ZRod
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13 minutes ago, commando said:
i wonder if jurors who post FJB or pro Trump memes are also getting questioned?
Was wondering the same thing.
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1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:
I'm shocked!
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15 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:
What was the cost compared to what it was sold as costing?
This was the epitome of military industrial complex going bat s#!t crazy with no checks and balances.
Yeah... It wasn't the technology that made it uber expensive causing budget over runs it was our military making major last minute program scope changes and trying to create a Figher Jet for all with an AF, Navy, and USMC version. Also, I would guess we don't properly push back on the suppliers to get the best possible deals.
14 hours ago, Lorewarn said:I fairly frequently see comments in relation to fighter jets along these lines of, "it's lightyears ahead" or "the platform is tremendous" or whatever.
As someone that knows literally nothing about jets, can somebody fill me in? Like it can fly, shoot, track, is fast, etc. But jets have been able to do that for decades, so what's the deal?
I wouldn't say it's light years, but it is probably the second best gen 5 fighter out there next to the Raptor (which is coming up on 20 years old). The F-35 has some of the best stealth technology out there, but the F-22 is still better. F- 22 also has super cruise (able to travel relatively long distances at Mach speeds), which the F-35 does not. F-22 also has thrust vectoring (better maneuverability), and F-35 does not. F-35 is a super computer though; target information can be shared between each fighter or AWACs to more effectively track and kill target and remain stealthy (enemies can track an aircraft's radar emissions). The jamming technology is newer/better. All the software has 20 years of improvements basically. We're not to torrenting on DSL anymore, we're streaming on fiber!
All that said, the Russia SU-57 seems like a fraud. The stealth is poor at best (exposed screws and rivets, you can see the jet engine compressor blades, no coating on the canopy means the pilot and cockpit give a radar return). It is more maneuverable though, but that doesn't matter these days when you have missiles that travel hundreds of miles. Now the Chinese J-20, that's more worrisome. They have a much better grasp of what is needed to be effective than the Russians...
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58 minutes ago, teachercd said:
+9 and +15?
LA and Atlanta out there bringing murder victims BACK from the dead!!!
I kid, I kid...
One thing, notice how the stupid "defund the police" thing is GONE...because it was stooopid.
Oooooor the unrest and outrage has started to die down now that the bad apples are being held accountable.
Defund was always a stupid slogan, because what really needed to be done was to reform.
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4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:
How is the F-35 project not a boondoggle?
The first point seems idiotic if someone really said that.
The second is still true. The F-35 works, mostly... Now... But it was a massive budget overrun and waaaay late. Not to mention some versions couldn't fly at night, the Marine Corp version couldn't conduct combat missions for years, the maintenance costs are higher than estimated... Etc.
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Idk think I really believe all these sleepy Don reports, but if the Judge ends up saying something about it then we'll know for sure.
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51 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:
Go MAGA go broke.
Oooooor... The stock has been massively over valued for years compared to it's actual market share.
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1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:
How can he be greedy? He's a man of simple means without a bank account.
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1 hour ago, knapplc said:
The article explains better than the tweet.
Pfizer, which is headquartered in New York and received billions of dollars from the federal government for its COVID-19 vaccine, reported an overall 2023 loss of $4.4 billion domestically, bringing its effective corporate income tax rate to -105.4 percent, the company reported in a recent regulatory filing.
Conversely, Pfizer reported more than $31 billion in revenue from international market sales, netting more than $5.4 billion of income for 2023. Pfizer has more than 300 subsidiaries in more than 60 different countries, with 98 subsidiaries based in known tax havens such as Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, and Puerto Rico, according to a Lever review of Pfizer’s recent 10-K filing.
The 2017 tax law championed by Trump cut the federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, but many corporations offshore profits and exploit other loopholes to pay even less.
From 2018 to 2022, the Trump tax cuts allowed 342 of the largest U.S.-based corporations to pay just $562 billion in taxes on nearly $4 trillion in profits, an effective average rate of 14.1 percent, according to a recent study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan tax policy organization.
Pharmaceutical companies comprise a significant portion of the companies engaged in tax avoidance. In 2022, major U.S. pharmaceutical companies reported more than $214 billion in revenue and only $10 billion in profits in the U.S. Those same companies reported more than $171 billion in foreign revenue and more than $90 billion in profits overseas, despite the fact that Americans pay the highest pharmaceutical costs in the world, said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“A large number of American pharmaceuticals report getting the bulk of their revenue from the U.S., earning no income in the U.S., and earning very substantial sums outside the U.S.,” Setser told The Lever. “And that same set of companies typically tends to report the bulk of their profits that they earn globally are in some combination of Ireland, Switzerland, Singapore, and Puerto Rico.”
1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:Yeah...there's some funky things going on with their revenue/accounting there.
I'm guessing they are somehow accounting for a lot of expenses in the US that really should be elsewhere.
So just continuing to exploit loop hole?
It shouldn't be hard to make a reasonable tax system to combat this. Either tax it at the point of sale, manufacture, or profit level if it isn't already taxes at a reasonable rate where ever the money is held now.
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29 minutes ago, teachercd said:
Cause they all know how lame iran is…
Or because the centuries old Shia/Sunni rift...
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1 hour ago, knapplc said:
Revenue isn't profit.
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1 hour ago, JJ Husker said:
Who TF thinks it’s funny (laughing emoji) that US politicians have sided with Putin and are doing his bidding? Or maybe you’re just stupid and refuse to believe it in the face of overwhelming and unquestionable evidence. There are only two choices here. 1) you are amazingly stupid and don’t deserve an opinion or 2) you are also a traitor to the US and deserve the fate of a traitor. Well and a 3rd option I guess, both.
The usual drive-bys.
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4 hours ago, Gage County said:
Why doesn't the Fox article link to any actual quotes or testimony? Because all I can find from not-Fox is that the person was speaking about crypto currency and terrorism last week. Not this Iranian money.
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1 hour ago, Gage County said:
Maybe we could stop funding both sides. Remember last month when a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory gave Iran billions? With the exception of Biden and the State Dept, everyone knew that was a terrible idea.
NYP: Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers
Iran doesn't have that money, will never get it in a lump sum, and it can't be spent on military items. It must be spent on humanitarian items or the funds will be locked down. Just like the $6B from South Korea, except this time it's money that Iraq owes Iran for electricity.
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57 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:
Odd that people would think Israel's biggest intelligence failure in history is some how directly Joe Biden's fault, and that Trump assassinating an Iranian general wasn't an escalation/provocation of Iran.
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3 minutes ago, teachercd said:
Joe CAN'T go to war, not even any version of war, not at all. The nut-jobs here in the US will ruin his reelection all for Instagram "likes".
Iran sucks, we know, but just wait, wait it out.
We don't have to go to war with them. We can continue to conduct remote strike again Iran and it's proxies if we do choose, but it would be better to just let Israel take care of it.
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34 minutes ago, Decked said:
“Gooooood morning Vietnam” coming soon!
Not really. We could f#&% Iran up as fast as Iraq if we really wanted to, without sending in troops. You've heard about the Raptor and the Iranian Phantoms, right?
That said, this isn't our war.
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2 hours ago, teachercd said:
Bill hates America…he uses it to make money.
Bill is just an equal opportunity a$$h@!e.
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45 minutes ago, Moiraine said:
Yep, and men who ejaculate anywhere other than inside a vagina should be arrested for abortion.
Even fake ones? Asking for teach.
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1 hour ago, runningblind said:
Probably an unpopular take here, but can we just stop the fawning over TO and continuing to name stuff after him? He has the field already, let's move forward, or at least honor someone else. It feels like Stockholm Syndrome to me anymore.
Name another great NU football coach who doesn't have a facility named after them.
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You know what the real name of DEI is? Respect.
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4 hours ago, knapplc said:
Not this again.
Senate Russia report proves Trump collusion was very real. But do voters care?
The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
With over 200 witness interviews and roughly 1 million documents reviewed, the nearly 1,000-page report documents in detail the comprehensive campaign conducted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies to seek influence within President Donald Trump's campaign, help Trump win the 2016 presidential election and amplify polarization and division within American society.
Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort. For instance, the report exposes interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According to the report, campaign figures “presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.” (Manafort was later convicted of tax and bank fraud.)
Concluding one of the highest-profile congressional investigations in recent memory, the report also uncovers abuses within the U.S. government’s investigation of this operation. These methods require review and reform.
The bipartisan tone of the majority of the report, released by a committee chaired by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, should be welcomed by all Americans who want our elected leaders to protect American sovereignty. National security should never be a partisan issue.
Trump was not exonerated by my report, Robert Mueller tells Congress
Mr Mueller said he had not exonerated Mr Trump of obstruction of justice.
The former FBI director spent two years probing alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, but did not establish collusion in a crime.
He concluded that Russia had interfered in the election with the intention of benefiting Mr Trump's campaign.
The questions focused largely on Mr Mueller's investigation of President Trump and his decision to say he could not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice, but Mr Mueller repeatedly stressed the importance of concerns over ongoing Russian interference in US democracy.
"Over the course of my career I have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious," he said.
He added: "Much more needs to be done in order to protect against this intrusion, by the Russians but others as well."
I know someone who's still not going to read it.
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5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:
Hey! Shacks on the lakes can get pretty pricey!
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17 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:
I'm shocked it's taken this long, and I'd be even more shocked if Kyle comes out on the winning side this time. Murder was never going to stick but wrongful death or something like that seems like a slam dunk.
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The Republican Utopia
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Dude, isn't this how all the bills have been so far??? How is that "innovative"? This s#!ts been done for centuries.