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Obama: ‘Google, Facebook Would Not
Exist’ Without Government Funding
Cybercast News Service ^
| April 6, 2012
| Fred Lucas
Posted on 04/06/2012 7:07:04 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
We are not going to be able to live in peace with the progs much longer.
The bastards will not leave us alone...and according to Drudge, they plan to throw an "A-rab spring"....well...this spring....take us out, don't you know.
shhhhhhhh...I ain't going....
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:30:55 PM PDT
by
B.O. Plenty
(Elections have consequences....)
To: Jim Robinson
Yeah, but Jim.....donchaknow you wouldn’t have FR if it wasn’t for the government? Why, you owe your very existence to them....and now, by proxy, to Obama. You need a shrine to him in your house, I think. Burn a little incense, etc.
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:31:37 PM PDT
by
RightOnline
(I am Andrew Breitbart!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The more important government is, the more important government officials are. That, more than any other factor, is that absolute reason why liberals are liberals. Obama loves Obama, Pelosi loves Pelosi. Hillary loves Hillary. They all want to be special, which is the hallmark of the modern leftist liberal. It is very sad. They don't care at all about the dignity and freedom of individuals. Individuals can rival them. They don't like that. It has to be ‘government=them’ and ‘the people=those they are superior to’.
To: RightOnline
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:33:57 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is not just brewing, rebellion is here!!)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:34:31 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Jim Robinson
Correct.
Add to that employers monitoring of one’s Facebook and Twitter posts.
I have tried and tried to stress to my kids how important it is to not leave a footprint that can be used against you.
Deaf ears.
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:36:14 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Any day now, expect him to declare the GOVERNMENT conceived of the whole philosophical underpinnings of liberty, freedom and limited government. Obama will proceed to state that it was FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that imposed limitations on itself by writing The Magna Carta, The Second Treatise on Government, The Mayflower Compact, The Virginia Charter, The Virginia Declaration of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, The Virginia Statute for Religious Liberty, and The Constitution.
To: LibLieSlayer
Actually, .gov DID pay for it. It was called the ARPANET.
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:38:57 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I bet the VC’s that backed these firms are happy to know that their money WASN’T needed - and that the companies WERE REALLY being funded by Obama ...
Can’t Obama EVER go more than 24 hours WITHOUT blatantly LYING to the American Public ???
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:39:58 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Which government agency funded Facebook? Which one funded Google?
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:40:35 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: Jim Robinson
Obama is the antichrist. Then we only have 15 more weeks to endure him.(If you believe the futurist interpretation of Revelation, that is.)
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:41:55 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: sauropod
Actually, .gov DID pay for it. It was called the ARPANET Umm ... Yeah. It was originally conceived to connect educational and research institutions together. BUT, then [as it grew], it became commercialized ...
So, private money built the national fiber optic routes, the MAEs, the collocation hotels, etc. How many BILLIONS of dollars did this cost - WHERE was the government then?
AND, when Google and Facebook were starting up - did they get grant money or Obamacash ??? HELL NO !!!
It was VC money that fed these bulldawgs ...
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:52:00 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: sauropod
The government paid for it with OUR money... that was my point.
LLS
To: Lmo56
I hate having to argue this POV....
Umm ... Yeah. It was originally conceived to connect educational and research institutions together. BUT, then [as it grew], it became commercialized
Why is this government's fault?
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:55:45 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, of course the internet wouldn’t exist without Al Gore. And metatags.
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:57:08 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
To: LibLieSlayer
I’m not here to argue why Obama is the best thing since sliced bread.
There are legitimate times when .gov $ help to further scientific advances. Where no private enterprise has the capital.
Need I point you toward all the neat things that grew out of the space program?
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posted on
04/06/2012 7:58:44 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
To: TLI
He’s right since it was a joint effort of the government, private commerical interests and educational institutions to build a survivable communcations network that became the internet. Without the internet neither Facebook or Google would exist. We all know of course that Al Gore developed the internet.
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posted on
04/06/2012 8:05:11 PM PDT
by
airedale
To: Free ThinkerNY
Impossible for me to understand this law professor.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama is a pathological liar.
an advanced, responsible society. LOL
An advanced, responsible society is one that actually has JOBS and REAL leadership.
Go back to your ghetto and preach, you filthy racist bastard son of a communist whore.
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posted on
04/06/2012 8:10:50 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(** President Newt Gingrich-"Our beloved republic deserves nothing less." ~Just livin' life, my way~)
To: sauropod
It AIN'T the government's fault - BUT for Obama to
try to take credit for Facebook and Google is LUDICROUS ...
Granted, people like Vint Cerf and Steve Crocker [with both of whom I have worked] were funded by the government to develop the method of peer-peer communication between computers - this was just a MINISCULE part of what we know as the Internet today ...
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posted on
04/06/2012 8:11:35 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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