Immigration IS a threat. But the problem is that you're not specifying WHICH immigration.
Immigration of highly educated and intelligent people is a good thing in general. "Best and brightest", as they call it.
Immigration of criminals and uneducated farm works is not necessarily a good thing.
You can't be welcoming to the 'best and the brightest' if you treat foreigners in general as a threat, if you view their cultures and countries with disdain, if you treat all their unqualified friends and relatives as 'criminals' or 'idiots', and if you baldly wish to suck the 'best and the brightest' from other countries into your own.
Xenophobic attitudes like yours make the United States much less inviting for precisely the people you claim you need.
The cultural anti-intellectual bias is, admittedly, pretty common where I'm from in Ireland. From what I've seen, though, it's worse in the US than in Europe & elsewhere. There are a large number of very bright people in the world who would like to come to the US and work as Scientists (doing the jobs Americans are unwilling to do). The problem is that the US immigration & visa policy is pretty forbidding. For instance, a graduate student on an F1 or J1 visa in the US can work only 20 hours per week and is not eligible for various forms of NSF money for conferences etc. Postdocs employed at American universities are often on visas that do not allow them to become citizens. Once these people find tenured jobs in their countries or continents of origin, since the US has not given them much of a stake in American society, they will often return home.
This all makes sense if one views the US as a Beacon of Science, a place where people are lucky to study for a few years. According to conventional wisdom, though, this will stop being the case, even if it is still true, and the US ought to adopt a much more inviting position towards young scientists who wish to study there than it has heretofore.
Given how fast the government moves, and given the general xenophobia in the US today, where immigration is viewed more as a threat than a boon, I doubt they'll figure this out quite in time.
The slashdot headline "Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People" is misleading. The blurb is accurate. The article makes no reference at all to being "good with people". What it reports is that students who are happy or confident about math are likely to score lower in it (paradoxically).
The purported reason is that methods of teaching mathematics that emphasise student enjoyment of the subject, or confidence with it, is less effective than more unpleasant teaching methods.
With all due respect, and I happen to know something about this, the name of the state is Ireland. It is commonly called the Republic of Ireland in order to prevent the state (ROI) being confused with the island (Ireland). The name is 'Ireland' in English & 'Éire' in Irish. It's in the constitution.
The way to do integral calculus without trigonometric identities is to use power series instead. In keeping with the general idea of something that is hard to do being hard to do pretty much whichever way you do it, this simply moves the difficulty from one place to another.
Seeing as how it is ad rem and all, I feel it ought be pointed out that that chart does not represent the influence Norse has had on English very well.
From my own experience, I should think that the rate at which various flavoursome elements of the tea infuse depends on the temperature of the water. Pouring cooler water on the teabag and leaving it for longer seems (no double blind tests here) to result in a cup that tastes more heavily of tannin.
Also, if you put the milk in first, the hot tea doesn't fall on cold china; the effect is to prevent the china from cracking for longer. This is why this is socially unacceptable, it means you have inferior china you need to preserve.
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It's regressive. It does not deduct an increasing proportion from wealthier taxpayers.
Additionally, if you are sufficiently wealthy that you can buy expensive items abroad (where they don't have such a braindead system) you can screw the system on everything.
The film is AWESOME. It is the best parody of science fiction, the most disgustingly nerdy and male genre of fiction there is; it sends it up beautifully. You guys (parent, grandparent) are missing the point of the film if you think it should have a 'message' about war or government. I mean, who even cares? When I want a message about government, I'll read the fucking NEWS MEDIA.
But by god does Starship Troopers ever show Sci-Fi up for being centred around a bunch of power-hungry adolescent boys with BIG PLANS and GUNS. Kinda like Rush Limbaugh, I guess.
It's not related closely to Serre's multiplicity conjectures. It is related to Serre's reciprocity conjecture, and I can't find an introductory page on that topic anywhere.
Somebody mod the parent '-1 Misleading'. There are two problems commonly known as the "Serre conjecture", and the parent happens to point to the wrong one. This problem has very little to do with number theory.
It's probably best to refer to the conjecture that is on the verge of being solved as "Serre's reciprocity conjecture".
The other conjecture was solved in 1976, and ought to be called "The Quillen-Suslin Theorem", except that that also could refer to another related but different result.
We see so many Apple leaks these days, and many of them simply serve to increse the hype before a release or announcement (remember the MacWorld Keynote leaks) that I'm beginning to think Apple are deliberately leaking some of this material.
For as long as I can remember, and I believe since the foundation of the Irish Free State, it has not been necessary for Irish or British citizens to show any identification in travelling from Ireland to Britain or back again. This is because there is completely free travel between Ireland and Britain, not just for citizens. For much, if not most, of this time, some Irish nationals constituted a potential terrorist threat to Britain, much more so than those Canadians may pose the US.
So the 'loophole' you refer to may be less of an accident and more of a common occurance between friendly countries than you believe.
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Immigration IS a threat. But the problem is that you're not specifying WHICH immigration.
Immigration of highly educated and intelligent people is a good thing in general. "Best and brightest", as they call it.
Immigration of criminals and uneducated farm works is not necessarily a good thing.
You can't be welcoming to the 'best and the brightest' if you treat foreigners in general as a threat, if you view their cultures and countries with disdain, if you treat all their unqualified friends and relatives as 'criminals' or 'idiots', and if you baldly wish to suck the 'best and the brightest' from other countries into your own.
Xenophobic attitudes like yours make the United States much less inviting for precisely the people you claim you need.
Ben
I've been a grad student in the US for the past two years.
Ben
The cultural anti-intellectual bias is, admittedly, pretty common where I'm from in Ireland. From what I've seen, though, it's worse in the US than in Europe & elsewhere. There are a large number of very bright people in the world who would like to come to the US and work as Scientists (doing the jobs Americans are unwilling to do). The problem is that the US immigration & visa policy is pretty forbidding. For instance, a graduate student on an F1 or J1 visa in the US can work only 20 hours per week and is not eligible for various forms of NSF money for conferences etc. Postdocs employed at American universities are often on visas that do not allow them to become citizens. Once these people find tenured jobs in their countries or continents of origin, since the US has not given them much of a stake in American society, they will often return home.
This all makes sense if one views the US as a Beacon of Science, a place where people are lucky to study for a few years. According to conventional wisdom, though, this will stop being the case, even if it is still true, and the US ought to adopt a much more inviting position towards young scientists who wish to study there than it has heretofore.
Given how fast the government moves, and given the general xenophobia in the US today, where immigration is viewed more as a threat than a boon, I doubt they'll figure this out quite in time.
Ben
The slashdot headline "Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People" is misleading. The blurb is accurate. The article makes no reference at all to being "good with people". What it reports is that students who are happy or confident about math are likely to score lower in it (paradoxically).
The purported reason is that methods of teaching mathematics that emphasise student enjoyment of the subject, or confidence with it, is less effective than more unpleasant teaching methods.
Ben
With all due respect, and I happen to know something about this, the name of the state is Ireland. It is commonly called the Republic of Ireland in order to prevent the state (ROI) being confused with the island (Ireland). The name is 'Ireland' in English & 'Éire' in Irish. It's in the constitution.
You have confused "denominator" with "divisor" which is the D in GCD
Ben
The way to do integral calculus without trigonometric identities is to use power series instead. In keeping with the general idea of something that is hard to do being hard to do pretty much whichever way you do it, this simply moves the difficulty from one place to another.
There's less to remember, though.
Seeing as how it is ad rem and all, I feel it ought be pointed out that that chart does not represent the influence Norse has had on English very well.
From my own experience, I should think that the rate at which various flavoursome elements of the tea infuse depends on the temperature of the water. Pouring cooler water on the teabag and leaving it for longer seems (no double blind tests here) to result in a cup that tastes more heavily of tannin.
Also, if you put the milk in first, the hot tea doesn't fall on cold china; the effect is to prevent the china from cracking for longer. This is why this is socially unacceptable, it means you have inferior china you need to preserve.
13,000,000 millionth post
We can do better than this.
Congratulations on having the 13 millionth post!
The notion that artists have special access to some emotional content not available to ordinary craftsmen is a nineteenth-century idea.
I think you mean 'a Romantic idea', which dates it further back to the late 18th century.
(Not that I am disagreeing or anything)
PING earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=14412874.9 ms
64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=14412872.3 ms
64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=14412876.2 ms
64 bytes from earth.ssnet (3ffe:ffff:100:f101::1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=14412874.3 ms
I call shenanigans. Nobody uses IPv6
It's regressive. It does not deduct an increasing proportion from wealthier taxpayers.
Additionally, if you are sufficiently wealthy that you can buy expensive items abroad (where they don't have such a braindead system) you can screw the system on everything.
D) OSX is cool (Linux is geeky).
I had to read that twice before I saw the dichotomy.
Lynx gets you arrested
I guess you have probably thought of this, but if you order DVDs from the UK, you can get them in English in Region 2 format.
which allows a slightly larger prime to be factored
I believe Bill Gates once made this mistake too. Primes are trivially easy to factorise, it's composites that are hard.
The film is AWESOME. It is the best parody of science fiction, the most disgustingly nerdy and male genre of fiction there is; it sends it up beautifully. You guys (parent, grandparent) are missing the point of the film if you think it should have a 'message' about war or government. I mean, who even cares? When I want a message about government, I'll read the fucking NEWS MEDIA.
But by god does Starship Troopers ever show Sci-Fi up for being centred around a bunch of power-hungry adolescent boys with BIG PLANS and GUNS. Kinda like Rush Limbaugh, I guess.
Now if only I had a PENIS.
It's time to buy shares in Luxemburger mp3-player retailers.
It's not related closely to Serre's multiplicity conjectures. It is related to Serre's reciprocity conjecture, and I can't find an introductory page on that topic anywhere.
Somebody mod the parent '-1 Misleading'. There are two problems commonly known as the "Serre conjecture", and the parent happens to point to the wrong one. This problem has very little to do with number theory.
It's probably best to refer to the conjecture that is on the verge of being solved as "Serre's reciprocity conjecture".
The other conjecture was solved in 1976, and ought to be called "The Quillen-Suslin Theorem", except that that also could refer to another related but different result.
When 'hang' is used to mean 'to kill by suspending from the neck' the past tense is more properly 'hanged'.
We see so many Apple leaks these days, and many of them simply serve to increse the hype before a release or announcement (remember the MacWorld Keynote leaks) that I'm beginning to think Apple are deliberately leaking some of this material.
I could be wrong.
For as long as I can remember, and I believe since the foundation of the Irish Free State, it has not been necessary for Irish or British citizens to show any identification in travelling from Ireland to Britain or back again. This is because there is completely free travel between Ireland and Britain, not just for citizens. For much, if not most, of this time, some Irish nationals constituted a potential terrorist threat to Britain, much more so than those Canadians may pose the US.
So the 'loophole' you refer to may be less of an accident and more of a common occurance between friendly countries than you believe.
Yes the Motion Picture Association of America is going to sue you RIGHT NOW for work created by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Oh wait...