Shift Happens (Video)

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/shifthappens ^ | Fischer

[scout34]

$1000 for a computer that has more computational capacity than the entire human race?

Is that in 2007 dollars? How optimistic!

[Oatka]

Son, I was shooting Chinese when you were born. Now they’ve become our best customers. We won’t have to kill as many of them next time.”

There's an old cynical (but true) saying: "You can't tell who your enemies are without a calendar."

Another case in point, WallyWorld is selling candles made in Vietnam.

[ozzymandus]

Were you not aware there are a lot of people in India and China? 20 years ago the Japanese were going to take us over, then the saudis were going to buy us. We are in more danger from millions of illiterate illegal aliens flooding in than from Chinese engineers and Indian doctors.

[dblshot]

Different threat, illegals cost me money in form of taxes for social services, Chinese and Indian engineers could cost me my job.

[ozzymandus]

Oh, so you only care about you. I see. That’s the same attitude a lot of the supporters of illegal immigration have. If we were importing reporters and politicians, they’d change their tune.

[Joya]

I just now saw on youtube the Shift Happens video.

A little bit of my reaction was, “Yeah? So what?” However the factoids presented there mostly leave me feeling

shock

and

awe

!!!

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Here’s a current link for “Shift Happens”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g

To everyone, this is

MUST SEE.

[Joya]

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I agree, even if I’m learning of it ten months later.

BTTT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g