nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

imagesintime Loc: small town, mid-America

Hypocrite. This is a man who has been forcing Hawaiians off their lands and is building a wall around his estate to keep out the "undesirables".

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And who gives a s**t?

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

Mark is one of my neighbors. actually, Amazingly enough, he is backing off the complex legal issue, which is ridiculously convoluted at best. He is interested in doing the right thing for the people living on his land, the local community and the people of Kauai... actually pretty rare that a Jillionaire gives a fuck, we have our share of those that don't...


but yeah..he came in typical white-man style credit cards blazing and quick on the check-book draw, people b***hed him out and he withdrew...ready to try it Kauai style... of course let's see how it actually plays out.

http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/guest/zuckerberg-we-are-dropping-our-quiet-title-actions/article_e80fc17c-e4b1-11e6-bc5c-9308d8f880f4.html

nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

More that half of America, Earth.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Hummmmmm maybe he should have hired more Americans. Tough tits

nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

All the trump supporters are too poorly educated and
the rest of us already have good paying jobs.

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

Chew on this, soba:

For years, many of the best engineers and scientists from around the world have come to the US and helped our country become one of the most technologically and scientifically successful economy in the world. Now because of Trump and his chaotic, uninformed, thoughtless rush to make immigrants the enemy and isolate the US from the rest of the world and make friends into enemies, we may experience a brain drain and loss of economic competitiveness. How is losing our technological/scientific advantages and suffering a brain drain going to make America great again?


Why Trump’s immigration order could spark a brain drain that hurts the U.S. economy
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-trumps-immigration-order-could-spark-a-brain-drain-that-hurts-the-us-economy-2017-01-30

Silicon Valley exports technology and imports the world’s best talent. That is how it has helped grow America’s economy and boosted its competitive advantage. President Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from some Muslim countries sent shock waves through the tech industry over the weekend because it was a loud and clear message to the world that America’s doors are now closed, and xenophobia and bigotry are the new rules of law.

It is no wonder that executives at almost every major technology company, including Alphabet GOOG, -2.57% GOOGL, -2.56% Facebook FB, -1.03% and Apple AAPL, -0.35% have made statements defending immigrants and distancing their companies from the president. These companies are worried about their survival and the future of the country.

Let there be no doubt that immigrants are essential to our economic present and future. These newcomers start a disproportionate number of U.S. businesses, particularly in advanced technologies. Immigrants and foreign-passport holders occupy a growing majority of places in graduate education programs in computer science, mathematics, physics and other hard sciences. They play an outsize role in U.S. research and innovation.

A 2012 research paper I co-authored, “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Then and Now,” documented that 24.3% of U.S. engineering and technology start-up companies and 43.9% of those based in Silicon Valley were founded by immigrants. My research also determined that immigrants contributed to more than 60% of the patent filings at innovative companies such as Qualcomm QCOM, -1.00% , Merck MRK, -0.55% , General Electric GE, -0.27% , and Cisco Systems CSCO, -0.58% . And surprisingly, more than 40% of the international patent applications filed by the U.S. government had foreign-national authors.

Study after study has found that immigrants are more likely to start job-creating businesses, not only in tech but across the economy. In 2014, 20% of the Inc. 500 companies had immigrant founders. That’s despite immigrants accounting for less than 15% of the U.S. population. According to research by economist Robert Fairlie for the Small Business Administration, immigrants are more than twice as likely to found businesses as non-immigrants and 7.1% of immigrant-founded businesses export their products outside the U.S. as compared to only 4.4% of non-immigrant-founded businesses.

Clearly, blocking the path of immigrants into the United States cuts off the exact economic growth serum that has made America great. Creating an atmosphere where immigrants are fearful and uncertain about their future will reduce their incentives to open businesses here and stay. This is becoming even more so as other countries increasingly court educated immigrants and entrepreneurs. Those who support the president’s executive order say that the intent is to block people from countries where terrorism is sourced. But it’s not so simple.

By blocking entrance based on passport or country of birth rather than objective criteria, the executive order paints all immigrants from those affected countries and possibly dual-passport-holders with the same scarlet letter. What if the next Mark Zuckerberg happens to be Iranian? Or if an Einstein happened to be born in Libya? Let’s not forget that Steve Jobs’s father was Syrian — and he would have been banned from entering the U.S. under Trump’s dictate.

Yes, it is true that the affected countries aren't the largest sources of immigrant entrepreneurs. But setting a precedent like this can mean that a politician can use this weapon against other countries that have become critical in supplying talent to fuel U.S. innovation. What if a frustrated president elected to block immigrants with Mexican, Chinese or Indian passports? The scenario, totally unthinkable a few months ago, is today entirely plausible.

In my 2012 book, “The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent,” I documented the stories of numerous immigrant entrepreneurs who were forced to leave the country because of shortages of sk**led immigrant visas, called green cards. It wasn’t that we didn’t want these people here; American politics was caught in a political quagmire on sk**led immigration. As a result, the country began suffering a brain drain, with highly-sk**led foreign-born doctors, engineers and scientists returning home.

With this executive order, Trump has made it clear that immigrants will have to worry about being singled out even after they have become lawful permanent residents; that their religion and place of birth may be the deciding factor in whether they are allowed to re-enter the U.S. after going abroad. This will no doubt turn the trickle of sk**led workers permanently leaving the country into a flood. Entrepreneurs who had wanted to come here will have now second thoughts.

Whether or not the courts uphold the legality of the executive order, the damage has been done. Already, the number of billion-dollar technology startups, commonly called “unicorns,” that are located outside the U.S. has been increasing dramatically. Fifteen years ago, almost all were in the U.S., while today 86 of the 191 unicorns are in countries such as China and India. We can expect this trend to accelerate because the Trump administration has just added fuel to the fire of innovation abroad and handicapped our own technology industry.

nakkh Loc: San Mateo, Ca

Well it increases the percentage of poorly educated members of our society.

And we all know how Trump feels about the poorly educated...