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From: Peter Christensen on 13 Sep 2006 05:17 Edward Green skrev: > ...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. What about EFE (Einsteins Field Equations) and E=m*c^2 (or to be more correct E^2 = p^2*c^2 + m^2*c^4)? :-) pet c
From: Peter Christensen on 13 Sep 2006 05:22 MathFreak NoMore skrev: > On 10 Sep 2006 09:06:56 -0700, tadchem wrote: > > > Technical competence does not necessarily translate to leadership > > competence. > > This "leadership" goal is for a politician in USA. > Someone whose only use is in getting some asked-for > thing done, be it jingobatic or not, tribal or not. A > politician in other countries is more than a leader. In > what you do "more" than leadership you can find good > use for a physics background. Do you think, that Germany is going for 'the bomb'? (Far behing US, UK and France) Hope not, :-) PC
From: tadchem on 13 Sep 2006 05:45 hanson wrote: <snip> > 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. Hihihihihi hahahahahanson, The greatest weakness of democracy is that the people who end up getting the leadership jobs are the people who *want* those jobs, and megalomaniacs who are crazy enough to want such a job are precisely the people who *shouldn't* have them. If you become President of the US, half of your own citizens and *more* than half of the rest of the world will dispise you, many will want to see you dead. and some *will* try to kill you. People will spew hate about you just to get their names into the news. As proof of the insanity (or perhaps the degree of total corruption) in those jobs, consider that the combined Presidential Candidates' campaigns spend over $100M to get somebody into a job that pays only $200K a year for four years. Tom Davidson Richmond, VA
From: jmfbahciv on 13 Sep 2006 05:28 In article <ebHNg.44$b5.46(a)news.uchicago.edu>, mmeron(a)cars3.uchicago.edu wrote: >In article <1158101637.503114.93370(a)i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, "Edward Green" <spamspamspam3(a)netzero.com> writes: >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> In article <1157904416.697779.207410(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, >>> "tadchem" <tadchem(a)comcast.net> 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. >>> > >>> >James Earl Carter was a BS nuclear engineer from the US Naval Academy. >>> >>> I always thought that a cause of his adminstrative problems was >>> due to his science training: he required all the details which >>> can bog you down w.r.t. decisions if you're the head of anything. >> >>I don't know if that has any correlation with scientific training: >>that's "micromanaging", and it's quite possible to do this without any >>scientific training at all. >> >>I also wouldn't put a naval "nuclear engineer" on the same page as a >>doctorate in physics: his was a very goal directed and pragmatic kind >>of technical education. >> >And, the belief that scientific training translates to "requiring all >the details" is quite false. Point. > On the contrary, it is a matter of >recognizing which details matter and which can be ignored. Sure. [here comes the but ;-)] Don't you have to look at all the details before you can ignore them? This takes time. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 13 Sep 2006 05:30
In article <1158103280.048027.246320(a)i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, "Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi(a)gmail.com> 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. I used to think so, too. I don't know anymore. /BAH |