You are welcome.

It will take a really annoying or long outage before people notice they've been screwed by Big Money.

It's hard to know what industry or company Xi is subsidizing, as their system is not transparent.

Give me 5 million and I'd do it, I confess.

It's mostly a contracting issue. Sometimes, if a customer wants full rights to all documentation and design details (or source code or whatever), they have to pay more. If they want exclusive full rights, they have to pay even more. This can be beneficial for some things, not so good for others. If you want to customize your ERP system (SAP or something like that), you'll generally bring in an outside company to do it. You could demand all the source code for everything they did and pay more for it, but if you don't have the necessary expertise on tap to make use of it, it's just throwing money out the window.

The taxpayers paid for the goods along with their research and development.

Not always. Companies do undertake their own research on their own dime, hoping to later sell it to government or other contractors. To take a simple example, a government that purchases a Cessna Citation jet for travel purposes is mostly buying off the shelf. They may customize it with their own communications gear, but they didn't pay for the R&D that went into it. Textron (owner of Cessna and part of RTX) paid for that and is making it up over time with sales of the jet.

A more complicated example is Anduril, which started developing families of weapons on its own and then started getting contracts to further the development process. How much of that should the government own, or at least get access to, if they didn't pay for it?

I agree that the government should be able to fix its own things through contractors of its choosing, and it should get access to all necessary design data. But it's still a contracting issue.

Doesn't matter, it's those that drafted and signed the contracts that are the problems.

LOL, you're so funny.

Died a little less than year ago. Now there's no "US", there is the trumpistan, a country, which basic ideology doesn't differ all that much from the basic ideology of China or Russia or North Korea. The slight difference is that trumpistan is a few years behind those three, although it is catching up quite quickly.

Still, it is as much an enemy of the free world, as exemplified by its support for rashism, by its rampant and shameless corruption, by the baseless accusations towards its former allies, which it uses to excuse its bullying and by its absurd territorial claims, that lack even putin's appearance of "historical" justification.

People didn't like US, but they really don't want to be under the trumpist/Chinese/Russian/North Korean boot.

And you, unlike anyone else in history, chose this yourselves freely.

So, please, go eat a bowl of dicks with that self-righteous attitude.

I had to look that up, but it is real!

Crappy people at work. We really need to make greed a punishable offense in some areas.

You mean unlike the US pharma price-gouging, where people pay 20x as much as they do for basically the same product with the same safety in other places? Let's hope so. Americans may find out that most things can actually be treated without sending you into medical bankruptcy.

Indeed. Profit-driven is not enough.

Like hat has never happened before and nobody could anticipate that....
Japanese cameras and then electronics for one close example. Or look up where "Made in Germany" came from.

Sue Taco Bell!

Or another New Deal, except that to get to the last one the US needed the Great Depression.

In other news, the catholic church is suing OpenAI because they had the idea to simply make suicide illegal a thousand years ago and have been using it ever since.

Not sure if it's a trade secret or a copyright case, the news often don't mention the fine details.