Can Americans compete?

One of the latest article from Fortune magazine is about more and more jobs are moving to other countries with labors that are low cost and highly educated. As the American culture continues to make fun of nerds and geeks and gives praises to athletes, America (70,000 last year) is not producing as many engineers and programmers than India (350,000) and China (600,000). Americans may not be able to compete in this information age, and may result in lower pay and lower standards of living. Here are my recommendations to turn things around:

1. Stop the culture that makes fun of nerds and geeks. I graduated with a double major in Math and Computer Science, and I don't receive the same respect that athletes, arts, music students get from girls. The reason is too many nerds and geeks try to impress girls by fixing their computers and cars or solving their problems. The consequence is the over supply of services from geeks and nerds, and they take us for granted and use us as a target to make fun of when they don't need us.

Listen nerds and geeks, being a nice guy doesn't work. You will have a better chance to get her phone number by pretending you are a photographer who takes nude pictures, by smoking a pipe in a piano bar and act like you understand music and jazz, by driving a motorcycle in full speed on I540 and chased by the cops, by gaining and losing a lot of weight like the Subway Jared, by doing extreme make over to look like Tom Cruise or William Hung, or even by telling the girl "boy, you look tired" as a pick-up line.

So, my new policy is that I won't fix your computer, and ask your football player boy friend to fix it.

2. Start giving Xbox2 and PS3 to children in China and India for free. They don't need food; they need TV games. They simply have too much time to study; they need other distractions or entertainments.

3. Encourage nerds and geeks to have babies. The Singapore Gov't is giving tax breaks and benefits for couples who have degrees or higher education to have kids. It even have match making programs for nerds and geeks to meet. Their kids are more educated and competitive b/c they value education. I should go to Singapore instead.

4. We need to lower our prices and provide better services to compete with the crazy Chinese and smart Indians. The following is a good example of how we could strive for excellence:



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Betray 2.7

Now, you have a clear picture of what’s going on in the women’s restroom and the problem; it is easy to understand why my idea is going to work. My idea is to place each stall with a mp3 juke box. When a user put a quarter in my machine, it will open up a menu of songs, and the juke box will play her favorite song. The songs that are chosen in the juke box should be up lifting that encourages her to go faster and smoother. The volume of the music should be loud enough to cover the noise generated by the number 1 and 2 activities. Loud noise also discourages cell phone usage in the stall hence speeds up the whole process. Another additional figure is spraying air refresher in the juke box to reduce the embarrassing odor caused by number 2 and number 3 activities.

This million dollar idea is undergoing experiment phase, but unfortunately the person who promises to keep it as a secret has spread the words out before I could file a patent on it.

Betray 2.6

The noise problem is worse when it comes to the number 2 activity. This causes anxiety and embarrassment to the users; ultimately leads to longer usage and/or constipation. For more severe cases like my sister and my mom, they will leave the mall, hold it, and use the restroom at home. We estimate their a typical mall lost several million of sales due to the wait of female restrooms and customers left the mall to use a more private restroom. It will be too costly and economically unsound to build private restrooms for women. On the other hand, we can place sound proof stalls in it, but these stalls do not have enough ventilation and they do not allowing women passing toilet paper underneath which may cause them to faint (not ventilate enough, no fresh air) or stuck inside (no passing toilet paper).