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Post by Vene on Oct 22, 2011 12:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by SimSim on Oct 22, 2011 12:58:57 GMT -5
Much needed, but you know it won't pass.
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Post by ltfred on Oct 22, 2011 16:31:21 GMT -5
Take it off DARPA.
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Post by Vene on Oct 22, 2011 16:37:49 GMT -5
DARPA research helps civilians too, I'd rather take it from the tax cuts. How about this, we get rid of the Bush tax cuts and distribute the money to the NSF and the NIH. |
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Post by ltfred on Oct 22, 2011 23:53:41 GMT -5
DARPA research helps civilians too, I'd rather take it from the tax cuts. How about this, we get rid of the Bush tax cuts and distribute the money to the NSF and the NIH. DARPA research indirectly helps civilians, by accident. Scientists told to help people rather than kill them would probably better use that money for that purpose. In any case, every high-level research scientist shouuld have DARPA-grade cash. |
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 24, 2011 2:20:53 GMT -5
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Post by priestling on Oct 24, 2011 2:22:47 GMT -5
Dude, I'd heard about that arm! I didn't know DARPA was backing it though!
Friggin' ROCK!
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Post by Jodie on Oct 24, 2011 3:22:54 GMT -5
Dean Karmen invents something useful for once. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. Imagine if he attempted this the first time and didn't waste millions of dollars on the Segway.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Oct 24, 2011 3:44:55 GMT -5
I have a strange desire to lose my hand and put that in place of it...
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Post by Vene on Oct 24, 2011 9:10:14 GMT -5
DARPA did the internet too and will fund novel vaccines. DARPA will basically fund anything that has a conceivable military use, be it a fancy new gun, or medicine to keep soldiers from getting sick/dying, or communications equipment, or whatever. |
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Post by lighthorseman on Oct 24, 2011 9:25:22 GMT -5
Spending tax payer's money on public health sounds like socialism to me. Oh, sure, it STARTS with getting people affordable basic health care, but the next thing you know jackbooted commie-nazis will be goosestepping their way down fifth avenue to anoint Obama party-chairman-for-life!
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Post by Vene on Oct 24, 2011 9:26:51 GMT -5
Affordable? That is not the goal of the NIH, their goal is for new treatments.
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Post by lighthorseman on Oct 24, 2011 9:32:31 GMT -5
Affordable? That is not the goal of the NIH, their goal is for new treatments. So...you want to spend tax payer's $$$ on treatments that havn't even been proven to work yet??! ZOMG LENIN! |
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 24, 2011 23:00:27 GMT -5
DARPA did the internet too and will fund novel vaccines. DARPA will basically fund anything that has a conceivable military use, be it a fancy new gun, or medicine to keep soldiers from getting sick/dying, or communications equipment, or whatever. I am aware, I was just using that as a very succinct example of DARPA developing something that isn't intended to kill people or facilitate killing people. |
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Post by Tiberius on Oct 25, 2011 0:06:49 GMT -5
DARPA did the internet too and will fund novel vaccines. DARPA will basically fund anything that has a conceivable military use, be it a fancy new gun, or medicine to keep soldiers from getting sick/dying, or communications equipment, or whatever. I am aware, I was just using that as a very succinct example of DARPA developing something that isn't intended to kill people or facilitate killing people. Pfft. They are obviously only funding it so that twenty years from now they can have augmented super soldiers with machine gun arms that can shrug off bullets. |
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