A sad day when someone gets modded to +5 for saying America was on the German side. Yeah, Roosevelt's illegal aid to Britain was just a cover-up for his real motives. Genocide of the Palestinians...funny you should mention that. Here's the view of Palestinians during WWII:
"In the struggle against Jewry, Islam and National Socialism come very close to one another"
-- Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1948
Well, that's what you get when a man with expertise in one area thinks that his expertise applies in unrelated areas. How many times did Steve Jobs get contradicted by his employees during his CEO-ship? That sort of thing becomes a habit. It's called "hubris". Marine architecture is a field unto itself. It has nothing to do with any other field, including building architecture.
I've seen plenty of million-dollar yachts, and that one does look pretty ugly. They're all nice on the inside, of course, and every party I've been to has been while moored at the dock.
Oh, I'm sure it didn't even occur to you that you were being racist. After all, racism does not require intent, and most racists are unaware of their own racism. China and Japan are as different as cheese and chalk. Saying because one country did something, the other must inevitably follow? It's because they're all yellow people, and they're all alike, right?
LOL. If China plays economic hardball, hundreds of millions lose their jobs overnight and then it's revolution time. If China gets uppity, close off the Strait of Malacca and no more petroleum for them. The problem is that you are fundamentally looking at it from the American point of view, while doomsaying.
Putting backdoors into critical electronic infrastructure is a no-brainer as far as it goes. China would be neglectful if it didn't do that. Now, to get the right idea about Huawei: imagine if the U.S. government were major investors in Cisco and had placed an ex-NSA spook as the chairman of the board...and in fact, had kept its board of directors secret until last year.
Yeah, maybe when the country was empty and had land free for the settling that was the case. Those years are long-gone. We're full now, thanks. Unless we want to be an overpopulated hellhole like China. Qualified immigrants welcome - form a line at the US embassy in your home country, just like Americans get visas when they live in foreign lands.
What would you do if you were a non-techie, you ask the one computer guy you know which phone to get, and he tells you HTC, hands down? Versus seeing a TV commerical with a spiffy-looking unknown phone?
Word-of-mouth advertising is the best advertising. Plus, it's free.
What an insane idea. Three hundred million Chinese would move here at once. Millions of others from the rest of the world would follow. America would not benefit. You know, it's part of the responsibility of a government to look after the interests of the people who it represents, a fact of which you seem to be wholly unaware.
But writing an apology and being forced to publicize it is humiliating. That's kind of the point.
In Mao's time, they called this a "self-criticism". It still exists in the West today. Remember when Penny Arcade comic refused to write a self-criticism to pacify angry feminists? They were the exception, usually this occurs accompanied by the payment of a fine ("donation") to a cause opposed to the offending belief.
Ah, yes. Make operators of nuclear plants government employees. If you liked the service at the Post Office, then you'll love what we're going to do with radioactive material!
I love how the submitter put (USAF) in there, just in case anyone didn't know who the USAF was. Well, I thought it was pretty damned obvious, especially in context with X-51 and the Air Force Research Laboratory, but hey, progress. Don't you love those Slashdot summaries written by someone obviously close to the program? Someone who doesn't bother to expand acronyms and simply assumes everyone knows just as much about the program as he does? Yeah, I freaking hate those. But this is perhaps a bit too far in the other direction. Eh, who am I kidding, probably some euroweenie out there who lives a sufficiently cloistered life. The funny thing is defining the acronym is actually superfluous as he doesn't bother to re-use it later in the submission. So why even bother? Editors, where are you on this?
That's an interesting history lesson, but has nothing to do with the fact that the current US government hates coal with a fiery passion, and is using its power to further this goal.
Hello, did you just invent a straw man out of whole cloth, assign the GP some attributes you hate, and then tell this straw man that he disgusts you? Seriously, did you really do that?
He's a member of the 1%. If there's anything I learned from OWS, it's that it's good for laws to be abused as long as the victims are acceptable targets.
"Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost, and will never lose a war... because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
-- Patton (1970)
"Here's my strategy for the Cold War: We win. They lose."
-- Ronald Reagan
"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
-- Barack Obama
No, wrong. You don't need bribes to do business in China. Only fools conduct business that way.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
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There was this thing called the 20th Century. Socialism got a pretty bad reputation during this time. Good idea that just doesn't work.
Well, for a non-Marxist, he sure does have a lot of Marxist friends. What do we say about Republicans who get a lot of support from the KKK?
Keep the love coming, baby. Because what we really need more of these days is intolerance and hatred towards those who don't share our beliefs.
A sad day when someone gets modded to +5 for saying America was on the German side. Yeah, Roosevelt's illegal aid to Britain was just a cover-up for his real motives. Genocide of the Palestinians...funny you should mention that. Here's the view of Palestinians during WWII:
"In the struggle against Jewry, Islam and National Socialism come very close to one another"
-- Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1948
Well, that's what you get when a man with expertise in one area thinks that his expertise applies in unrelated areas. How many times did Steve Jobs get contradicted by his employees during his CEO-ship? That sort of thing becomes a habit. It's called "hubris". Marine architecture is a field unto itself. It has nothing to do with any other field, including building architecture.
I've seen plenty of million-dollar yachts, and that one does look pretty ugly. They're all nice on the inside, of course, and every party I've been to has been while moored at the dock.
Oh, I'm sure it didn't even occur to you that you were being racist. After all, racism does not require intent, and most racists are unaware of their own racism. China and Japan are as different as cheese and chalk. Saying because one country did something, the other must inevitably follow? It's because they're all yellow people, and they're all alike, right?
Because Japan and China are identical? I have a problem with the unspoken racism in your implication.
LOL. If China plays economic hardball, hundreds of millions lose their jobs overnight and then it's revolution time. If China gets uppity, close off the Strait of Malacca and no more petroleum for them. The problem is that you are fundamentally looking at it from the American point of view, while doomsaying.
Putting backdoors into critical electronic infrastructure is a no-brainer as far as it goes. China would be neglectful if it didn't do that. Now, to get the right idea about Huawei: imagine if the U.S. government were major investors in Cisco and had placed an ex-NSA spook as the chairman of the board...and in fact, had kept its board of directors secret until last year.
Yeah, maybe when the country was empty and had land free for the settling that was the case. Those years are long-gone. We're full now, thanks. Unless we want to be an overpopulated hellhole like China. Qualified immigrants welcome - form a line at the US embassy in your home country, just like Americans get visas when they live in foreign lands.
What would you do if you were a non-techie, you ask the one computer guy you know which phone to get, and he tells you HTC, hands down? Versus seeing a TV commerical with a spiffy-looking unknown phone?
Word-of-mouth advertising is the best advertising. Plus, it's free.
What an insane idea. Three hundred million Chinese would move here at once. Millions of others from the rest of the world would follow. America would not benefit. You know, it's part of the responsibility of a government to look after the interests of the people who it represents, a fact of which you seem to be wholly unaware.
But writing an apology and being forced to publicize it is humiliating. That's kind of the point.
In Mao's time, they called this a "self-criticism". It still exists in the West today. Remember when Penny Arcade comic refused to write a self-criticism to pacify angry feminists? They were the exception, usually this occurs accompanied by the payment of a fine ("donation") to a cause opposed to the offending belief.
Ah, yes. Make operators of nuclear plants government employees. If you liked the service at the Post Office, then you'll love what we're going to do with radioactive material!
I love how the submitter put (USAF) in there, just in case anyone didn't know who the USAF was. Well, I thought it was pretty damned obvious, especially in context with X-51 and the Air Force Research Laboratory, but hey, progress. Don't you love those Slashdot summaries written by someone obviously close to the program? Someone who doesn't bother to expand acronyms and simply assumes everyone knows just as much about the program as he does? Yeah, I freaking hate those. But this is perhaps a bit too far in the other direction. Eh, who am I kidding, probably some euroweenie out there who lives a sufficiently cloistered life. The funny thing is defining the acronym is actually superfluous as he doesn't bother to re-use it later in the submission. So why even bother? Editors, where are you on this?
Are you even reading what you're writing?
You don't make any sense.
You appear to be liberal, but hate the government.
Liberals started loving the government on January 20, 2009, didn't you get the memo?
Learn to use paragraphs, they are your friend.
That's an interesting history lesson, but has nothing to do with the fact that the current US government hates coal with a fiery passion, and is using its power to further this goal.
I'm not sure - are you actually arguing in favor of this xenophobic, racist policy?
Hello, did you just invent a straw man out of whole cloth, assign the GP some attributes you hate, and then tell this straw man that he disgusts you? Seriously, did you really do that?
OK, not sure what an obscure ruling from a court in India, of all places, has to do with anything, but let me restate my point: Fuck the 1%. Fuck the sons of wealthy rich politician pricks, beat the shit out of them. Fuck the 1%. The rule of law in itself is inherently racist and exists only to serve the 1%.
It's ironic that you posted that ironic comment, as it's ironic that Gassée would be right after being so spectacularly wrong about a similar topic.
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it."
-- Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO Be, Inc.
He's a member of the 1%. If there's anything I learned from OWS, it's that it's good for laws to be abused as long as the victims are acceptable targets.
It's related to the giant Amazon cloud server outage today. Try again later, the blog is really excellent (not mine).
Emperor Hirohito did not sign the surrender documents on USS Missouri.
"Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost, and will never lose a war... because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans."
-- Patton (1970)
"Here's my strategy for the Cold War: We win. They lose."
-- Ronald Reagan
"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
-- Barack Obama
No, wrong. You don't need bribes to do business in China. Only fools conduct business that way.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com