Frankilin needed government to invent the stove?
To discvover the power of electricity?
Franklin worked for the Government for a good part of his life
Waaa????
ROFL
You seriously didn't just post that, didja Hack?
No, you pathetic hack, Benjamin Franklin did not "work for government for a good part of his life."
He held three positions, Postmaster of the confederacy (Pre-U.S.) from 1775 to 1777 - an unpaid position undertaken to establish a communication system after lose of British postal service. President of Pennsylvania for one year. Then Ambassador to France, another unpaid position. (Franklin was a wealth statesman by that time.)
In 89 years, he spent less than 3 in government employ, and probably never took a dime from government.
Seriously hack, make up better lies.
Was it the government that assisted the Wright brothers?
The Wright Brothers got their first contract with the Army Signal Corps
Before Kittyhawk, hack?
Do you really believe the internet had no shot without the government?
The Government invented the internet, Army ARPANET
What year was that, hack? Would that be around 1991 with Algore the prevaricator? Or was it more like 1963 with J.C. Licklider?
Oh and hack, what about Doors and Wildcat? Wasn't the first coast to coast email system run across private BBS nodes on Wildcat using Doors to relay mail? In fact, wasn't this half a decade before Darpa allowed public switching infrastructure to link wide areas?
I could sent an email from Los Angeles to New York in 1981. Arpanet could in 1987.
In fact, the Government now finances a good portion of the R&D on energy, communications and medical research
Is that right, hack?
So we can thank government for Verizon developing LTE? Fair enough, the U.S. Army DID create CDMA, but GSM came from Alltel.
I don't know hack, I think you are completely full of shit.