Note:
I also have another blog at:
http://www.dreadyachts.blogspot.com/
It originally (in ~2005) was at:
http://www.dreadyacht.blogspot.com/
and, there, you can see the links to downloadable .tif files of my initial foray into selling my drawings. These are hand drawings (5 sheets of large formate paper) and are not faired. In Portland, Oregon, in 2003, I sold three copies (rolled and inserted into a protective tube) to a book store and provided it with an extra to display on a wall so that prospective customers of my drawings would be able to see exactly what they were buying. The book was bound and sold along with each drawing set. The book is riddled with typos (the vagaries/penalties/risk of self-publishing in a rush), and semi-permiated with some language a bit terse on the Navy, partly because I since 1986 felt the Flight I Burkes could have and should have been more than they were.
Due to the 20-pages limit in blogger/blogspot, I must combine some pages. Kewl Tech was renamed, and I added a section named "Health and Life Sciences" below.
KEWL TECH:
2013-03-07
Birth of Giant Planet Spotted in "Stellar Womb"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130228103341.htm
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Laser Designed to Destroy Earth-Approaching Asteroids:
http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53087
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Transparent Smart Phones Coming Soon:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world-videos-news/2141/transparent-mobile-phone-developed-in-taiwan.html
HEALTH and LIFE SCIENCES
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ReplyDeletehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57574336-38/silicon-valley-execs-press-d.c-on-immigration-law-fixes/
and:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57546790-38/silicon-valley-hopes-to-reboot-startup-visas-in-2013/
may be interesting to readers.
Why today, in this increasingly interconnected world cannot countries' politicians get off their butts and stop interfering with the desire of people to relocate themselves? Life is short, Earth is big, no one should be confined to a specific country just by virtue of having been born there. Those who want to uproot and are not criminals, and need a market conducive to their earnings needs should be allowed to emigrate from their home countries and immigrate into another country as long as the intending entrepreneur is not a spy, hardened criminal or recidivist, and can meet various other requirements.
Also, if an immigrant to a country is trying to start up work that no one IN that country is doing at the intending immigrant's level, then there should be no artificial tolls, coerced shared co ownership with domestic national, or other mechanical tricks devised to wrest control of an entrepreneur's business from the entrepreneur.
And, if an intending entrepreneurial immigrant is able to secure the funding capital from domestic corporations and individuals, it should be possible and entirely legal and legitimate for the applying entrepreneurial immigrant to form a legal entity that puts all the sponsors under one umbrella. It is wholly outdated to demand that ONE individual person or ONE individual corporation be the sole party responsible for the entrepreneur. So long as the umbrella organization has an escrow account set up to carry hard cash and concurrently carry bonding or appropriate insurance against foreseeable damage or damages an immigrating entrepreneur can cause, then politicians and citizens should be grateful for immigrants choosing their country as "home".
Unfortunately, most of today's policy makers are either protectionist, exploitative, or overly reactive to unthinking screamers who may or may not be constituents.
This comment of mine can apply to any country that claims it is or is regarded as an "advanced" nation.
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ReplyDelete"Startup Act 2.0 is not intended to be an traditionally partisan bill. It's backed by Democrats Mark Warner and Chris Coons and Republicans Marco Rubio and Jerry Moran. And its goals are reasonable: up to 50,000 U.S.-educated foreigners with a "master's degree or a doctorate degree" in a science, technology, or math-related field could remain in the country.
A separate section of the legislation authorizes 75,000 "entrepreneur visas." It sets significant hurdles: the startup must hire at least two U.S. employees right away, it must raise at least $100,000 in funding, and it must expand to at least five full-time employees within a few years. (A third section requires federal agencies to evaluate the effect of new regulations on "new businesses to form and expand.") "
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I dare say that on so many levels, this is highly and egregiously discriminatory. There are plenty of people in the world who have skills or interesting things to offer, yet, while a degree or post-doctorate degree is an awesome thing to have, just look at how many people chase those pieces of paper, end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and then STILL have a difficult time obtaining jobs, much less careers relevant to their astronomical economic investment.
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ReplyDeleteTake for example, me. I have not finished college, yet, when various people (graduates and post-grads of various fields of life) saw my ship drawings in 2004, they assumed I a naval architect. I was quick to dispel that assumption, and they quizzically and with resistance would reply with, "No, you MUST have graduated in SOME engineering course. How else could you have known this much detail."
It was almost comical and infuriating to me, but I allowed the feeling to subside into disappointment since it is no secret that all too many people with innumerable letters following their surnames tend to have blunted common sense. As a teen and even before then, I would spend an inordinate amount of time in the public library, the school library, and in book stores. I spent my allowance money on technical magazines, or on copying pages from them if their prices were beyond my means. I built and disassembled models of ships, automobiles, submarines, airplanes, dioramas, and more. I studied blueprints, drafting, construction, and destruction. Why would it be difficult for a Westerner, particularly one from the USA, to learn almost as much as an undergraduate, but just not possess a degree? Obviously, anything I would have learned years ago is likely to have no valuable transferable units.
However, at an office of Mitsubishi in 2004, in Japan, my drawings were considered "National Secrets", until I managed to get my point across that no US DOD or intelligence agency ever approached me or told me my work was treading on thin ice or dangerous ground. Nowadays, what I am doing is trivial once any diligent, motivated self-styled student of naval architecture decides to learn how to shape and equip a ship commensurate with/to its primary, secondary, and tertiary mission profiles.
Having said all that, I do vehemently feel that all so-called "advanced" nations need to knock off this mantra that only "educated" (formally educated) individuals possessing high degrees qualify for entry into a country. I am aware that there are plenty of entrepreneurs who have no degrees, but may have lots of money, and years of operational and financial success to show for it. However, there are some people who have all sorts of ideas but poor execution in the marketing department, yet, if provided or having won an audience might just finally find traction.
It will be up to me to find the way to make traction and keep power applied. I am up against tradition, procedural bureaucracy, fear, and protectionism no matter what country I decide I would like to emigrate to. Technically, it depends on several or just individual things:
-- Meeting the right politician or policy maker
-- Meeting the right business people
-- Successfully selling
-- Being granted help and some leeway
-- Avoidance of thieves of intellectual property
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ReplyDeleteIn any case, my business plan intention is to install myself as the COO for the first five years, running the entity with several of my Korean friends already in Korea. (We mostly are over age 30.) We would fine tune, stabilize, and then enhance the company. But, then, around year 3.5 to year 4, we will begin identifying our replacements who'll then take over the company at around year 6 or 7. Our replacements will be a mix of new graduates of the school (hire from within) and some seasoned external hires, but who will fully understand that the entity does not exist for them as their crown jewel. My personal feeling is that as a "baton passing", older operators of a company need to be flexible, and accept that they do not live forever. Since that is fact, it is only an eventuality before many companys finally find their successful streak after the originators step down or step aside. I want the school/business to educate, make employable, and provide work opportunity for any and all who are accepted as students or as employees.
This:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-group-considers-large-reduction-in-family-visas-as-part-of-immigration-deal/2013/03/14/90252aae-8be8-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html
might also interest some.