DJ Cravens <[email protected]> wrote:
> *I am in favor any step (sic) *to promote that, including funding people > who hate money. It is a means to an end. > > *Perhaps you should work on your style because I misunderstand you.* > Then you are obtuse, which is unbecoming of a professor. This is very simple: You must have money to perfect your gadget. No one can do R&D without money. Therefore, whether you want it or not, you should get some money. Whether you keep any for yourself is no concern of mine. I could not care less about your personal financial state. Money is, I repeat, a means to end. Money is a tool, like a thermocouple, an SEM or electricity. It is something anyone must have to conduct research properly, in a safe, orderly rapid manner. Get it? How hard is that to understand? Whether you personally make out like a bandit or live like a penitent monk does not make the slightest difference to me. Enriching you has not been my goal ever, not for a nanosecond. > * You tend to use the money argument over and over. If you care as you > say, then talk to your so called friends.* > And tell them what?!? That I have no information? That you have not published so much as a calibration curve? If I personally had a billion dollars burning a hole in my pocket I would not give you a dime -- not one thin dime! -- until you publish a properly written scientific paper. You get no free pass from me. Do your job and I will do what I can to help. Kvetch, moan, and show up at a conference without rehearsing and without a proper presentation and you get nothing. - Jed
