{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Edward Engelhardt (pizzicato)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-11 22:07:31 UTC","author_name":"Edward Engelhardt (pizzicato)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/pizzicato","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/553862","html":"In my head, the way the US governments buys aircraft and vessels for defence is some guy pulls up to a drive-thru, a voice crackles over the intercom and says 'Hi! Welcome to the DoD! How can I help you?', the guy looks at a menu and goes 'uhhhhm, I'll take 2,433 F-35s, 30 Virgina class submarines, six fleets of V-22s, four fleets FA-18-EFS, and another fleet of EA-18Gs', then the guy on the intercom says 'Okay, that'll be 137 billion dollars. Please pull around to the second window'."}