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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Calls For Innovation Bailout
Information Week ^ | November 18, 2008 | Thomas Claburn

Posted on 11/18/2008 6:30:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Schmidt better brush up on Kirchoff’s Laws. There’s a big difference between switching bits with a router and switching hundreds of thousands of volts.


21 posted on 11/18/2008 7:28:09 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: AmericanVictory

I attended the annual meeting of Sales Force in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. Their CEO, Mark Benioff, made disparaging remarks about oil and the brain dead dolts erupted in long applause and cheers. I’m sure every single one of them walked or rode their bikes to the event and heats and cools their houses with windmills.


22 posted on 11/18/2008 7:30:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
America now has the opportunity to apply the technological principles that created the Internet economy to the nation's energy infrastructure, Schmidt suggested. And what's needed, he believes, is a balance between unfettered capitalism and socialism... Openness is critical for that, he argued. The end-to-end principle that underlies the Internet, the open network, is a must. "It is that openness, the ability that anyone can play ... that drives the modern economy." "Why don't we do the same thing with the energy grid?" he asked. "Isn't it obvious?" Fixing the energy grid to work along these lines, he suggested, is just a design problem, just a matter of will. And doing so will benefit our economy. "Infrastructure is the foundation upon which wealth is created," he insisted.
Clueless in Seattle (or wherever this took place). We need ambient temperature superconductors, if possible, which, when used to replace the distribution net, would obviate the need for about 2/3s of our generating capacity, or alternatively, make it possible to bill for three times as much as we move to electric cars.
23 posted on 11/18/2008 7:40:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: Clemenza

You heard it from John Sunday who was loath to admit he was a fascist socialist, so he named his movement Justicialismo. Of course today the movement is generally named after his sardinian surname Peron(ismo). There we go again, another sardinian just like Gramsci.


24 posted on 11/18/2008 7:56:26 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are no comments on a free market conservative forum that will convince him of the errors of his ways. He needs a Twilight Zone episode where he is stuck in China and they shut him down.

Then he will understand the error of his ways. It’s the “Christmas Carol” effect.

Hell. We can all use it. I could use it. Show him the Ghost of Christmas Future with him in the Gulag.


25 posted on 11/18/2008 8:39:37 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Innovation Bailout

This is wrong in soooo many ways. People are looking to the government to foster innovation? To bail them out? To fill their fridges and bank accounts?


Behold the image of the New America.

26 posted on 11/18/2008 11:22:29 PM PST by kittycatonline.com
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why? There's a vastly better solution: kibosh our Federal income tax system in favor of the FairTax consumption tax. That way, you'll have every Tom, Dick and Harry investor wanting to invest in technology innovation without worries about tax consequences.
27 posted on 11/19/2008 5:07:30 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Comments?

Yeah.

STFU Schmidt.

Have a cookie.


28 posted on 11/19/2008 5:09:43 AM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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the decarbonization of our energy infrastructure

The left is going to make a power grab for every segment of the economy for the sake of their childish fantasies. Odumbo will go along with the little children in his warped ideological playground.

29 posted on 11/19/2008 5:13:00 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I absolutely agree, but we have to focus on creating dynamic synergies that optimize efficiency in order to fully prepare for the 21st century.


30 posted on 11/19/2008 7:06:47 AM PST by villagerjoel (1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Why do we fund research and development?" he asked. "Because no one else does. "Businesses by law have to serve their shareholders," he explained. "They're not going to invest in R&D. ... It takes government policy."

Scary when a webpage builder thinks he understands energy development. And as far as the private sector not funding R&D! ROTFLMAO! I am in R&D. R&D is the life blood of companies to stay ahead and remain competitive. Maybe he's thinking of GM, Ford, and Chrysler who have the union boat anchor around their necks.

At any rate, he's a fool attempting to lead a revolution of idiots!

31 posted on 11/19/2008 8:17:33 AM PST by avacado
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Screw Schmidt and Google = Obama’s NSA.

He supported Obama which = socialism as most of the SillyCon Valley Libs support. They like capitalism when they get rich with their stock options but crumbs for the peons.

I hate Google. They will be Obama’s big brother.


32 posted on 11/19/2008 9:18:52 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Decarbonization? You know how many computers Google uses and how much electricity? More landfills and power plants then you can imagine. I know one hosting facility used by Google and they had thousands of machines.

High tech also is not as green as you think.

Also a lot of Google’s paid searches and search engine fees were considered a scam by some in the know. You paid Google but you never got the hits you paid for. more frauds and scams like their hero O.


33 posted on 11/19/2008 9:22:39 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Next opportunity ask them to pop the hoods on their SUV’s back in their driveways so you can see the little windmills in there.


34 posted on 11/19/2008 10:38:15 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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