Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

[Jonathan Peterson]

At 11:17 14/05/01 +0100, you wrote:

>Governments never get value for money on anything they do. Discuss.

The Louisiana purchase was a pretty good deal. So was Alaska. So was the 
Suez canal. Government subsidy of scientific research has possibly been a 
very good deal, it's hard to quantify. Government funded defence research 
seems to work reasonably well.

>R

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