<div dir="ltr">Just to throw some gas on the fire, not that I agree or disagree with anything here, but we have a lot more options and organizations than we used to, and resources both knowledge-based and otherwise are much more widely available. Divesting from defense industry, if its in your political pedigree, is a more reasonable moral standpoint.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Trent Robbins</div><div>Tau Informatics LLC</div><div>desk: 415-404-9452</div><div>cell: 513-233-5651</div><div><a href="mailto:trent@tauinformatics.com" target="_blank">trent@tauinformatics.com</a></div><div>@trentrobbins</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Jacob Fenwick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacob.fenwick@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacob.fenwick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">During the time of the creation of the ARPANET the Vietnam war was going on.<div>So to say the department of defense was good then and then went bad at some point is specious at best.</div><div>Should those researchers that had the opportunity to get that money and change the world have said no instead?</div><div><div>I think painting this as black and white is not giving it enough thought.<span></span></div><div><br>On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Spinach Williams <<a href="mailto:spinach.williams@gmail.com" target="_blank">spinach.williams@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr"><span class="">On Aug 6, 2015 7:11 PM, "Jacob Fenwick" <<a>jacob.fenwick@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Yea, the ARPANET was total bullshit, it's too bad DARPA funded it.<br>
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> Don't help them ruin the world.<br></span>
i don't know if you've noticed the things our department of defense has done in the decades since tcp/ip became a thing, but it hasn't exactly been to the benefit of the adoring public.</p>
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