[ExI] robo-rescue

[John Clark]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote

*>>The  way to do something like that legally is by Unacknowledged Special
> Access Programs (USAPs), that's how the SR 71 got built, the military (well
> actually it was the CIA) admitted they wanted to build something but didn't
> want to say what it was, and Congress trusted them and gave them the money
> to do so. *
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> *> Congress doesn’t do that anymore.*
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*Like hell they don't! These days nearly 10% of the US military's entire
budget is spent on "black projects", but they didn't get that money by
committing perjury and lying to Congress. Where do you think the money to
build modern spy satellites comes from? For decades the US military refused
to confirm or deny that spy satellites even existed, but they always got
the money they wanted to build them as they do to this day.*

*>>…They didn't do it by lying to Congress and telling them they were
>> building a battleship…*
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> *> Again we end up arguing over a definition.  Can we create a set (in the
> mathematical sense) with clear boundaries, where everything inside that set
> is a “battleship” and everything outside that set is not? *
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*No. So what can you conclude from that?  An 80 pound man is clearly too
thin to be healthy and an 800 pound man is too fat, but there is not an
exact point where a thin man gains 1 ounce and discontinuously becomes a
fat man, so should a doctor conclude that weight has no effect on health? I
don't think so. Do you? *

*John K Clark*





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> >…*18 minutes before Trump announced a pause on his idiotic tariffs,
> somebody placed a 2.1 million dollar bet on it, and half an hour later that
> bet was worth $30 million. Gee I wonder who that guy could've been….*
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> *Follow the money John.  Are you the only person aware of this?  Do inform
> the NY Times. *
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> *>…I**n February of this year Donald Trump purchased $5 million in Dell
> stock just before the Department of Defense announced a $9.7 billion
> purchase agreement with Dell, then on multiple occasions Trump publicly
> told his supporters to "go out and buy a Dell computer"…*
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> *So file a lawsuit.  What is stopping you?*
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> >…*In the three months before the start of his Iran war Donald Trump’s
> financial trust  on average made 50 trades a day with defense contractors
> like General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Palantir…*
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> *So sue.  What is stopping you? *
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> *>…Donald Trump’s financial trust bought $6 million in Nvidia stock just
> before he approved advanced their chip sales to China…*
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> *Sue John.  Sue away.  That’s what courts are foe.*
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> *>…A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I remember when it was
> considered a great scandal when President Obama wore a tan suit!*
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