The Chinese are useless. They are completely incapable of inventing anything, because the CCP stifles and crushes the natural dynamism of their people. They are only capable of cheating and stealing -- so by definition, the only way that can get that technology is for somebody else to do it first, and for them to steal it.
You don't understand Chinese culture: it's all about 'face' and appearances.
They probably couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag -- the US would destroy them within hours. The only thing that matters to them is to convince their own cowed, scared, brainwashed people that they are the greatest, and that to resist the CCP is to invite being slaughtered, a la Tianamen Square massacre.
Only problem with that: friendly fire. Most US govt debt is held by pension funds and friendly governments -- as much as it would be nice to tell the commies to fuck themselves.
You clearly know your stuff, vlm! Do you do this for a living? If not, you should.
Interesting that Russian industry should be the first to come up with oxy-rich engine designs. I would have thought that American industry would've beaten them, given their history of high-tech, low margin designs. Is this an accident of history, or because American technology was more advanced overall, and they invested in solids for military purposes instead?
The answers I've heard personally, is that Russian industry learned some metallurgical tricks (making alloys suitable for use in oxidiser-rich engines) back in the day, but aren't worried about losing the know-how, since the secret is in the manufacturing process. Supposedly, simply doing an assay of the materials in a shipped engine is nowhere near enough to reproduce the special alloys they use.
Gosh, don't tell the libertarians and gun nuts that the only proven way to fight crime is by properly funding law enforcement, and giving them the right tools to find the bad guys and crack their heads together. God no...
The mere suggestion that their puerile, simplistic view of the world is complete fantasy would be too much of a head-fuck for them.
Can't do that here. No handguns -- the law here is even more draconian than my native Australia (blame Dunblane)
And London (whose crime rates are much worse than New York nowadays) would be infinitely more dangerous if both the cops and robbers all carried firearms (police are unarmed in Britain [1]). As it is, it takes a LOT more guts to kill somebody with a knife than a gun -- and I prefer it that way. Criminals as a group, as you say, are generally a gutless lot -- why make life easier for them?
[1] When the police ARE armed however, they carry MP5s. Never heard of anybody getting shot by police with one of those, probably because very few criminals are THAT stupid.
During the London riots last year (known amongst the police here as the "retail riots", for obvious reasons), the two safest places to be in London was either a Muslim area (because the rioters didn't want to pick on anybody who would fight back) -- and bookstores.
It's obvious. The criminals saw a collapse in law and order, and got the stuff they wanted -- sportswear, consumer electronics, anything desirable by the underclasses, and/or fenceable.
The funny thing is, Foot Locker and friends actually loved it. Their stuff is seen as desirable by gangstas and gangsta-wannabes, and being robbed in the riots added to their cachet and street credibility. People want their stuff badly enough to steal it. Much the same as how Nike actually loved it back in the day when kids were getting their heads blown off by muggers for their Nike Air Pumps. The retailers themselves didn't care -- they were insured, and got special help from the government and banks in any case.
Apple also benefit greatly when people get violently mugged for their stuff, so they have no incentive to do something about it. They win in many ways:
* They get cachet and marketing power by selling stuff that people consider worth stealing and robbing for. Apple get free publicity every time an iCrime story hits the news. * They sell extra stuff to replace what's stolen * Their carrier partners benefit from fraudulent charges
Can't say I have sympathy for that twit who wrote that article who got the shit kicked out of him by these scumbags. He didn't HAVE to chase them, and obviously lacked common sense -- the average person challenges professional criminals at his peril. You never, ever know if the guy you're chasing is some crackhead who'll put a screwdriver through your temple.
It's only stuff. Stuff can be replaced. Lives and limbs cannot.
Certainly to Australia and her friends, as well as the West at large.
You're probably too young to remember Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw, and Assange's work with Press TV and other agents of our enemies marks him out as the absolute worst of the worst.
I would never do anything to him personally, but the rate he's going, he'd better pray that the Americans get to him before somebody takes matters into their own hands.
He's a goddamned traitor and war criminal, and deserves to be necklaced in public for his crimes.
Why would the courageous and honourable man like Baltazar Garzon associate with a megalomaniacal, showboating, mentally ill (not to mention, traitorous) freak like Julian Assange?
I need to be convinced that free markets produce the right incentives. Here in the UK, successive governments have tried to introduce an element of competition to the school system, but instead of seeing 'competition', we see these things:
Poor, government funded schools being starved of funds on ideological grounds, where in fact, they are the schools that need the most resources put into them to turn them around. Rich private schools creaming off the best students and teachers, concentrating privilege in the best schools, and creating a Dead Sea effect in the worst schools Governments introducing 'competition' through gimmicks like league tables; and schools gaming the shit out of the league tables. They choose exam boards who produce the easiest tests to pass and do the softest marking. It had lead to a FLOURISHING free market in educational services (including expensive seminars by the for-profit exam boards, giving teachers advice and hints on how to game their system). That free market has created some incredibly bad incentives.
However, I don't expect you to appreciate the limitations of the free market in improving education. You seem to be a card carrying libertarian and a naiive, ideologically blinkered idealist every bit as bad as the "socialists" you hate. You libertarians, on the sum of it, are actually pretty stupid, because like all extremists, you think the truth comes exclusively from your simplistic, naive and frankly stupid ideology. You are every bit as bad as the leftists.
From everything I've read about successful education systems, the best systems have one feature in common: world class teachers who are valued, and paid accordingly.
I think, given what we know right now, this stands a reasonable chance of being a stunning success.
I think it's a disgrace that teaching isn't as prestigious and hard to get into as law or medicine, given it's extreme importance to the way our societies work.
Better yet, put classroom troublemakers into referral units/borstal/whatever to get them the help they need, while letting kids who want to learn get on it without being disrupted.
And cop to the fact that cleaning up other people's chaotic lives is expensive -- but is just part of the cost of doing business as a civilized society.
The problem isn't just on the spending side of the books (incidentally, funny how conservatives NEVER criticise wasteful spending on defence or subsidies to business who don't need them). There's a cashflow problem, due to falling tax revenues, due in part to drunken idiots on Wall Street crashing the economy, and drunken idiots in Congress voting for goodies like tax cuts that nobody can afford.
Sounds like a REALLY big version of Greece if you ask me. Too many arseholes sticking their hands out for free money, and not enough people with brains explaining how it's all going to get paid for.
Conservative Islam is really hung up on the old sex thing: and it bleeds over heavily into the whole jihad youth thing we see with Al Qaeda, and Muslim inner-city troublemakers.
The Saudis accidentally stumbled across the solution: get them a root. Wife, kids, a job, responsibilities -- it's amazing how regular sex will tame the most savage beast.
"Racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist la la la la la la la la la la LA LALA I CANT HEAR YOU RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE"
Why don't you piss off back to your drum circle and stop bothering us, moonbat.
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Great! Why don't you move to China then?
Looking forward to hearing how you get on, especially when you don't bribe the right people.
The Chinese are useless. They are completely incapable of inventing anything, because the CCP stifles and crushes the natural dynamism of their people. They are only capable of cheating and stealing -- so by definition, the only way that can get that technology is for somebody else to do it first, and for them to steal it.
You don't understand Chinese culture: it's all about 'face' and appearances.
They probably couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag -- the US would destroy them within hours. The only thing that matters to them is to convince their own cowed, scared, brainwashed people that they are the greatest, and that to resist the CCP is to invite being slaughtered, a la Tianamen Square massacre.
Only problem with that: friendly fire. Most US govt debt is held by pension funds and friendly governments -- as much as it would be nice to tell the commies to fuck themselves.
You clearly know your stuff, vlm! Do you do this for a living? If not, you should.
Interesting that Russian industry should be the first to come up with oxy-rich engine designs. I would have thought that American industry would've beaten them, given their history of high-tech, low margin designs. Is this an accident of history, or because American technology was more advanced overall, and they invested in solids for military purposes instead?
The answers I've heard personally, is that Russian industry learned some metallurgical tricks (making alloys suitable for use in oxidiser-rich engines) back in the day, but aren't worried about losing the know-how, since the secret is in the manufacturing process. Supposedly, simply doing an assay of the materials in a shipped engine is nowhere near enough to reproduce the special alloys they use.
China wants to rule the world and put it at the disposal of the Han master race, and will spare no dirty trick to do it.
They are not interested in cooperation. They consider it beneath them.
Gosh, don't tell the libertarians and gun nuts that the only proven way to fight crime is by properly funding law enforcement, and giving them the right tools to find the bad guys and crack their heads together. God no...
The mere suggestion that their puerile, simplistic view of the world is complete fantasy would be too much of a head-fuck for them.
Can't do that here. No handguns -- the law here is even more draconian than my native Australia (blame Dunblane)
And London (whose crime rates are much worse than New York nowadays) would be infinitely more dangerous if both the cops and robbers all carried firearms (police are unarmed in Britain [1]). As it is, it takes a LOT more guts to kill somebody with a knife than a gun -- and I prefer it that way. Criminals as a group, as you say, are generally a gutless lot -- why make life easier for them?
[1] When the police ARE armed however, they carry MP5s. Never heard of anybody getting shot by police with one of those, probably because very few criminals are THAT stupid.
During the London riots last year (known amongst the police here as the "retail riots", for obvious reasons), the two safest places to be in London was either a Muslim area (because the rioters didn't want to pick on anybody who would fight back) -- and bookstores.
It's obvious. The criminals saw a collapse in law and order, and got the stuff they wanted -- sportswear, consumer electronics, anything desirable by the underclasses, and/or fenceable.
The funny thing is, Foot Locker and friends actually loved it. Their stuff is seen as desirable by gangstas and gangsta-wannabes, and being robbed in the riots added to their cachet and street credibility. People want their stuff badly enough to steal it. Much the same as how Nike actually loved it back in the day when kids were getting their heads blown off by muggers for their Nike Air Pumps. The retailers themselves didn't care -- they were insured, and got special help from the government and banks in any case.
Apple also benefit greatly when people get violently mugged for their stuff, so they have no incentive to do something about it. They win in many ways:
* They get cachet and marketing power by selling stuff that people consider worth stealing and robbing for. Apple get free publicity every time an iCrime story hits the news.
* They sell extra stuff to replace what's stolen
* Their carrier partners benefit from fraudulent charges
Why would Apple have it any different?
Can't say I have sympathy for that twit who wrote that article who got the shit kicked out of him by these scumbags. He didn't HAVE to chase them, and obviously lacked common sense -- the average person challenges professional criminals at his peril. You never, ever know if the guy you're chasing is some crackhead who'll put a screwdriver through your temple.
It's only stuff. Stuff can be replaced. Lives and limbs cannot.
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Certainly to Australia and her friends, as well as the West at large.
You're probably too young to remember Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw, and Assange's work with Press TV and other agents of our enemies marks him out as the absolute worst of the worst.
I would never do anything to him personally, but the rate he's going, he'd better pray that the Americans get to him before somebody takes matters into their own hands.
He's a goddamned traitor and war criminal, and deserves to be necklaced in public for his crimes.
Why would the courageous and honourable man like Baltazar Garzon associate with a megalomaniacal, showboating, mentally ill (not to mention, traitorous) freak like Julian Assange?
Somebody needs a hug!!
Tax cut == handout.
Any questions, wingnut?
I need to be convinced that free markets produce the right incentives. Here in the UK, successive governments have tried to introduce an element of competition to the school system, but instead of seeing 'competition', we see these things:
Poor, government funded schools being starved of funds on ideological grounds, where in fact, they are the schools that need the most resources put into them to turn them around.
Rich private schools creaming off the best students and teachers, concentrating privilege in the best schools, and creating a Dead Sea effect in the worst schools
Governments introducing 'competition' through gimmicks like league tables; and schools gaming the shit out of the league tables. They choose exam boards who produce the easiest tests to pass and do the softest marking. It had lead to a FLOURISHING free market in educational services (including expensive seminars by the for-profit exam boards, giving teachers advice and hints on how to game their system). That free market has created some incredibly bad incentives.
However, I don't expect you to appreciate the limitations of the free market in improving education. You seem to be a card carrying libertarian and a naiive, ideologically blinkered idealist every bit as bad as the "socialists" you hate. You libertarians, on the sum of it, are actually pretty stupid, because like all extremists, you think the truth comes exclusively from your simplistic, naive and frankly stupid ideology. You are every bit as bad as the leftists.
From everything I've read about successful education systems, the best systems have one feature in common: world class teachers who are valued, and paid accordingly.
I think, given what we know right now, this stands a reasonable chance of being a stunning success.
I think it's a disgrace that teaching isn't as prestigious and hard to get into as law or medicine, given it's extreme importance to the way our societies work.
Better yet, put classroom troublemakers into referral units/borstal/whatever to get them the help they need, while letting kids who want to learn get on it without being disrupted.
And cop to the fact that cleaning up other people's chaotic lives is expensive -- but is just part of the cost of doing business as a civilized society.
Ever heard of the No True Scotsman fallacy?
The problem isn't just on the spending side of the books (incidentally, funny how conservatives NEVER criticise wasteful spending on defence or subsidies to business who don't need them). There's a cashflow problem, due to falling tax revenues, due in part to drunken idiots on Wall Street crashing the economy, and drunken idiots in Congress voting for goodies like tax cuts that nobody can afford.
Sounds like a REALLY big version of Greece if you ask me. Too many arseholes sticking their hands out for free money, and not enough people with brains explaining how it's all going to get paid for.
Conservative Islam is really hung up on the old sex thing: and it bleeds over heavily into the whole jihad youth thing we see with Al Qaeda, and Muslim inner-city troublemakers.
The Saudis accidentally stumbled across the solution: get them a root. Wife, kids, a job, responsibilities -- it's amazing how regular sex will tame the most savage beast.
"Racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist la la la la la la la la la la LA LALA I CANT HEAR YOU RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE"
Why don't you piss off back to your drum circle and stop bothering us, moonbat.
Funny. The first thought I had when reading this article was "Muslims".
Has the National Ignition Facility managed to ignite anything yet?