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re: Ukrainians have now attacked a second critical Russian nuclear early warning radar.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:30 am to The Levee
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:30 am to The Levee
quote:
Aegis onboard our destroyers with SM-3 missiles has been accurately tested against mid phase ICBMs on a 1 to 1 basis. The GMD is 4 to 1
Those are actually really good numbers if I understand you correctly.
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Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:15 am to RiverCityTider
quote:You are embarrassing yourself and I’m not even referring to your constant misuse of “your” for “you’re” and “route” for “rout.”
We can't push the Russians back. We are only forcing Russia to push forward.
Why do that?
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:03 am to LSURussian
quote:Nah, we’re out of BA. I don’t recall a cost basis at $288.
That reminds me, are you still holding BA? Didn't you get in it at $288, if I recall correctly?
Every time BA is in the news, which seems to be a LOT these days, I think about you...
$228 maybe? July 2021?
Exited that position 2/3rds @ $229 Nov 2021 and 1/3rd a month later @ $198
I was really more disappointed in the company than the loss in that instance. Terrible leadership.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:16 am to crazy4lsu
quote:It is surprising that you'd forward those opinions as fact though. Yeltsin was not really hegemonic. Nor is Putin's motivation necessarily revanchist in nature.
it isn't surprising that a revanchist regime came to power after a hegemonic period
Posted on 6/19/24 at 7:47 am to crazy4lsu
quote:
I have apparently driven some old dude to write out that melt. That's a chef kiss of melts. You should log off. You aren't built for the internet man.
Congratulations. You have now accomplished something. Your apparent glee at having done so is disturbing.
I won't be playing your twisted little game anymore.
Enjoy your "win", for now.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 9:04 am to NC_Tigah
quote:Thank goodness! Now I can stop worrying about you whenever a new Boeing calamity is reported.
Nah, we’re out of BA.
quote:Agreed.
Terrible leadership.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 9:33 am to Indefatigable
quote:West of the Urals, maybe.
Russia is far more European than asiatic in every way.
East of the Urals, maybe not.
All those years in which the Mongol Empire's Khans occupied almost all of "Russia" all the way to Kiev left a permanent DNA mark on Russia. It's why many ethnic Russians have almond-shaped eyes.
The descendants of the Mongols are significant in many areas of Russia including at least three semi-autonomous republics, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Buryatia where watered-down ethnic Mongols make up a majority of the population.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 10:00 am to RiverCityTider
Start a fight, don't be surprised if your vulnerabilities are exploited by your competitor.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:02 pm to LSURussian
quote:
I can stop worrying about you whenever a new Boeing calamity is reported.
At this stage, we're all cap gains. So the portfolio is very diversified. Even if I got massacred in an individual holding, I'd be better than OK. I'd guess you're similar.
TBH this year is going to be a pretty big year. We could use a BA type loser or two. Uncle Sam is giddily rubbing his hands together.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:26 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
TBH this year is going to be a pretty big year. We could use a BA type loser or two. Uncle Sam is giddily rubbing his hands together.
That was last year for us.
I sold so much investments in the second quarter last year that we got hit with an "excess investment income tax surcharge" (which I'd never even heard of before) which amounted to about an additional 4% tax added onto the regular capital gains tax.
It caught me off guard so we had to pay a penalty for under paying estimated taxes for the second quarter last year although we had a net credit and refund for the full year's estimated taxes paid in.
That was a first for me...
I'm starting to identify with the quote attributed to Will Rogers, "These days I'm more interested in return OF my money than return ON my money."
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:34 pm to LSURussian
quote:NIIT?
I sold so much investments in the second quarter last year that we got hit with an "excess investment income tax surcharge" (which I'd never even heard of before) which amounted to about an additional 4% tax added onto the regular capital gains tax.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:56 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:I'm not sure what that is.
NIIT?
I do my own taxes using TurboTax and when I saw it was saying I owed a penalty for underpayment I tried to research why I was being assessed an under payment penalty when I had an almost $4,000 refund (credit) for the full year.
When I backed out the second quarter capital gains the penalty went away.
So I searched for capital gains tax penalties and the only thing I could find was a "surcharge" (my word, not the IRS) of about 4% on top of the regular long-term capital gains taxes on capital gains exceeding $250,000 for a married couple filing jointly.
For me, it was just easier to pay the penalty and move on.
I want to blame Elizabeth Warren.
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:24 pm to LSURussian
quote:That sounds like Net Investment Income Tax, the Obamacare tax. 3.8% applied to Cap Gains if your income exceeds threshold.
When I backed out the second quarter capital gains the penalty went away.
So I searched for capital gains tax penalties and the only thing I could find was a "surcharge" (my word, not the IRS) of about 4% on top of the regular long-term capital gains taxes on capital gains exceeding $250,000 for a married couple filing jointly.
Sucks in that STCG's become the highest taxed income (after already paying tax on the money once). So my CPA spouse works very hard to minimize tax loss exposure there.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:30 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:That must be it. I missed that little tidbit in the Obamacare act. I still blame Elizabeth Warren...
That sounds like Net Investment Income Tax, the Obamacare tax. 3.8% applied to Cap Gains if your income exceeds threshold.
quote:Now you're just showing off...
So my CPA spouse works very hard to minimize tax loss exposure there.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:45 pm to LSURussian
quote:
I still blame Elizabeth Warren...
That lying itchB was on CNBC this week, still yammering about how the "government bailed out" Jamie and JPM during TARP. Have to hand it to her, she never let's truth get in the way of her narrative.Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:40 pm to LookSquirrel
quote:Yeah, I've never understood the desire of an intelligent person to "shitpost." He and I have discussed that. It's also not a particularly good look, given his professional pursuits. Your resume is pretty damn impressive BTW.
I have apparently driven some old dude to write out that melt. That's a chef kiss of melts. You should log off. You aren't built for the internet man.
Congratulations. You have now accomplished something. Your apparent glee at having done so is disturbing.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 2:06 pm to RiverCityTider
Lockheed Martin got the contract for a new interceptor missile that has the ability to fire off a projectile that is autonomous and is able to destroy MULTIPLE ICBM’s In outer space.
Probably lasers but it’s classified. Expected to be done in 2028 (so it’s probably already in use)
If this is the case, the time to strike with ICBM’s has passed and our enemies would have to rely on more conventional modes of delivery.
Checkmate
Probably lasers but it’s classified. Expected to be done in 2028 (so it’s probably already in use)
If this is the case, the time to strike with ICBM’s has passed and our enemies would have to rely on more conventional modes of delivery.
Checkmate
This post was edited on 6/21/24 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 6/21/24 at 3:21 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
Yeah, I've never understood the desire of an intelligent person to "shitpost." He and I have discussed that. It's also not a particularly good look, given his professional pursuits. Your resume is pretty damn impressive BTW.
Yes, he has a pretty strange hobby, and I should not have swallowed his bait, I am not aware of his "professional pursuits", but if it ever requires a security clearance, he may be SOL.
Lost my cool though, and that's on me.
Had an interesting career but, looking back it was mostly BS. Spent over 20 years going from place to place to talk about (redacted), and even produced a couple white papers and for what?
Pretty much nothing.
Basically, wasted A LOT, (and I mean A LOT), of taxpayer money over those years. Most important thing I learned to do was to never leave any of the funds in our designated budgets on the table.
Every September would be a desperate spending spree to make sure every dime has been spent.
Lunacy!
Posted on 6/21/24 at 4:26 pm to LookSquirrel
quote:That triggers memories.
Every September would be a desperate spending spree to make sure every dime has been spent.
Use it or lose it has got to end. There is scarcely a better example of fraud, waste, and abuse in US spending.
Learned that game the hard way during my own stint in the military. Just after I took over a division, I filed a reasonable budget (or so I thought). For interested folks, DO NOT EVER file a reasonable budget in a government position.
They cut our (my) requests in half. Fortunately, within weeks, I received an additional appt affiliated w/ HHS in DC, was able to leverage needs for the dept., and recovered.
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