Just so we are clear, the GP is saying that the companies above should have the freedom to reach their audiences and customers without being selectively blocked by ISPs.

Freedom is not having my business's website blocked by my customers' ISP.

He needs a mentor that can keep up with him. Rather than focusing on high school vs. college, I'd focus on finding the best possible person to set him down a fulfilling path for his life. That teacher or mentor could be in a University or high school. Putting this kid in any classroom is like handing out the keys to a Formula 1 car. You'll want to make sure that the driver can steer this mind towards reaching its full potential (both in achievement and personal fulfillment).

Exactly. You can't share your Spotify tracks or Netflix que on your timeline without something that monoitors activity while you are on other sites. Not sure why everyone on here is freaking out. If you want to share your life online, you'll have to allow FB to track your life. If you don't want to, stay off FB.

Whatever. It doesn't run linux.

Big market != Good business. Trading profits, IP, and making compromises on your business for access to a big market are not necessarily good business moves.

If we keep spending at the rate we are without the revenues to support it, it'll be a much faster deline.

Fixed it for you

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. -Steve Jobs

Troops are just the tip of the iceberg. The Naval Special Warfare Development Group could not have nabbed Bin Laden without intel, comms, logistics, payroll, and equipment. You think the systems to manage all that stuff is off the shelf? The military's global dominance was built on systems - not guns. Having a bunch of "specialized" groups of grunts will not secure your dominance on the battle field; having the systems to keep them coordinated, informed, fed, fueled, equipped, and battle field aware will.

"Reaganomics" may be credited with lifting us out of 70s stagflation, but it's hard to know why. Republicans point to lower taxes, but that era also saw a significant increase in deficit spending. It's hard to know if the recovery was due to lower taxes or from huge amounts of borrowed money being pumped into the economy.

If you're paying 30% on that income, you need a better accountant. You should not pay more than 15% on cap gains (unless you are a day trader), most munis have even lower tax rates, and depreciation on real estate can offset a lot of income on paper while the intrinsic value of the asset probably increased in value. The concept of a progressive tax rate is a joke. The smart money does not pay taxes in this country.

15%Munis have almost no tax

Paper gains are almost never taxed

My main point still holds: we tax work a lot more than wealth in this country

False. Rich people don't make money from wages. They make money from investments, dividends, and bond interest. That's why the super rich pay almost no tax (and why C-levels get paid in stock as opposed to salary). In the US we tax income from work, but we do not tax income from wealth.

Israelis paying? Not really. They are funded by the US.

But, it starts with policy and process. Our organization had a breach and they jumped right to the technology before making sure they had the policy right and getting technology to enable that policy. So, instead of having a tiered risk model for information, they carpet-bombed the enterprise and locked everything down. Productivity has probably taken a 40% hit.