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- NPR Distribution
- The PRSS is one of the ways member stations get programming- when
- your station plays Morning Edition, it is airing a feed. No big surprise
- there. The innovation of the PRSS was a thing called ContentDepot-
- where you could subscribe to programming like Car Talk and have .wav
- files sent by satellite to your particular station's satellite receiver
- to be played back later. At the time (like the 1990's) , it was great-
- no more having to run tape on a live feed to record a show.
- is that the PRSS was expensive. Not only do member stations have to pay
- a hefty fee just to use the PRSS, they have to pay additional fees to
- store their content there. As member station revenue has fallen off
- (because no one listens to radio anymore and the audience is ageing
- out) the burden of paying for it became greater and greater. Now, only
- the largest NPR affiliate put up pre-taped programming on the PRSS-
- everyone else has decamped to a place called the Public Radio Exchange,
- where content is basically shared via a file sharing system. Much
- cheaper and no expensive equipment required. The only thing NPR has left
- (like over the air tv) is live events- Morning Edition and All Things
- Considered- and even those are being strip mined for podcasting.
- Boeing
- F-47 BOTG
- I'm an engineer at one of the maintenance
- air force bases where we deal with Boeing all the time so I've got some
- standing here. Giving Boeing the contract for the F-47 is definitely NOT
- good for America. Boeing is terrible to deal with. We're constantly in a
- back and forth trying to get the parts we need to produce assets with
- Boeing making sure that they send us all the lemons so we look bad. Then
- with all the lemons and part shortages in hand they go complain that we
- involved with bringing in the workload for the Boeing KC-46 and it's a
- disaster. This is the air refueler that was developed from the 767 and
- you would think they would know their own aircraft but they don't. The
- Boeing engineers can't answer any technical questions about the aircraft
- and most of the time just ignore our requests for information. For
- example, we recently asked them a specific question about a fuel control
- part and they responded with the toll free number of their part
- supplier. Boeing has technical authority over all this and the best they
- can do is google a toll free number for the supplier. It's a joke. The
- KC-46 program is coming up on being 3x over cost and they aren't even
- The F-47 won't be any different. They
- are saying that it'll cost $20 billion but that number won't be under
- $60 when they're done and I won't be surprised if it's over $100
- billion. The big defense contractors plan on going way over cost knowing
- that the government always ponies up and there are no repercussions.
- Just look at all the contracts out there - Sentinel missile is $35
- billion over and not done, KC-46 is 3x over, B-21 is over but they won't
- say by how much, it's everywhere.
- commercial and Boeing military might as well be two different companies
- so this won't do anything at all to help the quality problems the
- commercial side is having. I've been on calls where we asked Boeing
- military about something we've seen on the commercial side and they
- actually told us they don't even know how to get ahold of the commercial
- John is right about one thing, the F-22
- is a dynamite aircraft. So much so that we don't need a new fighter
- between that and the F-35. Despite it's problems, give the F-35 a
- software upgrade and it can do some of the stuff the F-47 is supposed to
- do like being a drone leader.
- how Boeing landed this contract other than some sort of back room deal
- where they were next up on the list of defense contractors needing a
- handout. It doesn't help America at all, especially when the future of
- war is less and less about fighters. At a time when Trump is supposed to
- be cutting costs he's doing shady deals to hand out $60+ billion to
- Boeing. It's rank hypocrisy and corruption.
- Sorry for the long rant but it was too much to hear you get all giddy about Boeing pillaging us for more money.
- F-47 more BOTG about the competition to build it
- The USAF Next Generation Air Dominance program was a
- competition between Locked Martin, Northrop Gruman and Boeing,and the
- Air Force had selected a winner last year but the Biden admin didn't
- want to approve it. Trump didn't pick Boeing, the AF did, they F-47 was
- definitely a way to suck up to him though. The US Navy is also currently
- competing bus from the same companies for their 6th generation fighter,
- so one would expect this to pull Boeing out that competition since
- developing a fighter is no small task.
- still making F-15s for foreign military partners and also have their USN
- refueling drone, the MQ-25, that is in development. Both of those are
- made in their St Louis plant and the F-47 very likely will also.
- Signal Gate
- Walz connect the dots signal debacle
- In anticipation for tomorrow's show covering the group chat debacle, here are some dots I've been toying with:
- - Waltz was working in the DoD and as an advisor to Cheney in the W Bush days.
- - Goldberg was publishing work actively supporting the invasion of Iraq at the time.
- - The Cheney gang despises Trump
- Could Goldberg have been invited on purpose? It's more likely he just goofed, but I'm seeing connections here.
- Sir Grantlius of the Great Plains
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