Communism says that the government owns everything.
No it doesn't. Communism says the government withers away. The people collectively own capital - the means of production. Non-capital goods are individually owned. So your toothbrush is yours, and yours alone.
At least that is the theory. In practice, it works like this.
Unfortunately for the Chinese, Chairman-for-life Xi Jinping has reversed privatization, is increasing funding for SOEs, and is increasing regulation on private companies that try to compete with them. More political repression, more economic insanity.
A Chinese court thinks they will set national law without consulting Party HQ in Peking?
You misunderstand how things work in China.
America is a federation, where in theory, most power is at the state level, but in practice power is often centralized in Washington.
China is the opposite. In theory, power is centralized, but in practice it is widely disbursed.
China does not have an independent judiciary, but courts are often influenced much more by local politicians, than by far of Beijing. The local politicians in Shenzhen, a cosmopolitan city a stone's throw from the HK border, are going to be far more liberal in their rulings than the national court in Beijing.
People who are worthy of pursuing intellectual self-improvement can and will gladly pay their own way.
Public universities are not funded for the benefit of the students. They are funded for the broad benefit of the public. A thriving research university can bring enormous benefits to a region.
If you think education is too expensive, you should do a cost-benefit analysis on ignorance.
Do they still make cars with anything other than many element LED head lamps?
Why would they? LED headlamps are superior in every way.
I own exactly one incandescent bulb. I use it to keep my chicken coop warm in the winter. So I guess there is one drawback of LED blubs: They don't make good space heaters.
The real question is, why did the FBI tell him to blow up one of their own buildings?
According to Timothy, the chip was implanted by the army, not the FBI. He told people the chip was used to track him, but never said it could control his mind. He served with the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), and was described by some as a model soldier. He was promoted to sergeant.
Who made a claim that the FBI or NSA can't "crack your calls,"
The FBI and the NSA. They have repeatedly said they can't monitor phones, and need backdoors.
Do you think that it's not possible to eavesdrop on a cellular call to any arbitrary phone in the world anymore?
Installing encryption on an off-the-shelf phone is not difficult. There is no way that the POTUS lacks the resources to do that. Once an encryption app is installed, then yes, eavesdropping is highly implausible. They can still get the meta-data (who called, their location, duration of the call, etc.).
why do there exist "hardened" devices?
Mostly because contractors make a lot of money off them, and they make the Secret Service guys feel they are doing something important.
Shouldn't be hard at all, so why isn't he using a hardened device?
This is just my opinion, but I think it is because he is an undisciplined egotistical moron.
TFA is based on the assumption that any consumer grade cell phone can be monitored at will by the Chinese and Russians.
So the NSA and FBI can't crack your calls, but the Chinese can. Sure. Whatever.
Also, even if everyone in the White House is too dumb to use auto-sync, how hard would it be to have an intern type Donald's contact list into a secure phone?
No, blame restrictions on trade. Under NAFTA rules, HCFS is tariff free since is made from American/Canadian corn. Cane sugar, while inherently cheaper, has high tariffs because it is (mostly) produced outside North America, and cane farmers in Florida and sugar beet farmers in Canada have enough political power to block reform.
If we had free trade, HFCS would mostly disappear, and we would all buy sugar from Brazil.
Aspartame is correlated with weight gain, but no more so that the artificial sweeteners it replaced, and most people that gained weight in the early 1980s did not consume diet soda.
A more likely cause is the sudden generational rise in Gen X women going into the workforce
There was no sudden rise in women entering the workforce in the early 80s. The main rise had happened decades earlier, and was not correlated with any significant rise in obesity rates.
So... I can't tell if it's aging that does it, or what, but not long ago I had a Twinkie, and I was like "WTF is this?"
What is your normal diet? Do you eat a lot of sweets?
I eat mostly my own produce from my garden and orchard. I raise my own chickens. I only buy staples like flour and oil. I consume very little salt or sugar.
My daughter gave me a Twinkie a few months ago. It tasted amazingly good.
The 1980s is the decade that the microwave over arrived in nearly every middle class and up household.
Nope. They were introduced as a consumer appliance in the 1960s, and became common in the early 1970s. Their adoption was not correlated with any significant change in obesity rates.
Shorter Tim Cook "You can trust us, but don't trust our competitors."
This is actually a valid point. Apple makes money selling hardware, and has no inherent need to mine data. Google and Facebook make money from targeted advertising, and data collection and mining is the core activity of their businesses.
As they don't want people there to buy us made stuff?
No. The restrictions apply to both foreign and domestic games. Most games played in China are made in China.
The government is trying to cut back on the time people waste playing games. In America, if you look at drivers or people walking down the street, you may see 10-20% doing so with a cell phone held up in front of their nose. In China, it is 90%. It is fun to just sit on a street corner in Shanghai and watch bicyclists crash into each other because neither is watching where they are going.
I don't think the ban will have much effect. In new games aren't available, people will just continue to play the old games.
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Communism says that the government owns everything.
No it doesn't. Communism says the government withers away. The people collectively own capital - the means of production. Non-capital goods are individually owned. So your toothbrush is yours, and yours alone.
At least that is the theory. In practice, it works like this.
Unfortunately for the Chinese, Chairman-for-life Xi Jinping has reversed privatization, is increasing funding for SOEs, and is increasing regulation on private companies that try to compete with them. More political repression, more economic insanity.
A Chinese court thinks they will set national law without consulting Party HQ in Peking?
You misunderstand how things work in China.
America is a federation, where in theory, most power is at the state level, but in practice power is often centralized in Washington.
China is the opposite. In theory, power is centralized, but in practice it is widely disbursed.
China does not have an independent judiciary, but courts are often influenced much more by local politicians, than by far of Beijing. The local politicians in Shenzhen, a cosmopolitan city a stone's throw from the HK border, are going to be far more liberal in their rulings than the national court in Beijing.
I spent a year writing C programs in Java, that's why.
I've been doing that for 20 years. I always start with a singleton called "main".
People who are worthy of pursuing intellectual self-improvement can and will gladly pay their own way.
Public universities are not funded for the benefit of the students. They are funded for the broad benefit of the public. A thriving research university can bring enormous benefits to a region.
If you think education is too expensive, you should do a cost-benefit analysis on ignorance.
Why don't you try not paying your taxes and see who boots in your door and points a gun at you?
The IRS may garnish your wages and put a lien on your house, but they rarely kick down doors.
Education must not be free,
Education is free. You can learn anything online.
You pay for the diploma.
Do they still make cars with anything other than many element LED head lamps?
Why would they? LED headlamps are superior in every way.
I own exactly one incandescent bulb. I use it to keep my chicken coop warm in the winter. So I guess there is one drawback of LED blubs: They don't make good space heaters.
On the other hand, LED headlights last the life of the car, so there is no need to replace them.
The real question is, why did the FBI tell him to blow up one of their own buildings?
According to Timothy, the chip was implanted by the army, not the FBI. He told people the chip was used to track him, but never said it could control his mind. He served with the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), and was described by some as a model soldier. He was promoted to sergeant.
If you can then crack any encryption that cellphone network might use ...
You might want to read up on modern cryptography before you spout any more nonsense.
Unless the Chinese have a Universe full of Planck-scale supercomputers, and a billion years to run them, they aren't going to crack the crypto.
Who made a claim that the FBI or NSA can't "crack your calls,"
The FBI and the NSA. They have repeatedly said they can't monitor phones, and need backdoors.
Do you think that it's not possible to eavesdrop on a cellular call to any arbitrary phone in the world anymore?
Installing encryption on an off-the-shelf phone is not difficult. There is no way that the POTUS lacks the resources to do that. Once an encryption app is installed, then yes, eavesdropping is highly implausible. They can still get the meta-data (who called, their location, duration of the call, etc.).
why do there exist "hardened" devices?
Mostly because contractors make a lot of money off them, and they make the Secret Service guys feel they are doing something important.
Shouldn't be hard at all, so why isn't he using a hardened device?
This is just my opinion, but I think it is because he is an undisciplined egotistical moron.
TFA is based on the assumption that any consumer grade cell phone can be monitored at will by the Chinese and Russians.
So the NSA and FBI can't crack your calls, but the Chinese can. Sure. Whatever.
Also, even if everyone in the White House is too dumb to use auto-sync, how hard would it be to have an intern type Donald's contact list into a secure phone?
Waterproof container? That just adds to the weight the drone has to carry.
The waterproof container is a polyethylene bag weighing less than a gram.
Undercut in what sense?
Undercut by Android, which is nearly free. Google doesn't make money from selling Android. They make money by using it as a data collection platform.
People seem to be buying Apple Stuff at ever-increasing prices in ever-increasing numbers.
Apple's market share peaked in 2012.
Put a video up on YouTube.
YouTube? Do you mean Tudou?
Lots of HFCS here in Canada, yea free trade.
No, blame restrictions on trade. Under NAFTA rules, HCFS is tariff free since is made from American/Canadian corn. Cane sugar, while inherently cheaper, has high tariffs because it is (mostly) produced outside North America, and cane farmers in Florida and sugar beet farmers in Canada have enough political power to block reform.
If we had free trade, HFCS would mostly disappear, and we would all buy sugar from Brazil.
Aspartame became available in the early 80s
Aspartame is correlated with weight gain, but no more so that the artificial sweeteners it replaced, and most people that gained weight in the early 1980s did not consume diet soda.
A more likely cause is the sudden generational rise in Gen X women going into the workforce
There was no sudden rise in women entering the workforce in the early 80s. The main rise had happened decades earlier, and was not correlated with any significant rise in obesity rates.
So ... I can't tell if it's aging that does it, or what, but not long ago I had a Twinkie, and I was like "WTF is this?"
What is your normal diet? Do you eat a lot of sweets?
I eat mostly my own produce from my garden and orchard. I raise my own chickens. I only buy staples like flour and oil. I consume very little salt or sugar.
My daughter gave me a Twinkie a few months ago. It tasted amazingly good.
I haven't tried HoHos.
The 1980s is the decade that the microwave over arrived in nearly every middle class and up household.
Nope. They were introduced as a consumer appliance in the 1960s, and became common in the early 1970s. Their adoption was not correlated with any significant change in obesity rates.
Shorter Tim Cook "You can trust us, but don't trust our competitors."
This is actually a valid point. Apple makes money selling hardware, and has no inherent need to mine data. Google and Facebook make money from targeted advertising, and data collection and mining is the core activity of their businesses.
. . . game players tend to be independent thinkers, which is what game playing tends to foster.
I am somewhat humor impaired, so just to be sure, this is a joke, right?
As they don't want people there to buy us made stuff?
No. The restrictions apply to both foreign and domestic games. Most games played in China are made in China.
The government is trying to cut back on the time people waste playing games. In America, if you look at drivers or people walking down the street, you may see 10-20% doing so with a cell phone held up in front of their nose. In China, it is 90%. It is fun to just sit on a street corner in Shanghai and watch bicyclists crash into each other because neither is watching where they are going.
I don't think the ban will have much effect. In new games aren't available, people will just continue to play the old games.
Japan is an outlier with only 3% of their population considered obese compared to America's 33%. What are they doing differently?
Japan is the world's 3rd biggest consumer of HFCS (after America and Mexico). So it's not that.
People began eating more and were more sedentary are not restatements of the problem.
Yes they are just restatements.
They "problem" you need to explain is NOT "why are some people fat?"
The problem is "Why was there no significant rise in obesity in the 1960s and 1970s, and then a sudden and dramatic increase in the early 1980s?"
How do you explain the change?