At last - crystals worthy of stargate! http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Control_crystal

While the probability is low, the penalty is proportionately higher; the consequential risk may be identical.

How will you explain the presence of your disk in the coffin of a murder victim? And how will you feel about the subsequent scrutiny of everything on the disk, and the various and widespread interrogation of everyone referenced on the disk.

No-one wants your dollars, it's just paper money, they want what dollars will buy - things in america.

People change money because someone else wants the dollars to buy things from america.

Wealthy people creating jobs IS a myth,

Dollars do get re-circulated, what's the point of being rich otherwise? The rich spend and lend their money, during which time it is being recirculated.

I think you accidentally responded to me then, and I wasn't advocating any new tech

Nope, I was only answering the other guys comment.
Living in a democratic republic, maybe you can get your state government to give a decent breakdown of what they want your taxes for... but basically they've effectively just said "less on education but more tax overall" so you can probably work that bit out.

Good job you live in a democratic republic then... I realise what I'm saying but it looks like this is what we get when we have so much government intervention. We have the same problem where I live

Not really... the money spent abroad instead of locally only has ultimate value if it is spent back into the US. A Dollar has no other use in any other context.

Dollars spent abroad come back to pay for US exports and is thus good the the US economy and re-enters the local economy at that point.

One of the biggest recipients of dollars is China, who buy US bonds with them. Be glad they are not buying up all the US land with it!

You think they Chinese want to sit on piles of paper dollars? They spend them! In the only place they can!

When my sister was in college she SAVED enough to also go to Japan while the other students mostly ended up in debt.

The biggest problem is waste of resource, and those who waste them could always do with some more resources to waste.

The whining is that somebody else should change to make it better.

We get the same whining in the UK about government cuts; the folk whining don't seem to realise that no-one has any money to pay for the spending which is why the cuts are coming.

This is just more of the same.

It is a symptom of misunderstanding the problem and those who participate in it: "afford to compete with offshore labour" is only relevant to those who are trying to help folks to compete with offshore labour - i.e. the folks themselves. Why they think anyone else should be working to make their life easier is beyond me... well no it's not, but why they think they are entitled to have someone else work to make their life easier is beyond me.

if I start a company to make money for me to go to the golf club then that's the purpose of the company. These guy's are complaining that so few people start a company to make the workers rich, and yet are not doing it themselves either. That's what's so dumb. "It's so hard... wont someone ELSE save me so I don't have to".

The sympathy I have comes from the fact that despite all the land in the USA, one can't just go and get a few acres to work and feed themselves, but instead fall into idleness.

And yes I've been out of work, just over a year ago my employer went into administration, blah blah, I give loads of my time to help community groups and the school and all that stuff, and the biggest problem is people who whine but then go back to watching TV.

And yet there are private schools and colleges...

I meant the "rich" person wouldn't fund you cos then they wouldn't be rich.
They get rich with their own work, ideas and effort in relation to use of their capital, and the ones who still have the riches learn to be careful how they use it or they lose it.

and the same middle classes slit their own throats supporting the same corporations that badly serve them, being unable to link choice with consequence or being unable to suffer today for a better tomorrow.

"help, the world doesn't suit me... it's... HARD"

It's always been hard... it's always been easier to whine about what someone else should do... but if you constrain what the other person does, he may find it to be no longer worth his while and stop doing it too...

You can start business without capital, but it is hard to start a for-profit business without capital.

Start a co-operative college without capital. Teach in the homes to start with, pay with food or work. But no-one does that cos it makes them poor to start with, and they would rather take a pay cheque now, and whine.

But in my country the Polish are (were) famous for having done it that way, for having stuck together, supported eachother and having become the best and the most skilled in one generation, through polish clubs, polish schools, and the next wave are doing it again where I live.

It's nothing but work work work and no money. That's the cost.

And the "rich person" won't fund you easily because then they wouldn't be right.

it's not capital that makes riches, but someone's work work work.

yeah.. not quite what is says, is it... and the reason is not to benefit the students individually, but the nation as a whole.

What better way to encourage education that make it profitable so that more educational establishments spring up?

That means wider education AND wide employment of educators AND import spending from foreign students.

Start their own business if they think they can do better;

but what's the bets that if they did they would turn out like all the other people who did better and realise they don't need to pay "workers" any more than the "workers" are willing to work for...

What, do you think you have the right to education wherever you choose?

This is capitalism and the land of free enterprise - just start your own university if you think you can do any better.