Re: [semi-OT] Good mags (was Re:Terrorist Groups)

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In a message dated 26/02/02 12:04:41 GMT Standard Time, roger@firedrake.org writes:


> And sometimes it's worth it. I'm quoting Alan Brain on the Ground Zero
> Games mailing list, from last June:
>
> ]The story of the $500 wrench.


SNIP long and instructive explanation of expense in military procurement

> -- 
> Roger Burton West - roger@firedrake.org - gamer since 1984
> http://firedrake.org/roger/rpg/


The interesting thing is that this sounds exactly like what drug companies say when they insist on charging huge amounts of money for drugs: "We have to recoup the cost of R&D".
 
Charles

Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.