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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by marknutter on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:14AM (#9170295)
Would you feel less comfortable without the NSA? Or put another way, are you just cherry-picking the agencies you happen to like in order to make your point?
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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by robotresearcher on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:59PM (#9172108)
No, I just don't know much about the NSA (and maybe they like it that way) and I mentioned the ones I am most confident about.

If you're asking if the federal government has wasted a lot of my money on things I don't like: sure they have. First, that's not the topic at hand, and second, private ventures also waste fortunes on stupid things, and sometimes with my money e.g. pension funds.

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Re:We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised ... by nmrm2 on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:12AM (#9170997)
The NSA's primary charter is security, not science. Science that happens at the NSA is a happy accident.

NASA and the NIH are explicitly research-focused. And DARPA may be part of DOD, but its charter is right in the name -- advanced research.

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