Would you please fuck off permanently, you boring excuse for hot grits?

Why are you so scared of China?

I can only guess you have not been terribly observant since at least the 60's....

China is antagonistic towards the US, and our enemy.

One generally does not aid and abed their enemy who is actively seeking to undermine and destroy them.

US wants rare earth minerals, China wants NVidia chips [reuters.com].

The US has PLENTY of rare earth minerals on our own land...we just need to open it up to domestic mining and processing.

Yes, that's a problem, but you're acting like it's a new problem, and it's not. Also, if you get a rootable device, you can do that on Android. I'd like it to be generally possible for everyone of course, but at least it's possible.

That's nonsense. Of course they would rather be the one selling than the one buying.

Careful. The unpacking of all those parentheses may cause us to run out of memory on the acronym stack.

It's far faster than exponential (assuming that's 1% of a constant-size market, then 2% of the same market, etc.). The first doubling time was 8 years; an exponential growth process would keep the same doubling time, but it took another 2.9 years to double again.
So your "not even close" is correct, in that exponential growth is far slower than whatever this is.

You can buy from the least worst though, instead of the most worst. Since the wealthy buy legislation, where you spend money is your most important vote under capitalism.

If you knowingly purchase illicit goods that's a crime.

They are both criminals in the eyes of the law.

The idea is not to count on a wire.

What if there is a clog (e.g. from a failed hose liner) or a crimped hose and brake pressure doesn't release when it is supposed to? It used to be the job of the man in the caboose to know that. Now it's FRED's. It's also his job to detect over pressure or failing pressure that will stop the train at a potentially inconvenient time if not addressed.

It would be nice to have both a wire and a wireless connection, but one of the ideas was clearly to avoid needing another connection between cars.

Last year China put out more fabricated research papers than the test of the world combined.

SAP was the poster child before Oracle.

I'd like to also nominate Accenture.

Sure, if you pay more so you get that data.

I watched "I'm Glad I'm Dead" a little while back and it was very much made up of the kind of things he would have said. It only implemented his rant mode and therefore wasn't really very funny, but it was spot on for what it was.

Yes, due to Nancy Pelosi's single-handed actions.

Wait, what?