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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?
by marknutter 12y ago
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?
- nmrm2 12y agoThe 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.
- robotresearcher 12y agoNo, 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.