Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: General research for/by the military. Message-ID: <1016@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 22:36:36 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1016 Posted: Mon Apr 15 22:36:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Apr-85 12:48:28 EST References: <5437@utzoo.UUCP> <487@deepthot.UUCP> <2255@wateng.UUCP> <5469@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 14 Keywords: henry, hypocrisy, SDI Summary: In article <5469@utzoo.UUCP> (among others) henry@utzoo.UUCP writes: >Not quite so clear-cut. Unwillingness to take military money is not >a definitive sign of the sort of bias I was talking about, and for that >matter, willingness to take it is not a definitive sign of absence of >said bias. But it is a strong hint, enough to modulate my degree of >skepticism somewhat. I have this vision of Mr. Spencer rocking back in his chair stroking his chin and making pronouncements like this. "How hypocritical", says he, "for people who wouldn't take military money anyway to organize opposition to SDI." Meanwhile, who's to say he doesn't support SDI just because he wants all the military money he can get? (-: --Jamie. :-)