economist.com — WHEN it comes to being awarded patents, the Japanese are world champions. Japan has more than 1,200 patents per million people?more than twice as many as Switzerland, the next most prolific country (with 500 patents per million), and more than three times as many as third-ranking America (with 350 patents per million).
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eeeechutaAug 5, 2007
? is correct because the sentence contains a nuance that Japanese people *specifically* out of all the different people in the world, are amazing.
estvirAug 5, 2007
> your a dumb assYour = You'reSee: insult you just used.
diggityhotAug 5, 2007
I'd also contend too many things are listed as US inventions inappropriately. Examples:The light bulb: Davy (UK), Swan (UK) and Edison (USA) all played large roles yet it is listed as USA!Nuclear Power: Sure some of the physicists at the Manhattan project were from the US, but many were european. Enrico Fermi who has the patent for nuclear fission had dual Italian and much later US citizenship due to the war.
zazzaliciousAug 5, 2007
not all of them.
borerasAug 5, 2007
patents ? inventionsHow many patents does Microsoft have? How many "inventions" or "innovations" or anything of that sort have they had? see where I'm getting at?So nice numbers, but in the current situation it means that all those countries up high are trying really hard at forcing to stay rich bastards (which generally means all wealthy countries, but Japan and America are more keen on being dominant and aggressive to others)
borerasAug 5, 2007
than with this being very misleading, don't you generally mean the faulty patent system?
pinrAug 6, 2007
Some very good points, inventions and ideas in your response and not one of them Japanese unless that fish was of course.
schnugglemeAug 6, 2007
Of course, they have nothing else to do. They don't need to waste billions of dollars on defense.