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by 3eb7988a1663 590 days ago
Can a company prevent the government from using its technology? I thought the government could already seize/utilize/reverse engineer anything they so deemed fit.
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Yes, but that takes specific Presidential action with a national security justification. It's not just an ambient power of the military.
Why does the US military spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on equipment and services from private contractors when it could just seize all of it for free?

Everything has a price, whether for you and me or the government. There's a reason war has consistently ranked among the most lucrative businesses in human history.

who is going to police the policeman?