[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: OT (waaay OT): BitTorrent and TV shows

[Greg Edwards]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> I don't think I touched on the ethics at all.
> I kept my responses to 100 percent business and technical.
> 
> 1) The government does not and has never invented ant consumer electronics.
> At the most they have incubated select technologies for national security.
> But they were still far from practical consumer products.
> 

> 
> --  
> Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
> b.j.smith at ieee.org
> 

Let's see:

Power plants
Hoover Dam
ICs
Computers
Public Switched Network
Internet
Satellites
GPS
...
...

A government employee may not have "invented" the things, but without your 
tax dollars being used to fund R&D, we'd be living in the stone age.  A 
major percentage of the consumer products you use today came from some 
sort of government project, either directly (aka NASA), or through 
research (aka ARPANET).  In reality the largest supplier of venture 
capital in the US is the Federal Government, they just don't require an 
ROI of 30%.

-- 
Greg Edwards

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