USAID may be the biggest scandal in American History.

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K-town Vol Fan said:
So is that how it works now? We just assume everyone is embezzling tax dollars unless they immediately prove otherwise?
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With the evidence presented thus far and the fervor of the (inexplicably) rich politicians attacking it, that is EXACTLY what we should do.
 
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malinoisvol said:
I'm assuming you are referring to toilet seats for an aircraft. What is the cost to the Mfg'r to have those toilet seats Mil-Spec'd and FAA certified? The answer will surprise you maybe.

I use to be bothered by those costs until I researched the cause. It's crazy but necessary in most cases.
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I understand some of the MIL-SPEC stuff, but this also reminds me of the time one of my x-ray machines needed repairs. I was on vacation at the time and it was handled by our purchasing director.

I return from vacay and am reviewing the invoice I received from the company (GE). Long story short, they tried to charge me 10k for a battery back-up that I found on CDW for 1k, all bc they had to make sure it was ‘medical grade’. BULLSHIIIIIT.

I raised hell with GE all the way up the food chain. Turns out I didn’t pay for it and they ‘thanked me for bringing it to their attention’. They would only charge the next sucker 5k instead of 10k.
 
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hog88 said:
Pretty much
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Especially when if he'd bother to read the thread (those skills are clearly lacking) I pointed out just one of the grifts Chemonics and DAI used to do to ensure they're never held responsible.

Come with inside baseball and some washed out weenie thinks he knows better because he read a company propaganda site. Hilarious.
 
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StarRaider said:
the dem socialists did not care when puddinhead was dishonorably discharging military personnel when they did not want the jab
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Oh, yeah. I got a comparable job after being laid off 10 months. I almost got fired because I refused the vaccine. I stalled long enough for the religious exempt forms to kick in.

Personally, after the past 5 years, I'm really enjoying what Trump is doing.
 
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Grand Vol said:
So... the projectile weighs 50 tons instead?
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In a 20g half sine shock profile a 10 lb piece now weighs 200 lbs. And the analysis is used to show the structural integrity of the item and the fasteners holding it to the airframe won’t yield under that load. That is an example of a basic analysis.

That analysis matters in an item that is in the cabin with the crew. It doesn’t matter on some add on piece of test equipment used for ground support or alignment that isn’t flight equipment. Granted the ground equipment has their own special hell they go thru. For example the Army cross country shipping stress test.

We all agree that the test regime needs to align with the use. The onus is on the contracting authority to set those requirements. That means they need to know what the hell they are doing. Contractors will point out all the time that specified environments don’t always line up with the use case for some piece of equipment. But that doesn’t mean they will prevail in that discussion. And that discussion doesn’t happen until after you’ve won the contract based on the initial specified environments.

Like I said the system is designed to produce the exact equipment they are getting… whether it makes sense or not.
 
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I actually wasn’t that worried for him after he was sworn in until today when he said the millitary ( I’m assuming that’s the Pentagon ) was up after the dept. of Education , and then said Elon might not be able to do intel agencies and if he had to , he would do it himself . Now he’s talking about the heart of the machine . Maybe he should wait until 2027 to do those .
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
We all agree that the test regime needs to align with the use. The onus is on the contracting authority to set those requirements. That means they need to know what the hell they are doing. .

Like I said the system is designed to produce the exact equipment they are getting… whether it makes sense or not.
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A seatbelt on the toilet would have been the practical solution.
 
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