The Europeans could, potentially (I can't picture them actually doing it) provide a GPS system outside of US control, to any other nation and/or organization, and break one of the most important of the US' monopoly. If the US can destroy the Galileo satellites, they get back that control. Nice move, if the technology will actually works;)
(yes, I'm more of a believer of the "gotta keep sending millions to the military-industrial complex", too)
>Why should I have to pay for it? Why should my friends and relatives have to go die for it?
Because your government chose to bomb and invade Irak, killing tens of thousands of people, reducing the country's infrastructures to a state which is worse than during Saddam reign ?
Frankly, I don't think that Americans are in any position to complain.
I agree with the parent. I never played GTA I nor II, but bought GTA III for PS2 to see what as that hype was about. I was expecting something like "The Elder Scrolls" series but with cars, guns and whores, and all I had was a watered-down version of what I dreamed of. I was still fun, but not the revolution that some critics promised me, and even imho a little repetitive and bland (I'm going to get killed for this one).
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Real Americans don't use metric.
I thought that SAN = "Call of Cthulhu"'s sanity.
Does it count as geeky ?
On the other hand, not adaptable == badly designed system.
More surprising : MS has finally produced a piece of software that WORKS !
Greed is the most powerful force on Earth, and the reason why Capitalism works.
There should be ads for everybody *but* premium users who have donated to the 'pedia. Keep it simple, people.
Galileo.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_
The Europeans could, potentially (I can't picture them actually doing it) provide a GPS system outside of US control, to any other nation and/or organization, and break one of the most important of the US' monopoly. If the US can destroy the Galileo satellites, they get back that control. Nice move, if the technology will actually works
(yes, I'm more of a believer of the "gotta keep sending millions to the military-industrial complex", too)
>Why should I have to pay for it? Why should my friends and relatives have to go die for it?
Because your government chose to bomb and invade Irak, killing tens of thousands of people, reducing the country's infrastructures to a state which is worse than during Saddam reign ?
Frankly, I don't think that Americans are in any position to complain.
I agree with the parent. I never played GTA I nor II, but bought GTA III for PS2 to see what as that hype was about. I was expecting something like "The Elder Scrolls" series but with cars, guns and whores, and all I had was a watered-down version of what I dreamed of. I was still fun, but not the revolution that some critics promised me, and even imho a little repetitive and bland (I'm going to get killed for this one).
> But then again some people have had their sense of humour surgically removed. Yes, Iraquis, for example.