What about the $600 "stimulus" package promoted by GWB and jumped on by both parties? Well, to be fair the $600 rebate didn't exactly go to the welfare bums (God bless them). To qualify for $600 one had to have earned enough money to file taxes in 2007, which means the persons collecting the rebate had SOME KIND of a job.
So I read the paper you reference (Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China, and India) and it looks like you might be missing something:
Page 6: B. The Role of Foreign Nationals in Engineering in U.S. Universities
In the United States, concern has been raised over the large proportion of graduate-level science and engineering degrees that are earned by foreign nationals. This preoccupation has been exacerbated in recent years because of the perception of an increased likelihood that these engineers may return to their home countries in response to new incentives to develop high-technology fields there. This export of the fruits of their American-earned education abroad for the benefit of other economies marks a reversal of the traditional international brain drain from which the U.S. hightechnology community has long benefited (Pollak, 1999). [...]
Statistics collected by the ASEE on bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees in engineering indicate that during the 200506 academic year, 7.2 percent, 39.8 percent and 61.7 percent of these degrees, respectively, were awarded to foreign nationals [...]
Given the changes in the U.S. visa system since 2001 and the rapid ascent of the Chinese and Indian economies, there are serious concerns that the U.S. visa landscape is greatly limiting the countrys capacity to retain exceptional individuals once they graduate (Wadhwa, Jasso, Rissing, Gereffi and Freeman, 2007).
the bottom is going to drop out faster than gasoline prices on Jan 20, 2009. I think you over-estimate McCain's chances of getting elected. Sadly, I think even Abraham Lincoln would lose this election if he ran as a Republican.
It the future, as the perceived value of intellectual property grows it is bound to receive ever more legal protection, possibly even more than the tangible (clay and metal) kind.
This guy "stole" imaginary property. This "imaginary" property generates very real tax income. For example, Microsoft alone paid over $6,000,000,000 in taxes last year, all generated by peddling a bunch of "imaginary" 1's and 0's (for comparisson, a modern Nimitz-class aircraft carrier costs about $4,000,000,000).
Yet very few Russians actually bother to leave Estonia for Russia - apparently they are still better off there, even as non-citizens... That's not a very sound argument. Just because someone cannot leave their home and become a refugee doesn't have to mean they are better off being where they are...
I mean, how many Kurds "bothered" to leave Saddam's Iraq, or how many Albanians left Yugoslavia in the 1990s? Armenians in Turkey? Or what about 400,000 Tutsis that were slaughtered by the Hutu folks; you think they didn't move because they were better off dead? Amerindians? The six million Jews, very few of them left Nazi Germany alive...
The real selling point of Safari is that it makes web surfing on a Mac almost as fast as on a windows machine. In particular, it's a lot faster than either Firefox or Opera or IE (on a Mac).
No really, see here about why that might be the case
In the end, the questions we should ask ourselves probably are not about fairness but about the purpose of such games. Main purpose: Milking the cash of pseudo-patriotic idiots.
Guess what, you and I are probably paying for his truck right now with our insurance premiums. Probably paying for his medical bills and welfare checks as well.
Well, I was a bit sloppy since something over 195 bB is no longer a sound, but there is no technical reason at all why one coudln't make a pressure wave strong enough to kill a human.
Caseless bombs aren't that dangerous because because of the inverse square law, so their power drops off rapidly with distance. While inverse square dropoff would still apply to sound-based weapons, remember that you can direct and focus the waves quite a long distance away. And there's no limit on the length of exposure: a single 190 dB pulse will bruise you up pretty bad, several hundred repeats, however...
I don't really care one way or another, but this Estonia situation reminds me of 9-11 somewhat:
What we observed: A bunch of Saudi Arabian fanatics hijacked 4 planes in 2001 and killed thousands of Americans. Our conclusion: A bunch of Shiite kooks in Afganistan were to blame Our response: Captured and killed a bunch of Sunni kooks in Iraq
I'd be laughing right now, but Russia still has some nukes (and my family happens to live exactly where most of those weapons are targeted).
Did you actually read the paper you linked in here? To me it says exactly the opposite of what you think it says: that there are not enough skilled educated American engineers, which is why a lot of engineering students in America are foreign-born, and that there is a danger that they cannot stay and work due to our current visa system.
Page 6: B. The Role of Foreign Nationals in Engineering in U.S. Universities
In the United States, concern has been raised over the large proportion of graduate-level science and engineering degrees that are earned by foreign nationals. This preoccupation has been exacerbated in recent years because of the perception of an increased likelihood that these engineers may return to their home countries in response to new incentives to develop high-technology fields there. This export of the fruits of their American-earned education abroad for the benefit of other economies marks a reversal of the traditional international brain drain from which the U.S. hightechnology community has long benefited (Pollak, 1999).
[...] Statistics collected by the ASEE on bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees in engineering indicate that during the 200506 academic year, 7.2 percent, 39.8 percent and 61.7 percent of these degrees, respectively, were awarded to foreign nationals
[...] Given the changes in the U.S. visa system since 2001 and the rapid ascent of the Chinese and Indian economies, there are serious concerns that the U.S. visa landscape is greatly limiting the countrys capacity to retain exceptional individuals once they graduate (Wadhwa, Jasso, Rissing, Gereffi and Freeman, 2007).
One could literally kill with sound if it's loud enough (such as a shock wave from an explosion). In fact, part of the reason thermobaric weapons are so effective is that they convert most of their energy into "sound".
Also, have a look at this picture showing the sound made by a nuclear detonation (visible as a faint halo caused by refraction gradient around the bireball).
Current immigration system is indeed pretty dumb. We need these smart, educated, skilled workers to contribute to our economy, pay our taxes, create new jobs...
Why would you want to prevent our companies from hiring the best and the brightest? Our economy cannot remain competitive for much longer if you force our companies to only hire people of a particular skin color, gender, height, or national origin.
Alphabet Visas, and what follows is an abridged list of them. Your list is meaningless. In practice there are only four types of visas relevant to high tech field: H1-B (for "highly skilled workers"), E/TN(for Canadians), O1 (for Nobel prize winners and such), and L1 (intra-company transfers such as CEOs and "highly skilled" workers).
L1 have NO LIMIT In practice these are much harder to get than H1-Bs. They only issue about 20,000 of those per year, including renewals.
the working class get screwed because the corporate scum Highly skilled immigrants help keep America competitive.
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But why does he blame this software maker instead of his phone provider?
The photo made me recall this "Intro to psychology" course I took back when...
Is it just me or does TFA photo look like a Skinner box for fear training?
Would you still insist that Microsoft hire 100% American, given that 96% of smart people and 75% of their customers are foreign-born?
Page 6: B. The Role of Foreign Nationals in Engineering in U.S. Universities In the United States, concern has been raised over the large proportion
of graduate-level science and engineering degrees that are
earned by foreign nationals. This preoccupation has been exacerbated
in recent years because of the perception of an increased likelihood
that these engineers may return to their home countries in response
to new incentives to develop high-technology fields there.
This export of the fruits of their American-earned education
abroad for the benefit of other economies marks a reversal of the
traditional international brain drain from which the U.S. hightechnology
community has long benefited (Pollak, 1999). [...] Statistics collected by the ASEE on
bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees in engineering indicate that
during the 200506 academic year, 7.2 percent, 39.8 percent and
61.7 percent of these degrees, respectively, were awarded to foreign
nationals [...] Given the changes in the U.S. visa system since 2001 and the rapid ascent of
the Chinese and Indian economies, there are serious concerns that
the U.S. visa landscape is greatly limiting the countrys capacity to
retain exceptional individuals once they graduate (Wadhwa, Jasso,
Rissing, Gereffi and Freeman, 2007).
This might be news to Microsoft since 3/4th of their sales are to foreign customers.
GTFO of my country, "dude."
No really, I too am tired of sitting in traffic for one hour each day.
Hug the tarball baby?
I think you got it.
It the future, as the perceived value of intellectual property grows it is bound to receive ever more legal protection, possibly even more than the tangible (clay and metal) kind.
Welcome to the Grown-up world.
I mean, how many Kurds "bothered" to leave Saddam's Iraq, or how many Albanians left Yugoslavia in the 1990s? Armenians in Turkey? Or what about 400,000 Tutsis that were slaughtered by the Hutu folks; you think they didn't move because they were better off dead? Amerindians? The six million Jews, very few of them left Nazi Germany alive...
The real selling point of Safari is that it makes web surfing on a Mac almost as fast as on a windows machine. In particular, it's a lot faster than either Firefox or Opera or IE (on a Mac).
No really, see here about why that might be the case
Nailed it, didn't I? Be honest now...
Al Gore invented Global Warming you dumbass.
Guess what, you and I are probably paying for his truck right now with our insurance premiums. Probably paying for his medical bills and welfare checks as well.
Now you see why idiots love socialism?
To serve Mankind
[Gustatus Similis Pullus]
Yeah, but how much choice do they really have in picking those?
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I made myself sad just now
Well, I was a bit sloppy since something over 195 bB is no longer a sound, but there is no technical reason at all why one coudln't make a pressure wave strong enough to kill a human.
Caseless bombs aren't that dangerous because because of the inverse square law, so their power drops off rapidly with distance. While inverse square dropoff would still apply to sound-based weapons, remember that you can direct and focus the waves quite a long distance away. And there's no limit on the length of exposure: a single 190 dB pulse will bruise you up pretty bad, several hundred repeats, however...
I don't really care one way or another, but this Estonia situation reminds me of 9-11 somewhat:
What we observed: A bunch of Saudi Arabian fanatics hijacked 4 planes in 2001 and killed thousands of Americans.
Our conclusion: A bunch of Shiite kooks in Afganistan were to blame
Our response: Captured and killed a bunch of Sunni kooks in Iraq
I'd be laughing right now, but Russia still has some nukes (and my family happens to live exactly where most of those weapons are targeted).
Page 6: B. The Role of Foreign Nationals in Engineering in U.S. Universities In the United States, concern has been raised over the large proportion
of graduate-level science and engineering degrees that are
earned by foreign nationals. This preoccupation has been exacerbated
in recent years because of the perception of an increased likelihood
that these engineers may return to their home countries in response
to new incentives to develop high-technology fields there.
This export of the fruits of their American-earned education
abroad for the benefit of other economies marks a reversal of the
traditional international brain drain from which the U.S. hightechnology
community has long benefited (Pollak, 1999).
[...]
Statistics collected by the ASEE on
bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees in engineering indicate that
during the 200506 academic year, 7.2 percent, 39.8 percent and
61.7 percent of these degrees, respectively, were awarded to foreign
nationals
[...]
Given the changes in the U.S. visa system since 2001 and the rapid ascent of
the Chinese and Indian economies, there are serious concerns that
the U.S. visa landscape is greatly limiting the countrys capacity to
retain exceptional individuals once they graduate (Wadhwa, Jasso,
Rissing, Gereffi and Freeman, 2007).
Any damage need not be limited to eardrums.
One could literally kill with sound if it's loud enough (such as a shock wave from an explosion). In fact, part of the reason thermobaric weapons are so effective is that they convert most of their energy into "sound".
Also, have a look at this picture showing the sound made by a nuclear detonation (visible as a faint halo caused by refraction gradient around the bireball).
Current immigration system is indeed pretty dumb. We need these smart, educated, skilled workers to contribute to our economy, pay our taxes, create new jobs...
Why would you want to prevent our companies from hiring the best and the brightest? Our economy cannot remain competitive for much longer if you force our companies to only hire people of a particular skin color, gender, height, or national origin.