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Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over?
Hugh Pickens writes "Pete Carey writes in the Mercury News that there are 'clear warning signs' that Silicon Valley has entered 'a new phase of uncertainty' in which its standing as a tech center is at risk and that decisive action by business, government and education is needed if the region is to retain its standing as the world's center of technical innovation. 'It could be that Silicon Valley has a different future coming,' says Russell Hancock. 'It's not a given that we will continue to be the epicenter of innovation.' Among the troubling indicators in the Silicon Valley Index (PDF): 90,000 jobs lost in the last two years; the influx of foreign science and engineering talent has slowed; venture capital funding has declined; per capita income is down 5 percent from 2007; and the number of people working as contractors rather than full-time employees is rising. Adding to the valley's problems is a malfunctioning state government that is shortchanging investment in education and infrastructure."
welfare for illegal aliens.
Thank you for your racist stereotyping. Along that same vein, whenever you get over 25% Christian people on a team, you start to see their cultural influence. Christians believe in pedophilia, serial killing, embezzling money, terrorism, and lynching minorities because they think their culture is superior. It starts to kill the team. And that's where I see most teams today in my company. PS Learn to spell, dumbass
then your problem is the draconian, almost near feudal insurance system in usa.
No, his problem is MS. It's just that people who need medication think they are entitled to it, and its a pretty reasonable to thing to just give it to them when it is cheap, but, now, that is expensive, that question needs to be reasked.
First off, if you need 2k a year in medical expenses, can you ever really be considered "productive". Only if you are in a high end job. Secondly, if that 2k a year is not coming out of his pocket, then whose pocket is it coming out of, mine? So that's great, my dream of sending my son to college or even having a retirement just evaporated so I can foot the bill for someone else's problem.
In your society, I should be running up to some government honcho through my political representatives arguing that my problems are worse than his, so I would not be taxed, turning myself, like every does, into a victim to curry myself some perceived favor on the altar of mercy. But I don't care, I don't need that.
Maybe its because they don't believe in god, or maybe they think they are more important than they really are, maybe they are just too into themselves, but as for me, I've got a couple of things I want to get done with life, if I didn't have a son, I'd have probably blown myself up doing something already, and I just don't give a shit that much that I'm going die. But the fact is, all of this pay people in the name of mercy is just another form of greed. Everybody is entitled to what I do, except for me, and honestly, I don't need to rationalize what I have to anyone, and certainly not to anyone who would be unable to work at all without my support.
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What a lovely country you live in, filled with wonderful human beings like yourself who would happily let a stranger suffer so that they could buy a bigger TV.
Yeah, like sending my son to college is having a better tv.
So, you pontificating cockroach, try this on:
If you care about these people so much, why don't you sell your computer and mail out a check?
After all, does your right to post on slashdot exceed the need of some suffering dude in Africa who doesn't even eat? Your time of relaxation is more deservedly spent working for the benefit of your hopeless pets. But oh no, you have some exception for yourself, I'm sure.
Goddmanned imperialist! The King cries! Will there ever be a knight to deal with this Beckett!
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