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I am ready to take the risk if a billionaire sponsors my trip along with two beautiful women of my choice.
$150 million for six months in a cramped, dangerous spaceship to get a flyby of the moon. Quite the bill for a ride that's all queue.
I think the idea of space tourism is neat. But I can't really get over how many better ways there are to spend $150 million dollars than to satisfy the economically pointless whims of a handful of extremely rich people. How can they justify such junkets when millions of people don't have enough food or are afflicted by war, poverty, disease and all the rest?
I know Mark Shuttleworth made a big deal about being the first African in space, raising awareness and even doing his own little experiments or whatever. But I think it's safe to say the $20 million he paid to spin around the earth a few times could have been used to help some of his fellow Africans a bit more concretely.
I've been a fan of space programs for a long time. I don't think they're a waste of taxpayers money like some do. I am receptive to the argument that private space flight will ultimately help advance humanity. But I can't shake the feeling that private missions like this are a gross misallocation of humanity's resources.
This whole project sounds either incredibly, poorly conceived, or a scam.
Even the Zond 7 unmanned mission in 1969 of a flyby of the moon required significant effort (utilized a Proton booster to get off the ground that normally assume medium lift responsibilities for launching space stations, GEO satellites, etc.). And that Zond craft was less than 6 kilotonnes.
Six kilotonnes?! Are we talking about a tactical nuke or a space capsule? ;)
Six tonnes sounds more like it.
You are correct. My mistake. More like 6,000 kgs or 6 tonnes.
Space is a nebulous term. It is defined as 100 km above the earth surface and extends to infinty.
Earth orbit is barely scratching the surface.
Compare space exploration to the discover of the New Workd.
All European powers were hungry for colonial expansion.
Many sailed the Atlantic, all probing deeper westward. Sailing 1000 miles or 2000 miles does not give you anything to claim or a place in history.
It is the Claim of Terra Firma by touching land that brought Columbus and Spain the riches, fame and glory of history.
Space is a vacuum. For terrestrial humans, the goal is NOT noble gasses or cosmic rays, but planetary bodies.
The Moon is the first and closest island.
The next closest is Mars and the voyage may be impossiblly expensive and a one way suicide mission. Radiation conditions will guarantee death as certain as being within a 10 km zone of an atmospheric atomic bomb.
The Space Race is a series of marathons defined by light years. It is a series of touchstones.
The American's success over 40 years ago with the Lunar Landing has never been matched. And likely it will not be matched for at least a decade, maybe two.
The Moon Landing is historic. And has defined the Space Race for at least a half century. And possibly for the first century of space exploration.
The next challenge is Mars. Then perhaps Titan.
But the Secret Success that few earthling realize, is the Voyager Spacecraft. The fastest man made object ever conceived, traveling nearly ONE MILLION MILES A DAY. After 30 years it is still plodding along. And this year, for the first time, a man made object has left our vast Solar System. That is EPIC. At that speed, in 100,000 years it will reach our nearest neighboring star.
Low earth orbit is dipping your toe in the Pacific Ocean and calling yourself a submariner. The Russians were the first toe dippers. They still have yet to get their hair wet.
"Whereas the Americans won the first space race"
The Americans beat the Russians to the moon, but the Russians were the first into space and the first to build a space station.
It sounds like the Russians 2-1 to me.
The Salyut space station program got overshadowed by a belated Skylab, which even made it into a Six Million Dollar Man episode.
Skylab was bigger and cooler.
The Salyut program couldn't top that in popular culture, and got tainted by some in space fatalities early on - the Soyuz 11 crew died after undocking from Salyut 1 in 1971.
"The Salyut program couldn't top that in popular culture, and got tainted by some in space fatalities early on"
Those were the days when the Soviet Union led the Space Fatality table with 4 Cosmonauts dead in space. Now, it's the US with 12 Astronauts dead (7 from Challenger and 5 from Columbia) leading the league table, while Russian fatality remains at 4 for 40 years and counting...
I know that Columbia had 6 on board, but the 6th was an Israeli, so I didn't add him to US death count.
Yes, but the Russians had a heck of alot of close ones since. Dramatically, had to utilize the escape system to avoid a launchpad explosion in 1983.
Otherwise, there is a long lists of problems and things going array, including cases where the Russians mislead NASA on some facts (because of they were hitching rides). Namely being circumspect about Soyuz TMA-10s ballistic entry caused by a booster separation mishap, which was then repeated with the Soyuz TMA-11 flight.
So death counts don't convey the entire picture.
Otherwise, bottomline: No one cared about Salyut in the early 1970s. Was overshadowed by the moon shots and then space lab. All of which had their shortcomings too.
You asked a question about a week ago regarding measurement of average height of Romans vs the Han Dynasty. I have an answer.
The measurements are simple:
Find tombs or graves of the era. Excavate the grave.
Measure the skeleton length. You can even do this with a single bone such as the femur. Some anthropologist can do this with the mandible, vertebral body, or a shard of the skull.
Confirm age with carbon dating. And you can also confirm with jewelry, clothing, wood, plants and artifacts.
With high certainty, you will get the average heights of historical eras.
I figure the archeological work would follow those lines; I just haven't seen sources on height comparisons specifically.
Actually a fellow did similar work with cow femurs at the end of the Romaon Empire and into the dark ages to demonstrate that livings standards did take a dive (along with a drop in writing instruments, use of tile with houses, etc.).
Now I think National Geographic has showcased this year or last more excavation work around the Balkans and Ukraine where graves of nomads and folks transitioning from neolithic to bronze age are yielding interesting findings (may have been more artistic and creative than we thought).
So wouldn't be surprised if a lot of new, interesting facts and comparisons become possible in the next 10 years or so.
Personally, I had the impression the middle east was ahead of Shang China from reading and visiting museums like the MET in NY.
If you have a specific site to go to, please share.
Thank you for the follow up. Have a nice day.
What's with the 'months'? The moon is 36 hours away.
Try driving your car straight up...
As the article notes, ion engines are more efficient but much slower than the chemical engines used in the Apollo program.
Do they take American Express?
"Whereas the Americans won the first space race" - seriously?!
Yes, seriously. This article is about travel to the moon and only American manned missions have ever landed there.
double post.
I know the populist view is that the space race was to land on the moon, but really, it should be the race into space.
That the Russians won. So yes, asking "seriously?!" is quite an apt question for an intellectual orientated gazette
You are going to say the Soviets won the space race because of Vostok?
Don't want to take anything away from Yuri Gagarin and and Gherman Titov, but to quote the Encyclopedia Astronautica: "The Vostok and Voskhod spacecraft, like the U.S. Mercury, could not perform orbital maneuvers"...
A lot followed in the 1960s and early 1970s.
A smart, handsome astronaut candidate with a PhD and a fighter pilot record would be more likely to star in the next Hollywood Blockbuster Sci-Fi franchise => than he would actually walk on the Moon.
A billionaire could live in a closet with two smelly Russians, eat jellied perch, and drink his own urine...or he could produce his own movie as the next Han Solo including a fist fight with William Shatner, pilot a starship through a asteroid belt, befriend space aliens at the Starlounge Cantina, spacewalk on the surface of the sun, and cap it off with a romantic liaison with a lingerie wearing Queen of the Galaxy.
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http://thebeatles.com/#/news/Vinyl Mono coming in 2013. I'm just waiting for the first claim of how much better they sound than the CDs. For me, the only vaguely interesting thing is whether these will be cut without peak limiting. Given that they applied the same peak limiting to the 24-bit ultra-expensive USB apple release, I doubt we'll escape it here. However, it'll (hopefully!) be a much cheaper way of owning and playing Beatles vinyl than tracking down originals, and they'll sound better than most of the 1988 vinyl remasters. (Though for Help and Rubber Soul, they'll be the same masters!). The Beatles website is mostly selling the "experience" of playing vinyl, rather than any actual sonic superiority. How strange for a vinyl press release to be TOS 8 compliant! Cheers, David. P.S. and so it starts... QUOTE linuxglobe on 27th Sep 12: "I just want to own Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road on audiophile 180 gram vinyl; I have a usb turntable, easily import into my iPhone! I *HEART* Los Beatles!!! @MarkusMcLaughln Yeah, 'cause obviously...digital file > vinyl stamper > vinyl > USB turntable(!!!!) > iTunes > iPhone will sound better than digital file > CD > iTunes > iPhone! This post has been edited by 2Bdecided: Sep 28 2012, 11:35 |
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During the First Shinobi World War, he was part of a team consisting of Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, Danzō Shimura, and Torifu Akimichi. While they were planning their next move, Kagami noted that Koharu's plan would not work and that they needed someone to lure the Kinkaku Squad away from the rest of their location. He later listened on as the Second who had stated that he would be the decoy, appointed Hiruzen as the Third Hokage.[2]
He is assumed to have died at some later point, either before, or during the Uchiha clan massacre.
Kagami had short, black, untidy hair. He wore the standard Konoha outfit of the time which included a black suit with armour over it, forehead protector, sandals and a pouch strapped to his waist.
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- Kagami means mirror (鏡) which are heavily associated with Uchiha. For example, mangekyō (万華鏡, kaleidoscope) in Mangekyō Sharingan literally means mirror of ten thousand flowers and one of the sacred weapons of Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo is the Yata Mirror.


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Dennis 03.12.2014
Fooey on BP. Plenty of American companies will be happy to fill the void.
Bhadresh 03.12.2014
BP have demonstrated commitment for recovery and compensation due to oil spill. In USA , it is considered to give fair chance even to convicted, once they come out after prison terms. This behavior will cost inflation in gas prices, closure of plants and employment. B.P have kept the patience and dignity and fulfilled social and economical obligations. I thing it is time to start business with BP and stop vengance.
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I'm a Republican and I do not bash any nationality. Please give the Republicans some respect.
"The first is that America imports drugs—on which its citizens spend billions—which it insists must remain illegal, while continuing to allow the traffickers to buy assault weapons freely."
OK, I take exception to that part about "assault weapons", a very vague term in an of itself. This section of the article is implying that U.S. gun laws are directly responsible for Mexican violence, this is ludicrous. If a drug cartel can smuggle a ton of cocaine into Mexico then they can smuggle in a ton of guns. Furthermore places like Columbia further south have active insurgencies with plentiful supplies of weaponry, much of which can fire on full-auto unlike common U.S. "assault weapons" which are only semi-auto.
Again, trying to blame Mexican violence on U.S. gun laws is ludicrous, the cartels can get better guns with less hassle from other places than the U.S.
There aren't any places named Columbia south of Mexico.
Don't think being one vowel off from Colombia makes a typo abomination.
Maybe the poster is from the United States, where we are grounded in the anglo variant of Christopher Columbus' name?
Considering the issus with the definition of assault weapon, has Mexico experienced a surge in crime where assault rifles are used?
Now from my understanding, the definition of assault rifle is much more baked...
Apparently, you're unaware that Colombia (and the rest of the world) obtains those weapons from the United States. In 2011 the US engaged in $66 billion worth of arms sales worldwide - the next highest sales by country was from Russia at $4.8 billion.
There wouldn't be (as many) weapons for these cartels to smuggle into Mexico if the US would stop selling the weapons in the first place! There is no McDonnell Douglas in the 3rd world.
Your defensiveness is telling.
Well the insurgencies, rise of violent drug cartels and repressive measures predated Plan Colombia I believe.
FARC and ELN dated from the 1960s.
The Medellin and Cali cartels got their start in the mid-1970s.
I suspect the country has been awashed in firearms of all sorts for some time now, as a result of trends unfolding independently of American assistance provide to the military, police (or even paramilitary - wouldn't be surprised).
Mexican cartels get their assault rifles from the USA: The manufactures in the USA make them and fight through the NRA lobiests to make them easy to purchase. If the USA did not do this, Mexico would not have the ammunition they have to continue this war. Bottom line, the USA along with the NRA are the worst enablers out there. Mexico has it's problems too and the USA exploits this by enabling sales of weapons to a country in a desperate situation. Mexicans also suffer discrimination and ridicule including stereotypes as evidenced in this article. I am very disappointed in some terms used in this article. I am proud to be of Mexican descent and I have known my culture (Mexican-American as well as Mexican) to be a very warm, loving, intelligent culture with a very strong work ethic and an a remarkable ability to retain a sense of humor in the most difficult of circumstances. Also, it is a culture that is misunderstood by so many people who are not a part of it.
Right, because China, Russia, Croatia, France, England, Germany, Ukraine, North Korea, none of them would be caught dead selling small arms in the open market!!!
Mexico will go the way of the American and Chinese economies. Investment banking knows no boundaries. For Mexicans, it means blending a different type of crook with the white collar crook. The article cites some interesting data, but business models are wrong and you're wrong. Mexico can trade with America as much as China and Canada can trade with America. But the result is the same. Same mistakes, same mistakes that will poison mexico as it did Europe and India, and others. Investment banking. It means the market and business fundamentals take a back seat- globally.
What makes Mexico`s rise the most relevant is the fact that growth is based on industrialization, manufacturing high-tech products, exports, free-trade agreements and education (more engineers graduating that in Germany and other countries).
Mexico is competing with China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea. Not with Colombia, Argentina or even Brazil, since these countries have chosen a growth model exporting raw materials to China and other asian economies.
What about the 1994 crisis? I seem to remember the United States bailing out the Mexican government with $20 billion. I would say America has looked at its neighbor.
I think the Americans would be delighted to place orders with the Mexicans if they could offer cheaper products than the Chinese.
There are other considerations: Maybe need to take in supply chain considerations (lead times of less than 3 months), protection of IP and minimizing risk from politics (see tires and now solar panels).
Addressing the first issue by locating in Mexico may help make products cheaper too (outbound components get to their destination quicker). To be honest, seems like sophisticated components come from a slew of places (S. Korea, Japan, Germany, etc.).
Mexico is not China where the latter is giving US much challenge in many trades. This prompts US to be more protectionist against China.
Perhaps Mexico can do better via faithful collaboration with US and purchase every component from Uncle Sam to avert stock out of essential item affecting production. I dont doubt the ability of the Mexicans to perform quality work same as the Chinese counterparts (who have given up mid day nap already). The author has rightly pointed out his concern about the Mexico's logistical support. Though Mexico is the southern neighbour of US, it does not mean it has the absolute advantage and guarantee of punctual delivery. The road nextwork, the red taps, customs clearance system, control of contrabands, etc. can all be the contributing factors for a slow up or even hold up of the delivery of a consignment. I think Mexican government should have the ability to cope with the challenge, with the determination and capital.
Amid the continuous fiscal problematic time, the Americans might not be a big money spender any more. So, the Mexicans better cant expect too much from the northerners. Mexicans should try their luck also on their neighbouring countries.
At any rate, Mexico still has to compete with China head-on. But, would there be a breakthough chance for Mexico and China to have joint venture? Any clue?
Mexico is a member of NAFTA, so in terms of tariffs, market access, local content requirements, customs and what not, it shares an advantage with Canada.
And while the corruption is there (trails China according to the transparency index), Mexico doesn't have the same kind of politics or industrial policies as China that would concern businessmen in the future (industrial piracy, pursuing a military build up, appearing confrontational, etc.).
The US is the largest economy in world. Combined with proximity, there are considerable opportunities for products from Mexico. And it doesn't take 2 to 3 months to get most types of manufactures out to most places in the US.
Mexico would probably welcome market access to China. Heck, there was a vigorous precious metals trade between Spanish Mexico and Asia for years (16th century to the 19th century). Who wouldn't.
China may want to push some manufacturing to Mexico to dance around protectionist threats. Like Japan did with several American southern states in the 1980s with the auto industry. In a similar situation, Foxconn got pressured into opening a factory in Brazil.
Probably should check out the McKinsey report: "Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation"
Provides good rankings, and has an interesting segmentation of manufacturing.
for instance, the chart for "Top 15 manufacturers by share of global nominal manufacturing gross value added" shows the US as number 1 in 2010, China 2nd , Mexico 12th and Canada 15th.
The five segmentations of manufacturing are probably interesting to go over, to shape thinking on investment opportunities in Mexico.
Why look at Mexico ? When we have nevada and Colorado the new mexifornias?
Snarky. And ignorant.
The USA could more profitably partner with neighbouring Mexico, for both to yield the synergistic benefit of a broader, lower-priced rebranded America, complementing US creativity and technology with cheaper labour close by, with assured patent rights.
Drug trafficking has remained a primary obstacle to realising that dream for decades, and now requires a policy change in response to tackle economic terrorism asymmetrically. Strengthening the financial squeeze on drug money requires far closer co-operaiton with Mexican financial institutions and regulators, while reducing demand domestically through decriminalised, legal access to social marijuana in the USA where it should be classed under equal legal restraint as the sale of it's sister weed, tobacco.
Regional growth through bilateral joint trading can accelerate growth into and within both domestic economies, offering jop growth alongside demand throughlower cost access to europe and emerging markets. However, there is no visible sign that the Presidents of either the US or Mexico share such faith in their free market leaders, constrained as each is by the those who funded their election.
Something doesn't make sense here. In the last 6 years the outflow of capital from Mexico has been US$111.3bn while the inflow (FDI) has only been US$65.4bn. In the first 9 months of 2012 FDI has fallen a further 16% but the peso seems to be holding because of a rise of 60% in financial investments from abroad. The whole illusion of "growth and stability" would instantly collapse if US interests rates would rise just minimally, provoking a sudden flight of all those financial investments of lately.
The outflow of US$111.3bn does not take in account the inflow of US$22bn or so each year from migrant remittances, the inflow of US$100 bn or so a year of Oil revenue and other factors, it is just the amount of money that mexicans citizens or corporations had deposited in foreign accounts or invested abroad, so this is not an illusion.
If Mexico's economy is being kept alive by exporting menial labor and raw materials, I believe prosperity is just an illusion. Furthermore, the new president has declared his intentions to privatize Pemex. Given the fact that Mexican nationals seem to be extremely distrustful of their own economy, as shown by the massive amounts of capital they export, quite possibly they would begin sending those oil revenues abroad too.
Take a look at Mexico's largest companies. Almost none of them produce tradable goods and they are mostly sold domestically at monopoly prices. Most exports are produced by foreign companies who use the country merely as a platform to get cheap labor. There are no technology transfers or any such things.
During 2011 the number of companies registered by the social security institute grew by a meager 26.
It's an illusion, a big one. Come to Mexico, take a cab, drive around, ask around.
Ok. Lest get on your first statement and then your reply.
Mexico has U$210.8 billion in external debt, this amounts roughly 15% of the GDP, considering a media maturity of the bond of 3 years, and the market exchange rate regime, its Treasury would not have a problem managing a surge in the US rates, by itself largely postponed until 2014 in Fed Chairman words. As a sideshow of how confident Mexico Treasury navigates the market remember it is the only Latin country that has sold 100 year bonds at less than European rates.
Mexico economy is not being kept alive by exporting menial labor, recent reports by US inmigration authorities say exactly the opposite: probably there are more mexicans coming back to their country than crossing the border to the States.
Is actually sending the oil abroad what gets those 100 bn into the central bank reserves (now at 162 bn); however the raw materials exportation is a small fraction of what Mexico sends abroad.
The amazing fact is that Mexico manages to do this in spite of the monopolies extorting rents from every consumer, but increased overlapping will get them to eventually compete with each other.
Other than that I invite you to see the R&D centers that those "foreign companies who use the country merely as a platform to get cheap labor", they are there, certainly not an illusion.
If investing abroad is a serious trouble I don't know, certainly the fat cats sending the local originated profits to bank accounts in fiscal paradises is not a problem just of Mexico, even Germany has its share of tax fugitives, and we don't hear the cry of Germans not trusting, their own economy, for that matter, Mexico Bank's have better creditworthiness than their controlling American or European ones.
I wont discuss the wisdom of a taxi cab driver, I wont deny the problems of security, inequality and corruption, but I believe that credit should be given were credit is due: Mexico Economic Advantage is not an illusion; its a great potential expected to be fulfilled.
1.7% - average GDP growth 2006-2011. Looks to me like too soft a punch for such a "strong" contender.
In the middle of what is being called as the biggest slump since the Great Depression 1.7% is not so bad.
I agree this is way below potential, and for the record I am not supporter of Calderon policies.
I don't know what your agenda is, but you are a liar.
Can you show proof that the new president will privatize Pemex?
Don't get me wrong, I don't oppose privatization, I am just pointing out your little lie and the fact that you are trying to make Mexico look bad, for your own little reasons.
Shame on you Oscar Mondragon..
I don't know what your agenda is, but you are a liar.
Can you show proof that the new president will privatize Pemex?
Don't get me wrong, I don't oppose privatization, I am just pointing out your little lie and the fact that you are trying to make Mexico look bad, for your own little reasons.
Shame on you Oscar Mondragon..
Agenda? What? Did someone told you not to trust anyone agent Mulder?
If you know something about the abuse of euphemism in Mexican political language you'll easily find that info you're looking for. He's been repeatedly saying over the last few months that he'll sell Pemex. Just don't expect to find a literal quote, OK?
It just looks to me that Latin American countries that have strayed from the Washington consensus have been doing a lot better lately. Just take a look at Ecuador's numbers.
Is it too much to get all the facts on immigration history/policy. My grandpa was part of the "Bracero Project." The Bracero Project was the largest Mexican guest worker program in American History, and was enacted in 1942 to help America with the war effort. It lasted until 1964, 19 years after the war ended. This brought my family into the US, along with 4.6 million other Mexican Nationals.
The project was only supposed to last the length of the war, but was continued on two fronts - exploitation and opportunity. When the US needed the Mexican people we were here. When they needed us the most, we were honored to come across and work.
When the project ended, finally, in 1964 (after Kennedy was killed), it was impossible to stop the flow of the exploitation/opportunity on both sides of the border. Immigration reform covers so many other important topics... Foreign trade, jobs, deficit, Foreign policy, economy. It should treated as such.
A great article, thank you very much for pointing out the benefits to the US of engaging with mexico as more than "the place where drugs and immigrants come from." I do have to point out though, "wetback" is a pretty offensive term and I'd suggest not using it in articles in the future. One would not say "even America's "nigger"-bashing Republicans should now see the need for (lets say) affirmative action." Border-hoppers was another example but it is not as offensive as it is not a commonly-used pejorative. I understand the intent of framing the Republican position but there are better ways of doing it. Thanks!
I agree that The Economist should refrain from using pejorative and unacceptable terms to describe Mexican nationals who are in the United States.
Remember that with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) North America goes from Canada's Arctic islands to Mexco's fromtier with its Central American neighbours, and we are becoming increasingly interrelated.
In that context, Canada also wants Mexico to do well, as it can then buy more of our exports and can sell to Canada goods and services that we need.
me too. Someone once assumed I was mexican. I was higly offended.
What is offensive about being mistaken as a Mexican or a person of Mexican descent?
Maybe the same way an Irish person would not want to be referred to as English?
Well maybe but... bein offended? I think it shows a very fragile ego.
It is time that the resource rich Mexico allows some trickle down to create a healthy middle class, and they will pass up the US as our government destroys our middle class. Before long we will be skipping across your border for jobs. There is nothing wrong with a strong North America. What a wonderful thing it would be to have a healthy and wealthy Mexico, U.S. and Canada. Hey let's throw in Central and South America also. A stable economy starts with a stable middle class.
I agree. It would be wonderful to have a healthy and wealthy America, meaning by America all the countries in the North, the Centre and the South.
Mexico has had a middle calss since some time now, it developed more since the "Mexican miracle" in the 40´s and 50´s and have been growing since. I can tell when the situation of migrants got bad, for both Mexico and the US, during the 80´s and 90´s economic crisis, and even that has been getting better because less ppl are migrating and we like it, because even if you cant even guess or understand it, most migrants would rather not leave their family to work in an extremely unfriendly and often abusive eviorment, but do so for an economic need. Not different from when the Europeans did after WW1 and WW2,or even some US citizens did during your Civil War and even now, with your economic crisis.
North America is a nice idea to say at politicians meetings but it has never been a reality and with the actual state of relations it will never be, We do have an economic relationship but that´s it and economy alone will never be enough to form an interegional identity IMO.
And really most Mexicans dont look out to be part of the "North American Continent" it doesnt even exist for us, there´s the American continent and every country in there is part of it even if some are from the north, center or south. We rather would like more being part of a multicultural world because that has always being part of Mexico´s pov. Mexico was born out of the mix of cultures, races and languages from pre-hispanic civilizations,latin European especially Spain and France, and even some African and Asian. and is reflected in arquitecture, in the people, in the traditions,music,even in our blood and genetics.
As for Central and South america, yes ,we would very much like to get back our good relationship with our "counsins" in fact is neccesary from a political, economic and security pov not just for us but for them as well, that is what the Pacific Alliance and Celac are about in a way, but is not all there is to them . Also that doesn´t mean Mexico can´t at the same time have other relations, curiously enough with Mexico has adapted better having bussines with the Asian nations with which Mexico used to trade back in the day 500 years ago. is a curious but interesting coincidence.
Canada has been invaded by U.S. Troops.
that´s news for me, thanks for informing
Both during the revolutionary war and the war of 1812 formally.
Then there were tensions out west when both Britain and the US ran the Oregon territories together.
And some Irish tried some raids at times.
Bottomline, the formal invasions ended in failure. Seems the US wanted to forget about them, and hence the low visibility given to these events.
Also seems the British and Canadians doen't play them up as much as other countries do when successfully repelling invaders.
Maybe due to a sense of vulnerability? Maybe due to a better sense of politeness? Or due to the fact a bunch of Americans other than Tories came north for land in the 1790s/early 1800s (since NY and other places were screwy)?
I would say that Canada has never been _successfully_ invaded by the US. Mexico lost half of its territory on the biggest one (1847), and the last ones were in 1914-17.
the yankees did invide Canada during the War of 1812!
"And some Irish tried some raids at times."
Yes, they did indeed!
After Fast and Furious is no wonder Mexico isnt allowing a more liberal pass of US officers.
I beg your pardon?
You were right the first time. Canada as a country has never been invaded by the USA. In 1812 the Americans invaded a British colony. Canada did not become a country until 1867 with the passing of the BNA Act by the British Parliament and the resulting confederation of three British colonies.
I was being ironic, in reality Mexico has laws that limit the number of foreing agents it can let pass or be active on its soil, also Fast and Furious was a very tragic and confusing experience that involved US agents which make Mexico even less open to the idea of changing those laws.
Yes, but I wrote "I beg your pardon?" because your reply had nothing to do with what I had said and I thought you were replying to someone else...
Never mind.
oh, sorry missed that :)
I dont know much about US invading Canada but I have hear you burned their capital of the time? That would explain why they didnt try again :)
Don't worry, no problem.
Me gusta tu nombre... ¡y tu número! 3 x 7 = 21, a good vibration.
"You"? I didn't burn anything, I assure you!
I'd like to think Mexico has more to offer the world than cheap labour
Right, I agree. I hope we can take advantage of all the technology we will have at hand and support all the new ingeneers the technological schools are graduating to develope our own technology. We really need to be more confident of our capacities and possibilities.
The reason Mexico attracts FDI is:
1. Cheap labor
2. Proximity to the US
3. Intellectual property protection
China never gave much intellectual property protection and requires JV's of foreign and Chinese companies. That is how it trully learned from these foreign companies and developed it's own tech companies.
We've been so respectful of foreigners and just exchanged cheap labor for jobs. I dont know if this strategy will payoff for Mexicans. Of course there are other good effects of all these FDI's such as that most suppliers to these foreign multinationals are Mexican so new companies have been starting or growing. That's good but that is no unique technology development.
We've been attracting FDI for decades now and we haven't develop our own tecnology. We need to develop our own tech not just copy cat foreigners if we want to progress. Look at Korea, Taiwan, Singapore.
I rather measure technology development by number of patents and applied patents instead of number of engineers.
Right now many Internet and mobile startups are starting in Mexico and hopefully a Venture capital ecosystem is developing (I have one startup for instance) but most of these startups are just copy cats of American startups. Why can't we come up with our own ideas? My whole point here is that we need and we can develop our own technolgy and "conquer" the world with our companies that are solving needs that no other company in the world is solving as well as our companies. I will try to teach this by example. Mexico will have its tech company as Big and innovative as Google is. Every statrtup starts small though, by reaching product-market fit.
At the time of Mexico´s Independence from Spain in 1810, it had a larger territory than the U.S., including not just California and Texas, but also the rest of the South West and Central America (with the exception of Panama, which was part of Great Colombia)...even if was not as large as the Spanish Viceroyalty of NEW SPAIN which also included the Philipines, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Florida, Puerto Rico, Guam, Marianas and Caroline islands.
If the Viceroyalty of New Spain had kept its unity, right now its population would be about 300 million people.
"At the time of Mexico´s Independence from Spain in 1810..."
Mexico did not become independent from Spain in 1810, but in 1821. These were the last Spanish viceroys:
Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont
(Archbishop of Mexico), 19 July 1809 -8 May 1810
Pedro Catani, 8 May 1810-14 September 1810
Francisco Javier Venegas, Marquess of Reunión and of New Spain, 14 September 1810-4 March 1813
Félix María Calleja del Rey, First Count of Calderó, 4 March 1813-20 September 1816
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, First Count of Venadito, 20 September 1816-5 July 1821 (In 1819, by the terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain ceded Florida to the United States of America for $5 million)
Francisco Novella Azabal Pérez y Sicardo, 15 July 1821-21 July 1821
Juan O'Donojú, 21 July 1821-28 September 1821
With due respect to Hidalgo, Morelos, Moreno, Mina and the others who rose and fought after 1810, of course, but their declarations of independence were local. Real independence came in 1821 with Itúrbide, Guadalupe Victoria &c.
The rise of Mexico will be established when their education system will be improved. if you want to compare two nation and economy you have to start and finish with the university. How many mexican universities has the profiles of the US universities?
Mexico produces more engineers than the US, even though it has 1/3 of the population.
You can argue that American engineers have a better education, and it may be true. But that advantage will erode with time.
Good luck with your country. Please respect out laws and don't enter the U.S. illegally and we should all get along famously.
Well, I personally have a visa and enter the US on a regular basis for business purposes.
As to illegal workers, trust me, they will keep going back and forth. I have little doubt about that. Generally, supply and demand trumps laws.
This article has it backwards. This reduces the pressure for immigration 'reform'. Fewer immigrants, legal or otherwise, means less need to 'reform' immigration. The U.S. already gets a million a year. That if far more than any country on earth and more than enough. Get in line or get to work on improving your own countries.
I agree with your comment. "Get in line or get to work on improving your own countries." The article is accurately biased in the sense it gives sympathy to the illegal immigrant group. The Economist is incorrect when linking illegal immigration with immigration.
It is absurd to many Americans that those who broke American law are being considered a path toward citizenship. Last time I checked the largest share of illegal immigrants come from Mexico. How much money do illegal immigrants cost the American taxpayer? One of the USCIS criteria for immigrating to the USA wants to make sure immigrants will not become a public charge. So The Economist article here favors a more porous immigration border. Americans can only disagree more.
Good, they can all go home now. Good luck with THEIR nation. They never really wanted to be American anyway. Now they don't have to.
Good luck with their nation? Which country? US or Mexico? We have dual nationality as I said it before. I pay taxes both in Mexico and in the US. The US is the only country that taxes world wide income and I pay my taxes accordingly. I have homes in both countries and even though I live in Mexico I travel back and forth, pay taxes, pay for my son's college (no scholarship) and my ex wife's alimony (daughter of the American Revolution). Stereotypes don't work as well as in the past. Get over it! Mexico is not what it was and the US either. For good or worse we are neighbors and we need to accept this (or not and accept the consequences, if not just ask the Republican Party in this past election).
We're getting back what is ours: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah etc haha j/k
or am I?
Whose "we"? I'm not too-faced about my nationality, like you. Speak for yourself.
I am tired of US citizens refering to their country as America. America is not a country, America is a continent. US is in NorthAmerica as well as Mexico and Canada. So how come US refers to their country as America??
Mexico should not aim to become the workshop of the US. Mexico should change its strategy from the current "cheap labour manufacturer of foreign technology" into a world class technology developer, only then would wealth and progress reach the whole of the Mexican society. How can the level of life rise for Mexicans when their competitive advantage is cheap labor?
The way it works is that first we manufacture technology for others, THEN we learn how to create our own technology companies. This in fact is already happening; perhaps you haven´t noticed because it´s still in an early stage.
As a side note, Mexico produces more engineers than the US.
And it´s not cheap labor; it´s CHEAPER labor. Not the same thing.
Name one company that is developing it's own technology out of what it learned from foreigners
The reason Mexico attracts FDI is:
1. Cheap labor
2. Proximity to the US
3. Intellectual property protection
China never gave much intellectual property protection and requires JV's of foreign and Chinese companies. That is how it trully learned from these foreign companies and developed it's own tech companies.
We've been so respectful of foreigners and just exchanged cheap labor for jobs. I dont know if this strategy will payoff for Mexicans. Of course there are other good effects of all these FDI's such as that most suppliers to these foreign multinationals are Mexican so new companies have been starting or growing. That's good but that is no unique technology development.
We've been attracting FDI for decades now and we haven't develop our own tecnology. We need to develop our own tech not just copy cat foreigners if we want to progress. Look at Korea, Taiwan, Singapore.
I rather measure technology development by number of patents and applied patents instead of number of engineers.
Right now many Internet and mobile startups are starting in Mexico and hopefully a Venture capital ecosystem is developing (I have one startup for instance) but most of these startups are just copy cats of American startups. Why can't we come up with our own ideas? My whole point here is that we need and we can develop our own technolgy and "conquer" the world with our companies that are solving needs that no other company in the world is solving as well as our companies. I will try to teach this by example. Mexico will have its tech company as Big and innovative as Google is. Every statrtup starts small though, by reaching product-market fit.
As I said, we are in an early stage.
As to being copycats, that´s how Japan started exactly.
I agree with everything else you say in your post, and wish you luck on your startup. And don´t worry the venture capital ecosystem is indeed developing fast.
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Fox Glenn Drive,Lake Almanor property sale
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. 12-0025766 Title Order No. 120107530 APN No. 103-280-007-000 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/27/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by DAVID MARCUS, A MARRIED MAN, AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY, dated 04/27/2007 and recorded 5/3/2007, as Instrument No. 2007-0003674, in Book , Page , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Plumas County, State of California, will sell on 07/27/2012 at 9:00AM, At the Main Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 520 Main Street, Quincy, Plumas County, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 116 FOX GLENN DRIVE, LAKE ALMANOR, CA, 96137. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $850,733.56. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier's checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an ''AS IS'' condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee's Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder's Office. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on a property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 1-800-281-8219 or visit this Internet Web site www.recontrustco.com, using the file number assigned to this case 12-0025766. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281-8219 By: Trustee's Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FEI # 1006.161135 7/04, 7/11, 7/18/2012
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