John Adams

Bill Gates brings it up all the time. We have 3 people working for us from India and 1 from Japan--it is incredibly costly for us to help them with their visas but they are part of us now and we do thousands of dollars of work (and pay the fees) to help them stay. Still, one guy had to go back to India to be with his sick mom and got stuck there for 7 months while visa issues were straightened out. His wife and 2 kids sat in the states worried to death. He finally made it back. He's a PhD telecom phenom. I wish he'd apply for citizenship.

I work with a lot of telecom engineers. The old ones who barely use computers are white Americans. The young ones who know all the technology are 1st gen Americans or non-Americans who love it here. It's rare for me to work with a young 2d or 3d gen American engineer unless they are ubergeeks.

Reading Shakespeare and Locke doesn't build a car. Look at the non-punctuation dedouche John guy. Probably the pride of some Jesuit college somewhere. With regards to a liberal arts education, it's worth something but you can do that easily on your own. I'd contend that it's more challenging to self study Electrical Engineering. In a graduate-level computer networking course last week at Drexel, there were 35 students. Without checking green cards and based only on clothing and accents, I guessed 7 were American. 4 were honkeys. Meanwhile, China, Russia, and India are pumping out engineers by the thousand.

That's some of the problem--maybe just the part that relates to sciences. The point also is that lots of smart people who might not be scientifically gifted but are otherwise extremely bright, are going into law instead of many other industries. Would you rather have a business tycoon or just another lawyer?

A nice quote from Justice Scalia on lawyers. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/10/01/scalia...s-to-lawyering/ The WSJ also recently wrote that many other bright people flock to Wall Street for easy money instead of doing something useful. The reckoning with the Pacific rim on this is coming, probably not as soon as Dwight Drane thinks (9/2009? 2012? 2014?) but in the battle of the brains, we're behind.

Says what? The Athiest Handbook? You get called names because you're just plain stupid.

You're StupidNation aren't you?

I've never seen someone add inane replies to his own inane posts as much as you. In a short time, you have vaulted past some of the worst posters of all time to land solidly in the top 5. Respecting the rules of punctuation would drop you a few notches since you're the only person on this board who thinks his sentences are clearer without punctuation but still: Welcome to the top 10!

He opens with a nice indictment of the human race. Something about how humans took the best and nicest one of us who ever lived (in the Joe in Macungie belief system) and nailed him to a cross to suffer a horrible death.

He's crusading for stupidity. If it was just another religios debate thread, who would care?

I've read them. It was not my point.

9*6=54. You just upped the %.

You and Tom practically speak with one mouth.

Why would the Eagles want to part with a guy who's thrown for almost 750 yards in his last two games--when they have an aging and injury-prone starter in McNabb? Why? Why? Why? Maybe the Bills will sign Randy Moss and Jones Drew when their contracts are up too. Stop this madness.

Can we merge this and the 2 religious threads?

It's only a good post because he pasted it. Credit Sam Harris, not dedouche.

He dances behind the line too much. I hope he's gotten that bad habit cured.

You'd be just a touch above primordial ooze if you had the slightest respect for the rules of grammar. Do you not note that everyone here makes an attempt to write in full and complete sentences?

Unprovable or inprovable or disprovable or antiprovable? You don't even know the difference neophyte.

Please exit the thread now you frothing Jesus-lover.

+1 re the fish.

Dwight got something right!

Quick slant to TO. Quick slant to TO. Quick slant to TO. OR let him run across the middle of the field instead of the TE for a change. Leave the TE in to block and run 2 WRs out. Somehow, some way, get the WRs not named Reed the ball. I don't even remember who Lee Evans is anymore. I saw the DB giving TO 10 yards at the LOS several times. Just audible to a slant and get him the damn ball. AVP also gave up on Jackson yesterday. Except the 1st quarter, the Saints did not stop him.

Disagree. If he keeps his emotions in check, he will give up and it seems he's starting to already. He's a fiery player. I'd rather have him shouting from the mountains and getting some balls thrown at him than what is happening now.

Most tackles have been blocking him with one or two hands, fully extended. He is weak and if he's ever ready to be a D-lineman, it won't be this year.