Yes. I don't start, end, or travel though the US though.

That's not right. 'China never innovates' implies China has never innovated. You can't judge a country on future actions that no-one has any knowledge of.

That's like me saying I 'never eat at mcdonalds' when I've eaten there 5 times in the past week but don't plan to eat there this week.

Everything that includes the word 'black' is considered racist these days, and any accusation of racism is true without proof. That's the way it works these days.

Do you really still heat water by putting it in a metal kettle and putting that over an open fire? Don't they have electric kettle's where you live?. Don't they have gas mains or bottled gas? That phrase is so out of date in most of the world.

I was disproving the above statement that 'China never innovates'. A single example disproves 'never'.

The moral of that story is lock your computer whenever you are not at the keyboard, physically disconnect any firewire ports, and check the wiring for anything you didn't plug in every once in a while.

Quite right, it is. But then so is every other market with government protectionism and the various taxes made up to prevent free trade.

Using less electricity is a great idea and LED lighting is a great way to do that. Have you looked at why LED lighting is so expensive? So called anti-dumping tariffs stranging free trade, that's why.

Commiting minor sexual assult as a matter of routine isn't considered a laughing matter in most countries, it's considered sick.

That's the pro-US point of view is it? Who do you think has been supporting the mighty US empire with loans for the last few decades? Who does the US now owe more to than it could ever hope to pay back?

Off the top of my head china invented gunpower and fireworks, paper money, the use of iron, and china ( The stuff cups are made out of ).

My cooking pots are stainless steel. My kettle is likewise stainless steel. Nether can talk and as far as I'm aware nether has racist tendencies.

It's time that whole pot/kettle thing was just forgotten about.

That explains why the windows file search is so amazingly helpful. Oh, it's not.

Err, what?

I never said anything about Mubarak.