Agreed OZbusdriver. I havent even watched "utopia" but the foul ups start;
"we need a diverse management committee with transgender, Aboriginal and female buy in".
"The system must have an Aboriginal name, hire consultants!"
"The ground station locations are potential nuclear targets on aboriginal soil or marginal electorates".
"What good will this patriarchal system do for abused mothers and autistic kids?
"This system can be used by terrorists".
"Where is 'user pays' in all this"?
"Governments always stuff things up, leave it to the private sector"..
"This isn’t a free market solution".
"we have a simple cost recovery system".
"Nobody has researched the privacy implications of accurate personal tracking".
"The legal implications regarding liability in the event of system malfunction are considerable".
"criminal penalties must apply to the maintainers of such a system."
it surprises me that we even have NDB and VOR. The current GPS IFR navigators are nothing to do with us, the systems are all American. We have no liability.......
End result "we spent the capital budget on administrative costs, we have no money for satellites or ground stations". Problem solved.