@wingod And I would have absolutely no problem limiting stock buy backs (in general) by law. They have become a convenient way for companies to avoid taxes and artificially inflate share price.
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C. G. Niederstrasser
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C. G. Niederstrasser
@RocketScient1st
Working rocket scientist, STEM educator, space enthusiast. Opinions are my own. Retweets are not affirmations.
Reston, VA Katılım Kasım 2011
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@RocketScient1st The biggest issue here is the stock buybacks that the large defense contracts have been doing.
When the corporate tax rate decreased, Boeing and Lockheed and other contractors both spent billions on stock buy backs rather than investing in their own companies.
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Well @BankofAmerica you have just ruined my Thanksgiving break. You discontinued OFX/QFX downloads without any notice, effectively rendering my financial software useless. I'm back to the 1990s. Tip: I refuse to get into the @Quicken monopolistic subscription treadmill.
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@wingod Not once did he mention illegal aliens voting - because Democrats know that it is illegal for aliens to vote AND the number who attempt to do so is miniscule. He is concerned about citizens intimidate who choose not to vote.
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Sometimes reality is more parodical than parody.
American AF 🇺🇸@iAnonPatriot
JB Pritzker says that President Trump is trying to STEAL the midterms by making illegal immigrants afraid to vote.. Interesting
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@wingod I've said it before... This is what happens when the quarterly report takes precedence over everything else. When the system emphasizes quarterly increases in revenues and profits, it is easy to lose sight of long term trends.
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@wingod Oh please. I’m a big believer in the capitalist system. Nothing compares to it for innovation and growth. But the quarterly push for ever growing revenue and profit is its Achilles’s heel. There is only one reason why H1B demand continues to increase - profit.
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Example 2 - Nice new feature in a list (SharePoint's poor man's database): you can now create a format for a column to make it look pretty.... BUT to create said format you need to hand-hack CSS/HTML disguised as JSON in an editor that makes VI look cutting edge.
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Example 1 - all hyperlinks are by default underlined. Just like they were back in 1999. I thought we had moved way past that.
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It is amazing how tech companies "modernize" a product only to make it go back years. In this case the "Modern" experience in #SharePoint from @Microsoft. While it adds a few nice features, some functionality seems like a throwback to the early days of the web.
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@FCC You may want to look into AT&T's shady practices. They remove a discount without appropriate notification, and then ask you to link to bank account for payment, which grants them full access to all information in the bank account.
C. G. Niederstrasser@RocketScient1st
@ATT @ATT can you tell me in this public forum why when I try to link my banking account to AT&T payments, AT&T is requesting access to my bank statements, including transaction information and check images!?!?! @JasonMiyaresVA please have your office investigate!
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@ATT @ATT can you tell me in this public forum why when I try to link my banking account to AT&T payments, AT&T is requesting access to my bank statements, including transaction information and check images!?!?! @JasonMiyaresVA please have your office investigate!
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@RocketScient1st Hi there, we understand how important to provide you with the most accurate information. Please reach us in a DM to share you updated information. We are here to answer all your question.^DeniseM
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Tricky @att. Reduce the discount for paying with debit card, without giving any sort of heads up other than in the small print of the paper bill, which nobody ever gets any more.
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@Marco_Langbroek "You just don't understand iterative design and testing!!"
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@wingod My friend, we will just have to disagree. I've seen first hand the work USAID did, for instance. They've done more to promote the U.S. abroad and build good will than you can imagine.
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@RocketScient1st Demolition is sometimes required. We let this fester for too many decades. The revelations about the NGO's are astounding regarding how our government's funds have been used to undermine our republic.
The riots in LA? That organization is 60% federally funded NGO.
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@wingod Sledgehammers don’t fix. They destroy. They are used for demolition.
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@RocketScient1st If you look at the response to even modest cuts, its going to take a sledgehammer to fix this.
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@yag1968 @ken_kremer @KristinFisher I think Ken's point is that without solid science (which needs to be funded) there is not much point in going to the moon, especially for any long duration.
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@ken_kremer @KristinFisher Not related. The plans for the Artemis base camp were never more than 60 days under Bridenstine. They are now 30 days because of SLS and Orion essentially. But there are no contract for habitats. So Musk is right on this.
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Elon: “The goals for Artemis are so small. Artemis needs bolder ambitions. We should adapt Artemis to say let’s have a base on the moon, not just go and do a remake of this great movie from 1969.”
Call me crazy, but I thought a lunar base WAS the goal.
Everyday Astronaut@Erdayastronaut
Got to catch up with @elonmusk for a few minutes before today's launch! We were going to chat after today's speech, but unfortunately that changed, but, always happy to talk rockets!!! Join our Flight 9 coverage in 15 minutes!! Best of luck today @SpaceX!!!
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