[Aardwolf]

No ****.

Say, how many months after the NTF rebellion started did the Shivans show up? 18 you say?

Say, how many months has it been since the fighting in Sol started? 18 you say?

Coincidence, much?

[Scotty]

Yes, coincidence, because Bosch was deliberately trying to initiate contact with the Shivans.  The UEF might very well be trying to do that as the Secret Project, but I doubt it, if only because, as you just so handily mentioned, that's exactly how the main campaign of FS2 happens.

Also: How many years after the T-V War started did the Shivans show up?  14 you say?

Two points is a coincidence.  Three is a pattern.  You don't have three points.

[headdie]

Also I suspect the UEF would have better luck contacting the Vishans, than the Shivans, but potential Vishan intervention is a point that has been debated to death already

[Mastadon]

How could the GTVA feasibly repress Ubuntu after an UEF surrender?

Force everyone to install Windows? 


*Runs*

[Dragon]

I though the team made it clear that GTVA isn't evil, they just have a conflict of interests with UEF.
Unless they put a certain red cat and his pet "preventer of informational services" in charge of suppressing Ubuntu, then all bets are off.

[BlasterNT]

What do you mean?  The entire reason for going to war was to end Ubuntu, while minimizing its spread

[Dragon]

You didn't get the joke, didn't you?

[BlasterNT]

Uh. Well I was thinking some vague thing about bsd but... Yeah drawing a blank

[Dragon]

Catbert, the evil director of Human Resources
Mordac, the preventer of informational services
You need to read more Dilbert.*
*If you still don't think this makes sense, look at later strips, especially Mordac was a bit different in his early incarnation.

[The E]

Dragon, you do realize that the company Dilbert works for is utterly ineffective, right?

Also, I think everything has been said here.