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RE: [OM] Further on technology (R&D)

Subject: RE: [OM] Further on technology (R&D)
From: "Lee Penzias" <l_penzias@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:15:26 -0500
You must be thinking of Al G's silly and fraudulent claim ;) No wonder he grew a beard and started wearing plaid shirts.

But government - in any country - did not "invent" the internet. That is certainly just not true.

... Or the computers, telephones, or radios, TVs, electric motors, refrigerators, light bulbs, airplanes, cameras and film, the motor car, the X-ray machines, MR scanners, CAT scanners, rail & trains, fiber optics, flushing toilets (nor bidets), the record player, analogue tape, CDs, fiber optics ..... or much of anything else.

Now, government has certainly put a handle on many such things early on for it's own ends, with the result that we often only see the tail end of such things in the retail stores and incorporated into "services". SOME governments are also fond of *insisting* that they have control of certain systematic services for the get go. But let's not equate that with "invention" or "expertise" of any sort.

Cheers
Lee

----Original Message Follows----
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [OM] Further on technology (R&D)

It is private persons who do the research and developement - at
least in the United States, and in most of the less socialistic
nations. Governments are not in the business of invention, design,
developement etc.

-snip

Lee

Just not true.  Please don't rewrite history for political purposes.
The internet we are communicating on is an example of a government
invention.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
mailto:wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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