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limpyhobbler

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2. Yes and many of the new tools are being developed with taxpayer money.

Reply to lunatica (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 06:02 PM

Jan 2013

Through funding from the government to contractors or to universities. But yet somehow I doubt the American people would really approve of most of it if it really came up for a vote. So much of it is being driven just by the desire to keep that money flowing.

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