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The device you use to post your attacks is the direct result of governement research spending!

The Internet you use to transport those thoughts to this website is a direct result of government research spending!

For the record, I don't now, nor have I ever worked for a government agency or military agency. I have been with many private enterprises, mostly start ups, even ridden a few through to becoming publicly traded companies! Just because I understand the utility of research spending doesn't mean I must be some government hack.

Fact is typical people don't have a clue to just what extent their lives have been affected by government and research spending... because there is no way they could make the completely idiotic statements they do.

You are welcome to go live in the 3rd world, without antibiotics, IC's, reliable water purification and delivery... etc etc... If you think research spending is such a bad thing, please go live in a place that doesn't enjoy the benefits of it.

... If you think research spending is such a bad thing, please go live in a place that doesn't enjoy the benefits of it.

Are you really this naive as to be oblivious to the fact that you're offering a false dichotomy? The choices aren't government research or no research. Research is not done solely with plundered dollars. In fact the most effective research is done under private auspices using those resources after the government finishes its looting. Antibiotics - to use your example are NOT funded by the government. IN fact the government acts as a giant barrier to antibiotic research via its timing on the patent laws.

DO you really think that there would be no internet without the government's plunder, squander to buy votes, and then whine for more cycle.

You and the other big government cheer leaders don't realize that there is nothing magic about the government spending money. Those same dollars would have been spent far more effectively by the creators of the wealth rather than the looters.

The device you use to post your attacks is the direct result of governement research spending

Parts are government, parts are volunteer (most of the standards), parts are commercial. It's a mix. Bisync, SDLC, HDLC ... the fore-runners of the low level net protocols were largely wrought by IBM, Honeywell, Burroughs -- for commercial use.

But take your assertion at face for the purpose of discussion -- that the government brought the internet into being. Okay. Then those particular government wise guys and contractors (DARPA, et al) backed off and let everyone else take over. They didn't turn the internet into a Federal Pensionaires Dukedom.