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The first 3 points about industry groups, incubators, and public support are valid. I would like to see how effective the programs have been.

4. The Quality of Life is extremely subjective. I lived in Chicago and experienced the opposite. People are mostly concerned with getting drunk only. The city is ultra segregated. Big 12 frat house to the North, Suburban "hipsters" in the North center, etc. It's very suburban.

5.The only time people spoke to me on the street was to insult me. Most people you will meet in Chicago are not from Chicago.

Okay, I understand.

Manule, When Americans go to Lyon, they go to France, when they go to France they go to Europe.

You don't need to go to France to find well-behaved children, but this is what appeals to Americans the most: "Beautiful redhead child", France is great, etc. And these reaffirming notions are great in appeasing your audience and selling books.

Interesting article b/c Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus in Sociology at MIT, wrote (in 1961) :

http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/whitenegro.html

Be warned, you may be slightly offended. A synopsis. On the cusps of the "revolution" in 1961 America, Marx states American mothers were increasingly trying to be "hip". Now, there is actually a magazine called "Hip Mama" sold at Whole Foods ( http://hipmama.com/ )

He mentions a story about a hippie, who were then called "beats", firing a caretaker because the caretaker's thoughts on raising children was too rigid, traditional and overbearing. I think this is where the temper-tantrum nation , me-first phenomenon began.

I have friends like the author of this article who want to empower their children, not tell them "no", etc. For them, it comes from an almost religious belief in freedom. Meaning , whenever making a decision focus on what is most free as opposed to what works.

I remember watching a segment about a high school science class in Oregon who threw imported crayfish into a local stream because they didn't believe in killing, and wanted the crayfish to be free. Well, the non-local crayfish started killing off the local crayfish.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june11/pledge_03-...

I think I might switch over my email accounts, but there is also an issue of how long will these services be around for.

I had an Altavista account until they closed their email service. So, I need a reliable provider that wont be swallowed up by a bigger company and change my email address.

The author, David Goldman, is a huge bigot and panders for appeasement (i.e. he says something you believe to get you to grab on to his hidden agenda). He was on the Jaime Glazov show in November viciously insulting Muslims.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/11/23/the-jami...

He talks about how we (i.e. you and I) need to risk our lives to attack Iran in order to save our civilization (read: serve his agenda).

In his computer article he mentions nothing about evidence showing that computers cause people to be less intelligent save for a few coincidental anecdotes.

Wait a minute,

1.nowhere in the article did the author, Shagun, identify where the 230,000 jobs were created.

2.The graph is out of place. The graphic shows the percentage of each countries populations belonging to Facebook. This has nothing to do with jobs or economic growth.

3.The article ended by repeating Facebook's mantra instead focusing on verification.

4. The example of Burberry did not serve the article. It merely said Burberry gave away free items on facebook.

Superwork! Hugs!

I have no personal history, but both Ross Perot, Sam Wiley and Charles Wiley quit jobs at IBM in the 60's because IBM was not interested in their side projects.

The guy at http://www.rohdesign.com had a boss who supported his side project.

no, the hype is too much. According to Ben Graham you want to buy stock when a company is under-appreciated. Facebook has already reached god like status

Marc Andresson has shares. Never knew he was still in the tech game

Museums - Examples of donations: Julian and Josie Robertson donate Picasso to North Carolina Museum of Art http://www.wral.com/news/local/noteworthy/story/7107735/ http://thesouthern.com/news/breaking/new-york-collectors-don...

Radio and Record Companies work in conjunction Music-formatted radio stations both commercial and non-commercial get their music for free from record labels.

http://www.musicbizacademy.com/knab/articles/radiostations.h...

Libraries are publicly funded

Why ticket prices have shot up over the last decade

http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-rock-roll-slumping-u-21...

Breakdown of ticket prices, bands receive %74to90% of ticket price

http://www.wisebread.com/how-much-a-breakdown-of-concert-tic...

Music sales slump,concert ticket costs jump and rock fans pay the price.

http://www.krueger.princeton.edu/10_17_2002.htm

Ticket price, true they(BEP) were not that popular then but $28+tax in 1999 compared to $45 now is still higher than inflation. The inflation increase is 29%[3], the ticket increase is 60%[4].

[3]http://www.warpedtourtickets.musictoday.com/WarpedTour/calen...

[4]http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

Are authors paid for books purchased at the library? The library does not provide the public with a free personal copy of any book they want.

I do not doubt that artists may be compensated in the long run. But the compensation my come through higher ticket prices. I paid $32 to see Molotov, Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, and Suicidal Tendencies in New York City back in 1999. Those days are long gone. To see those artists now, maybe $120.

Saying "will" seems speculative since the examples are not comparable to piracy. Museums dont give free copies and have collections which are sometimes donated. In radio there is a cooperation between radio stations and the record companies.

The issue of compensation for the artist never seems to come up in these conversations. Neil Young can charge $75 for his cheapest concert tickets. So record sales mean very little to him. For younger artists this is not the case.

> but they won't pay any money for something that they don't know whether or not they will like it.

people bought albums for decades without knowing what songs were on the album.

I don't see how it's fair to justify the acquisition of someones property with the pretense that it's gonna be better for you. Even under extreme cases like nationalisation and imminent domain, the owners are compensated. I made this comment on the Neil Young link, but it was censored. If we are so certain that the artist will benefit under the 'new' system, fine, but if he or she doesn't they have to be compensated to bridge the earnings gap.

Comparing music now to music in the 1930's is not fair, artists got paid almost nothing in the 1930-1950's. The whole industry was corrupt.

Would like to have seen a larger piece about cheating general, but this is a good article. The SAT committee is looking very bad lately with test-taking scandals and now false reporting

Patent It Yourself by - David Pressman gives a comprehensive overview of the Patent process. This article is a good intro, but I think "Can it make serious money" is no.1

Good post, someone the other posted an op-ed critiquing the Gates' bioengineering programs. This article is more specific as to what is actually happening.

Okay, I changed the title from what I think you expected.

I don't think it's necessary to mention Bill Gates since he is one of many philanthropists. Also the Genetically Modified Foods case in Karnataka was the only specific example the author gave of using money to dictate to the world.

I was just trying to make the point, restrictions of the press are usually in response to reporting on the crackdown of protesters as was even stated in the article itself. For this I am losing a karma point every 15 minutes

I only commented on the ranking methodology. As for politics. We have 120 different countries on here with differing experiences; I'm not touching that issue on this thread

Why is Australia ranked low for press freedomthen? The only controversial thing I can thing of in Australia is the mining industry. Do you all have protesters against the mining industry...thinking of Midnight Oil's "Blue Sky Mine"

The key seems to be, in order to be high on the list do not have protests and uprisings in your country.

nice interface

There is a gap between inventors and innovators. Innovators and those who step on people to succeed financially are the ones heralded in society. It's nice to see the pure genius side of innovation.

Understood, my roommate vented every time someone misrepresented Germany or god forbid said "European". I do agree, I could have had a better transition with better examples and explanations why I used the examples.

Thanks for the article. I launched a web app first, no regrets, many people access the web app on their mobiles.

An extra tip could be: Design the web app to be usable on mobile devices, i.e. no scrolling, no flashy things, nothing super small, etc.

I was lost in the beginning as to the definition of "Big Data" and how it relates to the sewage system demands. It would be good to answer all those questions in the first paragraph

Ok, but how do we readers act upon the article?

>I agree

I don't support Anonymous because I don't discount or disagree with concepts. I only discount implementations and Anonymous has no implementation to address the valid problems their enemies have solved in their own way.

Bookmarked it, thanks

Send me the blog post when you get around to it. I considered writing software the same as creating a machine. It allows us to access/construct the things we need.