With such a focus on the here and now, it's more important than ever that we support inventors in bridging the gap between concept and commercialisation.
We can be easily defined by what we oppose, rather than what we support.
Other than that, we support their policies.
"We don't know better than the M.L.S.; we support the M.L.S.," he said.
Yes, American cars and homes are larger, on average, than those in Europe, but we support stricter energy efficiency standards by 73 percent to 26 percent.
As Ryan Sasaki, director of global strategy at ACD/Labs, explains, "We support more than 150 file formats from various instruments".
We support more than 30 platforms and I can't think of a time when we've produced a platform-specific demo.
With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and future strong artificial intelligence, planning ahead is a better strategy than learning from mistakes, so we support research and other efforts aimed at avoiding problems in the first place.
No matter how good our tactics in the field may be, if we support a corrupt and unpopular government in Afghanistan, there's no reason to think that the outcome will be any different than when we supported a corrupt, unpopular government in Saigon.
Nobody, not even us legalization advocates, supports "anything goes" marijuana storefronts, sales and advertising to kids, public medication, and shady gang-connected distributions, any more than we'd support that regime for alcohol for tobacco.
