Sorry about your feelings on this subject Boyd. Aaaargh. I wish someone were standing here to just tell me to let this lie. However, you have now implied that I shouldn't even be posting on this site. That is somewhat disturbing to me...
I'm about as interested in discussing politics and conflict as you are; i.e. not at all. I'm certainly not interested in discussing it on another site. I live this life and don't feel the need to argue about it after a long deployment; such as with the woman next door walking her shih-tzu (who doesn't know that I've been gone or where I've been) who seems very interested in telling me all about the places that I've been and what is going on there. It is what it is.
I don't decide who the "bad guys" are (that's not the point); unless they are pointing guns at me, at which point it becomes rather obvious. I just know who the guys are whom I would supply navigation data to. They are guys and gals whom, for reasons known only by our government (whom we all voted into power), are in far away dangerous places trying not to get maimed and killed.
My products would (already have) helped them out a great deal in this area.
It can all seem very safe and cozy and abstract to those who have never gone into harms way.... sitting on their couches at night watching the news. Trust me, there's a whole 'nother world out there, with plenty of people in it who would kill you and cut off your head if given the chance. I have a family stateside, and I'd just as soon that the whole mess take place in the countries in which it began.
Beyond all of that though.... it does seem to me that the entire thread falls very much in line with GPS, mapping, and the technology surrounding it. There are plenty of people on this forum who are actually employed and making a living doing what they love to do; making GPS maps. I would imagine there are plenty more would like to make a living doing what they love. I don't see anything wrong with that. No one is forcing anyone to purchase anything. The market, and the quality of the product decides all of that.
I'm about as interested in discussing politics and conflict as you are; i.e. not at all. I'm certainly not interested in discussing it on another site. I live this life and don't feel the need to argue about it after a long deployment; such as with the woman next door walking her shih-tzu (who doesn't know that I've been gone or where I've been) who seems very interested in telling me all about the places that I've been and what is going on there. It is what it is.
I don't decide who the "bad guys" are (that's not the point); unless they are pointing guns at me, at which point it becomes rather obvious. I just know who the guys are whom I would supply navigation data to. They are guys and gals whom, for reasons known only by our government (whom we all voted into power), are in far away dangerous places trying not to get maimed and killed.
My products would (already have) helped them out a great deal in this area.
It can all seem very safe and cozy and abstract to those who have never gone into harms way.... sitting on their couches at night watching the news. Trust me, there's a whole 'nother world out there, with plenty of people in it who would kill you and cut off your head if given the chance. I have a family stateside, and I'd just as soon that the whole mess take place in the countries in which it began.
Beyond all of that though.... it does seem to me that the entire thread falls very much in line with GPS, mapping, and the technology surrounding it. There are plenty of people on this forum who are actually employed and making a living doing what they love to do; making GPS maps. I would imagine there are plenty more would like to make a living doing what they love. I don't see anything wrong with that. No one is forcing anyone to purchase anything. The market, and the quality of the product decides all of that.