Yay, 'free market capitalism'.

Works by giving researchers high impact factor journal publications and later on tenure.

Nobody *does science* for fun anymore.

Use Bayesian statistics.

Well, there's your answer.

What, you didn't know that the cloud is made out of silicon and the social interconnectivity of the quantum network is made optimal by use of organic solar cells and other such buzzwords?

Bunch of quantum physicists on wall street? You know that's going to breed trouble. You won't be able to find your Bulls or Bears.

They'll be locked up inside a box somewhere, and until you open it, you won't know what the market trend is like.

We actually inherited a lot of our bureaucracy and administration from the Brits. I'm sure if you want to use the IRNSS on your cell phone, you'll just have to fill out a form to acquire a permission-form which is then submitted to a committee for speedy* evaluation.


*Subject to the lunch and tea-times of the members of the committee.

You have water??

While we're pondering how advanced or 'cybernetic' our apelike species is becoming and what that implies for alien contact, the Vogons are drafting legislation to setup a committee to analyze the ramifications of setting up a committee to analyze the ramifications of building a space-highway through the Solar system. We're not going to be able to ponder much longer.

Just a few hundred years, given how lightning fast committees are.

I don't know if it's a good strategy to deduce from flat wages that there isn't a shortage in supply of STEM workers. In fact, it is more than likely that the 'replacement STEM workers' for Americans (i.e., immigrant workers) come cheaper. If there is a 'market force' of labor shortage, which brings wages up, there's a counteracting force of 'cheap labour', which brings the wages back to where they were. Essentially, if you pick 'wage behavior' and 'number of employments' as your two metrics for deducing something, you may be underestimating the dimensionality of your 'state-space'.

After looking at EPI's paper, the wages graphs vary around in an errorbar of about 100%, which is incidentally how much the number of employees graphs vary, too. Without actual errorbars, correlating two quantities with a similar-looking 'statistical spread' would lead to an underestimated total (or propagated error).

Is the parking cone still in Beta?

I am looking forward to getting distracted by something silly just as I'm about to hit the dirt after tripping over.

What about the underrepresented minorities like the Brown or Yellow papers?

Why did you have 5 TV's?