Re: Clarification about the term "GPS Shutdown"

From: Agamemnon (Anonymous-Remailer_at_See.Comment.Header)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: 18 Dec 2004 17:04:47 -0000

In article <JS0YI32Z38339.4722569444@anonymous.poster>
nobody@See.Comments.Header (Italy Anonymous Remailer) wrote:
>
> On 18 Dec 2004, Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Iolaos)
wrote:
> >In article <TWE3APAM38338.8578472222@anonymous.poster>
>
> Snipped
> >
> >The USA simply isn't a reliable partner anymore.
>
> A partnership implies shared burdens of cost and risk.
>
> How much did and does the EU contribute to the cost of the
development,
> operational support, and maintenance of the US GPS such that
they would be
> our partners as you suggest? Did the EU bear 50% of those
costs to make
> them an equal partner? Do they continue to bear 50% of the
operational and
> maintenance costs?
>
> If the answer is zero, then the EU was never a partner and was
only reaping
> a free benefit granted to them by benevolence of the US
government.
>
> If the number is somewhere in between, your dividends are
based upon your
> investment. In other words, you get what you pay for.

Galileo won't be free.

But it won't be under the control of George 'WMD' Bush, so it
will be worth it.

That's why the USA spent so much time and effort trying to stop
it.

The the USA no longer has the international influence to do that.

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