Daily Archives: July 22, 2008

RNLAF runs out of options

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After trying to visit the factories of Rafale and Eurofighter, both companies have declared they will not be offering their products to the Dutch ministry of defence, leaving them with the Gripen, Advanced F-16 and JSF as options.

Considering the leading role the Netherlands wants to take in international politics, yet again they will be stuck with a fighter that will not be interesting to coalition forces in international operations, just like the F-16 was before the MLU.

All of the fighters left in the offering are short range point defence fighters, designed to be cheap to build and used after the air dominance fighters (Eurofighter, Rafale, F-15 and F-22 in the West) have cleared the airspace.

Again – using child porn as an excuse

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In the drive for total control over the internet, ISP’s have got together to outright block any “child porn” they may find. This of course sounds like a nice plan, but the problem is that it sets a precendence in that the ISPs have the power (and the responsibilty?) – both of which should be reserved for jugdes of a court system – to block whatever content they feel like.

In an inane twist to this idiocy, now New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is threatening to sue ISP Comcast for not agreeing with his version of the anti-child-porn treaty. He has no real case, but he’s defaming them by stating that if they’re against him, they’re for child porn.

So who made him the global child-porn fighter then?