Text 27654, 62 rader
Skriven 2009-02-20 08:25:36 av Joe Bruchis (1:3828/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 27647 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
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Robert Bashe wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:

 RB> Joe Bruchis wrote to Robert Bashe on Thursday February 19 2009 at
 RB> 14:21: 

JB> I am talking about brains necessary for future R&D. The people in the
JB> U.S. are too dumbed-down to produce any new wizards of the future.

 RB> Joe, if there's one thing I've come to realize about the States,
 RB> it's that the country contains some of the smartest and some of the
 RB> dumbest people on earth. You'll see hordes of moralistic blue
 RB> stockings - and the hardest pornography anywhere. You'll see high
 RB> technology - and the most primitive garbage imaginable. You'll see
 RB> "born-again Christians" and radical atheists. 

That's true, but the overall drive is to move everything of any worth, out of
here and into other countries. OTOH, it's to move the worthlesness of Mexico
into here.

 RB> If nothing else, America is a land of extremes. But it's willing to
 RB> take chances other countries are too timid to take - and the
 RB> rewards can sometimes be enormous.

That too will end soon.

 RB> In a word, the wizards are there and we'll see them in time. But
 RB> when Bill Gates dropped out of college I doubt anyone would have
 RB> called him a genius - more an "idiot" for throwing away a good
 RB> education. And now?

....and now Mr. Gates has vowed to employ at least 60% Asians.  Go out to the
Windows web site.  You'll only see pictures of foreigners displayed, mostly
Asians..  I didn't see one white American pictured there.  Go to the Apple
website. All Americans, mostly white people displayed, the rest are black
Americans.


JB> All the U.S. has become is a paper shell with a military that can't
JB> even beat up a bunch of rowdy towel heads.

 RB> What does fighting guerilla warefare and terrorism have to do with
 RB> R&D capabilities?

How many great minds have been tied-up in a war for the last 5 or so years? The
same people are constantly re-deployed. What will their mental state be when
they return and join our police forces? Do you see a problem there? 

RB>> So I still wouldn't give up.

JB> We can certainly use your attitude. Why not come home? (-:

 RB> Simple answer: I'm 67, not 17. Look for the young people you pass
 RB> on the street for the wizards of tomorrow, not people like me who
 RB> may not be there in another 10 years.

I too will be too old to do any good. I guess I shouldn't be concerned.

Regards,

 Joe 
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