"I don't understand. Where did all this come from? How did this get funded?"
"You didn't think they actually" spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?
Posted on 06/11/2012 1:49:59 PM PDT by Perdogg
The State Department is buying Amazon Kindle e-readers for nearly 3500% of their list price in a no-bid contract with the Internet retailer, according to government procurement records.
The total contract value is $16.5 million, and aims to fill libraries and other educational facilities around the world with the popular e-reader. The devices will have special translation features and will be able to receive information online directly from State.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
I actually got a pang of nausea as I read this.
The brainwashing gets a new face.
“The price is so high because special features were built in to allow the State Department to send messages to the readers directly. Not necessarily a bad idea if you ask me.”
......and when I snap my fingers, you will awake, feeling refreshed and remembering none of this.....
Could it be a way to hide a “black” budget item?
IDIQ= Indefinite delivery/Indefinite Quantity. Not unlimited. Still too much for this contract. Some inside baseball.
If the State Department is doing this, then it cannot be good for conservative America and/or Americans.
“The devices will have special translation features and will be able to receive information online directly from State”
"I don't understand. Where did all this come from? How did this get funded?"
"You didn't think they actually" spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?
Apparently, a very special feature. From the article:
The Apple iPads offered unnecessary functions ... and would not allow the State Department the same control over the dissemination of content, the notice added.
....or can SHE ???
Features that allow the State Department to put out their own e press releases, a fact based historical account of an event which may be suppressed by a local government, books loaded onto an E reader “remotely” that a despotic government may block otherwise.
I’m sure the CIA has a program similar to this to send messages to persons as well.
Remove the price tag and explore what could be done with this technology, then look at the price and see if it is so outrageous.
We spend a lot on Voice of America every year too.
Not the slightest shred of doubt in my mind that this is indeed the case.
And I am equally positive that our crack investigative journalists will pursue this story vigorously .... Not.
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