So? It's graphics quality is better than Minecraft and Tetris. It's a tile based game so being able to tell one square from another is the aim of the graphics, just as with Minecraft and Tetris you want to distinguish blocks.
those that do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it
Which is why I'm putting it to you straight instead of your dumb cleaned up version where bad people do bad things because they are bad and not because they gain anything out of it. Indeed it did a lot of damage in all areas of society with long term consequences but the economy boomed.
then some people might just get the idea that slavery is somehow "good" and try to recreate it
It's been done since. One of the problems people had with Werner Von Braun is that his wartime rockets in Germany had been built by slaves, many of whom were worked to death. Yes slavery is stupid and evil but that's what was used in the past to turn some small colonial economies into a global economic power. Machines would have been better in every way (instead of treating people like machines) but that came later.
I just find it irritating that a history so far from the truth continues to live on.
That is called denial, and it's utterly pointless to do so because nobody is blaming you for that history. That is why the USA was an economic powerhouse long before increased mechanization meant that access to coal was more important in getting things done than having a lot of people to do things at very low cost. If you think about it you can draw a parallel to where China is now.
The politics of Russia are not the politics of China.
It's called an analogy so that the reader can get a handle on something they do not know about by comparing it to something they have heard about.
China has to walk a very fine line
Seriously? Most of it is more blunt instrument than fine line. A foreign mining company pisses them off, so do they act carefully (as in the fantasy) or arrest the execs on Chinese soil (as in the reality)?
Another thing to consider is that a massive self inflicted hit on the economy is would not hit the people in their 40s and older in that place as hard as the childhood they remember.
No lie. Sorry to shake you out of your "safe space" but if you are going to discuss history going back that far you are going to hit evil. If you are going to discuss China today in enough depth you are going to hit it as well.
The USA utterly dominated the global textile industry at the time. The economy went from tiny to very large. The slavers didn't do it for evil laughs.
It was an unintended consequence of "freedom" - by there not being a strong Church in the USA the slavers could tell anyone who looked down on them to fuck off and they could find another little Church that would take their dirty money and thus avoid social pressure.
Again, if slavery is so great for building an economy then the USA would be far from first.
Irrelevant, I most definitely never suggested it was "great" and does not change it. You asked the very naive question and got an honest answer. Maybe think a bit more before turning over those rocks next time. You seem to be taking this personally, please don't, that's just ridiculous and there is none of that blood on your hands. We don't do that shit today so bringing up "how do you think that the USA got to be such a large economy" is irrelevant today, just treat it as dry history and get over it.
It's how the economy initially became a large one. Think about that and then consider what you wrote about the lack of freedom in China. They can force major changes despite social harm just like the early US did. They already have in my lifetime, it just did more damage to China than good.
If slavery creates economic growth
It did, there are many far better ways but it really was the answer to your question. China can be even more immoral about it than that dirty past here.
Not really. It's rubbing our noses in the situation where they can take our stuff and all we can seriously do about it is whine. They are calling out the sabre rattling, mostly so they can rattle some sabres themselves.
The Chinese government cares a lot less about losing a lot of population than anyone in US politics with the possible exception of Trump. It's not a game of chicken that can be won.
That would crush their economy far worse than ours.
See what Putin did with European sanctions and you'll see that a government that doesn't give a fuck about the living conditions of it's subjects (more so than citizens) can do that if they think they will get enough out of it.
No he wrote "we're in a waste-and-corruption race" and pointed out that the pork-barrel election trick is not necessary in a place without elections. Their corruption is different to our waste. Normal waste appears to be orders of magnitude before the deliberate stuff designed to win votes so can be assumed to be about the same elsewhere. Think - if there was a culture of waste in manufacturing there would Apple be getting iThingies made in China.
Consider Japan in China in WWII and you'll start to get a little bit of an idea of what is being discussed here. Don't worry, we've got time. We'll still be here when you catch up.
Maybe this would be a good time to rearm Japan. I suspect that would give China something to think about.
There are tensions between South Korea and Japan so that would be a spectacularly bad idea. Giving Japan the power to not do what they are told means that they will end up doing things we do not want them to do, especially with the current climate of revisionism in Japan which is getting damned close to saying that China, Korea and Hawaii were just asking for it.
We did with North Korea (ship captured). We did with Cuba (U2). We did with Russia (U2 again). We did with Iran (drone). It looks very much like we CAN tolerate it. China knows it can keep on pushing and get away with it based on what has happened in the past.
Nice try, but that's not security, that's just putting it in a box designed for things other than security. All you are going to get out of that messing about is a feeling a smugness and immunity from script kiddies who are not even trying hard. You could try doing something actually designed for security, such as simply running the web browser as a user other than the one that owns all the files you want to keep - so a unique user for the web browser. Jails and containers/zones help too because they are designed for security unlike virtual machines on PCs.
Based on what exactly? Sorry you come across as the same sort of loonie as the "one windmill will change the climate" guys. You may want to explain your reasoning behind your odd statement or it will be assumed that no reasoning was applied at all.
Why will these wells change things when millions of other wells drilled for different purposes have not?
The epithet snowflake has a generally recognized meaning and it involves campus leftists
I always thought it was whining American children or things that looked like men but acted like whining children. It's quite funny that you are accusing somebody of redefining a slang insult.
just ignore the laws they don't like until they're forced to follow them
In Australia they refused to provide the Tax office with a list of drivers, and when raided by law enforcement still refused and insisted that only the head office in Holland has the details.
Their legal team still push the obvious insulting fiction of "ride sharing" as if the Uber driver was going where the passenger wanted whether the passenger was present or not. They should not be trusted anywhere near cash, small children, motor vehicles or sharp objects.
If Uber can run stuff without a permit and the stuff is clearly dangerous then telling them to fix safety problems at the threat of removing the permit is an empty threat. That's an example of why we have "regulation just for the sake of regulation" - so that if something poses an unacceptable danger it can be refused access to public roads.
Does it matter? Uber fucked up in that instance whether it was their employee or their device. They should be held responsible whether they can be found to be lying (again) or not.
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So?
It's graphics quality is better than Minecraft and Tetris.
It's a tile based game so being able to tell one square from another is the aim of the graphics, just as with Minecraft and Tetris you want to distinguish blocks.
Which is why I'm putting it to you straight instead of your dumb cleaned up version where bad people do bad things because they are bad and not because they gain anything out of it. Indeed it did a lot of damage in all areas of society with long term consequences but the economy boomed.
It's been done since. One of the problems people had with Werner Von Braun is that his wartime rockets in Germany had been built by slaves, many of whom were worked to death.
Yes slavery is stupid and evil but that's what was used in the past to turn some small colonial economies into a global economic power. Machines would have been better in every way (instead of treating people like machines) but that came later.
That is called denial, and it's utterly pointless to do so because nobody is blaming you for that history.
That is why the USA was an economic powerhouse long before increased mechanization meant that access to coal was more important in getting things done than having a lot of people to do things at very low cost. If you think about it you can draw a parallel to where China is now.
I suggest you read this thread from the start and try again. The poster above was talking about different things and you are equating them.
It's called an analogy so that the reader can get a handle on something they do not know about by comparing it to something they have heard about.
Seriously? Most of it is more blunt instrument than fine line. A foreign mining company pisses them off, so do they act carefully (as in the fantasy) or arrest the execs on Chinese soil (as in the reality)?
Another thing to consider is that a massive self inflicted hit on the economy is would not hit the people in their 40s and older in that place as hard as the childhood they remember.
Sorry to shake you out of your "safe space" but if you are going to discuss history going back that far you are going to hit evil. If you are going to discuss China today in enough depth you are going to hit it as well.
The USA utterly dominated the global textile industry at the time. The economy went from tiny to very large. The slavers didn't do it for evil laughs.
It was an unintended consequence of "freedom" - by there not being a strong Church in the USA the slavers could tell anyone who looked down on them to fuck off and they could find another little Church that would take their dirty money and thus avoid social pressure.
Irrelevant, I most definitely never suggested it was "great" and does not change it. You asked the very naive question and got an honest answer. Maybe think a bit more before turning over those rocks next time. You seem to be taking this personally, please don't, that's just ridiculous and there is none of that blood on your hands. We don't do that shit today so bringing up "how do you think that the USA got to be such a large economy" is irrelevant today, just treat it as dry history and get over it.
Think about that and then consider what you wrote about the lack of freedom in China. They can force major changes despite social harm just like the early US did. They already have in my lifetime, it just did more damage to China than good.
It did, there are many far better ways but it really was the answer to your question. China can be even more immoral about it than that dirty past here.
After my time.
I'm more a Forbin Project sort of guy.
Not really. It's rubbing our noses in the situation where they can take our stuff and all we can seriously do about it is whine. They are calling out the sabre rattling, mostly so they can rattle some sabres themselves.
China has made a dubious claim on the entire fucking region, please pay attention.
The Chinese government cares a lot less about losing a lot of population than anyone in US politics with the possible exception of Trump.
It's not a game of chicken that can be won.
See what Putin did with European sanctions and you'll see that a government that doesn't give a fuck about the living conditions of it's subjects (more so than citizens) can do that if they think they will get enough out of it.
Slaves.
Better to ask how it stays a large economy in recent times especially since you have a thing about freedom.
No he wrote "we're in a waste-and-corruption race" and pointed out that the pork-barrel election trick is not necessary in a place without elections. Their corruption is different to our waste.
Normal waste appears to be orders of magnitude before the deliberate stuff designed to win votes so can be assumed to be about the same elsewhere.
Think - if there was a culture of waste in manufacturing there would Apple be getting iThingies made in China.
Consider Japan in China in WWII and you'll start to get a little bit of an idea of what is being discussed here.
Don't worry, we've got time. We'll still be here when you catch up.
Maybe this would be a good time to rearm Japan. I suspect that would give China something to think about.
There are tensions between South Korea and Japan so that would be a spectacularly bad idea. Giving Japan the power to not do what they are told means that they will end up doing things we do not want them to do, especially with the current climate of revisionism in Japan which is getting damned close to saying that China, Korea and Hawaii were just asking for it.
We did with North Korea (ship captured). We did with Cuba (U2). We did with Russia (U2 again). We did with Iran (drone).
It looks very much like we CAN tolerate it.
China knows it can keep on pushing and get away with it based on what has happened in the past.
The moral ground has been lost so calling people thugs doesn't work anymore.
Bush, Cheney etc didn't think ahead when they approved torturing folks.
Nice try, but that's not security, that's just putting it in a box designed for things other than security.
All you are going to get out of that messing about is a feeling a smugness and immunity from script kiddies who are not even trying hard.
You could try doing something actually designed for security, such as simply running the web browser as a user other than the one that owns all the files you want to keep - so a unique user for the web browser. Jails and containers/zones help too because they are designed for security unlike virtual machines on PCs.
Based on what exactly?
Sorry you come across as the same sort of loonie as the "one windmill will change the climate" guys. You may want to explain your reasoning behind your odd statement or it will be assumed that no reasoning was applied at all.
Why will these wells change things when millions of other wells drilled for different purposes have not?
I always thought it was whining American children or things that looked like men but acted like whining children.
It's quite funny that you are accusing somebody of redefining a slang insult.
In Australia they refused to provide the Tax office with a list of drivers, and when raided by law enforcement still refused and insisted that only the head office in Holland has the details.
Their legal team still push the obvious insulting fiction of "ride sharing" as if the Uber driver was going where the passenger wanted whether the passenger was present or not. They should not be trusted anywhere near cash, small children, motor vehicles or sharp objects.
If Uber can run stuff without a permit and the stuff is clearly dangerous then telling them to fix safety problems at the threat of removing the permit is an empty threat.
That's an example of why we have "regulation just for the sake of regulation" - so that if something poses an unacceptable danger it can be refused access to public roads.
Does it matter?
Uber fucked up in that instance whether it was their employee or their device. They should be held responsible whether they can be found to be lying (again) or not.