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From: Eric Gisse on 12 Sep 2006 19:21 tadchem wrote: > Edward Green wrote: > > ...according to Forbes Magazine, is Angela Merkel, chancellor of > > Germany. Chancellor Merkel holds a doctorate in physics from the > > University of Leipzig. > > > > Imagine! A world leader who may understand the second law of > > thermodynamics. > > Technical competence does not necessarily translate to leadership > competence. Personally I'd rather have a technically educated person in a position of leadership rather than a lawyer or an MBA. > > James Earl Carter was a BS nuclear engineer from the US Naval Academy. > > Tom Davidson > Richmond, VA
From: Edward Green on 12 Sep 2006 19:23 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <1157899801.456347.106430(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, > "Edward Green" <spamspamspam3(a)netzero.com> wrote: > >....according to Forbes Magazine, is Angela Merkel, chancellor of > >Germany. Chancellor Merkel holds a doctorate in physics from the > >University of Leipzig. > > > >Imagine! A world leader who may understand the second law of > >thermodynamics. > > Did it say what her expertise was? Perhaps a better question is > whether she's theorist or experimentalist. It seems to be most accurate to say she was a theoretical physical chemist who worked in quantum chemistry, but not prolifically (five published articles listed in Wikipedia). Her doctorate is consistently described as "in physics" though. Remarkably, there is not a single article mentioning her name in any of the sci.chem* groups. You'd think _somebody_ would have been interested enough to say "Hey! A quantum chemist is chancellor of Germany". She grew up in then East Germany, and maybe it's a fair guess to say she was competent at what she did, but her heart wasn't in it: a route to a little better life in a poor society. She speaks English and Russian fluently, and is married to a professor of chemistry: a formidable woman.
From: hanson on 12 Sep 2006 20:23 "Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1158103280.048027.246320(a)i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > [Edward Green wrote] >> > ...according to Forbes Magazine, is Angela Merkel, chancellor of >> > Germany. Chancellor Merkel holds a doctorate in physics from the >> > University of Leipzig. >> > Imagine! A world leader who may understand the second law of >> > thermodynamics. >> [hanson] ..... ahahaha.. Hey, Ed.. are you sarcastic here or don't you know that "the mother's milk for politics is money" and not edu... Politics is concerned with keeping the peasantry in a state of calm... by any and all means.. and I really doubt that in any of the worlds' august chambers of political debate the word "thermodynamics" was ever heard. Thermonuclear OTOH.. or for their purposes "Termo-nukilar" that is another ballgame... If you wanna see personally and close up what personalities do make (up) politics then go visit one of the reg. meetings of any of your local political parties. ---- You will wake up next morning with your hair having turned white over night... ahaha... .... NOT from any wisdom you have heard or seen there.... ahahaha... Fanatics, Obsessed ones, Possessed ones, Megalomaniacs, the entire panoply of mental diseases is present at such meetings .... and it's a highly contagious, infectious atmosphere there... > [Tom Davidson] >> Technical competence does not necessarily translate to leadership >> competence. > [Gisse] > Personally I'd rather have a technically educated person in a position > of leadership rather than a lawyer or an MBA. > [hanson] ahahaha... Eric, once you are out of the grip of and off the dependency on your teachers and you enter the real the world wherein you try to scrape together enough money to make a decent living, you'll be realizing that your current notion was due to "jowr", = juvenile or weak reasoning"... ahaha.. Hey, no hard feelings, Eric.. we all went thru the years of those tender youth fantasies. Carry on!.... > [Tom Davidson to Eric] >> James Earl Carter was a BS nuclear engineer from the US Naval Academy. > [hanson] Tom, Eric is too young to remember Carters achievements of 14-21% inflation.... ahahahaha.... Well, how about you guys' preferences about an actor and radio announcer... like Ronald Regan.... ahahahaha.... AFAIAC, like Tom says, the professional back ground of a politician has little or any bearing on his/her acumen in politics. I just can't figure out why anybody in his right mind wants to be(come) a political leader given the unruliness of the general peasantry... just look at the micro-cosm here at hand, these NGs. ahahaha.... ahahaha... ahahahanson PS: Politicians are merely the ACTORS of the show. The power is with the quiet $$$ puppeteers behind the scenes.
From: Timo Nieminen on 12 Sep 2006 22:21 On Wed, 12 Sep 2006, Eric Gisse wrote: > tadchem wrote: > > Edward Green wrote: > > > ...according to Forbes Magazine, is Angela Merkel, chancellor of > > > Germany. Chancellor Merkel holds a doctorate in physics from the > > > University of Leipzig. > > > > > > Imagine! A world leader who may understand the second law of > > > thermodynamics. > > > > Technical competence does not necessarily translate to leadership > > competence. > > Personally I'd rather have a technically educated person in a position > of leadership rather than a lawyer or an MBA. Shades of Plato and his preference for philospher-kings! -- Timo Nieminen - Home page: http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/nieminen/ E-prints: http://eprint.uq.edu.au/view/person/Nieminen,_Timo_A..html Shrine to Spirits: http://www.users.bigpond.com/timo_nieminen/spirits.html
From: Eric Gisse on 12 Sep 2006 22:24
Timo Nieminen wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2006, Eric Gisse wrote: > > > tadchem wrote: > > > Edward Green wrote: > > > > ...according to Forbes Magazine, is Angela Merkel, chancellor of > > > > Germany. Chancellor Merkel holds a doctorate in physics from the > > > > University of Leipzig. > > > > > > > > Imagine! A world leader who may understand the second law of > > > > thermodynamics. > > > > > > Technical competence does not necessarily translate to leadership > > > competence. > > > > Personally I'd rather have a technically educated person in a position > > of leadership rather than a lawyer or an MBA. > > Shades of Plato and his preference for philospher-kings! It is easier to make a philosopher a king than a king a philosopher. > > -- > Timo Nieminen - Home page: http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/nieminen/ > E-prints: http://eprint.uq.edu.au/view/person/Nieminen,_Timo_A..html > Shrine to Spirits: http://www.users.bigpond.com/timo_nieminen/spirits.html |