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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (870673)	7/6/2015 1:58:22 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578427

>> But that is only because the Minuteman and the Apollo programs kickstarted the IC industry. If it wasn't for that demand, you wouldn't have been building hobby computers in the 1970s. Unless you used transistors. It is the same old shit with you, year in, year out. You always, ALWAYS, think government "kickstarted" everything. That's bull. Government kickstarted FEW of the great companies today -- businesses like AT&T, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, the airline industry, the oil companies, the automakers, the steel industry, many the great industries of America -- were started without heavy government dollars. And in fact, relatively FEW had the benefit of government dollars -- and even fewer had the benefit of a LOT government dollars. It is like the bullshit argument that government started the Internet. The Internet was coming. Everyone was doing networking and even packet switching was going to happen. Government greased the skids with a minuscule amount of research money, but it did NOTHING until private enterprise made it into something. This story plays out year after year in the same form -- government involvement is minimal, you want to credit them with the product, yet, private enterprise made it happen. USUALLY, it happened in SPITE of government, not because of it. It is painfully obvious you have never started a business.