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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (16644)	9/9/2006 6:44:05 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

I picked wireless to illustrate my point, but it is not it. Going back to the subject matter: In "this continent, at least, shrewd politicking and consorting with a limited set of peers on the control of saleable merchandise and services was not only an honorable trait (going back to the days of Ben Franklin's Junto, regardless of how Wikipedia couches it), but a staple of how we conduct our daily lives." I'm saying that this works against the country to stick to this modus operandi. And I go further than that: The fact that most technology was developed by the military industrial complex during Cold War years, (63% of all US engineers and scientists were involved on that Cold War effort) contributed to the demise of US economic stand. While everything was considered military secret or dual use. We need to contact the COCOM to send a HP Spectrum Analyzer to Nigeria, high powered computers were 'castrated' before being sold to China to evaluate weather because they could be used for military purposes. And the military-industrial complex was THE "shrewd politicking and consorting with a limited set of peers on the control of saleable merchandise and services" par excelence. While all that happened, the US start losing its edge and the Japanese ran away with the technological edge. Its thanks to Cold War's end that it ia regaining a bit. For instance this network me and you are using, right now, that was used as non-destructive by a nuclear catastrophe was a province of military, as was CDMA, and many satellite applications. Compare the benefits to the US economy having it out of the "shrewd politicking and consorting with a limited set of peers on the control".