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UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters
An anonymous reader writes ""The UK has warned America that it will cancel its £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter if the US does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the jets"
Lord Drayson, minister for defense procurement, told the The Daily Telegraph that the planes were useless without control of the software as they could effectively be "switched off" by the Americans without warning."
Fark that! They can kiss my source code!
Surely they meant the United States. America is a continent.
F' you and your crafty term "USians." I find it offensive. But then again, I'm a white, 30 year old, male citizen from the United States. Offending me is perfectly OK. Maybe I need to start drawing cartoons of religious figures.
Buy Russian, go ahead. I hear their main battle tank that they sell is really swell. In fact you can expect an entire 16 hours before complete transmission failure... Good luck. I wonder if their planes are any better.
They're part of America too you know.
No, they are part of North America.
The United States of America has America in it's name. Canada doesn't, Mexico doesn't, Brazil doesn't, Argentina doesn't. TTBOMK, no other country has "America" in it.
Mexico has a definite claim to be aggrivated when "we" simply call ourselves the "United States". But, guess what?
We got there first. "We" were the United States for 34 years before Mexico was. So, in the spirit of "first come, first served": stuff it, Mexico. As a gesture of friendship, though: how about we rename That State which bears a part of your name?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The UK has warned Microsoft that it will cancel its £12bn order for Windows Vista if it does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the operating system.
I say take the $$$ hit and leave Europe and NATO to do whatever they want. I personally don't want any more to do with Europe. As a USian or whatever derogatory term Slashdot people like to use, I have no use for Europe.
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I say a BIG F' off to all you Europeans. I'll leave you to your unassimilated immigrants, your unfunded social systems, your negative birth rates, and your own stupidity. I want no part of you whether that part may be alliances, NATO, the UN, etc. You hate me and I can't stand you. Go do what you do best. Ignore your problems, appease evil, enact protectionist legislation, and blame the United States. And, oh ya, do what you do even better, descend into irrelevance. I find it offensive that we're even still trying to be your military ally or even maintain embassies in your worthless countries. Go do business with Russia. They're your best friend. The French make GREAT planes. Putin is sooooo much better than Bush. Hell, go do business with Iran for all I care. But before you do, go hang your political cartoonists, ok?
My great-grandparents on the mother's side and my father's parent all left for a reason. Enjoy your EU and especially your unelected EC. Enjoy it, I sure as hell will while I watch from the US. Christ, Microsoft should stop selling you software after what your EU keeps doing.
I know some of the responses I'll get. "You're off your medicine." "Have a bad day?" etc And to head those off, I have NEVER been on medications in the first place. Thus, it is difficult to be off of medicines that I have never been on. And yes, a bad day I have had (ooohhh a reference to all you star wars fan boys, I spoke as if yoda I am).
And no, I cannot spell, but I can get down and boogie.
Oh yes, and my own personal set of rules requires this:
"Oh no, oh my god no, not a French plane. Oh god, no, anything but that. It's automatic surrender system is unmatched." The name Mirage was very fitting. You're only seeing things. Rafale, good god, it still has wing mount ordinance. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/rafael-
We better never sell you these: http://www.stargazr.us/Photo%20Gallery/f-22-rapto
If the UK wants to seriously purchase French made planes, go right ahead. It's just one step closer to PAX Americana and a hoot to boot. We should have left you all to starve after WWII; a war you allowed to start. I hope that they get the software from the French.
How come????
What do you want me to say? I can piss farther than you can!
Or maybe you'd like 'Cuz I said so!
Sarcasm aside, a coherent question would be useful. I like coherent questions.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
>As far as I'm aware, the F-15I (the Israeli version of the F-15) has its entire software built in Israel. I heard that all versions of F-15's have at least some of their systems built by Israeli sub-contractors.
Wrong example. The Jews are smart. We're talking Europeans here.
you are trying to tell me that software is limiting a fighter so it can drop at subsonic, but not at supersonic speeds????? I am not an engineer, but somehow I doubt that.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Yeah. Israeli was developing improved F-16 (Lavi -project) and US pressured hard to get program cancelled, so GE could sell F-16's to Israel. Program was scrapped, and Israeli sold all know-how of Lavi -procject to -- Chinese. Chinese J-10 is now precessor of Lavi, and ironical it is, they can thank US gov't for their front-line fighterjet. Call Europeans morons as you wish, but JCS hindsight isn't 20/20 either lol.
If you're going to bring up stuff that happened over 50 years ago, do I need to remind you of the fact that the US bailed your butts out in both World Wars and provided tons of resources to keep you alive? Doesn't sound like a relationship in which you got screwed.
Mmmm.. Donuts
Would you have rather not gotten any of the money?
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
Who said it was a selfless act? All that was stated was that we gave assistance.
You used a situation where we needed help to profit.
Yeah. And? We didn't have to get involved in your problems at all. The war incurred pretty significant costs for us at a time when we were still coming out of the Great Depression. I don't see why we couldn't expect to recoup some of those costs. Besides, with European industry devastated by the war, who else were you going to buy from?
If you hadn't you'd have been next. Seriously, think before you speak.
Why don't you think before you speak. Hitler was a megalomaniac but do you honestly think he would have tried to attack us? Any actions taken toward us were based on the fear that we might become involved. Less meddling by Roosevelt with an assurance that we had no intention of entering the war would have been enough to for the Axis powers to leave us alone.
What kind of crack are you smoking? There is no way that the war would have been won without America and Canada's help. The Japs would have finished overrunning Austraila in short order and eventually Hilter would have succeeded in cutting of the British Isles and starving them out.