Really the bottom line no one really knows what the future holds.
50 years from now humans might be extinct, according to some predictions we might not make it past 2012.
I think it was a number of things, USA was one of the first goverments that though people should rule them selves. Freedom of religion. Freedom of speech. People from many differant countries. It is said a tree with many roots is allways the strongest. I think more then a quarter of the US...
Russian Honey-Trap May Have Affected Aircraft Carrier Deal With India -- Intel News
The recent court disclosure of an Indian engineers affair with a Russian woman has added fresh controversy in a multi-billion dollar deal gone sour between Russia and India, over the purchase of an aircraft...
China Group: Facebook Used to Sow Unrest
Beijing-Backed Think Tank Accuses West of Using Social Networks To Sow Unrest
"China Renews Google's License despite Friction
Regimes Winning Online Battles, Group Says
(AP) A Chinese government-backed think tank has accused the U.S. and other...
I dont think this rudeness is necessary. But I will answer the question as well as I can. Poltical contributions come both from unions as well as non unions. They do influence the politicans. There has been attempts to limit that influence. Obama is supported by unions because he has...
By Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 11, 2010
BEIJING -- A series of labor strikes continued to spread Friday across parts of China, as newly emboldened workers pressed for higher wages and better conditions, posing a fresh challenge to the government and the...
"SUN WUKONG
And the poor get poorer
By Wu Zhong, China Editor
HONG KONG - China's wealth gap, which has been expanding tremendously in the 30 years since the country turned towards a capitalist-style economy, is showing little signs of diminishing even as growth slows.
The number of...
Another liberal think tank with some retreads that thought the US economy would not make it thru the 70's. I have heard that the end of the world and the US economy is going to happen for over 50 years now...it still works like they taught in economics class nearly 60 years ago, some times...
I dont have any doubt that the Russians made good vacuum tubes, they would have to be to be used in Jet Fighters.
We used to allow the USSR to steal american technology. We knew they would get it eventually.
"According to the book At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War by...
Russian Jews
The listing of world chess champions of Jewish descent given below is based on the list of so-called "undisputed world chess champions," a category whose definition reflects the fact that the world chess championship was in dispute in the years 1993-2006. In 1993, the then world...
You would not give an IQ test that involved reading to some one that could not read.
"The term IQ, or Intelligence Quotient, generally describes a score on a test that rates the subject's cognitive ability as compared to the general population. IQ tests use a standardized scale with 100 as...
I was in the USSR back in the days of the cold war the real reason was the soviets did not the ability to make transistors of good quality in quanity nor would the west sell them to the soviets even if they could have afforded them.
As I remember a ruble was worth 77 cents at the Goverment...
I spent some time in the USSR, one of the things I remember was them using vacuum tubes in there data processing equipment, not sure you could even call them computers. This was long after vacuum tubes were obsolete in the USA.
"Bridging the Semi-conductor Gap
Taking semi-conductors as...