EITaas service and 10 year contracts

I don’t know that much about this contract, and remember, this contract is so big, so expensive, probably no one single person knows all the contract details. It is billions of dollars, and multiple parties involved. It’s so big, forget trying to figure out what the heck is really supposed to be delivered. This contract is like the “banks are too big to fail” logic, which made no sense. I see the contract has some small business companies. Ok, thats great. But why is the contract 10 years? At most, should be 2 years.

Creating a 10 year contract is ridiculous. Really? How do we enforce performance to contractors when they have little reason to improve? I mean, the government could write them a letter of non-performance. Who would do that? And does it matter, when the contract almost NEVER EXPIRES!!!! The lawyers will laugh at you behind closed doors. This is just a bad idea, and it seems something the federal government does without a hitch, except here, they did have many complaints to the bidding process (through GAO??).

I think honest people who know contracting, they would never vote for a 10 year contract. Contract lifetimes of such length are foolish. We need someone to pass a law making such contracts difficult to do.

The contract is in waves, but who knows how that works? Something about blanket purchase agreements start at each wave? Why not call them gates? If they dont make it past a gate, they never get to the next gate, that is performance oriented.

For me, my main complaint is hold time. Hold time, call abandonment, and other phone call metrics are usually tracked for performance, these are documented as industry standard KPI key performance indicators, and they have industry standard formulas for KPI, and the kpi list for these? Eitass for my use seemed to have horrible hold times (which means many dropped calls, usually). I noticed they did NOT call me back when I hung up on them. My local hardware store called me back when I hung up on a long hold time. The air force can do this, if my hardware store can do it? They could if they wanted to!!

Any idea, why does the government create 10 year contracts? I read this was a 10 year contract. To me, its not open competition, you will NOT get the best service when you lock in a service provider for a DECADE!! THis is common sense. Why not make the contract for 100 years and just say no competition is needed, no improvement of services. It appears to be corruption to me, when I see a 10 year contract. Corrupt people and or government. Does anyone see any upside to this 10 year contract?

It should be easy to ask the Air Force,

1. have the metric improved since this contract was awarded?

2. why is hold time so long, and are the hold time and call abandonment metrics tracked?

I believe this is the contract EITaas.

EITaaS Wave 1 services awarded in $5.7B agreement > Air Force Life Cycle Management Center > Article Display

too much government?

the other day, I was thinking. How if the federal government seems to be removing worker protections. Yet they can’t remove all the state protections that states have. So because we have a state government and federal governments, it’s a good thing, right? Ok, so then we need, do we need local government?Do we need a city government body? In the united states, the fact is we have a lot of government.And i’m not sure it’s all necessary.

there are inefficiencies that come about when there are too many cooks in the kitchen.When there are too many liters and when there are just too many things happening in one place. This is why small business often innovates faster than large business.

what other problems do multiple governments have? One thing I see is that when you have multiple governments, you have a state government. You have local city government. Is that the state government will maybe make a law? Either limiting or empowering what the cities can do, and then the cities will go ahead.And do something and the state just kind of says, well, all they have to do is point the finger and say that wasn’t our problem! The state government will just say, you know, you should have.You should have worked with your local city.To prevent that from happening.

here’s an example. Quoted from Carl Demaio, his newsletter:

Rod — ‍‍Reform California Chairman and State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio this week blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing legislation that allows local politicians in Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties to push sales tax rates to 11.25%.

The new law removes existing taxpayer protections and gives local governments another way to raise costs on working families and small businesses already struggling under California’s cost-of-living crisis. DeMaio is urging voters to fight back by passing Prop 43 in November to restore the two-thirds vote requirement for local special tax increases. Read our top news story for the full breakdown.

it’s just government finger pointing. People couldn’t control the sales tax at the local level.So they asked the government at the state level to do it. The state level increases the amount of sales tax.And so now the cities can increase the amount of sales tax.

what do you think do you think we need more government layers ? There are places there are cities.There are countries that work just as well as us.And they have less government. I see. The Canadians are complaining about how they’re government is mushrooming in size and ends up costing the entire country a good percentage, just to pay all the government employees.

Bicycle fixed

not sure why. Why why did it took so long to fix my bicycle. I’ve always ridden bicycles, and I went for almost ten months without riding the bicycle. I rode it for the first time today.For a couple miles and I just forgot how much I like it.

And the instructions that says follow the crank e sets manufacture instructions when installing crank arms to ensure proper bottom bracket bearing preload. I’m not sure what that means.And i’m not sure how when you install the cranks, it affects the bottom bracket bearing. I think after about another hundred miles. ..I’m going to look at it again and see if there’s any play or anything possibly tighten up the cranks.

so this was the fix, was I replaced the bottom bracket with this one from sunlite

Unicycles

repair dyna-glo barbecue

the flame holders were all completely falling apart, and the pan had almost completely falling apart.The drip pan was completely just it had fallen out of the barbecue. So the repair process was repair.The flame holders clean it up and repair or replace the drip pan.

steps

Use a sheet metal cutter and I cut some metal roofing into the correct size for the drip pan. We’ll see how it works. It may not be strong enough, but I think it’ll work.
create new flame holders. So for this, I had some sheet metal from a cappuccino machine.Now it wasn’t ideal because it had a plastic coating.And but it was just about the right thickness, and I had pieces that were already about the right width, I just needed to cut them to length. It’s fifteen I think there are fifteen fifteen inches long. The trick to cutting these is you could sit there all day with a hacksaw, or you could get an electric sawzall. With a Metal Blade and get a couple metal blades because you’ll go through them, they get chewed up pretty quick. So get a couple saw blades and get a the biggest vice metal vice. You can find if you look at the one in the picture. The vice is bigger than my whole foot. But you want something really heavy to hold that sheet metal while you cut it with the saws all tool.m
put everything back together and then, you know, run the run the barbecue at full heat. Meaning run it for full heat with no food in there.Nothing should try to cook off any of the contaminants and the plastic coating from the metal. You don’t want the plastic coating paint stuff getting in your food.But it will get in your food.Anyway, because even if you buy brand new ones, you’ll see their painted. So even if you buy new flame holders, you should do this.Make sure you burn burn them in run.The barbecues, as hot as you can

brother mfc-7840w paper jam

i followed this website’s instructions and just added an extra spring. Exactly like you see in the picture, you see 2 little Springs? The factory spring is very weak, and it just can’t pull the gear into place after years of use. I followed the instructions here,. That’s exactly what I did. I did NOT have to pull off the side cover, I was able to add the new spring after removing the corner cover. I just got another spring from my inventory. Connected it in there, and that was enough to pull that lever and make the solenoid work correctly.

Symptom: Printer prints one page, but page gets stuck and does NOT exit the printer completely. You can pull out the first page, and its good, print quality if fine, just will not exit the printer and next page gets stuck in printer. Printer shows JAM and instructions to remove paper.

i did try to troubleshoot the drum and clean the drum, but it wasn’t the drum at all. I knew it was something else that the paper feeding after I looked at the drama and saw that there was nothing wrong with it.So then I found this web page.It’s in russians, but you can translate it.But this is exactly what I did to fix it.

https://hd01.ru/info/kak-ispravit-postoyannoe-zamyatie-v-printere-brother-mfc-7840w

Facts about marriage

What do you think of marriage? Yeah, I think that the central part of the matter, the central part of the matter is what people think. Call it culture, the known ideas about marriage that vary by geography or religion. Marriage is, and it is usually a very strong thing that is supposed to override all other quarrels, so that you stay married. and so yes, I will be comparing here, I am saying it doesn’t matter who you get married to you. There is the assumption you will. You will try everything you can do to make the marriage work at almost any cost. this is something that this whole concept it is very, it’s a thing. It’s a thing, it’s a good thing. Sometimes it’s a good thing. Sometimes good, but being married, but it could be very stressful. No matter who you’re married to, because of these assumptions that you have been placed in this relationship. And that you’re going to do any almost anything. It takes meaning, you will be unhappy for a little bit. That’s okay, you will. You will be unhappy for a long time. That’s okay. You will be unhappy again for a short period of time. That’s okay as long as it is for the relationship. This is the part, the part that is bothersome. That is very, very questionable to me. and this comes up with any person.

throughout history and I think through most cultures, marriage is for the woman. It’s supposed to be for both.But primarily it’s for the woman’s comfort. This is a fact.

Ok, it is not a fact. But this is my take on it. And I i’m sure there are other opinions.

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I hate facts that are not scientific testable facts. Here is a non fact that AI gave me today:

A cosmic fact that bends the mind

The universe has a “cosmic speed limit” — the speed of light — but space itself can expand faster than that.

Meaning: There are galaxies moving away from us so fast that their light will never reach Earth, not even in infinite time.

They’re not just far. They’re permanently unreachable — entire regions of the universe we will never observe, never measure, never know.

Most of reality is, by definition, forever hidden.

That is a fact? For one, it is the first time I have ever heard this new fact. How many astronomers believe this is fact, versus believe it is a theory? I have heard something like this, regarding jets of material shooting across space that appear to possibly be going near the speed of light. Appear. Then I have heard of simulations of the cosmos. A simulation to me is not a scientific fact. A biology teacher I had this year tried to tell the students that self replicating molecules are a fact. The professor called them “abiotic self replicating molecules”. When I asked for reference, she gave me a document that described self replicating molecules in a SIMULATION. No experiments, no proof. How is a simulation a fact? The evidence for this fact, the professor gave me this article regarding the simulations (of self replicating molecules). To me, not fact.

Imagine what you will about or galaxy, look at great star photos here and use your imagination. Just don’t call it a fact, something you took a picture of and decided the star was exactly composed of these materials (spectroscopy). Another stupid fact that I hate reading about, how we KNOW stars are exactly made of THESE materials. We have a pretty good idea, but it is not a fact. See some stars:

Image Archive: Stars |ESA/Webb

The cluster measures between 6 light-years and 13 light-years across, and is host to some of our Milky Way galaxy’s hottest, brightest, and most massive stars.

navy plane, marine avaitor

At the store, a pilot of one of these old planes was walking into the store. He was pretty frail. I had to help him up the steps. And then I also had, I’ll hold the door for him, because he looked like he just wasn’t very strong. He was a marine corp, aviator flying a navy plane is what he told me.

i love talking to anybody that was on a ship. I was on the uss anchorage for 4 years.

here are some pictures, some of them are really old.Some of them are newer after 1990. I was assigned to the ship around 1990 and around around exactly that time, they installed the ciws weapons, installed in long Beach naval base? I believe but I could be wrong and it could have been san diego, but I believe it was long beach where the ciws was installed. Around that time, I think shortly after they removed the three inch guns, which I think was a big mistake.I love the three inch guns.

USS Anchorage (LSD-36) underway at sea off Pascagoula, Mississippi, while running trials on 27 January 1969. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

why do you need three inch guns? It’s called, carry a big stick and walk tall. The three inch guns were very visually impressive.If you saw the three inch gun shooting and you were anywhere near it.You would be worried. The kinetic power of the three inch projectile is no joke. I saw them fire many times I never saw them fire at night.But I can guarantee you.The fireball is this big.Here’s a picture of the fireball at night from the three inch gun. The navy’s shirking away from guns is ridiculous. They are the most cost, effective way of delivering destructive power over the ocean or over land that’s why the army still uses artillery. Do you see the army getting rid of artillery?No, so why did the navy get rid of artillery?I have no idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F-8_Crusader

Public entity, UCI Health?

I ask you, dear reader, what comes to mind when you think of a government public entity? You might think of a government public entity like the Internal Revenue Service. A government group made to enforce and take a portion of your earnings. You also might think of your local police organization as government public entity. The Coast Guard, the guys who write you a ticket for not having a floatation device on your boat, yes I think of the Coast Guard as a public entity.

I like to simply concepts, so let’s try to look at a simple service, like a drinking faucet (for the public). In a perfect world with simple services let’s break down what a public entity may or may not be. I think of a public entity as a water faucet at a park. A water faucet at a park is free for anyone to use. Let’s table the qualities of a simple service public entity, provided by the government:

Water faucet at public park

PUBLIC ENTITY QUALITIES:
Free to use. Free, or in reality, very low cost.
Paid for by all users of the locale, in some taxes, like property taxes.
Anyone can use it at any time.
No service levels, no bias on who can use, because it is free of charge.

This is a simple service, a water faucet, at a park. It is free, and universal service, obvious somehow paid by the government. And we see it is free, it is open to the public with no bias towards your income. Anyone can come and get a free drink of water. How amazing! The service is not in reality free, but the cost to the public is so low, no one would notice. I think most readers would think that this is a great deal and a great public entity. It is a great service, this water faucet.

Now lets get complicated and think of more massive entities and what a tangle of qualities they have, and how many questions arise on how some of these groups are considered public entities.

I worked for a short period of time at a work-place, I had a job there, a place some called a public entity, a group called “UCI Health”. This group was part of the Regents of the University of California. The regents and their organization was formed for state educational purposes. Many years later, University of California Irvine was formed, then years later, UCI Health. So you may ask, who considers this a public entity? Well, the author, myself, I sued UCI Health for a few items, after I left employment with them. And one of the first things the contracted lawyers for UCI Health mention is that they are a public entity and can not be sued for certain things. While writing motions for the lawsuit, and thinking critically as the plaintiff, asked the judge to consider that this was not the case, and I provided evidence. The judge considered that and decided that he believed it also was a public entity. More on that later. For now, let me explain why I think UCI Health, like many other large organizations, is not a public entity.

UCI Health

PUBLIC ENTITY QUALITIES:

I know of none.

Yes, that is right. I don’t know of anything at UCI Health that meets the qualities of a public entity. What I do know is that there are many qualities that match a business. Lets go through some of them.

UCI Health

QUALITIES MATCHING A BUSINESS OR CORPORATION:

Not free.
Not low cost, actually has services that cost more than other commodity providers.
Paid for by a conglomeration of funding sources as to be almost impossible to understand who is paying the bills for this organization. Historically has been funded by tax payer dollars, but that is no longer the case. Only now partially paid by tax money.
Anyone can NOT use it, unless you want to pay the higher than usual fees for health care.
Has outdoor and online advertising promoting the service (that costs money and makes the service less affordable)
Has offices and clinics in neighborhoods catering to the rich, with lavish décor and buildings. Usually put in neighborhoods with high capital income.

So you can see, for me, this is just wrong. To say that these large organizations, many which have outgrown their original governmental assigned structure, should not, I repeat, should NEVER be given such gold status, the seal as a government public entity. My court case continues, and at some point, I hope to convince the courts that it is wrong to assign these organizations as public entity. Giving public entity status means the group gets sovereign immunity BECAUSE IT IS IN FACT THE government. It is old english law, and it makes sense in many instances. The government is for the people and can afford to be sued, but should not be sued for certain items. . . some of that makes sense. But the organization needs to be for the people, for everyone, and NOT, I repeat, NOT designed for PROFIT above all else. This is what I saw when I worked for UCI Health, and organization built to maintain itself, make profit from the upper class, NOT maintain the people and certainly NOT for the community as a whole. This I think is a fact, a fact I have seen, when in fact, UCI HEALTH, appears to function and operate NOTHING LIKE THE GOVERNMENT.

Under U.S. law, a public entity is any state or local government body, department, agency, or instrumentality created, funded, or controlled by government to carry out governmental functions.

You can read more about the regents at the link below.

Regents of the University of California — Grokipedia

innovate

By Rod Deluhery
Invent. Analyze. Document. Never stop. My ability is to solve problems and create value. What I have that others do not have is a knowledge of the patent process and ability to get the patent.

Innovation killers.
Things that stop innovation. A common innovator will get the feedback, no one cares about his idea. Or the sound of silence, lack of any feedback makes the innovator think that no one cares about the idea. What to do? Don’t give up.
I suggest keep talking until you get more information. I did this recently and found that I should be able to demonstrate the concept to the leaders. Really? I didn’t know that would be necessary with a idea that I came up with. In this organization, yes, they want to see the demonstration. For me I can provide a demonstration, in a limited way. More work for me to polish the demonstration. Here are some innovation rules of thumb. Review these as you work on your idea and demonstration.

Know these and be aware of these innovation killers:

Implementation Friction. It’s just too complicated!
Proprietary (corporate intellectual property) stumbling blocks. Focusing on how intellectual property will make this improbable or impossible.
It’s not a quick win.
Too obscure. The idea, it doesn’t solve any existing problems, so let’s ignore for now.
Working on a solution or idea but not spending time on how to demonstrate the concept to stakeholders.
Working on a solution or idea, but not spending equivalent time on how to get creative work arounds to items in items 1-5 listed above.

Innovation paradoxes. Innovation applied will create unexpected results. The expected result may not be as expected and totally unexpected process may emerge. What paradoxes will artificial intelligence create? I keep thinking, when will school children be told to use the ai consultant whenever they are need help? I can think of an AI Agent that could help many people like with gambling habits. But what other effects will it create?

Some history, to illustrate. The Jevons Paradox is an economic principle stating that as technological advancements increase the efficiency of resource use, total consumption of that resource often rises rather than falls. Because efficiency lowers per-unit costs, it unlocks new demand and makes previously unviable projects economically feasible.

Proposed by English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book The Coal Question. He observed that James Watt’s improved, highly efficient steam engines didn’t reduce coal consumption as many expected; instead, it made coal-powered production so cheap and widespread that total coal use skyrocketed.

Someone told me once that a long time ago, when nuclear power was just coming online, that it was going to make electricity free. There was actually thought that it may be free to give away electricity in the future. Because nuclear power made electrical generations so cost effective. And so such a low cost that it may become free. So low cost that it may even be free. Obviously that didn’t happen. And obviously they didn’t really think about the long term costs involved of disposal of the nuclear fuel. And I believe that still the case that in the united states, there is no long term storage of nuclear fuel. That cost is still going to be added to the price of electricity as they continue to figure out where to store used nuclear fuel in the long term.

pricelesd

priceless

Did you say it was 60 years old? And still new in the box.? Yes, over sixty years old and still new in the box never been used still wrapped up. This is a manufactured item that is pretty much now, priceless,

I think of myself as pretty knowledgeable with antiques, and I would say, a manufactured good that is over 60 years old and is still in the box still sealed in the box. Some kind of wrapping, some kind of sealing never been opened before at all. I would say those antiques are pretty much priceless. Pretty much anything that old is extremely extremely rare to find new in the box. Pricing, it is going to be difficult because the only thing you can compare it to is one that is open. So what do you do? So do you say because it’s sealed that it’s worth four times the price of one?That’s open, or do you say do you say?Maybe no, it’s worth ten times the price of one that’s open? Completely arbitrary pricing. Because it’s priceless.

It becomes priceless, because there is no way you’re finding another one.Anywhere, it’s going to take you years of searching to find another one. And you may never actually find another one that anyone wants to sell you.So that is the point that it becomes a manufactured item becomes priceless. My opinion.

i have this item if you’re interested leave a comment.If you want to buy it. We could do the transaction through ebay.And yes, it is sealed.And is completely new in the box.Never been opened. Hs-16a headphones.

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