Setting aside the random chip on your shoulder and just addressing your claim, how many non-Asians do you think a Taiwanese firm has? RoC tech visas are not so easy to get.

British Rail and National Rail are not even attempting the same role. BR was a vertically integrated organisation that got to maintain tracks and run trains. NR maintains the infrastructure for rail firms of various levels of competence who then proceed to cause reliability issues through feats like not managing to have enough drivers (hello Southern) and costing more in subsidies than BR did. So, well, you're slightly unfair to BR here.

Sure, and if you weren't claiming these donated costs as justifying your own costs, then that would be fair. As it is, it is extremely disingenuous to claim those costs in a comparison to open access, zero-cost to reader journals, which also have those costs donated.

Sure. I agree that racists are a subset of the set 'people I don't agree with'.

I'm OK with that.

"And this is precisely why Slashdot needs to do away with moderation."

A quick visit to Voat will tell you the utter cess pit of racists that that results in.

Classy with the affiliate link there, that wasn't at all transparently motivated.

If the New York Stock Exchange shut down trading of currencies that wouldn't indicate you could not use those currencies to buy goods and services - including other currencies! on other exchanges! - outside of the NYSE. This is why you are able to spend dollars outside of the NYSE trading hours (Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m).

This community - and you - are really quite disgustingly prejudiced.

Only one problem: this is a way for immigrants to legally start businesses in the USA. It's now being shut down. How does that help with illegal immigration?

> In the mean time the average life expectancy of a house built in the past 50 years is ... 50 years anyway American house building methods are astonishingly slipshod.

I have also been to Nepal. I walked to Kala Pattar from the Rai areas, rather than flying into Lukla. It cost me less than $10 a day.

"there are only two known chromosomal configations ... XX and XY."

This is factually untrue. See XXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXY, XY/XXY mosaic, XYY. The list goes on.

They aren't getting richer, they have committed most of their assets to ongoing projects. As such, they have become poorer in the purely personal sense.

No they don't. As an example, the polio eradication program has continued in all states that have cases of polio regardless of IP laws...and some cynics would say that eradicating a disease does not exactly set up an ongoing market for vaccines.

Cunning hiding it away in things like vaccination programs and other A rated charitable activities? I dislike the MS story as much as anyone, but to say that Gates hasn't used his money for genuine philanthropy is myopic.