Iteration is part of it, but Lockheed has also been building aircraft for 100 years and shouldn’t have these really stupid issues. Nothing should crack. You shouldn’t have software issues. Guns should shoot straight. This is all shit that has been figured out for a long ass time.

Right - like a race program. You make it work eventually. Read that book on the Penske Ilmor program, or just watch The Martian. You improve, and work the problem, and iterate. Yes it’s expensive but so is kanban. 

A length of process and expense that appears to be unique to defense. Curious on how the F-35 issues compare to the F-14, F-15, F-16, etc....

Amazing how far a little insight goes...

I’d rather throw money away trying to save lives rather than take them. 

Sensible? Sure.

I’m sure Republican men everywhere will have some rude, nasty remarks for her.  And yet:

My problem with the move is it’s inconsistent with what it means to be a premium vehicle. They have the handing and the interior, but another important part of a premium/luxury brand has always been performance, and power. Look at BMW, Alfa, Audi, etc. Yet they see it as childless. Why would someone want to drop $30…

The price I quoted includes destination costs.

If I had a superpower I would want it to be the ability to make this type of person disappear off the face of the earth.

Any VPs are too many.

Things are getting desperate in St. John’s:

Sorry if I’ve interfered with the joke? Your article didn’t link to the automotive context behind this, although it has been covered in other pages on Jalopnik, and I thought I’d just mention that for those who didn’t already know.

*sigh*

behold the master race

I hardly think you can compare an innocent invitation over to your house with a deliberate assassination that was carried out solely to distract an entire nation from impeachment.

If your Sony car dies, does that make it a Walkman?

Rich person falls through hole, damages luxury goods and sues. Low income customer falls through hole and breaks arm/leg: Gets saddled with medical bills and/or doesn’t receive proper care, is permanently affected but without money or resources to sue. 

notes: PC is a straw/bogeyman invented by people who want to say racist and sexist things and have no consequences. It’s history that the Japanese colonial forces during WWII committed terrible atrocities based on their hyper-nationalistic ideology, and we should take that as a warning about espousing any…