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> Remember, GPS is a military tool first. Civilians get to use it at the militaries discretion. That's a bit like saying Java could have dropped sun.misc.Unsaf
by dkarl 5y ago
> Remember, GPS is a military tool first. Civilians get to use it at the militaries discretion.
That's a bit like saying Java could have dropped sun.misc.Unsafe at any time because it was a private API. Once the civilian economy started relying on GPS, the military had to consider the cost of turning it off. Not to mention that the U.S. military has traditionally been deployed to promote and safeguard American commercial interests, and if it started disregarding them, that would amount to a shocking political revolution.
- posix_me_less 5y ago> the U.S. military has traditionally been deployed to promote and safeguard American commercial interests Any examples except maybe Kuwait? Korea and Vietnam were for geopolitical reasons, "to stop communists taking too much power", Iraq was few people taking advantage of 9/11 to line their pockets with government procured money. Afghanistan was the latter again. Which American deployment directly safeguarded American commercial interests?