To Protect and to Serve II

#3,704
#3,704
Rasputin_Vol said:
What innovations are you specifically speaking of?
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Ever use the GPS on your phone?

Military funded development.

Advanced carbon fiber in aircraft?

Military funded development.

Nylon for your parachute pants?

Military funded development.

Microwave ovens to heat your Hot Pockets?

Military funded development. (sort of, a byproduct of radar itself, which was military funded development)

There's probably a lot more.
 
#3,705
#3,705
Grand Vol said:
Ever use the GPS on your phone?

Military funded development.

Advanced carbon fiber in aircraft?

Military funded development.

Nylon for your parachute pants?

Military funded development.

Microwave ovens to heat your Hot Pockets?

Military funded development. (sort of, a byproduct of radar itself, which was military funded development)

There's probably a lot more.
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Transgender latrines?
 
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#3,708
#3,708
Grand Vol said:
Ever use the GPS on your phone?

Military funded development.

Advanced carbon fiber in aircraft?

Military funded development.

Nylon for your parachute pants?

Military funded development.

Microwave ovens to heat your Hot Pockets?

Military funded development. (sort of, a byproduct of radar itself, which was military funded development)

There's probably a lot more.
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Again, more Vietnam Era technologies.
 
#3,709
#3,709
Nylon was developed, marketed, and commercialized by DuPont in the late 30's. The military just bought a bunch of it starting in 1941. Not sure why they are getting credit here.
 
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#3,710
#3,710
Our military budget is 3.5% of our GDP. I'd hope they're coming up with ideas the market can use.
 
#3,713
#3,713
Self driving cars is a military funded idea started by DARPA. It may not happen in my lifetime but, I expect all cars to be self driving someday.
 
#3,714
#3,714
VolStrom said:
Self driving cars is a military funded idea started by DARPA. It may not happen in my lifetime but, I expect all cars to be self driving someday.
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I see self-driving Google cars monthly here in Phoenix. I think we're probably a decade out from uber and lyft using self-driving cars and two decades away from it completely disrupting the auto industry.
 
#3,715
#3,715
n_huffhines said:
I see self-driving Google cars monthly here in Phoenix. I think we're probably a decade out from uber and lyft using self-driving cars and two decades away from it completely disrupting the auto industry.
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Teach your kids technology or put them in a stem school, that's their only hope.
 
#3,716
#3,716
VolStrom said:
Teach your kids technology or put them in a stem school, that's their only hope.
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There will be some nasty growing pains but eventually I believe anyone with creative, marketable skills is going to be OK. You can't automate creativity. I'll teach my kids to build their brand at a young age and they'll never have to have a job.
 
#3,719
#3,719
3 cops involved. 3!

Charnesia Corley was a 21-year-old college student with no criminal record when two cops from the Harris County Sheriff's Office stopped her in June 2015 for running a red light.

After searching her car, police claimed to have found .02 ounces of marijuana. That was enough, they apparently felt, to justify a full-body cavity search. When Corley refused to remove her clothes in the dimly lit parking lot where she was being detained, one of the officers threw her to the ground, pushed her partially underneath her own car, and yanked Corley's pants down to her ankles. For the next 11 minutes, dash cam video of the incident shows, she was held down by two officers while being searched. Corley claims that fingers repeatedly probed her vagina and that the officers ignored her protests. A third officer stood nearby holding a flashlight. No drugs were found on Corley's person.
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http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/15/newly-released-video-shows-texas-cops-11
 
#3,722
#3,722
Yeah, that's pretty bad. Hopefully they can get that special prosecutor. I hope she wins her civil suit. It's ashame the tax payers will have to pay the price for these animals though.
 
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