Google offers prizes but YOU prefer to make government money recipients need YOU as an intermediary. Sticky fingers?

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Google offers prizes but YOU prefer to make government money recipients need YOU as an intermediary. Sticky fingers?

~tax leech — 7/17/2004 10:05:29 PM (archived)

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>>>The NSF gave my employer money for us to divide up among outside research projects... we got none of the money for our own use, we made a public announcement that we were looking to fund research to advance a certain technology, we got a dozen proposals and we VERY impartially evaluated the proposals and chose 2-3 that we felt would do the most to advance the technology, neither the reviewers (myself included) or our organizations actually recieved any money- The NSF (wisely) felt that decisions about that proposals should get funded were best made by the experts in the field... HOW the hell would 'prizes' be at all applicable in this situation... I know that you resent that you arent an expert in anything, but some of us are- and it often makes sense to have the experts decide what research deserves funding- The fact that you dont see this just shows how little you understand your subject...<<<

So you prefer to make government money recipients need YOU as an intermediary. How surprising. [NOT]. The NSF pursues goals, and asked YOU to help dictate how best to achieve them by "impartially" selecting research projects. You know quite well that the NSF could have simply said:

HEY, we want to find a more effective way to achieve a goal. We'll let each competing team determine what research needs to be done to reach that goal. Whoever achieves the goal first will get a prize. The runner-up will get a smaller one.

Google uses that approach:

http://www.google.com/codejam/

I bet you despise the guys at Google, what with all their success, money, and total independence from the realm of tax-leeching. They remind you of the failure that mommy and daddy were always embarrassed to admit that you might become. You're in denial, just like Nixon was when he said he'd not change a thing if he had it all to do over again. You DO serve one less-than-utterly-useless purpose though. Debating skills get rusty if not used in unconventional scenarios once in a while. Who was it that claimed a rational being like me can't argue with a sick mind?

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ESA getting priorities straight - E.P. Grondine - 7/14/2004 2:44:19 AM
- ****To RL and taxleech**** - Robert Shepherd - 7/19/2004 4:53:33 PM
  - Leech keeps spamming us by hijacking legit threads - RL (reposted by Robert) - 7/19/2004 8:25:48 PM
    - some times you have to sigh and let the bad guy have the last word - alcaray - 7/19/2004 11:16:56 PM
  - If someone slanders me and accuses me of illegal actions I will respond (n/t) - R.L. - 7/19/2004 7:42:25 PM
- "As a result, the panel decided that ESA should leave detection to ground-based telescopes for the time being" - Mark Eby - 7/18/2004 12:47:51 PM
  - Aurora may be postponed - E.P. Grondine - 7/24/2004 9:48:33 AM
- Should ESA impress us when it doesn't offer competitive prizes of its own, like DARPA & NASA? - ~tax leech - 7/14/2004 6:37:03 PM
  - Somehow I doubt ESA, or any one else, gives a damn about impressing you - R.L. - 7/17/2004 10:01:48 PM
    - Ghandi: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." - ~tax leech - 7/17/2004 10:31:19 PM
      - FIRST, I am paid by a PRIVATE corporation, You insist on blatantly lying about this and slandering me... - R.L. - 7/17/2004 10:52:27 PM
  - Back here in the real world, leech... - E.P. Grondine - 7/17/2004 3:03:35 PM
    - Are you unaware of the new asteroid watch prizes? Why not planetary search ones? - ~tax leech - 7/17/2004 6:43:01 PM
      - Are you aware of the Free Rider problem? - E.P. Grondine - 7/24/2004 9:56:56 AM
  - re: Should ESA impress us when it doesn't offer competitive prizes of its own, like DARPA & NASA? - Doug Ellison - 7/14/2004 10:36:36 PM
    - ESA's taxpaying constituents know it's the Bastille storming's anniversary - ~tax leech - 7/15/2004 12:00:35 AM
      - And was that event not inspired by the revolution in North America? - ~tax leech - 7/15/2004 1:04:13 AM
        
        re: And was that event not inspired by the revolution in North America? - Doug Ellison - 7/15/2004 7:35:21 AM
        
        This twit was almost banned - R.L. - 7/15/2004 3:46:54 PM
        
        Can't we all just get along - ~tax leech hugger - 7/18/2004 9:38:40 PM
        
        LOL...The funny thing is... - R.L. - 7/18/2004 10:10:03 PM
        
        RL, what does your lap-dog get in return for that posting above? - ~tax leech - 7/15/2004 7:54:41 PM
        
        Hmmm I think he would flame me.. - R.L. - 7/17/2004 7:50:28 AM
        
        R.L., did you denigrate lawyers when you were in trouble with the law recently? - ~tax leech - 7/17/2004 6:39:47 PM
        
        As if we needed more proof of how juvenile Rich the blood sucker is... - R.L. - 7/17/2004 9:44:43 PM
        
        Ok, you slandering piece of crap - R.L. (with a vengance) - 7/17/2004 8:51:27 PM
        
        Google offers prizes but YOU prefer to make government money recipients need YOU as an intermediary. Sticky fingers? - ~tax leech - 7/17/2004 10:05:29 PM
        
        Rich you are getting into legally dangerous territory, Slander ... - R.L. - 7/17/2004 10:33:40 PM
        
        LOL I didn't need a lawyer, you worthless twit, I just handed in proof of insurance to the court- no big deal, I certainly didnt need a leech like you... - R.L. (amused) - 7/17/2004 7:43:14 PM
        
        Now how about the REST of the story R.L.? Ashamed? - ~tax leech - 7/17/2004 10:27:06 PM
        
        I posted the entire thing on community- I find it bizzarre that you think you are making points with it - R.L. - 7/17/2004 10:37:51 PM
        
        50 times more than the DARPA prize was invested in chasing it. Just because nobody would fund YOUR prize pursuits... - ~tax leech - 7/18/2004 12:22:28 AM
        
        ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID? - R.L. - 7/18/2004 1:54:15 AM
        
        That's apparently your most rational posting to date. Here's my rational response. - ~tax leech - 7/18/2004 3:40:29 PM
        
        That was not a rational response - R.L. - 7/18/2004 9:06:05 PM
        
        So if YOU couldn't convince 'em to invest, then NOBODY could, huh? - ~tax leech - 7/18/2004 10:46:25 PM
        
        Actually, I did - R.L. - 7/19/2004 2:15:41 AM
        
        So it's not a "sound business judgment" for a corp. to pursue a prize? - ~tax leech - 7/19/2004 3:02:31 AM
        
        Demonstrate you have any experience - R.L. - 7/19/2004 6:27:06 AM
        
        re: So it's not a "sound business judgment" for a corp. to pursue a prize? - ~tax leech hugger - 7/19/2004 4:03:01 AM
- Yeap Their Aaurora Program Is A Good Idea.;-) (n/t) - Mark Eby - 7/14/2004 3:17:29 AM

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