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Edited by Christian Lowe \| Contact

Rapid Fire 01/25/07

* Georgia's uranium sting

* NYPD won't use $140M radios

* Tijuana police trade guns for slingshots

* Note to self: don't fly Air China

* Look out below! 35 more Ospreys

* Dems target Iraq contracts

* "Beirut in flames"

* Army IM = "killer app?"

* China hawks strap on space wings

* Store data... on a photon?

* Bonfire of guns

* Defense energy lowdown

* Marines oust medicine man

* Who dares question me?!?!?

(Big ups: BB, JS, RC)

Comments

To Edward Liu, JAN 25:
Quite right! An unfortunately large group of people these days seem to live by the premise that "if somebody wrote it on the internet, then it must be true".

By that reasoning, Elvis is alive and well and running a hotdog stand in Mayfair, Nebraska, the Earth is flat, the Moon landings never happened and millions of Americans (why only them, BTW ?) are routinely being kidnapped by aliens for experiments of a suspiciously sexual nature.

Let Common Sense Prevail (please).

Regards,
Thomas

Posted by: Thomas L. Nielsen at January 26, 2007 02:11 AM

There is a fair amount of skepticism in the comment thread of the Air China story.

Not that I don't find it plausible on its face, but I would like to see more proof (like an actual news story or a maintenance report) before I accept the event as stated.

Posted by: Edward Liu at January 25, 2007 02:07 PM

- Army IM = "killer app?" deserves some attention.

If you look on how the web changed people when stuff like wiki, youtube, rss and community sites entered the web, imagine on how it may improve the military. A wiki on Humvee-armoring-in-the-field would have been very usefull...

A closed/secure warzone intranet lets all kinds of specialized troops share thoughts, advise and tactics, even when they are 300 miles apart. And i guess it also would be great for morale.

Posted by: Macaca at January 25, 2007 01:16 PM

Rapid Fire 01/25/07

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