Nice innuendo. Care to back that up with statistics on how many corrupt judges there are in the U.S.? Or are you just pulling comments out of your ass because they sound good to a post-modern meathead like yourself?
Well, we could all decide to go back into farming, neglecting the fact the U.S. already produces more food that it can use. Or, we could all go back into manufacturing, neglecting the world is awash in exported goods because every country is attempting to be export driven. We all go into robotics...oh shoot, that won't work because the robots would have to do something productive we already have all the products we can use. That leaves what, exactly? What would you have the U.S. people do? Maybe they could all join communes and sing Ku-by-ya.
Yes, let's cede to those great humanitarians, the Chinese, the future of green energy and new disease fighting drugs. What the hell would American business do with those anyhow? And Americans don't need jobs, those are for those poorly paid Chinese to do.
Put in better terms, the U.S. spends about $30 billion on NIH per year, and about $7.5 billion on NSF. So for the main two civilian agencies in charge research, we could double their funding for 10 years.
Well, we could, it would never happen though because with the Republicans in Congress, they believe that research grows on trees and that researchers are part of a giant conspiracy against them. The Democrats are just as bad because they are sure that money won't go toward proving their prized theses. And if they did all decide to spend it (not that it is there to spend), they'd find a way to do it in earmarks since every congress person knows s/he's a better judge of quality science than scientists.
There probably isn't any way to fix the problem since to do that we'd have to get the Business School Product to understand that they aren't just selling widgets and that any theft should be removed from their salaries. I like that last, taking way their money is the only thing Business School Product understand.
I've taught Chinese students in the past, and for your basic run of the mill students, this seems to be the case. I'm unsure whether it is true of their PhD students who are serious about their research and not just wanting a degree to go back with.
In broader strokes, it would seem that they are stifling their own creativity with this sort of behavior. It will the individually, they won't develop a sense of adventure in thinking of a new angle on a problem since that will get stamped out by talking to their collective friends.
That's a New York Time's article. Taipei Times, near as I can tell is mostly an aggregator when it comes to world news. They have some local editorials and stories particular to Taiwan, but it is not clear (from my cursory look at their stories) that they have any foreign correspondents.
"the risk of IP getting stolen by the Chinese is already counted in." By whom? The Business School Product who only care about whether they can get rich before the company explodes? Them people? You expect them to even give a flying rats ass about the companies they work for beyond their own bank accounts? And read a book on capitalism, it might help clear your thinking.
I see, so a country with massive natural resources, a strong science and engineering sector, and relatively secure borders failed because the U.S. had it on its shit list? How about, the Soviet Union failed because it was Soviet.
The problem with the current Russia is legacy of 70 odd years of communism which never valued individual enterprise and existed mainly to support the KGB and their successor. And it won't get better until Putin leaves. You can the thug out of the KGB but you cannot take the KGB out of the thug.
Just to be fair, the ground water we use for drinking is generally at a might higher elevation than the level at which fracking occurs. However, any fissures in the rock between the two will cause contamination. And that is something the frackers can never protect against since they have no idea where those fissures occur.
Oh, I see. So intervening fissures in the rock between the fracking site and the ground water above simply cannot exist because we've been fracking since WWII. Solid rock sometimes isn't as solid as you think.
That might be some of it, but mostly I think it is because China thinks of N. Korea as a diversion for the U.S. and Japan. While those nutcases are jumping around like a squirrel after his third cup of coffee, the Chinese gov. looks downright civil.
Hell, put Christmas tree lights ON a statue of the Fearless Shrimp. Decorate him with tinsel and mistletoe, put fake presents around his feet and give him a big snowy beard. Then play Christmas for lil'Kim to the tune of Springtime for Hitler. If there's going to be propaganda, do it right.
Well, to be fair, it wasn't so awesome if you were a German, Soviet, Japanese, French, Italian, Romanian, Czech, Chinese, Philippine, etc. corporation. Many of the their "directors" ("leaders of the revolutionary blah, blah, blah in the case of the Soviets) wound up not among the quick by WWII's end.
If you were an American corporation, you got "managed" by the government and were not in control of your output or your profits.
Your basic premise is false, i.e., that the health care industry will maximalize health care. All industries attempt to maximalize profits. Now why should maximalizing profits maximalize health care. If anything, the industry will attempt to deliver the least health care at the most expensive price they can get away with.
Your next argument will probably be something along the lines of we don't want government rationing health care. The free market rations everything according to people's ability to pay. Health care is being rationed right now by the free market. The insurance companies work on actuarial data, that means they are deciding what to pay for and how much. That is, if you are lucky enough to have health care.
Just for the record, the U.S. Military was never keen on going into Iraq. That was the Bush Administration. In Afghanistan, they used a very small footprint initially. Then the Bush Administration decided to drag the locals out of the 9th century into the 21st.
Yep, the FAA does nothing for airline safety. NIH does nothing of consequence in combating disease outbreaks from those friendly listeria farming operations. OSHA hasn't lifted a finger for workplace safety. The nerve of NSF funding fundamental research, don't they know research grows on trees to be cherry picked by Business School Product for the good of Americans? If only America could be returned to the people....like the housing crisis. People have a G-d-given right to sign contracts they are too stupid to understand, flip houses, suck the equity out of their houses. If all the telecom companies want to coalesce into a giant blood-sucking Ma Bell, well, let no federal bureaucrat stand up and say know. Monopolies worked so well before the 1930s, the American People have a right to try them again.
This abhorrent list of faceless and unrecognized federal bureaucrats goes on and on trying keep your ass safe from...well...you.
Wow, 300 you say! Boy, that will get them noticed. You mean they are lost somewhere between DC and Georgia. They never spoke for the 99%, that was simply propaganda so people like you can feel all warm and fuzzy about them.
Okay, I give up, what is Obama doing? Anything? Even ObamaCare (I actually do not like that term) was really just a Christmas tree for Congress's Democrats to decorate as they saw fit. Obama had a perfectly valid debt reduction plan handed to him in Simpson-Bowles. Hell, he even created the commission. And what did he do with the plan? He ignored it, submitted a budget that made no fiscal sense, and is now wandering the country side like some lost Jacob Marley jangling his chains in search of the Ghost of 2008.
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Nice innuendo. Care to back that up with statistics on how many corrupt judges there are in the U.S.? Or are you just pulling comments out of your ass because they sound good to a post-modern meathead like yourself?
Well, we could all decide to go back into farming, neglecting the fact the U.S. already produces more food that it can use. Or, we could all go back into manufacturing, neglecting the world is awash in exported goods because every country is attempting to be export driven. We all go into robotics...oh shoot, that won't work because the robots would have to do something productive we already have all the products we can use. That leaves what, exactly? What would you have the U.S. people do? Maybe they could all join communes and sing Ku-by-ya.
Yes, let's cede to those great humanitarians, the Chinese, the future of green energy and new disease fighting drugs. What the hell would American business do with those anyhow? And Americans don't need jobs, those are for those poorly paid Chinese to do.
Put in better terms, the U.S. spends about $30 billion on NIH per year, and about $7.5 billion on NSF. So for the main two civilian agencies in charge research, we could double their funding for 10 years.
Well, we could, it would never happen though because with the Republicans in Congress, they believe that research grows on trees and that researchers are part of a giant conspiracy against them. The Democrats are just as bad because they are sure that money won't go toward proving their prized theses. And if they did all decide to spend it (not that it is there to spend), they'd find a way to do it in earmarks since every congress person knows s/he's a better judge of quality science than scientists.
There probably isn't any way to fix the problem since to do that we'd have to get the Business School Product to understand that they aren't just selling widgets and that any theft should be removed from their salaries. I like that last, taking way their money is the only thing Business School Product understand.
I've taught Chinese students in the past, and for your basic run of the mill students, this seems to be the case. I'm unsure whether it is true of their PhD students who are serious about their research and not just wanting a degree to go back with.
In broader strokes, it would seem that they are stifling their own creativity with this sort of behavior. It will the individually, they won't develop a sense of adventure in thinking of a new angle on a problem since that will get stamped out by talking to their collective friends.
That's a New York Time's article. Taipei Times, near as I can tell is mostly an aggregator when it comes to world news. They have some local editorials and stories particular to Taiwan, but it is not clear (from my cursory look at their stories) that they have any foreign correspondents.
"the risk of IP getting stolen by the Chinese is already counted in." By whom? The Business School Product who only care about whether they can get rich before the company explodes? Them people? You expect them to even give a flying rats ass about the companies they work for beyond their own bank accounts? And read a book on capitalism, it might help clear your thinking.
I see, so a country with massive natural resources, a strong science and engineering sector, and relatively secure borders failed because the U.S. had it on its shit list? How about, the Soviet Union failed because it was Soviet.
The problem with the current Russia is legacy of 70 odd years of communism which never valued individual enterprise and existed mainly to support the KGB and their successor. And it won't get better until Putin leaves. You can the thug out of the KGB but you cannot take the KGB out of the thug.
Just to be fair, the ground water we use for drinking is generally at a might higher elevation than the level at which fracking occurs. However, any fissures in the rock between the two will cause contamination. And that is something the frackers can never protect against since they have no idea where those fissures occur.
Oh, I see. So intervening fissures in the rock between the fracking site and the ground water above simply cannot exist because we've been fracking since WWII. Solid rock sometimes isn't as solid as you think.
That might be some of it, but mostly I think it is because China thinks of N. Korea as a diversion for the U.S. and Japan. While those nutcases are jumping around like a squirrel after his third cup of coffee, the Chinese gov. looks downright civil.
Hell, put Christmas tree lights ON a statue of the Fearless Shrimp. Decorate him with tinsel and mistletoe, put fake presents around his feet and give him a big snowy beard. Then play Christmas for lil'Kim to the tune of Springtime for Hitler. If there's going to be propaganda, do it right.
Nah, things are so dull in N. Korea they simply don't like the pretty lights, make's the government look bad.
Well, to be fair, it wasn't so awesome if you were a German, Soviet, Japanese, French, Italian, Romanian, Czech, Chinese, Philippine, etc. corporation. Many of the their "directors" ("leaders of the revolutionary blah, blah, blah in the case of the Soviets) wound up not among the quick by WWII's end.
If you were an American corporation, you got "managed" by the government and were not in control of your output or your profits.
Your basic premise is false, i.e., that the health care industry will maximalize health care. All industries attempt to maximalize profits. Now why should maximalizing profits maximalize health care. If anything, the industry will attempt to deliver the least health care at the most expensive price they can get away with.
Your next argument will probably be something along the lines of we don't want government rationing health care. The free market rations everything according to people's ability to pay. Health care is being rationed right now by the free market. The insurance companies work on actuarial data, that means they are deciding what to pay for and how much. That is, if you are lucky enough to have health care.
I find your analysis thought provoking and informative. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Just for the record, the U.S. Military was never keen on going into Iraq. That was the Bush Administration. In Afghanistan, they used a very small footprint initially. Then the Bush Administration decided to drag the locals out of the 9th century into the 21st.
You are blaming the wrong people.
Yeah, like the interstate highway system. Boy, they made out like bandits on that one.
Yep, the FAA does nothing for airline safety. NIH does nothing of consequence in combating disease outbreaks from those friendly listeria farming operations. OSHA hasn't lifted a finger for workplace safety. The nerve of NSF funding fundamental research, don't they know research grows on trees to be cherry picked by Business School Product for the good of Americans? If only America could be returned to the people....like the housing crisis. People have a G-d-given right to sign contracts they are too stupid to understand, flip houses, suck the equity out of their houses. If all the telecom companies want to coalesce into a giant blood-sucking Ma Bell, well, let no federal bureaucrat stand up and say know. Monopolies worked so well before the 1930s, the American People have a right to try them again.
This abhorrent list of faceless and unrecognized federal bureaucrats goes on and on trying keep your ass safe from...well...you.
Without a content system behind them like Apple's or Amazon's, no one will care.
Could you put all that science into something useful...errr...maybe a flux capacitor?
Really, I feel like I've fought WWII at least 100 times and won every damn time.
It was called Total Information Awareness.
Wow, 300 you say! Boy, that will get them noticed. You mean they are lost somewhere between DC and Georgia. They never spoke for the 99%, that was simply propaganda so people like you can feel all warm and fuzzy about them.
Okay, I give up, what is Obama doing? Anything? Even ObamaCare (I actually do not like that term) was really just a Christmas tree for Congress's Democrats to decorate as they saw fit. Obama had a perfectly valid debt reduction plan handed to him in Simpson-Bowles. Hell, he even created the commission. And what did he do with the plan? He ignored it, submitted a budget that made no fiscal sense, and is now wandering the country side like some lost Jacob Marley jangling his chains in search of the Ghost of 2008.