I would be interested to see metrics on articles involving positive vs negative opinions regarding defense programs.
The Worst US Defense Program of All
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#22This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts. https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k... Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueli…
But it's on substack it must be true!
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#24This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts. https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k... Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueli…
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#25This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts. https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k... Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueli…
But it's on substack it must be true!
> But it's on substack it must be true!
Honestly, at this point seeing *.substack.com is a red flag, just like seeing *.blogspot.com.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people dont vote in primaries. That is only time choice is really an option for same party candidates. Since CU basically makes bribery legal its that much harder to remove bad incumbants since they have more campaign funds.
CU?
Citizens United vs FEC [1] is a Supreme Court ruling, overturning limits on the amount of money corporations can spend supporting politicians' re-election attempts (i.e. bribes) because it's "freedom of speech"
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#27This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts. https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k... Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueli…
The "author" started the blog one day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the theme in many of the articles is the usual triad of arguments from Russian bots: - The West is to blame, Russia is innocent! - Russia is strong! Western sanctions can't hurt Russia! - Western sanctions are provoking Russia and will lead to nuclear WW3! As an European with many Polish and Ukrainian friends I'm happy that isolationist A…
I definitely get a libertarian feel from people on Hacker News, but not an isolationist one. Also it does seem like a strange move to pigeonhole and insult the group of people with whom you're trying to interact.
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#28I would think that the second with infrared imaging would be a plus.
I wonder if the desire to use a digital imaging system is really so they can use the videos to train a ML system to perform the task without people. I think the MQ25 only uses the non-boom system currently.
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#29This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts. https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k... Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueli…
The "author" started the blog one day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the theme in many of the articles is the usual triad of arguments from Russian bots: - The West is to blame, Russia is innocent! - Russia is strong! Western sanctions can't hurt Russia! - Western sanctions are provoking Russia and will lead to nuclear WW3! As an European with many Polish and Ukrainian friends I'm happy that isolationist A…
It would be a much better world for most Americans if the government wasn't spending lives and billions of dollars policing countries 6000+ miles away on behalf of other countries and foreign interests. Calling people who don't want to waste American lives and resources over Ukrainian soil to allow Poland and Germany a russia free buffer zone "russian bots" is a joke, most sane Americans don't want war over who gets to be installed as the leader of Ukraine for this decade.
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#30This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts. https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k... Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueli…
The "author" started the blog one day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the theme in many of the articles is the usual triad of arguments from Russian bots: - The West is to blame, Russia is innocent! - Russia is strong! Western sanctions can't hurt Russia! - Western sanctions are provoking Russia and will lead to nuclear WW3! As an European with many Polish and Ukrainian friends I'm happy that isolationist A…
The "author" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cockburn.
You can remove the quotes now