Re:Call centers in space... (Score 1)

Yeah, sure. And this policy has worked so well in the past. And calling India a democracy is a joke. Ask any of the Indian programmers you work with. Anyway...I see moves like this as less about any rational policy and more about a number of disparate motives colluding to drive policy. Just one example, you have Boeing which despite their advertisements would love regional destabilization that keeps our troops in hard way. Boeing executives *do* profit from war. And with the current tax cuts that favor the extremely weathly the most, they really profit. And since the space race isn't militarized enough (for Boeing) and since the US domestic population wouldn't like to see a weaponized space program...Boeing needs a proxy to create a crisis. So in the 1990's Boeing started working with the Chinese. And surprise! Soon after that the Chinese were a good 50 years ahead. The US government fined Boeing for this but it was just a slap on the wrist. What Boeing wanted they got, a more dangerous China which they would use to drive more revenue to themselves from American taxpayers to protect us from the dangers they create. Why do you think Boeing needs to run ads about how much they care? So I see making India a real player in space is just a perfect way to cause more tension and therefore more danger and therefore more for Boeing and others to "protect" us from. Its awesome!