Cash-for-bitcoins: World’s first palm scan-activated bitcoin ATM to open in Canada
Published time: October 27, 2013 11:04
The world’s first bitcoin ATM will open in Vancouver, Canada, next week – dispensing Canadian dollars in exchange for the anonymous crypto-currency. But only if your palm scan matches the ATM’s records, that is.
The machine will be set up near downtown Vancouver coffee house Waves, is one of five ATMs bought by Canadian firm Bitcoiniacs from Nevada-based producer Robocoin.
Brain drain: Funding and industry leave America, followed by top minds
The US government spending crisis has caused visible pain for research and innovation in America. Already this year, billions of dollars in federal cuts due to sequestration has affected federal grants for scientific research.
But this problem is only the tip of a much bigger problem facing the redundant superpower.
Two fundamental building blocks for any modern technological, progressive economy are discovery research and scientific investigation. By their nature, these two pursuits carry a much slower return on the investment. In the past, the US could afford to be patient because its thriving industrial sector was a magnet for the word’s talent and investment - which is why successive governments have routinely placed their dollars there. That engine which used to power the US juggernaut has been disassembled and shipped overseas.
Politicians will certainly blame the current crisis in academia on sequestration and partisan feuds over federal budgets, but that’s only part of the story. Cuts are not only consigned to federal budgets. According to a report by the National Science Foundation, States have also cut funds for public research universities by 20 percent, in constant dollars, between 2002 and 2010. If money is cut back, that means researchers are laid off, programs are frozen, and labs are closed. As a result, talent will begin to look abroad for better opportunities.
According to a recent interview by RT with Benjamin Corb, a public affairs director for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), indicators for a ‘brain drain’ from the US are already starting to manifest throughout higher education.
“As a survey that we put together over the summer shows, one in five American scientists are considering leaving the country for better funding opportunities outside our borders,” he said.
The ASBMB survey also found that half the researchers had either laid off, or were expecting to lay off staff due to federal budget cuts. This includes letting go of technical staff, but more crucially it’s hurting the future crop of highly skilled experts - graduate, PhD, postdoctoral and resident trainees. It’s becoming a noticeable issue, even for some of the country’s, if not the world’s, perennially top higher education institutions like Harvard and the University of Chicago medical schools, as well as the New York State University system, to name only a few.
>>>In 2010, President Obama delivered a typical glorious speech on this topic stating, “Our future depends on reaffirming America’s role as the world’s engine of scientific discovery and technical innovation.”
The key word here was ‘reaffirm’, implying that the US has already been knocked off its perch. This is not a problem which any President can rightly claim to fix. Aggressive off-shoring policies over the last four US administrations has seen whole industries disappear from America, and so too will the graduates, following the work in an age of globalization. Why produce legions of engineering graduates in the US when there are no engineering jobs to fill?
But it’s not just across the board cuts in federal funding that are pushing this trend of a ‘brain drain’ from American shores. A larger picture reveals an almost perfect storm - other established economic and political trends which have made for optimum conditions for decline in scientific and technological eminence.
Falling prospects in a zero growth economy
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-brain-drain-sequestration-739/
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| APARTHEID "COURT LANGUAGE" ET AL ET CETERA ~FINANCIAL FRAUD INNOVATION |
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| DRONE WARFARE TO KILL ALL WITHOUT FEELING OTHER THAN RETIREMENT PORTFOLIOS ABUNDANTLY FILLING UP THE CRIMINALLY INSANE IN THE FUTURES, BUT OF COURSE |
Is-ra-hell needs a new host, America's burnt toast isn't palatable to earth world in CXXI, thank the LIGHTER ENERGIES that can alchemy the coarse, dense, gross, (DARK) IMBALANCED ENERGIES.
TAO. The NSA got this actually 100% correct. The TAO has decided for world earth and not the State of Is-ra-hell Rots-Child Paedophilia criminally insane Metzitzah b'peh practitioners for no less than 5,000 years! OMG what a healing cycle we have with "King George" now leading the new generations of brain dead and poly addicts - KINGS were never meant to be other than what these so called 'royals' are: FRAUD.
Sorry BABY GEORGE, you as a ROYAL get the Cliff High meditation and this is sad to say for such an innocent?
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| PAEDOPHILES OF EARTH WORLD CAN'T CONTINUE TO SELL HUMAN BEINGS IN THEIR SO CALLED 'ROYAL' CHOSEN BAD SPIRITS [BS] |
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