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Depends if you are a bank sitting on a lot of unsellable fancy property!

Many jobs require a degree.

Those jobs that only require you to wear a suit don't care what the degree is in.

Now if your future job only depends on your grade - not the subject which would you choose? Studying maths/physics/etc for 4years or doing psychology/media studies/american studies.

That's a bit unfair.

You have to give them a chance, they only just got democracy - it takes a while to build up a military-industrial complex.

You're forgetting people in with houses to offload and banks with foreclosed $1M homes that they might want to make 50% return on.

But if nobody had debt you couldn't have savings - well you could but the bank would charge you for storing them rather than paying you interest.

So if everybody in the country had a masters degree people would all earn 2.5x as much?

Obviously an increase in PhD programs in french-fry frying would raise incomes even further.

We spend $8Bn on some new stealth fighters. We only ever use them against countries with no air defences. So the fighters never get 'used up' so there are massive job losses at BAe.

The traditional option was to fight a competent enemy - but then your own people get shot down which doesn't play well with the electorate.

A modern solution is to sell your weapons to an ally, then destroy them and then sell more of the same replacement items to the replacement government. The big advantage of that is that the replacement government is normally pretty well disposed to you - if they know whats good for them.

It would make more sense for Nato to attack Saudi/UAE/Bahrain etc. They buy western hardware so if we destroy a few hundred Tornadoes/Eurofighters/F16s then there are big replacement contracts to create jobs in Europe and America.

The same Qaddafi who was a "partner in the war on terror" when Prime minister Blair visited in 2004 ?

Or the same Qaddafi that provided the `special questioning` facilities when the British secret service sent the current democratic leader there to be interrogated about terrorist links.

If the people in some other Arabic countries did the same thing we would be bombing their ruler's palaces?

Tell me - does Irony just mean "made of Iron" here?

Very little - millionaires tend not to pay much tax. Especially foreign ones whose income is difficult to trace.

What happened in Vancouver when Canada did the same thing is that people bought the houses as an insurance so they had an escape route if Honk Kong went bad. Most of the houses either sat empty, were rented out, or the kid was dumped there to go to college.

It did a lot for the local housing market - not clear it did quite so much for local entrepreneurial growth.

New science, engineering, medical graduates who have just finished a US degree/masters/PhD?

The new democratic rulers of Libya / Arab extremists - depending on them signing the right contracts with the right oil companies

But many of those graduates will be in law or medicine so having more of them in the country will lower the wages in those professions

And many of the others are scientists and engineers - people who often believe in evolution.

There aren't many places where it's considered reasonable that your employer can fire you for no reason and have you and your family thrown out of the country aswell.

I think Phase tracking GPS chipsets are still pricey - outside surveying applicatiosn there isn't much demand.

"more frequently than once per month from any other person, ... shall be deemed as being engaged in the business of a secondhand dealer."

So more than one Ebay a month and you are a dealer.

Trouble is that it must be from a US investor.

So it's the same slave labor problem as H1B. If you don't like anything the investor suggests after you have moved then he withdraws the funding and you get deported.

Can we think of how a good capitalist VC might use that to their advantage?

They don't even have to change anything - a VISA isn't a guarranteed right of entry.

You just need minimum wage guy at the airport desk to not like your face and you don't get in - no matter how many VISAs you have in your passport. You can of course try and correct the problem from the other country after you have been denied entry - if you can get an airline to carry you.

You need a receiver in the phone that can phase track, which costs 50x as much as the simple GPS chip they fit.

You also need either a lot of storage locally or a fast data link between the base station and the rover - phones actually have both of these but they cost money

I think (IANAL) is that in libel publishing is the offence - so if you publish a copy of the libel you have committed the same offence - so "is a hyperlink publishing a copy?" is the question.

In a torrent the offence is something like "making available a copyright file for download" so the argument is that a torrent (which doesn't itself contain any of the copyright file) and a link to the torrent are equally "making available".

The case was specifically about "was a link - a republishing of an article" not, was the thing linked to legal.

In this libel case publishing the article was the offence. So 'if' making a link was also publishing, then an article that only linked to the original that was a new offence.

It doesn't mean that you can put up a message saying "riot at the mall tonight" and then tweet a link to that claiming "you only sent a link" - it's still inciting a riot!

In other words making a link doesn't suddenly protect you from what was in linked to message - it just means that it isn't a new publication of the same message.

In practice it has big implications for both Google (who don't have to police the entire internet!) and for libel tourism - you can no longer pick a convenient jurisdiction to sue in based on somebody there only publishing a link

It means you can have the CPU and OS running 24x7. So much simpler to program (and more like a desktop system) than most embedded where you have to wake up every N seconds, check for tasks and go back to sleep.

"rich media (audio, video), interactivity (JavaScript)" Great - an ebook format that is going to require virus scanning everytime want to read a book.

Not quite the same thing.

The ruling said that publishing a hyperlink wasn't the same as re-publishing the original article.

Making a torrent file available is providing a way to download the copyright offending file - that's a totally different charge.

The GPS chips include it (and Galileo) anyway since the frequency is close enough that you don't need any extra HW and with ASICs it's easier to just put everything it and fab a single device.

Whether the ASIC implementation works and whether the iPhone API actually uses it - is another matter

An Android tablet with more limited functionality for more money than other Android tablets!

Just trying out some other features type "time" into the address bar in chrome Returns: 8:44am Wednesday (PDT) - Time in Vancouver, BC

Ours insisted on backwards compatibility