It's true that many employees of these companies are immigrants (~20% generalizing from a Pew Research thing here), but more are American citizens, including second generation immigrants. So I don't think this industry in particular reflects particularly poorly on American engineering education.

One thing to look forward to is how much more aggressive deckers will be when it comes to takng down wireless devices.
Switching guns takes a minor action I would guess so deading a smart gun for instance...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

For the longest time, throughout the tech boom, the US relied on immigrants to do that for them (I mean, look at the average tech entreprenneur - precious few actual, born Americans there). According to my sister, who is in Stanford a month a year for professional reasons, American-educated students stop to be relevant in US science from doctorate level up - precious frew MINT professors, scientists, researchers and even administrative people are US natives. This worked for as long as the US was very accomodating to immigrants. It stops ... well, you said it.

As I see it, though, the problem is earlier. Grade and High Schools. I have no idea what you do during High School, but you manage to drag an equivalent to a middle school degree (9 to 10 years) to 13 years. From what little I know of the US school system, though, deprivatizing the curricula, standardizing and strictly regulating learning materials and significantly tightening schedule and curriculum to the level of a prep school as the standard would probably work to get US schools (and graduates) to competitive standards again. Do away with standardized testing, offer left-behind students special counseling instead of making them the determinant for progress speed, and make learning materials transparent and ban the secrecy currently prevalent. Of course, as with everything in the US, this means fighting powerful and entrenched oligarchs and their pet corporations.

May I ask what you did, curriculum-wise?

Except when you played 5th, you may have noticed most folk simply turned OFF wireless while on a Run so avoid the detection and bricking function, so much so that it was actually pretty much standard on even Missions adventures.
Which should tell you something when the semi-official games set up turn if OFF rather than incorporate it into their tables.

Maybe this has been addressed, but it will be a tough one to fix.

I can Imagine well armed and armored groups moving between defensive positions just to look for an advantage gain......
If you had no clear advantage before you moved and you suddenly have a huge Edge advantage after, with cover giving the same bonus defensive rating or less. Maybe the other group turned a smartlink off.......

Same drek I did in 10th grade, but more "advanced". I also agree with you about college being a scam. I am a LOT more proud about my Associates degree that I got a local community college, then the Bachelors degree I got at a more expensive college.

I hear that China, India, Japan, to give examples, have great school systems. Maybe people should migrate to those countries and seek education and a new life. They are very competitive.

Sorry, but no. I might not like the education system, but I love my country... warts and all. Only country on the planet where you can tell your elected officials to frag off and they can't lay a finger on you.

it is a great thing about your country that you can do that. it is not even a tiny bit close to being the *only* country on the planet where you can do that. there are in fact *many* countries that enjoy freedom of speech, though not necessarily exactly the same way you do (for example, in my country the courts have not ruled that corporations have a constitutional right to bribe elected officials into doing their bidding, which generally means i don't need to tell my elected officials to frag off quite as often, and at the very least reduces the size and visibility of the bribes that can be offered. i'm sure there are still corrupt politicians that are essentially taking bribes from corporations, of course, but at least if they get caught they get in trouble for it).

Only country on the planet where you can tell your elected officials to frag off and they can't lay a finger on you.

Pretty sure you'll face consequences for telling elected officials to frag off, depending on how insulting you express it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Or any other person, for that matter.
Freedom of speech does not give freedom to badmouth anyone, and having consequences for that is also not a lack of freedom in general and instead a reaffirmation for the recipient's freedom to not be slighted. Or in short: My freedom ends where your nose starts.

However, paraphrasing recent ludicrous statements made by a certain orange monster is pretty uncool, especially if you consider that loving your country and wanting to change it for the better is not at all exclusive, but rather an expression of that love. Warts can be removed with a little bit of work. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Yeah, they prefer to just shoot you and then claim self-defense. Your president bragged he could do excactly that. Unless you are Canadian, of course, then it's valid, though not the only country where you can do this (barring commiting a crime against said official, as bannockburn noted).

Please, I don't want to get into political discussions. Every leader has their screw ups. Does Trump have them? Of course he does! Does that make him a evil person? No. Only makes him human.

Not really.

Over 57% of STEM jobs in Silicone Valley are being filled by workers from abroad, because they can not fill those spots domestically.

And with the current administration tightening the visa rules, even for STEM related hirings, many tech companies in the US are expressing concerns about being able to fill the expanding demand for this skillset as they point out domestic education is not properly preparing students for STEM jobs, or even letting them know those options exist.

One student survey had 64% of them not even knowing there were Math related jobs available. So it is not just a question of education, but also actually a need for better encouraging students to look at STEM options that they might not realise exist.

<citation needed>

Trump is cheerleading for his administration running literal concentration camps with a double digit and rising death toll due to the conditions people are being kept in.

well, presuming we mean *literally* telling them to frag off... not really, no. not legal ones, anyways. you might face social consequences as other people disapprove of your actions, but it isn't libel to just tell someone to frag off.

The 57% sounds really bogus (maybe it isn’t there are stem companies that are not Software after all) I currently work as a developer at arguably the most diverse of the t2 tech giants. I literally had a meeting today about how to hire more diverse candidates. My current team is over 60% male white dudes from the US, closer to 80% if you want to count Eastern European white dudes. There are more diverse teams than mine but there’s also some without any diversity. Silicon Valley (HBO) pretty much nailed my experience over nearly two decades with four white dudes and the token Indian. (Hooli)