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Date: 9 Apr 92 15:53:34 GMT
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zen!schaefer.math.wisc.edu!nedervol@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Eric Nedervold)
Subject: Re: Open comment to Ted Holden
Message-ID: <1992Apr9.155334.20536@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU writes:
>  No matter what Army software costs it is cheaper than the
>alternative.  Imagine an enemy with Apache helicopter
>equivalents in your home town for an hour. The national
>debt may be huge but it is not as huge as the cost of
>rebuilding Wash DC or New Yoork after a nuclear attack.
>And, as an extra added benefit, we are alive and well
>and our infrastructure is intact and we can work to
>pay off that debt.

Does this argument extend to hardware too?  Like $500 toilet seats?

--Eric Nedervold