Re: [HOE] Pricing...

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> Well, they did it all pretty much according to a grand plan.  As far as
> weapon technology goes, there's a pretty large school of thought going
> that says that guns aren't going to get much better, or at least the guns
> that are cheap enough to hand out to every last soldier on the field
> aren't.  There are energy guns and cool stuff out there, but they're more
> rare because the militaries of the world didn't issue them to just
> anyone.  You had to be someone special to get hold of them, and if you're
> that special, you've probably still got the gun...

Yeah, but this is a pretty flawed way of thinking.
When Gatling invented the Gatling Gun he thought that it would end war for
all time because the cost in human life of waging war with such an
"awesome weapon of destruction" would be too high. Every generation of gun
makers (to some degree) think they have reached the pinnacle of gun
design. But there is always another step.

 Theo McGuckin -
	"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a nerf ball"