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:58, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> That's the argument that pentagon used to justify buying $40 lightbulbs.
> Does not work, sorry.
That is not the argument used to justify buying 40 lightbulbs. They do
not actually purchase 40 lightbulbs, the prices that you see in rag
magazine reports has to do with how the budgets are handled. If you can
budget a multi-billion dollar organization and put in reasonable price
and performance controls there are many schools that would hire you
after you revolutionized public administration and the DoD...
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Douglas F. Calvert <douglist@anize.org>
