[hackerspaces] will the fruits of our labors be used for, good or for evil?

[ITechGeek]

Another example of something that was designed under the US military,
anyone ever heard of ARPANET?  (=

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.

I look at the US Governments attempts to censor information as trying to
put the cat back in the bag.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Al Jigen Billings
<albill at openbuddha.com>wrote:

>  Again with the bullshit strawman.
>
> I'm not responding to you after this. You clearly want to make up your own
> argument to have.
>
> This is about taking money, directly, from the DoD for projects that you
> and your hackerspace do. That's it. Nothing else. Got it now?
>
> Al
>
>
> On 11/29/11 8:15 PM, ellrabin wrote:
>
>   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?
>
>  ------------------------------
> * From: * Al Jigen Billings <albill at openbuddha.com><albill at openbuddha.com>;
>
> * To: * ellrabin <ellrabin50 at yahoo.com> <ellrabin50 at yahoo.com>;
> * Cc: * discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org><discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>;
>
> * Subject: * Re: [hackerspaces] will the fruits of our labors be used
> for, good or for evil?
> * Sent: * Wed, Nov 30, 2011 4:04:47 AM
>
>   On 11/29/11 7:56 PM, ellrabin wrote:
>
>   The DOD launches almost all US satellites. Don't wanna support them?
> Cancel your dish network subscription.
>
>  How about I just not build satellites for them?
>
>    Interstate highways were a defense project too. Might want to avoid
> those.
>
>
> I don't see anyone taking DoD funds to work on them.
>
> I know reading comprehension is hard.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Al
>
>
>
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