Yes, I'd love to hear a meeting start with an Atheist like Hitchens or Dawkins. I am sure that if Hitchens were to compare Religion to North Korea,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
.he would no longer get invited to offer equal time.
America tolerates descent, as long as it is marginalized and not making headway.

'The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies, and technology is always moving forward.'"
I guess that assumes that
1) We, as techworkers, don't learn from our experience.
2) That there is no carry over of concepts from one tech to another.
3) That the technology changes so much that we cannot or do not learn new stuff constantly in the process of working and learning.
4) The technology is the sole thing. There are businesses to be understood and adequately communicated and documented. There is misinterpretation between two engineers who speak the same language, so of course there will be misinterpretation amongst different cultures and standards.
I think there have been plenty of times where I really did things right was after I did them wrong the first time. Other times, one must know a lot to be productive. Yes, we can write 100K lines of code, but if we don't understand how it all interrelates to other components, most of that is not used.
5) That foreigners want to work as slaves for their American masters. I bet within the next decade, we will lose our ability to do any technology here because we will have lost the number of experienced workers to do the design and architecture. I welcome that because it is the only way that the elite will see that tech just doesn't happen overnight. A society that looses its competitive edge will not get it back easily. Look at Germany after WWII. Prior to WW1, Germany was the scientific and intellectual powerhouse in the world. look at the number of Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. Since the end of WWII, most intellectuals left to contribute elsewhere. After WWII, there has been a massive brain drain on its economy at a time when Germany needed to rebuild its cities and infrastructure. Another point in fact is that many German rocket scientists went back in the 1970's.
Very soon, you will have major businesses spring up in India and China run by people who repatrioted after learning here. If you ever talk to your Indian counterparts, you will learn that many of them intend to return after their 7 year visa runs out. They know that they are not wanted here, so this will happen from a variety of factors.

By design, the Enigma had an extra encryption permutation wheel which was always set to 0. Had that been used, the difficulty in cracking the codes would have been far more difficult by 1943 standards. The Nazi's were too arrogant and did not want to deal with the extra logistics involved with having to communicate this extra setting. Shows you what happens when bureaucrats instead of engineers make decisions.

As a student, my education was good. I was in the honors track in upstate NY in the high school system. I ended up going to a top rated university with a degree in mathematics. However, the job market was tough and continues to be so. While as I like programming, I really am not happy with the things I have done nor the way that my life has turned out. I must say that I was over-educated for my current role in society.
I know of plenty of other people in a similar situation, probably because I took the time to get to know them. People with Ph. D. in Physics working as part time faculty for minimum wage (if you count lecture preparation time) for a couple of hours a week. I know of Ph. Ds in Chemistry working as farmers and M Sc. philosophy students working as hair dressers. At one time, these were very bright and idealistic people who "thought" that if they just finish the program, they would find jobs. I think that bright people delude themselves into thinking that somehow the world will just hire them because they are bright.

A lawyer/accountant/psychologist/judge creates problems and circumstances that he knows you will have to pay him extra to get out of. Ask anyone who has gone through a divorce or bankruptcy.

I have nothing to hide, but then I really know that getting cooperation from the Chinese as requested by the West is really going to be a pain in the ass. Well, its about time that I start being a pain in the ass, for up to know, that was a privilege and right of the elite.

Yea, sort of missed that. Got that now.

That there is a universe out there where Sarah Palin is President.

Maybe two super-massive black holes passed close to each other and spun these off?

Sex , drugs, and rock 'n roll.

And got completely different results!

However we are current pursuing efforts at mind reading and using minds to control devices using a feedback device which measures activity in regions of the brain. 50 years ago, this would have been considered bunk, so there obviously has been some progress.

> A divorce lawyer doesn't just get hired into a corporate law position.
I think the situation is that if I were to say well, "I need a divorce lawyer specializing in divorces of a white woman and white man with 2 children in their teens, both couples working and making between $30K-$100K [each] who own 25% of a house whose market value is around $300K and whose reasons for divorce are that the man has been cheating on his wife."
There are strategies in a divorce that work better if the couple makes more or if the children are younger.

I have had so many job applications rejected because they were looking for 3 years of C# and 2 in MS-SQL while I had 5 in C++ and 2 in Java and 3 in IBM DB SQL all on Windows.

Next story, some Jewish archaeologist will claim to have found Jesus's body!

Will it be possible to identify his tomb after all these years? How are we sure that even if we find such an ornately decorated tomb, that Khan is the one buried there, instead of some relative or whatnot. I don't know, but many cultures have superstitions about their corpse in the afterlife, so that might be a motivation to "hide" the real corpse?