US scientists deplore ‘innovation deficit’

I can cite multiple examples where some bureaucrat decided to "save money" and ended up costing a bunch. I live that experience daily. "Budget" computer hardware that runs up labor costs waiting for results. I built my personal computer with a Bluray drive and SATAIII hard disks. A 22GB Bluray copied to my hard disk in 21 minutes. Contrast that with a company provided laptop and USB Bluray drive with a 20GB Bluray data source. I managed to copy 10 GB of the data to the disk over a period of 6 1/2 HOURS. The effort will continue tomorrow. I built my personal hardware for half the price and it is far better, but I have to live with what is mandated by the bureaucracy.

Both machines have i7 CPUs. My personal machine has 16 GB RAM. The laptop may have 8 GB or 16 GB...didn't check. My personal machine runs Windows 8.1 Pro OEM. The laptop has Windows 7 Enterprise. The point is that HOURS of my labor have been wasted waiting for this POS hardware. I found productive work to do in parallel, but would have wrapped up my work day much sooner with good equipment.

They, the scientists, vote democratic as they are taught to in college to be good little socialists, then whine when the socialist leaders they elected enact policies that stifle research and promote high taxes on businesses, forcing them to leave the country. They didn’t bite the hand that fed them, they whacked it off with a chainsaw..

It takes hundreds of pages of regulatory paper work to be filed just to run a simple little biotech pilot study. How can innovation thrive in such an environment

Bears repeating:

It takes hundreds of pages of regulatory paper work to be filed just to run a simple little biotech pilot study. How can innovation thrive in such an environment

Americans are getting lousy education. Americans do not seem to have much imagination anymore.

Couple that with indoctrination and regulation and you have a place that exists only. Do not look for much inspiration.

It’s quality that counts, not quantity.
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Yeah I’ve read that a lot of the chinese patent applications are pretty bogus.

The Japanese have figured out which are the major US patent applications and then filed lots of patents for small variants of whatever a US patent filer does—so as to create a synthetic patent—that walls out the original US patent.

chinese may be up to the same thing.

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