... Is it just me or does it start to seem like ol' Elon is going senile?
.... He's rich, so he's just eccentric. And by that, I mean his axis is off center...
I see it as a dual-use ploy
1. Free Advertising Works something like Donald Trump's campaign - using media as his free ad launchpad for his business endeavors
Tone of ad can be ridiculous but as long as it is not overtly ridiculous, people / fanbois will buy it in droves
2. Insurance Policy Both is electric car business and his space vehicle business carry risks, BIG RISKS so this will become his insurance policy when things come crashing down ---- 'after all, it's a simulation as we are all inside a grand simulation'
Starting 1996 investors have been knocking on my door begging me to give them a chance to participate in the then dot com boom
I looked around, the price they were willing to pay was ridiculous
I knew something had gone terribly wrong so I started selling
By end of 1998 I sold off 80% of the startups (plural) that I owned (or co-owned) for great sum of $$
Then came the crash
I came back to the scene by mid 2001 or so, and this time around I came back as an investor, picking up valuable pieces (we insiders knew which one is worth how much, not the outsiders), as well as funding some new startups, not only those in the Valley but also the ones in other 'silicon clones' throughout USA
By 2004 I started looking outside of USA. Went first to Germany, made some investments there, then I went to the Far East - Taiwan, Korea, Hongkong, and finally, China
By 2008 the asking price of startups in the Valley got to the ridiculous range again, and I knew something was again amiss, but this time they were BIG NAMES in the sugardaddies list (including a certain multi-billionaire from Hongkong), so I figure the trend could go on a little while longer
But anyway, I started selling, again
By 2010 looking over the newer crop of Valley startups I could only sigh
By 2014 I attended some of those 'sessions' in the Valley where startups tried to impress investors I nearly fainted
Those kids simply do not have anything in common with us
We are nerds, we are geeks, we have a mission, we have a goal, we want to make something, we want to become useful
These kids? They are slick, - too slick , - and their only goal is to dupe the investors
Make no mistake, I still have operations in the Republic of California, but they are for the long haul
I am no longer interested in the 'startups' scene anymore because it has become too toxic for me
Basically systemd is built on a totally fucked up concept - a concept in which whatever the users do is not important, only system resources count, and if the users do not like it, they can go fuck themselves
That is basically what systemd is - and it perfectly reflects the way systemd's proponents think as well
... The FBI is working to keep information contained in a key biometric database private and unavailable,even to people whose information is contained in the records...
Bolded part above is what troubling me
If the biometric is mine, and the records are related to me, I should have the right to check and the right to oversee where those records end up with and who is / are using / checking those records
But as we all already know, our government is marching towards BIG BROTHER TOTALITARIANISM - this is just another attempt by BIG BROTHER to deny us our rights over the records that are basically ours
Kinda sad... I ran away from a totalitarian regime only to end up into another regime that is gradually turning into totalitarian
When TPTB strikes, they make sure they cover everything
Not only they throw the book on the whistleblowers, they also make sure that those patriotic whistleblowers get their reputation totally ruined by releasing their 'wu mao' teams astroturfing their propaganda at online forum, such as this one on/. calling the whistleblowers 'traitors' and such
What TPTB of the United States of America is doing is getting closer and closer to that of the Chinese Communist regime
I came from China, I know how terrible fascism is, and unfortunately I am seeing the same thing happens here, more and more
... Sounds like a great reason to never do business with Oculus under any circumstance...
Face it! Oculus Rift has screwed all of you and Facebook has is laughing at your idiocy... and if that's not enough... you can't do shit about it, except for whining over here and in reddit
You guys are no longer 'movers and shakers' of the tech world, them media heads, aka 'journalists' at CNN or BBC have taken over
Right now they have much more influences than all of you combined
Over at BBC and CNN those so-called 'tech-savvy journalists' are still heaping hosannahs at Oculus Rift, and on their reports, they get some 'researchers' from 'universities', to foretell the 'wonderful future of Virtual Reality', with Oculus Rift
Another fishy thing is that you never hear any mention of "Vive" or any other alternative to Oculus Rift on the same media channels
The so-called '$25,000 reward is but a distraction, an excuse, a honey pot
Face it, the online porn industry is declining --- the number of paying customer is not increasing and at the same time, new competitors arrive at the scene all the time
They need new blood, they need new audiences, they need new source of income
If I were to go to the porn site my missus would have killed me, but if I tell her that I may make some money finding bugs, missue might grant me that essential 'visa' to have a 'go' with it
I was even the moderator (no shit, I was) for one summer, until I had to drop it because of workload (I was working for Bell Labs at that time, severe lack of sleep negatively affected my research)
What is going on right now is chicken shit compared to what we had over there
But I gotta level with ya... there was a difference, in substance
The cursing, the threats, the whatnots going on in FLAME were (largely) based on substance
Nowadays most of the online arguments are pretty much content-less, void of substance
US Spy Court Didn't Reject a Single Government Surveillance Request In 2015
Of course they didn't, why would they? This "court" is well known to be a Kangaroo Court with a specific purpose of rubber-stamping all that is put before it
In North Korea as well as in China their so-called 'parliament / congress' and their so-called 'court system' are nothing but made up of living rubber stamps
Anything and everything the Great Leader wants, no matter how ridiculous the goal is, no matter how heinous the motive, and no matter how nefarious the objectives are, get approved, without any objection
We are the United States of America, we are supposed to be different, but are we?
Our congress critters, no matter if they are Republicans or Democrats, are not doing their job
Our court systems too --- from the prosecutors to the judges, are basically singing the same tune as that from the White House
When 'Toeing The Line" becomes the norm, then we might as well stop fooling ourselves
Our nation is no longer the 'Land of the brave' nor the 'Home of the Free'
We are becoming a new member of the fascist group of nation. I am sure North Korea and China wouldn't mind having us as their 'junior member'
... Also considering who it is, selling all of his stock in Apple, could "plunge" the stock, then after it bottoms, he buys it back at a super low price, and it goes back up and he makes even MORE money...
Let's say what you have suggested happens, that Carl Icahn makes another trillion dollars shorting Apple stock and then buy back at super low price
Let me ask you this --- is there anything wrong with what he does?
After all, this is the FREE MARKET --- If you get to do whatever you want with your own money, Mr. Icahn should have the same right and use his money the way he sees fit
Now, don't tell me about that bullshi 1% thing
They get to be 1% because they use their brain, and if you can't be amongst the 1%, hey, don't blame them, blame yourself for being too lazy to use YOUR brain
That says... Carl Icahn has a point in saying Apple's over reliance on China (or any other country for the matter)
Ever since the death of Steve Jobs Apple's future has gone bleak. Cook is no Jobs. He ain't got the vision of Mr. Jobs nor the drive to identify the upcoming trend
All Cook has done was sitting on the helm doing nothing
I mean, what's so different between the latest iteration of iPhone with their previous version of the same product?
As far as I can tell, except for the hype, nothing much
Under Mr. Jobs, Apple went from one product to another --- from Apple to Mac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, --- and under Cook, what kind of new product Apple has come out with?
Apple might as well do what Yahoo is doing --- give away the hundreds of billions that it is sitting on to the shareholders, and close their doors, since there ain't gonna be any exciting new product coming, certainly not under Cook
Cortana, Microsoft Edge and Bing -- all designed to do more for you
LOL LOL LOL LOL
I disabled Cortana in the registry. And Edge is so dumbed-down it's useless
We are the customers. We paid for the things that we use. We shouldn't have to be forced to go through all the 'disable the registry' hops in order to get our computer to work
We, the consumers, have given too much 'face' to the tech companies, so much so that right now they, the service providers, get to tell us, their paymasters, what we must do, and not the other way around
... It's like most of the people here don't want workers from India and it's somewhat racist
In the United States I have 18 registered companies under my name and man more companies with other partners
None of those company, and I mean, *NONE*, employs H1B workers
If you want to claim 'racism', try me
I am not your average White
I am not even born in the United States
I am from China, I am an ethnic Chinese
Are you claiming that none of my companies employ even one single worker under the H1B visa scheme I am a racist?
Are you telling me that because all my co-workers inside the United States are American citizens or permanent residents, of all races, I must be a racist?
If I am a racist by doing what I do, then I am fucking proud to be a RACIST !
... I am over 50, I live and work in Silicon Valley, and I have never personally experienced ageism...
I used to live and work in the Valley, no more
Now you more likely find me in Asia or Europe or Africa
But regarding the issue of 'ageism' it all depends on how you define it
If it's limited to 'job', then no. The decades of experiences that we've gathered under our belt is no match for those greenies
But if 'ageism' is defined more broadly... something akin to 'social', then it does affect us, all of us, in one way, or another
Not too many 'greenies' like to be around the 50-somethings, and we need to face the reality as the number of the 50+ like us are decreasing (some died, some retired, some just fade away)
As our social circles start to contract, we begin to feel the effects of 'ageism'
Of the hundreds of thousands of Jihadists, from the Philippines to Indonesia to Bangladesh to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Chad, America, EU, and elsewhere, the Brits chose to count 100 of them and then declares that the STEM graduates are more prone to violence
It's BULLSHIT to the highest degree !
The thousands of suicide bombers who had killed themselves and others, most of them, don't even finish high schools
Those who finished 'schooling' mostly came from the madrassa, the Islamic religious schools, where they were brainwashed since they were little toddlers that to die for 'allah' is the most glorious thing they can ever done in this life
... Do that and the international community will react by making the Euro the De facto currency for trade...
Don't make me laugh !
The Euros?
Everybody can see how useless, how spineless them Europeans are
It's not only about the money, but also the people behind the money --- it's the psychology after all
The world will not switch to Euro because Euro just ain't worth shit (the American green backs ain't worth shit also, but compare to the Euros, at least the world believes the USA a little bit more than EU)
... Is America a syndicate of thugs that will enact vengeance upon an ally for the crimes of its rogue nationals?
Who is an 'ally'?
Someone who help us when we need their help, or someone who backstab us whenever they got the chance?
The Saudis have backstabbed America many, many times --- 9/11 is only one of the more glaring ones
Over three thousand people had perished in 9/11, and someone has to pay for the crime
So far the 'characters' we have gotten are the 'donkeys', those who took part in the act, but we have yet to apprehend any of those who have bankrolled and/or sponsored the terrorist act
There was a 'summit' organized by the '9/11 donkeys' in Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia and over there they discussed the procedures of the attacks
That 'summit' was sponsored by the government of Malaysia - an islamic government which has been sponsoring many islamic terrorist organization, since the 1980's
So far, none of the characters from the Malaysian government has been apprehended for the 9/11 incident, and we should go find out who is responsible for what and carry out the prosecution accordingly
As for your accusation 'syndicate of thugs', them islamists are the syndicate of thugs, not us
We did not bomb their Mecca, nor their Kuala Lumpur
They bombed us
It's pay back time and we must make sure that those who are responsible will get whatever they deserve
... The US is run by a weak and incompetent leader. The rest of the world is not..
While is no argument over the weak and incompetent leadership for America, I would argue that the so-called 'leadership' of many foreign countries (not all, many) are as weak, as stupid, as incompetent as Obama
Take Angela Merkel, of Germany, for rexample --- that broad single-headedly opened the floodgate allowing the flood of millions of moslem migrants into the European continent
Take Xi Jin Pin of China, for example --- that guy tried to flex his muscle in South China Sea, only to be met with shit on his own face
Take David Cameron of England, for example -- that guy went to China with hat in hand hoping for handouts, only to have the so-called 'nuclear power plant' halting its construction for an indefinite time
Yes, our so-called 'leader' is weak, stupid, incompetent, but what makes America great is not only the person in the White House, but the FUNDAMENTALS of America
I am an immigrant of China, and I do business all over the world. I get to compare different characteristics of different countries, and I can tell you, so far, not even Japan, an island nation with millions of patents issued to them, can compete against America in terms of fundamentals
True, our education system is in shit
True, our young generations are mostly ignorant brats
True, there are a lot of things in America which has broken down
But still, fundamtnatlly America is still the strongest --- not even China, the so-called 'new power house' can match the United States (and I am from China, I know China very very well)
... The bigger problem is that Saudi Arabia has $750 billion in US assets!...
You know what?
The entire United States of America -- from land to building to IPs to companies, everything grouped together, is at least 1,000 times that "$750 billion" which you quote
Why are you so afraid of them?
If the US of A is only worth $800 billion and the towel heads own $750 billion of those, then we have great cause for worry
But truth is, what they own is merely a fraction of 1% of what our country is worth --- so if they want to dump all of their assets, LET THEM !!
Our country might be poor, but our people still have enough cash to snatch up the assets which they want to dump
... Do you really want them to start buying from the Russians?
I am from China, and Russia is just north of China
You go ask any Chinese in China --- whether they want to buy the Russian bond or the American treasury bill, 99.9% will tell you they prefer the American treasury bill
Why?
Because nobody else can guarantee their treasury bill like us, the United States of America --- the US has an excellent good track record when compare to the others
So, stop being such a Chicken Little, my friend --- them towel heads can go buy up all the treasury bonds from Russia and they will end up with nothing but icy sludge
....if China or Saudi Arabia stop buying our debt...
As a person who operates businesses in countries around the world I can tell you one thing ---
STOP WORRYING !!
This world needs America more than America needs the world
And I am not kidding !
I am not saying this because I am an American --- I am saying this as a fact --- without America this world's trade will be reduced by at least 57% and the impact of that much of a reduction to the world economy will be many times of that 57% !
Without American green backs (I know, they are worthless if we count them in term of true networth) but at this juncture, THERE IS NO OTHER WORLD CURRENCY able to substitute the American green backs, at least, not yet
Furthermore, this world has over 20 trillion dollars in excess cash --- yes, 20 fucking trillion dollars --- waiting for something to invest, and one day they are not used to invest in something, THEY LOSE MONEY ON THE CASH THEY KEEP
That is why something / someone / somehow must purchase the American treasury bills --- it is one of the surest form of guarantee in the world. No other bonds in the world gets to enjoy that
So let me repeat --- Please stop worrying so much
The world will keep on buying the American bonds. If not the towel heads, then the Chinese or the Japanese or the Koreans or the Singaporeans will snatch them up
Slashdot Mirror
I see it as a dual-use ploy
1. Free Advertising
Works something like Donald Trump's campaign - using media as his free ad launchpad for his business endeavors
Tone of ad can be ridiculous but as long as it is not overtly ridiculous, people / fanbois will buy it in droves
2. Insurance Policy
Both is electric car business and his space vehicle business carry risks, BIG RISKS so this will become his insurance policy when things come crashing down ---- 'after all, it's a simulation as we are all inside a grand simulation'
Clever chap
Starting 1996 investors have been knocking on my door begging me to give them a chance to participate in the then dot com boom
I looked around, the price they were willing to pay was ridiculous
I knew something had gone terribly wrong so I started selling
By end of 1998 I sold off 80% of the startups (plural) that I owned (or co-owned) for great sum of $$
Then came the crash
I came back to the scene by mid 2001 or so, and this time around I came back as an investor, picking up valuable pieces (we insiders knew which one is worth how much, not the outsiders), as well as funding some new startups, not only those in the Valley but also the ones in other 'silicon clones' throughout USA
By 2004 I started looking outside of USA. Went first to Germany, made some investments there, then I went to the Far East - Taiwan, Korea, Hongkong, and finally, China
By 2008 the asking price of startups in the Valley got to the ridiculous range again, and I knew something was again amiss, but this time they were BIG NAMES in the sugardaddies list (including a certain multi-billionaire from Hongkong), so I figure the trend could go on a little while longer
But anyway, I started selling, again
By 2010 looking over the newer crop of Valley startups I could only sigh
By 2014 I attended some of those 'sessions' in the Valley where startups tried to impress investors I nearly fainted
Those kids simply do not have anything in common with us
We are nerds, we are geeks, we have a mission, we have a goal, we want to make something, we want to become useful
These kids? They are slick, - too slick , - and their only goal is to dupe the investors
Make no mistake, I still have operations in the Republic of California, but they are for the long haul
I am no longer interested in the 'startups' scene anymore because it has become too toxic for me
Basically systemd is built on a totally fucked up concept - a concept in which whatever the users do is not important, only system resources count, and if the users do not like it, they can go fuck themselves
That is basically what systemd is - and it perfectly reflects the way systemd's proponents think as well
The Mythical Man Month
It kinda changed me
YMMV
Today it's Comcast, tomorrow it might be AT&T, the next day it might be some long distance company ... the list goes on, and on
All squeezing the American customers
Where is the government when we truly needs them?
Bolded part above is what troubling me
If the biometric is mine, and the records are related to me, I should have the right to check and the right to oversee where those records end up with and who is / are using / checking those records
But as we all already know, our government is marching towards BIG BROTHER TOTALITARIANISM - this is just another attempt by BIG BROTHER to deny us our rights over the records that are basically ours
Kinda sad ... I ran away from a totalitarian regime only to end up into another regime that is gradually turning into totalitarian
Actually this is good for humanity
No matter which entity wins, we all win
When TPTB strikes, they make sure they cover everything
Not only they throw the book on the whistleblowers, they also make sure that those patriotic whistleblowers get their reputation totally ruined by releasing their 'wu mao' teams astroturfing their propaganda at online forum, such as this one on /. calling the whistleblowers 'traitors' and such
What TPTB of the United States of America is doing is getting closer and closer to that of the Chinese Communist regime
I came from China, I know how terrible fascism is, and unfortunately I am seeing the same thing happens here, more and more
Face it! Oculus Rift has screwed all of you and Facebook has is laughing at your idiocy ... and if that's not enough ... you can't do shit about it, except for whining over here and in reddit
You guys are no longer 'movers and shakers' of the tech world, them media heads, aka 'journalists' at CNN or BBC have taken over
Right now they have much more influences than all of you combined
Over at BBC and CNN those so-called 'tech-savvy journalists' are still heaping hosannahs at Oculus Rift, and on their reports, they get some 'researchers' from 'universities', to foretell the 'wonderful future of Virtual Reality', with Oculus Rift
Another fishy thing is that you never hear any mention of "Vive" or any other alternative to Oculus Rift on the same media channels
I smell massive ad campaign looming
The so-called '$25,000 reward is but a distraction, an excuse, a honey pot
Face it, the online porn industry is declining --- the number of paying customer is not increasing and at the same time, new competitors arrive at the scene all the time
They need new blood, they need new audiences, they need new source of income
If I were to go to the porn site my missus would have killed me, but if I tell her that I may make some money finding bugs, missue might grant me that essential 'visa' to have a 'go' with it
I was there
I was even the moderator (no shit, I was) for one summer, until I had to drop it because of workload (I was working for Bell Labs at that time, severe lack of sleep negatively affected my research)
What is going on right now is chicken shit compared to what we had over there
But I gotta level with ya ... there was a difference, in substance
The cursing, the threats, the whatnots going on in FLAME were (largely) based on substance
Nowadays most of the online arguments are pretty much content-less, void of substance
sigh!
US Spy Court Didn't Reject a Single Government Surveillance Request In 2015
Of course they didn't, why would they? This "court" is well known to be a Kangaroo Court with a specific purpose of rubber-stamping all that is put before it
In North Korea as well as in China their so-called 'parliament / congress' and their so-called 'court system' are nothing but made up of living rubber stamps
Anything and everything the Great Leader wants, no matter how ridiculous the goal is, no matter how heinous the motive, and no matter how nefarious the objectives are, get approved, without any objection
We are the United States of America, we are supposed to be different, but are we?
Our congress critters, no matter if they are Republicans or Democrats, are not doing their job
Our court systems too --- from the prosecutors to the judges, are basically singing the same tune as that from the White House
When 'Toeing The Line" becomes the norm, then we might as well stop fooling ourselves
Our nation is no longer the 'Land of the brave' nor the 'Home of the Free'
We are becoming a new member of the fascist group of nation. I am sure North Korea and China wouldn't mind having us as their 'junior member'
Let's say what you have suggested happens, that Carl Icahn makes another trillion dollars shorting Apple stock and then buy back at super low price
Let me ask you this --- is there anything wrong with what he does?
After all, this is the FREE MARKET --- If you get to do whatever you want with your own money, Mr. Icahn should have the same right and use his money the way he sees fit
Now, don't tell me about that bullshi 1% thing
They get to be 1% because they use their brain, and if you can't be amongst the 1%, hey, don't blame them, blame yourself for being too lazy to use YOUR brain
That says ... Carl Icahn has a point in saying Apple's over reliance on China (or any other country for the matter)
Ever since the death of Steve Jobs Apple's future has gone bleak. Cook is no Jobs. He ain't got the vision of Mr. Jobs nor the drive to identify the upcoming trend
All Cook has done was sitting on the helm doing nothing
I mean, what's so different between the latest iteration of iPhone with their previous version of the same product?
As far as I can tell, except for the hype, nothing much
Under Mr. Jobs, Apple went from one product to another --- from Apple to Mac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, --- and under Cook, what kind of new product Apple has come out with?
Apple might as well do what Yahoo is doing --- give away the hundreds of billions that it is sitting on to the shareholders, and close their doors, since there ain't gonna be any exciting new product coming, certainly not under Cook
Cortana, Microsoft Edge and Bing -- all designed to do more for you
LOL LOL LOL LOL
I disabled Cortana in the registry. And Edge is so dumbed-down it's useless
We are the customers. We paid for the things that we use. We shouldn't have to be forced to go through all the 'disable the registry' hops in order to get our computer to work
We, the consumers, have given too much 'face' to the tech companies, so much so that right now they, the service providers, get to tell us, their paymasters, what we must do, and not the other way around
This is wrong, very wrong !
It is the customers who should have the final say
In the United States I have 18 registered companies under my name and man more companies with other partners
None of those company, and I mean, *NONE*, employs H1B workers
If you want to claim 'racism', try me
I am not your average White
I am not even born in the United States
I am from China, I am an ethnic Chinese
Are you claiming that none of my companies employ even one single worker under the H1B visa scheme I am a racist?
Are you telling me that because all my co-workers inside the United States are American citizens or permanent residents, of all races, I must be a racist?
If I am a racist by doing what I do, then I am fucking proud to be a RACIST !
I used to live and work in the Valley, no more
Now you more likely find me in Asia or Europe or Africa
But regarding the issue of 'ageism' it all depends on how you define it
If it's limited to 'job', then no. The decades of experiences that we've gathered under our belt is no match for those greenies
But if 'ageism' is defined more broadly ... something akin to 'social', then it does affect us, all of us, in one way, or another
Not too many 'greenies' like to be around the 50-somethings, and we need to face the reality as the number of the 50+ like us are decreasing (some died, some retired, some just fade away)
As our social circles start to contract, we begin to feel the effects of 'ageism'
Of the hundreds of thousands of Jihadists, from the Philippines to Indonesia to Bangladesh to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Chad, America, EU, and elsewhere, the Brits chose to count 100 of them and then declares that the STEM graduates are more prone to violence
It's BULLSHIT to the highest degree !
The thousands of suicide bombers who had killed themselves and others, most of them, don't even finish high schools
Those who finished 'schooling' mostly came from the madrassa, the Islamic religious schools, where they were brainwashed since they were little toddlers that to die for 'allah' is the most glorious thing they can ever done in this life
In other words, the Brits are TOTALLY FUCKED UP!!
I am an ethnic Chinese, from China
To me, racial background of a person is not important - what is important is the content inside - the personality
That is why, till this day I cannot understand the sheer hatreds towards the 'White Men' as espoused by the Democrats and the 'liberals'
Is a non-White Man automagically 'better' than a White man?
Am I, a Chinese, better than any White man out there, just because I am a Chinese?
Is a Black woman better than a White man, just because she is a Black, and she is a woman?
How can anyone judge a person solely based on the racial profile and the gender of that person?
What kind of crap is this? I don't understand!
Don't make me laugh !
The Euros?
Everybody can see how useless, how spineless them Europeans are
It's not only about the money, but also the people behind the money --- it's the psychology after all
The world will not switch to Euro because Euro just ain't worth shit (the American green backs ain't worth shit also, but compare to the Euros, at least the world believes the USA a little bit more than EU)
What kind of fucking asshole are you?
"A desperate plea for attention"??
Gimme a fucking break !!
Spare me your shit, fucker --- go play with your terrorist buddies !!!
Who is an 'ally'?
Someone who help us when we need their help, or someone who backstab us whenever they got the chance?
The Saudis have backstabbed America many, many times --- 9/11 is only one of the more glaring ones
Over three thousand people had perished in 9/11, and someone has to pay for the crime
So far the 'characters' we have gotten are the 'donkeys', those who took part in the act, but we have yet to apprehend any of those who have bankrolled and/or sponsored the terrorist act
There was a 'summit' organized by the '9/11 donkeys' in Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia and over there they discussed the procedures of the attacks
That 'summit' was sponsored by the government of Malaysia - an islamic government which has been sponsoring many islamic terrorist organization, since the 1980's
So far, none of the characters from the Malaysian government has been apprehended for the 9/11 incident, and we should go find out who is responsible for what and carry out the prosecution accordingly
As for your accusation 'syndicate of thugs', them islamists are the syndicate of thugs, not us
We did not bomb their Mecca, nor their Kuala Lumpur
They bombed us
It's pay back time and we must make sure that those who are responsible will get whatever they deserve
While is no argument over the weak and incompetent leadership for America, I would argue that the so-called 'leadership' of many foreign countries (not all, many) are as weak, as stupid, as incompetent as Obama
Take Angela Merkel, of Germany, for rexample --- that broad single-headedly opened the floodgate allowing the flood of millions of moslem migrants into the European continent
Take Xi Jin Pin of China, for example --- that guy tried to flex his muscle in South China Sea, only to be met with shit on his own face
Take David Cameron of England, for example -- that guy went to China with hat in hand hoping for handouts, only to have the so-called 'nuclear power plant' halting its construction for an indefinite time
Yes, our so-called 'leader' is weak, stupid, incompetent, but what makes America great is not only the person in the White House, but the FUNDAMENTALS of America
I am an immigrant of China, and I do business all over the world. I get to compare different characteristics of different countries, and I can tell you, so far, not even Japan, an island nation with millions of patents issued to them, can compete against America in terms of fundamentals
True, our education system is in shit
True, our young generations are mostly ignorant brats
True, there are a lot of things in America which has broken down
But still, fundamtnatlly America is still the strongest --- not even China, the so-called 'new power house' can match the United States (and I am from China, I know China very very well)
This ain't a 'three bag full' theory', btw
You know what?
The entire United States of America -- from land to building to IPs to companies, everything grouped together, is at least 1,000 times that "$750 billion" which you quote
Why are you so afraid of them?
If the US of A is only worth $800 billion and the towel heads own $750 billion of those, then we have great cause for worry
But truth is, what they own is merely a fraction of 1% of what our country is worth --- so if they want to dump all of their assets, LET THEM !!
Our country might be poor, but our people still have enough cash to snatch up the assets which they want to dump
I am from China, and Russia is just north of China
You go ask any Chinese in China --- whether they want to buy the Russian bond or the American treasury bill, 99.9% will tell you they prefer the American treasury bill
Why?
Because nobody else can guarantee their treasury bill like us, the United States of America --- the US has an excellent good track record when compare to the others
So, stop being such a Chicken Little, my friend --- them towel heads can go buy up all the treasury bonds from Russia and they will end up with nothing but icy sludge
As a person who operates businesses in countries around the world I can tell you one thing ---
STOP WORRYING !!
This world needs America more than America needs the world
And I am not kidding !
I am not saying this because I am an American --- I am saying this as a fact --- without America this world's trade will be reduced by at least 57% and the impact of that much of a reduction to the world economy will be many times of that 57% !
Without American green backs (I know, they are worthless if we count them in term of true networth) but at this juncture, THERE IS NO OTHER WORLD CURRENCY able to substitute the American green backs, at least, not yet
Furthermore, this world has over 20 trillion dollars in excess cash --- yes, 20 fucking trillion dollars --- waiting for something to invest, and one day they are not used to invest in something, THEY LOSE MONEY ON THE CASH THEY KEEP
That is why something / someone / somehow must purchase the American treasury bills --- it is one of the surest form of guarantee in the world. No other bonds in the world gets to enjoy that
So let me repeat --- Please stop worrying so much
The world will keep on buying the American bonds. If not the towel heads, then the Chinese or the Japanese or the Koreans or the Singaporeans will snatch them up