Hasn't worked in countries that put drug dealers to death, why should it work here? Better suggestion: Only you pay with your taxes for the "war on drugs" and I get a tax credit.

Mexico has zero interest to destroy the drug cartels. http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/mexico-14/ Only the US could destroy the cartels. Putting drug dealers in prison? Millions of dollars Fighting the war on drugs? Billion of dollars. Legalizing drugs and putting the cartels out of business? priceless. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there is matercard.

Dude, it is the year 2010. Everybody knows by now that financial data does not follow a random walk (coin tossing). Stock market variations hat a "fat tail". Unfortunately it is hard to put thins into option pricing (problems with variance). This is actually a reason why far out of the money options are likely to be underpriced. I think Mandelbrot came up with this decades ago. Welcome to the real world. I heard more interesting things. Like the Peruvian who did not clone sheep but bacteria. Yea, that's right.

I doubt that Wilders is "right wing". Take at least the time to read his wikipedia profile instead of just throwing dirt. I wish we had a Wilders in my EU country.

"Geert Wilders in court." Don't care about a right wing asshole in Holland either. Really, you should refrain from reading anything. You know everything already.

What I don't like about the climate-change-evangelists is that they try to answer at least 6 questions in one answer. * Do we have climate change? * Is it getting colder or warmer in the long run? * Are we causing this change? * Is CO2 the reason for the change? * Is climate change a bad thing? * If climate changes can we prevent it, if yes how? Hence the bold statement of the semi-scientist actually is: We have climate change, it is getting warmer and we are causing this via CO2 increase and climate change is a bad thing and we should decrease CO2 emissions to stop it. Climate is one of the most complex phenomenons and I would be careful to make any bold statements in either directions. I am a scientist and from post "YOU are the one who needs to prove there isn't one" I conclude that you even have no idea what science is about. For future reference: Leave "proof" the the mathematicians and never use this word together with the scientific method.

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Why would they give you $3M if they can get along with much less? Fail often, fail early, fail CHEAP is also true for VC. I know VC that don't have a lower limit. It depends on which stage they are focusing on. If you are going to a late stage investor/growth investor and ask for 50.000 US$ seed capital (yes, 50k!) they will laugh about you the same way as an early stage/seed investor will laugh about you when you ask for 100 Million for a late stage pharmaceutical start up.

You sound very young and inexperienced to ask such a question on slashdot. Don't react to any contact requests, most of the people in the internet are a scam/shady, especially when it comes to business. Where are you located? Go to VC meetings and present your product. I have good contacts to some but they don't focus on software/internet. Your problem is that my impression is that you don't need VC-money but a buyer for your company. Talking to VCs may still raise some attention. Depending on the games you produce your product may also be well suited for a marketing company. The main question really is to me, why do you want to sell? Your negotiation power will be much higher if you get approached by someone. Could you try to find collaborators to get more momentum?

> successful commercial CPU architecture and the TFT display all came from the UK, the first > (and, so far, only) supersonic passenger aircraft was a joint venture between the UK and Many basic research came from Europe but the US and Japan was better to actually bring products to the market. > Through most of the twentieth century, the USA operated quite a successful brain drain, > skimming off a lot of the best and brightest in the rest of the world by offering them Yes, they also profited highly by German scientist (Einstein, Werner von Braun etc.) and by not having lost the war. > bigger salaries and, more importantly, a lot more resources to continue their work. > Now it's quite difficult for someone with a PhD to get a visa to work in the USA Not so difficult but the jobs aren't just there. I have a PhD myself and I would never go the same route. Here they need lawyers, medical doctors and MBAs. > mention the crippling IP laws which make the USA a much less attractive place to do I don't think this is true. But what is true that other countries are more flexible concerning ethics and research (stem cells etc.). But what concerns me is the massive brain drain that the US is currently experiencing. Tons of my friends with MBAs and PhDs are fleeing the country. Destinations are Brazil, Europe and China. I think the future does not look the good in the near term and middle term future. It may look better in the long term future. The US is expected to have 500 Million people in 2050. How overaged is Europe and China then? The only question is: Will the majority of these people hold McJobs or decent paying jobs? I hedge my chances and will likely leave the US this year. If the US government should do something then this: send your young people abroad to study and learn another language. In may EU countries you shouldn't bother at all to apply for a good job without experience abroad.

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You screwed your wife. Simple fact. Does everybody have to know about it?

These guys committed a crime. They paid for it. Now they should be able to move on with their lives. Some criminals in the US pay for crimes in a way that they never can get a decent job again. This is not the idea in Germany. Also it is very very difficult in Germany to change your name, unlike in the US.

Yes, I think they either have a right to not have mentioned their full name or
at least get a new name to start over. Such an application for a name change would likely be rejected.

I actually was thinking about getting witopia exactly for this reason (I travel a lot). How difficult is it to insert country based advertisement based on the accessing IP? Not very difficult. But these guys seem to prefer to loose business to torrent.

"The Economist is a rare example of a printed paper that's still worth buying in print," Nope, isn't worth reading. I was used to love the economist. It helped me to learn and improve my English but what happened to it? It was was a free-market advocate and if I read it now "government should do this, should regulate that, should give incentives here should give subsidiaries there...".

Thanks, I pass and don't read it anymore, even if you can download the whole magazine FOR FREE:

http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/economics_business_finances/The_Economist_October_24th_October_30th_2009.html

Why bother?