Re: Fed grant system excludes Macs

On 14 Feb 2006 18:19:08 -0800, "Dave Fritzinger"
<dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxx> chose to bless us with the following wisdom:


Tim Murray wrote:
On Feb 14, 2006, Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:
Actually if I were in charge the government wouldn't be giving out any
grant money in the first place.

For once I agree with you.

You fail to understand the importance of federal grants to the basic
research and training that goes on in this (and all other) countries.

You fail to understand that the system we have now is not ideal; not
particularly productive and unConstitutional to boot.

Commercial enterprises are unlikely to fund basic research because they
are more concerned with the bottom line for the next quarter, or at
most, the next fiscal year.

Businerss will take its profits where it can find them. Our nation's
laws and tax structure make long term outlooks shaky at best so many
places concentrate on the short term.
Changing things around so that long term views are potientally
profitable would go a long way towards getting industry to fund more
research.

Therefore, since many basic discoveries
(Some of which may someday become commercially viable, and may,
perhaps, start whole new industries-Biotech) take years and years of
research before major advances occur, a different funding mechanism is
needed.

Science has only been funded by the government since WWII. We were
making pretty good progress before then. Of course we didn't have a
government that liked to change the rules halfway through the game
then either.
Government funding is corrupting science. That's the worst part of it.
Government money cannot be seperated from politics. That's why if you
want to know what a study says you just need to lok at where its
funding came from. There's no need to read the actual report.

This is one place where the federal government can play a major
role, since the research will, in the long run, benefit the whole
country.

All too often private companies get to have the benefits of the
federal largesse all to themselves. I say if one nickel of tax money
goes into a research project then its results are in the public
domain.






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