Re: Reckless, Aggressive Drivers: Homegrown Terrorists

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:07:09 -0800, in misc.trans****t.urban-transit 
"Jack May" <jack.may@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:20:38 -0800, in misc.trans****t.urban-transit
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>> Of course private companies spend almost nothing on science.
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>Most of their money is probably spent on technology to solve problems to
get 
>solutions to markets.  Science research seldom gets results to users. 
>Companies  do often develop technology that is way ahead of University 
>research.

Technology never gets ahead of science.

>I don't think you understand how the future is invented.  Extremely good 
>research work is often done in companies. 

Technology is applying science. The research is first done by
scientists. Once we had Watson Labs and Bell Labs doing real science in
the private sector, but almost all technology now relies on publicly
funded researth, generally in universities, for breakthroughs.