Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (707214)	4/3/2013 4:06:30 PM
From: i-node	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583980

I'm not interested in discussing this with you as you're an idiot. However, I would point out that in the House Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security -- conducted by Conyers (no fan of SDI) in the runup to the Missile Defense Act, Conyers complained that funding "Star Wars" was a waste of money based on Patriot's alleged poor performance during the Gulf War. Now, it is true that Patriot wasn't perfect at that time, it raises the question of why Conyers was attacking Patriot (if in fact Patriot wasn't derived from SDI technology) in that subcommittee hearing as a "failure" of SDI? "over the past eight years, the administration had been successful in convincing Congress to give it billions of dollars for Star Wars, but the program proved remarkably unsuccessful in producing much of anything with the funds." And in fact, the scientists who testified before the committee at the time criticized the technology, not for its infeasibility, but because they believed we didn't need any missile defense capability. You really have no idea what you're talking about, and I have no more time to waste on this subject with you.