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Interesting report
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-325 highlights http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09670thigh.pdf Gordon |
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Gordon wrote in news:Ue-
: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-325 Ah! I think I found a problem: AEP Architecture Evolution Plan DASS Distress Alerting Satellite System DOD Department of Defense GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems GPS Global Positioning System IFOR Interagency Forum for Operational Requirements JCIDS Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System L2C second civil signal L5 third civil signal M-code Military Code NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration OCS Operational Control Segment OCX Next Generation Control Segment OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense PDOP position dilution of precision PNT Positioning, Navigation, and Timing SLR Satellite Laser Ranging TSPR Total System Performance Responsibility ACRONYMS! |
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Gordon wrote in news:Ue-
: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-325 "The U.S. government, which plans to invest more than $5.8 billion from 2009 through 2013 in the GPS space and ground control segments currently under development, provides GPS service free of charge." Read this closely and think about what it says...... We're NOT getting GPS service "free of charge", damn them all! We're paying $US5.8 billion dollars for it! Since when did GOVERNMENT become a for-profit corporation?? I just had to "rent" our local Small Claims Court from the County bureaucrats for $80 to go after a deadbeat that owes me money. I pay, dearly, for every bureaucrat's services EVERY year since 1966. Why are there FEES to use my OWN courthouse?! I'M PREPAID, DAMMIT! I also have to pay, dearly, to use MY AIRPORT PARKING LOT! -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... |
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There's nothing like a good TLA!
Larry wrote: Gordon wrote in news:Ue- : http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-325 Ah! I think I found a problem: AEP Architecture Evolution Plan DASS Distress Alerting Satellite System DOD Department of Defense GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems GPS Global Positioning System IFOR Interagency Forum for Operational Requirements JCIDS Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System L2C second civil signal L5 third civil signal M-code Military Code NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration OCS Operational Control Segment OCX Next Generation Control Segment OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense PDOP position dilution of precision PNT Positioning, Navigation, and Timing SLR Satellite Laser Ranging TSPR Total System Performance Responsibility ACRONYMS! |
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"Larry" wrote in message ... Gordon wrote in news:Ue- : http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-325 "The U.S. government, which plans to invest more than $5.8 billion from 2009 through 2013 in the GPS space and ground control segments currently under development, provides GPS service free of charge." Read this closely and think about what it says...... We're NOT getting GPS service "free of charge", damn them all! We're paying $US5.8 billion dollars for it! Since when did GOVERNMENT become a for-profit corporation?? I just had to "rent" our local Small Claims Court from the County bureaucrats for $80 to go after a deadbeat that owes me money. I pay, dearly, for every bureaucrat's services EVERY year since 1966. Why are there FEES to use my OWN courthouse?! I'M PREPAID, DAMMIT! I also have to pay, dearly, to use MY AIRPORT PARKING LOT! -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... Yeah Larry, I like the argument about how low our taxes are when compared to other first world nations. The arguees for some reason can't think beyond federal income tax. I think I'm at 45-50%. |
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Larry wrote:
We're NOT getting GPS service "free of charge", damn them all! We're paying $US5.8 billion dollars for it! Wrong. You do not have to be a taxpayer to access the system thus it is free. It's also free of subscription charges. |
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slide wrote:
Larry wrote: We're NOT getting GPS service "free of charge", damn them all! We're paying $US5.8 billion dollars for it! Wrong. You do not have to be a taxpayer to access the system thus it is free. It's also free of subscription charges. Thanks from Canada. |
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"mmc" wrote in
ng.com: Yeah Larry, I like the argument about how low our taxes are when compared to other first world nations. The arguees for some reason can't think beyond federal income tax. I think I'm at 45-50%. I tried to add up my total tax bills to ALL little fiefdoms one year..... That's no good for your blood pressure after the utility bills and property loads. I gave away a 10' plastic dingy after the $38 personal property tax bill caused by putting a SC boat license number ($35 more) on the side of it so I could put a 3hp outboard motor on the back. Oh, my effort yielded roughly 66% tax load from all tit suckers.... -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... |
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On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:12:48 +0000, Larry wrote:
"mmc" wrote in ing.com: Yeah Larry, I like the argument about how low our taxes are when compared to other first world nations. The arguees for some reason can't think beyond federal income tax. I think I'm at 45-50%. I tried to add up my total tax bills to ALL little fiefdoms one year..... That's no good for your blood pressure after the utility bills and property loads. I gave away a 10' plastic dingy after the $38 personal property tax bill caused by putting a SC boat license number ($35 more) on the side of it so I could put a 3hp outboard motor on the back. Oh, my effort yielded roughly 66% tax load from all tit suckers.... Here in Connecticut, which is often touted as one of the wealthiest and heavily taxed states, there is no property tax on my dinghy and the annual registration is $7.50 including the motor. There is no property tax on the mainship, either. Just $105 a year (not calculated by value) for a registration decal. Yes, that's really a tax, but it's not based on value, so it's hard to call it a "property tax". I know what property taxes are, because I pay those, too. |
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wrote in :
On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:12:48 +0000, Larry wrote: "mmc" wrote in ting.com: Yeah Larry, I like the argument about how low our taxes are when compared to other first world nations. The arguees for some reason can't think beyond federal income tax. I think I'm at 45-50%. I tried to add up my total tax bills to ALL little fiefdoms one year..... That's no good for your blood pressure after the utility bills and property loads. I gave away a 10' plastic dingy after the $38 personal property tax bill caused by putting a SC boat license number ($35 more) on the side of it so I could put a 3hp outboard motor on the back. Oh, my effort yielded roughly 66% tax load from all tit suckers.... Here in Connecticut, which is often touted as one of the wealthiest and heavily taxed states, there is no property tax on my dinghy and the annual registration is $7.50 including the motor. There is no property tax on the mainship, either. Just $105 a year (not calculated by value) for a registration decal. Yes, that's really a tax, but it's not based on value, so it's hard to call it a "property tax". I know what property taxes are, because I pay those, too. http://www.weilmaritime.com/firm-cas...-nightmare.php A South Carolina horror story. Stay two weeks at a Charleston marina and the Charleston County Tax Bureaucrats will be by to discuss your pending tax liability. It has happened many times in the past to "normal", read that not the superrich, boaters. Personal property tax in SC is anything with a license on it we can find....Boats, planes, outboard motors with titles over 5hp, cars, trucks and anything else with wheels on it and a title. This differs from real estate taxes in the state. That's another boondoggle altogether. -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... |
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On Sat, 09 May 2009 15:25:18 +0000, Larry wrote:
http://www.weilmaritime.com/firm-cas...-nightmare.php A South Carolina horror story. Stay two weeks at a Charleston marina and the Charleston County Tax Bureaucrats will be by to discuss your pending tax liability. It has happened many times in the past to "normal", read that not the superrich, boaters. Yes, sometimes it takes less than two weeks... Here's the short version of my adventure with the Charleston County tax folks: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.boats.cruising/msg/7e096655c90a57ca?hl=en&dmode=source |
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Wayne.B wrote in
: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...096655c90a57ca ? hl=en&dmode=source I just sent this message to every Charleston County council member, just to prime the pump a little..... I may have overstated your net worth a tiny bit, but they'll get the message....(c;] I'm not a yacht owner, but crew on many and am a victim/resident of Charleston County since 1966. I've heard horror stories from visiting yachtsmen who will never return to our harbor for fear of the county tax bureaucrats trying to confiscate their boats and their wallets, by force of seizures if necessary. So, they take their yachts and all that money that I'm SURE the downtown and Mt Pleasant merchants and tourist industry could use, especially now in this depression, elsewhere...Wilmington, Savannah, Florida where tax bureaucrats are NOT standing on the marina docks demanding tribute, which is what it amounts to. This yachtsman's story is NOT an isolated case. I know this person because I communicate with him regularly on the rec.boats.cruising newsgroup. He'll never bring his money back to our normally friendly city because of the way your employees tried to steal his money and threatened to steal his yacht because of another dock encounter with the tax gestapo by a FORMER owner of his new yacht, way back..... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...96655c90a57ca? hl=en&dmode=source I'd like council to think long and hard about the ramifications these horror stories of confiscation and taxes on out-of-state yacht owners have on our local economy. Ask yourself one question, please...... Does the money stolen by the tax gestapo even come close to offsetting the lost REVENUES the tax gestapo would collect from some millionaire yachtie's SPENDING on the depressed local economy IF we let him stay tied to our docks as long as he wishes, unmolested by government bureaucrats trying to suck his blood on the docks? If I were on council, I'd be voting to provide him with FREE DOCKAGE at City Marina for 6 months, just to get him to stay here....not in Ft Lauderdale! Can't anyone see how stupid and short-sighted it is running millionaires out of our harbor?! Duhhh.. -- ----- Larry You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe because none of them have ever tried to contact us..... |
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Larry wrote:
"mmc" wrote in ng.com: Yeah Larry, I like the argument about how low our taxes are when compared to other first world nations. The arguees for some reason can't think beyond federal income tax. I think I'm at 45-50%. I tried to add up my total tax bills to ALL little fiefdoms one year..... That's no good for your blood pressure after the utility bills and property loads. I gave away a 10' plastic dingy after the $38 personal property tax bill caused by putting a SC boat license number ($35 more) on the side of it so I could put a 3hp outboard motor on the back. Oh, my effort yielded roughly 66% tax load from all tit suckers.... And I came across another announcement today that the Guberment was gonna spend another pocketfull of billions to convert the commercial air traffic control away from traditional RADAR to a GPS system. Hummmm??? Think I'll stick to sailing. |
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