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Galileo Sends Its First Signals
VVrath writes "Galileo, the European answer to the US Military-owned GPS has sent it's first signals to ground stations in the UK and Belgium. The first satellite in the Galileo system, Giove-A was launched on December 28th 2005, and is set to be followed by a further 29 satellites by 2010. At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
Your "land of liberty" seems to allow the President to tap anyone's phone calls for no reason. Your "land of liberty" has spent most of the last four decades imposing making the rest of the world /less/ free by imposing its will on it. That's not democracy - that's imperialism. And your "land of liberty" didn't even EXIST until fairly recently in historical terms. It's also likely to go into pretty bad decline at some point - go read a literacy study and be amazed at how many of you folk can't even read. In fact, increasingly the U.S. is _failing_ to perform a leadership role in the world, because it's completely ignoring it (apart from certain oil-rich countries that interest your oil-baron-thick-as-two-short-planks President financially).
The U.S.A. is *not* the world's leader, because the rest of us have the liberty to choose not to follow your folly.
Please get a clue.
The United States of America is the greatest country in the history of the world. This Earth belongs to the US, the rest just live here.
No, the United States used to be a great country, to the extent that it even makes sense to have "countries" or "states." Now, the US has now become a fascist theocracy / police-state with a government that is so corrupt that it would be a compliment to call our capital a cesspool.
The US isn't even close to being the most free nation in the world anymore, which is terribly sad. We spend soooo much time talking about how we're "bringing freedom and liberty to Iraq" while bleeding fundamental liberties here in the US at an alarming rate. As someone put it "If Iraq needs a Constitution let's send them ours, we're not using it anymore."
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it wasn't to really to avoid secret prisons
it was about saving capitalism
opposing party political systems are not democracies
in a real and true democracy there can be no representation in lieu of the people
which is independent of the economic system they choose implement
It is easy to fault the submitter for posting this flame bait, but it is Zonk's fault for letting it through. And I suspect this is not the first time Zonk has done something like this, and CmdrTaco has let him.
Just look at how Bush is pussy footing around North-Korea while invading a non-treating country like Iraq since they knew they didn't have any WMD
You're ignoring the heavy influence of China in keeping it's pet NK on a short leash, and the fact that we have ships around the korean penninsula boarding what we damn well please.
How do you think Libya was convinced to start playing ball a couple years ago?
Because we captured a bunch of nuclear weapons making equipment being shipped from NK, and told Qadaffi that he's our bitch. He agreed.
The rest of your post is just American-hating drivel, devoid of any real point.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.