Yeah, but try stopping with the "pedal to the metal" at 80km/h with the handbreak :) Sure, it can stop you if you ease into it - if power to engine is shut. But overcome the power of the engine at those speeds? Doubt it.

Sure, the US is important to China, but "nearly their entire customer base"? Ahh... EU is larger than the US to China (see http://www.stanlib.com/EconomicFocus/Documents/Global/ChinaexportstoEUvsUS.pdf). But agreed - letting US go bankrupt would definately be a hit to the Chinese economy.

Granted, the guy did a bad thing in letting his VPN access go to a third party - but a smart company would see his potential. He already handles multiple sub-contractors if we choose to call them that, and apparently manages to get them to perform well. Some of the posts here suggests that the company should fire him, and use the Chinese dude themselves - but it is worth remembering that HE was the one finding this Chinese person, and he is the one doing quality control, to an above-average level. Get him an official position as manager for a small overseas team of Chinese developers, and he could be worth a lot more to the company.

If we really wanted a place to get rid of that.... I think we can just send it on it's way out of the solar system, or probably easier into the sun. No need to land it somewhere, where we might in the future want to live.

I guess that's how you choose to look at it... I would say all the "Recent News" is nothing but advertisements. Granted, they wrap it up nicely, but they have a summer sale and tell you about it, which to me looks like ads.