{"id":193368,"date":"2008-12-20T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/note-to-self-if-you-pay-someone-to-buy-something-they-generally-buy-it\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T12:21:00","slug":"note-to-self-if-you-pay-someone-to-buy-something-they-generally-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/note-to-self-if-you-pay-someone-to-buy-something-they-generally-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Self:  If You Pay Someone to Buy Something, They Generally Buy It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is why, to no one&#8217;s surprise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ae02990ed-675f-47b8-bc0c-9caccc52e3d1\">the Dutch have decided that the JSF best suits their needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d have to be an idiot to not know that it was a done deal.  After as Bill Sweetman notes, the Dutch were using PowerPoint slides lifted directly from Lockheed-Martin as a part of their evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The good Mr. Sweetman also notes that there were <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">numerous errors<\/span> int he comparison, and they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> cut in favor of the JSF.<\/p>\n<p>When one looks at the industrial offsets to Holland, it&#8217;s pretty clear that there is more money flowing in than flowing out.<\/p>\n<p>As such, it would have been insane to expect any other result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is why, to no one&#8217;s surprise, the Dutch have decided that the JSF best suits their needs. You&#8217;d have to be an idiot to not know that it was a done deal. After as Bill Sweetman notes, the Dutch were using PowerPoint slides lifted directly from Lockheed-Martin as a part of their evaluation. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}