Re: Americans: that clueless cretin you elected just killed the CVE program :-(

On 4/18/2025 1:14 PM, Dan Cross wrote:

In article <vttnam$36p3b$1@dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero@nospam.com> wrote:

On 4/16/25 13:17, Simon Clubley wrote:

Read for yourself:
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/
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Of course, now that I have called him a clueless cretin in public means
I am now unlikely to be allowed into the US (_if_ I ever wanted to go now).
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BTW, Mr Orange, on a related subject, you don't build a chip manufacturing
plant within a year or so.

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Why doesn't industry fund it, and why do so many people think the
taxpayer should fund everything ?.

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Because it is in the vital interest of national security, for
one.
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        - Dan C.

Like it or not, some things are just not good business investments.
Ship building, perhaps, but for warships, the only customer is the government. In that case, if the government is buying, there can be a valid return on the investment.  But if they are not buying, who pays salaries to retain skilled employees?
Lots of downsides though.  Such as the desire for more orders, even if it means promoting wars and such.
Just my opinion.  If the government were to create and run defense industries, the cost is perhaps the cost of defending the country.  But that also causes NIH and such, ossification of ideas, lack of initiative, lack of controlling cost, and such.  Lose-lose situation.
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