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He has been published in Playboy, Soldier of Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harper's, National Review, Signal, Air&Space, and suchlike. He has worked as a police writer, technology editor, military specialist, and authority on mercenary soldiers. He is by all accounts as looney as a tune. Fred Reed is author of Nekkid in Austin: Drop Your Inner Child Down a Well, A Brass Pole in Bangkok: A Thing I Aspire to Be, Curmudgeing Through Paradise: Reports from a Fractal Dung Beetle, Au Phuc Dup and Nowhere to Go: The Only Really True Book About VietNam, and A Grand Adventure: Wisdom's Price-Along with Bits and Pieces about Mexico.
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Monday, August 19, 2019
We're Number One! China Can't Compete! In many American universities, departments of math, engineering, and the hard sciences would close if it weren't for foreign students, largely Chinese. Why is this thought bad? Obviously the more money MIT and CalTech drain from the Chinese economy in tuition, the less money Beijing will have to spend on research and development. Slowly but surely, this impoverishment will bring China down.
Monday, August 19, 2019We're Number One! China Can't Compete! In many American universities, departments of math, engineering, and the hard sciences would close if it weren't for foreign students, largely Chinese. Why is this thought bad? Obviously the more money MIT and CalTech drain from the Chinese economy in tuition, the less money Beijing will have to spend on research and development. Slowly but surely, this impoverishment will bring China down.
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Gapple and Oogle, our Defenders Apple and Google are encrypting our emails to keep them away from NSA scrutiny. NSA is not too damn pleased. The Feds are setting up the machinery of a totalitarianism beyond anything yet known on the earth. You can argue, if you are optimistic enough that they would never use such powers. They already do. Do we have more to fear from largely imaginary terrorists, or from the FBI?
Saturday, October 4, 2014Gapple and Oogle, our Defenders Apple and Google are encrypting our emails to keep them away from NSA scrutiny. NSA is not too damn pleased. The Feds are setting up the machinery of a totalitarianism beyond anything yet known on the earth. You can argue, if you are optimistic enough that they would never use such powers. They already do. Do we have more to fear from largely imaginary terrorists, or from the FBI?
