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Search for Boeing

Just On Stuff. Been talking about it since before I retired from USAF. Been writing about it for at least a couple years. The last conversation I had with a Boeing employee was standing in front of a comm rack at the SBIRS facility in Boulder. We’d been waiting for the new links to go live for a few hours when I decided to go check on them. He was in the middle of swapping out a crypto module when I walked up looking over his shoulder and jokingly quipped you guys know what you’re doing? IIRC he replied simply saying “I’m competent.” I stuck around and helped him key the box, but detected a little eye roll as if to suggest maybe all four of that particular gang here that day weren’t.

Having been exposed to both sides of the customer/contractor fence in DoD aerospace contracting from the purely military perspective, I shudder to think what shenanigans go on in the private sector. The human factor always looms large. If I had a nickle for every time I had to ask who was the last one touched it… Try doing that job as a COMSEC inspector.

Lawsuit says seat belt saved passenger after door blowout.

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Tik Fucking Tok My Ass

Money for Nothing -Dire Straits

If there’s one thing the Chinese are really good at, it’s imitation. We been through it already with Zuckerboy, Musky, et al, busily evading responsibility for exploiting social media’s dark side since forever. I guess the government only gets really worried about it when the threat becomes existential to themselves.

In Small Part…

Mandiant Threat Intelligence reported in June 2019 that the People’s Republic of China created a network of hundreds of inauthentic multilanguage accounts across social media, including on TikTok, and attempted to “physically mobilize protesters in the U.S.”

As part of this campaign, short videos on TikTok and other platforms discrediting Chinese dissidents and U.S. officials were created and promoted to the feeds of U.S. citizens. Many of the videos provided the targeted individuals’ contact information and home addresses, Mandiant said.

In 2021, the PRC sponsored a campaign that targeted Asian Americans with thousands of posts urging them to protest the profiling of Asians in the U.S. on April 24 in New York City. The posts, illustrated with a large wrist smashing the “whites,” urged Asian Americans to “fight back.” Mandiant observed later reports saying that the protest was “successful,” with other minority groups joining the Asian Americans.

There’s no end to the options and opportunities out there if you need an Internet platform to advertise some product, good or service. Free access to a big user base certainly is valuable, but free is never REALLY free. Just figure out what it’s worth to you, personally.

Free Ride -Edgar Winter
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Bob Hur: MAGA Cockpig

I can see why people might not want the job, but this is getting ridiculous…

Hur’s testimony an exercise in 2024 political messaging.

Accusations of cognitive impairment were launched by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle against the other party’s presidential nominee.

The only impairment evident to me in the U.S. government is the group-think, power-hungry lunacy demonstrated by some of the elected officials inhabiting it.

Hard Up Case -Walter Becker
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Called It

After meeting with the New York Giants, Wilson flew to Pittsburgh on Friday. Though he left without a deal, he agreed to sign with Pittsburgh on Sunday evening. The deal will become official Wednesday when the Denver Broncos officially release Wilson.

And fuck Shannon Sharp, coming from that fuckup factory, the Doncos themselves. He’s probably still sore about getting their asses handed to them in XLVIII.

Twice. NFL oxymoron: Inexpensive and Elite. That status never gets old.
Born on the Bayou -Creedence Clearwater Revival
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No Substitute for Torque

In today’s VM-heavy IT world, it’s like the old server-room adage: There’s no substitute for hardware. I been telling people it’s an honest 12’s car with the right driver and locking diff. All I can say about this one is thank gawd for electronic traction control, or I’d have been gone long ago. I got run down at the finish too, in the only race I lost with it. The insane torque delivered by these things put them ahead off the line every time they hook.

I’ll temporarily rescind my ongoing uToob® link-back policy, to support that claim, since it appears they have rescinded the ad-blocker policy. Good for them. It’s better organizing ur own viewing anyway. Instead of going after the ad-blockers, they’re just inserting them in the streams. Kinda sucks the 2nd half of clips won’t get watched, but it is a time-saver and at least I can see my history!

We’ll see how it goes…

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Nancy Mace: It’s All About Her

This little POS fucksack sat on ABC This Week literally simply refusing to answer questions, repeatedly referring to nothing but herself in every single response. The hubris and condescending immoral inanity is just amazing.

Repeatedly bleating about being Stephanopolous’ shame target, the bitch rightly ought to be ashamed. Her demeanor and low-info political whoring is IMHO, well beyond shameless. It’s disgusting, un-American, and downright traitorous at this point. I totally get how declining to confirm your support for a convicted rapist with 91 felony counts against him must feel pretty goddamned shameful. Were you asking for it when the Liar-in-Chief laid a little infrastructure pipe down your tonsils after that one rally?

The MAGA whore shame is palatable.
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Fuck the Pope V

What, no surrender suggestions for the Palestinians, yet? Jews not worthy of your full support for some reason? Looks like the Catholics have taken sides with Russia. Stupid curmudgeon can take his white flag straight to Hell. He sits on his throne pontificating while the world burns. What a fuckwit.

ROME, March 9 (Reuters) – Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the “white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and that has killed tens of thousands.

The only courage this piece of shit knows is how to hide his dishonesty, begging for money from his poor followers.

Keep suckin’ hard on that Putin cock, mutherfucker. Dictating the Gawd stuff is so much easier than dictating the real stuff, with illusory mortal fear at your behest, eh?
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DIY Preview: Transmogrified Furniture

Bumped for a couple more pics…

I’ve been doing some woodworking again lately. It’s inside stuff doable without moving around much and minimal exertion. We had three of the girl’s old beds taking up space in the basement, needing transmogrified. It was either that or burn ’em. They will become a big, sturdy shelf unit, making for a nice place to put another aquarium. The fish are one of those few hobbies accomplished mostly by just standing there staring at it. 😉

Probably at least a couple more weeks working on it an hour or two a day as time permits before it’s finished. Shelves almost done, still need sides assembled, put together and finished. Probably a week’s worth of just sanding still to do.

Those chairs and toolbox came from 3 different places we lived in Europe. The workbench was one of my 1st projects, built in Panama.
Long Time -Boston
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Dog Parks Under Fire

We need to get a contractor on poop patrol, or what? What’s the problem? It’s always the same story with these self-important pet-hating fuckwits: It’s all about the dog poop! Puhleeeez. Jackhole across the creek from here called the cops on me for walking Jax and Anna off-leash along the creek. Said they were pooping in his yard. What a moron. Probably needs a DNA test to tell the difference between dog and coyote feces.

Denver metro’s largest off-leash dog park could shrink

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Army Grabbing at Straws Again

ALARMIST RHETORIC: Today, the U.S. Air Force faces an almost-existential crisis… The U.S. military is woefully unprepared for warfare in this newly contested subdomain of the air littoral. Needless to say, the U.S. drone inventory looks nothing at all like Ukraine’s. It is a fraction of its size and scale, focusing on small numbers of highly advanced systems.

Boils down to old retired military dudes in a pissing contest, but I have questions. Is the honorable retired general unaware how drone technology has been a high-priority USAF focus ever since Gates fired the Air Boss back in…? Maybe he didn’t get the memo about ongoing Ai integration in the CCA program? I’ll forgive him for being ahead of the times Billy Mitchell was sinking battleships in this same scenario.

I am somewhat familiar with how the Army operates, and please believe me when I say they never seem to be opposed to doing things the hard way. He contradicts himself with a link to our own massive drone inventory. No, what we have here is an old ground pounder waxing nostalgic on the glory days before the zoomies started having all the military fun. I agree his guys need better localized drone protection. Try slicing up the Army budget correctly first, before eyeing bigger shares of DoD – and whenever they get in a real hot spot (not a 1-off blunder), just radio the nest locations and we’ll cluster the whole outfit with one shot, for ya. 😉

Give Up the Funk -Parliament
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For the Benefit of All Humanity

Quizzical skepticism is always my first reaction when i hear Elon is up to no good again. It’s like, aw crap, what’s he tryin’ to pull now? At least alot of the other leading MAGA fuckwits seem to stay in their respective lanes of dis-ingenuity. Didn’t take long for some of the underpinning details to surface. Seems Musky‘s idea of beneficence to mankind focuses mostly on his $Billions and how it benefits him personally.

SpaceX fosters serial sexual abuse.

Go away, raging billionaire incel – for the benefit of all humanity, for fuck’s sake!
Scared Ketchup rocks.