E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System

waimate writes "The European Union today decided to go ahead with Galileo, the constellation of 30 satellites which will compete with the U.S. GPS system. The U.S. abolished selective availability three years ago partly to make GPS more useful for all mankind, but also to dissuade other countries from developing their own navigational satellite system, and thus be dependant on the U.S. for both peaceful and military purposes. Since the demise of the Russian GLONASS system, GPS is the only game in town. Evidently recent events make Europe feel less comfortable about such things, and so they're building their own. Good thing for commercialization of space, or bad thing for world peace?"

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Re:The war was a good thing

[DunbarTheInept]

In British society we have an age old law that states "a man is guilty until proven innocent". The USA I believe also has this law. Nobody has to prove that what the US did was bad. They are the ones acting as executioner here, they are the ones who should prove their own actions to be right.

I can only hope that you got that backward and this is not really the way British Law works. I know it's not the way US law works. If you think otherwise, I invite you to pay me the 10,000 US Dollars you owe me. If you think you aren't in debt to me by that amount, I challenge you to provide the documents to prove it, since everyone is guilty by default, according to your own statement.