Where is balance Academic priorities 311

That is what differentiates the engineer from the consumer. The engineer asks for a few decades worth of spare parts together with the initial purchase.

I must admit I was impressed with Blake ship's equipment though, when they shipped spare parts for a 1926 loo pumb same day delivery.

But I am digressing.

I see authorities striking down on creativity and the very people that is going to make the stuff we need the next century. These are the last people you want as an enemy. It goes all the way from the people that lead the boy scouts, the perpetual tinkerers. They do not come from rich backgrounds, and are very vulnerable until they are well out of college.

One example is the foreign college students going to the US. Around half of these (around 250.000 in total) were grounded after 9-11 and didn't get to their promised and paid for education.

This very group is an essential part of US grad students, nobel laureates, and around 1-4th of all cabinet members in the word have been part of this group, as they have their first years of higher education from the US.

All the last "velvet-orange-pink revolutions" have been led by people from this group.

You should think these were the last people on earth the US wanted to alienate. Think again. Malaysia, India and China immediatly opened their doors to them.

-- mrr