Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starliner needs another test

Re:Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starli... by scarejunba on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:03PM (#22197916)

Sitting by and doing nothing is a sucker's game. I've always put money in NOC, LMT, and BA. They'll always go up because the government is easy to sucker and the people are easy to sucker. You just give them the latest spiel about who's a threat and bam, the people love it, and the government loves spending the people's money. Every one of them 5x-10x over the last decade.

Can't wait to hear how the Raider program takes forever haha. The US military is already way overpowered anyway, so the way I see it, I'm just getting the money I put in taxes back here plus a little from all the guys who don't play the game. And if you complain I can just seed something on Twitter about it being outsourced engineers who made the mistake. Then you'll rage for a few minutes and give me money.

Thanks, my dudes. Index funds are for losers.

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Re:Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starli... by perl4ever on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:47PM (#22198226)

Well, taking this as sincere, I would think your satisfaction would depend on them being benign tumors rather than turning out one day to be metastatic cancer. There's no way to have absolute security against that.

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Re:Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starli... by scarejunba on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:50PM (#22198242)

Yeah, if the US military starts sucking that would be bad but I'm not too worried about that. And to be honest, if they're going to suck at this, they're going to do that whether or not I put another $300k so I'd rather be wealthy and in trouble than poor and in trouble.

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Re:Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starli... by perl4ever on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:41PM (#22206683)

I sense that when you say "start sucking" you are envisioning a gradual process.

People and organizations can live in an unhealthy way for a long time before they have a crisis, but that doesn't mean there's a gradual ramp at the end.

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Re:Boeing reports a $410M charge in case NASA decides Starli... by scarejunba on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:44PM (#22206699)

I'm betting on seeing it coming.

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