FCC member Copps slams anti-muniwifi bills
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I tried to get slashdot to cover the story of the FCC Commissioner member Michael Copps, who really slammed our American broadband policy here in this recent interview. But they rejected it. So here are some excerpts from the interview:
FCC Commissioner Says U.S. Broadband Effort Insufficient Mar 1, 2005
ZDNet News via NewsEdge Corporation:
Michael Copps, one of two Democrats on the five-member Federal Communications Commission,
As a policy-maker, Copps is outraged that the United States isn't near the top of countries with broadband penetration. While admitting the difficulty in comparing the United States with Japan, Korea or Norway, Copps also voices the growing restlessness of government officials who fret about the private sector's ability to ensure that all Americans get access to broadband.
Big changes are reshaping the telecom industry. Giant mergers--SBC Communications acquiring AT&T, Verizon Communications swallowing MCI--raise huge questions about how consumers will be affected. More local-government efforts to create their own broadband networks are facing fierce resistance from the Baby Bells and cable companies such as Comcast.
Calling broadband "the most central infrastructure challenge facing the country right now," Copps is wrestling with how to turn the United States into the most connected country in the world. Can private industries do it themselves, or will it take a regulatory prod to get there? Copps recently spoke with CNET News.com about these issues, as well as the recent complaints of Internet phone service Vonage that it's not getting a fair shake from local phone companies.
Q: Looking at the state of broadband from the consumer perspective, is adoption at a good point right now?
A: Well, if I was a consumer I would say, "Why in the hell is the United States No. 13 and heading south in broadband deployment? Why are folks in Korea and Japan maybe getting 10 times the capacity at a half or a third or a quarter of the price? I am paying for the slow setup I've got--that is called high-speed broadband?"
I don't think there is that much satisfaction with the situation we're in...I think we may be probably the only industrial country on the face of God's green earth that doesn't have a national plan for broadband deployment. We recently got a commitment on a goal, on an objective. But an objective and a strategy are two vastly dissimilar things.
Q: What makes sense in terms of a national broadband policy?
A: I think Congress is going to have to work through that. If we are going to fix the Universal Service system, which is predicated on the idea that everybody should have access to comparable communications at comparable and reasonable prices, we have to ask, is our advanced telecommunications part of that or not? Is broadband a part of that or not? So before we start fixing every little problem with universal service I think we ought to have some kind of a philosophical or national purpose or national objective discussion about where does broadband fit in.
I think we may be probably the only industrial country on the face of God's green earth that doesn't have a national plan for broadband deployment....
At the same time, the state legislature in Indiana recently shot down a bill that would impose significant restrictions on municipalities for launching their own broadband infrastructure services.
It's not an easy thing if you're the leader of a hard-pressed, cash-strapped municipality--as all of them are in this day and age--to take on additional burden of providing broadband to your people.
I think we do a grave injustice in trying to hobble municipalities. That's an entrepreneurial approach, that's an innovative approach. Why don't we encourage that instead of having bills introduced--"Oh, you can't do this because it's interfering w
anonymous coward lobbyists are out in force here
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Note how many of the first comments in this thread are all Anonymous Cowards and are all anti-municipal WIFI. The Telcos have millions to spend on PR to kill muni wifi. Looks like some of those millions is going to the Internet.
Muni WiFi ALL THE WAY!!
As soon as my metro area goes muni wifi, I am gonna cut off my DSL AND my landline. Buh-Bye Big Telco....
um, dumbass, if the media were not in collusion with the govt and the corporations, they would serve these muthafuckers up for on journalistic burning crosses for our entertainment, instead of letting the govt and corporations become a defacto part of the media.
CorpGovMedia has the white Republican base so bamboozled with racism, protofascism and general hate, that they know they can do just about anything these days. So no need to hide much now. They have their hands out for just about anything they can get....
Citizens should see themselves as business owners, with the govt as hired manager. The wrokplace field ones enters is probably not as important as making sure your Hired Man (the govt) is not in collusion with large and powerful entities( i.e., billionaires and corporations) to decrease your return on investment as a citizen by putting ever more of the profits of business (and the work of the citizens) into investor hands instead of worker hands.
You say that there is nothing stopping the states from doing this now? Nothing except that the fed govt is bleeding the states dry by taxing them for corporate welfare and the imperial militarism.
Once the IRS is killed off and the neoliberals can be made to honor their pledges of small govt, then the states can take over and adopt european style welfare state benefits--using the money that the Fed govt is no longer taking from them.
I actually think that America should be broken up into at least 5 independent nations. That is the only way I can see to get rid of the slaveowner document that is the Constitution.
you wrote: The first thing I will do is stop working, and if you feel like working for your money when I can get it for free due to your "long term unempoyment" idea, well... go right ahead. Matter of fact, I might just become unemployable over the long term. Enjoy taking care of me. Provide my food and shelter, and work your ass off so that I can get it for free.
Gee, most West European countries pay unemployment benefits for many years. And they have been doing it for decades. They seem to be doing quite well. In fact, their budget deficits are lower than that of the USA, per capita, and they also provide universal healthcare, low cost universities and other nice welfare state benefits.
Enjoy your life of hard work while I malinger my way through life at your expense.
Good. I hope you enjoy it. I am sure that you will most likely go back to work when you feel like it and when work is available. Almost everyone does.
Did you ever think that the more "progressive" Europe has a higher unemployment rate than the United States [tutor2u.net] because some people choose to be unemployed?
Europe's best employment rate over the past decade has never been as good as the United States' worst. Do you think maybe that incentive to work has something to do with that?
That is because Europe counts everyone. America stops counting people after their 6 months of benefits run out.
Most America and most West Euro countries have TRUE unemployment rates of around 9-12%. I think it is good for people to take a break for extended time frames. And the govt should pay for it. Living a good life is what it is all about.
Yours is a straw man reply, of course. So you are saying that I am saying that any political idea can be made better by adding profanity? Laughable!
No, instead I am saying that profanity is an integral part of True Speech, of Real Speech. Not ALL True Speech contains profanity, nor should it. But True Speech requires profanity SOMETIMES. When needed. So by removing profanity from the mass media (the main channel of political communication), True Speech rarely occurs in Ameican politics. Ross Perot came out of nowhere because he managed to use some True Speech by not using the standard political diction and vocabulary.
And then add in other neutering aspects of American politics....
This is a complicated subject, more deserving of an entire book, than of a slashdot post. I just do my best to communicate my ideas as best I can in the limited time I have to devote to them....
I think that Big Money and Big Media has such a strong grip on national politics and national politicians, that going local is the way to bring leftist/progressive solutions to America. Best to just go ahead and let the Republicans and Republicrats kill off the IRS. THat way the states can start their own mini-IRS's and go ahead with universal healthcare, long term unemployment, low cost broadband, and other progressive/leftist quality of life improvement. All local....
interesting that you associate the capitalistic-communist schism with the idea that political speech without profanity is washed out and impotent. On one end of the spectrum, we have the political left (I am a leftist) saying that power castrates politcal speech by reducing the vocabulary, and the political right (that's you) saying (implicitly) that the vocabulary of political speech must be stripped down, minimized and castrated. OK, I guess that does sound about right.....
That is why profanity is punished--because those in control want to stay in control. Profane political speech can be very moving. By removing profanity from public politics, they make most people apathetic about politics. Which means less people vote. Which is what they want.
Bush and the GOp used Choicepoint as the hatchetman in an attempted coup of demcratically elected president of venezuela, Hug Chavez:
U.S. Attempting to Fix Venezuela Vote
(Greg Palast, August 10, 2004)
Will The Gang That Fixed Florida Fix the Vote in Caracas this Sunday?
OUR President has decided that THEIR president has to go. This is none too easy given that Chavez is backed by Venezuela's poor. And the US oil industry, joined with local oligarchs, has made sure a vast majority of Venezuelans remain poor. . . . Therefore, Chavez is expected to win this coming Sunday's recall vote. That is, if the elections are free and fair. . . . They won't be. Some months ago, a little birdie faxed to me what appeared to be confidential pages from a contract between John Ashcroft's Justice Department and a company called ChoicePoint, Inc., of Atlanta. The deal is part of the War on Terror.
Justice offered up to $67 million, of our taxpayer money, to ChoicePoint in a no-bid deal, for computer profiles with private information on every citizen of half a dozen nations. The choice of which nation's citizens to spy on caught my eye. While the September 11th highjackers came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and the Arab Emirates, ChoicePoint's menu offered records on Venezuelans, Brazilians, Nicaraguans, Mexicans and Argentines....
The fix that was practiced in Florida, with ChoicePoint's help, deliberate or not, appears to be retooled for Venezuela, then Brazil, Mexico and who knows where else. . . . Here's what it comes down to: The Justice Department averts its gaze from Saudi Arabia but shoplifts voter records in Venezuela. So it's only fair to ask: Is Mr. Bush fighting a war on terror -- or a war on democracy?
more here: http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid= 358&row =0
>>>>>>>> "Wow... you really get it. Too bad all those sheeple are too stupid to understand the transcendent brilliance of what you said." >>>>>>>>>>... Guess I can see where this is going....
>>>>>>>>> But seriously, there may be some kernel of truth to what you say (I think there is) but you have really over-simplified it and made some inexplicable leaps of logic. >>>>>>>>>
I wrote a/. post, not a book...
>>>>>>>>> For example what does any of that have to do with weed? I don't understand why according to your theory of society, "the man" would want to keep weed illegal. Presumably if they could sell it, they could make a lot of money. >>>>>>>>>
"The Man" already makes a lot of money on weed. He aint changing nothing! Weed makes you philosophical, less ambitious, which in turn makes one less inclined to rat race for as many years as one otherwise might. All drugs are different and have different effects on the person.
>>>>>>>>>> Most of the people I see talking about the "consumer lifestyle" in this country seem to it just as much as the next person. >>>>>>>>>
This is too complicated a matter to deal with here....
>>>>>>>>> I think your real issue is that you're a pothead (nothing wrong with that) >>>>>>>>>
Haven't smoked it in many years....
>>>>>>>> and you wish it was legal, >>>>>
yes
>>>>>>>>>> I just think the idea that there is any chance of everyone going up in "the hills" and becoming a pot farmer is pretty remote, even if it were encouraged and government subsidized. I doubt they're worried about that. >>>>>>>>
I didn't say "everyone". America is being run like a business, specifically a ranch where we are the cattle. Every business owner wants to maximize his profits. Now, if there were universal healthcare in America, as there is in just about every other western industrialized nation, SOME people would opt out of the rat race, not all, just more than there are now. Add legal marijuana to the equation, and more would. Not good for profits.
>>>>>>>> PS in my opinion, use of the word sheeple makes you sound condescending. Maybe you are, maybe you're not. >>>>>>>>>
Cuz if so, the state bar ass'n would not allow him/her to be a lawyer if they found out that he/she claimed to be a lawyer or implied that he/she was a lawyer.
THey WANT us sheeple to live in America, as many of us as possible. But what they DON'T want is non-consuming sheeple. That is probably why they do whatever they can to stop universal healthcare and to make marijuana as illegal as possible. They don't want us living back in the hills, growing and smoking weed, eschewing the consumer lifestyle, and only coming down out of the hills to get medical care. To them, we are just livestock on the consumer ranch, and every rancher wants his livestock as productive as possible./conspiracy theorist...
...on this thread, today, the Righwingers are getting their asses kicked! And as a former rightwinger (of the Libertarian and paleocon variety), I must say, it is a DAMN good feeling!
Is it time for a sea change? Are people's eyes finally being opened by the drip drip drip of baldfaced facts?
That is simply false. Searching for and applying non-patent literature is a matter of routine. Many supervisors require a list of relevant non-patent literature from their examiners regardless of whether or not it was used to reject claims.
Gee, then howcum i have NEVER read an office action that cited ANYTHING but issued patents and published apps!?
And BTW, I sure as hell did mention the published database in my post above, which you simply ignored....
According to this study, the so-called "social democracies" of Europe do far better at publishing peer-reviewed papers when you compare them to America on a per-capita basis. The social democracies of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland published 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals for every 1 by America, when you correct for population. Here is a news story covering the study.
The above mentioned countries have a population of 53 million and generated 12.7% of papers, while America, with a population of 288M, published 34%.
One might speculate whether the social democracies with their high taxes and well-funded universities do more hardcore research. Here in America it seems that research is aimed more at the low-lying, commercially-viable fruit.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried to get slashdot to cover the story of the FCC Commissioner member Michael Copps, who really slammed our American broadband policy here in this recent interview. But they rejected it. So here are some excerpts from the interview:
:
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FCC Commissioner Says U.S. Broadband Effort Insufficient
Mar 1, 2005
ZDNet News via NewsEdge Corporation
Michael Copps, one of two Democrats on the five-member Federal Communications Commission,
As a policy-maker, Copps is outraged that the United States isn't near the top of countries with broadband penetration. While admitting the difficulty in comparing the United States with Japan, Korea or Norway, Copps also voices the growing restlessness of government officials who fret about the private sector's ability to ensure that all Americans get access to broadband.
Big changes are reshaping the telecom industry. Giant mergers--SBC Communications acquiring AT&T, Verizon Communications swallowing MCI--raise huge questions about how consumers will be affected. More local-government efforts to create their own broadband networks are facing fierce resistance from the Baby Bells and cable companies such as Comcast.
Calling broadband "the most central infrastructure challenge facing the country right now," Copps is wrestling with how to turn the United States into the most connected country in the world. Can private industries do it themselves, or will it take a regulatory prod to get there? Copps recently spoke with CNET News.com about these issues, as well as the recent complaints of Internet phone service Vonage that it's not getting a fair shake from local phone companies.
Q: Looking at the state of broadband from the consumer perspective, is adoption at a good point right now?
A: Well, if I was a consumer I would say, "Why in the hell is the United States No. 13 and heading south in broadband deployment? Why are folks in Korea and Japan maybe getting 10 times the capacity at a half or a third or a quarter of the price? I am paying for the slow setup I've got--that is called high-speed broadband?"
I don't think there is that much satisfaction with the situation we're in...I think we may be probably the only industrial country on the face of God's green earth that doesn't have a national plan for broadband deployment. We recently got a commitment on a goal, on an objective. But an objective and a strategy are two vastly dissimilar things.
Q: What makes sense in terms of a national broadband policy?
A: I think Congress is going to have to work through that. If we are going to fix the Universal Service system, which is predicated on the idea that everybody should have access to comparable communications at comparable and reasonable prices, we have to ask, is our advanced telecommunications part of that or not? Is broadband a part of that or not? So before we start fixing every little problem with universal service I think we ought to have some kind of a philosophical or national purpose or national objective discussion about where does broadband fit in.
I think we may be probably the only industrial country on the face of God's green earth that doesn't have a national plan for broadband deployment.
At the same time, the state legislature in Indiana recently shot down a bill that would impose significant restrictions on municipalities for launching their own broadband infrastructure services.
It's not an easy thing if you're the leader of a hard-pressed, cash-strapped municipality--as all of them are in this day and age--to take on additional burden of providing broadband to your people.
I think we do a grave injustice in trying to hobble municipalities. That's an entrepreneurial approach, that's an innovative approach. Why don't we encourage that instead of having bills introduced--"Oh, you can't do this because it's interfering w
Note how many of the first comments in this thread are all Anonymous Cowards and are all anti-municipal WIFI. The Telcos have millions to spend on PR to kill muni wifi. Looks like some of those millions is going to the Internet.
Muni WiFi ALL THE WAY!!
As soon as my metro area goes muni wifi, I am gonna cut off my DSL AND my landline. Buh-Bye Big Telco....
This thread has some good stuff
now known as Sony video, I think. Easiest to learn and very powerful.
um, dumbass, if the media were not in collusion with the govt and the corporations, they would serve these muthafuckers up for on journalistic burning crosses for our entertainment, instead of letting the govt and corporations become a defacto part of the media.
CorpGovMedia has the white Republican base so bamboozled with racism, protofascism and general hate, that they know they can do just about anything these days. So no need to hide much now. They have their hands out for just about anything they can get....
Citizens should see themselves as business owners, with the govt as hired manager. The wrokplace field ones enters is probably not as important as making sure your Hired Man (the govt) is not in collusion with large and powerful entities( i.e., billionaires and corporations) to decrease your return on investment as a citizen by putting ever more of the profits of business (and the work of the citizens) into investor hands instead of worker hands.
You say that there is nothing stopping the states from doing this now? Nothing except that the fed govt is bleeding the states dry by taxing them for corporate welfare and the imperial militarism.
Once the IRS is killed off and the neoliberals can be made to honor their pledges of small govt, then the states can take over and adopt european style welfare state benefits--using the money that the Fed govt is no longer taking from them.
Put controls on movement of large amounts of capital....
This aint rocket science
I actually think that America should be broken up into at least 5 independent nations. That is the only way I can see to get rid of the slaveowner document that is the Constitution.
Sounds good to me....you and your kind can go your way, and I and my kind can go my way. You'll come crawling back, put 1 to 3 odds on that....
you wrote:
The first thing I will do is stop working, and if you feel like working for your money when I can get it for free due to your "long term unempoyment" idea, well... go right ahead.
Matter of fact, I might just become unemployable over the long term. Enjoy taking care of me. Provide my food and shelter, and work your ass off so that I can get it for free.
Gee, most West European countries pay unemployment benefits for many years. And they have been doing it for decades. They seem to be doing quite well. In fact, their budget deficits are lower than that of the USA, per capita, and they also provide universal healthcare, low cost universities and other nice welfare state benefits.
Enjoy your life of hard work while I malinger my way through life at your expense.
Good. I hope you enjoy it. I am sure that you will most likely go back to work when you feel like it and when work is available. Almost everyone does.
Did you ever think that the more "progressive" Europe has a higher unemployment rate than the United States [tutor2u.net] because some people choose to be unemployed?
Europe's best employment rate over the past decade has never been as good as the United States' worst. Do you think maybe that incentive to work has something to do with that?
That is because Europe counts everyone. America stops counting people after their 6 months of benefits run out.
Most America and most West Euro countries have TRUE unemployment rates of around 9-12%. I think it is good for people to take a break for extended time frames. And the govt should pay for it. Living a good life is what it is all about.
Yours is a straw man reply, of course. So you are saying that I am saying that any political idea can be made better by adding profanity? Laughable!
No, instead I am saying that profanity is an integral part of True Speech, of Real Speech. Not ALL True Speech contains profanity, nor should it. But True Speech requires profanity SOMETIMES. When needed. So by removing profanity from the mass media (the main channel of political communication), True Speech rarely occurs in Ameican politics. Ross Perot came out of nowhere because he managed to use some True Speech by not using the standard political diction and vocabulary.
And then add in other neutering aspects of American politics....
This is a complicated subject, more deserving of an entire book, than of a slashdot post. I just do my best to communicate my ideas as best I can in the limited time I have to devote to them....
I think that Big Money and Big Media has such a strong grip on national politics and national politicians, that going local is the way to bring leftist/progressive solutions to America. Best to just go ahead and let the Republicans and Republicrats kill off the IRS. THat way the states can start their own mini-IRS's and go ahead with universal healthcare, long term unemployment, low cost broadband, and other progressive/leftist quality of life improvement. All local....
interesting that you associate the capitalistic-communist schism with the idea that political speech without profanity is washed out and impotent. On one end of the spectrum, we have the political left (I am a leftist) saying that power castrates politcal speech by reducing the vocabulary, and the political right (that's you) saying (implicitly) that the vocabulary of political speech must be stripped down, minimized and castrated. OK, I guess that does sound about right.....
come make me shut up.....
That is why profanity is punished--because those in control want to stay in control. Profane political speech can be very moving. By removing profanity from public politics, they make most people apathetic about politics. Which means less people vote. Which is what they want.
Bush and the GOp used Choicepoint as the
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hatchetman in an attempted coup of demcratically elected president of venezuela, Hug Chavez:
U.S. Attempting to Fix Venezuela Vote
(Greg Palast, August 10, 2004)
Will The Gang That Fixed Florida Fix the Vote in Caracas this Sunday?
OUR President has decided that THEIR president has to go. This is none too easy given that Chavez is backed by Venezuela's poor. And the US oil industry, joined with local oligarchs, has made sure a vast majority of Venezuelans remain poor. . . . Therefore, Chavez is expected to win this coming Sunday's recall vote. That is, if the elections are free and fair. . . . They won't be. Some months ago, a little birdie faxed to me what appeared to be confidential pages from a contract between John Ashcroft's Justice Department and a company called ChoicePoint, Inc., of Atlanta. The deal is part of the War on Terror.
Justice offered up to $67 million, of our taxpayer money, to ChoicePoint in a no-bid deal, for computer profiles with private information on every citizen of half a dozen nations. The choice of which nation's citizens to spy on caught my eye. While the September 11th highjackers came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and the Arab Emirates, ChoicePoint's menu offered records on Venezuelans, Brazilians, Nicaraguans, Mexicans and Argentines.
The fix that was practiced in Florida, with ChoicePoint's help, deliberate or not, appears to be retooled for Venezuela, then Brazil, Mexico and who knows where else. . . . Here's what it comes down to: The Justice Department averts its gaze from Saudi Arabia but shoplifts voter records in Venezuela. So it's only fair to ask: Is Mr. Bush fighting a war on terror -- or a war on democracy?
more here:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid
>>>>>>>>
/. post, not a book...
"Wow... you really get it. Too bad all those sheeple are too stupid to understand the transcendent brilliance of what you said."
>>>>>>>>>>...
Guess I can see where this is going....
>>>>>>>>>
But seriously, there may be some kernel of truth to what you say (I think there is) but you have really over-simplified it and made some inexplicable leaps of logic.
>>>>>>>>>
I wrote a
>>>>>>>>>
For example what does any of that have to do with weed? I don't understand why according to your theory of society, "the man" would want to keep weed illegal. Presumably if they could sell it, they could make a lot of money.
>>>>>>>>>
"The Man" already makes a lot of money on weed. He aint changing nothing! Weed makes you philosophical, less ambitious, which in turn makes one less inclined to rat race for as many years as one otherwise might. All drugs are different and have different effects on the person.
>>>>>>>>>>
Most of the people I see talking about the "consumer lifestyle" in this country seem to it just as much as the next person.
>>>>>>>>>
This is too complicated a matter to deal with here....
>>>>>>>>>
I think your real issue is that you're a pothead (nothing wrong with that)
>>>>>>>>>
Haven't smoked it in many years....
>>>>>>>>
and you wish it was legal,
>>>>>
yes
>>>>>>>>>>
I just think the idea that there is any chance of everyone going up in "the hills" and becoming a pot farmer is pretty remote, even if it were encouraged and government subsidized. I doubt they're worried about that.
>>>>>>>>
I didn't say "everyone". America is being run like a business, specifically a ranch where we are the cattle. Every business owner wants to maximize his profits. Now, if there were universal healthcare in America, as there is in just about every other western industrialized nation, SOME people would opt out of the rat race, not all, just more than there are now. Add legal marijuana to the equation, and more would. Not good for profits.
>>>>>>>>
PS in my opinion, use of the word sheeple makes you sound condescending. Maybe you are, maybe you're not.
>>>>>>>>>
Oh, I AM condescending! And I should be......
Cuz if so, the state bar ass'n would not allow him/her to be a lawyer if they found out that he/she claimed to be a lawyer or implied that he/she was a lawyer.
Disclaimer: IANAL!
That seems to be the CorpGovMedia theme.....
THey WANT us sheeple to live in America, as many of us as possible. But what they DON'T want is non-consuming sheeple. That is probably why they do whatever they can to stop universal healthcare and to make marijuana as illegal as possible. They don't want us living back in the hills, growing and smoking weed, eschewing the consumer lifestyle, and only coming down out of the hills to get medical care. To them, we are just livestock on the consumer ranch, and every rancher wants his livestock as productive as possible. /conspiracy theorist...
...on this thread, today, the Righwingers are getting their asses kicked! And as a former rightwinger (of the Libertarian and paleocon variety), I must say, it is a DAMN good feeling!
Is it time for a sea change? Are people's eyes finally being opened by the drip drip drip of baldfaced facts?
That is simply false. Searching for and applying non-patent literature is a matter of routine. Many supervisors require a list of relevant non-patent literature from their examiners regardless of whether or not it was used to reject claims.
Gee, then howcum i have NEVER read an office action that cited ANYTHING but issued patents and published apps!?
And BTW, I sure as hell did mention the published database in my post above, which you simply ignored....
The above mentioned countries have a population of 53 million and generated 12.7% of papers, while America, with a population of 288M, published 34%.
One might speculate whether the social democracies with their high taxes and well-funded universities do more hardcore research. Here in America it seems that research is aimed more at the low-lying, commercially-viable fruit.