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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: cirrus who wrote (3264)10/22/2006 3:33:53 PM
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A hundred years ago if the Federal government had had the hubris, and enough true believer voters to give it the political right, and executives of the Stanley Steamer company had known the right Senators and Congressmen to bribe, it might have selected steam power as the preferred and anointed technology of the future to drive our growing transportation needs. And development of the internal combustion engine would have been delayed decades.

Bureaucrats have an uncanny ability to pick the wrong technology. Review the history of Japan Inc's waste of billions of tax dollars on the analog HDTV system.
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