Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Sunday, August 15, 2010
RE PREVIOUS PATENTS ARTICLE POST R & D AT HP AND MR HURD the back story article
This is more like it.
'Dumbly cutting costs'.
That makes some sense.
Yet, with the system we have got, and the way intellectual property is appropriated, used to say 'liberated', who can blame someone for thinking R & D spending doesn't help ' longterm competitiveness ' (oxymoron) that much, anymore?
'Dumbly cutting costs'.
That makes some sense.
Yet, with the system we have got, and the way intellectual property is appropriated, used to say 'liberated', who can blame someone for thinking R & D spending doesn't help ' longterm competitiveness ' (oxymoron) that much, anymore?
Sunday, December 11, 2016
YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT EXXONMOBIL USUALLY DOES BEST WITH ITS CORPORATE PROFITS?
Of course, everyone knows: it pays dividends.
What else does it do:
Does it invest it in R & D?
Does it give it away to poor homeless people?
Does it donate it to environmental causes, global warming, hunger, animal rights, whatever?
Does it promote programs for hiring American workers?
Does it invest in alternative energy, solar, carbon credits?
No.
It buys back and retires its outstanding stock. Rex has been great at this for a long time.
I ought to know, I owned a bunch of it. Sold before the downturn.
What else does it do:
Does it invest it in R & D?
Does it give it away to poor homeless people?
Does it donate it to environmental causes, global warming, hunger, animal rights, whatever?
Does it promote programs for hiring American workers?
Does it invest in alternative energy, solar, carbon credits?
No.
It buys back and retires its outstanding stock. Rex has been great at this for a long time.
I ought to know, I owned a bunch of it. Sold before the downturn.
Friday, March 18, 2016
RE APPLE US FIGHT ETC ENCRYPTION ISSUE MARIANA MAZZUCATO BOOK IRONIES EVERYWHERE
See her current book, discussing the extent to which so called entrepreneurs like Apple have sucked critical R & D, which everybody here had paid for in taxes, out of gullible and weak western democracies like us for many decades.
This technology, and much else, privatized for Apple profits for example, at great taxpayer expense here, mostly ended up, knocked off, and often even gladly licensed for limited private profits, in Asia, which, after 1945, put institutions in place to capitalize on it, against its creators themselves over here.
In spite of her best intentions, and really great text so far,
smell the coffee, game over for Western Civilization, pal!
She has great, not especially surprising, or technically new, ideas, that would have been useful to Western States in, say, 1900, some of which states' leaders also actually had known them in the 18th Century and before.
Back then, they had been called mercantilism, but it had needed to be updated, not replaced with Smithism..
This technology, and much else, privatized for Apple profits for example, at great taxpayer expense here, mostly ended up, knocked off, and often even gladly licensed for limited private profits, in Asia, which, after 1945, put institutions in place to capitalize on it, against its creators themselves over here.
In spite of her best intentions, and really great text so far,
smell the coffee, game over for Western Civilization, pal!
She has great, not especially surprising, or technically new, ideas, that would have been useful to Western States in, say, 1900, some of which states' leaders also actually had known them in the 18th Century and before.
Back then, they had been called mercantilism, but it had needed to be updated, not replaced with Smithism..
Sunday, January 8, 2012
RE PRIVATE SECTOR GETS JOBS PUBLIC GETS BILL CATERPILLAR
This is an old old story, seldom referred to by free private enterprise pundits,
but the history of innovation in technology, especially computers and the internet, to name only the most visible,
is strewn with money for defense and security ending up aiding the biggest private companies develop new industries and products for private sector profits, largely at the expense, in terms of R & D and in other ways, notably risk shifting, of the taxpayer.
Now, a lot of that know how, also called intellectual property, has been foolishly off shored, by hook or crook, through theft, license, or cutting deals for access to cheap production facilities.
but the history of innovation in technology, especially computers and the internet, to name only the most visible,
is strewn with money for defense and security ending up aiding the biggest private companies develop new industries and products for private sector profits, largely at the expense, in terms of R & D and in other ways, notably risk shifting, of the taxpayer.
Now, a lot of that know how, also called intellectual property, has been foolishly off shored, by hook or crook, through theft, license, or cutting deals for access to cheap production facilities.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
RE SAMSUNG APPLE AND EVERYTHING ELSE GOBBLELIZED GOBBLELIZATION
Almost nothing is going to be worth much of anything, going forward.
That is globalization of intellectual rights, going forward.
Forget about R & D, long term investment in tech, things like that.
Waste of time, going forward.
These things are all being gobbled by hungry regimes and their champions.
Really.
Terms search: history human conflict, shakedown, shake down
That is globalization of intellectual rights, going forward.
Forget about R & D, long term investment in tech, things like that.
Waste of time, going forward.
These things are all being gobbled by hungry regimes and their champions.
Really.
Terms search: history human conflict, shakedown, shake down
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
BBC RE INDUSTRIAL INTELLECTUAL PIRACY THE RULE RATHER THAN THE EXCEPTION IN THE US' GLOBALIST ECONOMY
What's an entrepreneur to do? This is one of the problems with R & D, as it used to be called, and why or why not to bother to invest in it.
If all products will be quickly copied, one can ask:
why innovate, only to have innovations pirated in third world countries or second world countries?
Why?
Apple sues Samsung for 'copying' iPhones and iPad
Saturday, August 21, 2010
RE PROFESSOR BOBBITT SHIELD OF ACHILLES POSSIBLE WORLDS
I want to say a few words, at some point, here and there about what Professor Bobbitt prognosticated, 8 or 9 years ago now, concerning possible worlds scenarios.
Private sector companies allegedly do good uncertainty work, better than government. That is a given I think, for Western democracies, but I would point out, most Western firms, not really true (their perennially short time horizons).
Witness also the recent disclosure, as just another example, that HP has cut most of its remaining R & D.
See some reasons why, at eg Bobbitt Shield, p. 725, 'Technology'; esp. paragraph beginning "The capability..."; and the article NYT Aug 22, 2010, today re South China athletic shoe knock off factories.
I am far from sure that places like Japan have not been doing something even more sophisticated re scenario planning for a long time now; perhaps I give them too much credit. No one can predict what actually will occur.
The BP situation may or may not be a good example of what Professor Bobbitt was referring to; certainly they found lax federal regulation, going in, and no doubt factored that into their cost equations, going forward, regarding whether certain failsafe measures were necessary.
I want to refer, in a more general sense, to some of the points made, regarding certain aspects of the analysis, re the Meadow, the Park, and the Garden, the drivers, etc., etc.
Private sector companies allegedly do good uncertainty work, better than government. That is a given I think, for Western democracies, but I would point out, most Western firms, not really true (their perennially short time horizons).
Witness also the recent disclosure, as just another example, that HP has cut most of its remaining R & D.
See some reasons why, at eg Bobbitt Shield, p. 725, 'Technology'; esp. paragraph beginning "The capability..."; and the article NYT Aug 22, 2010, today re South China athletic shoe knock off factories.
I am far from sure that places like Japan have not been doing something even more sophisticated re scenario planning for a long time now; perhaps I give them too much credit. No one can predict what actually will occur.
The BP situation may or may not be a good example of what Professor Bobbitt was referring to; certainly they found lax federal regulation, going in, and no doubt factored that into their cost equations, going forward, regarding whether certain failsafe measures were necessary.
I want to refer, in a more general sense, to some of the points made, regarding certain aspects of the analysis, re the Meadow, the Park, and the Garden, the drivers, etc., etc.
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