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To: Archie Meeties who wrote (37458)	7/21/2008 9:35:06 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217928

Europe is at piracy forefront for the past 600 years. Alchemy? Algebra? Stolen from the Arabs. Are we use Roman algarisms?

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (37458)	7/21/2008 9:43:34 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217928

Europe did pretty well getting ideas from research to production in the time period of 1850 to about 1930. Maybe the two world wars, maybe the welfare state, maybe something else has stopped them. Almost every area of scientific progress in the US has heavy contributions from immigrants, except for electronics and petrochemicals. In electronics, Asians (like Wang magnetic core memory, and Esaki tunnel diodes, and most every LED researcher) have made a larger contribution than Europeans.

To: Archie Meeties who wrote (37458)	7/22/2008 7:50:12 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217928

Arch stated "Europe's problem with research has long been getting it out of the lab and commercializing it." All the more reason to under stand how time shapes capital. When inertia or status quo management interrupts capital from assuming a productive shape, mal investment rules the day. I learned this morning that hedge funds are spending 50 billion a year paid to prime broker dealers to borrow shares. Can everyone not see how poorly are the decisions being made today, with respect to capital and time, this is? Look at china previous to its industrialized period and you find the same phenomena, mal investment against capital formation and its use, constructing inertia into a system, is mal investment no matter how you slice it vis a vis, rationalization. Times shapes capital. The control units of any economy shape the times. enough said about responsibility.....dont you think?