Thank God! Finally someone else on this list got it. That is exactly
what I have been saying about their Arts and Education programs. The
immigrants I have encountered here are superb and they are mid-line
immigrants from the Soviet System. American audiences are dumber as a
rule and the artists are less well trained and we don't have as much work
experience since we only work when the money is available which is a couple
of times a year.
My students are well trained because I give them scholarships that equals
the vocal training they got in Russia. I also had an opera company that
gave them experience. But I don't get paid for those lessons and the
company collapsed because of the idiocy that has been propogated on this
list that ignores "free riders" and demands that artists work for nothing.
They say such idiotic things as "when the audience wants it you will get
it!" But the audience wants what it understands and values and that
requires education which they cut back the funding on and so only the very
elite want what they have been trained to understand. My math was awful
but this is basic arithmatic. You cut off intellectual discovery as
property and you have destroyed the base of capitalism in that profession.
Harry? Who'se going to pay for the innovation if there are no patents?
You praise the individual and then castrate him. Anyway Brad got it.
That's one!
Finally, finally, finally, finally.
Ray Evans Harrell
Maybe we can now get on to a third way and away from this left/right idiocy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 8:53 AM
Subject: A rocket science question
> From today's NYT:
>
> > The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle... let
> > American companies pick whatever technology
> > they wanted.... [A] spokeswoman for Lockheed
> > Martin Space Systems... said the company's
> > teams seized on a Russian engine design after
> > being dazzled by Russian secrets accessible after
> > the end of the cold war. "We were astounded,"
> > she said. "The Russians were able to develop
> > systems and metals and capabilities that allowed
> > them to fire engines at higher pressures,
> > temperatures and efficiencies.".... "We're getting
> > the crown jewels,"... an expert on the Russian
> > space program at the Federation of American
> > Scientists... [said:] "It makes up for 30 years of
> > not doing the appropriate amount of engine
> > research ourselves." The trick is that the Russians
> > learned during the cold war how to excel without
> > pushing technological limits -- the opposite of
> > the West's approach. For instance, Moscow often
> > relied on kerosene, an inexpensive fuel that can
> > work at room temperature. In contrast,
> > Washington pushed to perfect the use of liquid
> > hydrogen. This costly, high-energy propellant
> > must be refrigerated down to hundreds of degrees
> > below zero, a temperature that can freeze, shatter
> > or otherwise play havoc with fast-moving parts.
>
> William J. Broad, "A Missile That Would Make Lenin Faint",
> NYT Week in Review, 22Sep02, p.WK5
>
> My question: How could the Soviets do this without free markets?
> Conversely, how could The United States of America, with
> free enterprise, have failed to come up with the best ideas and
> the best implementations?
>
> Marx is all wrong. Only free enterprise can do anything
> right. Then why were the slaves of Soviet Imperialiusm
> able to do things that today our scientists are
> in awe of? If The Invisible Hand is not only onmikpotent
> but all-belevolent, how could it have pointed us
> off into blind alleys in the land of cost-effective
> "O rings"?
>
> Of course the Soviets did not get everything right.
> But they didn't get everything wrong either.
>
> Maybe we can learn some things from Soviet social
> life as well as from Soviet Rocket Science? ("Unthinkable!")
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
> <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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