Curiosity on Mars
08-06-2012 | 05:28 PM
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Have you ever seen the internet joke going around that is a Martian Press release letting all Martians know that the strange object in the sky was a Martian Weather Balloon and no one should be concerned?
Very funny!
USMCFLYR
Found it: http://www.thecoffeeplace.com/jokes/aaaaabpe.html
Very funny!
USMCFLYR
Found it: http://www.thecoffeeplace.com/jokes/aaaaabpe.html
08-06-2012 | 07:36 PM
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08-07-2012 | 10:38 AM
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From: electron wrangler
Re: Curiosity on Mars
See?
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
.
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
.
Last edited by N2264J; 08-07-2012 at 11:10 AM.
08-07-2012 | 02:53 PM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
See?
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
.
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
.
Understand that government has no money except that which it confiscates. Many mistake politics for real economic outcomes, nothing could be further from the truth.
Government did not build this effort, taxpayers did, thank one today. In fact, given the combined input of about half of the US people and government, we could not fund a bottle rocket.
Last edited by jungle; 08-07-2012 at 03:29 PM.
08-08-2012 | 06:44 AM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
You have mistaken the broker for the owners of the capital.
If you add the economic input of half of all americans and the total economic input of government, you could not fund the launch of a bottle rocket-where, exactly, do you think the funding comes from?
What is any project worth without funding?
For every brilliant technical success by NASA, you can see dozens of abject failures by the same broker.
08-08-2012 | 07:22 AM
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From: 767 FO
See?
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
.
Government programs work just fine if you staff them
with competent people and fund them appropriately.
Mohawk Guy's generation has been told since birth
that government doesn't work by corporatist politicians
who get themselves elected claiming government is the
problem then go to Washington and prove it - like a self
fulfilling prophecy.
.
08-08-2012 | 07:34 AM
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Private companies provided the technology, taxpayers funded the effort. Government brokered the deal, none of this happens without funding from a robust economy or borrowing well beyond your means.
Understand that government has no money except that which it confiscates. Many mistake politics for real economic outcomes, nothing could be further from the truth.
Government did not build this effort, taxpayers did, thank one today. In fact, given the combined input of about half of the US people and government, we could not fund a bottle rocket.
Understand that government has no money except that which it confiscates. Many mistake politics for real economic outcomes, nothing could be further from the truth.
Government did not build this effort, taxpayers did, thank one today. In fact, given the combined input of about half of the US people and government, we could not fund a bottle rocket.
Want to see innovation...Check out
www.palantirtechnologies.com
No federal government agency could have done this...But, like a good broker of the tax payers money In-Q-Tel provided the funds to change the IC for the better...At least in this case...
08-08-2012 | 08:23 AM
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From: electron wrangler
Re: Curiosity on Mars
Or is the basis of your remark about economics courses
that corporations pay taxes too and thereby are responsible
for some of the funding? Is that what you're trying to say?
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Last edited by N2264J; 08-08-2012 at 08:38 AM.
08-08-2012 | 08:37 AM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
The economy funds the government, not the other way around.
The economy fuels all innovation, it does not happen by decree.
Government funds nothing, hard working citizens pay for everything.
You seem to have trouble with the true origins of wealth, but that is not uncommon today. Ignorance can be fixed.
Last edited by jungle; 08-08-2012 at 08:48 AM.
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