“There’s a guy I’ve volunteered with who I know works a physically demanding 40+ hour a week job supporting his family.”

“Because I’m gainfully employed, productive, donate time and $ to a number of charities.”

More likely explanation is that while Americans were busying destroying countries and waging wars of justice, other countries simply invested in their own infrastructure.

Are you saying the the United States doesn’t have enough land for alternative energy sources? I remember watching a documentary which stated that the state of Nevada had enough surface area which if covered in solar panels could generate enough electricity for the entire world...

GTX 1070 is releasing for $380, which is almost as fast as the Titan X. (7 TFLOPS vs. 6.5 TFLOPS)

I’m pretty sure they will reuse their technologies and design used for this one. So, over the course of the whole range of products with similar architectures, they will definitely earn back their R&D expenditure.

The following is a list of countries the US *does* have business in:

Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
South Korea
Vietnam
Cuba
Iran
Syria
Libya
Egypt
Japan
Israel
Ukraine
China
NATO countries
Members of UN
Europe
Asia
Afican Continent

Hmmm... maybe they shouldn’t maintain “business” in so many countries...