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  1. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Honestly in my POV if I was running the defense procurement my policy would be simple. If the government paid for its development the government owns the rights or at least the percentage of it that was government funded but baring exceptional circumstances the company that developed it will be...
  2. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    The F-22 tooling is actually still around just in storage that at this point to restart production is going to cost the equivalent of a Ford and a Burke before a single bird even is built not even factoring the numerous upgrades that would certainly be added to the extent I'm not sure calling...
  3. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Also the way we set things up so companies will be compensated in R&D costs and like is one very simple reason. We set it up as such that if a program gets axed it being so usually won't fuck over the very specialized industry and skillsets that would be a lot more costly in time and money to...
  4. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    ehhhh to be blunt blame the f-35 B for all the problems of it being late and over budget.
  5. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    I mean right now it's the cheapest western fighter on the market and sustainament costs are in fact going down. It's just that when you buy a metric crapload of them the program will cost a lot
  6. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Isn't the navy super green all things considered since I recall that due to bunch of solar panels and wind turbines and a geothermal plant at China Lake its shore installations are actually overall a net exporter of energy
  7. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    GM really failed all of us when they didn't make practical fusion on schedule in 2020 like they where meant to. And if you don't get that reference give up your nerd card
  8. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    And not just from a power generation POV Also useful for making long range sleeper/generational starships viable
  9. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Easiest to do in the short term. Plus it effects the entire agency not just the bad parts which means the good agents will be pissed at the bad ones which causes a internal conflict
  10. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    well the FBI really is asking for at the least a slashed budget in the near future
  11. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    the f-22 tooling is still around in storage and in theory could be put back to use. the rest though yeah that happened
  12. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Trump for all his flaws never called a reporter that at a offical news conference. Can you imagine the blowback if he had?
  13. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Not with the current size of the armed forces at least on our own. We need at the minimum mid 90s force levels to do that
  14. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    honestly we probably need both
  15. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    To be fair the IRS has needed a lot more manpower for a long time but yeah a 170,000 employeesis a bit much. I could buy say 120,000
  16. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    At least until the US based micro chip factories we're spending billions on come online late in the decade. Then things get interesting
  17. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Hopefully they don't pull a so and so has made their judgment now let them enforce it
  18. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Well we do have a lot larger moat than you guys do. Alas the USN wasn't given the funding it needed and a lot of the money it got was spent on worthless gunboats by Jefferson as in enough money was spent on those pieces of crap that alternatively it could have given the USN a fleet of six ships...
  19. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Still every part of the government should be under the FIA. Even if the stuff they can give us is mearly a low detail explanation as to why the documents we want are classified.
  20. Knowledgeispower

    United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread

    Hopefully future generations speak of her the same way Battletech fans speak of crazy Kat if not worse
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