waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Salon’s article on McArmy leads me to the following proposition:

September 18th, 2003

Salon’s article
on McArmy
leads me to the following proposition: If, in general,
consulting firms and contractors have every incentive to
underestimate costs (to get the job) and prolong projects (to maximize
revenue from each job); and the world’s militaries are employing
special privatized military firms (essentially the same thing)
to fight wars and clean up after them; then we are choosing to
plunge the world into a perpetual state of low-to-mid-grade war.

Oh, crap, maybe that’s the whole idea after all.

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