Re:Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
by mentat on Saturday October 24, 2015 @09:15PM
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The Internet wasn't the Internet before the Commercial Internet Exchange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Internet_eXchange). I'm not sure how much credit the government can take for what it is now really. The space shuttle is no longer in service and failed with significant fatalities more than once. The atomic bomb is one of the most horrific technologies which exists. I'm not sure you're making your case with these.
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Re:Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
by noobermin on Sunday October 25, 2015 @01:34AM
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Do you want me to list the failings of businesses and the horrific things they've created? Is it even fair to lump all players in the free market under one umbrella as it is to lump all government programs and governments of nations and call it "government"? The post I referred to argued about the ability of the government to lead "out there"
projects well, and all of those are out there projects which had some "success" whether you agree with that definition or not.