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To: TobagoJack who wrote (16793)	4/10/2007 3:24:00 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217885

the defense department will fund research and inventions whether they can be protected or not and it will be many folks job to steal them when available Since the dawn of time military people expect their inventions to be stolen. If you use a weapon against, better expect that next time it might be used against you... (possibly in a new and improved form...) I had a rigorous debate about the Chinese and the invention of gunpowder. They were ranting that the west had stolen gunpowder... yes I suppose.. but of course to be expected... if the Mongols hadn't use gunpowder against the Turks and the Russians... then perhaps the Turks wouldn't have used gunpowder against the Byzantine's but fully expected with multiple precedents... AKA "Alls fair in love and war..."

To: TobagoJack who wrote (16793)	4/10/2007 3:27:23 PM
From: 8bits	Respond to of 217885

the defense department will fund research and inventions whether they can be protected or not and it will be many folks job to steal them when available Since the dawn of time military people expect their inventions to be stolen. If you use a weapon against your enemy, better expect that next time it might be used against you... (possibly in a new and improved form...) I had a rigorous debate about the Chinese and the invention of gunpowder. My debate opponents were ranting that the west had stolen gunpowder... yes I suppose.. but of course to be expected... if the Mongols hadn't use gunpowder against the Turks and the Russians... then perhaps the Turks wouldn't have used gunpowder against the Byzantines but fully expected with multiple precedents... AKA "Alls fair in love and war..."