Without illegal aliens, America will collapse even faster and further.
One simple question explains it all:
If all illegals have been deported, wiped clean, will the U.S. "citizens" who have finally gotten the jobs which were so "stolen" from them be willing to accept the drop of minimum wage?
Though it is remarkable, and some might wonder if this is about the end of the world, I do wonder from time to time if there's any compromise on the quality of the literature. Of course, now the technology allows us to communicate with experts around the world, yet, would the urge of getting it "done" be too much to overcome the need for perfection?
I've just learned that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't take a single penny for his political salary and Mayor Bloomberg only takes $1 annually as Mayor.
Of course, they were both rich people to begin with.
At least one preacher, Greg Laurie, has said it: To not share the Gospel is a Sin of Omission.
I have often seen a big difference between the Southern Bible belt and the American East. The largely evangelical populated south loves to preach to others - though often in a manner assuming others are worse in faith; As for the East such as New York, Boston, etc., Christians are mixed with different denominations, and catholics, eastern orthodox, christian cults, muslims, perhaps even the influence of the Jews, that it is not surprising that many Christians - especially of the "traditional" groups, intentionally believe that they are not responsible to preach.
So there we have the two groups. I'm not proud of any particular group, because many evangelicals do not discern the line between the duty to preach and salvation not by preaching but by personal conviction; while the "Europian style" Christians believe more on moral and the less chance to sin if they don't touch others.
Consequently, the South gets jealous easily when they see others better than themselves while the East just gradually slips into oblivion as other faiths take ground.
Readiris' OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is impressive. Of course, no OCR is 100% but this is incredible. I would say an 80-90% accuracy. And no unecessary spacings where the document has paragraphs and tables. It creates its own tables when encountering sections and I could easily copy & paste esctions by sections without worrying too much about removing extra spaces. English recognition is not bad too.
With my newly bought used $65 (less than half price) all-in-one laser printer/fax/scanner(flatbed) Canon imageClass MF3240, it scans fast enough, prints very well. I was told by seller that I should use HP multipurpose paper for laser printers otherwise paper will jam. Perhaps this was why my previous $80 new laser printer (Samsung ML 2010 series) kept jamming all the time because I bought Staple's "cheap" papers.
And amazingly, 3 have replied with satisfaction when I emailed the OCR scanned Chinese church bulletin as text instead of attachment (pdf). After all, who likes to open email attachments every week? Not to mention some check emails on smartphones nowadays. I would need roughly 20-30 minutes longer time to process it, but it's well worth it.
Not surprising.
I've been told to lead the youth group during this year's church retreat, in spite of my principle against attending retreat unless it is of my own ministry. Then again, I'm reminded of the only curse I must face for living in the States: That the Ameristians are very good at wasting people's time, energy and money.
There is somewhat something of interest coming out of this. The more they want me to lead these youth activities, the more love is instilled within me for the other group to come - of my own ministry. Of course, there's a resounding reminder: What about this current group?
It is unfortunate that today's leaders in church couldn't read and bring up new leaders themselves, that they either import or steal people from other ministries to resolve their own problem.
What am I to do? I must discern two separate entities instead of one Ameristians. Because there's the youth whom Christ love and there's the this bunch of braindead followers whom Christ also love. I must deal with both without being reluctant and oblivious of any one. May God help me. God forbid that I should consume my life in this country.
Of course, since I am practicing: "I never disobey an order", I'm afraid I would have to take a raincheck for a promise I made to a Japanese church two years ago. Regardless, I've bought one more year to learn Japanese.
After a meal at Gordon Ramsay's the Maze in The London Hotel for the first time, I headed to the Whitney Museum at Bank of America's expense.
The Museum is of modern 20th-21th century arts. Lots of projected video clips as arts. Most of which are rather bland for me. Looks like the goal is to be as strange or as boring as possible. A few note of interest: The holographic clip using presumably holofilm cylinder with candlelight in the middle, a fake but realistic looking old lady reading a mail sitting in the middle of one room on the 5th floor exhibit.
For science, I am intrigued by the holovideo contraption, which one must swing around in order to observe the animation.
For creativity, I would imagine many visitors would think that's a real old lady resting in the middle of a room with exhibition around the walls until some curious enough to approach the lady. She's not animated, holding a letter, with words on it which appears to be from her child, if not daughter, when I briefly glanced at the content from behind her. There's a fake puppy next to her.
I had always been troubled by this equation: Power equals Volt times Ampere.
Because P also = I^2 X R.
Given the analogy of water fall. Power is the effect/work (wheel rotate) of current "I" (stream) under the resistence "R" (tap) after the voltage "V" (water level), I just couldn't imagine how IxIxR and VxR would change P without changing I.
I believe the key is there are two ingredients in a current. I'd always seen current in the quantity context but I've forgotten that speed is involved too. Thus with magnitudes of speed and quantity increasing and decreasing or vice versa correspondingly, current I could remain constant. Although, I have yet to consider the force of the current, only assuming that the speed or quantity of electrons could affect the P (power) independently.
Finally found this. http://www.tineye.com/
Although, it would seem that the image has to be the exact match, so no searching for faces in various backgrounds yet.
Russian Mathematician, Perelman, has accomplished where I have failed.
First of 7 Millenium Prize problems solved. $1,000,000 award, Grigori Perelman rejected. Not his first time.
"Perelman's aversion to public spectacle and to riches is mystifying to
many." --William Thurston.
