using John Cage – 4’33 as the soundtrack has so far gone unnoticed. With 10 hours of repeated looping of the song he could be in for a big civil settlement.
from companies that want to use my data for their business purposes. Once they start getting data they'll want more simply because it's available and can be turned into money. Of course, it may very well become evidence in court cases, since insurance companies and trial lawyers will know what to look for to bolster their case, and third parties may want access as well in matters unrelated to driving. Once a data breach occurs things could get real interesting, especially if they geo tag the data. "Politician X, you make a lot of stops at this sadness inhabited by Z. Having a little fun on the side?"
Filing for chapter 11, is not the same as filing for bankruptcy.
Chapter 11 is bankruptcy protection, It's basically saying "Creditors, hold off a sec, lets see if we can make this work our so we can still pay you and not actually go bankrupt."
Creditors, hold off a sec, lets see if we can make this work our so we can still pay you pennies on the dollar and not actually go bankrupt."
Actually, almost everyone is horribly underinsured, but for some reason, we all just accept this.
I have $300k of liability on my auto insurance and a $2 million umbrella policy that covers beyond that, for just the reasons linked here.
If I cause an accident that hurts someone that badly, $50k is just a drop in the bucket.
My take on having an umbrella policy is not that I can over an accident as much as my insurance company is more likely to fight it than write a 50k check and then say "you're on your own..." if they are potentially on the hook for a couple of million.
As a long time rocketeer, I hear you. Unfortunately, a few dick heads who didn't follow NAR and or Tripoli rules ruin it for the responsible hobbyists.
US law has the concept of Federal supremecy which means if local laws conflict with Federal ones the feds trump locals. However, local ordinances that don't still apply. That said, the Feds are pretty strict on who can carry passengers for higher and have to control flights to ensure they are operated safely. You can't, for example, as a private pilot carry paying passengers, with a few exceptions, such as if they are simply splitting the cost. If you make money different rules apply.
It is the fifth year in a row he's introduced a science education bill after announcing he wanted 'every publicly funded Oklahoma school to teach the debate of creation vs. evolution.' This year's version omits any mention of specific areas of science that could be controversial. Instead, it simply prohibits any educational official from blocking a teacher who wanted to discuss the 'strengths and weaknesses' of scientific theories.
Seems to me that allowing teachers to teach about the DEBATE of creationism vs. evolution is a good thing... And is anyone in support of teachers being BLOCKED from discussing the strengths and weaknesses of scientific theories? Scientific theories are so frail they can't be DISCUSSED, they must be taught as absolutes?
Seems to me that allowing debate and discussion is fine, it puts no theory above another, and by calling this "anti-education" is the original poster of a mindset that teaching something as innocuous as the movie "Inherit The Wind" is bad? That discussing the strengths and weaknesses of, say, string theory SHOULD be prohibited?
the problem is they do not want to debate the strengths and weaknesses of a theory, their argument is rather "since theory X is not perfect than my Theory Y is equally valid and this their is a controversy and my theory deserves equal time." I'd wager if a teacher taught the weakness of creationism using the argument ancient astronauts visited earth and thus we exist they would get little support from the supporters of this bill. I'd go so far if they explained the two concepts can coexist and has coexisted with religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular there'd be a significant uproar as well.
I'd love to have that on a sticker on my laptop or a patch on my punk rock hoodie.
I'm with you on this. Patches are a chance for crews to add some fun and enjoy and inside joke. Our boat had its official patch and an unofficial one. The unofficial one was a lot better at capturing the spirit of our crew. The brass, however, nixed it as our official one because it wasn't serious enough. We were serious about our mission but a little humor goes a long way to build espirt de corps...
I don't know what/which/who but if history has taught me anything when the big boys are two steps behind the next best thing, the move is to buy up all of the companies with the patent portfolios and/or IP and use their wallet to crush the competition or maybe crush the service if it's not beneficial to their bottom line.
Cursory search shows Uber and sidecar are the only game in town when it comes to patents.
While patents are important the barriers to entry to becoming a significant player in the car manufacturing business are big. It's not easy to scale up manufacturing like it is technology. The big guys have one major advantage: a dumb decision won't sink the company. They can watch how the market develops and step in when they see an opportunity. If the goof, the have a lot of other assets to carry them through since they aren't betting the company on any particular product launch; and they can roll out the technology across product lines as it matures. In addition, not only do they have strong ties to politicians who can make laws benefiting them they have hundreds of dealers who will go to bat for them with their politicians to protect their interests. In the end, partnerships with Uber are more likely, IMHO, than Uber succeeding as a manufacturer of mainstream automobiles.
Bullshit. Americans could absolutely afford to buy their own goods before the major outsourcings during the 80's and 90's. Things cost more back then, yes, and as such had more value placed on them as well as an expectation of durability that no longer exists. I remember my parents paying ~$750 for a console television in 1978. That was a lot of cake for 1978, considering you could get a really nice car for about 10x that (~$7500). That console TV lasted well into the 90's and I believe was replaced in 1998.
Those $750 TVs were providing a lot of people with good jobs with good benefits to go along with them. Nowadays, we'll still pay $2000 for a (arguably more advanced) TV that fails within a decade and gets replaced again, made with slave labor and by robots. Where's all that money going? If we don't have the factories and fabs to produce modern electronics in the United States, that's no one's fault but our own for buying into the bullshit of the "modern global economy". It doesn't work for the slaves overseas and it doesn't work for us.
Whether Trump is right or wrong I agree, it's time to end this failed experiment of "Free Trade" and see what we can do about actually producing things in this country again. Otherwise we have nowhere to continue but further down the hole.
Even if, and that's a big if, significant manufacturing returned to the US it isn't going to magically create a lot of good playing skill labor jobs to replace ethos lost when it left. You'll have highly automated high tech factories run by a few very skilled techs; just like Appel does with Mac Pros in the US. China uses a labor to do jobs machines could do because labor is cheaper than automation there. Even they are starting to get pressured buy lower wage countries for goods that are highly depended on relatively low skilled manual labor and will eventually see the sam job losses as the US did in those industries.
It's made in china and his excuse was it's too expensive to make it in the US. You paying 35% tariff on those goods OK if you're elected? The guy is a waste roof the reality show but unfortunately none of what he says has any relationship to reality.
I have been turning wrenches for over 30 years. ASE certified Master Auto Technician with a BA in Applied Automotive Technologies. I do not buy Kobalt @ Lowes. I do not buy Husky @ Home Depot. The lowest I go is Craftsman @ Sears. There are some name brands that I buy because like the article says, the original manufacturer had personal input and desired a certain outcome. An example is Channel-Lock. They make the best adjustable slip joint pliers. Some times I do go to Harbor-Freight. To buy Channel-Lock pliers.
The problem is the good stuff is harder to find. I have a number of 30+ old Snap On, Mac, Craftsman, Sun et. al. tools that I plan to pass on to the third generation to use. I rue the day one of my Craftsman tools breaks and Sears swaps it out for some cheaper made stuff they sell now. One thing about a well made tool, it just feels right when you hold it.
We, the viewers, hate you. You are sliding down a slight but increasingly steep slope into the deep dark hole of irrelevance and you don't even know it. It shows that you don't know it, because you increasingly devote time on your networks to advertising, at the expense of quality content
Actually Netflix originated from how shitty Blockbuster was. The creator of Netflix rented movies from Blockbuster frequently, and was often charged late fees. Even after Blockbuster "did away" with late fees. I think the anecdote goes, he returned a movie and was charged a late fee. Upon complaining to the employee, the employee said, "You can always start your own video rental store", so he did.
Netflix did a classic " eliminate the expensive low value features while adding new ones that people re willing to pay for..." strategy. They avoided the expense of a lot of brick and mortar locations that had limited catalogues by offering a large selection of DVD's by mail and turning around the orders quickly. Since they were shipping from multiple locations they could also better tailor their inventory to demand since they didn't have to stock a bunch of the latest releases, trying to accurately estimate demand, at every location like BB did. I'm guessing they also cut a price deal with studios not to dump tons of DVDs on the used market as demand slowed, also reducing their cost to get DVDs. Once internet connectivity took off streaming became an even more viable option and Netflix could move into that without damaging their customer base, unlike BB who would lose the revenue from their stores as streaming grew. BB tried to counter Netflix with their own mail order, and later streaming, services but by then Netflix had taken off and BB was stuck with a lot of brick and mortar stores that were bleeding cash. They made it worse by offering free rentals whenever you traded in a BB by Mail DVD, further cutting into the store's revenue and hastening their demise.
Well you would think that his technical staff would have, perhaps, maybe, gone over to his house once and made sure things were a wee bit hardened. It doesn't take a whole lot to compromise anybody and as countless spear phishing episodes have shown, once you crack the wall it's relatively easy to break it down entirely.
All this guy has done is get into some personal accounts. Embarrassing, sure, but not all that spectacular other than the target. I'm pretty sure the DNI has a secure setup for official use in his house. As long as he doesn't use personal emails for official business there is no risk of compromising classified material. Meanwhile, the teen has attracted date attention of agencies that have the ability to find him if they decide to; and buildings to house him before, during, and after a trial if he is convicted.
Adapted from an older weapon, the Model 12 was designed with problems like North Korea in mind...
It seems unlikely the Supreme Leader will quit these saber-rattling stunts as long as he is getting this type of response.
It's kind of like rewarding a five year old's tantrum with the toy he wanted to begin with, isn't it?
Possibly. OTOH, at some point the North Korean military leadership may decide they are better off without him than with him; given their understanding of the military situation and their actual capabilities, vice his claims.
Why is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms interested in illegal grease dumping? Illicit grease disposal is a potential environmental, water quality, and combustion hazard issue; but that's more the EPA's thing, perhaps local authorities, maybe FBI if it's a interstate conspiracy.
From TFA, it looks like it may simply be a case of "So you can't put a camera on your own? Well, we can help you by putting up a camera and sharing the results..." to build interagency trust and cooperation.
They're happy to build in backdoors to all equipment supplied to France.
Seriously, hardware manufacturers could simply put backdoors into equipment destined from France, and depending on the laws where the device is made be obliged to provide access to other governments when required by law. Meanwhile, anyone buying a device elsewhere would still have no backdoor and bring it into France if they want secure communications. Software services would be harder to localize given the ability to use VPNs and the need to use a breakable form of encryption of messages originating outside of France being sent to France. I guess you could decrypt it in France and re-encrypt it with French law complaint cryptology, as well as store a French copy while sending a strong encryption version outside of France; otherwise you need to build into the software a way to recognize messages that originate in France and use the proper tool to decrypt it. That assumes a company wants to maintain strong encryption outside of France.
It is above the pay grade of the low level bureaucrat to make the distinction between animal and human (if there is one).
If you read TFA, it shows the section of law that exempts this information from FOIA requests. It uses the term "individual". Miriam Webster lists several definitions of that word, one of which is: "of, relating to, or existing as just one member or part of a larger group". It does not specify "human" in that definition. Surely, this one dolphin was just one member of the larger group, and it certainly behaved in ways that would individuate itself from that group.
Of course, when the law was written the situation of autopsying a dolphin wasn't considered. But in this case "other animal" vs. "human" wasn't a distinction the law makes. The bureaucrat didn't need to make that decision.
Good points. The EO also makes reference to "natural persons' later, adding to the confusion. But I think you are correct in stating the person who denied the request probably saw "medical Records" and their mandatory annual training said medical records are not subject to FOIA requests and thus denied the request. In addition, it's easier (read safer) to deny a request and let someone higher in the food chain overrule it than to release something that shouldn't be released. You can always point to some rule that you though prevented the release and peel will go "OK, well it really means..." but if you screw up they can hang you with the same rule.
No they can't because the lyrics were created by Edith Newlin. She owns the copyright and it clearly stated that in the lyrics.
It would depend on the contract between her and Willis Music. She could have assigned her rights to them for use as a song, in which case they would own the rights to the song and and be able license it.
Chinese IP law may not be the same as the US's - they're a different country, you know they are allowed their own laws, they don't have to have yours. If they can compete better by not having the US-style copyright nightmare - good for them - without Disney on their backs they can compete far better than you can
That will change as China develop's its own IP and people start ripping it off; then they will be right up their with the rest o fetch developed world in demanding strong protection and actions against infringers. The argument they used that they need to catch up and can't compete so they have to ripoff others will no longer be seen as valid since it is now them who suffer as a result.
is that, in some cases, once you attack a target you leave behind the weapon you used; so that the target can repurpose it to launch a strike against who they perceive as the perpetrator of the attack. While that would require some sophistication on the target's part, it would not surprise me to see someone launch an counter strike using the original weapon; the challenge being determining who launched the initial attack. Of course, some targets may not worry too much about verifying the source but simply retaliating against a non or perceived enemy.
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using John Cage – 4’33 as the soundtrack has so far gone unnoticed. With 10 hours of repeated looping of the song he could be in for a big civil settlement.
If you have an erect penis for more than 4 hours, you should consult your doctor ... says so right in all those Viagra commercials.
That would be priapism, and likely would have gotten him a different rating for the film.
Special effects magic.
from companies that want to use my data for their business purposes. Once they start getting data they'll want more simply because it's available and can be turned into money. Of course, it may very well become evidence in court cases, since insurance companies and trial lawyers will know what to look for to bolster their case, and third parties may want access as well in matters unrelated to driving. Once a data breach occurs things could get real interesting, especially if they geo tag the data. "Politician X, you make a lot of stops at this sadness inhabited by Z. Having a little fun on the side?"
Filing for chapter 11, is not the same as filing for bankruptcy.
Chapter 11 is bankruptcy protection, It's basically saying "Creditors, hold off a sec, lets see if we can make this work our so we can still pay you and not actually go bankrupt."
Creditors, hold off a sec, lets see if we can make this work our so we can still pay you pennies on the dollar and not actually go bankrupt."
There, fixed that for you..
Actually, almost everyone is horribly underinsured, but for some reason, we all just accept this.
I have $300k of liability on my auto insurance and a $2 million umbrella policy that covers beyond that, for just the reasons linked here.
If I cause an accident that hurts someone that badly, $50k is just a drop in the bucket.
My take on having an umbrella policy is not that I can over an accident as much as my insurance company is more likely to fight it than write a 50k check and then say "you're on your own..." if they are potentially on the hook for a couple of million.
As a long time rocketeer, I hear you. Unfortunately, a few dick heads who didn't follow NAR and or Tripoli rules ruin it for the responsible hobbyists.
US law has the concept of Federal supremecy which means if local laws conflict with Federal ones the feds trump locals. However, local ordinances that don't still apply. That said, the Feds are pretty strict on who can carry passengers for higher and have to control flights to ensure they are operated safely. You can't, for example, as a private pilot carry paying passengers, with a few exceptions, such as if they are simply splitting the cost. If you make money different rules apply.
Seems to me that allowing teachers to teach about the DEBATE of creationism vs. evolution is a good thing... And is anyone in support of teachers being BLOCKED from discussing the strengths and weaknesses of scientific theories? Scientific theories are so frail they can't be DISCUSSED, they must be taught as absolutes?
Seems to me that allowing debate and discussion is fine, it puts no theory above another, and by calling this "anti-education" is the original poster of a mindset that teaching something as innocuous as the movie "Inherit The Wind" is bad? That discussing the strengths and weaknesses of, say, string theory SHOULD be prohibited?
the problem is they do not want to debate the strengths and weaknesses of a theory, their argument is rather "since theory X is not perfect than my Theory Y is equally valid and this their is a controversy and my theory deserves equal time." I'd wager if a teacher taught the weakness of creationism using the argument ancient astronauts visited earth and thus we exist they would get little support from the supporters of this bill. I'd go so far if they explained the two concepts can coexist and has coexisted with religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular there'd be a significant uproar as well.
I'd love to have that on a sticker on my laptop or a patch on my punk rock hoodie.
I'm with you on this. Patches are a chance for crews to add some fun and enjoy and inside joke. Our boat had its official patch and an unofficial one. The unofficial one was a lot better at capturing the spirit of our crew. The brass, however, nixed it as our official one because it wasn't serious enough. We were serious about our mission but a little humor goes a long way to build espirt de corps...
I don't know what/which/who but if history has taught me anything when the big boys are two steps behind the next best thing, the move is to buy up all of the companies with the patent portfolios and/or IP and use their wallet to crush the competition or maybe crush the service if it's not beneficial to their bottom line.
Cursory search shows Uber and sidecar are the only game in town when it comes to patents.
While patents are important the barriers to entry to becoming a significant player in the car manufacturing business are big. It's not easy to scale up manufacturing like it is technology. The big guys have one major advantage: a dumb decision won't sink the company. They can watch how the market develops and step in when they see an opportunity. If the goof, the have a lot of other assets to carry them through since they aren't betting the company on any particular product launch; and they can roll out the technology across product lines as it matures. In addition, not only do they have strong ties to politicians who can make laws benefiting them they have hundreds of dealers who will go to bat for them with their politicians to protect their interests. In the end, partnerships with Uber are more likely, IMHO, than Uber succeeding as a manufacturer of mainstream automobiles.
Bullshit. Americans could absolutely afford to buy their own goods before the major outsourcings during the 80's and 90's. Things cost more back then, yes, and as such had more value placed on them as well as an expectation of durability that no longer exists. I remember my parents paying ~$750 for a console television in 1978. That was a lot of cake for 1978, considering you could get a really nice car for about 10x that (~$7500). That console TV lasted well into the 90's and I believe was replaced in 1998.
Those $750 TVs were providing a lot of people with good jobs with good benefits to go along with them. Nowadays, we'll still pay $2000 for a (arguably more advanced) TV that fails within a decade and gets replaced again, made with slave labor and by robots. Where's all that money going? If we don't have the factories and fabs to produce modern electronics in the United States, that's no one's fault but our own for buying into the bullshit of the "modern global economy". It doesn't work for the slaves overseas and it doesn't work for us.
Whether Trump is right or wrong I agree, it's time to end this failed experiment of "Free Trade" and see what we can do about actually producing things in this country again. Otherwise we have nowhere to continue but further down the hole.
Even if, and that's a big if, significant manufacturing returned to the US it isn't going to magically create a lot of good playing skill labor jobs to replace ethos lost when it left. You'll have highly automated high tech factories run by a few very skilled techs; just like Appel does with Mac Pros in the US. China uses a labor to do jobs machines could do because labor is cheaper than automation there. Even they are starting to get pressured buy lower wage countries for goods that are highly depended on relatively low skilled manual labor and will eventually see the sam job losses as the US did in those industries.
It's made in china and his excuse was it's too expensive to make it in the US. You paying 35% tariff on those goods OK if you're elected? The guy is a waste roof the reality show but unfortunately none of what he says has any relationship to reality.
I have been turning wrenches for over 30 years. ASE certified Master Auto Technician with a BA in Applied Automotive Technologies. I do not buy Kobalt @ Lowes. I do not buy Husky @ Home Depot. The lowest I go is Craftsman @ Sears. There are some name brands that I buy because like the article says, the original manufacturer had personal input and desired a certain outcome. An example is Channel-Lock. They make the best adjustable slip joint pliers. Some times I do go to Harbor-Freight. To buy Channel-Lock pliers.
The problem is the good stuff is harder to find. I have a number of 30+ old Snap On, Mac, Craftsman, Sun et. al. tools that I plan to pass on to the third generation to use. I rue the day one of my Craftsman tools breaks and Sears swaps it out for some cheaper made stuff they sell now. One thing about a well made tool, it just feels right when you hold it.
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We, the viewers, hate you. You are sliding down a slight but increasingly steep slope into the deep dark hole of irrelevance and you don't even know it. It shows that you don't know it, because you increasingly devote time on your networks to advertising, at the expense of quality content
There was a story here a couple of months ago that disagrees with your rant above: TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials.
I wonder if we'll see an uptick on product placement to get products before viewers as commercials decrease.
Actually Netflix originated from how shitty Blockbuster was. The creator of Netflix rented movies from Blockbuster frequently, and was often charged late fees. Even after Blockbuster "did away" with late fees. I think the anecdote goes, he returned a movie and was charged a late fee. Upon complaining to the employee, the employee said, "You can always start your own video rental store", so he did.
Netflix did a classic " eliminate the expensive low value features while adding new ones that people re willing to pay for..." strategy. They avoided the expense of a lot of brick and mortar locations that had limited catalogues by offering a large selection of DVD's by mail and turning around the orders quickly. Since they were shipping from multiple locations they could also better tailor their inventory to demand since they didn't have to stock a bunch of the latest releases, trying to accurately estimate demand, at every location like BB did. I'm guessing they also cut a price deal with studios not to dump tons of DVDs on the used market as demand slowed, also reducing their cost to get DVDs. Once internet connectivity took off streaming became an even more viable option and Netflix could move into that without damaging their customer base, unlike BB who would lose the revenue from their stores as streaming grew. BB tried to counter Netflix with their own mail order, and later streaming, services but by then Netflix had taken off and BB was stuck with a lot of brick and mortar stores that were bleeding cash. They made it worse by offering free rentals whenever you traded in a BB by Mail DVD, further cutting into the store's revenue and hastening their demise.
Well you would think that his technical staff would have, perhaps, maybe, gone over to his house once and made sure things were a wee bit hardened. It doesn't take a whole lot to compromise anybody and as countless spear phishing episodes have shown, once you crack the wall it's relatively easy to break it down entirely.
All this guy has done is get into some personal accounts. Embarrassing, sure, but not all that spectacular other than the target. I'm pretty sure the DNI has a secure setup for official use in his house. As long as he doesn't use personal emails for official business there is no risk of compromising classified material. Meanwhile, the teen has attracted date attention of agencies that have the ability to find him if they decide to; and buildings to house him before, during, and after a trial if he is convicted.
Adapted from an older weapon, the Model 12 was designed with problems like North Korea in mind...
It seems unlikely the Supreme Leader will quit these saber-rattling stunts as long as he is getting this type of response.
It's kind of like rewarding a five year old's tantrum with the toy he wanted to begin with, isn't it?
Possibly. OTOH, at some point the North Korean military leadership may decide they are better off without him than with him; given their understanding of the military situation and their actual capabilities, vice his claims.
Why is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms interested in illegal grease dumping? Illicit grease disposal is a potential environmental, water quality, and combustion hazard issue; but that's more the EPA's thing, perhaps local authorities, maybe FBI if it's a interstate conspiracy.
From TFA, it looks like it may simply be a case of "So you can't put a camera on your own? Well, we can help you by putting up a camera and sharing the results..." to build interagency trust and cooperation.
They're happy to build in backdoors to all equipment supplied to France.
Seriously, hardware manufacturers could simply put backdoors into equipment destined from France, and depending on the laws where the device is made be obliged to provide access to other governments when required by law. Meanwhile, anyone buying a device elsewhere would still have no backdoor and bring it into France if they want secure communications. Software services would be harder to localize given the ability to use VPNs and the need to use a breakable form of encryption of messages originating outside of France being sent to France. I guess you could decrypt it in France and re-encrypt it with French law complaint cryptology, as well as store a French copy while sending a strong encryption version outside of France; otherwise you need to build into the software a way to recognize messages that originate in France and use the proper tool to decrypt it. That assumes a company wants to maintain strong encryption outside of France.
It is above the pay grade of the low level bureaucrat to make the distinction between animal and human (if there is one).
If you read TFA, it shows the section of law that exempts this information from FOIA requests. It uses the term "individual". Miriam Webster lists several definitions of that word, one of which is: "of, relating to, or existing as just one member or part of a larger group". It does not specify "human" in that definition. Surely, this one dolphin was just one member of the larger group, and it certainly behaved in ways that would individuate itself from that group.
Of course, when the law was written the situation of autopsying a dolphin wasn't considered. But in this case "other animal" vs. "human" wasn't a distinction the law makes. The bureaucrat didn't need to make that decision.
Good points. The EO also makes reference to "natural persons' later, adding to the confusion. But I think you are correct in stating the person who denied the request probably saw "medical Records" and their mandatory annual training said medical records are not subject to FOIA requests and thus denied the request. In addition, it's easier (read safer) to deny a request and let someone higher in the food chain overrule it than to release something that shouldn't be released. You can always point to some rule that you though prevented the release and peel will go "OK, well it really means..." but if you screw up they can hang you with the same rule.
No they can't because the lyrics were created by Edith Newlin. She owns the copyright and it clearly stated that in the lyrics.
It would depend on the contract between her and Willis Music. She could have assigned her rights to them for use as a song, in which case they would own the rights to the song and and be able license it.
Chinese IP law may not be the same as the US's - they're a different country, you know they are allowed their own laws, they don't have to have yours. If they can compete better by not having the US-style copyright nightmare - good for them - without Disney on their backs they can compete far better than you can
That will change as China develop's its own IP and people start ripping it off; then they will be right up their with the rest o fetch developed world in demanding strong protection and actions against infringers. The argument they used that they need to catch up and can't compete so they have to ripoff others will no longer be seen as valid since it is now them who suffer as a result.
And many are already willing to pay extra for the Girlfriend Experience.
Don't forget the surge pricing as well, expensive dinners, gifts and dates when they are in peak demand
is that, in some cases, once you attack a target you leave behind the weapon you used; so that the target can repurpose it to launch a strike against who they perceive as the perpetrator of the attack. While that would require some sophistication on the target's part, it would not surprise me to see someone launch an counter strike using the original weapon; the challenge being determining who launched the initial attack. Of course, some targets may not worry too much about verifying the source but simply retaliating against a non or perceived enemy.