Do you benifet from the ideas of Copernicus and Galileo Galilei?
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That is not the point of academia, and indeed not the point of why academics are offered tenure with their institutions. Please consider Galileo and Copernicus and the Church of the 15th and 16th centuries. Please consider history.
Google as a business may care about research being aligned with its business, or what 'society' or certain segments of society care about; Google really should not care what academia and academics want to work on. That is the point of, for better or worse, academia: independent research by some of our smartest people.
If Google, and industry, care about what gets research, they should fund it. They then can choose. Please leave academia and academics to be just that, academic.
Without government funding, support, and indeed the wider academia 'ecosystem', my father would have never been able to be a historian of the Scottish enlightenment, and producing the seminal book on Adam Smith. And if you don't think that the Scottish Enlightenment is important to our modern understanding of the Universe, then I suppose that you then have to rethink the contributions of these notable academics, scientists, engineers, and philosophers: David Hume, McLaren, Taylor, James Watt, Telford, Napier--off the top of my head.
My point is that my fathers book may not itself be a major contribution to a current revolutionary idea, but it will likely be part of some future realisation about economics, since Adam Smith is a major cornerstone of our current understanding of economic thought.
This +1, er +1,000,000.
I would firmly state that academia by definition is not supposed to 'deliver to industry', and not even to society. The whole point of academia is to give the very smartest people (whatever that means) the freedom to explore ideas, so that a some point humanity may benefit from their ideas, experiments, and research.
My point is that it could be any number of generations of research from the current generation of (what seems like quack) research (to the establishment) will turn into being instrumental to our understanding of the universe. Galileo Galilei (and Copernicus) for instance. Their ideas (and research) did not sit well with the establishment of the Church (which was pretty much the central authority of everything at the time), but their ideas are now central to our understanding of our Solar system.
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>> I'm not aware of a single American individual who gave up their citizenship for politics (and I work in this field).
Firstly I'm not sure which 'both' are untrue, as I had 3 points, so your response is a little confusing.
Politics: There where some number of American men who where wanting dodge the American draft before it was abolished in 1973, particular in the 60 and 70s. I suspect some number of draft-dodgers renounced their American citizenship. Similarly, some number of American women did not want their children to be subject to the draft, and didn't agree with American wars, so they too moved away, and renounced their American Citizenship--I know some women for who this is absolutely the case. I also know some people who currently reside outside of the US who would renounce their American citizenship were Trump to be elected president. I would say all of these example falls under the board heading of "politics".
I would agree that it is currently the policy of the US Government not to make individuals renounce their citizenship where they to become a citizen of another country, but I do not know the history. It is that other countries do make new citizen renounce their other citizenship(s); Singapore, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renunciation_of_citizenship
Similarly, if Singapore citizen was to obtain American Citizenship, s/he would have to renounce their Singaporean Citizenship.
Also it is my understanding that if an American would like to move to another country, and become a citizen of that country (for any number of reasons), they have to renounce their American citizenship.
People moving to the United States, on the otherhand, may retain their citizenship of certain countries, such as Canada.
>> I have to take the people above me a bottle of wine and ask them kindly to try and not make as much noise ...
I just live on the top floor.
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We have seen this attack vector. We have seen key-loggers, as well as crypto-locker Trojans, delivered in this way.
It has been an up hill battle educating staff who view themselves as non-computer people, but we are getting there. Most staff have come to think as safe behind our spam, content, and security filters, and getting them to think critically about whether they should open an attachment has been very difficult.
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Not sure why he just didn't say it, that information is available elsewhere anyway.
I think Quebec has pretty much forever been a have not province.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/time-for-quebec-to-end-equ...
I also appreciated that they left out the detail on what the intended purpose for Les 1 and Les 2 was, so they wouldn't confuse anyone with too much information.
There are some very powerful, vested interests, namely the insurance and drug companies, that do not want public healthcare.
I am completely suspicious of private, for profit healthcare.
Are you seriously telling me that private healthcare is better? (Okay, private healthcare is better for the maybe the top 1% who can pay for their healthcare out of pocket, but if that is not you, the public system is better.) If I change employer, and therefore insurance policy and/or provider, I will never have to think about previous conditions that may not be covered with my new employer, for instance.
1.) There is a very common assumptions in the USA that because a State funds healthcare, the individual is not allowed choice of doctor, which is incorrect in every public healthcare system I have used.
2.) That public or state run health care system is not substandard or less efficient to the American private system, but actually generally better for just about everyone.
3.) That if every American paid a flat 18% tax for healthcare (instead of any healthcare insurance premiums, whether paid directly by you, or by your employer), then the American government nationalised all American healthcare, every American should then receive at least a $4000 tax rebate. Then again your government could use that money fund better schools and universities.
[EDIT] And by-the-way, the UK Government still spends less than the American Government on every citizen, on healthcare. The American government spends $4437 per every single American citizen every year on healthcare. By contrast, the UK spends $2919 per person, every year. You tell me which tax payer is getting better value for money.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...
And scooters: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/p...
And we subsidise cars for the disabled: http://www.motability.co.uk/cars-and-wavs/
BTW, the UK economy spends almost half in, relative terms, at 9.6% of the UK GDP vs the Americans spend of 17.9% of GDP, on healthcare. In real terms (2012 dollars), the UK spends $3480 per person vs the US spending $8362 per person. And we have a health care system free at the point of delivery.
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20 hours on, you would think that there should be some further update on what is happening and estimated time to restoration of service.