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Comment Re:If it's up to the U.S. and their allies, never. (Score 1) 494

How does your "personal belief" explain the millionaire Osama bin Laden, the computer programmer "Jihadi John", the hijackers with Ph.D.s who flew jets into the World Trade Center, the millions upon millions of dollars funneled into building rockets and tunnels in Gaza, etc. ?

It is true that many terrorists are highly educated by the socialist college systems, but unable to be employed because of the lack of industry in the socialist Arab countries.

But you also allude to the large amount of government money spent on AQ/ISIS by Arab socialist governments and of course Hamas by Iran.

Comment Re:30% (Score 1) 329

ESPN averages 2.28 million million viewers in primetime, making it the #1 cable network.

ESPN coverage of the college football championship game was last year's most-watched cable telecast at 25.75 million viewers.

NFL Monday Night Football on ESPN averages 13.23 million viewers.

Comment Re:If it's up to the U.S. and their allies, never. (Score 1) 494

Well 18 people were killed (10 burned to death) during the 3-14 riots in Tibet.

My personal belief in the cause of middle east terrorism is the extreme lack of economic freedom. Those countries are all extremely socialist. This includes the lack of secure private property in the occupied Palestinian lands as well.

Comment Re:Smart vs. stupid (Score 1) 182

Stupid people tend to have a lot more kids than smart people. Citation: Idiocracy

Also smart people now tend to only meet other smart people on Match.com, etc. In 1960 25% of men with university degrees married women with degrees; in 2005, 48% did. As a result, the Gini rose from 0.34 in 1960 to 0.43 in 2005.

Assortative mating means we diverge into really smart and really dumb people.

Comment Re:Can people with H1B visas start companies? (Score 1) 442

My understanding of H1B visas is that they are sponsored and that if you leave the sponsored job, you have to go back to wherever you came from. That's what makes it so attractive for employers.

H-1B Visas are attractive for employers because they are the easiest way to bring in foreign workers, especially from China and India.

The Employment Based (EB) Visas are limited to 140,000 per year, but more importantly they are limited to 9,800 per country.

For example, the Visa Bulletin says that for China, they are now working on EB-2 & EB-3 Visa applications from 2011, and for India they are now working on EB-2 applications from 2007 and EB-3 applications from 2004. Hey, what's a 10 year wait?

In FY 2012, 136,890 H-1Bs were issued for initial employment and 125,679 were issued for continued employment.

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