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China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US
blackraven14250 writes with news that China, after putting at least a temporary stop to rare earth exports to Japan, is now doing the same with exports to the US; according to the linked article, this is in response to recent US promises to investigate certain Chinese trade practices.
I'm glad I invested in all these Bucky Balls when Woot had them on sale a while ago. I can supply them... for a small convenience charge.
But that would put Wal-Mart out of business!
Jokes aside, trade wars lead to shooting wars. This isn't welcome news.
Exactly, they're ignorant because they refused to watch The Phantom Menace.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Seems like a reasonable compromise to my nuke-em-and-let-god-sort-them-out strategy.
It's OK. He's on a roll. This is the only fun he gets, so just let him be. He'll go to sleep tonight thinking "Boy, I straightened out that liberal Slashdot today". We've already taken away all his free speech and liberty, don't take that away from him too.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Hey now... no need to be sexist. (north) American men have large, pendulous breasts too, although I can't speak for the Chinese or Japanese, but I'm sure the same holds true.
Since you really do need sheep to do anything, long story short, he won the game.
Ok, so New Zealand is fine then, but what's the US going to do?
War between America and China? It must be cool to grow up in an isolated wood cabin reading dusty tomes about world history from the 1950s then suddenly the satellite dish arrives and you can post on the internet.
Sorry, I missed which country is invading the other.
China could stamp out a billion machetes in just a few weeks. Rwanda was barely an hours worth of China's productive capacity. 18,000 Japanese soldiers cut off from their supply chain defended Iwo Jima for 35 days. You'd face 18 million Chinese just landing on the beach. Some would have weapons.
Or how about the Chinese invading Los Angeles. I don't think they'd survive the first commute. By the first number that came up, there are 65 million handguns in America. Imagine that these were not all pointed at fellow Americans for a few hours. It would make Mogadishu look like a mild celebration of Chinese new year. The bullets would be flying thicker than rice at a Mafia wedding.
Or maybe the Americans could hatch a plot to pump sulphur dioxides into the atmosphere and reverse global warming while secretly stock-piling a million M1A1 tanks to cross the newly exposed land bridge to China. Hey, it almost worked for the Germans.
A final possibility is that both sides would follow "A Taste of Armageddon" and China agrees to manufacture a few million suicide booths at an unbeatable low, low price with Walmart branding. This would be good for Texas, but might strain the agreement as the Chinese complain "do we really have to make them so large?" Meanwhile the Japanese embargo the entire deal in an effort to collect royalties on the bundled BluRay player and the Cell chips sourced from IBM overheat running the provably-fair thermonuclear simulation. It would be a fiasco all around.
No, I am naked and I access Slashdot via ESP.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
This is true but as an American I think its high time that China had it self a popular democratic uprising, preferably one that is incredibly bloody and lasts for 10-15 years. Exactly why are we paying our CIA agents salaries if they cant start a damn civil war in a communist country anymore?
Go find the largest object you can imagine shoving up your ass, and then sit on it.
Best Buy is having a sale on refrigerators, fresh off the boat from China. Should do the trick.
This is america bitch.
We'll build a fucking nailgun.
In what factory, you jingoist ignorant fuck?!
And, more importantly, are we talking about a real nail gun or about a machine gun style "kill space aliens" type of nail gun, and can I get a discount of some type?
To make a nailgun, we need neodymium magnets!!
Religion is the main cause of atheism.
yea, it's literally terrorism!
Balderdash!
Replacing the government with one that is more "friendly" (as in fuck friend) to the US ...
This sounds like the Iraq plan. Should work.
So you keep paying the kid to mow your lawn for a couple of years. One day he shows up with his own lawnmower. No point having your own mower when it's not being used, so you put your mower on eBay. A few years later you lose your job at the lawnmower factory and find yourself mowing lawns for $20 a time, of which $5 goes to the kid for borrowing his mower.
Oh, also the kid is exerting increasingly firm control over the South China Sea, but I'm not sure how to work that into the analogy. ;-)
Looks like someone needs to update their dictionary. The OPs statement is contemporarily correct
terrorism-noun (tu'ur'ism)
1. the use of violence to to kill, maim, or upset fine Americans or people fine Americans like.
2. the property of being muslim.
3. the act of doing something I don't approve of.
3. the act of being something I don't approve of.
May the Maths Be with you!