Comment Re:A good reason to go independent (Score 1) 550
Given their recent sales figures, I'd say the attention was hardly negative.
Given their recent sales figures, I'd say the attention was hardly negative.
We already have 320 million people in this country! I'd really, really be interested in knowing what skill set isn't represented here, such that we need to import it. Yes, I understand that we're discussing highly skilled people here. However, highly skilled isn't necessarily interchangeable with highly in demand. We already have plenty of Ph.D level people in STEM fields currently unemployed. What makes the foreign talent so much more attractive?
I do find it peculiar that in a nation that already has 320 million people in it, none of them qualify as the "best and the brightest".
It consists of unemployed people from California, who moved to Texas looking for work.
If you're lucky, SpaceX will help to find a solution to your dilemma. Like maybe figuring out a way to create rocket fuel by grinding up environmentalists.....
Given that these days "educated" is pretty much a synonym for "indoctrinated", I'm not sure you'd get a consensus that having spent more time sitting in a classroom is necessarily a positive trait.
While I agree that both sides are not stellar examples of morality, only one of them brainwashes their children. In my opinion, this is sufficient to make it clear-cut.
Have you seen the terrible videos of looting and raping in Japan, like in New Orleans and Haiti?
Oh, wait...
Political incorrectness.
By all means, have yourself a gay Christmas!
It's close to paying back every dime it borrowed, and it's now almost certain that the taxpayers will ultimately pay very little for saving GM.
Who were you calling stupid, sonny?
Yep. My goal is to expand this post a bit, and then copy and paste into every misinformed anti-electric car post on
Further, the Internet may be the kind of thing for which once it becomes a completely corporatized, monotized entity, there may not be any going back.
Right. Because we were so much better off when the internet was entirely a government supported, non-corporatized, non-monitized entity, where no Evil Commercial Interest darkened our doorstep. We all long for a return to the days of Usenet, telnet, ftp, archie and gopher.
NOT!!
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second