February 10Feb 10 Author "I’ll say to you, beloved, no one likes violence, but sometimes violence is necessary,” Caudle said. "When Elon Musk forces his way into the United States Treasury and threatens to steal your personal information and your social security check, there is the possibility of violence.”
February 11Feb 11 Author On 2/9/2025 at 4:28 PM, pisceschica said: I don't find this hard to belive. I think its funny that when you're talking about cost reduction in the government that the defense budget doesn't get as much scrutiny from dumb and dumber as budget to federal workers. This tweet reminds me of charlene and darlene shuler who were featured on American Greed. During iraq war they had a contract to provide things like nuts and bolts. One day they accidentally sent an invoice overcharging the government for shipping. They purposely did it again as a test and got away with it again. Then over time they increased the shipping til at one point they charged the government $900k to ship nuts and bolts. A machine was paying it out. They got caught bc they accidentally submitted duplicate invoices at the same time and were flaggged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_Corley Much of the cost in manufacturing to mil spec is in the certification paperwork. When private industry buys a new part for the 1st they will often do something called PPAP, and First Article inspections. They will inspect the 1st part, or parts, ensuring they meet the spec, then ISO procedures will, theoretically, ensure they’re built exactly the same way every time after. These processes are expensive for the manufacturer and customer but the additional costs usually get amortized, spread out, over the cost of the rest of the parts. The government however doesn’t play that way. They require the certifications on every part manufactured, every time. This often includes packaging each part individually, with the certifications for each part in each package. This way there’s no chance to lower the price by amortizing because every part carries all of the costs. It could be argued that this level of quality control is necessary, and in certain critical applications it is, but not in most applications. Most times it’s ridiculous overkill by people who could care less because it’s not their money.
February 11Feb 11 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly provided "full funding" for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado, unearthed documents apparently show.
February 11Feb 11 On 2/9/2025 at 6:36 PM, Bill said: Shipping costs are one thing, but IIRC the bolts were for an aircraft, meaning they had to be machines to super low tolerances and rigorously tested, so they end of costing a lot. Once you find out exactly how many bolts hold on an airplane engine, you want no expense spared for those bolts. I don't disagree with that. But sometimes I wonder when aircraft is built for military why can't they use parts already in production from other aircraft manufacturers to reduce cost? While Safety is important and I understand how volume production affects price but $90k is crazy.
February 11Feb 11 Author Using existing parts is a rational idea but that would require designers to know the parts, dimensions, everything, and designing around that. It doesn’t usually work. Where it can make a difference is if you’re making a change to an existing design. Frugal designers will limit the parts effected by the change, less cost considerate designers won’t even think about it. That’s not strictly a government problem. I have some customers who continually shoot themselves in the foot by making changes without considering existing parts and inventory and wind up eating millions of dollars in dead inventory because of it.
February 11Feb 11 Congressional Democrats throwing a temper tantrum outside the DoE: Do you know we are? 🤣🤣🤣
February 11Feb 11 one more SSRI-eyed deranged cat-lady down. Only probably 10 million more to purge from the federal government, but it's a start.
February 12Feb 12 6 hours ago, The_Omega said: The enemy can't even keep their strategies straight......
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