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Originally Posted by Parabellum
You said that again.
Surely you have seen some of those government contracts that were made public....shit like paying $400 for a toilet seat....$300 for a light switch....
I wonder where those funds go? I'm sure I will never know. |
If you ever go through the tests required to get crap certified, you will understand the price (you may have, I don't know).
One day, we were going through some test specs for a piece of military hardware we were designing (some electronics for patriot) and stumbled across a test spec for......
wait for it.......
A TOILET PAPER HOLDER! I shit you not (no pun intended) there was a test spec that a holder of a roll of toilet paper must pass before it is deemed worthy to hold the paper that will wipe government ass. The only part I remember is "The Free Spin Test" which stated that, when filled with a roll of toilet paper, and spun by hand, it would freely spin for X number of revolutions before stopping.
Stupid stuff.