Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:
https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/
More math!
~childo
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:54PM (2 children)
One key point about interstates vs a new wall design: we've done lots and lots of interstates, and made plenty of costly construction mistakes along the way - learned from those and refined the process.
A wall on this scale is essentially a new construction process - there are unknown unknowns, there will be surprises and embarrassing, expensive mistakes made along the way. $15B, $20B, $50B - we can do any of those numbers, but it's a one-off - lots of jobs for a short time, then a massive wave of unemployment after it's done. What's the next project?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @08:54PM (1 child)
We've done lots of walls in Iraq and Afghanistan. We can always ask Israel; they have a similar wall that is very effective.
There is a contractor offering to do the wall for $11 billion.
The next project is obvious. Lots of dangerous Muslims have moved to Canada. So after 2000 miles along Mexico, we do 3000 miles along Canada, and then maybe another 2500 up by Alaska.
After that, we can go back and double up the walls.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:13PM
Like in Berlin? Yeah, that was a great idea.
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