Like early Tesla, Elon just wants to integrate existing components and be done with it, but later he found out it doesn't work with his ambitions. In OSC's case, I guess they simply don't have such high ambitions, so they just settle for a good business.

1. What's better in China than the US or other western countries? Cheap housing/cars/gas? Good quality in consumer products? Safer food? Clean air/water? From my point of view, on every basic human necessity, China lacks behind the US and other western countries.
2. If China is so good, why there're very few US citizens immigrating to China, while there're tons of Chinese waiting to immigrate to the USA? Note I'm talking about immigration, not tourists or short term stays, but moving to the country for good. This will tell you which country is really good.

Whether Chinese people need a car is not up to you to decide, the auction has shown there is a high demand for cars, and owning one is very expensive comparing to the USA.

Of course, people need to save up for buying apartment/car, also need to save up for medical emergencies and marriages/children's education.

10k RMB is good money if you don't need to save money for any of the above expenses, this may be true for a Canadian, but very wrong for a Chinese. This is why your assessment of a regular Chinese life is deeply flawed, since you have no idea of the big expenses they need to cope with, you're just looking at the surface.

2k RMB used to be common, but it's disappearing, this is the point I'm trying to make, Chinese wages are increasing fast, they won't be the cheap labor you want them to be any longer.

No, just those intended to sell to the Chinese themselves. Chinese products exported to the US and other western countries are fairly good because they had to gone through western quality control, but if the products are intended for sale in China it is crap since the government does not enforce consumer protection laws and is actively trying to prevent consumers from protecting themselves. You do know lawyers are asked not to help victims to file suits against Sanlu in the 2008 toxic milk scandal?

I don't think you even read my replies: Chinese student needs to compete with other Chinese student for university entrance, they don't need to compete with Finland and Canada students, so how Chinese student compares to Finland and Canada student is irrelevant here. What is relevant is Chinese student need to go to a good school in order to have a good chance of entering a good university, and this will cost the parent money, a lot of money.

I have a deep hatred of the communist party and the authoritarian government of China, this does not extend to the Chinese people. It is you who are trivializing the hardship the Chinese people are facing under this dictatorship, and if you can read Chinese forums, you'll know a lot of people are not happy with the government. I can tell you from personal experience the government is very bad, frankly you sound like a propaganda officer for the government (so called "50 cents"), although your English is very good for such a job.

Could be, but hopefully there will be new innovative American companies to replace them.

Lenovo CEO is a deputy to the national congress of communist party.

So? Being in Shanghai means nothing, did you see the pigs flowing down the river? Do you know how many H7N9 death occured in Shanghai already?

That doesn't matter, the fact is it's very expensive to own a car in Shanghai due to the high population density.

Right, then explain how the license is auctioned to such a high price if nobody wants a car in Shanghai. Sure you can take the subway, but it's very crowded during rush hours.

Yes, they're joint produced between Chinese company and GM/VW, they're cheaper than imported cars, but just last month state television revealed joint produced cars uses toxic material for vibration dumpers.

$2.3 is just the starting charge, for a ride less than 3km and no congestion.

You do realize your cheap Chinese manufacturing worker only get 2,000 to 3,000 RMB per month? They can never afford what you're eating. Even the engineers with 3 to 5 years of experience only get 10,000RMB per month, they can only afford 100RMB meals during weekends, assuming they don't want to save money to buy an apartment.

Like you know anything about food quality in China, do you know that oil recycled from wastes is used to cook these food?

Imported goods are what Chinese wants to buy because they're the only products that have any quality, see the rush to buy foreign milk products for an example.

It doesn't matter how Shanghai's education ranks in the world, since students in Shanghai are not competing with the world, they're competing with other Shanghai students and students from other parts of China. If you never heard of so called "education sponsorship payment", you have no idea about Chinese education.

Yeah, like any Chinese workers can actually afford this, you do realize this equals to a months salary for a experienced Chinese engineer? And this price won't stay so low, since rents are increasing.

Like what? Having good quality control on consumer products? Food safety? Cheap cars/gas/apartments? It's very simple to know which is better, western or China: just see how many western guys want to move to China and comparing to how many Chinese want to move to western countries, you'll know the answer.

Then I guess you've never heard of the term "crossing the wall" either.

A car license in Shanghai would cost you $10k, a crappy Chinese designed car would cost $10k and is full of flaws and may cause cancer due to the materials used, if you want imported car it starts with $30k. Apartment price is probably $5k to $10k per square meter, there's no rent control so rent is increasing every year. Yes if you buy food and wares from noname vendors you can save a few bucks, but do you know what it will do to your health in the future? Also education, it is free if you can accept any school no matter the quality. If on the other hand you want your children to have a chance to go to a good university, you probably want your child to go to a good school, which would cost $10k to $20k per year.

So to sum it up, if you don't care quality then living in China is cheap, but Chinese is not stupid, they want quality life as everyone else, this is why wage of Chinese labor is increasing fast (inflation is also a factor, but that's another topic).

An obvious workaround is to launch the attack from another country, but that's the easy way out. What does the law say about the number of emails I can send per day? 10? 100? I can click Send button all day, what do you do then? What if I ask my friends to do the same?

And damages? What damages? I thought the law requires the company to answer each of my individual emails, how can I damage the company by asking it to do something the law requires them to do?

Does it has to be typed by a human? If so what's preventing me from launching a DDOS attack against any company by generating tens of thousands of emails to customer support and asking for a response? If it doesn't have to be typed by a human, what's preventing Google from just sending a customized automated response, using something like Siri?

I think this is just a case of laws being out-paced by technology.

Living in space does NOT equal living in the basement, O'Neill cylinder would be like a park, while a Dyson sphere would make planets like basements.

Because I'm right, just read the explanation for "luo" with ren radical in wikipedia.

Yes, "guilao" is negative.

"waiguolao" definitely has a negative tone to it, and no it cannot be interpreted as "foreign elder". "waiguo" is "foreign country", you got this correct; but here "lao" is not the same Chinese character for "old/elder", it has ren (person) radical and it's a slur for a group of people. I think you confused it with "laowai", which is considered a neutral word to describe a foreigner by Chinese but not so much by the foreigners themselves.

And it doesn't have to be brute force approach, the dumb approach would be to build an equivalent of human brain and teach it for a decade or two, I'm sure there're easier ways. However I don't think we're there yet.

And while you're in China, why don't you try to visit Liu Xia, wife of Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo? This will give you a taste of what Chinese gov will do to people opposing it. And note, while Liu Xiaobo is sentenced to prison for political crime, his wife is not found guilty of any crime, but she is still under house arrest, now tell me this is more like USA or Nazi Germany.

BTW, Beijing's PM2.5 is well over 200 yesterday, so you'd better watch out if you're in Beijing. And if you're in Shanghai, be careful using tap water, since there were over 10 thousand deceased pigs just flowing down the river. Enjoy your stay :)

And here's a quiz question for you, the so called China expert:
1. How many people died in the so called 3 years of "natural" disaster? Were there actual natural disasters in those 3 years?
2. How many people died in the Cultural Revolution? Did the party and gov prosecute the crimes committed during Cultural Revolution?

If you can answer these questions correctly, you'll know the comparison to the Nazi party is not at all bullshit, it's very accurate. What is bullshit is people like you who doesn't know the history of the communist party and tries to judge China by what you get to see in Beijing/Shanghai and the few other major cities, and even there you don't get to experience what a normal Chinese will experience.