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Interesting article on Air & Space mag about the F-35 8

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 One of the main arguments for creating a single aircraft type to try and serve the needs of air forces, navies and marines was the cost savings that could be achieved in terms of training, service and spare parts. But are these forces setting themselves up for a massive failure.

While this certainly makes sense for civilian aviation where airlines like Southwest have demonstrated the advantage of using one aircraft type for all needs (Southwest's entire 571 plane fleet consists of Boeing 737s) it may not actually be such a great idea for a military force. 

By using the F-35 for so many applications, the US military along with 10 other countries are creating a fighter monoculture. 

_“We all show up tomorrow with the same kit,” says Lieutenant General André Deschamps, chief of Canada’s air staff, “the same software, same everything. The procedures are the same, the training’s the same."_ 

In this age of increasing cyber warfare, having the same control software across so many fleets may actually be a liability. These modern planes have live data links back to base and amongst each other to transmit intelligence in real-time. If/when there is a flaw, it could potentially be exploited to ground the entire fleet in one shot. Monocultures are never a good thing and I don't think this is a good place to start.

The Ultimate Fighter?
With the F-35, Lockheed Martin takes a turn trying to make one combat plane that can do everything.


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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to do more to advance automotive safety than… 4

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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to do more to advance automotive safety than any other technology, ever!

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A step forward!

Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature
The California state legislature just approved a bill paving the way for driverless cars to be allowed on Golden State freeways.

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Chances are that you or someone in your family has experienced something in their… 8

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Chances are that you or someone in your family has experienced something in their medical history that an insurance company would consider a pre-existing condition. Until the passage of the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies were free deny individual coverage to anyone with such pre-existing conditions at any price.

The only way for people with pre-existing conditions to get insurance was through group coverage through an employer. Unfortunately the rising cost of insurance over the past several decades resulted in many companies, especially smaller companies cutting back and in many cases not offering insurance. 

That is the system that Republicans desperately want to retain. They want huge for-profit insurers to be able to charge more and more for less and less only to people that aren't likely to cost them anything. They don't care about ordinary lower and middle income families. Think about that when you go to the polls. 

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The $23,800 bug bite. 

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An Entirely Other Day: Bugged
It’s just after midnight and I’m sitting in a hospital room in the pediatric unit next to my ten-year-old son. He’s asleep now, after a hard day of watching TV and playing games on the iPad and tellin…

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You know the situation is really bad when even Fox News acknowledges that Paul Ryan's…

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You know the situation is really bad when even Fox News acknowledges that Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican convention was one long string of lies.

The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth.

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You know Paul Ryan is a giant f-ing liar when even Fox News is calling him one.

Paul Ryan’s speech in 3 words
Paul Ryan’s speech was three things: dazzling, deceiving and distracting.

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+Roger Ebert provides his analysis of what happened to Clint Eastwood the other…

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+Roger Ebert provides his analysis of what happened to Clint Eastwood the other night at the RNC. Like the last Bond movie Quantum of Solace it got messed up by having competing writers trying to do different parts of the scriptless script. 

With party spin-meisters trying to inject their talking points into Eastwood's off-the-cuff rif, the whole thing just turned into a huge mess. 

The man with his name – Roger Ebert’s Journal
What exactly happened when Clint Eastwood was onstage at the Republican National Convention? The one thing we can agree on was that it was unexpected–by the Republicans, by the audience, perhaps eve…

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If you want to learn all about the new 2013 +Ford Motor Company Fusion that's…

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If you want to learn all about the new 2013 +Ford Motor Company Fusion that's coming to dealers in a few weeks, check out the http://fordfusionstory.com/ website.  If you're a Google Currents user you can also get the same content nicely formatted in a mobile magazine format at the link below. 

2013 Ford Fusion Story on Google Currents
Learn about the all-new 2013 Ford Fusion

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Jon Stewart finally explains why there is a such a divergence of opinion about President…

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Jon Stewart finally explains why there is a such a divergence of opinion about President Obama between Republicans and the rest of us. There is a second invisible Obama that is only visible to Republicans,

Daily Show: RNC 2012 – The Road to Jeb Bush 2016 – Invisible Obama
At the RNC, Clint Eastwood reveals a President Obama that only Republicans can see.

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If this rumored merger of Grand Am and the American Le Mans Series comes to pass,… 2

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If this rumored merger of Grand Am and the American Le Mans Series comes to pass, I hope they keep mostly the ACO rules including the Le Mans prototypes. I'd love to see the Audi R8s and Mustangs from Grand Am running against the Ferraris, Corvettes, BMWs and Vipers found in ALMS. 

ALMS Reportedly Merging With Grand Am To Create One Crazy Fucking Awesome Racing Series
We enjoy the sports car racing and famous battles in Grand Am but tend to prefer the field and races of the American Le Mans Series and never watch enough of either because of unfortunate scheduling, …

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