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And perhaps the biggest threat to our technological advancement is the republicans immigration policy. Policies like Muslim bans, boarder walls, anti- DACA policies, ex.ex.
You are referring to policies regarding illegal immigrants in this sentence and then cite figures about legal immigrants. These are two completely separate topics.
If we got into a major world war and the enemy was Russia and/or China; a large chunk of the Trumpers would turn their guns on their fellow Americans on behalf of the enemy.
The Chinese and Russians aren't spending the most amount of money educating who will be the least productive citizens. I'm not suggesting special needs students get kicked to the curb but when you are spending $100K on someone who may never hold a job and only $10K on someone with an IQ of 140 there is something wrong with that.
True. We have universities handing out scholarships left and right for football or basketball players, a group of people who for the most part, are not going to be in any way a valuable citizen of this country, compared to say, a doctor.
I always got a little peeved to find out a movie or TV role went to another non American. I was really PO that a British man played Abraham Lincoln. I thought it was a slap in the face. I wonder if the hiring of foreign actors has something to do with not dealing with any unions?
if America is in fact losing out, its due to constraints and cronyism that the guv has in place, because there is no shortage of brilliant minds or capital here.
Yeah, you ever think there was something fishy on how, there are 6 billion people on this planet, and only one man came up and monopolized the sole computer software program that is used the world over? How did he get lucky, and no one new has come up since him?
True. We have universities handing out scholarships left and right for football or basketball players, a group of people who for the most part, are not going to be in any way a valuable citizen of this country, compared to say, a doctor.
Actually, most sports players are involved in charities, many giving back to the community they grew up in. And I doubt many will go into the medical field anymore because of the new tax bill. Currently, graduate students earn a stipend for living expenses. Their tuition is waived in exchange for working as teaching or research assistants. The stipend is currently taxed at 4%. They will now be taxed at 20% because tuition waivers will be taxed. They go into the medical field to help all of us. They do the research to help find cures for cancer, alzheimers.....to much to name. These are the people our country desperately needs but they won't be able to afford the education because they get screwed by this new tax plan. Instead we give breaks to corporations so their ceo's and shareholders can get richer.
Yeah, you ever think there was something fishy on how, there are 6 billion people on this planet, and only one man came up and monopolized the sole computer software program that is used the world over? How did he get lucky, and no one new has come up since him?
According to this article China and Russia are winning the race to advanced robotics and AI.
They are setting the table for their futures while we have our heads buried in issues of 150+ years ago.
We are busy dumbing down our population so the lowest denominator doesn't look so bad while they are encouraging their best and brightest to perfect the technology that will be our downfall.
We have a 20T debt and a growing worthless segment of our population with no morals or work ethic.
Yes, we are at risk of losing this war of the future.
And that's because Trump and current ruling conservatives don't really support this stuff. California and its world-leading Tech sector that is at the forefront of AI and robotics is seen as the enemy of America. Instead, coal jobs are at the top of the agenda. Trump admin will also do what it can to slash education, just wait and see. And as we shut ourselves off to the rest of the world, who do you think is going to step up and benefit in terms of global trade and development in areas such as AI and robotics?
So given this reactionary and reclusive attitude that prevails today, how do you expect to compete to win?
US lawmakers are too concerned with all the potential mis-uses and abuses of new technologies should the public have access to them, that is the main problem that needs to change today, a first step could be to declassify all the Tesla stuff they are currently hiding away, and let progress happen, and see what the general public can do with it.
If they continue to regulate new technology like this, anything that has any remote potential of negatively effecting any modern industry or effecting Govt authority and control, we will never get much further than we are right now.
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