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Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form
An anonymous reader writes: Proving once again that the government has a form for everything, Buzz Aldrin has unveiled his Apollo 11 documentation on social media over the past few days, including a travel voucher detailing his expenses on his trip to the moon. The papers listed him as having been on a "work trip" from his home in Houston, Texas that had taken him to the moon and then back again with a total expenses claim of just $33.31. The report notes : "Government meals and quarters [were] furnished for all of the above dates."
Yeah, in those days that would get you a blow job and ATM!
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Comes to $216.59 in 2015 dollars.
Shouldn't he still get to claim per diem?
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You gotta give them some incentive. It was a really risky trip.
"Houston, the lunar take-off rockets failed to fire, and the fuel is leaking fast. Uh, we'd like about an hour of privacy, please...".
Table-ized A.I.
You need a private count-down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Now please excuse me while I go make my new tinfoil hat.
Don't forget to put it on your expense form, I'm sure NASA will reimburse you the $0.30 as a matter of course.
ATM? This is obviously a use of those three letters I'm unaware of.
Bullying used as the ultimate proof. Wasn't there a Salvor Hardin quote on the subject?
"the government has a form for everything"
As if there wouldn't otherwise be people screaming about how Buzz Aldrin did not account for how he spent out tax money and is therefore a theif.
As if private corporations do not require expense reports. (My favorite case of this was returning from business trips to South East Asia. I would land in Hong Kong about 10am, have some lunch, leave on a 2pm flight, land at LAX at 10 am, have some lunch, leave on a 2pm flight. My expense report would make people freak out because I listed 2 lunches for the same calendar day. It took a couple of tries before someone told me to enter one as breakfast.)
What that vid portion doesn't show is that the guy followed Buzz around and constantly harassed him for a while, sticking a Bible in Buzz's face.
Table-ized A.I.
To be fair, that's $33.31 in 1969 dollars...
Ass to mouth.
* Chewing gum
* Accordion
* Shoe-horn
* Pizza cutter
* 75 watt light bulb
* Dried armadillo
* Bicycle peddle
* Original painting of a bulldozer
* Rodent repellant
* 7 bottle caps
* Pillow feathers
* Rubber mallet
* Dog bone
* Green paint, exterior
* Detour sign
* Broken canoe paddle
* Decorative beads
* Baby pacifier
* Petunia seeds
* Empty ice tray
* Batman mask
* 3 human teeth
* Toothpick sculpture of a 3-legged donkey
* Drained snow-globe
As a hard-working tax-payer, I demand answers.
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I would say there are many people that are above the law in some respects; executives, congress, police, etc. I don't like it but I'm not going to go out of my way to complain when someone I think is awesome takes advantage of it.
I was thinking along the lines of Aligned Tetryonic Modulator...
There are no 'people above the law'. There are people who abuse the law, because they are tolerated, and this is wrong.
Here in France, the home of the French Fries, of the modern democracies and of Human Rights, we have the form "CERFA 12722*1" : "Authorization to export or import goods that could be used for torture purposes".
https://www.formulaires.modern...
I don't know if I must fill this form to import a wrench and some duct tape.
He should have asked for a mileage allowance.
What the video shows is an assault, which is still a crime. If I punch you in the face, regardless of the reasons, I'll end up in jail. Was the hooligan in the video charged? Nope, because he's 'famous', so the prosecutors came up with an excuse, which they won't grant you. And you lap it up, because you're from the Republic that loves royalty.
You don't know what you are talking about. The law and the police recognize that people can be provoked into throwing a punch. Laws frequently contain clauses about "Fighting Words" and/or stipulations for considering who a "reasonable person" would react in a situation. If you watch the whole video, you will see Aldrin spend minutes trying to get away from Sibrel who continues to chase him, block his path, shove a bible in his face and accuse Aldrin of being a "a coward, and a liar, and a thief." No one would be charged for throwing a punch after all that harassment. Not even you, Mr. AC.
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
Buzz Aldrin was duly charged. The proceedings essentially lasted as long as the video, since it's obvious that he was provoked.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
I guess they still had to figure out whether that dust was relevant to "agriculture", "immigration" or "public health" ("any other condition on board that may lead to the spread of disease: TBD"). Not commerce as he basically stole it.
Depending on where you live the law usually makes room for justifiable assault, even justifiable homicide but the bar for "justifiable" is set usually quite high.
Anecdotal example: My brother-in-law arrived at the scene of an accident near his home, a car full of young guys had run a red light and t-boned his wife's car, fortunately nobody was hurt and the incident was caught on a red light camera. He approached the cop who was talking to the other driver and then without any warning 'king-hit' the other driver square in the face. The young man fell on his arse and started bleeding. Apparently he had been telling the cop how the "stupid old slut" in the other car had caused the accident. The cop's response was brilliant, he said something like - "I heard what he said, but you can't do that in front of me. Again".
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
The government didn't charge him for the view.
I assume that both people involved were white. Otherwise it really would have been a newsworthy assault that should have been in the news.
Sexconker, you ok buddy? Hope you're not having a stroke or something.
David Attenborough tells a wonderful story about his early days at the BBC. He had bought two pack horses on location for 30 shillings because he could not find a guide who had enough of their own horses to service the crew. When he was done with the horses he gave them away (to the guide I assume). Back in London he got a call from the BBC accounting office querying the two horses on his expense claim. The accountant was demanding to know where the horses were located because they were now "BBC property" and would appear as such in an audit. Attenborough responded with "Madam, we ate them", which as it turned out were the magic accounting words that turn an asset into a consumable.
The moral of the story is; if you are ever on safari and need to claim some pack mules, either bring them back with you or describe them as "breakfast" on the expense claim..
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
We supposedly made it to the moon in the 1960's. The last time we went was in 1972.
Why haven't we (or anyone else) gone back in over 40 years?
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Not sure what the rate was back in 1969, but it would have added up.
Who are you? You're nobody.. Thats why you'll end up in jail.
But do something like being one of the first men on the moon and you can do what you want tho.
Thats one of the perks of the giant insane risk of exploding for science and country.
Nope, NASA covered that too.
I used to work on the system which keep track of Navy flight records. We had to modify it to handle Navy personnel flying on the Space Shuttles. The system only allowed for 99.9 hour flight legs. Since shuttle flights were longer than 100 hours, we had to modify the system to handle them differently if the aircraft was one of the space shuttles. Talk about getting in your flight hours.
Being 'provoked' is not a justification thus the US entered world war two illegally.
If you are reading this in German or Japanese, I apologize for the provocation.
https://aoprals.state.gov/web9...
No per diem rates for the moon.
Well, that settles it. If the State Department doesn't have per diem for it, it must mean no travel took place.
How can you fill out TDY forms if you don't have a per diem rate that you can cash in on, amirite, Govvies on Slashdot?
Some people don't believe in fairies. I don't believe in The Patriarchy.
This would hardly be the first time someone faked an expense report!
It's extremely unsafe to let prostitutes reverse your polarity. That's how you get space harpies.
First men on the moon? Come on, they aren't even born yet.
He Photoshop'd a few lines in his itinerary indicating a stop over at a secret movie studio at a desert base in Nevada.
If you really want to go down that path:
Woman: "Rape me or I will kill you" (very threateningly brandishes loaded firearm, points it at you)
You: (Does as commanded to avoid death)
So, yeah, if we want to think of extremes, there are extremely unlikely situations where you can justify rape via provocation. It would likely be instead using statues about self-defense, but hey, what the wording is is less important than the fact it exists.
He kind of reminds me of Woz and Jobs, where Jobs was intense and Woz was cool. In this case its Neil who was intense and Buzz who is cool.
3.31 for a steak sandwich and coffee on the way in?
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
I thought that was A2M.
Except that wouldn't be rape. If she is demanding sex at gunpoint, she is raping you, if anything.
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