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Comment Re:Except most R&D IS done by companies (Score 2) 297

You don't know enough about research and industry.

I will sum it up.

Public research digs up the most fundamental knowledge that in itself is only knowledge that can be applied.

Private research takes the public findings and refines the knowledge in a very focused, product-oriented way.

Both are required for our current successes.

Comment Re:Sadly true (Score 1) 333

The tracking is a byproduct of raising revenue on the backside while providing a 'free' frontside. If you pay enough, a business can afford to respect you. Back in the early internet days most services on the internet were premium based, but yahoo changed that, and figured out the american psychology.... That we prefer to pay nothing up front and take hits elsewhere...and so free ad based email was born, along with search providers, and the subsequent necessity to find a way to pay for it all..

most people that didn't use the internet back then do not even unders used to be different. Us older users shakeour heads and regret taking free accounts.

Comment Re:How is this not a good idea? (Score 3, Insightful) 409

500 million is a drop in the bucket of things you should be worried about, and, again, was a very minor loss in a pool of successful choices.

This is just like the 32 million dollar muffins that the DOJ was buying each year and the news made a big deal about.

80BN in yearly oil subsidies for an archaic and dangerous system that is already highly profitable? And you're moaning about 1/160th of that, and its not even a yearly cost. PFfft.

Tornadoes in Teacups. You will forever be upset until you gain a grasp of the words SIGNIFICANCE, MAGNITUDE, etc.

Comment Re:How is this not a good idea? (Score 4, Insightful) 409

Almost all of those green energy investments actually are working out. More than 95% of them are.

That success rate of investment is higher than almost anything. Most new businesses fail. Most new business ipo are a crapshoot.

When you stop focusing on the very low minority of failure (which we also know was induced by China) it was a huge success.

We should pull all oil subsidies and invest in green tech. Those awesome new batteries from UCLA would be perfect.

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