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In the Year 2020
An anonymous reader writes "Every 5 years, the CIA funds a detailed forecast of the future 15 years hence. The biggest trend identified in the latest report is the economic and technological rise of Asia."
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Who want's to be this report was sponsored by Windows XP Starter Edition?
Not a chance- pure standard superstition will keep a good standard of living out of India for at least the next 100 years- as proven by all the stupid people who went down to the beach looking to see what diety had pulled the plug on the ocean a couple of weeks back.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
From the news reports immediately after the Tsunami- how litterally thousands of people went down to the beach to look at the sudden "tide" going out...apparently they had never heard that if water leaves the beach, it will return. Now, of course, they'll never correct their stupidity- because they are all dead from that stupidity.
It was quoted to me just this morning in a real-life conversation as a big reason why so many outsourcing projects fail- the lack of logical thinking is astounding, to say the least.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.