These days, China has substantial value as a consumer. It makes sense to keep some (but not all) of your manufacturing where you have a billion consumers.
Many Chinese social media comments made about the recent atoll dispute with the Philippines are shockingly jingoistic, calling for war to seize land and defend China's "honor".
I'd be shocked if their internet commenters weren't saying that. You don't have to read far on American news sites to find commenters who want to nuke the middle east or the like.
Tens of millions of people would pay a monthly subscription to view live video of the moon? Ha, maybe tens of people would. That's wackier than the conspiracy theory. If it were so profitable I'm sure China would be selling webcam access to their recent lunar rover.
Same type of disincentives apply to welfare, the more you work the more benefits you lose so you're effectively gaining almost nothing from the work. And health benefits add yet another disincentive as you lose medicaid when you get much above the poverty line.
Prove that we won't be attacked by any opportunist with armed forces if we disband ours.
That's easily proved by looking at all the other much less-armed countries in much less-secure geographical positions that aren't invaded -- or by looking at American history when the country was less powerful. The USA is just completely un-occupyable because of geography, even if we pissed off Mexico and Canada at once. If you thought Afghanistan was hard to subdue, try occupying a nation the size and population of the USA. The best you can possibly hope for is a Pearl Harbor style attack or a few nuisance suicide landings on the coasts.
Tweeting against the NC bathroom bill is blatantly taking a position, and she "swept that under discrimination" because it is discrimination and that's the point. There is no way to be clearer than that, and it's quite amusing that someone could seriously believe that she or other feminists are against transgender bathroom choice. Are you really so incapable of believing that women don't have an issue with transwomen that you have to invent this tortured fantasy that they suffer the same paranoia as you?
If 5% of the country votes Green, they get federal funding in the next election. Perhaps they'd use that money to push their advocacy for ranked choice and proportional representation.
There's no perfect system, though. Proportional representation gives you party-controlled lists and takes away the power of local people to directly decide who represents their community.
You're simply lying about Stein's bathroom position. She very clearly states that she believes transgender people should be able to choose which restroom to use. A position which she shares with nearly all feminists.
Your outrage detector is broken. Most SJWs (and most feminists these days) are pro-porn. This very page notes that the official republican party platform is anti-porn, and it's a safe bet that's because of the religious right, not because SJWs own the republican party.
Kurds are an ethnic group, not a sect. Most of them are Sunni.
The AKP lost their majority in the election last June... but that just resulted in a hung parliament and a new election where the people voted for the AKP by a wide margin because they decided stability was more important.
The reason manned spaceflight developed better technologies is that more money was thrown at it. Give robotic space exploration an Apollo-sized budget and we might see even greater technological advances. Imagine the tech we'd have to develop to drill into Europa, make submarines for Titan, construct rovers that can survive on Venus, or reach other star systems.
Actually Amazon has chased me back to shopping at Barnes & Noble, because they raised their minimum order for free shipping so much that it makes a lot more sense for me to drive 40 miles to my nearest B&N to pick up a book for someone's birthday present.
Yes, I agree that a gay character is not being shockingly inclusive in the way Roddenberry liked to be. The grandparent was wrong both in asserting that a gay character is "millennial inclusive bullshit" and also in asserting that Roddenberry wouldn't have loved "millennial inclusive bullshit" (he would've).
I think a certain segment of the population wouldn't like him if he was credited under his full name
For the first couple seasons of DS9, he was credited as Siddig El Fadil. As far as I can recall, exactly nobody cared. A muslim character wouldn't seem to fit in Star Trek though because they don't portray any current human religions -- there was never a Christian character. Only alien religions are allowed, Earthlings may be spiritual and theistic but not religious.
It's not really about agendas. It's about audience identification with characters. The more demographics they can make feel included, the more money they can make. Personally I really couldn't care less.
Although, the actor actually portraying gay Sulu isn't gay so it's a bit odd to hide behind the non-gay actor while saying that the original universe Sulu portrayed by the gay actor is still straight.
They should've given Scotty an interspecies gay relationship with that scaly creature he seemed to have a domestic relationship with in the first reboot film. Or, just make Kirk bisexual so he can flirt with everyone on the screen.
I guess you're joking? Gene Roddenberry's vision for Star Trek was always aggressively liberal and more inclusive than society would accept. He tried to have a woman first officer in The Cage but that wouldn't fly. According to Takei, Roddenberry would've liked to have a GLBT character when Takei approached him about iit in the 60s but felt it was too risky since the interracial kiss had tanked ratings already.
Russia and China don't actually normally do anything against people who speak against their government as an individual. Organizing is what gets you jailed or killed -- be it a protest, a newspaper or a campaign for office.
They've been a lot more terrorist attacks in Russia, and for longer, than the USA. And they've been very useful getting the public to support authoritarianism.
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It's possible, if the unemployment is high enough, that automation might force China to flirt with the concept of communism.
These days, China has substantial value as a consumer. It makes sense to keep some (but not all) of your manufacturing where you have a billion consumers.
I'd be shocked if their internet commenters weren't saying that. You don't have to read far on American news sites to find commenters who want to nuke the middle east or the like.
Tens of millions of people would pay a monthly subscription to view live video of the moon? Ha, maybe tens of people would. That's wackier than the conspiracy theory. If it were so profitable I'm sure China would be selling webcam access to their recent lunar rover.
Same type of disincentives apply to welfare, the more you work the more benefits you lose so you're effectively gaining almost nothing from the work. And health benefits add yet another disincentive as you lose medicaid when you get much above the poverty line.
That's easily proved by looking at all the other much less-armed countries in much less-secure geographical positions that aren't invaded -- or by looking at American history when the country was less powerful. The USA is just completely un-occupyable because of geography, even if we pissed off Mexico and Canada at once. If you thought Afghanistan was hard to subdue, try occupying a nation the size and population of the USA. The best you can possibly hope for is a Pearl Harbor style attack or a few nuisance suicide landings on the coasts.
Or just run it in DOSBox on any OS. For most software that's the obvious thing to do.
Tweeting against the NC bathroom bill is blatantly taking a position, and she "swept that under discrimination" because it is discrimination and that's the point. There is no way to be clearer than that, and it's quite amusing that someone could seriously believe that she or other feminists are against transgender bathroom choice. Are you really so incapable of believing that women don't have an issue with transwomen that you have to invent this tortured fantasy that they suffer the same paranoia as you?
If 5% of the country votes Green, they get federal funding in the next election. Perhaps they'd use that money to push their advocacy for ranked choice and proportional representation.
There's no perfect system, though. Proportional representation gives you party-controlled lists and takes away the power of local people to directly decide who represents their community.
You're simply lying about Stein's bathroom position. She very clearly states that she believes transgender people should be able to choose which restroom to use. A position which she shares with nearly all feminists.
Your outrage detector is broken. Most SJWs (and most feminists these days) are pro-porn. This very page notes that the official republican party platform is anti-porn, and it's a safe bet that's because of the religious right, not because SJWs own the republican party.
Kurds are an ethnic group, not a sect. Most of them are Sunni.
The AKP lost their majority in the election last June... but that just resulted in a hung parliament and a new election where the people voted for the AKP by a wide margin because they decided stability was more important.
Iran protests just about everything Saudi Arabia does, so I'd bet they include that. Or at least their Jewish MP does.
The reason manned spaceflight developed better technologies is that more money was thrown at it. Give robotic space exploration an Apollo-sized budget and we might see even greater technological advances. Imagine the tech we'd have to develop to drill into Europa, make submarines for Titan, construct rovers that can survive on Venus, or reach other star systems.
Actually, the firing squad is the sole execution method in the UAE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Actually Amazon has chased me back to shopping at Barnes & Noble, because they raised their minimum order for free shipping so much that it makes a lot more sense for me to drive 40 miles to my nearest B&N to pick up a book for someone's birthday present.
41? It died for me at version 3.6.
Electronic storage will never be as reliable as cave paintings. Keep your fancy new tech to yourself.
Of course. The sun is a fairly large star so you could see it for at least 50 light years.
Yes, I agree that a gay character is not being shockingly inclusive in the way Roddenberry liked to be. The grandparent was wrong both in asserting that a gay character is "millennial inclusive bullshit" and also in asserting that Roddenberry wouldn't have loved "millennial inclusive bullshit" (he would've).
For the first couple seasons of DS9, he was credited as Siddig El Fadil. As far as I can recall, exactly nobody cared. A muslim character wouldn't seem to fit in Star Trek though because they don't portray any current human religions -- there was never a Christian character. Only alien religions are allowed, Earthlings may be spiritual and theistic but not religious.
It's not really about agendas. It's about audience identification with characters. The more demographics they can make feel included, the more money they can make. Personally I really couldn't care less.
Although, the actor actually portraying gay Sulu isn't gay so it's a bit odd to hide behind the non-gay actor while saying that the original universe Sulu portrayed by the gay actor is still straight.
They should've given Scotty an interspecies gay relationship with that scaly creature he seemed to have a domestic relationship with in the first reboot film. Or, just make Kirk bisexual so he can flirt with everyone on the screen.
I guess you're joking? Gene Roddenberry's vision for Star Trek was always aggressively liberal and more inclusive than society would accept. He tried to have a woman first officer in The Cage but that wouldn't fly. According to Takei, Roddenberry would've liked to have a GLBT character when Takei approached him about iit in the 60s but felt it was too risky since the interracial kiss had tanked ratings already.
Russia and China don't actually normally do anything against people who speak against their government as an individual. Organizing is what gets you jailed or killed -- be it a protest, a newspaper or a campaign for office.
They've been a lot more terrorist attacks in Russia, and for longer, than the USA. And they've been very useful getting the public to support authoritarianism.