After the 9/11 incident in NYC the cockpit of most commercial aircrafts have had their doors upgraded.
No one but the people inside the cockpit can open the door, and the door is thick enough to withstand normal bang and kick and whatnot.
Cabin crews won't have the keys, or else terrorists (they are on board) could have gotten the keys from the crews and open the security door to the cockpit.
There are way too many fishy things that happened to flight MH370
1. There was an "airspace territory gap" of 3 to 4 minutes in between the airspace of Malaysia and that of Vietnam, over South China Sea.
The last communication from that plane was from the co-pilot, not the pilot. And his message was "Goodbye Malaysia, Goodbye MH370" and that message was uttered just before the transponder and all comm channels were shut.
Once the transponder and all the comm channels were severed the aircraft remained silent for another 7 to 8 hours
2. After the transponder been switched off and all the comm channels cut, the plane took a turn to the West, purposely flying just south of the border of Southern Thailand the Northern Malaysia.
And during that trip from the South China Sea to the northern tip of the Malaccan Strait the aircraft was flown up to 45,000 feet, way over the limit of the safety limit for Boeing 777, and the aircraft flew at that altitude for a full 23 minutes.
At that height, passengers in the fuselage will experience a lack of oxygen.
Even if the emergency oxygen respiration devices dropped down and the passengers put them on, that oxygen supply would only last for 10 minutes - Which meant, all people inside the fuselage would have extreme difficulties getting oxygen for 13 long minutes
Many of them would die. Those didn't would have passed out.
3. When the plane reached the northern tip of the Malaccan Strait it dropped down to 25,000 feet, and then turned north to the Andaman Sea.
At that place, the plane "hug" the Northern Sumatran coastline and flew from the North East side of the Sumatran Island to the North West.
And from that juncture, the plane could have go Northward, or South.
4. Now they are saying the plane went South, based on the "Ping" signals that they received.
Since that "Ping" signal is not a complicated signal, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to "clone" that signal - and if there was someone behind the hijacking of that plane, they could have done so.
5. Why ? Well... to lead the investigators into a false trail, a wild goose chase.
... the possibilities that the aircraft had safely landed in an undisclosed location, and the people (individual or teams of people) who were responsible for the hijacking of that plane either ripped that "ping device" out and then carried that "ping device" (which was still "pinging") on another aircraft and then flown it to the middle of nowhere in the southern Indian Ocean, and then, either drop that "ping device" down into the ocean, or simply shut that "ping device" down, so i couldn't ping no more.
One more possibility is that those people might have "cloned" the "ping signals" using another device that broadcast that "ping signal", and then, when that Boeing 777 had landed safely on that undisclosed location, they immediately flew that "clone ping device" and, did what I have outlined above.
They did that to divert attention, and to create a false lead to the world which will come looking for that plane.
What happened to this Boeing 777 has so many gaping holes yet to be answered - like
* Why it flew for 7 to 8 hours without anyone actively looking for it ?
* Why they purposely switched off the transponder and the comm channels but left that "ping device" kept on broadcasting the "ping signals" ? Is it part of the plan to mislead the investigator ?
* Where is that plane right now ? Where could it possibly had landed ? Thailand ? Laos ? The Philippines ? Malaysia ? Indonesia ? Myanmar ? Bangladesh ? Cambodia ?
The "tube map" attempts to mark countries where "censorship" happens, but I feel that the effort is still a little bit wanting.
For example, how does one account for the "grassroot censorship" ?
What I mean by "grassroot censorship" is akin to what happened to the ex-honcho of Mozilla. Just because his personal donation to a political fund he had been hounded by thousands of fanatics who organized a netwide witch hunt, to the tune of asking people to remove Mozilla browsers from their devices.
And just as often, Capitalist economies are as well.
Because Asset Backed Paper Commodities were basically a giant Ponzi scheme where garbage debt was laundered and passed off to other suckers by the very banks who gave out credit like it was candy.
Your example does NOT fit the "Capitalism" moniker.
True Capiltalism abhors ponzi schemes.
True Capitalism does not create money out of thin air.
True Capitalism does not engage in Quantitative Easing.
What America practices is very far from True Capitalism.
Are you saying that just because someone disagree with what you do they no longer get to enjoy the same freedoms (like freedom of speech) that you enjoy ?
I do hope that you are not an American, or else there is no more hope for America !!
True, but that does not mean they can't play the role the second-fiddle, or the third.
Not everyone can handle pressure - for some, pressure is a mean to become even better while for others they snapped.
But still - there are many roles in any start-ups.
Now that I do not handle start-ups anymore, I invest in some, and the first criterium for me is to gauge whether the lead person (dude or dudette) can handle sudden, and tremendous pressure.
If the person can't deal with it, I'll suggest to the team (as the one who gonna provide them with seed money) to get someone who can keep the vision going without snapped out of shape.
I had had many start-ups - some failed but others I cashed out for handsome profits.
When I ran a start-up, I remember the pressure being crazy
From my own experience, everything comes with pressure, but at the same time also provide exhilarating pleasure, and I prefer to keep the good parts in my mind.
I remember the room filled with stimulating enthusiasm, with people contributing everything they got towards the common goal, selflessly sharing all the know, and the lessons learned.
Even for the projects that I had cashed out from, I keep in touch with all the past comrades, and at times when we have a gathering or two, we get to reminisce about we had had to go through and all the other bullshits over a pint, or two.
We *MUST* look at this matter at the level of *WHAT AMERICA NEEDS* and not what kind of talents that we might lose if we do not allow them to import the entire clan with him/her...
Even a primary school child can tell you that if you have to sacrifice so much for ONE thing that ONE thing must be more valuable than all the sacrifice you have put forth.
By importing an entire of his clan into America - that "talent" better be 100 times more smarter than Einstein, and if he/she is not, then, we can do with that that individual.
Why are you guys looking at things at the *RACE* level instead of the level of what the American society REALLY NEEDS ?
As I have told you guys I am a Chinese, I used the experiences of the Chinese community in America as an example.
Is that "racist" to you ?
Furthermore, when I talk about the danger American society will face in the future because of the infiltration of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of those who subscribe to the "Infidel must convert or die" ideology - I am *NOT* talking about any *ONE RACE*.
Geeesh, guys/gals ! Please gimme a very BIG fucking break !!
Would you mind elaborating in which ways you think it's fucked up? Seriously, you didn't make it clear and I would like to know your opinion on this.
I am no lawyer. I am obviously *NOT* an immigration expert.
But I did leave some points in my previous comment ---
1. The current system allows *ONE* person who has a greencard (not even have to be a citizen) to import his parents.
And then his parents, when they got their greencards, can start importing their other children (the original person's siblings).
And that opens up the floodgate - those siblings (plural) can import their wives, their children, and their wives importing their own parents, and so on, and so forth, until *THE WHOLE CLAN* ended up on the American soil.
2. There is *NO* strict requirement for eligibility - be it IQ level or education or whatever.
Right now, the immigration laws allow people to get greencard *AS LONG AS THEY HAVE STAYED INSIDE AMERICA FOR X-NUMBER OF YEARS LEGALLY* and that *THEY HAVE A SPONSOR*.
Plus, with the Obama administration's tricks - we will be looking at a whooping 12 Million illegal migrants suddenly all become legal !
I am not against people who risked their lives travelling to America (most of them do) but I do have a problem with the government allowing a whooping 8-figure people (more than 10 million) to suddenly become legal.
3. America is running a *VERY SILLY* and *VERY DANGEROUS* "refugee program" --- and ending up importing *DANGEROUS REFUGEES* from Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen (you get my point).
Those people might be "refugees" but the *BELIEVE SYSTEM" they subscribe to --- that the *INFIDELS MUST CONVERT TO ISLAM OR DIE* --- clash violently with what America stands for (I am not talking about Islam vs Christianity - I am talking about FORCED CONVERSION UNDER THEOCRACY vs a SECULAR DEMOCRACY, which America supposed to be).
Do you guys know that *MANY* of the 2nd and 3rd generations of those "refugees" ended going back to Somalia / Yeman / North Africa / Pakistan-Afghanistan and *JOIN THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS* ??
And that is *NOT* the worst thing --- those people have *THE RIGHT TO COME BACK TO AMERICA* as they were BORN in America - now, those are BATTLE-HARDENED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS we are talking about, and the LAWS can NOT prevent them from coming home, to America.
All these are the result of the TOTALLY FUCKED UP IMMIGRATION SYSTEM that the current America has.
Of course, there are many more equally important issues - but I will stop here so that this message won't go on for too long.
As for why I blame the Liberals for the fucked up ?
It was the Liberals who, being "bleeding hearts", decided that the immigrants have the right to "IMPORT THEIR FAMILIES" and that the refugees, *NO MATTER HOW FUCKING DANGEROUS THEY ARE*, are welcome to stay inside America.
The first time the tech bubble bust was during the dot-com bust, back in the late 1990's.
And I am looking at the second wave coming, and this time, it will be worse, much worse.
I started my tech companies in the 1980's and sold most of them before the tech bust of the late 1990's, and I sold them for *HUGE* profits.
Since the mid 1990's I have been an investor, investing in many start-up companies, more or less related to technology.
Throughout these years, especially since 2010, I am seeing the building of another bubble.
It used to be that the technology evolved around PC / Mac. With the desktop (and later laptop) having powerful processors, many tasks that were done in the big irons were transferred to the PC platform.
And with this move, many *MORE* creative endeavors happened, prolonging and enlarging the user base of the PC.
Nowadays PC are in decline. Everyone and their great great grannies are running around with smartphones / tablets, and tech companies, with most of their executives being morons, took the easy path ---
"Hey, everything is shrinking, from PC to Tablets to Smartphone, so why don't we shrink it *SOMEMORE* and make them "WEARABLES" ?"
Yeah, right !
Mr. Steve Jobs is dead. There can only be one Steve Jobs - and without Steve Jobs, the tech scene is running around as if its a headless chicken.
The "wearables" are *NOT* going to be a boom, simply because we are *NOT* robots.
We are *HUMANS* and we do not *NEED* wearables which interrupts with our daily-lives with useless information (such as emails, phone calls, and so on)
Do you know why we use the phone for phone call ?
Because when we, as humans, decide that we do NOT want to be interrupted by phone calls we put the phone aside.
With wearables, you can't.
It *WILL* keep on disturbing you.
Do I hear "shut it down", or "keep it silent mode" ?
Yeah, right.
Just because you do not want to be disturbed, you need to *DISTURB YOURSELF GOING THROUGH THE MOTION OF SHUTTING DOWN THE WEARABLES*
I guess that makes a ton of FUCKING SENSE to those moronic tech execs.
I am an American, but I was not born inside America. I am a naturalized American - so I think I might have something to add to this H1-B debate.
First of all, the entire H1-B scheme is ludicrous but it was a necessity, because the immigration system for America is totally fucked up.
What America needs (and what the world needs) are talents, *REAL* talents, but the American immigration laws have been fucked up, thanks to the liberals.
Now, as I have already mentioned, I am a *NATURALIZED* American citizen - which means, I also went through the official immigration channel to obtain my American citizenship. The only difference is that I got it some 30-odd years ago.
At that time, migrating to America wasn't easy - especially for non-Whites. One can say that it was "biased against the non-Whites" (if you prefer to look it that way) but what I see (and I have been through this) is that the process in that time, yes, *VERY TOUGH* for Asians, but that had a very strange side effect --- *MOST OF THE ASIANS ACCEPTED AS CITIZENS BACK IN THOSE TIMES WERE REAL TALENTS*.
And after those Asians (me included) got their citizenships, they re-invest in the American society, starting businesses or invent new stuffs - and in the process, most of the Asians who obtained citizenship created *MORE JOBS FOR THE AMERICANS* after they have become citizens.
But as I said - the immigration system has been TOTALLY FUCKED UP - and it is so bad now that if one Tom, Dick, or Harry gets his citizenship he can legally *IMPORT* an entire *CLAN* into America.
Now I am not going to talk about other races who got into America - I am a Chinese, and I will only talk about Chinese.
Last time, most Chinese I know lived in Chinatown. Most of them worked very very hard, earned enough money and they put their second / third generations through college.
Today, most of the Chinese from back then, who still stay in America are professionals. They are bankers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, business persons, and so on.
Those Chinese are in contrast with the *NEW CROP* of Chinese who are coming into America.
Most of the new crop of Chinese who are going to America are *REJECTS* from China - in a way, I was a "reject from China" too, back then, but I digress - what I am saying is this --- these Chinese coming into America are not the typical hard working type, not those who can use their body as well as they use their mind.
I have seen with my own eyes how some of the new crops of Chinese immigrants into America are doing - they are abusing the welfare system.
Last time when I first came to America, the Chinese, even the very poor ones, refused to apply for any welfare aid, because to them, "welfare" means "beggars", and those Chinese preferred to work their ass off, day after day, struggling through lives with meager wages, and *STILL* refuse to apply for any kind of welfare aid.
The new crops of the Chinese immigrants to America ? Huh !
As soon as they are eligible for *any* kind of welfare aid, they make sure they get it, because, to them, if everybody is abusing the system, and if they don't, that would be *STUPID*.
No more dignity, everything comes down to "what I can get from the system", not "what I can contribute to the system".
Do *NOT* get me wrong, though.
As bad as the *NEW CROP OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS INTO AMERICA*, they are still rated *AMONG THE MOST EFFECTIVE IMMIGRANTS*.
Which means, no matter how much these new crops of Chinese immigrants abusing the welfare system, they still end up contributing to the system *FAR MORE* than what they got from it.
As for other groups of immigrants, I have seen worse !
I have seen Muslims who came from Morocco or Egypt or Turkey or India or one of those "stan" countries have as many as 10 children.
Yes, TEN FUCKING CHILDREN !
And they have no work.
They do not need to.
The American welfare system *PAYS THEM WELL*. With their 10 children, they got all the money they get, p
Japan is a country in which "truth" means nothing.
They can say that the "experiment" they carried out in their whaling exercises are for "scientific research" but all of us know that the whale meat that you can get in many sushi restaurant inside Japan came from those whaling "experiments".
And the whales are *NOT* the only animal that they killed. They kill dolphins too !
You do not have to believe me, just click on the following link to find out what them Japanese are doing...
Back in the 1920's when that great depression struck, many banks folded, and people who had money in banks ended up with nothing.
No matter for what reason the banks folded depositors were the ones left holding the empty bag.
Kinda like what is happening in the various Bitcoin exchanges. No matter if it's stupidity, lack of security, or malice, it's the depositors (whoever parked their Bitcoins in that exchange) ended up losing it all.
Well... back to the 1920's.
When the banks folded, did people abandon the greenbacks ? Yes or no ?
Same situation here... The fact that exchanges vanishing into thin air doesn't render Bitcoins invalid.
True, some of the "rules" are flawed (I kinda have a sense something is amissed ever since Bitcoin came out, back in 2009, but I just couldn't pin-point what is wrong with it, but thanks to those scientists at least now I know, but I digress...) and they may need to be changed (... as been pointed out, the implementation of the necessary rule change may turn out to be very hard...) but all in all, the system of Bitcoin, at least, for the concept of it, is still as valid as ever.
Many people are digging at Bitcoin, trying their best to make it sounds as if it's something uncertain, something ephemeral, something "flash in the pan" but if we are to look at the alternative to Bitcoin, ie, the FIAT MONEY SYSTEM, it too has been damaged beyond repair --- as so much money was created out of thin air, which means, the value of the fiat money is no longer valid.
I must have missed something - I searched and searched but I just can't find that live blog address.
They say that they are going to carry out the test on 25th, March, 2014, (presumably Hong Kong time, as the research team is in Hong Kong) and I want to see/read how they carry out that experiment.
Currently I stay outside of America, only go back for business reasons (and for voting).
Oh yes, I, an American citizen, couldn't stand the way my country which is turning into a police state.
And the most disgusting thing that I see is, *MOST* of my fellow Americans still think it's good to trade in their liberties so that the BIG BROTHER get to "protect" them.
What can I do ? I have thought very long and hard at it, and still, I can't come up with a solution.
But even this child's play get results. Lots of low hanging fruit
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read TFA (not the paywalled one).
Before we get any understanding of the function of our brain they already are messing it up with currents.
What kind of consequences are we willing to risk ? I mean, no matter how mild the electric current turn out to be, at the cell level (neuron level) that current is still a SHOCK to them.
How much stress must we put the neurons under ? What would happen to the neurons after repeat electric shock treatments ????
In my youth we learned Russian in schools, and if I do not know what that word means, I might as well be blind.
The current situation in America is such that the councils are filled with people such as Feinstein / Obama who want to change the United States into a Police State.
And we have nothing else to fall back on...
Used to be that the congress / the court system and the White House are the three prongs of our government, and each of one is used to check the other two.
No more.
Nowadays the courts are being populated by judges who think we ought to give up our liberty in exchange for "security".
Congress ? That place is filled with dead woods who do nothing but looking for ways to create even more pork barrel projects.
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The flight deck crew have keys to open the door
After the 9/11 incident in NYC the cockpit of most commercial aircrafts have had their doors upgraded.
No one but the people inside the cockpit can open the door, and the door is thick enough to withstand normal bang and kick and whatnot.
Cabin crews won't have the keys, or else terrorists (they are on board) could have gotten the keys from the crews and open the security door to the cockpit.
There are way too many fishy things that happened to flight MH370
1. There was an "airspace territory gap" of 3 to 4 minutes in between the airspace of Malaysia and that of Vietnam, over South China Sea.
The last communication from that plane was from the co-pilot, not the pilot. And his message was "Goodbye Malaysia, Goodbye MH370" and that message was uttered just before the transponder and all comm channels were shut.
Once the transponder and all the comm channels were severed the aircraft remained silent for another 7 to 8 hours
2. After the transponder been switched off and all the comm channels cut, the plane took a turn to the West, purposely flying just south of the border of Southern Thailand the Northern Malaysia.
And during that trip from the South China Sea to the northern tip of the Malaccan Strait the aircraft was flown up to 45,000 feet, way over the limit of the safety limit for Boeing 777, and the aircraft flew at that altitude for a full 23 minutes.
At that height, passengers in the fuselage will experience a lack of oxygen.
Even if the emergency oxygen respiration devices dropped down and the passengers put them on, that oxygen supply would only last for 10 minutes - Which meant, all people inside the fuselage would have extreme difficulties getting oxygen for 13 long minutes
Many of them would die. Those didn't would have passed out.
3. When the plane reached the northern tip of the Malaccan Strait it dropped down to 25,000 feet, and then turned north to the Andaman Sea.
At that place, the plane "hug" the Northern Sumatran coastline and flew from the North East side of the Sumatran Island to the North West.
And from that juncture, the plane could have go Northward, or South.
4. Now they are saying the plane went South, based on the "Ping" signals that they received.
Since that "Ping" signal is not a complicated signal, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to "clone" that signal - and if there was someone behind the hijacking of that plane, they could have done so.
5. Why ? Well ... to lead the investigators into a false trail, a wild goose chase.
There was a comment embedded in the following link allude to such a plot - http://www.themalaysianinsider...
Let me quote part of that comment:
One more possibility is that those people might have "cloned" the "ping signals" using another device that broadcast that "ping signal", and then, when that Boeing 777 had landed safely on that undisclosed location, they immediately flew that "clone ping device" and, did what I have outlined above.
They did that to divert attention, and to create a false lead to the world which will come looking for that plane.
What happened to this Boeing 777 has so many gaping holes yet to be answered - like
* Why it flew for 7 to 8 hours without anyone actively looking for it ?
* Why they purposely switched off the transponder and the comm channels but left that "ping device" kept on broadcasting the "ping signals" ? Is it part of the plan to mislead the investigator ?
* Where is that plane right now ? Where could it possibly had landed ? Thailand ? Laos ? The Philippines ? Malaysia ? Indonesia ? Myanmar ? Bangladesh ? Cambodia ?
The "tube map" attempts to mark countries where "censorship" happens, but I feel that the effort is still a little bit wanting.
For example, how does one account for the "grassroot censorship" ?
What I mean by "grassroot censorship" is akin to what happened to the ex-honcho of Mozilla. Just because his personal donation to a political fund he had been hounded by thousands of fanatics who organized a netwide witch hunt, to the tune of asking people to remove Mozilla browsers from their devices.
How do you account for that kind of censorship ??
Trees in America and Europe are dying in large number due to infestation from foreign bugs / diseases / viruses
Examples of the diseases / bugs / viruses are Chestnut Bright, Emerald Ash Borer, Asian long-horned beetle, Spruce Needle Cast Disease, and so on.
And those boffins are tinkering with even more American trees so that they become self-destructive more easily??
Communist economies are fake economies.
And just as often, Capitalist economies are as well.
Because Asset Backed Paper Commodities were basically a giant Ponzi scheme where garbage debt was laundered and passed off to other suckers by the very banks who gave out credit like it was candy.
Your example does NOT fit the "Capitalism" moniker.
True Capiltalism abhors ponzi schemes.
True Capitalism does not create money out of thin air.
True Capitalism does not engage in Quantitative Easing.
What America practices is very far from True Capitalism.
What kind of fucktoid are you ??
Are you saying that just because someone disagree with what you do they no longer get to enjoy the same freedoms (like freedom of speech) that you enjoy ?
I do hope that you are not an American, or else there is no more hope for America !!
That said, Democratic Socialism has been shown to work
Are you sure you know what you are talking about ?
"Democratic Socialism" is an oxymoron, something that nature forbids, something so existentially awkward it won't be able to survive by itself.
Here in the real world, communism just means means that the state controls your life
You guys have no idea what the communist beast can become unless you were born into one.
Communism in essence means that the state has the ultimate right to decide who to live, who to die, without having to provide any explanation, period.
Not everyone is fit to handle a start-up...
True, but that does not mean they can't play the role the second-fiddle, or the third.
Not everyone can handle pressure - for some, pressure is a mean to become even better while for others they snapped.
But still - there are many roles in any start-ups.
Now that I do not handle start-ups anymore, I invest in some, and the first criterium for me is to gauge whether the lead person (dude or dudette) can handle sudden, and tremendous pressure.
If the person can't deal with it, I'll suggest to the team (as the one who gonna provide them with seed money) to get someone who can keep the vision going without snapped out of shape.
I had had many start-ups - some failed but others I cashed out for handsome profits.
When I ran a start-up, I remember the pressure being crazy
From my own experience, everything comes with pressure, but at the same time also provide exhilarating pleasure, and I prefer to keep the good parts in my mind.
I remember the room filled with stimulating enthusiasm, with people contributing everything they got towards the common goal, selflessly sharing all the know, and the lessons learned.
Even for the projects that I had cashed out from, I keep in touch with all the past comrades, and at times when we have a gathering or two, we get to reminisce about we had had to go through and all the other bullshits over a pint, or two.
... is no talent at all.
We *MUST* look at this matter at the level of *WHAT AMERICA NEEDS* and not what kind of talents that we might lose if we do not allow them to import the entire clan with him/her...
Even a primary school child can tell you that if you have to sacrifice so much for ONE thing that ONE thing must be more valuable than all the sacrifice you have put forth.
By importing an entire of his clan into America - that "talent" better be 100 times more smarter than Einstein, and if he/she is not, then, we can do with that that individual.
That is all to it.
I see how this is insightful, but rather racist
I just do not understand you guys anymore.
Why are you guys looking at things at the *RACE* level instead of the level of what the American society REALLY NEEDS ?
As I have told you guys I am a Chinese, I used the experiences of the Chinese community in America as an example.
Is that "racist" to you ?
Furthermore, when I talk about the danger American society will face in the future because of the infiltration of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of those who subscribe to the "Infidel must convert or die" ideology - I am *NOT* talking about any *ONE RACE*.
Geeesh, guys/gals ! Please gimme a very BIG fucking break !!
We geeks are the doers.
We make things.
We create new stuffs.
We come up with new and exciting ideas.
But we are *NOT* tools for anyone.
That "pepsi consultant" can go eat shit and die - if he or she thinks he/she can push geeks to do whatever he/she likes.
Before the death of Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple Inc had, for some time, running without Mr. Jobs.
And their product ? Apple Newton.
Remember the "newtons" ?
What I am looking forward to - the new offerings from Apple Inc. sans Steve Jobs - are Apple Newtons, version 2.0
And I am not being sarcastic nor joking.
Would you mind elaborating in which ways you think it's fucked up? Seriously, you didn't make it clear and I would like to know your opinion on this.
I am no lawyer. I am obviously *NOT* an immigration expert.
But I did leave some points in my previous comment ---
1. The current system allows *ONE* person who has a greencard (not even have to be a citizen) to import his parents.
And then his parents, when they got their greencards, can start importing their other children (the original person's siblings).
And that opens up the floodgate - those siblings (plural) can import their wives, their children, and their wives importing their own parents, and so on, and so forth, until *THE WHOLE CLAN* ended up on the American soil.
2. There is *NO* strict requirement for eligibility - be it IQ level or education or whatever.
Right now, the immigration laws allow people to get greencard *AS LONG AS THEY HAVE STAYED INSIDE AMERICA FOR X-NUMBER OF YEARS LEGALLY* and that *THEY HAVE A SPONSOR*.
Plus, with the Obama administration's tricks - we will be looking at a whooping 12 Million illegal migrants suddenly all become legal !
I am not against people who risked their lives travelling to America (most of them do) but I do have a problem with the government allowing a whooping 8-figure people (more than 10 million) to suddenly become legal.
3. America is running a *VERY SILLY* and *VERY DANGEROUS* "refugee program" --- and ending up importing *DANGEROUS REFUGEES* from Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen (you get my point).
Those people might be "refugees" but the *BELIEVE SYSTEM" they subscribe to --- that the *INFIDELS MUST CONVERT TO ISLAM OR DIE* --- clash violently with what America stands for (I am not talking about Islam vs Christianity - I am talking about FORCED CONVERSION UNDER THEOCRACY vs a SECULAR DEMOCRACY, which America supposed to be).
Do you guys know that *MANY* of the 2nd and 3rd generations of those "refugees" ended going back to Somalia / Yeman / North Africa / Pakistan-Afghanistan and *JOIN THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS* ??
And that is *NOT* the worst thing --- those people have *THE RIGHT TO COME BACK TO AMERICA* as they were BORN in America - now, those are BATTLE-HARDENED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS we are talking about, and the LAWS can NOT prevent them from coming home, to America.
All these are the result of the TOTALLY FUCKED UP IMMIGRATION SYSTEM that the current America has.
Of course, there are many more equally important issues - but I will stop here so that this message won't go on for too long.
As for why I blame the Liberals for the fucked up ?
It was the Liberals who, being "bleeding hearts", decided that the immigrants have the right to "IMPORT THEIR FAMILIES" and that the refugees, *NO MATTER HOW FUCKING DANGEROUS THEY ARE*, are welcome to stay inside America.
The first time the tech bubble bust was during the dot-com bust, back in the late 1990's.
And I am looking at the second wave coming, and this time, it will be worse, much worse.
I started my tech companies in the 1980's and sold most of them before the tech bust of the late 1990's, and I sold them for *HUGE* profits.
Since the mid 1990's I have been an investor, investing in many start-up companies, more or less related to technology.
Throughout these years, especially since 2010, I am seeing the building of another bubble.
It used to be that the technology evolved around PC / Mac. With the desktop (and later laptop) having powerful processors, many tasks that were done in the big irons were transferred to the PC platform.
And with this move, many *MORE* creative endeavors happened, prolonging and enlarging the user base of the PC.
Nowadays PC are in decline. Everyone and their great great grannies are running around with smartphones / tablets, and tech companies, with most of their executives being morons, took the easy path ---
"Hey, everything is shrinking, from PC to Tablets to Smartphone, so why don't we shrink it *SOMEMORE* and make them "WEARABLES" ?"
Yeah, right !
Mr. Steve Jobs is dead. There can only be one Steve Jobs - and without Steve Jobs, the tech scene is running around as if its a headless chicken.
The "wearables" are *NOT* going to be a boom, simply because we are *NOT* robots.
We are *HUMANS* and we do not *NEED* wearables which interrupts with our daily-lives with useless information (such as emails, phone calls, and so on)
Do you know why we use the phone for phone call ?
Because when we, as humans, decide that we do NOT want to be interrupted by phone calls we put the phone aside.
With wearables, you can't.
It *WILL* keep on disturbing you.
Do I hear "shut it down", or "keep it silent mode" ?
Yeah, right.
Just because you do not want to be disturbed, you need to *DISTURB YOURSELF GOING THROUGH THE MOTION OF SHUTTING DOWN THE WEARABLES*
I guess that makes a ton of FUCKING SENSE to those moronic tech execs.
Mark my word, second tech-crash is coming.
I am an American, but I was not born inside America. I am a naturalized American - so I think I might have something to add to this H1-B debate.
First of all, the entire H1-B scheme is ludicrous but it was a necessity, because the immigration system for America is totally fucked up.
What America needs (and what the world needs) are talents, *REAL* talents, but the American immigration laws have been fucked up, thanks to the liberals.
Now, as I have already mentioned, I am a *NATURALIZED* American citizen - which means, I also went through the official immigration channel to obtain my American citizenship. The only difference is that I got it some 30-odd years ago.
At that time, migrating to America wasn't easy - especially for non-Whites. One can say that it was "biased against the non-Whites" (if you prefer to look it that way) but what I see (and I have been through this) is that the process in that time, yes, *VERY TOUGH* for Asians, but that had a very strange side effect --- *MOST OF THE ASIANS ACCEPTED AS CITIZENS BACK IN THOSE TIMES WERE REAL TALENTS*.
And after those Asians (me included) got their citizenships, they re-invest in the American society, starting businesses or invent new stuffs - and in the process, most of the Asians who obtained citizenship created *MORE JOBS FOR THE AMERICANS* after they have become citizens.
But as I said - the immigration system has been TOTALLY FUCKED UP - and it is so bad now that if one Tom, Dick, or Harry gets his citizenship he can legally *IMPORT* an entire *CLAN* into America.
Now I am not going to talk about other races who got into America - I am a Chinese, and I will only talk about Chinese.
Last time, most Chinese I know lived in Chinatown. Most of them worked very very hard, earned enough money and they put their second / third generations through college.
Today, most of the Chinese from back then, who still stay in America are professionals. They are bankers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, business persons, and so on.
Those Chinese are in contrast with the *NEW CROP* of Chinese who are coming into America.
Most of the new crop of Chinese who are going to America are *REJECTS* from China - in a way, I was a "reject from China" too, back then, but I digress - what I am saying is this --- these Chinese coming into America are not the typical hard working type, not those who can use their body as well as they use their mind.
I have seen with my own eyes how some of the new crops of Chinese immigrants into America are doing - they are abusing the welfare system.
Last time when I first came to America, the Chinese, even the very poor ones, refused to apply for any welfare aid, because to them, "welfare" means "beggars", and those Chinese preferred to work their ass off, day after day, struggling through lives with meager wages, and *STILL* refuse to apply for any kind of welfare aid.
The new crops of the Chinese immigrants to America ? Huh !
As soon as they are eligible for *any* kind of welfare aid, they make sure they get it, because, to them, if everybody is abusing the system, and if they don't, that would be *STUPID*.
No more dignity, everything comes down to "what I can get from the system", not "what I can contribute to the system".
Do *NOT* get me wrong, though.
As bad as the *NEW CROP OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS INTO AMERICA*, they are still rated *AMONG THE MOST EFFECTIVE IMMIGRANTS*.
Which means, no matter how much these new crops of Chinese immigrants abusing the welfare system, they still end up contributing to the system *FAR MORE* than what they got from it.
As for other groups of immigrants, I have seen worse !
I have seen Muslims who came from Morocco or Egypt or Turkey or India or one of those "stan" countries have as many as 10 children.
Yes, TEN FUCKING CHILDREN !
And they have no work.
They do not need to.
The American welfare system *PAYS THEM WELL*. With their 10 children, they got all the money they get, p
Japan is a country in which "truth" means nothing.
They can say that the "experiment" they carried out in their whaling exercises are for "scientific research" but all of us know that the whale meat that you can get in many sushi restaurant inside Japan came from those whaling "experiments".
And the whales are *NOT* the only animal that they killed. They kill dolphins too !
You do not have to believe me, just click on the following link to find out what them Japanese are doing ...
http://www.linktv.org/about/bl...
What we need now is not more "exchanges" for virtual coins but a "central bank" in charge of the virtual coins.
If they are successful in accumulating 10% of all Bitcoins they may want to use them as the base of the first ever Virtual Central Bank
As the central bank for virtual coins, they can function much more than the "exchanges" that we've heard so much about.
They can manipulate the value of any virtual coins via "buying" and "selling".
Back in the 1920's when that great depression struck, many banks folded, and people who had money in banks ended up with nothing.
No matter for what reason the banks folded depositors were the ones left holding the empty bag.
Kinda like what is happening in the various Bitcoin exchanges. No matter if it's stupidity, lack of security, or malice, it's the depositors (whoever parked their Bitcoins in that exchange) ended up losing it all.
Well ... back to the 1920's.
When the banks folded, did people abandon the greenbacks ? Yes or no ?
Same situation here ... The fact that exchanges vanishing into thin air doesn't render Bitcoins invalid.
True, some of the "rules" are flawed ( I kinda have a sense something is amissed ever since Bitcoin came out, back in 2009, but I just couldn't pin-point what is wrong with it, but thanks to those scientists at least now I know, but I digress ... ) and they may need to be changed ( ... as been pointed out, the implementation of the necessary rule change may turn out to be very hard ... ) but all in all, the system of Bitcoin, at least, for the concept of it, is still as valid as ever.
Many people are digging at Bitcoin, trying their best to make it sounds as if it's something uncertain, something ephemeral, something "flash in the pan" but if we are to look at the alternative to Bitcoin, ie, the FIAT MONEY SYSTEM, it too has been damaged beyond repair --- as so much money was created out of thin air, which means, the value of the fiat money is no longer valid.
I must have missed something - I searched and searched but I just can't find that live blog address.
They say that they are going to carry out the test on 25th, March, 2014, (presumably Hong Kong time, as the research team is in Hong Kong) and I want to see/read how they carry out that experiment.
... I moved out.
Currently I stay outside of America, only go back for business reasons (and for voting).
Oh yes, I, an American citizen, couldn't stand the way my country which is turning into a police state.
And the most disgusting thing that I see is, *MOST* of my fellow Americans still think it's good to trade in their liberties so that the BIG BROTHER get to "protect" them.
What can I do ? I have thought very long and hard at it, and still, I can't come up with a solution.
But even this child's play get results. Lots of low hanging fruit
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read TFA (not the paywalled one).
Before we get any understanding of the function of our brain they already are messing it up with currents.
What kind of consequences are we willing to risk ? I mean, no matter how mild the electric current turn out to be, at the cell level (neuron level) that current is still a SHOCK to them.
How much stress must we put the neurons under ? What would happen to the neurons after repeat electric shock treatments ????
making money without working for it
How many of them on the Congressional Hill work for the people who pay them their salaries ??
The last two POTUS also never had the interest of the Americans in their minds.
Which word ? "Soviet" ?
In my youth we learned Russian in schools, and if I do not know what that word means, I might as well be blind.
The current situation in America is such that the councils are filled with people such as Feinstein / Obama who want to change the United States into a Police State.
And we have nothing else to fall back on...
Used to be that the congress / the court system and the White House are the three prongs of our government, and each of one is used to check the other two.
No more.
Nowadays the courts are being populated by judges who think we ought to give up our liberty in exchange for "security".
Congress ? That place is filled with dead woods who do nothing but looking for ways to create even more pork barrel projects.
White House ? You kiddin' ???