> Mike:
I assume you are somehow suggesting that I have in someway been rubbishing
the US. I was not aware that I had done so. I in fact love many aspects of
the States and travel there regularly. I spent time in Caltech, Berkeley
and Harvard in January. No doubt a large part of the future is being
created in North America (though don't forget Europe, and smaller pockets
elsewhere). However if I want to criticise I certainly will.
>
>It is more fascinating listening to people in a country whose relative
>standard of living continues to drop rubbishing a country that is inventing
>the future. It is particularly true in our area of Psychology, don't you
>think?
Yes. Academic psychology has fallen on hard times here in Australia. But its because money has been taken away from education by the government. Our "socialist" government no longer wants to spend the same amounts of money on education (and research in general is an even lower priority).
Personally I find it very difficult to argue with the basic fact that the Australian public does not value basic research (at least non-medical) so why should it be forced to fund it? I am all for reduced taxes and therefore reduced spending. Unfortunately only the latter seems to apply.
>Pat, do you know what Nazi is an acronym of?
> National SOCIALIST Party.
>That is the name which Hitler chose: he may be a qualified judge, no?
ciao, patrick
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