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...rogue computer genius named Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) who has been shabbily treated by the federal government. He intends to get his revenge by hacking into every computer-run system in the country, beginning with the transportation grid and ending with the financial system, from which he intends to drain every last penny before he's finished. His scheme is called a "fire sale" (as in "everything must go") and, of course, it will make him rich. But that's not the point; the point is revenge. The central joke of the movie-and its not a bad one-is that...
...tremendous. Securing the border with an eye toward illegal immigration will not remove the forced that draw these immigrants to choose to immigrate illegally, nor will it remove all means of doing so. A greater budget for border security thus amounts to throwing cash down the drain. The government has better things on which to spend money. A more appropriate means of targeting and reducing or eliminating illegal immigration is the demystification of the process to citizenship. If this process is made less complicated and easier to access, the incentives to immigrate illegally will pale beside the ease...
Ncube: There's been a brain drain. All the intelligent people - doctors, lawyers, teachers - have left. Zimbabwe could recover still; people are used to work. Even today, people will walk 20 or 30 kilometers a day to get to work and back. There is a lot of talent in Zimbabwe. And the West is ready to invest and get things up and running again. And all we want is what any man wants: food on the table, shelter, a future for our children, security and peace. Our only problem is Mugabe. He thinks Zimbabwe is his property. He prevents everything...
...Russian budget and enabled the government to take unprecedented initiatives, which Putin mentioned in his address. As billions of petrochemical dollars pour into the nation's coffers, he seeks to reinvigorate its scientific base. The down-at-heels research institutes are to receive immense subsidies, and the brain drain of scientists to America is to be blocked off. Putin wants the state to play its traditional role of picking which industrial sectors to advance. He has plumped for nanotechnology, betting that Russia can quickly become much more than a seller of its natural resources. Like China and India...
...intelligence than everyone thinks? I called around to check with my former colleagues. "Who cares whether the intelligence budget is $25 or $75 billion?" a recently retired CIA officer told me, bringing up only one real problem that bothers him. "The entire budget is being flushed down the drain - into contractors' pockets...