Winsor,
I have never worked in any scientific field myself - but one of my relatives
has been head of Bell Labs (he won a Nobel prize in physics). He is not a
public official. My father has worked for several large corporations
including as a design engineer for the underseas division of Westinghouse.
I think it is you that need to do some research ;)
But you are right, this thread is really not going to go much further.
Regards,
Lee
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From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [OM][OT] Further on technology (R&D)
You must be thinking of Al G's silly and fraudulent claim ;) No wonder he
grew a beard and started wearing plaid shirts.
But government - in any country - did not "invent" the internet. That is
certainly just not true.
... Or the computers, telephones, or radios, TVs, electric motors,
refrigerators, light bulbs, airplanes, cameras and film, the motor car, the
X-ray machines, MR scanners, CAT scanners, rail & trains, fiber optics,
flushing toilets (nor bidets), the record player, analogue tape, CDs, fiber
optics ..... or much of anything else.
Now, government has certainly put a handle on many such things early on for
it's own ends, with the result that we often only see the tail end of such
things in the retail stores and incorporated into "services". SOME
governments are also fond of *insisting* that they have control of certain
systematic services for the get go. But let's not equate that with
"invention" or "expertise" of any sort.
Cheers
Lee
Lee, Lee, please do some research.
It is the off topic things that cause people to react. This will not be a
productive thread.
Winsor
Who does not believe that the Manhattan Project was a Chamber of Commerce
meeting.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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