SimCity was the tipping point.

Remember, EA was recently ranked as the Worst Company in America. People have been complaining about $60 downloadable only games locked into EA's servers way before SimCity.

The F35 would probably have more support if it was called a Super-Duper-Marine Spitfire for sure ... nostalgia sells.
Alternatively you can build your own Spitfire for about $395,000 today Link

For that price our military could purchase 1,500 of them for the same price as the lifetime cost of ONE F35 ($600 Million)

Imagine if you were the lone pilot of an F35 and 1,500 Spitfires came down on you .... haha!

A force multiplier against who?
Combat against who?

I'm sure most Canadians (myself included) are all for modernizing the military ... but $600 Million Per Jet Source is insane!

Yes this is the question that the Harper Government has failed to answer!!! I'd love to hear the reasoning behind why the Canadian Military specifically needs F35's.

From a Canadian perspective the big advantages of going with the Super Hornet is backwards compatibility (even more-so than the lower price).

- The Super Hornet is compatible with the current RCAF in-air refuelling technology
- The Super Hornet technology is an upgrade to what we already have - our techs are compatible / familiar with it
- The Super Hornet does not require longer runways for landing - our remote arctic runways are compatible
- The Super Hornet has landing gear better suited for icy runways - our weather is compatible

It's not as stealthy but we are a defensive military.

- The Super Hornet is also half the price.

The Harper Government has a hard-on for the F35 and the Canadian public really has no idea WHY.

This Slashdot story paid for by Heritage Auctions ... hoping that at least one Slashdot reader has $250K to drop.

Don't most Slashdotters who have to deal with Windows actually like Windows 7?

Does it still have the broken document button that many home users accidentally enable ... making it identify itself and render in IE7 bugs mode?

To me that was / is the most backwards thing about IE ... that users might actually be running in IE7 mode without realizing it.

Is this really news for nerds or stuff that matters?

Sure we all read books but why is this interesting?

You just underscored the problem ... it's the off-tv stuff that is the killer feature. But the gamepad looks like the Fisher Price version of the iPad ... priced like a console ... so it's more like a DS upgrade ... sorta ... or an expensive something or other ...

It's certainly a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and makes you wonder why airport fees are so high when these agencies seem to be committing to the wrong technology over and over.

The TSA has to remove the Rapiscan machines because they couldn't patch the software to remove customer-specific imagery? Why use them in the first place?

I wonder how much money was flushed down the drain on those babies ... I wonder how long the new machines will last before they get replaced ... and now small airports are back to full body cavity searches which is why these machines existed in the first place ...

I disagree. Kids and Teenagers drive console sales .. especially Nintendo console sales. Parents don't generally go to a store and let the sales drones tell them what console their kids want. Other kids do. The Wii just happened to be fun for parents and turned them into kids for a little bit. Sales drones have nothing to do with it.

I think the problem is that the original Wii kids have grown up now. Happens to Nintendo every couple generations. Wii isn't cool anymore.

The WiiU looks like a bulky Fisher Price iPad and the original Wii fans who were kids 6 years ago are older now ... they want something a little more grown up. Happened to Nintendo before when the original Sony Playstation came out and all the Nintendo fans had grown up ... good news is nostalgia will bring them back eventually ...