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Here's an article from a Singaporean newspaper: Parliament: Law against online falsehoods will not stifle free speech, say ministers.

The CFO in question was on the board of Skycom. That's publicly available information. "At least 13 pages of the Skycom proposal were marked “Huawei confidential” and carried Huawei’s logo." according to the Canadian Globe and Mail. This isn't difficult detective work.

How about:

Another director of Skycom, Ms Hu Mei, appeared to have a Huawei e-mail address and was listed in that company's employee directory, Reuters reported.

Former employees of Skycom have stated that it was not distinct from Huawei, and that Skycom employees had Huawei e-mail addresses and badges, according to a Canadian court filing.
[...]
Documents obtained through an investigation by the US authorities show that multiple Skycom bank accounts were controlled by Huawei employees, the filing said.

Just because you haven't paid attention to what's going on doesn't mean that there is no information out there about it.

She also found the money to open up her own restaurant in NYC. Not bad on a (supposed) maid's salary.

https://www.straitstimes.com/w...

This isn't a "Google" problem, this is an industry-wide problem. What larger tech company ISNT doing this?

This goes beyond even the tech industry to an ongoing global problem . Whether in the United States, Canada, Europe, or East Asia, you have more and more companies opting to use more and more contract labor. It's many of the same reasons: easy to hire and fire / surge, cheaper, etc.

Wasn't that already illegal? Yet the Chinese--people beyond US jurisdiction (and California's jurisdiction, despite what they seem to think)--did it anyway, yes?

Why yes. As a result, there were executions, lengthy prison terms, and various other punishments.

However "did it anyway" is a an exercise in moving the goalposts. Kohath posted "Be a grownup and make grownup choices. Then you won't need a government mommy watching out for you..." You're implying that the problem would not be worse if there were not labeling + heath & safety laws. Yet perfection is neither obtainable nor required.

As for jurisdiction... being "beyond" a jurisdiction isn't the safety net that you appear to think it is.

It's for "businesses with more than 300 employees, state-run agencies and government offices".

From the same article:

Prior to the new law, South Koreans worked some 300 more hours yearly compared to workers in countries such as the US or Italy, and some 700 more hours yearly to those in countries such as Germany and Norway.

Studies have shown that the country's long working hours do not necessarily result in higher labour productivity. In 2014, South Koreans' labour productivity was US$31.90 per hour, significantly lower than the OECD average, which was US$49.

Of course, then there's the other side of the coin:

Not every South Korean is pleased with the change. A survey by a local employment portal site showed that 55.2 per cent of the 905 South Korean workers who responded saying that they are concerned about having to work overtime anyway after the law revision - meaning more than 12 hours weekly - but won't be eligible to receive overtime pay.

Before the change, South Koreans worked 52 normal hours and 16 hours of overtime, and were entitled to overtime pay for at least 16 hours a week.

"What if you prefer money or work over life?" said a 33-year-old office worker living in Seongnam. "I think those who want to work more and thereby make more money should have the right to do so. What if you can't make your ends meet unless you work overtime? I feel like for some people in this country, this law revision is rather irresponsible."

Hey wanker, your nation is still out of control and the ones to blame for the CO2, not just the Yanks. China lifted 1 child 3 years ago and now you are back to breeding like bloody rabbits when you are not raping each other. You make India look wonderful for women. Total muppet.
And yes, even as your nation continues to pollute heavily, you are adding (not simply replacing) even more coal plants all over the globe, including your own nation. Tossers like you continue to lie and try to defend what your nation is doing when you are the worst. If the yanks start building new coal plants, then you will have made things much worse.

piss off and go back to Xi's knob.

Let's hope other countries do the same thing too.

Remember, agencies of the US government regularly attempt to influence elections overseas, and, oppose the natural desires of their electorate

Below are a selection of links about the same, from across the political spectrum that are quite well-documented.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.channel4.com/news/...

https://www.straitstimes.com/w...

https://www.telesurtv.net/engl...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

https://www.wnyc.org/story/his...

http://www.truth-out.org/opini...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com...

https://www.thenewamerican.com...

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22...

https://www.politico.eu/articl...

https://www.strategic-culture....

Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders

Now we know why the libs hate Trump so much. After all, he scored highest on his cognitive tests.

Yes. He was able to correctly name drawings of (a) a lion, (b) a rhinoceros and (c) a camel.
(scroll down article for test sample)

The only worrying possibility is that China is using North Korea to probe US missile defences in order to be able to build missiles that can evade them.

E.g the US sold Tai some Patriot PAC3 launchers but they are so concerned about Chinese radar snooping that Taiwanese personnel had to fly to the US to test fire them

http://www.straitstimes.com/as...

So if North Korea forced the US to intercept a missile with Aegis or GMD it would reveal a lot of information. And if it used Rods from God it would obviously reveal it had such a system.

And if a NK missile got past Aegis and GMD and needed to be intercepted with THAAD or Patriot then all hell would break loose.

Since they are planning to build 700 new coal fired power plants.

Read this for some context of five-powers and this for quick BOT reference.

They would probably block payment by credit cards or something

This. The banks are so scared of the government nowadays they will bend over backwards and do everything the government says. There's an interesting case happening here in Panama with the Waked family being "investigated" for money laundering. Please note they are being INVESTIGATED. They have not been tried or convicted - this is merely the US government pointing a finger and saying "these might be bad guys" because of the Panama paper leak. So what happens then? This family owns many big chain stores. The banks just dropped them (because of US government pressure) and will not process credit card transactions for them. So they can only accept cash in their stores now. Again it must be noted that no one has been found guilty, no one has gone to trial and nothing has been proven.

Stores who rent space in their mall won't get their contracts renewed and have been threatened by the banks - because guilt by association as another favorite government tool. Oh and get this - if you are a US citizen you are being told it is a crime punishable by up to $500,000 or 10 years in PRISON if you shop at a store owned by the Waked family, because you'll be blah blah blah whatever facilitating money laundering (IANAL). So you, a US citizen living as an ex pat in a 3rd world sovereign nation can be arrested by the US government for making the mistake of shopping in a store which the US government seems to have slapped with a modern day bill of attainder. Nice huh? Welcome to the brave new world. And if you think THIS is government power, wait another 20 years.

I'm not really making an argument one way or the other. My opinion means nothing. The voters are okay with it, not me. And the Nuremberg Defense is very selectively applied, by a democratic voting process it seems, or a committee, in the same fashion they decide who's a terrorist

Less believable? See:
http://www.thestar.com.my/News...
http://www.malaysia-chronicle....
http://www.straitstimes.com/ne...
for a demonstration of Goebbels' and Stalin's idea that if a big lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth.

Doesn't one have to love science for its inquiry nature.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/article-when-introduce-child-smartphone-tablet.html

http://www.thestar.com/life/technology/2012/11/29/smartphone_addicts_start_early_in_south_korea.html

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/kids-using-gadgets-earlier-age-being-exposed-risks-study-20130605

And as you also brought the TV into the mix, of course, that too.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130505/education/Effects-of-TV-computer-games-and-smartphones-on-children.468339

You know, it is 10 years now I do not watch TV, I don't have a TV set at home. I watch the occasional when I go to visit my parents or some friend, but that is because the TV is on all the time everywhere I go and I can not shut my eyes. I read a lot, and I do mean a lot. Everyday two hours at least, the time one would spend in front of the TV. I do not want to seem arrogant, but I am considered the guy with lots and lots of imagination among my friends. I think there could be a correlation with my aTV-ism, it, but I will say there is not, thus making you happy and easier to move along.

You do know that the income gap in China is narrowing, right? And it's widening in the US? Conditions in China are bad, but getting better. Conditions for workers in America are much better, but getting worse. Who's getting hurt here?

This is an expression of the free market at work, with a good dose of unintentional consequences for the corporate masters who shipped all the jobs overseas in hopes of getting cheap labour, thereby increasing the value of that labour, and slowly improving the lot of the workers there (at the expense of the workers back home, of course). All this crying and gnashing of teeth ignores the fact that conditions in China are improving for workers, and American workers don't like that.

The real problem isn't the shipping of jobs to one part of the world or another. The real problem is executive compensation. The leeches at the top pay themselves hundreds or possibly thousands of times the wages of the people at the bottom of the supply chain, instead of limiting themselves to something reasonable (but still quite a lot of money) and making sure that everyone else in the chain makes a decent standard of living.

That's not true.

Conditions are improving for Chinese workers though, there's no denying that. Urban living standards have risen in absolute terms, but the gap is growing fast.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Boeing just lost a huge contract in Hong Kong. Seems that landing their first "dreamliner" there wasn't enough to schmooze the Chinese, so now they're flinging crap at their aircraft of choice.

This should help.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_526014.html

I've been keenly following the development of this device in the hopes of getting one before Christmas. Anyway, here's a newspaper article dated Aug '09 about the company behind all the "heavy lifting". Seems that they got into a partnership with Arrington with the hopes of him being the marketing guy. http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_410527.html

Alternative energy systems and nuclear plants require longer build times

Nuclear yes, but wind shouldn't take that long to build out. Erect 20 5 megawatt wind turbines a month and you'll add more than 1 gigawatt of generation capacity a year.

Falcon

A salesperson for renewable energy concluded that renewable energy is cheaper than it's chief competitor!

I noticed you provided no citations to back up your statement that nuclear power is clearer than coal and does does not need subsidies. I on the other hand provided not one but four links to back up mine in my post you replied to, and more links previously. Including links to business and freemarket supporters. Yes one was from a clean energy group, but hey didn't you claim nuclear power is clean. Another link was to a magazine, one to news, and one news about a study on costs. And it links to another study that "ranked technologies according to their environmental impact." Number one was wind, two solar thermal, and three geothermal. And "nuclear, coal and ethanol ranked at the bottom."

Try again.

Uh, you are aware that the majority of Uranium for Commercial Nuclear Power now comes from deactivated Nuclear Warheads.

Citation needed. But I doubt you'll provide one.

The AP1000 will be manufactured in modules designed for rail or barge shipment. This will allow constructing many modules in parallel. The plant is designed to have fuel load 36 months after concrete is first poured. This construction period is much shorter than generation II designs. If achieved, it should greatly decrease the interest costs needed to build the plant. Such reductions would make the design much more economically competitive against other power sources than previous generation nuclear plants.

Three years after concrete is poured? I notice you include an "If achieved" escape clause, you then say "Can they do it, I have no idea". So there are none of these units working and online providing power to the grid. They provide 1154 MWe or 1.154 gigawatts of electricity? Wind, and solar, on the other hand is proven. Erect 100 5 megawatt wind turbines a year and in 3 years you've added 1.5 gigawatts of capacity in those three years. Or 500 megawatts a year. Wind power can be added within months, even you admit nuclear power needs more than 3 years lead tyme.

I'm sorry if you don't "believe" these things, but they are as perfectly possible as theories regarding mass adoption of Solar and Wind (though I do think Nuclear is a sounder investment if only because there's never a doubt that it will produce electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).

Wind and solar are proven. Your nuclear power plants are not. Geothermal is not only proven but it is also used for baseloads, your 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

You believe in the theories of nuclear power while I believe in the proven power sources of geothermal, solar, and wind.

Falcon

The hallmark of a mercantile nation is hoarding.

You're using "mercantile nation" differently than others do. For instance Dictionary.com says "2. engaged in trade or commerce: a mercantile nation."

if China were really trading fairly

China doesn't trade fairly, that I admit. If China wanted to trade fairly then they'd have to let the market set the price of yuan or the Chinese Renminbi. But instead the government does.

she would be spending that money around the globe and those dollars would ultimately work their way back to the US economy.

China does spend, er invest, that money throughout the world. For instance "China to invest in Brazil oil". China is one of the biggest investors in Africa. It's because of China that there hasn't been a solution in the Sudan before, but the Chinese are pushing for peace now.

those "New Deal" era reforms made by Roosevelt that were successful

Some economists believe FDRs reforms prolonged the Great Depression as I've said elsewhere. Here's what the Wall Street Journal has to say about "How Government Prolonged the Depression". The protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, enacted in 1930, may of made it worse.

Obviously, all taxes are bad in some theoretical sense, but if you were going to tax -effectively-, and raise revenue to do what it is that governments do, then, the things to tax would be hoards. Capital Gains taxes are the -worst- form of taxes because they encourage hoarding. On the other hand, sales taxes are pretty terrible too because they discourage spending, and that ultimately lowers the velocity of money.

Depending on how you look at it taxing something but not another may be bad, or visa versa. Taxing investments drives money away from investments, and taxing spending drives money away from spending. However not enough people in the US invest enough, too many people have been living beyond their means since at least the 1990s. That stimulus package passed in early 2008, where rebates were mailed out to tax payers, failed because many people used it to pay off debt instead of spending it. If they had spent it though then they would of had more debt. Damn if I do and damn if I don't. About the only thing I can see working is to reduce government spending so taxes can be lowered if not eliminated. Reduce the size of government and use user fees for those things government does mean to provide, like roads.

Falcon

... from the desk of the reporter