Maybe so, and yet we're perfectly capable of probing flawed equipment with flawed equipment: we know that our eyes have blind spots, even as we look at the evidence with them, and we understand all about the dog whistles we can't hear.
The voters and their elected representatives have no way of knowing how the testing is done, or that the manufacturers are not applying undue pressure to have flawed equipment approved.
How soon NASA will be able to replace the flawed equipment depends, in part, on sorting out a shuttle launch schedule scrambled by the delay of a major new x-ray telescope called AXAF.
Replacing the service's flawed camouflage and equipment could cost another $4 billion over five years, according to the GAO.
As we wrote in our letter, POGO has obtained a number of documents showing that Lockheed Martin's USS Freedom has been "plagued by flawed designs and failed equipment since being commissioned, has at least 17 known cracks, and has repeatedly been beset by engine-related failures".
(He casts me back to his novel, where a rotting limb is tourniqued in a makeshift "hospital" lacking medicine or equipment by his main character, the flawed, self-doubting, heroic surgeon Dorrigo Evans).
His machines link powerful PC's to video equipment, processing the images quickly to spot flawed items on assembly lines.
They recount numerous, serious problems, including incompetent guards, flawed investigations and threat assessments, poor communication and faulty equipment.
In acerbic fashion, he argued that the Internet protocols that are a foundation of global communication are fundamentally flawed, hinder traffic rather than help it and require billions of dollars in networking equipment that will soon become unnecessary.
Of all the golf equipment advancements in the last 15 years, nothing compares to the improvements made to the once simple, flawed golf ball.
Mr. Karzai, a deeply flawed leader who is expected to leave office next year, has his own agenda, which includes requests for updated American aircraft, surveillance equipment and longer-range artillery to modernize his army.
