accept WWII was in part sold to the people as a means to stop the spread of authoritarian rule in Europe, one small problem, more of Europe was under authoritarian rule after 1945 than before the war started.

agreed, you can purchase video consoles now with thousands of old roms built in for about USD$30-50 with zero monthly fees.

The issue for China is they are not finding other suppliers for that can supply the specific type of coal China needs. This is forcing global price up (Australian coal suppliers smiling) and resulting in some smart business people importing Australian coal and selling it to China with a mark-up. Also this year has been a very cold winter for the Asian region so the slack left by China blocking coal suppliers has been quickly taken up by other countries in the region. So the result is Australia selling lots of coal into a growing Asian market with prices going up. China on the other hand is now having to pay a fortune for coal as long term suppliers/distributors don't trust the fickle Chinese government right now. So this ham fisted political move has had the complete opposite result.

Proof finally that evil people in their volcanic lairs are causing global warming.

so are they also banning combustion engines, perfumes, deodorants and the millions of other products and devices that emit aerosol based chemicals.

We have the same problem in China, some months our factory in china detects 20% of the parts as being fake or below the standard required. As a manufacturer you should be testing your own materials and parts to make sure they meet your requirements. Also beware of "golden samples" if you are sourcing parts in china, a golden sample is an especially made and tested sample that in no way represents the quality of the product you will receive. Golden samples can be anything from a complete product to raw materials, it is a big problem in china.

or Google bows to the "everything offends me crowd" Seriously people grow the f**k up, the universe doesn't care about your feelings and if you are fat deal with it. FYI I also love food and I am in a constant battle with my body weight but I have learned "to control my urges".

Agreed, I think people get too involved in the gender politics and they completely miss the beauty of a relationship where the sum of two minds joined together become greater than it's parts. This constant barrage of gender politics of women do this better and men do that better rubbish must stop. The reality is when a man and a woman work together we become so much more than just what our gender. All this wall building between the sexes that Universities are pushing is just horrendous and naive to say the least. People are going to never have the chance to experience the beauty of surrendering part of yourself to another and experiencing 4 arms one mind two bodies.

here we go another article spewing forth emotions as facts in a sciences field. Recent studies looking at employment opportunities in STEM fields has shown that women have a far higher chance of getting a position than men (2:1 ratio link below). Also that women between 21-31 get 115% of the income of their male counterparts in the same field stem field. So I will say Heather Metcalf is part of this new SJW childishness of replacing realty and facts with emotions and feelings in the sciences.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/st...

One of the problems with countries like India and China is that Universities view funding and student fees as being more important than the skills of their students. In chinese and indian universities it is very common for students to hand in cut and past assignments. I recently was talking to a western medical teacher who was working in china and he was chastised by the University for having high standards that incurred low student scores. The laugh is he was actually making the exams easier than what he is used to assigning in the USA. So yes you can get thousands of cheap engineers in China but less than 5% of them are worth paying for.

Same here I've been in the IT industry for close on 30 years and to be honest I have hardly seen any sexism from fellow male staff, even from the sales staff and that was a surprise. In fact I have seen more sexist comments from women than men during my working life. I have seen middle aged women going up to a young cadet engineer and thinking it is funny to plonk her arse on his lap just to see his shocked face. When I was a cadet engineer I used to work out to help be deal with anger issues and I got pretty big (I was a very angry young man). As you can imagine after a year I got pretty fit then I had all this sexist shit from the female staff. Seriously ladies you may think it's ok but seriously I was engaged at the time and pretty well looked after sexually by my partner so you were just an annoyance. The sad part is women get a free pass for being sexist in the work place but men don't. so I call double standards. BTW its funny the more I ignored the women the more sexual crap I had to deal with, seriously women are their own worst enemy.

lucky the USA nearly elected a criminal who caters to the communist Stalinist anti free speech left.

See even a conservative can play the name calling game.

the whole thing is a lie. The reality is asian families in the USA have a far higher income than many white men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Also female engineers employed by IT companies now get 117% of the income of your average male employee. Why you may ask, well because female's make different life choices to males leading to fewer female engineers even though 60% of university graduates in the USA are female. So what companies do to make themselves look better is pay the few female graduate engineers they can hire a wage that is higher than a male graduate. Where is all starts to fall apart is because of the life choices problem for female employees. Males generally work long hours and will spend more time at work due to the fact they generally don't get pregnant nor have a preference of putting family before work. Climbing the greasy pole takes time, the more time you spend climbing it the higher up you go. If you stop climbing the greasy pole to have kids or go home early to see the kids then your fellow workers are not exactly going to stop climbing the pole just because you have left the building. So when these women come back to work they find themselves on a lower income than their fellow workers who started climbing the greasy pole the same time they did.

[cough] fake news [cough]