Anonymous wrote:Oh gosh, how I would welcome a new version of government procurement rules! As a federal contractor I can tell you quite honestly that the rules do not result in the best product for the American people. Also contractors are not making giant margins contrary to popular belief here. And it is fair and American that businesses can perform work at a fair profit. In my mind that’s roughly 10%. That is darn hard to do with the current rules

"Fair profits" are what is wrong with American capitalism. The system doesn't work if companies don't go bankrupt and investors lose money. What happens when everyone one assumes a standard profit is inflation. Eg businesses charge customers the amount to make that profit.

The way it's supposed to work is people pay what they think the product is worth to them. If the investors and businesses were able to deliver that product for less than they were paid then they made a profit. EG the businesses have to do something to create the value. If they don't do that, it's just feudal rent seeking, not really capitalism.

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

Big Balls the checkered 19-year old hacker is at CISA...

What’s his real name.

Who cares! Watching mainstream media having to refer to him as Big Balls was classic trolling!

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

Big Balls the checkered 19-year old hacker is at CISA...

What’s his real name.

Sergei

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

You could’ve done a quick search. Tired of spoon feeding the lazy.

I keep thinking about this thread and how you keep questioning me on it I’m sure you’ll have something to complain about this evidence too

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-common-sense-to-federal-procurement/

The FAR is what he should have started with. Detangling the hot bit of poo-poo that the FAR is while seriously upgrading the COs in the federal service would be extremely efficient.

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

Big Balls the checkered 19-year old hacker is at CISA...

What’s his real name.

FAR is the worst. Trying to weed through it is a goddamn nightmare.

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

Elon's 19-24 year old DOGE kids are complete hacks who are nowhere near as tech savvy as MAGA would like to believe. They are making tons of clueless amateurish mistakes.

Agree, not impressed with any of their lame findings.

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

Big Balls the checkered 19-year old hacker is at CISA...

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Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

Elon's 19-24 year old DOGE kids are complete hacks who are nowhere near as tech savvy as MAGA would like to believe. They are making tons of clueless amateurish mistakes.

At some point it might actually make sense to feed the entirety of the FAR and for that matter the CFRs along with every current law and every legal decision pertaining to the executive into an AI to do a detailed analysis of the entire corpus to look for redundancies, conflicts, outdated references, processes, etc, along with extraneous complexity and so on.

And then, start looking at what can actually be changed via rulemaking, what needs to go to Congress or the courts to be changed.

But despite Musk being Mr. Grok AI, I don't see him doing that. Grok, though far from perfect, would give more sensible answers than Musk would, and Musk would ignore them.

Anonymous wrote:This is gonna be interesting. I say that because the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) is so archaic and unnecessarily complex at over a thousand pages in its paper version. This is the one thing that needs to be redone from the ground up, but not by 19-year old hackers. Rather than taking an axe to random shit, he should have lifted up the hood and did a deep dive into WHY the bureaucratic processes are the way they are. The FAR is a prime example.

There are no 19-year old hackers.

He won’t understand the FAR.