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2006-10-12 Europe
EU attempt to replicate MIT with EIT fails
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Posted by 3dc 2006-10-12 01:36|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Good luck with that as they say.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-10-12 05:19|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]  2006-10-12 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 They are going about this backwards, starting with the result. MIT successes came from industry application of fortuitous discoveries resulting from basic research in some pretty arcane areas. (As no doubt quite a few here know from personal experience, but that's never stopped me from nattering on!) A real pity, this failure, as friendly competition benefits all.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-12 06:35||   2006-10-12 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 This is just the typical socialist impulse of the EU bureaucrats. Centralize everything to compete with free enterprise. Just a big yawn, really.
Posted by AlanC">AlanC  2006-10-12 10:44||   2006-10-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 You just don’t understand their mindset do you? They (the Euros) are smarter than Americans but just didn’t have a centralized place to display that knowledge. I blame the failure on the Bush/Cheney/Rove cabal.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-10-12 11:38||   2006-10-12 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder how long it'll be until our attempts to replicate MIT with MIT fail.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-10-12 12:09||   2006-10-12 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Since I got thrown out of the MIT bar I guess I'm gonna have to go get thrown out of the EIT bar, too.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2006-10-12 12:18||   2006-10-12 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I suppose MIT could send them Chomsky. That'd probably screw them up for another fifty years...
Posted by tu3031 2006-10-12 12:23||   2006-10-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#8 The core issue is that anyone who wants to commercialize anything comes to America to do it. Until they address that problem the rest is just euros down the drain.
Posted by DoDo 2006-10-12 15:53||   2006-10-12 15:53|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 - They've already addressed that problem. They blame us.

Everything they screw up is somehow our fault.

Bwwhahahahahahaha! :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-10-12 17:07|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-10-12 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10 To be fair, good work comes out of CERN. I can think of at least one CERN development that folks on Rantburg use every day.
Posted by DMFD 2006-10-12 20:46||   2006-10-12 20:46|| Front Page Top

#11 DMFD not true, Al Gore invented the internets!
Posted by RD 2006-10-12 21:10||   2006-10-12 21:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Physicists at CERN, Fermilab, and other laboratories have all contributed to the development of the internet. My husband was a grad student working on a project at Fermi and then a postdoc working on the UA1 experiment at CERN at the time described in the link, so I kept hearing these tidbits at the dinner table (when his boss didn't have him on six experminets at once, in which case he wasn't home for dinner).

No, Al Gore wasn't there.
Posted by mom 2006-10-12 21:29||   2006-10-12 21:29|| Front Page Top

#13 DMFD not true, Al Gore invented the internets!

No he didn't. But Ted Stevens just e-mailed me one.
Posted by DMFD 2006-10-12 22:16||   2006-10-12 22:16|| Front Page Top

#14 it's the tubes, man
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-12 22:18||   2006-10-12 22:18|| Front Page Top

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