On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:21:14 -0700, C J Campbell wrote:

the GPS system is owned by the US DOD. What do you expect? It is their
system and they do with it whatever they please.
I never understood how someone is freely willing to use a military device
for business purpose.
This is one reason why Europe will launch their own satellites. (hopefully
they get rid of the US influence on building the system! I don't feel save
knowing the US military might misuse our system.)

This is the sort of malicious sniping, innuendo, and outright lies that have
so lowered Americans' opinions of Europeans.

this has nothing to do with what opinion someone has on somebody else.
besides, there was no lie. And it is the good right of the owner of the GPS
system (the US military) to stop offering the GPS signal to the general
public (except there are treaties, no idea).
the GPS signal is only as accurate as *one* (!) nation's military seems
appropriate to set it. It doesn't matter if this is the USA or Russia or
Australia or Japan or China or ... (pick your country).
My point is: I won't rely on such a system that solely relies on the will
of one nation's military. And as there are upcoming needs (AFAIK) for
commercial services the ESA/European Union has decided to deploy their own
system. The US military is strongly interested in working within this
project for one single reason ...


#m

Besides, if you are in the opinion that the opinion on Americans have so
much lowered .... hmmm ... there must be a little truth to it ... but how
does it come to such a change in opinion? don't always search for errors
and mistakes on somebody else.

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