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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Shkreli directing notorious pharma co. from prison. It’s still losing millions
Shkreli is reportedly making deals and advising officials to make a comeback.
Shkreli is just 16 months into a seven-year prison sentence over securities-fraud charges. He landed in jail last year for running what federal prosecutors described as a Ponzi-like scheme that duped investors of his hedge funds. According to prosecutors, the fund siphoned millions from a pharmaceutical company he founded, called Retrophin.
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El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán gets life in prison
A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years.
Guzmán, 62, was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February.
This is the part I don't get He was also ordered to pay $12.6bn (£10bn) in forfeiture.
Like he's going to pay a penny.
It's not the judge's job to worry about if or how a payment may eventually be made. The law allows for fines based on the crimes Guzmán has been convicted of so they were assessed.
And it allows for seizure and bank action to get it. What he pays and what they collect aren't related.
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OneWeb’s low-Earth satellites hit 400Mbps and 32ms latency in new test
OneWeb's first six satellites pass test as company moves closer to real service.
OneWeb says a test of its low-Earth orbit satellites has delivered broadband speeds of more than 400Mbps with average latency of 32ms.That is generally the same latency I was getting on my last cable connection to anywhere outside of TWC's network.
32ms is a lot. If it was sound, you would hear an audible echo.
That's 200ms for audible echo in phone calls.
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Greek earthquake: Powerful tremor shakes Athens
A strong earthquake has shaken the Greek capital of Athens, knocking out phone networks and power in parts of the city.
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Turkey banned from buying F35 fighters...
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Given the price tag and problematic development track record, maybe not having to honour their purchase commitments is exactly what Turkey wanted. Seems like Turkey, not the US, won on this deal. Turkey will just buy way cheaper, proven fighters from Russia now. Whose economy got screwed by this? Russia and Turkey make money, US loses. And the F35 is partially made in Turkey, so Turkey makes a butt load on every sale, as long as they aren't the ones buying it.
Money shifted directly from the US into the hands of Turkey and Russia, ugh.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Given the price tag and problematic development track record, maybe not having to honour their purchase commitments is exactly what Turkey wanted. Seems like Turkey, not the US, won on this deal. Turkey will just buy way cheaper, proven fighters from Russia now. Whose economy got screwed by this? Russia and Turkey make money, US loses. And the F35 is partially made in Turkey, so Turkey makes a butt load on every sale, as long as they aren't the ones buying it.
Money shifted directly from the US into the hands of Turkey and Russia, ugh.
That seems to be the way of the plan the last few years.
Why do you think Russia, Iran, Turkey were so involved in the last election?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Given the price tag and problematic development track record, maybe not having to honour their purchase commitments is exactly what Turkey wanted. Seems like Turkey, not the US, won on this deal. Turkey will just buy way cheaper, proven fighters from Russia now. Whose economy got screwed by this? Russia and Turkey make money, US loses. And the F35 is partially made in Turkey, so Turkey makes a butt load on every sale, as long as they aren't the ones buying it.
Money shifted directly from the US into the hands of Turkey and Russia, ugh.
They said on the Radio (NPR) yesterday that all of the parts manufactured in Turkey are also being pulled. They'll be made in Japan and the US if I remember correctly.
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Given the price tag and problematic development track record, maybe not having to honour their purchase commitments is exactly what Turkey wanted. Seems like Turkey, not the US, won on this deal. Turkey will just buy way cheaper, proven fighters from Russia now. Whose economy got screwed by this? Russia and Turkey make money, US loses. And the F35 is partially made in Turkey, so Turkey makes a butt load on every sale, as long as they aren't the ones buying it.
Money shifted directly from the US into the hands of Turkey and Russia, ugh.
They said on the Radio (NPR) yesterday that all of the parts manufactured in Turkey are also being pulled. They'll be made in Japan and the US if I remember correctly.
That might be true (and I expect this) for the future. But for now, those parts in existing planes are all from Turkey and already paid for. And the US and Japan don't have the production for them yet, so Turkey will most likely be the only supplier for at least several months, if not many years.
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Both the US and Japan are at across the board production capacity. There isn't enough employment in either country for additional manufacturing loads. Especially not military grade, skilled manufacturing. It'll be very hard for either to quickly absorb a major bit of work from Turkey.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Both the US and Japan are at across the board production capacity. There isn't enough employment in either country for additional manufacturing loads. Especially not military grade, skilled manufacturing. It'll be very hard for either to quickly absorb a major bit of work from Turkey.
By 2020, one year after the Fort Worth plant hits its full 17-jet-per-month stride, there will be more than 600 F-35s, including nearly 180 sent to U.S. allies.https://www.defenseone.com/business/2016/05/f-35-production-set-quadruple-massive-factory-retools/128120/If these numbers are true (17 jets per month) I don't think they'll have any problems finding a supplier. The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it.
Edit: Looks like there is another assembly plant in Italy, but their production is even lower.
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
Edit: Looks like there is another assembly plant in Italy, but their production is even lower.
Italy has available employment capacity, lots of it. So if they aren't spinning that up for more volume because they can't do it, way less chance for the US to do it.
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it.
Never worked for Lockheed, I see
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it.
Never worked for Lockheed, I see
lol after I typed it, I'm thinking "yeah, right.. defense contractors"
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it.
Never worked for Lockheed, I see
lol after I typed it, I'm thinking "yeah, right.. defense contractors"
I worked there a little, never again. Total corruption and incompetence. Very evil company raping the American economy.
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BBC News - Hong Kong protests: Armed mob storms Yuen Long station
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it.
Never worked for Lockheed, I see
lol after I typed it, I'm thinking "yeah, right.. defense contractors"
I worked there a little, never again. Total corruption and incompetence. Very evil company raping the American economy.
Speak of the devil... I had kind of forgotten about it, but a couple months ago they were recruiting a friend for an engineering job and they flew his family out to California and put them up in a hotel for 3 days. After the interviews they gave him an offer that was like 10% less than what they originally offered. We just found out over the weekend that they contacted him trying to collect like $3000 for expenses from his in person interview... wtf.
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Hong Kong protests: Armed mob violence leaves city in shock
Hong Kong has been left in shock after a night of violence on Sunday, which saw dozens of masked men storm a train station.
The men - dressed in white shirts and suspected to be triad gangsters - assaulted pro-democracy protesters and passers-by in the Yuen Long area.
This is the first time this kind of violence has been seen in the ongoing anti-extradition demonstrations.
Several lawmakers questioned why police were slow to arrive at the scene.
Footage posted on social media showed dozens of men attacking people with wooden rods and metal sticks inside the station.
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French Minerve submarine is found after disappearing in 1968
A French submarine that has been missing for more than 50 years has been located by a search team.
French Defence Minister Florence Parly tweeted the announcement on Monday, describing the discovery as a "relief and technical feat".
Fifty-two sailors were on board the Minerve when it vanished near the port of Toulon, on the French south coast, in January 1968.
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Iran says it arrested CIA spies and sentenced some to death
Iran says it has arrested 17 spies who it says were working for the CIA, and sentenced some of them to death.
The intelligence ministry said the suspects had been collecting information in the nuclear, military and other sectors.
US President Donald Trump has dismissed the Iranian allegations, saying they are "totally false".
Washington and Tehran are at loggerheads over Iran's nuclear programme and tensions have grown.
