China owns about 7.5% of our debt. Japan owns almost as much, and even the UK isn't that far off. The VAST majority of our debt is owned by US citizens. If the US and China went to war, I think most of our creditors would rather have us win than China. The real question is how would China fund a war with the US, given that their export-based economy is largely dependent on our consumption.

China owns about 7.5% of our debt. Japan and the UK each own almost as much, and are our very close allies. The American public owns almost half our debt. If it ever came time to divide up America's assets to pay off its creditors, China would not exactly take a high priority, certainly not enough for them to start seizing US territories. And if China has a habit of "just taking things" and thinks it can tussle with the US and its allies, they would have Taiwan back by now.

Just for clarification, ALL of the US debt is denominated in US dollars. We are a sovereign issuer of debt denominate solely in a currency that we have monopoly control over, and the rest of your point is correct and accurate.

The first was a girl and the second two were boys. They didn't get better at it, the Chinese just don't put a very high value on females children.

There's the possibility that some lovely foreign gay couple purchased all three of them because their local adoption agency wouldn't approve them just because they're gay, but gosh darnit, they'll love those kids and give them a wonderful environment and keep all the brothers and sisters together and it'll just be great. There's also the much likelier possibility that they were sold into some kind of slavery, sexual or otherwise, because such a practice is still quite prevalent in various developing countries, China included. I can assure that even if buying children for the purposes of adoption were legal and regulated, a black market for human trafficking would still exist.

You'd be surprised.

Tell that to the 5 unemployed job seekers for every job opening currently. And the people who work for TSA are probably the demographic most likely to have trouble finding a job. Now isn't really a great time to quit your job because you're so bothered that it doesn't produce wealth for someone else.

To be fair, the Daily Show and the Onion are different in that the Daily Show mostly presents actual news in a funny manner, whereas the Onion is full blown satire. The Daily Show does do satire sometimes but it isn't its core schtick. In any case, the Pulitzer is only for print journalism. There already is an award for television, the Emmy, and the Daily Show has won it for eight consecutive years.

I can't tell if you're being facetious or not. The first half of your post is such a blatantly terrible idea it has to be assumed you are joking. The rest of the post drops the humorous tone and just ventures off into ignorant racism.

That's a really good point. Most people overlook the fact that New York City is entirely self contained and self sustaining. Oh wait.

What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, and Bangladesh could support that density if it it had a global super power attached to it. You are a moron if you think you can take one city and consider it in a vacuum.

If you have a million apps, and none of them give you the feature you want because it's restricted, you may as well have zero. If Honda lets me choose from 300,000 spoilers and paint colors for my car, but I have no way of getting cruise control installed, why would I care how many colors I have available?

Where can you pay a $99/yr fee to Apple to get them to legitimately allow jailbroken features? And where can you pay $99/yr to avoid paying $1500/yr for cell service? What are you even talking about?

What if my login is gay/gay? Is it a double negative and I can discuss homosexuality AND my passwords freely? Or do I need to change all my passwords to "Takei"?