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To: Webster Groves who wrote (60391)	1/25/2010 4:11:06 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218039

People have been so isolated from the means of production that now they think hard work does not exist. That iPHONE is result o Foxconn assembling lines and lines of people working on a plant. Those jeans, are cotton planted and harvested, denin produced, cut, sent to another place to be sewn and then ironed, packed, transported. Those pair of shoes or leather car seat are cows inseminated, calf raised, slaughtered, skin tanned, cut, send to shoe factory, footwear made, packed and tranported. Perhaps that is why banks take trade finance and the productive real economy grounds to a halt. Perhaps because people think that only money matters.

To: Webster Groves who wrote (60391)	1/25/2010 5:38:35 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218039

<<Human civilization is entirely the product of intellectual work>> food is culture drink is civilization above incl medicine, and together, the more important bits the rest has more to do with instinct and sex than to do with intellect and thoughts, and not all that useful in the main money is in some sense the 'product of intellectual work', meaning the intellect to 'create' the concept of money, but no one explicitly created anything, for gold is a gift from the creator

To: Webster Groves who wrote (60391)	1/27/2010 12:01:51 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218039

Be ready to stand TJ and Elmat! China Becoming Superpower in Scientific Research Brazil just overtook Russia: Among the BRICs countries, Brazil has also surged forward in scientific research. China Becoming Superpower in Scientific Research China is on its way to becoming a global leader in scientific research. The country has made remarkable progress in scientific research over the last three decades, and is likely to displace the U.S. as the world's leading producer of scientific knowledge in terms of volume by 2020, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The U.K. newspaper cited an analysis by global financial information provider Thomson Reuters of research papers published in 10,500 scientific journals around the world since 1981. China dominated the number of peer-reviewed papers produced among the BRICs countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. Scientific research has boomed in China since its opening up and reforms, with the number of published papers increasing 64-fold since 1981, particularly in chemistry and materials science. Some 112,318 scientific papers were produced in China in 2008, one-third of the 332,916 in the U.S., but the growth rate over the last 20 years was 1.5 times faster than that of the U.S. Jonathan Adams, research evaluation director at Thomson Reuters, said China's "awe-inspiring" growth means it is now the second-largest producer of scientific knowledge in the world. The progress of China's scientists is mainly due to generous investment by the government, with funding provided to universities and research increasing well above the rate of inflation. Beijing also tempts Chinese scientists working in the U.S. and Europe to return home by allowing them to spend part of their time overseas and part in China. While there is skepticism over the quality of China's research, the country is addressing this by actively pursuing joint research with experts from all over the world. Some 9 percent of China's research papers have at least one U.S.-based co-author. "If anything, China's recent research performance has exceeded even the high expectations of four or five years ago," said James Wilsdon, science policy director at the Royal Society in London. Among the BRICs countries, Brazil has also surged forward in scientific research. In 1981 Brazil produced just one-seventh the amount of research papers as India, but it had caught up by 2008.