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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.tv.da
Subject: re: Re: How to Decrease the Chances of Total Destruction
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 01:59:36 EST
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I guess I've just come to expect this from military researchers.
I don't doubt that some truly believe in what they're doing.  But
I also know many do not, and it puzzles  me that they continue 
in this kind of work when there are so many jobs available in CS
and EE that are not directly military-related.  

As I said in a previous article, there are some of us (like myself) who
find that they must work in government-related industry on
government-sponsored projects because their interests lie in areas which
are sponsored only by the government.  True, there are lots of
opportunities in EE/CS that are not directly military-related, but they
do not necessarily fall into the scope of interests of these people who
tend towards military-related research jobs.  As I was telling a friend
of mine one day, it's a shame that private companies do not fund
communications research as much as the government does, 'cause I want to
do communications research and the only people who seem to be doing it
now are the military.

--greg
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