From: George Sherwood 

On Wed, 09 May 2007 06:54:54 +0100, Ad wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> Remember those heady days back in December 2005, Adam and Phil just
>> crowing that now, who needs the US GPS system?  We have our own.  I
>> think I noted, hey it was just a test satellite give me a shout when
>> more happens.  Well now two years later, nothing has happened and it
>> won't happen any earlier then 2011 and I doubt that.  By then if GPS
>> III stays on track Galileo will won't even be a superior system that
>> you have to pay for.  Well I am sure the EU will be there to bail it
>> out, maybe.
>>
>>
> ROFLMAO. Oh here is the the spokesman for the US being all in favour of
> private enterprise & thus pushing his entirely
"state-mil-industrial"
> GPS over the "free market choice".

Digging deep for this one Adam.  GPS was never meant to be a commercial
enterprise.  It was designed and supported as a military system.  So they
state shouldn't fund military projects?  Strange way of thinking in my
opinion.


>
> Oh dear George I was wondering if you'd wander into this hole.

I don't understand at all what hole you are talking about.  Show me where
GPS was setup and funded to be a commercial venture?


>
> Yes I am sure the EU will bail it out with taxpayer money however it
> will be a bail out unlike your US entirely state based solution.

The EU will bail out a commercial venture.  GPS is a military venture. This
is what the Euros hate about it so much since the military can decide to
change the rules on it.  As Airbus Europe will bail out a commercial
venture and try to link it to military spending of the US old story.


>
> I am sure that the next stage will be to take the US mil to court in the
>   WTO etc. for offering a state sponsored free service & thus
"dumping".
>
>
> After all can't have illegal state aid on that sort of scale can we
> now....

As I said above they will try to make that link, but they haven't won
against Boeing and this link is even weaker.

George

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