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Other numbers tell an even more intriguing success story. Only 6% of Indian immigrants live below the poverty line, vs. 31% of Mexicans and 8% of immigrants from Britain. Fewer than 1% use public assistance...
...just part of the story. "There are twice as many people in Europe who would work, if work were available, than there are people currently recorded as unemployed," notes the E.U.'s employment commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou. According to the European Commission, only 61% of European adults are employed, vs...
Encryption algorithms--the mathematical rules by which secret codes are made and broken--have been at the center of a simmering spy-vs.-nerd war since the early 1990s. The anti-encryption forces, which control the technology through laws originally passed to regulate munitions, are led by a handful of spooky U.S. government agencies (such as the FBI and the National Security Agency) with support from the White House that rises and falls from one election cycle to the next--more on that faction later...
...free-and-easy island life. It's actually hard work, because it lacks efficient economies of scale. Once you start seriously churning out the product, you quickly become very visible: warehouses, trucks, employee payrolls--it all adds up. The sweet charm of piracy is free, daring little "us" vs. big nasty "them." But any "us" that gets large enough is automatically a "them." Bill Gates was once a hippie programmer, a college dropout from Seattle. But a hippie with a billion dollars is no longer a hippie; he's a billionaire. A hippie with $50 billion is considered a trust...
...meaningful element. What matters is words. And words are not going anywhere; they are one of the most powerful and efficient forms of human communication. A few words--i.e., a few bits--can create religions, can make war or peace. Those words when presented to the eye (vs. the ear) are presented as text. In the past we could render text only by printing it on paper, carving it in stone, writing it with smoke...