First, clear the mountain with a Big Fucking Explosion. Then assemble the Huge Ass Mirrors.

Or their enchanted shin.

It does, because its own citizens are complaining about the environment more and more. Say what you like about the CCP, and I know bloody well I do, but they're deathly afraid of losing control. When pollution gets too bad, there will be riots. Actually, given the previous arrests of environmental activists in China, you can tell they're really keeping an eye on it.

Upgrading would cost money, but you have to think more creatively doing business with the Chinese. Each province has its own interests and you can sweeten the deal quite a lot.

Why should China, or any developing country, give up its own economic development when the currently developed and powerful countries didn't have to and because they lack the political will do their part? Developed countries should see this as an opportunity to make money from China by selling them back cleaner technology that the developed countries invent.

It's bollocks to say "well, we already have a developed economy and we're too scared to change anything, so we'll make you live by the sink or float rules that we impose on you because we can".

You'r crazy to think the US Democrats are as left as the ALP.

Someone should dress up in an ant costume and walk into the beam.

An experiment performed with every identical twin.

Your previous post doesn't help. You selectively choose what made up bits fit your desired understanding, but provide no good reason to accept those additions in the first place.

If there were pre-Adamics, then it is entirely possible that Adam and Eve's descendants all died off while we are descendant from the supposed pre-Adamics, and thus we do not magically inherit "original sin".

Or you could recognize the adhoc made up bollocks and realize it's not true.

That's no dune.

Turns out, it was sourced... to an online forum called PPRuNe, which stands for Professional Pilots Rumour Network.

PPRuNe.org, the forum that has, in the title: "Professional Pilots Rumour Network"?

Given that the slashdot post is about Korean culture and air disasters, let's stick to that? Do you see me playing the race card? I'm not saying it's racist. I'm saying it's unproven, suggested only by shoddy reasoning. What I see is not people being defensive playing the race card, but people preemptively accusing anyone who disagrees with culturally based explanations as being part of the PC police. If there's anything more popular than playing the race card today, it's people who try to protect their idiotic views from criticism by claiming to be oppressed by "political correctness".

How about the proof that the Asiana crash still happened? How do you explain that as a culture thing if you really believe the problems about culture really were fixed? By your standard of proof, I'd have converted to Evangelical Christianity and a believer in Young Earth Creationism.

Which explains why Chinese history is littered with examples of ministers risking and most often losing their lives while criticizing the emperor, and those ministers later becoming revered as a model for loyal ministers. Please tell us more, since you know so much about us Asians.

Gladwell's position is that it is Korean thing. That chatting about the weather is a roundabout Korean way of saying they're in the wrong location.