Quote of the Day
Yesterday, actually, I saw this on FARK.
For those bitching about the government funding research, you do understand the irony of posting such a complaint on the internet, right?
Unfortuantely, I'm sure they don't. Or don't care. For anyone apologizing for Bush anymore, it's not about making sense, it's just about defending his decisions at all cost. When you poke enough holes in one argument, they just switch to a different one (see: Iraq War for good examples). Which is why they never even seemed to bother with Bush's excuse for using the veto to "protect human life." Even his followers knew that one was bullshit, so they went straight for the "government shouldn't be funding research, anyway" line. Unfortunately for them, if that's their argument, that ship has sailed. The government does (and should) fund research. There are a lot of good reasons for it, most of them already detailed much better than I could do, so I won't get into it here, but to argue that this veto is good because the government shouldn't be funding research anyway kind of misses a lot of points.
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Hey, storm, I read that same wikipedia article. Normally, I would think you're pretty straight forward, even though I disagree with you, but back up and read the first paragraph under Creation of the internet, and you'll find plenty about government research that led to the part you're talking about.
So you admit that the original technology was funded through government research, and you don't see that that's important? Without that original investment, there would never have been anything for the private companies to see profit it. Are you purposely being difficult, or are you honestly no smart enough to see that? I don't think you're that dumb, so I'll have to say you're deliberately missing the point.
We stop the funding in any number of the much more expensive, much less important way that the government wastes money. If I decide I spend too much money every month, that doesn't mean it's automatically ok for me to stop paying my mortgage. Probably better for me to stop eating out, or not buy a new TV, or something. You don't make the cuts to the important stuff, you make them to the extra unnecessary stuff.
Your reasoning here is all wrong.
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