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- From: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@ugent.be>, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>, Liste de diffusion Aful - Patents <patents@aful.org>, rms@gnu.org, mag <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Gregnews: US report proves EP lies
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:17:44 +0200
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:51 -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> So people using phrases like "financial engineering" are not borrowing
> prestige - you are - but not them. These people read the science
> papers written by physicists studying financial markets, and take
> the scientific techniques in such papers and APPLY THEM to real world
> problems. Since the standard definition of technology is APPLIED
> science, it is very legitimate in these circumstances to use the
> phrase "financial engineering" (I will agree other uses are marketing
> bllsht).
Nice words ... except that physicist are not engineers ...
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