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Ingenious solution for immigration problems in high-tech sector.

December 17th, 2011 by Bookslinger

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2074994/Plans-floating-city-California-coast-house-entrepreneurs-visas.html

In a previous life, I spent part of a year in college on an ocean-going tanker.  It does take a couple weeks to get your sea-legs, and not everyone can adapt.

But this is a very creative solution to the problem of high-tech entrepreneurs not being able to get the necessary types of visas.

It also illustrates that the United States culture/families/education system is not creating sufficient home-grown talent.

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December 17th, 2011 13:18:51

“Meat, Butter, and Desserts Can’t Be Wrong”

December 08th, 2011 by Vader

The evidence is persuasive.

I also recommend against business trips to Mustafar, or getting caught in your own Sith lightning.

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December 08th, 2011 17:01:25

Up and running again

December 08th, 2011 by admin

Some WordPress files got munged. They’ve been replaced. You may notice subtle differences in the interface, since they got replaced with the latest versions and default settings. Make allowances.

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December 08th, 2011 11:14:09

America’s Loss is New Zealand’s Gain

November 28th, 2011 by John Mansfield

New Zealand’s Green Party will hold thirteen seats after Saturday’s election. Among their new Members of Parliament is expatriate Californian Julie Anne Getner. (more…)

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November 28th, 2011 14:06:05

New ways to motivate them

November 16th, 2011 by Vader

Not so different from the old ways.

Derek Lowe, incidentally, is well worth a regular read. A thoroughly terrestrial soul, and I mean that as a compliment.

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November 16th, 2011 10:27:07

Mingling Church and State

November 09th, 2011 by John Mansfield

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November 09th, 2011 20:10:24

How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour?

November 09th, 2011 by Vader

Evidently, as a Chinese slave laborer.

Bit of a tangent, but I wonder if we ought to invite Mr. Winnie T. Pooh to join the Junior Ganymede.

 

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November 09th, 2011 17:59:21

What’s Different About America

November 08th, 2011 by Pecos Bill

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November 08th, 2011 06:29:16

Mother Tongue

November 03rd, 2011 by John Mansfield

From the thoroughly enjoyable Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler:

“However, the only parts of the extensive territories claimed for France which received significant settlement by French-speaking colonists were the St Lawrence river area, known as la Nouvelle-France (New France), and the islands of modern Nova Scotia, then known as l’Acadie (originally la Cadie, derived from some Indian name). Here the original French policy had been to hope that ‘our sons will marry your daughters and we will become one people’. Unfortunately, this did not happen in a way that suited the French, since the early tendency was for arriving male settlers to go native, and bring up their children in their sauvage mothers’ languages. (more…)

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November 03rd, 2011 18:39:42

The Rage of the Almost Elites

November 01st, 2011 by Adam Greenwood

This is too interesting to pass up. Recommended.

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November 01st, 2011 13:56:22

Monsters and Mormons

October 31st, 2011 by Adam Greenwood

“Monsters and Mormons” is out. My own contribution to this volume is mediocre in the middle, but is the cat’s miaow in the beginning and in the end. It’s like a thin slice of American cheese between two big hunks of my wife’s bread. (more…)

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October 31st, 2011 15:08:30

When accuracy is needed and when it isn’t.

October 31st, 2011 by Vader

XKCD comments.

It’s like the giant laser in the Death Star. So long as you hit more or less in the center of the planet, the exact targeting isn’t terribly important.

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October 31st, 2011 13:10:42

Willie Coyote physics

October 30th, 2011 by Vader

The antigravity Slinky.

The physics is perfectly correct and straightforward, but nonetheless startling.

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October 30th, 2011 15:43:53

It’s tough to find good minions

October 29th, 2011 by Vader

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October 29th, 2011 10:13:32

“Occupy Column-Inches”

October 26th, 2011 by John Mansfield

Colby Cosh is back to form with the best thing he’s written in many months, a sweetly gentle piece of cynicism.

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October 26th, 2011 19:27:19