Thread: Once great Britain- America's little drummer boy

Originally Posted by hazz

In comparison to your country we get stunning value for money

You are correct and I never denied that.

World's Best Universities in Statistics and Operational Research | US News

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by hazz

In comparison to your country we get stunning value for money

You are correct and I never denied that.

World's Best Universities in Statistics and Operational Research | US News

WTF?

America has the #1 & #3 position

World's Best Universities

• #1 MIT
  United States
  
• #3 Harvard University
  United States
  

What's the beef?

Hate to rain on your parade fellas, but most of the major advances in recent history have come directly from government funded research...

A much-maligned engine of innovation

Mazzucato notes that “75 per cent of the new molecular entities [approved by the Food and Drug Administration between 1993 and 2004] trace their research ... to publicly funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) labs in the US”. The UK’s Medical Research Council discovered monoclonal antibodies, which are the foundation of biotechnology. Such discoveries are then handed cheaply to private companies that reap huge profits.

A perhaps even more potent example is the information and communications revolution. The US National Science Foundation funded the algorithm that drove Google’s search engine. Early funding for Apple came from the US government’s Small Business Investment Company. Moreover, “All the technologies which make the iPhone ‘smart’ are also state-funded ... the internet, wireless networks, the global positioning system, microelectronics, touchscreen displays and the latest voice-activated SIRI personal assistant.” Apple put this together, brilliantly. But it was gathering the fruit of seven decades of state-supported innovation.
A much-maligned engine of innovation - FT.com


Fascinating article btw, from the worlds pre-eminent financial journalist. (Oh, and he's a pom)

^wtf sabang, are you drunk, not reading the thread or posting on thr wrong thread?

Originally Posted by hazz

wtf sabang, are you drunk, not reading the thread or posting on thr wrong thread?

He's replying to the thread, not the OP (whatever that might have been about)

thats what I thought. still does not make any sence

I thought I yank poor piwi's last statement in a different thread here. He claims to be an Englishman, and doesn't he fit the thread headline of America's drummer boy?

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Great idea, problem with that is as far as I am aware there is no generous social security system ,no food stamps , or Obama phone etc etc , in any of these"Islamic paradises " for the unemployed "breeding Machines" that pour scorn on the American "way of life" and burn the US flag at every given opportunity, so I guess they will stay put and hopefully take over America from "within" , I mean lets have it right they are well on the way of doing just that in a few European Countrys ain't they . I wonder which religion coined the present day phrase "world domination"?