Comment Re:Now think in American. (Score 3, Informative) 516
Imagine The Lord of the Rings where all the Hobbits had Brooklyn accents.
Imagine The Lord of the Rings where all the Hobbits had Brooklyn accents.
Under the "border search exception" of United States criminal law, international travelers can be searched without a warrant as they enter the U.S. Under the Barack Obama administration, law enforcement agents have aggressively used this power to search travelers' laptops, sometimes copying the hard drive before returning the computer to its owner. Courts have ruled that such laptop searches can take place even in the absence of any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
What is left for the domestic high tech industry?
Selling of its assets.
Two recent examples:
If you want to read something intelligent about "memory storage theory", here's a better article--from Brown University, November 14, 2006.
Pull-quote:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Daily events are minted into memories in the hippocampus, one of the oldest parts of the brain. For long-term storage, scientists believe that memories move to the neocortex, or "new bark," the gray matter covering the hippocampus. This transfer process occurs during sleep, especially during deep, dreamless sleep.
For some reason, this "Related Link," from almost exactly two years ago (March 16 2010), is missing from this submission:
US Sits On Supply of Rare, Tech-Crucial Minerals
The relevant part is this (emphasis added):
"China supplies most of the rare earth minerals found in technologies such as hybrid cars, wind turbines, computer hard drives, and cell phones, but the US has its own largely untapped reserves that could safeguard future tech innovation. Those reserves include deposits of both 'light' and 'heavy' rare earths... 'There is already a shortage, because there are companies that already can't get enough material,' said Jim Hedrick, a former USGS rare earth specialist who recently retired. 'No one [in the US] wants to be first to jump into the market because of the cost of building a separation plant,' Hedrick explained.
If the complainants had realize the "security of supply" is real, we'd already be 1/4 of the way (2 of 8 years) to having productive plants.
Instead these countries took the easy and cheap path, namely: foolishly trusting communists to uphold their part of an agreement.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.