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<p> <i>Initial federal planning for a nationwide highway system began in 1921 when the Bureauof Public Roads asked the Army to provide a list of roads it considered necessaryfornational defense.This resulted inthe Pershing Map. [3] Later that decade, highways such as the New York parkway system were built as part of local or state highway system.</i><br>
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<p>Interstate highways were a defense project too. Might want to avoid those.</p>
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">It is one thing to say, "Hey, the government might misappropriate my open source work to help kill people in the Middle East!" and quite another to take a paycheck from the DoD (you know Department of *Defense*) to work on projects for them. You're willfully supporting what they do with your work in the latter instance.<br><br>Al<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></td>
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