With a Slow U.S. economy and many U.S. programmers out of work it makes PERFECT sense to send money OUT of the country instead of hiring evil greedy Americans.
I'm glad I don't need an application written in an old version of PHP to manage my servers -- because there is no way that I'd help fund Plesk.
I don't care about the moral or immoral 'issues' regarding research. I do care about ANY public funding. We should not look to the government to 'save' us from disease by funding these research projects. W is not 'stifling innovation' as someone claimed in a previous post. If research does not continue it is the fault of scientists, professors, and academia. These are the places where discovery happens. Scientific discovery, innovation do not happen in the white house or in US congress. If scientists are unhappy with the $250 million, It is their chance to step up to the plate, stop complaining, do the research at universities in labs and when they are done, they can say 'See what I have done'.
I hope you comment is meant to be funny. Passing laws which limit the freedoms of companies (or individuals) are bad. Assume that your law did pass and all software companies (I assume that's what you mean when you say 'people') are forced to support every OS. Specialized software now gets degraded to lowest common denominator (much like American public education) and companies go out of business because:
Their software now sucks
They cannot make money having to keep staff to support specialized operating systems
Government involvement in business is bad business.
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With a Slow U.S. economy and many U.S. programmers out of work it makes PERFECT sense to send money OUT of the country instead of hiring evil greedy Americans.
I'm glad I don't need an application written in an old version of PHP to manage my servers -- because there is no way that I'd help fund Plesk.
Plenty of research is publicly funded INDIRECTLY through the funding of Universities.
I don't care about the moral or immoral 'issues' regarding research. I do care about ANY public funding. We should not look to the government to 'save' us from disease by funding these research projects. W is not 'stifling innovation' as someone claimed in a previous post. If research does not continue it is the fault of scientists, professors, and academia. These are the places where discovery happens. Scientific discovery, innovation do not happen in the white house or in US congress. If scientists are unhappy with the $250 million, It is their chance to step up to the plate, stop complaining, do the research at universities in labs and when they are done, they can say 'See what I have done'.
- Their software now sucks
- They cannot make money having to keep staff to support specialized operating systems
Government involvement in business is bad business.Another advantage for the laser is noise. They could zap a jogger without waking the neighbors.