95%? Really?

I know Americans tend to be very proud of their country and its systems, but hyperbole like the 95% claim undermines all that is actually good.

Not trying to make any cups of tea here at all. Just correcting the statement that he "was not arrested".

He was.

In fact he was placed under questioning arrest and taken to a police station.

He was questioned for an unspecified number of hours and released.

" The written contract (which you read and sign) overrules and verbal promises that a salesman or manager tells you."

Wrong, wrong and wrong. Those "verbal promises" are just as binding (in most US states and most other global common law jurisdictions) as the written / signed document.

And yes, I am a lawyer.

Well I live in Shanghai (a non-English speaking country) and my Chinese friends do not use metric when boasting about their members.

Same in Tokyo, Barcelona and Moscow (other places I have lived).

There are however notable exceptions.

The UK is metric with the exception of speeds that are still marked and posted in miles / miles per hour.

The US is imperial with the exception of powdered drugs which are measured and sold metrically.

And no matter where you live, a penis is always imperial, never metric. I have no idea why, but saying you have a 12 inch cock sounds better than saying its 30.48 cms.

The /. headline screams "Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government?"

By the first paragraph that is watered down to an "IT company with close ties to the Chinese military".

The linked BBC article says nothing about Huawei being government owned, controlled or even related. The only tie the BBC mentions is that Huawei was founded (over 20 years ago) by an "ex-Chinese army officer".

I am not an apologist for the Chinese government nor am I necessarily in favour of Huawei being able to make investments outside of China but deliberately misleading reporting of reporting does not help anyone's understanding of the issues here.

The BBC got it right; /. didn't.

No. No they are not. They are neither criminals nor offenders at this stage.

They may be is they are found guilty or plead so in court proceedings, but an accusation alone does not make one a criminal.

"Alleged offenders" or "alleged criminals" would be more accurate.

Whilst this may be the case in the US (and I am not sure that it is) it is most certainly not the case at the BBC.

Interview subjects would never be given "a list of questions". They may be provided an overview or outline of the areas to be covered but a list of actual questions would not be provided.

And yet I can still read your post from Shanghai.

Good news - /. is not blocked in China.

I am posting from Shanghai and can confirm that /. has not been blocked here for more than five years.

In fact Hu has three official titles:

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (since 2002)

President of the People's Republic of China (since 2003)

Chairman of the Central Military Commission (since 2004)

China is not the "largest country" but at this time is the country with the largest population.

Uhm - that's amazing customer service given that he has been dead since 2004.

But still - great strings and a good company to deal with.

Agreed. Try Ernie Ball - I have been using them for years and love them.