Dude you're heavily delusional. Apple, Google et al have exactly 0 leverage vs. EU.
That EU citizens would revolt against the governments if they wouldn't be able to get Apple kind of 'shiny' is ridiculous.
I for one say, rip Apple and others* a new one, and if they want to walk, so be it.

* including 'European' corporations, whatever that means.

I laughed at your 'Czechoslovakia' notion, but I straight out snorted at Samsung being able to afford something one of the most powerful governments in the world cannot. And I'm not talking about the 'political' aspect of EU, which is, granted, kind of slow and impotent, but the most vigorous and agile one - the regulatory.

What is it with people on this site over and over again underestimating the power of EU? EU regulatory bodies can and actually do enforce their respective regulations all the time.

Finally a strategy to deal with untruth news.
Doubleplusgood comrades!

It seems it's turtles all the way down. I could follow this gravity saga up to general relativity where it becomes slightly blurred.
Even though I'm excited about new developments in physics, I'm kind of sad it's getting more and more incomprehensible. I just can't grasp strings & holograms at any level. The same goes for modern developments in mathematics.

You don't 'use' OS; you use whatever software you need to do whatever you do.
If a Linux distro does it for you, great - it's cheaper and often easier to keep operating acceptably than Windows.
If it doesn't, well, tough luck.

To this day, it mostly doesn't.

Might be but that's a non sequitur, you know that?

Aw man apk will jizzgazm all over this thread. The time has finally come!

I don't know who's the moron downmoderating my posts days after being posted but I want to acknowledge their work. Keep it up!

This guy is stuck in black hole related stuff and just can't move out of it.

My point is exactly what you wrote there. USAF hasn't been in a dogfight since Vietnam. Meanwhile CCCP (as the sponsor of Vietnamese) collapsed and all that's left is pulverizing [anti]airforceless enemy into dust.
So where does that scenario of F35 vs SU35 happen without a serious risk of all out nuclear war?

Thanks for the history lesson. While we're at it, tell me how USAF fared in WWI? There must be some relevant experience there too.

'Rock star' is a very useful term.

Jobseeking side, it's useful to filter out hipster, clueless, experimental and flatout scammer (as in all work and no pay) workplaces.

Recruiter side, it's useful to filter out narcissistic, deluded and gullible (again clueless) candidates.

Well we disagree there. There are things F35 does old planes don't and then there are things old planes do F35 doesn't. The same goes for old and new cars.

My opinion is dogfighting is not a top metric to judge a modern multifunction plane in the same way the crank is not a top metric to judge a modern car (by being obsolete). So the comparison is appropriate as it conveys my take on the matter (be it right or wrong).

BTW, you are one of those that'd say Boeing 777 is worse than Concorde because speed, right?

While I agree with most of your points I still think it's more than adequate (in terms of capability, pricewise I believe it's a disaster, but then, pork).

What you're saying is it's a bad tool for dick measuring games like Russia with its bombers or Greece and Turkey with their US provided fighters play? Well that I agree, it might hurt the exports if F16s beat it at it.

And tsotha already answered but I believe it's worth repeating: it's not a fighter. It's a design-by-committee everything plane.

Thanks.

I disagree that dogfighting is relevant in modern warfare, at least with USA as one side.
Though F35 is predominantly a pork project, it's not such a blatant failure as described.
The scenarios where USAF doesn't have a massive support network and has to depend on individual planes' capability to dogfight simply don't happen, because the planet is already nuked.