That is what lots of 'offshoring' of US work has done here too.
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Ireland and Iceland have been some of the English speaking beneficiary countries. But there are more (not necessarily English speaking as a primary language).
This is why the US is about to do something to 'repatriate capital' in giving some tax breaks to bring some $$/capital back to the US. I think I heard there is about $20T and they hope to repatriate at least $2.5T of it. - but I could have the numbers off by a large factor too
Equipment has a development life cycle. Even things developed with 'new' hardware, takes 3 to 6 months to be available for 'product engineers' who put in 3 to 6 months before a product is available for 'public consumption'.
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More complex/sophisticated/environmentally robust equipment take much longer. Getting new avionics is a 3 to 5 years cycle. It even takes the military 3 to 10 years to get development done for earth bound hardware.
The Nuke industry/govt agencies require 'hardened' hardware, that takes about as long as getting military OK for use.
Space craft life cycle, to keep from continuously re-engineering the same system many times before the first flight is 'frozen' at a stage that seems way to early in most venues. But that is what has been found as needed to be safe and reliable. It also becomes a 'religious issue' about not touching systems once they are 'flight ready'. Many of the designs, since they are 'one off' are not designed to be upgraded, at least not hardware wise. Even software upgrades are hard due to the 'flight ready' validation process. So unless a 'mission critical' need for 'uber new' hardware/software is found, it isn't going to happen (at least not in any 'market speed' speeds). So yes, we fly 'ancient' but reliable hardware.
How to get around this? Go work for NASA, get more funding, make it a priority to fly 'less outdated' equipment. I watched John Glenn go into space on TV. I watched the first foot steps onto the moon, live. I am proud of every step we have taken.
We have had very few pay the price over the years, and part of that price of keeping the payment in lives low is flying over-tested, over-worked, over-priced, outdated hardware.
I do want to fly newer equipment, but I don't want less safety. Flying fewer manned missions, and more 'robot' missions with newer hardware is one choice, but I don't want to give up on manned exploration. (Before the haters chime in, man in this case is mankind, being inclusive, not exclusive, in gender, race, etc. I do dislike feeling like I need to include explanations whenever I use words correctly, or having to be PC otherwise.)
One day I was sitting by a guy on an airplane and as typical, struck up a conversation.
He worked on home fuel cells that need hydrogen to work. His unit took in natural gas, release CO2, and kept the hydrogen for use in the fuel cell.
This is how most current commercial hydrogen is generated today, making it not very efficient way to get power (and NOT 'green' because of the mass CO2 release).
With this generator you could be off grid in town if you had a natural gas (methane) supply. Still the cost of electricity is way above the cost of commercial power, or even current solar costs.
Painting everyone that uses computers as computer professionals, is like saying that everyone that can provide healthcare is a doctor, from mom's with sick kids, secretaries that keep asprin in their desk, MRI operators, etc, including the 'health care professionals' from pharmacists, researchers, doctors, janitors in healthcare facilities, nurses, 'real' doctors, etc.
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Time to go back to the drawing board to define what the term means, not just what is convenient.
Otherwise a 'computer professional' is asking you if you want fries and a malt with that burger just because they press a key on a 'data entry device'.
Things change. In the early 1900's when the DJIA was a dream, there was a buggy whip manufacturer in the mix. They are long gone. -- Polaroid was a 'super company' in the '60s, now the name barely lives on. Even Kodak is not the company it once was because it didn't change with the times... and they even came up with digital photography first!... I still like mainframes, but that isn't the way of the world anymore.... Times change. Business models must too.
Yes, The Commish was a TV cop drama, but one of their strengths was to do policing based on numbers and statistics. OK, they took the normal 'over the top' abilities of TV, but the basics were good.
TV today is getting basically 'instant DNA scans', to the extent that McCoy wished was in this tricorder! The same with stats on TV shows.
That is why when I told my boss I am an independent consultant. I hired him.
Working for him I don't need to do marketing, unless I want to leave. I don't deal with accounts receivable, because they pay me on salary. I still have customers, and vendors, but they may (or may not) work for the same company. My primary clients keep me around because I resolve their issues, and when the world goes right, I resolve their 'pain points' before they know they are painful.
For that, I reduced my overhead to the point where I can still live on what compensation I get. It still MUST be more than my cost of living or I will fire them as a customer and go and get another customer or more.
He didn't like my 'attitude'. That is OK, I didn't like his.
Eventually I left for non-job reasons. But it was a relief. I always hated working with/for difficult customers. A boss with a bad attitude is a bad customer.
Vague, IMHO, includes being overly inclusive. Sarbox-Oxly's reason for being is to reduce the amount of obfuscation of 'bad' business activities, and to allow forensic auditing of the processes. -- After having to help implement SARBOX (short hand for the act) processes, it does allow easy over reaching by investigators at the cost of business being able to profit from their efforts. After being in business for years, I see the need for some, but at one time at lest the SARBOX fear to keep business from working was worse than the activities it was trying to prevent.... Just my opinion.
Because if they had Marty McFly change it, there would be a quantum shift in the space time continum. Now if the darn thing didn't take 1.21gigawatts to run...
And those that do get the job can't possibly qualify unless they are lieing to the bosses. Somthing I refused to do. I suffered, and the potential employers suffered as a result.
At one time, we (as a nation) looked for highly qualified and trainable candidates, now there is zero training budget and you are EXPECTED to be fully functional in the new proprietary environment before you start. IMHO, the best companies should hire reasonably good and trainable people, invest in them with training and OTJ experience (depending on the situation). This will allow them with 'minimal' additional expense (and lower wage rates possibly) to keep qualified people longer, builds employee loyalty, and allows bringing up employees in the way the company wants. Especially with continuing training, on a regular basis, the employee becomes more valuable to the employer, and the employee will have closer ties to the employer.
One example: SAS Institute in Cary NC has proven this true over and over again. People almost never quit, and their profit per employee is very high.
It doesn't happen immediately or in one quarter, but it will happen if there is a good, sustainable business case, and good base people to employ.
Because we, through our rep's (the govt) have given them the right to do it as part of the license we agreed to when we first licensed the spectrum portions to them.
Yes, we are changing the rules mid stream in general, but this written 'in stone' license seems to be harder to change due to the possible monetary consequences to current licensees.
Cable and DSL/whatever is about 3 miles or less from here, and has been for over 10 years. Neither the phone company or either cable provider wants to service us. Even dialup over hardwire lines is limited to 22Kbps (with good working, high quality 56K modems) due to bad copper in the ground. So our main internet is satellite that costs a huge amount (10G / mo for $50 US, and $10/G additional). -- Your taxes to 'bring broadband internet to the rural community' aren't working here. -- We have mainly 2G cell service, AT&T or Sprint mostly, Verison if you go to the top of the hill and stand on a picnic table. All this within 25 miles of a 'major US city' (Nashville, not to major but still not to small).
Same here. In the past I got 30 to 50 a day too.... At times I go through the spam folder find a few 'false positives', and for those that have a 'cancel' option I do try them. By doing that, I have significantly reduced my spammail, still get a few chinese language spams (oriental letters).
for another 'world apology tour' like he did just before and just after he was coronated the first time.
It seem that this Hussein has take the mantle of power a little to seriously.
UNIX was a 'small, lightweight' system with small utilities surrounding it to perform specific tasks. Not a large monolithic monstrosity? It may be time to look into BSD instead of Linux as a stable ecosystem. Change for a reason that is well demonstrated is one thing, change for the sake of change is another. This sounds like change looking for a reason to be.
I just couldn't pass by saying this one.
Even networks were not compatible at one time. IMHO, this compatibility can be addressed by having an open standard for minimal communication interface, and allow some folks that know how and can do the secure communication ( I have seen and worked with the SWIFT network. It is very secure an could be used for data transmission or store and forward. It is used internationally for banking now. It is a private network set up by banks based in Beljum, and is very secure IMHO. see https://www.swift.com/ for information on their products. I am just a happy former user. It ain't cheap, it is good.)
Not evidence, but my wife runs an employer provided and 'professionally maintained' laptop. She never had a BSOD on her XP laptop, this Win7 machine has had 2 BSOD incidents in the last 2 days.
Her use is strictly business and no 'roaming' on the internet for non-business. Her home machine is a fun only box (personally owned PC). Still XP. Never had a BSOD that was not explained by 3rd party utility software (patches from the vendor fixed).
yes, still anecdotal not sufficient for 'hard proof' evidence.
Lawyers, hairdressers, and politicians.... Even an adventure for a raft of those on welfare! (it sounds ugly, but they might/could become more productive in a different environment.)
You could bring any number larger than one breed pair, a few extra women, and a supply of 'male samples' to impregnate them once arriving. Even some already fertilized eggs to be implanted for surrogates. That would be more economic than taking that many people. I guess we could go full on and try artificial wombs, but that is getting a little to sci-fi even for me. Still the need for supplies until the colony could be big enough to be self sustaining is an significant logistics issue.
Given that Chrysler is basically owned by Fiat, GM is still 'government motors' and the unions didn't sell stock as required by the settlement agreement, Ford is the last of the 'big 3' to be a domestically based business. So yes, I drive a Ford.
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I loved Saturn, but GM shot them in the head in the 'settlement'. But even they turned into 'just another GM brand' after a super first half dozen years, once the unions took over, and 'regular GM management' didn't run them at arm's length like they were in the beginning.
VW and Nissan are calling TN their USA 'home', but given both are still 'based' and return their profits via overseas based companies, I hesitate to prefer them (or Toyota/Datsun and other) over Ford.supprised
The USA is 'just a market' now, and not a 'builder' for large manufactured goods.
Actually I am surprised that Airbus didn't get the contract over Boeing, given the leanings of our elPresidente.
Utilities should be able to take advantage of economies of scale to overcome the desire for distributed 'self generated' power. If not, they too will go the way of the Buggy Whip manufacturer that was part of the Dow-Jones average a century ago. (FYI: only 11 of the 30 stocks in the DJIA make durable goods)
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From what I have seen, the power companies are doing their best to keep down the move to self generated power, except for keeping their cost to the customer lower than what the customer can generate it themselves. Even doing their best to have private generation taxed by governments (that want the revenue) rather than become more efficient and reliable. They are also clinging to old technologies for generation rather than trying to address better, safer, greener, sources.
They seem to be fighting becoming a common carrier and accepting power from 'anyone' and reselling it (with a reasonable markup for selling and accepting generation capacity).
The more we can become self powered, without the need for the 'power company' the better off we all are. It is a protection against inflation and 'grid fault' power outages. The companies don't need (or apparently want) to expand capacity with better / cleaner technologies. Once installed solar can be close to zero impact. (Using lead acid batteries for storage need replacing in about 5 years. NiFe batteries cost about 3x as much, but never must be replaced (people are still using some Thomas Edison made about a century ago - no, that is real - they were used by utilities for peaking, farms for storing self generated power (from windmills), in train switch engines, even in trucks. The Baker Electric sold it in their cars close to 1900 for an extra fee.).
I am not against wind power, but it doesn't work easily 'everywhere'. Hydroelectric even micro-hydro generators are great, but more dams are being removed than being built due to environmental concerns. The Power Towers and wind generators both seem to have issues with causing problems with migrating birds (killing them, or near the power towers they 'flame out' when flying through the concentrated solar beam they are attracted to. Nuclear fusion isn't near being production ready, and fission using radium based technology has problems with massive amounts of long term 'hot waste' that we have not found how to recycle or re-use, or even store in inactive storage, so most stays in storage pools near the reactors where it was used. (Thorium based 'LFTR' reactors show promise, but it appears that China and India will have working ones before we do. In the '60s we turned off for the last time the only Thorium reactor we had in use (safely) at Oak Ridge National Labs in TN. - And these reactors CAN consume plutonium and some of the uranium waste as PART of its fuel stream, reducing need for other fuels and getting rid of what is otherwise waste. We currently have no active program in the US. Canada is moving ahead, but still India and China will beat them to market given current trajectories.)
Any job, research, management, sysadmin, ditch digger, is not about the employee, it is about solving an employers (or other customers) problem. Anymore degrees are not a way to 'print your own money', they are what they are. Notches in the bedpost of your life and learning.
To many people see PhD as being to specialized. You need to find some one (company, person, research firm) that you can solve THEIR problem, economically, in a way they can understand, then they will fulfill your need (a paycheck).
Sometimes we learn so much we can't see the forest for the trees.
The processes are basically the same. The difference is time frame and practicality.
Typically development can come to market with a product in 5 years or less. Larger companies can deal with longer development cycles than smaller companies. Big companies like the OLD AT&T had Bell Labs (I just don't know the current statuss, and it was significantly downsized when AT&T was taken over by SWBell), and IBM has its labs that both have done and do real research that may or may not ever come to market. Most of their 'research' could also be considered 'development'.
As much as I dislike government sponsored research and development, even as a conservative I think it has a place. DOD is a special case, but even there research needs to be separated from development, especially for basic research. To me, basic research has a long term 'payback' probability. Things like the Manhattan project was a special case (compressed research and development cycle, but was compensated by unlimited funds (within reason for the day)). We are still benefitting from the Los Alamos Labs continuing research. NASA is another compressed development that came from WWII development and went to a compressed/accelerated cycle or R&D in the '60s, and has tapered off since.... All this to say, government sponsored research is best suited to long term ahd highly speculative research.
Also, Research is exploration with a low probability of usable (spelled commercially viable) outcome. Development is taking the results of research and often other developments and rolling them into a viable and typically useful outcome (commercial product).
China learned from the 'American Century' (1900's), to bad we haven't.... Yes, research costs, and costs big money. The spinoffs overall tend to take a while to turn into 'profit'. But basic research is the investment we put into the future of our society.
On economics, we need to find a way to get much of the expatriated assets repatriated. Currently companies are not repatriating cash assets due to tax laws. How to do it depends on the the political winds, but it appears obvious that higher tax rates than other countries. Secondly, and more importantly we need to reduce the amount of national debt held outside our borders (by non-US citizens) to less than the GDP. That is a long term goal. It is basically like paying your mortgage to family members versus to a out-of-town bank that has no skin in the game seeing you succeed.
Am I right? I think so. Am I wrong? Not totally. -- Implementation is left to the interested student.
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Ireland and Iceland have been some of the English speaking beneficiary countries. But there are more (not necessarily English speaking as a primary language).
This is why the US is about to do something to 'repatriate capital' in giving some tax breaks to bring some $$/capital back to the US. I think I heard there is about $20T and they hope to repatriate at least $2.5T of it. - but I could have the numbers off by a large factor too
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More complex/sophisticated/environmentally robust equipment take much longer. Getting new avionics is a 3 to 5 years cycle. It even takes the military 3 to 10 years to get development done for earth bound hardware.
The Nuke industry/govt agencies require 'hardened' hardware, that takes about as long as getting military OK for use.
Space craft life cycle, to keep from continuously re-engineering the same system many times before the first flight is 'frozen' at a stage that seems way to early in most venues. But that is what has been found as needed to be safe and reliable. It also becomes a 'religious issue' about not touching systems once they are 'flight ready'. Many of the designs, since they are 'one off' are not designed to be upgraded, at least not hardware wise. Even software upgrades are hard due to the 'flight ready' validation process. So unless a 'mission critical' need for 'uber new' hardware/software is found, it isn't going to happen (at least not in any 'market speed' speeds). So yes, we fly 'ancient' but reliable hardware.
How to get around this? Go work for NASA, get more funding, make it a priority to fly 'less outdated' equipment. I watched John Glenn go into space on TV. I watched the first foot steps onto the moon, live. I am proud of every step we have taken.
We have had very few pay the price over the years, and part of that price of keeping the payment in lives low is flying over-tested, over-worked, over-priced, outdated hardware.
I do want to fly newer equipment, but I don't want less safety. Flying fewer manned missions, and more 'robot' missions with newer hardware is one choice, but I don't want to give up on manned exploration. (Before the haters chime in, man in this case is mankind, being inclusive, not exclusive, in gender, race, etc. I do dislike feeling like I need to include explanations whenever I use words correctly, or having to be PC otherwise.)
He worked on home fuel cells that need hydrogen to work. His unit took in natural gas, release CO2, and kept the hydrogen for use in the fuel cell.
This is how most current commercial hydrogen is generated today, making it not very efficient way to get power (and NOT 'green' because of the mass CO2 release).
With this generator you could be off grid in town if you had a natural gas (methane) supply. Still the cost of electricity is way above the cost of commercial power, or even current solar costs.
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Time to go back to the drawing board to define what the term means, not just what is convenient.
Otherwise a 'computer professional' is asking you if you want fries and a malt with that burger just because they press a key on a 'data entry device'.
Things change. In the early 1900's when the DJIA was a dream, there was a buggy whip manufacturer in the mix. They are long gone. -- Polaroid was a 'super company' in the '60s, now the name barely lives on. Even Kodak is not the company it once was because it didn't change with the times... and they even came up with digital photography first! ... I still like mainframes, but that isn't the way of the world anymore. ... Times change. Business models must too.
Yes, The Commish was a TV cop drama, but one of their strengths was to do policing based on numbers and statistics. OK, they took the normal 'over the top' abilities of TV, but the basics were good. TV today is getting basically 'instant DNA scans', to the extent that McCoy wished was in this tricorder! The same with stats on TV shows.
Just doing high-frequency-trading with human FRU's (Field Replaceable Units).
That is why when I told my boss I am an independent consultant. I hired him.
Working for him I don't need to do marketing, unless I want to leave. I don't deal with accounts receivable, because they pay me on salary. I still have customers, and vendors, but they may (or may not) work for the same company. My primary clients keep me around because I resolve their issues, and when the world goes right, I resolve their 'pain points' before they know they are painful.
For that, I reduced my overhead to the point where I can still live on what compensation I get. It still MUST be more than my cost of living or I will fire them as a customer and go and get another customer or more.
He didn't like my 'attitude'. That is OK, I didn't like his.
Eventually I left for non-job reasons. But it was a relief. I always hated working with/for difficult customers. A boss with a bad attitude is a bad customer.
Vague, IMHO, includes being overly inclusive. Sarbox-Oxly's reason for being is to reduce the amount of obfuscation of 'bad' business activities, and to allow forensic auditing of the processes. -- After having to help implement SARBOX (short hand for the act) processes, it does allow easy over reaching by investigators at the cost of business being able to profit from their efforts. After being in business for years, I see the need for some, but at one time at lest the SARBOX fear to keep business from working was worse than the activities it was trying to prevent. ... Just my opinion.
Because if they had Marty McFly change it, there would be a quantum shift in the space time continum. Now if the darn thing didn't take 1.21gigawatts to run...
And those that do get the job can't possibly qualify unless they are lieing to the bosses. Somthing I refused to do. I suffered, and the potential employers suffered as a result. At one time, we (as a nation) looked for highly qualified and trainable candidates, now there is zero training budget and you are EXPECTED to be fully functional in the new proprietary environment before you start. IMHO, the best companies should hire reasonably good and trainable people, invest in them with training and OTJ experience (depending on the situation). This will allow them with 'minimal' additional expense (and lower wage rates possibly) to keep qualified people longer, builds employee loyalty, and allows bringing up employees in the way the company wants. Especially with continuing training, on a regular basis, the employee becomes more valuable to the employer, and the employee will have closer ties to the employer. One example: SAS Institute in Cary NC has proven this true over and over again. People almost never quit, and their profit per employee is very high. It doesn't happen immediately or in one quarter, but it will happen if there is a good, sustainable business case, and good base people to employ.
Because we, through our rep's (the govt) have given them the right to do it as part of the license we agreed to when we first licensed the spectrum portions to them. Yes, we are changing the rules mid stream in general, but this written 'in stone' license seems to be harder to change due to the possible monetary consequences to current licensees.
Cable and DSL/whatever is about 3 miles or less from here, and has been for over 10 years. Neither the phone company or either cable provider wants to service us. Even dialup over hardwire lines is limited to 22Kbps (with good working, high quality 56K modems) due to bad copper in the ground. So our main internet is satellite that costs a huge amount (10G / mo for $50 US, and $10/G additional). -- Your taxes to 'bring broadband internet to the rural community' aren't working here. -- We have mainly 2G cell service, AT&T or Sprint mostly, Verison if you go to the top of the hill and stand on a picnic table. All this within 25 miles of a 'major US city' (Nashville, not to major but still not to small).
Same here. In the past I got 30 to 50 a day too. ... At times I go through the spam folder find a few 'false positives', and for those that have a 'cancel' option I do try them. By doing that, I have significantly reduced my spammail, still get a few chinese language spams (oriental letters).
for another 'world apology tour' like he did just before and just after he was coronated the first time. It seem that this Hussein has take the mantle of power a little to seriously.
UNIX was a 'small, lightweight' system with small utilities surrounding it to perform specific tasks. Not a large monolithic monstrosity? It may be time to look into BSD instead of Linux as a stable ecosystem. Change for a reason that is well demonstrated is one thing, change for the sake of change is another. This sounds like change looking for a reason to be.
I just couldn't pass by saying this one. Even networks were not compatible at one time. IMHO, this compatibility can be addressed by having an open standard for minimal communication interface, and allow some folks that know how and can do the secure communication ( I have seen and worked with the SWIFT network. It is very secure an could be used for data transmission or store and forward. It is used internationally for banking now. It is a private network set up by banks based in Beljum, and is very secure IMHO. see https://www.swift.com/ for information on their products. I am just a happy former user. It ain't cheap, it is good.)
Her use is strictly business and no 'roaming' on the internet for non-business. Her home machine is a fun only box (personally owned PC). Still XP. Never had a BSOD that was not explained by 3rd party utility software (patches from the vendor fixed).
yes, still anecdotal not sufficient for 'hard proof' evidence.
Lawyers, hairdressers, and politicians. ... Even an adventure for a raft of those on welfare! (it sounds ugly, but they might/could become more productive in a different environment.)
You could bring any number larger than one breed pair, a few extra women, and a supply of 'male samples' to impregnate them once arriving. Even some already fertilized eggs to be implanted for surrogates. That would be more economic than taking that many people. I guess we could go full on and try artificial wombs, but that is getting a little to sci-fi even for me. Still the need for supplies until the colony could be big enough to be self sustaining is an significant logistics issue.
If it is the law, follow the law. If folks don't like the law, change the law then follow it.
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I loved Saturn, but GM shot them in the head in the 'settlement'. But even they turned into 'just another GM brand' after a super first half dozen years, once the unions took over, and 'regular GM management' didn't run them at arm's length like they were in the beginning.
VW and Nissan are calling TN their USA 'home', but given both are still 'based' and return their profits via overseas based companies, I hesitate to prefer them (or Toyota/Datsun and other) over Ford.supprised
The USA is 'just a market' now, and not a 'builder' for large manufactured goods.
Actually I am surprised that Airbus didn't get the contract over Boeing, given the leanings of our elPresidente.
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From what I have seen, the power companies are doing their best to keep down the move to self generated power, except for keeping their cost to the customer lower than what the customer can generate it themselves. Even doing their best to have private generation taxed by governments (that want the revenue) rather than become more efficient and reliable. They are also clinging to old technologies for generation rather than trying to address better, safer, greener, sources.
They seem to be fighting becoming a common carrier and accepting power from 'anyone' and reselling it (with a reasonable markup for selling and accepting generation capacity).
The more we can become self powered, without the need for the 'power company' the better off we all are. It is a protection against inflation and 'grid fault' power outages. The companies don't need (or apparently want) to expand capacity with better / cleaner technologies. Once installed solar can be close to zero impact. (Using lead acid batteries for storage need replacing in about 5 years. NiFe batteries cost about 3x as much, but never must be replaced (people are still using some Thomas Edison made about a century ago - no, that is real - they were used by utilities for peaking, farms for storing self generated power (from windmills), in train switch engines, even in trucks. The Baker Electric sold it in their cars close to 1900 for an extra fee.).
I am not against wind power, but it doesn't work easily 'everywhere'. Hydroelectric even micro-hydro generators are great, but more dams are being removed than being built due to environmental concerns. The Power Towers and wind generators both seem to have issues with causing problems with migrating birds (killing them, or near the power towers they 'flame out' when flying through the concentrated solar beam they are attracted to. Nuclear fusion isn't near being production ready, and fission using radium based technology has problems with massive amounts of long term 'hot waste' that we have not found how to recycle or re-use, or even store in inactive storage, so most stays in storage pools near the reactors where it was used. (Thorium based 'LFTR' reactors show promise, but it appears that China and India will have working ones before we do. In the '60s we turned off for the last time the only Thorium reactor we had in use (safely) at Oak Ridge National Labs in TN. - And these reactors CAN consume plutonium and some of the uranium waste as PART of its fuel stream, reducing need for other fuels and getting rid of what is otherwise waste. We currently have no active program in the US. Canada is moving ahead, but still India and China will beat them to market given current trajectories.)
To many people see PhD as being to specialized. You need to find some one (company, person, research firm) that you can solve THEIR problem, economically, in a way they can understand, then they will fulfill your need (a paycheck).
Sometimes we learn so much we can't see the forest for the trees.
Typically development can come to market with a product in 5 years or less. Larger companies can deal with longer development cycles than smaller companies. Big companies like the OLD AT&T had Bell Labs (I just don't know the current statuss, and it was significantly downsized when AT&T was taken over by SWBell), and IBM has its labs that both have done and do real research that may or may not ever come to market. Most of their 'research' could also be considered 'development'.
As much as I dislike government sponsored research and development, even as a conservative I think it has a place. DOD is a special case, but even there research needs to be separated from development, especially for basic research. To me, basic research has a long term 'payback' probability. Things like the Manhattan project was a special case (compressed research and development cycle, but was compensated by unlimited funds (within reason for the day)). We are still benefitting from the Los Alamos Labs continuing research. NASA is another compressed development that came from WWII development and went to a compressed/accelerated cycle or R&D in the '60s, and has tapered off since. ... All this to say, government sponsored research is best suited to long term ahd highly speculative research.
Also, Research is exploration with a low probability of usable (spelled commercially viable) outcome. Development is taking the results of research and often other developments and rolling them into a viable and typically useful outcome (commercial product).
China learned from the 'American Century' (1900's), to bad we haven't. ... Yes, research costs, and costs big money. The spinoffs overall tend to take a while to turn into 'profit'. But basic research is the investment we put into the future of our society.
On economics, we need to find a way to get much of the expatriated assets repatriated. Currently companies are not repatriating cash assets due to tax laws. How to do it depends on the the political winds, but it appears obvious that higher tax rates than other countries. Secondly, and more importantly we need to reduce the amount of national debt held outside our borders (by non-US citizens) to less than the GDP. That is a long term goal. It is basically like paying your mortgage to family members versus to a out-of-town bank that has no skin in the game seeing you succeed.
Am I right? I think so. Am I wrong? Not totally. -- Implementation is left to the interested student.