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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:45 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Private companies do a lot more than NIH. I only have to point to the
human genome project where a private company cracked the code in
months and NIH dunced around for years on it.
No they don't. The NIH is not tasked with things in so narrow of a focus.
Go
to their website and read their mission statement.
I worked at NIH for several years (IBM). I know the culture


But, the NIH doesn't have as it's mission to make a profit.

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and
supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important
medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH
scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes,
treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases. Composed of 27
Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to
researchers in every state and throughout the world."

There are several here, perhaps you included, who would rather have it be
either a profit center or be for profit. I think I'll stick with them the
way they are, all faults included.

Greed motivates. Accepting handouts (financial support), in no way
motivates people to complete projects or accomplish anything. You seem
to be stuck on stupid.

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:45 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Private companies do a lot more than NIH. I only have to point to the
human genome project where a private company cracked the code in
months and NIH dunced around for years on it.
No they don't. The NIH is not tasked with things in so narrow of a
focus. Go
to their website and read their mission statement.
I worked at NIH for several years (IBM). I know the culture


But, the NIH doesn't have as it's mission to make a profit.

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for
conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way
toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and
save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as
the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.
Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and
financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the
world."

There are several here, perhaps you included, who would rather have it be
either a profit center or be for profit. I think I'll stick with them the
way they are, all faults included.

Greed motivates. Accepting handouts (financial support), in no way
motivates people to complete projects or accomplish anything. You seem to
be stuck on stupid.


Greed is not good when it comes to public health!

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:45 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Private companies do a lot more than NIH. I only have to point to the
human genome project where a private company cracked the code in
months and NIH dunced around for years on it.
No they don't. The NIH is not tasked with things in so narrow of a
focus. Go
to their website and read their mission statement.
I worked at NIH for several years (IBM). I know the culture

But, the NIH doesn't have as it's mission to make a profit.

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for
conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way
toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and
save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as
the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.
Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and
financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the
world."

There are several here, perhaps you included, who would rather have it be
either a profit center or be for profit. I think I'll stick with them the
way they are, all faults included.

Greed motivates. Accepting handouts (financial support), in no way
motivates people to complete projects or accomplish anything. You seem to
be stuck on stupid.


Greed is not good when it comes to public health!

Oh really? What motivation does a union public healthcare worker have to
deliver quality healthcare?

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:36:30 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:45 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Private companies do a lot more than NIH. I only have to point to the
human genome project where a private company cracked the code in
months and NIH dunced around for years on it.

No they don't. The NIH is not tasked with things in so narrow of a
focus.
Go
to their website and read their mission statement.

I worked at NIH for several years (IBM). I know the culture


But, the NIH doesn't have as it's mission to make a profit.

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting
and
supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important
medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH
scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes,
treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases. Composed of 27
Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support
to
researchers in every state and throughout the world."

There are several here, perhaps you included, who would rather have it be
either a profit center or be for profit. I think I'll stick with them the
way they are, all faults included.


OK so you got the Wikipedia spin. The real answer is the NIH is a
conduit for federal grants. Most of what they do is to distribute
money around to anyone who can write a decent grant request.
Unfortunately that is not the most efficient way to actually do
research. People who write grant requests keep score based on how big
a grant they can get.
BTW that is what my son in law did for many years (writing grant
requests). Now he is in law school.
The phrase "sister in a whore house" does pop up now and then ;-)


Actually, that's from their own website. If you have a problemw with their
mission statement, you should complain to them.

I always hated writing grant requests. I did that pro bono for a non-profit
but never like it. Law school is tough but doable, esp. if you read fast.

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:45 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Much like a Visa card, we don't even know what our interest rate will
be, a year down the road.

You do now. That regulation just went into effect.


They were saying on CNBC yesterday that the banks have already found
several loopholes in that law. Who knows what the "next" law will say.

Right you are... they have tons of lawyers for just that purpose.


This crisis is far from being over. It is simply hidden in the debt we
keep ignoring. 10 years from now the republic could be in worse shape
than the Soviets.

Come on... another doomsday scenario. Complete bs. We're certainly aware
of
the problem and it's starting to be addressed.

I haven't seen that plan yet. I just see escalating deficits as far as
the eye can see..

Well, TARP is being paid back, healthcare cost reform is being discussed,
job losses are slowing... it takes time.

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:01:12 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:05:30 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:00:53 -0700, Canuck57
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who are you talking about? brave and heroic US and Canadian troops who
are dying to protect freedom?

In no way disrespectful of the fighting men, do you think we are more
"free" than we were in 1991 when we started our middle eastern
crusade? It is clear the terrorists have won.

really? gee. the last time a terrorist attack happened in the US by
islamists was 2001.



the NIH researchers who've discovered cures for diseases, new drugs,
etc?

Private companies do a lot more than NIH. I only have to point to the
human genome project where a private company cracked the code in
months and NIH dunced around for years on it.

really? got proof of that? and private companies often feed off
university labs...funded by NIH.




and how do you measure inefficiency when capitalism itself just
dropped the US economy by hundreds of billions in the last year? was
that efficient?

Yes, the economy was an illusion and we were going to lose a couple
trillion no matter what because it simply did not exist. It was phony
profit that we traded like real money

?? and yet you say this has no connection with capitalism

go figure

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:04:48 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:43:50 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

who are you talking about? brave and heroic US and Canadian troops who
are dying to protect freedom?

In no way disrespectful of the fighting men, do you think we are more
"free" than we were in 1991 when we started our middle eastern
crusade? It is clear the terrorists have won.

really? gee. the last time a terrorist attack happened in the US by
islamists was 2001.

Detroit?

But that is not the point. I addressed "freedom". Do you really think
there have been no intrusions on your freedom, in the name of
security, since 1991?
The terrorists don't even have to be successful to cause us billions
of dollars in damage and huge intrusions into our lives.

bush certainly tried to destroy freedom...another point the right
refuses to blame on him

and there have been times in US history when we've lost ALOT more than
we've lost today

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I agree these impositions are minimal if you want to look at what FDR
did. He held a whole race of people in prison without charges for 4
years, even American citizens. That makes Guantanamo look like cub
scout camp.

true. although bush DID try...

You really have to get over this obsession with Bush.

say what?

we got whole groups of folks here who think bush had no control over
the economy for 8 years...was all clinton's fault...but then obama
came in and, on jan 20 of last year, immediately spent a trillion
dollars on his first day in office


The Patriot act
was first floated out there by the Clinton administration and the
latest round of airport foolishness is from Obama.

and yet it was bush who tried to suspend habeas corpus; who arrested

As far as I am concerned, the biggest thing Bush did was get the left,
who usually think government can do no wrong, looking at this
surveillance more critically. When it was the Janet Reno DoJ pushing
the original Patriot act, those who dissented were called wingnuts and
kooks. Now the left thinks you can have too much surveillance ...
unless you think it is OK now.

the left has always been paranoid about police powers.


When true fascism comes it will be disguised in a program to make us
"safer".

or, as barry goldwarter said, it will come wrapped in the american
flag and carrying a cross

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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:48:37 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:17:11 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:58:27 -0500, wrote:


You really have to get over this obsession with Bush.

say what?

we got whole groups of folks here who think bush had no control over
the economy for 8 years...was all clinton's fault...but then obama
came in and, on jan 20 of last year, immediately spent a trillion
dollars on his first day in office

Some of us were unhappy with Bust too but we have sense enough not to
blame him for all of it.

and some of them blame obama for all of it.

bush is responsible for about 70% of the deficit.

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:43:50 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

who are you talking about? brave and heroic US and Canadian troops who
are dying to protect freedom?

In no way disrespectful of the fighting men, do you think we are more
"free" than we were in 1991 when we started our middle eastern
crusade? It is clear the terrorists have won.

really? gee. the last time a terrorist attack happened in the US by
islamists was 2001.

Detroit?

But that is not the point. I addressed "freedom". Do you really think
there have been no intrusions on your freedom, in the name of
security, since 1991?
The terrorists don't even have to be successful to cause us billions
of dollars in damage and huge intrusions into our lives.



Wow... I actually agree with you! I think we need to stop being
terrified, and get on with life.

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