Why? Well, because he has kept it close-sourced and is talking to a brewing company about getting the patents and starting the marketing.
While a typical slashdotter would have posted the circuit diagrams on-line along with the timeline photos of the invention assembley and the detailed instructions to building your own.
Oh, and a true slashdotter would have implemented a Laser JDAM-like seeker into the aiming system whereby the owner would point the pen-laser at a guest's hand and the system would calculate the distance, angle and elevation, and set the tragectory accordingly to deliver the can instead of guessing the angles and playing "catch" with your catapult.
1)Thanks for clearing up that you support one-child-per-family policy and mandatory abortions to enforce it.
Because any more kids after that would steal my job, we'd have the country overflowing, with all those illegal babies chosing to be born here taking away our taxes?
2) 100 years ago there were 80,000,000 americans here filling 80,000,000 jobs. Today, due to the uncontrolled births and the immigration, we have 220,000,000 unemployed since the # of jobs is always fixed, right? Right? Am I right?
Considering that Bill supports higher business tax, higher Paris Hilton tax, better schools, more scholarships or free education, universal healthcare, increasing government funding of research by orders of magnitude, and the open borders, we can compile a list of those against Bill Gates for Pres:
I get that you don't RTFA, but it's in the topic TITLE! Immigration
Being the wise guy you are you would shut the door on Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Wernher von Braun (off the top of my head)
Pragmatically, we don't want their countries to be better than ours because I want my kids to live in the best possible conditions. If Mexico becomes #1, they might not let my kids in and this is why I would prefer to keep America at the top (since my kids are already here).
As to who has what rights, I believe everybody has the right to "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
It's a family-based immigration system. Hence this should read as:
I don't care what the "hate America" crowd says, people still come here in droves because they have relatives in the U.S. who can petition for a visa
Numbers: a Mexican with a PhD will have to wait an average of 40 years for an available immigrant visa (yes, that forty years). a Mexican without a high school education will have to wait 0 years if she has a close relative in the US.
Working for a foreign company in China, a PhD would be very happy to get about $18k to 30k.
In US, just at a university you start off at about $50k (assistant prof), and would get well over $100k with seniority. Working in industry would net you double that.
Lose about 30% in real wages by allowing the skilled immigrants in, or lose 90% of your high-skilled jobs to outsourcing and the global competition.
I could hire 8-10 PhDs in China for the price of two in America. Right now the Chinese are somewhat worse, but not for long if you keep sending back all the smart ones even while the China has doubled its education and research budget each year since 1995 (yeah, that's x1000 times what it used to be!)
Impossible? Hell, that's what my dad would have said 40 years ago about Americans preferring to buy Japanese cars.
I would trust Bill here, since he has both no reason to lie on this particular issue, AND a stong incentive to tell the truth.
No reason to lie since he has nothing to gain by lying. If the cheap labor is all he wanted, he could simply (and does) outsource to India, China, or even Canada where you get free govt. healthcare and education for employees. He could already get tax breaks by sending jobs overseas, as thousands of companies did!
Incentive to be truthful: Bill has earned (or stole, if you like) enough at this point, and is now into a legacy building phase of his life. He donated billions in AIDS and Powerty. He quite likes to become some kind of a prophet or even a savior.
Now as he is summoned before the Congress and asked to give advice that will make or break this country, shaping its policies for several generations. At this point, if you think for a second that Bill would give up the pedestal of a great visionary to chase the buck, you must be a damned idiot!
Here are some major points Bill made to the Congress (judge the validity for yourself): 1) Need much better schools and tech education [though this would mean higher taxes on MS] 2) Need to dramatically increase the govt. funding for basic research [though would mean yet more taxes] 3) Need to double sci/tech college graduation rates through scholarships and programs [yet more taxes on MS!] 4) Apple is the leader in innovation, look at their experience to learn to innovate 5) Biomedical research is the underappreciated area of the future, needs better investment and laws or US is fucked 6) Up the skilled immigration to retain foreign graduates of USA's unis.
Now, the reason the Democrats will not move on Skilled immigration is that they'd much rather legalize the 12 million Mexicans that cannot read (but will be able to vote for guess who the next time around)
Office programs have contained sometimes substantial easter eggs. For example, Excel 97 [pre-9/11!] contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator. [9]
Stealing jobs? How the fuck do you steal a job, anyways.
Regardless, you say they could "call in the chips and collapse our economy?" How about we flush the chips down the crapper and collapse their economy? (because that's what would happen after we refuse to pay).
When it comes down to it, both economies will probably collapse, but we will have gotten 20 years' worth of free stuff out of them, and we can rebuild faster, knowing that every family in our country already has a computer, a car, and a house to live in. Plus the best military and scientists the borrowed money can buy:)
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Why? Well, because he has kept it close-sourced and is talking to a brewing company about getting the patents and starting the marketing.
While a typical slashdotter would have posted the circuit diagrams on-line along with the timeline photos of the invention assembley and the detailed instructions to building your own.
Oh, and a true slashdotter would have implemented a Laser JDAM-like seeker into the aiming system whereby the owner would point the pen-laser at a guest's hand and the system would calculate the distance, angle and elevation, and set the tragectory accordingly to deliver the can instead of guessing the angles and playing "catch" with your catapult.
1)Thanks for clearing up that you support one-child-per-family policy and mandatory abortions to enforce it.
Because any more kids after that would steal my job, we'd have the country overflowing, with all those illegal babies chosing to be born here taking away our taxes?
2) 100 years ago there were 80,000,000 americans here filling 80,000,000 jobs. Today, due to the uncontrolled births and the immigration, we have 220,000,000 unemployed since the # of jobs is always fixed, right? Right? Am I right?
Tsien_Hsue-shen was a father of our Jet Propulsion lab at the CalTech.
He was forced to go back to China (then gave them their own space program and the nuclear ICBMs).
Considering that Bill supports higher business tax, higher Paris Hilton tax, better schools, more scholarships or free education, universal healthcare, increasing government funding of research by orders of magnitude, and the open borders, we can compile a list of those against Bill Gates for Pres:
-Big oil
-Prison industry
-Health insurance companies
-Military-industrial complex
-Agriculture/food processing/sweatshop
I get that you don't RTFA, but it's in the topic TITLE! Immigration
Being the wise guy you are you would shut the door on Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Wernher von Braun (off the top of my head)
Pragmatically, we don't want their countries to be better than ours because I want my kids to live in the best possible conditions. If Mexico becomes #1, they might not let my kids in and this is why I would prefer to keep America at the top (since my kids are already here).
As to who has what rights, I believe everybody has the right to "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
It's a family-based immigration system. Hence this should read as:
I don't care what the "hate America" crowd says, people still come here in droves because they have relatives in the U.S. who can petition for a visa
Numbers:
a Mexican with a PhD will have to wait an average of 40 years for an available immigrant visa (yes, that forty years).
a Mexican without a high school education will have to wait 0 years if she has a close relative in the US.
Working for a foreign company in China, a PhD would be very happy to get about $18k to 30k.
In US, just at a university you start off at about $50k (assistant prof), and would get well over $100k with seniority.
Working in industry would net you double that.
Just a question of numbers.
3x10^8 of US vs 6x10^9 of THEM.
Statistically, 95% of geniuses (by birth) will be born amongst THEM.
The real choice here:
Lose about 30% in real wages by allowing the skilled immigrants in, or lose 90% of your high-skilled jobs to outsourcing and the global competition.
I could hire 8-10 PhDs in China for the price of two in America. Right now the Chinese are somewhat worse, but not for long if you keep sending back all the smart ones even while the China has doubled its education and research budget each year since 1995 (yeah, that's x1000 times what it used to be!)
Impossible? Hell, that's what my dad would have said 40 years ago about Americans preferring to buy Japanese cars.
I would trust Bill here, since he has both no reason to lie on this particular issue, AND a stong incentive to tell the truth.
No reason to lie since he has nothing to gain by lying. If the cheap labor is all he wanted, he could simply (and does) outsource to India, China, or even Canada where you get free govt. healthcare and education for employees. He could already get tax breaks by sending jobs overseas, as thousands of companies did!
Incentive to be truthful: Bill has earned (or stole, if you like) enough at this point, and is now into a legacy building phase of his life. He donated billions in AIDS and Powerty. He quite likes to become some kind of a prophet or even a savior.
Now as he is summoned before the Congress and asked to give advice that will make or break this country, shaping its policies for several generations. At this point, if you think for a second that Bill would give up the pedestal of a great visionary to chase the buck, you must be a damned idiot!
Here are some major points Bill made to the Congress (judge the validity for yourself):
1) Need much better schools and tech education [though this would mean higher taxes on MS]
2) Need to dramatically increase the govt. funding for basic research [though would mean yet more taxes]
3) Need to double sci/tech college graduation rates through scholarships and programs [yet more taxes on MS!]
4) Apple is the leader in innovation, look at their experience to learn to innovate
5) Biomedical research is the underappreciated area of the future, needs better investment and laws or US is fucked
6) Up the skilled immigration to retain foreign graduates of USA's unis.
Now, the reason the Democrats will not move on Skilled immigration is that they'd much rather legalize the 12 million Mexicans that cannot read (but will be able to vote for guess who the next time around)
The "professor" probably wants a good excuse for when he gets caught looking at kiddie porn or selling technology to Iran:
"But it's not me, it's someone using my connection over Tor"
No. You are confusing secrecy with authenticity.
A public key does not need to (should not) be secret, but it absolutely must be authentic!
Well, how many people run AV on their linux/BSD boxes?
Now, since Vista is securebydesign, it too no longer needs any anti-viruses!
Sure, go for it. It will undoubtedly come as a relief that -should you succeed- they will come for you last.
Isn't it better to not feed the crocodile in the first place?
Stealing jobs? How the fuck do you steal a job, anyways.
:)
Regardless, you say they could "call in the chips and collapse our economy?" How about we flush the chips down the crapper and collapse their economy? (because that's what would happen after we refuse to pay).
When it comes down to it, both economies will probably collapse, but we will have gotten 20 years' worth of free stuff out of them, and we can rebuild faster, knowing that every family in our country already has a computer, a car, and a house to live in. Plus the best military and scientists the borrowed money can buy
This isn't a Soviet Union; our government doesn't manage the workforce in this way.
Why do you people wish to "save" CS anyways? If anything, we have too many crappy CS graduates that are driving the wages down for everybody.
So if anything, we should welcome the fact that fewer MBA types are drawn to CS.
And after awhile, the worker shortage will result in higher wages and we'll get more kiddies back.
So what's the problem? A decrease in wages will lead to a smaller worker pool, which in turn will lead to an increase in wages, and so on.
Let the free market handle this.
Well, the Stock Market-related activites are great, but if everybody becomes a businessman, who's going to work?
Mandatory abortions and 80% tax?
Even at 5% kill probability, if you fire 100 of these THAADs at an incoming missile you are 99+% likely to stop it
No, this is convincingly aimed at the rogue states (with 1-2 missiles), and not at, say Russia or China.
That's because the system is nearly impossible to scale up or upgrade effectively, and it is very vulnerable to countermeasures.
Therefore, there's simply no reason for the arms race.