Take the case of F-35, the only country which has source codes apart from the U.S. is the UK. A very special exemption. They are also the only Tier 2 partner.
Everybody else has basically a black box of code given to them in terms of code for the aircraft.
Welcome to Weapon Platforms as a Service. We can provide you with the newest toys at a bargain price, but you can't modify anything, and we reserve the right to remotely brick the hardware whenever we like. Because what else you're going to do? Spend many years and billions of dollars on building your own? While your neighbor just leased 20 fighters from us?
How true is that for other countries' aircrafts? I'm somewhat skeptical of your claim to be honest, seems like a easy decision to not buy at all- there is no knowing ehat teams would form in the kind of war that would need these aircrafts at full scale.
Basically, by 2006, CDO originations were ~$250B. It took about 4 years for originations to get that large, and by 2008, there was probably less than ~$600B total.
GDP was ~$14.7T.
If history repeats itself, this is the beginning of the end. Not the end. But anything can happen. Who knows?
Unfortunately with the chaos with the UK and it likely crashing out, there will be a less of vocal opposition. Though, ironically, the UK itself right now can't seem to make up its own mind up about anything.
We changed the title from "SoftBank’s Arab Backers Balk at Planned Acquisition of WeWork". It's possible WSJ edited their own title; I think it had a quite different one earlier.
You guys drink/ booze like it's going out of fashion. Must be all those cold long Wisconsin winters. Madison is an OK place in summer, but not a place I would like to live in. And this coming from a guy who grew up in Michigan. I prefer Ann Arbor for that reason.
Wisc-Madison has a great reputation for mech/industrial/ops types of degrees.
You never thought that some information needs to be received or conveyed in real time for efficiency?
I only check my email once an hour, maybe every couple of hours. If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people.
Even if I did check my mails more frequently, there's no guarantee that (A) I'm going to bother reading/responding to _every_ mail I receive, nor that (B) I will reply immediately.
Does everybody here really live in such a techno-bubble that they fail to see how the real world works?
> If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people.
Just as any communication mean phone calls are abused to no end. 95% of the calls I receive are spam, the rest are from VIP registered numbers (family, school etc.).
It’s anecdotal but I see more and more people just filtering all non VIP calls and checking every now and then voice mail or messages.
I’m not sure people heavily relying on phone are still “normal” people.
So are emails, but we don't say people have stopped using emails for certain types of communication.
> [...] I see more and more people just filtering all non VIP calls and checking every now and then voice mail or messages. I'm not sure people heavily relying on phone are still "normal" people.
Then I really think you need to look outside your usual circles, especially if there's a lot of technologically-inclined involved, because I'm not sure "normal" people even know what VIP numbers are, let alone know to filter them, nor that filtering is even possible.
Unless something is confidential, I don't use a phone. And luckily, I rarely need to be contacted instantly, as I don't like to be interrupted. I definitely never call my friends, we only speak to each other when we meet, and I read every email, but I never sign up for garbage emails.
Although I would still want my phone to have excellent call quality. My best experience is with Facetime Audio.
I'm generally of the same opinion, though I like being called when somebody needs something immediately rather than mucking about. I also enjoy a good call when I want to catch up quickly, not spend hours typing out what should amount to about 10 minutes' worth of spoken conversation.
But these sound like _personal_ preferences for _personal_ accounts.
In my work, and I'm sure most others, I don't have a great deal of choice of interaction methods, what I must be signed up to by email, etc.
Our own preferences are great and all, but I think that when we extrapolate those to the greater population and assume everybody is of the same mind, the blinkers to reality kick in. They're a huge problem that is endemic to the technologically-inclined because we falsely (and sometimes smugly) assume that our opinions and choices are universal.
Whether we might prefer or not prefer phone calls is irrelevant to whether or not people still do phone calls in the real world, and people have smartphones these days, so nobody should be surprised that smartphones are still used, especially in business, to place and receive phone calls.
Sure, mightn't be the top use case for a smartphone, but one would be foolish to imagine it isn't a big deal for a lot of people.
You will find that the Swiss comply with most EU laws, including GDPR in most instances. And so is/has/will the UK. You really can't sit next to one of the largest trading blocs in the world and ignore it, unless you don't intend to do deal with them/ conduct business with them in any shape or form. Good luck in your quest to find, freedom or whatever else you're trying to find.
Everybody else has basically a black box of code given to them in terms of code for the aircraft.