Which minorities are those? African Americans? Since most African Americans have ancestors in this country going back over 200 years, I don't think they qualify as the "newcomers or immigrants" that nativism discriminates against.

Hence the H-1B program is nativist because people here on an H-1B visa are required to leave the country if they're unemployed. That's very different from groups that have a more privileged status like citizens and green card holders. This nativism is one of the main complaint of opponents of the H-1B program.

You're also a bigot who believes that whites and Asians are smarter than other groups. Have you been reading "The Bell Curve"?

They might notice if they still had any American IT workers.

Capitalism is when man oppresses man, but communism is the other way around.

Not in a negative sense. Orwell was a dyed-in-the-wool democratic socialist, and an ardent anti-communist. If you think that there is no different because they both use the word socialism, then you must think that there is no difference between the US and fascism, since both are capitalist. Please, stop embarrassing yourself.

Hear, hear!

Who cares about yellow hair when there are attractive women.

OP is a dyed blonde.

The link budget calculations have too many other things to say how important that is without looking at the other factors, especially when you consider that battery power, not Tx power, is what matters. Iridium satellites sit at 780km, but I haven't found any info about the Google proposal. Also, Iridium satellites run L-band (1-2GHz) but Google's are Ku-band (12-18GHz). Power amps are much less efficient at Ku, and there is greater rain fade. 2dB may not sound like much at first, but it means you need 43% more Tx power. You can have much higher gain antennas at Ku band, but that only matters if you can keep the things pointed right.

I'm afraid I don't know either of those people personally, do you? Or are you you simply relying on public image and the usual BS stories people pass around about well known people.

So now you think you live in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia? Now who has delusions.

Neither could the people who wrote the Constitution, which is why we're supposed to have freedom of the press and elections. It's far from perfect, and thanks to corporate influence it's getting worse, but I'm still not learning the Horst Wessel Song or the Internationale.

BTW, you do know that one of the main complaints of the people who wrote that Constitution was the way the British government was influenced by the East India Company, right? Look up the actual causes of the Boston Tea Party. Oh, and check how that company ruled much of India for 130 years for its profit.

I don't have much hope either, but I am certain that the financial industry will do everything in its power to fuck me up the ass. I'll take ineffectual any day of the week.

Evidence? (preferably not from Fox news).

Don't worry though, health care costs in the US have gone up way faster that inflation, with no appreciable improvement in outcomes but a higher likelihood of bankruptcy.

So a bank that hands somebody a few hundred thousand dollars without due diligence is not at fault?

While we're at it, what changed? I got my mortgage in 1999, and it came with all sorts of things beyond (a largely meaningless) credit check, like past tax returns showing level and continuity of income, disclosure of other debt, and all sorts of sniffing up my butt even though I have an honest face. What suddenly made banks so trusting? (hint: look up CDO's, CDS's, and all sorts of other three letter scams that were popular around 2000-2008).

Ah, the CRA red herring. Passed in 1977, but magically took 30 years before it had any ill effect.

You're making the classic mistake of thinking that because a company, or for that matter a person, is good at what they do, then they must be doing everything right. No, being good only means that you're doing enough things right, not everything.

They do want to hire the best people, but if you think that everyone involved in hiring at Google, or any other company, is completely rational and bias free, then you're making a ridiculous assumption. People all have their prejudices. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're outright bigots, or that they're even aware of their prejudices. Part of it is a natural human tendency that, if something is successful, then the best thing is to keep doing it the same way. When you're talking about relevant considerations, that make sense, but people are often unaware of their prejudices. If SV was founded by left handed purple people with three eyes, then there would be a subtle prejudice that that's what good SV people look like.

Can you be gay and transsexual at the same time? That's my contribution to Zen koans.