Another example of something that was designed under the US military, anyone ever heard of ARPANET? (=<br><br>I would consider ARPANET to be the greatest creation of the 20th century. What has come from ARPANET has allowed for movements such as open source & hackerspaces to become something available to the world.<br>
<br>I look at the US Governments attempts to censor information as trying to put the cat back in the bag.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Al Jigen Billings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com">albill@openbuddha.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Again with the bullshit strawman.<br>
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I'm not responding to you after this. You clearly want to make up
your own argument to have.<br>
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This is about taking money, directly, from the DoD for projects that
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<p>As for not taking checks from DoD suppliers, how many
companies in this country does that eliminate? How do
you even know if any particular company has had
contracts with the US or any other government? </p>
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</b> Al Jigen Billings <a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com" target="_blank"><albill@openbuddha.com></a>; <br>
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ellrabin <a href="mailto:ellrabin50@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><ellrabin50@yahoo.com></a>; <br>
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<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank"><discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org></a>; <br>
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Re: [hackerspaces] will the fruits of our labors be used
for, good or for evil? <br>
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<p>The DOD launches almost all US
satellites. Don't wanna support them?
Cancel your dish network subscription.</p>
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How about I just not build satellites for them?<br>
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<p>Interstate highways were a defense
project too. Might want to avoid those.</p>
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I don't see anyone taking DoD funds to work on them.<br>
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I know reading comprehension is hard.<br>
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Feel free to pimp yourself to the Army or other war
departments if it makes you feel good. The rest of
us still have some soul left.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Al<br>
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