Purple Snowman

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@bundaberg22 @nicholadrummond The wide fuselage makes it slower. It’s the fineness ratio or the length to max width (L/D). An F-104 Starfighter has a high fineness ratio and goes like gangbusters. An F-35 can super cruise at M 1.2, but given its engine power it should be much faster, except it’s fat.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@thestinkeye How about just good at sports.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@mitigatedisastr @johnkonrad They are restricted line, e.g. they can’t command a ship, but are otherwise naval officers. Main issue their operational environment includes getting shot in combat environments on land. Same with Seabees, EOD, and a few other Navy types, who used to be the only ones in camo.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@johnkonrad Sure Naval Officers should wear camouflage, I did. But only if they aren’t on a ship. For Seals, EOD, Seabees, Riverine and Naval units whose operational environment is on or near the shore in a combat environment absolutely. For the rest of the Navy stay away from the camo.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@LesserMegadeath @reginaldwi59408 @anders_aslund So, since you made an invalid point you got brave and used the word retardant, that’s brilliant. There is such a thing as being wrong and saying in your own post the OP was wrong due to the scale thing counts. Just accept reality and learn how to write a proper sentence.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@reginaldwi59408 @anders_aslund Try $100 million as an F-135 is about $20 million. The engine price still must be negotiated for each Gripen as well and $85 million is a base estimate most prices for well over $100M. The planes are still roughly equivalent in purchase price. Gripen is only cheaper to operate.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@viaVirtue @Rational_Raven @DefiantLs If you are going to play the numbers game stick with official numbers and there aren’t many of them. Don’t use an estimated provided by a group called Citizens for Tax Justice as it’s pretty clear they are just another NGO with an agenda.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@viaVirtue @Rational_Raven @DefiantLs It’s a bullshit number that was invented by a leftwing think tank. The only official estimated for Federal taxes was provided in 2010 by the Obama administration and it was $5.5 billion in SS/medicare taxes.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@WeaponScientist Sounds far more like a negotiating tactic. F-35A is purchased now in numbers close to the 88 contracted for and Gripen a few year down the road. If a favorable a CUSMA agreement is reached maybe Canada will just forget about Gripen.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@Eurofedmonarch Canada is already connected, the trans-Alaska highway has been around forever. The Yukon Territory where the map runs thru has 47k, which is the same as Chukotka where the tunnel would start. Alaska is the pop. giant w/700k, so no one is building a tunnel to connect these places.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@Corsair_Cowboy The Maxim gun was invented by an American as well. Hiram Maxim moved to England in 1881 to reorganize the United States Electric Lighting Co. in London, and decided to stay as business opportunities were better in the UK when he developed the Maximum gun three years later.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@LactoidTV @IamSean90 Lol, he would look awful foolish if he was attending Putin’s prized St. Petersburg economic forum and making that claim with dark clouds of burning Russian oil terminal hanging over his head. The main question is what is Russia’s midget dictator going to say when he attends.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@PeterLiuCASM @Brad_Setser VATs unlike sales taxes are rebated to exporters so a main purpose of a VAT as much as revenue is to drive down domestic consumption by taxing it and drive up exports by subsidizing them and making it more profitable to produce for export than domestic consumption.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@PeterLiuCASM @Brad_Setser Every country in the World outside of the U.S., certain Gulf Arab countries and small countries that start with word British have a VAT. The U.S. also has the worlds largest trade deficit and the lack of a VAT is a major reason.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@TomcatJunkie It’s an obsolete 4.5 gen fighter. Oh wait, Gripen is an obsolete 4.5 gen fighter. Just don’t try and figure out Canadian defense procurement.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@RGarlicville @vtchakarova You are for your part way overestimating the importance of these Chinese minerals as the are common. The US supply of ultra pure silicon cannot be replaced but gallium & germanium can. It’s a question of investment, some is happening but not enough at this point to cut China out.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@RGarlicville @vtchakarova I am focusing on resource supply chains, the minerals I mentioned are rare or anything else. They are byproducts from processing ordinary minerals. This is the section China controls. The rare stuff like ultra pure silicon that can’t be replaced aren’t controlled by China.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@RGarlicville @vtchakarova Gallium and Germanium are the 2 critical minerals that come from China but they are byproducts of aluminum and zinc production and coal ash reprocessing. Palladium is critical but its mined in Russia, Canada, Africa and the US. China is very replaceable for what it does produce.

[Purple Snowman @SnowmanJoe25]

@RGarlicville @vtchakarova No, the initial stage starts in a single site in North Carolina, all ultra pure silicon used to make the crucibles for silicon wafers comes from two mines in Spruce Pine, NC. Therefore understand the industry before commenting.