Quite a lot of stories in the Ancient Testament are basically lifted from older stories from the Middle East. Like how Noah's Ark is taken from an episode in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
In another example, the Vedas (Hindu sacred teachings), used to be transmitted orally for several thousand years until they were written down much later.
A lot of the knowledge we have from Greek myths is also a transcription of oral transmitted stories including Homer's Illyad and the Trojan War. The Indian Mahabharata may be another orally transmitted ancient war story.
They did take over cars. Ever heard of Toyota and Honda?
They failed with the electronics segment because the South Koreans undercut them to it. Still most of the segment moved out of the USA. Guess who is the world's largest electronics company in the world today? Samsung. There are parts of the sector still remaining in the USA, yes, but that slice of the pie keeps shrinking and shrinking in terms of number of devices.
A lot of the trade imbalance is plain BS. Just analyze the costs and money flows of iPhone production for example and you'll see the issues. The whole situation was created by the elites in both countries to enrich themselves and blame the other guy.
He might have been but in Qin China Confucianism was not widely adopted by the state. That only happened much later. Back then they had a major Taoist bent. Which might be pseudo-scientific crap but at least they tried to understand the universe around them somehow. A lot of Taoist 'theory' if you can call it that is basically their equivalent of a blend of our Western Society's Greek schools of thought. It's like if you mix up Heraclitus with the Five Elements and a bunch of other crap. The difference is while we did lose a lot of knowledge about the Greek schools of thought, we never lost quite as much as the Chinese thanks to the Qin's "burial of the scholars" and the Han's burning of the Qin's Imperial Library. The Chinese basically lost technology in the transition from Zhou to Qin to Han. Plus because of the imperial exam system in the later periods all philosophical development was basically stalled.
What you are referring to as Confucianism is basically the Chinese version of Legalism with a thin veneer of Confucianism on top to keep the masses happy. In the Qin Dinasty China placed everyone under a class system with 10 classes which was supposed to be meritocratic. As Confucianism became more adopted the regime became increasingly bureaucratic and the 'merit' basically consisted of written exams in which you basically reflected on ancient Chinese texts. Do that over and over a couple of hundred years and you stifle all creativity in society.
It used to be that US just threatened you that you couldn't sell in the USA if you sold to these countries. Now that Huawei was banned from selling backbone telecoms equipment in the USA this is the kind of leverage they had to come up with...
I doubt the Chinese will react well to something like this.
I think it is neat. They FINALLY allow us users to read the NSA text transcripts. They should have had this ability ever since they switched Skype from a peer-to-peer protocol to a centralized one were all video fees go through their servers.
Many of the people who die in the USA die of what you classify as 'suicides' but it is often people who overmedicate by accident. Like people who are on benzos and cannot even think straight because of the aftereffects to begin with. In Europe and other countries that put benzos on blisterpacks the death rate on those people is a lot lower as a result.
BS. EDF makes a ton of money. The EPR reactor design has been a financial disaster so far for several reasons but it neither means that nuclear is obsolete or that it is too expensive. Part of the reasons for the expenses with EPR is complexity in number of parts, the other part is starting up constructing a new reactor with a partner which left the project midway (Siemens) and with a bunch of infrastructure which needed to be restarted, like the large iron forges to manufacture the reactor pressure vessels.
"Much of the analysis about Ford and GM's exit from the sedan market stressed that sedan sales have lost ground in recent years "as consumers have gravitated toward pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles," as the New York Times put it. If you look at the historical sales figures of the top Japanese sedans, you'll see a small decline in recent years, but nothing like the big drop-off in sales that have hammered the American companies. So in addition to the overall decline in sedan sales, there is a second, largely overlooked, dynamic taking place: Americans have only stopped buying American sedans, not Japanese sedans."
I remember hearing the exact same thing just before the oil price jump from $40 to $80. Then it went over $100 a barrel. All of a sudden all the SUVs in the world wouldn't sell.
Also GM are goddamned liars. If the wanted electrics and self-driving vehicles why did they remove those from production?
Leaded water pipes, pill bottles instead of blister packs, lack of regular steady jobs that allow you to have a reasonably well planned life, insane housing prices out of touch of the working class, etc.
A lot of them are. It's just that that actual Buddhism practice is mostly stuck in the monasteries. Most people only go to the temples mostly to wish for something rather than seek enlightenment or guidance.
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Quite a lot of stories in the Ancient Testament are basically lifted from older stories from the Middle East. Like how Noah's Ark is taken from an episode in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
In another example, the Vedas (Hindu sacred teachings), used to be transmitted orally for several thousand years until they were written down much later.
A lot of the knowledge we have from Greek myths is also a transcription of oral transmitted stories including Homer's Illyad and the Trojan War. The Indian Mahabharata may be another orally transmitted ancient war story.
They did take over cars. Ever heard of Toyota and Honda?
They failed with the electronics segment because the South Koreans undercut them to it. Still most of the segment moved out of the USA. Guess who is the world's largest electronics company in the world today? Samsung. There are parts of the sector still remaining in the USA, yes, but that slice of the pie keeps shrinking and shrinking in terms of number of devices.
A lot of the trade imbalance is plain BS. Just analyze the costs and money flows of iPhone production for example and you'll see the issues. The whole situation was created by the elites in both countries to enrich themselves and blame the other guy.
He might have been but in Qin China Confucianism was not widely adopted by the state. That only happened much later. Back then they had a major Taoist bent. Which might be pseudo-scientific crap but at least they tried to understand the universe around them somehow. A lot of Taoist 'theory' if you can call it that is basically their equivalent of a blend of our Western Society's Greek schools of thought. It's like if you mix up Heraclitus with the Five Elements and a bunch of other crap. The difference is while we did lose a lot of knowledge about the Greek schools of thought, we never lost quite as much as the Chinese thanks to the Qin's "burial of the scholars" and the Han's burning of the Qin's Imperial Library. The Chinese basically lost technology in the transition from Zhou to Qin to Han. Plus because of the imperial exam system in the later periods all philosophical development was basically stalled.
Oh and a lot of people basically passed the tests by bribery as you can expect of a regime like that.
What you are referring to as Confucianism is basically the Chinese version of Legalism with a thin veneer of Confucianism on top to keep the masses happy. In the Qin Dinasty China placed everyone under a class system with 10 classes which was supposed to be meritocratic. As Confucianism became more adopted the regime became increasingly bureaucratic and the 'merit' basically consisted of written exams in which you basically reflected on ancient Chinese texts. Do that over and over a couple of hundred years and you stifle all creativity in society.
This used to be euphemised as a lay-off. Now they call it a buyout?
Seriously...
AFAIK their claim was that they were controlling mineral prices using a cartel.
How much would you like it if the Chinese had you kidnapped someplace because you violated their laws even when you are not a Chinese citizen?
It used to be that US just threatened you that you couldn't sell in the USA if you sold to these countries. Now that Huawei was banned from selling backbone telecoms equipment in the USA this is the kind of leverage they had to come up with...
I doubt the Chinese will react well to something like this.
I wouldn't be surprised if it is a wrapper around a bunch of Win32 API calls.
s/fees/feeds/
sorry my mind slipped for a moment there...
I think it is neat. They FINALLY allow us users to read the NSA text transcripts.
They should have had this ability ever since they switched Skype from a peer-to-peer protocol to a centralized one were all video fees go through their servers.
Many of the people who die in the USA die of what you classify as 'suicides' but it is often people who overmedicate by accident. Like people who are on benzos and cannot even think straight because of the aftereffects to begin with. In Europe and other countries that put benzos on blisterpacks the death rate on those people is a lot lower as a result.
Most French reactors are 2nd gen.
I think Denmark already uses Norway as a battery. It made electricity prices in Norway sky-rocket.
Germany is also dependent on Russian natural gas, which is a greenhouse gas agent. But don't let that burst your anti-nuclear bubble.
BS. EDF makes a ton of money. The EPR reactor design has been a financial disaster so far for several reasons but it neither means that nuclear is obsolete or that it is too expensive. Part of the reasons for the expenses with EPR is complexity in number of parts, the other part is starting up constructing a new reactor with a partner which left the project midway (Siemens) and with a bunch of infrastructure which needed to be restarted, like the large iron forges to manufacture the reactor pressure vessels.
Yet France has some of the cheapest electricity in Europe. To the point French citizens use electricity to heat their homes and heat shower water.
French people are a bunch of ingrates, that's what they are.
Gotta have more of that sweet SWEET Russian natural gas.
"Much of the analysis about Ford and GM's exit from the sedan market stressed that sedan sales have lost ground in recent years "as consumers have gravitated toward pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles," as the New York Times put it. If you look at the historical sales figures of the top Japanese sedans, you'll see a small decline in recent years, but nothing like the big drop-off in sales that have hammered the American companies. So in addition to the overall decline in sedan sales, there is a second, largely overlooked, dynamic taking place: Americans have only stopped buying American sedans, not Japanese sedans."
I remember hearing the exact same thing just before the oil price jump from $40 to $80. Then it went over $100 a barrel. All of a sudden all the SUVs in the world wouldn't sell.
Also GM are goddamned liars. If the wanted electrics and self-driving vehicles why did they remove those from production?
Ammonia is too expensive. They typically put methanol (i.e. wood alcohol) on those fake vodka bottles.
Beats working for a job you don't care about, with a salary you don't care about, with no benefits to even consider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Leaded water pipes, pill bottles instead of blister packs, lack of regular steady jobs that allow you to have a reasonably well planned life, insane housing prices out of touch of the working class, etc.
A lot of them are. It's just that that actual Buddhism practice is mostly stuck in the monasteries. Most people only go to the temples mostly to wish for something rather than seek enlightenment or guidance.