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Comment This is like the Belgian army (Score 1) 364

The tiny Belgian armed forces is horribly bloated and inefficient because it's based on awarding political contracts across a broad spectrum of Flemish and Walloon constituencies. This results in badly mismatched and concocted schemes to build systems no one wants and no one can use. For example one model of APC uses a one-off 90mm gun where the ammo is made by a single small company. But the other FOUR incompatible models of APC all made by different companies are all secure in their permanent contracts as well. This is the F-35 in a nutshell.

BTW the Australians and the Brits discovered the F-35 "B" version VTOL runs so hot it melts the decks on their ships taking off.

Comment Here's an idea (Score 1) 579

Where I live, red lights average about 6 to 8 minutes and the cross street's green is typically so short the first car in line can't get across w/o it turning yellow. Stop doing that. Stop making people have to adjust their entire day because the lights are so screwed up. And even UPS has software which adjusts truck routes based on left turn lights so as to avoid them. That means that left turns are a disaster.

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