Britain's got big ideas, but does nothing about them

[DarthVeda]

You should look up which country holds the most amount of patents. That would be more interesting.

[MikeH]

Why is that more interesting than looking at commercially viable patents? I guess whatever country it is would just be good at patenting pointless crap.

[Tolls]

"Isembard Kingdom Brunel. What a name! What a man!"

...what a hat!

[Saras]

Was he per any chance queer?

[Paul Hanson]

Nah. Would have been funny if he was though.

[Tolls]

Well...he was a little odd I suppose...he had the largest collection of chains in the country.

[Eli]

What's Trivial Pursuits?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It's worth remembering that Brunel bankrupted most of his financiers. Yes- he was a genius, but would you have invested money in his projects?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Eli
What's Trivial Pursuits?

http://www.trivialpursuit.com/trivialpursuit/about.vm

[Sandman]

Let's start with a tunnel from Northern Ireland to South West Scotland. Oerdin suggested this a while ago, and while I was initially sceptical, it soon became clear to me that it's feasible. Hell, the Victorians were thinking about doing it.

[Whaleboy]

It's worth remembering that Brunel bankrupted most of his financiers. Yes- he was a genius, but would you have invested money in his projects?

But it was many of his projects that helped Britain economically since then. In the long term, such things are good!

[Dinner]

Re: Britain's got big ideas, but does nothing about them

Originally posted by Big Crunch
Its just a shame we don't support these inventions and inventors more.

Britain & Europe have a high tax anti-entrapranure tax structure. Add on the governments desire to regulate everything they can think of and you see why people who have big ideas move else where to make them a reality.

Britain and Holland are the least taxed and regulated in Europe but that just means you’re the best of the worst offenders.

[The Viceroy]

I think its about time we took advantage of the delapidated rail system, and built something new in its place. I saw plans some time back for a rocket/jet powered (can't remember which one it was) vehicle, which moves at incredible speeds along a set of circular braces .. probably sitting in some office gathering dust, or being built by some other nation.

As a UK tax payer, id approve of tax money going to such projects, and supporting them while it beds in. Wasn't the Empire state building in the red for some years after construction .. its vision ! The Empire state building would never have been built in London, not until the dire need for space becomes so acute, that the building is desperatly ordered, thrown up in half the time and estimated costs have sky rocketed ..

I was always told, you wear the cloths for the position you want to be in at work .. (although, thats probably not good for me) well, maybe thats how we should plan our economy .. not where we think it will be, .. where we want it to be !!!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Sandman
Let's start with a tunnel from Northern Ireland to South West Scotland. Oerdin suggested this a while ago, and while I was initially sceptical, it soon became clear to me that it's feasible. Hell, the Victorians were thinking about doing it.

FDR said something like if leaders can capture the people's imagination with great projects/ideas then the people will rise to the occation. All it takes is leadership to point them in the right direction.

Kennedy did this with when he declared we'd go to the moon in ten years (they made it in 9.5 years) even though he had no idea how they'd do it, if it was technically possible, or where he'd find the money. Accomplishing great things requires leaders to show the people where to focus their energy.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Originally posted by Oerdin


FDR said something like if leaders can capture the people's imagination with great projects/ideas then the people will rise to the occation. All it takes is leadership to point them in the right direction.

Kennedy did this with when he declared we'd go to the moon in ten years (they made it in 9.5 years) even though he had no idea how they'd do it, if it was technically possible, or where he'd find the money. Accomplishing great things requires leaders to show the people where to focus their energy.

and this is why UK is mediocre... the best example of this is the Millenium DOme - how to wast a Billion for the millenium... British are engulfed with their uselesness it's already a national sport, but even politicians have to give it the mark of approval... Imagine if a billion was given to the new Wembley on top of all the money that is going to be spent

sad this is what it is...