Although they did also put it mainly on flat land. Some of our most promising city pairs with high traffic and strong local support for such a project are unfortunately in or separated by mountainous areas: LA-SF, Seattle-Portland, Atlanta-DC, etc.
From the FT article posted elsewhere in this discussion:
According to state media reports, the government spent $17bn (€12bn, £11bn) on the Harmony express line’s construction over 4½ years. Wuhan invested $2.4bn in a new French-designed train station, which boasts 20 tracks and 11 platforms. Officials this weekend declined to confirm project costs.
One reason for the enormous construction outlay for the Harmony express was difficult terrain, especially in the poor mountainous areas of Guangdong and Hunan provinces. The train travels along 713km of elevated tracks and tunnels, accounting for about 70 per cent of its length.
So you're argument may not really hold water. I think the big reason for this not happening in the US, is capital costs, the lobbying efforts of airline and other affected industries and NIMBY mentality.
Your whole post just seems like a random rant not terribly relevant to the article.
If anything what the article does say that a fifth of the Chinese and nearly half the Indians that left actually entered on temporary visas (such as H1-Bs).
It's these people that help add value to the economy by developing technology, starting companies and driving innovation thus creating jobs. So they are a necessary part of the solution to increasing American competitiveness in the 21st century.
If you RTFA (which of course you didn't), then you would have seen the bit where they confirmed these mossies had no malaria. I am assuming, they also don't have other diseases such as Dengue Fever either.
I've said it before (see my last comment on the H1-B article a few days back) and I'll say it again. The lower pay for H1-Bs seems to be a problem that is especially prevalent in the IT industry. I am on an H1-B in a non-IT company and I get the same pay and benefits as any other employee.
Also, most of my friends that are on H1-Bs in my company and others get paid market rates or above. I know this is only anecdotal evidence, but it really annoys me when people think that all H1-Bs are poor desperate souls that are clawing with everything they've got to keep a job.
Being an H1-B that works for a Fortune 500 non-IT company, I have to second your comment. I get paid on par with my colleagues and even right now with our business being severely affected, I have not faced a single incident of intimidation tactics to make me work harder.
From all the comments I have read on/. when H1-B related articles come up, it seems like the IT industry in particular has problems with H1Bs being hired at lower wages and being underqualified. If I recall correctly, companies like Tata Consultancy, Wipro and Infosys are some of the largest users of H1B quotas and they primarily bring in people from India.
Maybe I am biased since I did my university education in the US, but I believe the H1B program needs to be restructured to give preference to US educated applicants over others. This will keep the country from losing talent that wants to stay and also help towards removing wage depression.
The problem I find is that even emails you think are not particularly important end up saving your ass when shit hits the fan.
A few months we faced massive delays and significant costs on a product field trial because a supplier didn't build their product to the specs we gave and then they denied ever being told about it. Of course our fantastic email retention policy of only 300MB or 60 days had ensured that almost everyone except me had lost the email - I had archived to my hard drive. Saved us from a huge falling out with them, since they refused to admit fault and we were footing the bill.
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You are bang on...I started using Google back in 1999 or 2000 mainly to look for porn *no kidding*.
At the time I lived in a country where the ISPs had firewalls that restricted access to "indecent and inappropriate content". The up side was that most filtering was done off URLs, so as long as I found new/less frequented websites I was ahead of the game.
I still remember the feeling of having won a treasure hunt every time I found an unrestricted website. Ah! Those were the days....these young whippersnappers have it good these days with p2p and all!
What I find so amusing is that people on Slashdot take one look at the qualifications of the author or the IEEE spectrum article which is. "James Oberg is a veteran NASA mission-control engineer living in Houston. He is now a news consultant, lecturer, author, and occasional tour guide of Russian space centers." Then decide some bozo posting on Slashdot is more creditable.
Actually the submitter is not exactly a bozo. Here is his bio on Wikipedia.
I bow before thee....you must be a master time-waster. I have 9 feeds and can't read all of them. I don't get any work done just trying to read all of them.
You have obviously not heard of Super PiiPii brothers (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html)! It's all urinal games and women get a strap on so they get to partake in the joy too. It even has "Amazing Realistic Pee Fluid Dynamics".
I'm probably going to get burned for saying this, but as much as I fear for my freedoms while working in China, I would still do it.
The fact is, you can almost never get an idea of a culture and a country sitting outside it and reading human rights reports. Accept it or not, the facts on the ground can be a heck of lot more complicated and intriguing than any article or paper could ever capture.
So work in China? Sign me up, because at least it will allow me to be smug about my freedoms AFTER I have seen life from a Chinese perspective.
The experiment required more than $30,000 worth of lab equipment and a sustained effort by a team of specialists from the University of Washington and the University of Massachusetts to interpret the data gathered from the implant's signals. And the device the researchers tested, a combination defibrillator and pacemaker called the Maximo, was placed within two inches of the test gear.
*emphasis mine*
I don't think the $30,000 in equipment will be a problem. On the other hand I do wonder if getting within two inches of the President with $30000 of equipment will be possible. To put it mildly, you might stick out a wee bit.
"Oh Mr. Secret Service....ignore the giant antenna, oscilloscope, power pack and laptop. I am Stephen Hawking and I am here to shake hands with the President".
The IHT is part of the NY Times group so they often use each other's articles. This IHT article is the same as the NYT article, by the same author with the same introduction - so definitely a dupe
I see where you are coming from, but indulge me as I play devil's advocate for a minute. My retort to that would be, there are definitely enough high quality, advanced research universities around in the US today. So starting up one more university library, opera house, or hospital is not going to change the way things are going significantly. I look at it as hitting the plateau in a curve of diminishing returns. If you wanted a great education and you couldn't afford it (or you wanted to do cutting edge saving the planet research) then there are plenty of places you could go to today.
On the other hand if you are talking outside the US (let's say Botswana for arguments sake), then what good is an university involved in advanced research, or a vocational school or anything similar when a significant no. of the people cannot make it past 40 due to AIDS. If we can eliminate malaria or HIV by finding a vaccine then that will change the quality of life of billions of people. Isn't that genuinely improving humanity?
I'd like to think Bill Gates realizes that there are enough places that are sufficiently good to come out with such a vaccine (so no point going and starting one) but all they need is the funding to do it. Hence the focus of the Gates foundation.
Let me get my permanent marker. I have to right that one down for posterity.
Do you want to "right" that or "write" that? Or maybe since we are talking about the younger generation it should be "rite", "r1t3" or some other perverse variation like that.
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From the FT article posted elsewhere in this discussion:
So you're argument may not really hold water. I think the big reason for this not happening in the US, is capital costs, the lobbying efforts of airline and other affected industries and NIMBY mentality.
In my best drunk Russian accent:
"American components...Russian components...All made in Taiwan!"
our amateur UAV building spy overlords!
Anytime that question is asked (like when I call the bank), I always say 1st January, 1900 rather than the January 1st, 1900.
So you are incorrect in your assumption. I think it does depend on how you typically write out your dates (what you have mentioned goes for the US).
I know you are BadAnalogyGuy, but I'll give this a try.
What you are trying to say is that America was used to Paris Hilton, and then at one brief moment in time chose to elect Angelina Jolie.
Your whole post just seems like a random rant not terribly relevant to the article.
If anything what the article does say that a fifth of the Chinese and nearly half the Indians that left actually entered on temporary visas (such as H1-Bs).
It's these people that help add value to the economy by developing technology, starting companies and driving innovation thus creating jobs. So they are a necessary part of the solution to increasing American competitiveness in the 21st century.
Bad form to reply to self, but anyway:
To complete my comment, don't give me the bit about assumption being the brother of all fucks.
If you RTFA (which of course you didn't), then you would have seen the bit where they confirmed these mossies had no malaria. I am assuming, they also don't have other diseases such as Dengue Fever either.
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I've said it before (see my last comment on the H1-B article a few days back) and I'll say it again. The lower pay for H1-Bs seems to be a problem that is especially prevalent in the IT industry. I am on an H1-B in a non-IT company and I get the same pay and benefits as any other employee.
Also, most of my friends that are on H1-Bs in my company and others get paid market rates or above. I know this is only anecdotal evidence, but it really annoys me when people think that all H1-Bs are poor desperate souls that are clawing with everything they've got to keep a job.
Being an H1-B that works for a Fortune 500 non-IT company, I have to second your comment. I get paid on par with my colleagues and even right now with our business being severely affected, I have not faced a single incident of intimidation tactics to make me work harder.
From all the comments I have read on /. when H1-B related articles come up, it seems like the IT industry in particular has problems with H1Bs being hired at lower wages and being underqualified. If I recall correctly, companies like Tata Consultancy, Wipro and Infosys are some of the largest users of H1B quotas and they primarily bring in people from India.
Maybe I am biased since I did my university education in the US, but I believe the H1B program needs to be restructured to give preference to US educated applicants over others. This will keep the country from losing talent that wants to stay and also help towards removing wage depression.
I believe his name would be Ted Koppel. However, he is not at a major network and I can't think of any others in the networks.
Toll_Free - I think you need some clarification of GP's statement:
GP's Joke -> ~~~~~
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Watch The Big Lebowski when you get a chance.
Yeah! How can the rooms be secret if you're posting them on Slashdot. Now the secret rooms under the ###### ### #########, they are the true danger.
I believe you meant, "Now the secret rooms under the {redacted} they are the true danger."
The problem I find is that even emails you think are not particularly important end up saving your ass when shit hits the fan.
A few months we faced massive delays and significant costs on a product field trial because a supplier didn't build their product to the specs we gave and then they denied ever being told about it. Of course our fantastic email retention policy of only 300MB or 60 days had ensured that almost everyone except me had lost the email - I had archived to my hard drive. Saved us from a huge falling out with them, since they refused to admit fault and we were footing the bill.
You are bang on...I started using Google back in 1999 or 2000 mainly to look for porn *no kidding*.
At the time I lived in a country where the ISPs had firewalls that restricted access to "indecent and inappropriate content". The up side was that most filtering was done off URLs, so as long as I found new/less frequented websites I was ahead of the game.
I still remember the feeling of having won a treasure hunt every time I found an unrestricted website. Ah! Those were the days....these young whippersnappers have it good these days with p2p and all!
What I find so amusing is that people on Slashdot take one look at the qualifications of the author or the IEEE spectrum article which is.
"James Oberg is a veteran NASA mission-control engineer living in Houston. He is now a news consultant, lecturer, author, and occasional tour guide of Russian space centers."
Then decide some bozo posting on Slashdot is more creditable.
Actually the submitter is not exactly a bozo. Here is his bio on Wikipedia.
I bow before thee....you must be a master time-waster. I have 9 feeds and can't read all of them. I don't get any work done just trying to read all of them.
You even have time to post on /. Wow!
You have obviously not heard of Super PiiPii brothers (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html)! It's all urinal games and women get a strap on so they get to partake in the joy too. It even has "Amazing Realistic Pee Fluid Dynamics".
I'm probably going to get burned for saying this, but as much as I fear for my freedoms while working in China, I would still do it.
The fact is, you can almost never get an idea of a culture and a country sitting outside it and reading human rights reports. Accept it or not, the facts on the ground can be a heck of lot more complicated and intriguing than any article or paper could ever capture.
So work in China? Sign me up, because at least it will allow me to be smug about my freedoms AFTER I have seen life from a Chinese perspective.
...but even with all that power can it run Vista?
Am I the only one surprised that someone beat NewYorkCountryLawyer to a RIAA story?
*emphasis mine*
I don't think the $30,000 in equipment will be a problem. On the other hand I do wonder if getting within two inches of the President with $30000 of equipment will be possible. To put it mildly, you might stick out a wee bit.
"Oh Mr. Secret Service....ignore the giant antenna, oscilloscope, power pack and laptop. I am Stephen Hawking and I am here to shake hands with the President".
The IHT is part of the NY Times group so they often use each other's articles. This IHT article is the same as the NYT article, by the same author with the same introduction - so definitely a dupe
I see where you are coming from, but indulge me as I play devil's advocate for a minute. My retort to that would be, there are definitely enough high quality, advanced research universities around in the US today. So starting up one more university library, opera house, or hospital is not going to change the way things are going significantly. I look at it as hitting the plateau in a curve of diminishing returns. If you wanted a great education and you couldn't afford it (or you wanted to do cutting edge saving the planet research) then there are plenty of places you could go to today.
On the other hand if you are talking outside the US (let's say Botswana for arguments sake), then what good is an university involved in advanced research, or a vocational school or anything similar when a significant no. of the people cannot make it past 40 due to AIDS. If we can eliminate malaria or HIV by finding a vaccine then that will change the quality of life of billions of people. Isn't that genuinely improving humanity?
I'd like to think Bill Gates realizes that there are enough places that are sufficiently good to come out with such a vaccine (so no point going and starting one) but all they need is the funding to do it. Hence the focus of the Gates foundation.
Let me get my permanent marker. I have to right that one down for posterity.
Do you want to "right" that or "write" that? Or maybe since we are talking about the younger generation it should be "rite", "r1t3" or some other perverse variation like that.