20% sales tax on low quality imports vs. home grown / home made produce with no tax (jam, honey, scarves, woollen wear, cords of wood for winter, compost, clothing) . One persons trash is another persons spare parts.

Maybe they are on holiday, religious or resident visas that would prevent either from attending paid educational courses or receiving financial payment. I know friends in France who are not allowed to "work" as English language tutors, but accept gifts instead. Same with the French language tutors.

The idea is based on racism.
For example...
H1 for Indians to come to the tech industry = bad and scary.
H1 for a European to come to the tech industry = good and progressive.

When we had the baby boom a big influx of population in the US it was considered a good thing and the economy grew. We have an influx of Mexicans it is a bad thing because they are taking our jobs.

The problems isn't the Chinese, it is that Americans are not working on the next new thing. They are protesting the Left and Right and not going out and making things.

Tradeoffs = Life.
People don't seem to understand this. For every choice and action you do there is a tradeoff. If you want tech that is High quality, and made under your ideals of working conditions be prepared to pay a lot more (say $1,500 for an iPhone like device), If you do pay that price then you spent that money on a phone where you could have used it to shop at a local store and support your local economy, or give it to a charity... Tradeoffs.

There are always going to be problems in the world, the trick is to keep tuning to the optimal balance and once you find that balance the rules change on you and you start again. There is no Utopia, in a world with limited resources. You can only obtain a balance.

There, I said it.

It is about getting staff to support your business, and the software you need.
If you have a Linux shop, you need to find people with Linux experience to keep your company going. These people with Linux experience also know Windows. However you need to find people who know Linux well enough as there is a gap in skills between very basic user, and administrator. For windows you can hire most any tech at any price range you need. You need a $10.00 per hour kid to make sure the disk doesn't get too full and install software, you can find some one. You need a $50.00 per hour skilled admin who will operates complex networks and mass storage you can find them too.

Next is software. You don't work in a vacuume your software will need to work with vendors and customers. That software you need for your business might have a Linux port, but there is always a windows version. You call for support you say Linux they say sorry you are on your one.

The issue of hardware. Your Linux experience is based on the hardware you get. Get the wrong hardware it runs like crap, get the right hardware, Linux runs like a champ. Companies like Dell that sells systems preloaded with Linux are risky because the don't really give you a good compatible system. You need to spec out each component. Windows has the drivers and they work. Thus getting a Windows system much more reliable.

Often the cost of a system with or without a windows license is verry small, get the license you can always go to Linux in the future. When you are in the future, you have a windows infrastructure that is too costly to change.

As a matter of fact, I am.

Psychologists don't have patients.

Well the fire could do a fair amount of damage before it used up all the Oxygen... These subs are designed to keep people alive for extended periods... I would expect there is enough oxygen for a wide spreading fire.

The problem is Sci-Fi in some regards had made the impossible/impractical come seem like the norm... This is why we put way too much time and money into the shuttle program, We wanted a "reusable" spacecraft like we see in Sci-Fi. Even though it is cheaper per flight to make disposable space craft. But we spent decades on the idea of the Reusable Space craft. I wonder how much further ahead we would be if we focused on the disposable craft.
For one every launch there will be improvements to the craft, because they can. Second you would get a new fresh group of people making crafts all the time so the knowledge and experience is passed to each generation. Third we would have crafts specialized for each mission, the shuttle is a general purpose device... Thus not really fit for any mission.