Re: Gregnews: US report proves EP lies

Simo Sorce <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:17:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.org.aful.patents
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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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