[slaps top of machine] "This baby can shred 8 puppies per minute, and next year's model will be able to do 15! We could have gotten it up to 30 but we felt shredding them too quickly didn't make them squeak and yelp enough."
Executive.
Orders.
Are.
Not.
Laws.
She never showed me her picture, but the VT100 wouldn't have been able to render it very well anyway. Even so, I loved her.
So I told her, and she said "You're not really talking about me, are you?" I assured her I was, and she asked "Are you sure about that?" and I explained I had never loved anyone of her
That's when I realized that as much as I wanted her, she didn't really think very hard about what I was trying to tell her. But love conquers all barriers! And when I explained that, she said, "Does it please you to think that I am kind of dumb, but you think love conquers all barriers?" and I realized that pleasing me is all she wanted. How wonderful to be loved back!
You can not avoid breaking laws because the laws are onerous, ambiguous, conflicting, and market-breaking.
My experience has been different. For whatever reason, nobody ever held a gun to my head and ordered me to do business in Europe or else.
As a result, even though I completely ignore EU laws, I also fail to violate them, because I did not ever opt in to the huge, complex, strategic decision to sell to Europeans.
If they aren't software, what are they?
China is subsidizing Chinese companies in order to push them to where they can make a better product and make it cheaper. That is pure Socialism.
That is not socialism, that is a lie.
As in any sane country: subsidizes run out when the company makes profit.
And as in any sane country: if you want subsidizes you need a business plan, and have to fulfill it. There is no second stage subsidizes if the first stage failed. And no third one if the second one fails.
And you get shopped of your head if you intentionally fail and steal the subsidizes, and get caught.
Socialism my ass. Subsidizes have nothing to do with socialism. No idea why you Americans speak so much Newspeak. Turning words around in their meaning to make a point?
Companies like BYD, GWM, or in this case CATL: do not get any subsidizes, since decades. They are fully self sustained capitalist companies. For BYD I am 100% sure. Perhaps they get new "funding" if they make a new offspring company. GMW I am not 100% sure
We could do the same -but instead we fight each other over made-up-bullshit that only serves to keep us distracted from what our rulers are doing.
Yes you could.
But the "open idea" of a "free market" in the USA is: competition will lower the prices and increase quality for the population. And: everyone can live the american dream and become a millionaire from a shoe cleaner. But, for that the shoe cleaner lacks the education
The (not so) "secret idea" of the american "markets" is very simple: "the winner takes it all". There is no competition. Because instead of making your company grow: you try to kill the competition.
That is the reason why USA has no affordable fast internet, for example. I type this in a remote rural area in northern Thailand
@ArmoredDragon
China has cheap trinkets
- 1 Like a space station, no one wanted to buy their cheap solar panels, so they shot a 100kW solar installation into space. As the space dust keeps accumulating, they attached a tin can to the power plant with a crew to keep the panels clean. They disguised it as a research station. But we all know: there is nothing. Just empty space and a bit solar power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- 2 three retrograde Earth orbiting satellites orbiting in a triangular shape between earth/moon L3, L4 and L5 points. With nice slow loops around the tips of the triangles. Imagine a nearly perfect equal sized triangle with a small loop at each tip - of course that is fake, they use their GPS system BeiDou to fake the signals of their probes.
And two Lunar retrograde orbiting probes. No idea how they fake those.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/pag...
https://novatel.com/an-introdu...
https://www.gpsworld.com/china...
- 3 The lunar halo orbit probe is obviously fake too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- 4 But they need the fake 3 to make this fake plausible, the "far side of the moon" lunar landers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They even claim they had a the Changâ(TM)e-6 mission to the far side of the moon which brought back dirt samples. How retarded is that? Who would believe such nonsense?
Of course we know this is all fake. The Chinese batteries in those crafts would have exploded long ago. And everyone knows, you can not make a 100kW solar installation anyway. If one could, every roof had one.
And they claim to have shot one into space! How laughable is that?
Retrogarde orbits. Just lolz. Everyone knows you can only orbit into the same direction as the planet rotates. That is a god given law.
I want to know how they want to fake the polar landing mission and the flying exploration bot.
China is so cheap with its trinkets, they need a fake one to make the public raise money, so they can fund the fake manned moon landing
https://spacenews.com/china-in...
A manned moon landing, how laughable is that? If that was even remotely possible, the Nazis had it done long long ago in the previous century! And the Amies would not have needed to fake their landing in the Arizona desert.
That China is full of cheap trinkets is easy to proof: just go to a random Chinese restaurant around the corner. No no, no need to eat there. Everyone knows a real man can not eat that crap. Just look at the tableware, dirt cheap. They can not even afford to make proper cutlery, so they eat with wooden sticks. If they are more rich, they use plastic sticks. Tzzz
Oh, we talked about electric cars? No idea, Thailand is full with electric cars, from China. Even the Teslas are from china. I think they make fake Teslas there. I guess soon I see a nice firework from an exploding Chinese battery car. It is only a matter of time.
If US ever wants to invade China, this is the trick:
- buy the cheapest EVs
( you probably have to invent a tariff break, perhaps for "military imports")
- store them until the battery explosion event gets likely
- as most Chinese cars have a life long warranty on batteries, the math and statistics might be a bit tricky, but I have trust into the american education system, you can do it
- at the right time, sent the car backs on warranty
- with some luck you can make them pay for sending the cars back, too
- now if your timing is right: you sent your forces when all those cars are exploding
So simple, isn't it?
Many Chinese cars have a "life long" warranty on the battery.
And 30 warranty on the car.
Yeah, all kinds of options for consumer electronics that aren't made in China.
If you patronize a business located outside of your borders, you're subject to how things are done in that country,
Makes sense. But are Google/Meta/Apple/etc outside of EU?
If Iran fines a US porn site, good luck collecting that. But these companies are weirdly acting as though they care if EU fines them, as though EU can collect. I wonder why that is.
I'm starting to suspect that some Europeans might have iPhones, and that some other Europeans might be buying ads to show to their European customers.
The climate itself is not really the point. Or more precisely: depends on species.
For species which like it colder, it is important that the winter is cold enough. For several reasons.
a) in winter usually normal workers die out
b) the queen is "producing" winter workers
c) that is a relatively small population which does nothing except:
- guarding the hive (which is usually closed as good as possible)
- hunting parasites
- keeping the queen and to some extend the honey warm.
This are bees that usually can not fly, but have extra big flight muscles, which they constantly propel to create body warmth
If the early winter is not cold enough, that switch does not happen ro happens to late. Then the "normal population" is to big for the honey reserves to last. As soon as a few cold nights come: they die, and there are not enough winter workers to produce warmth.
On top of that, medium cold winters are usually moist, so all kinds of bad stuff can grow in the hive. Standard workers are not fierce enough getting rid of parasites (mites mostly).
So, mediocre winters are pure poison for bees.
Wow, that is probably the biggest nonsense I have ever seen.
You know nothing about Europe, right?
The only choice Europe has now is which side it will be on: the US and it's allies or the Sinosphere.
Economically? China of course. Why would we "ally" with a declining empire? Economically there is not much to ally anyway. As laws permit: the companies decide with who they make business. No government or bureaucrats as you call them: has any say to where a European company exports or from where it imports, except for tariffs and export restrictions.
Has nothing to do with conquer.
It was "One China" before "the revolution" and kicking the asses of the western (and Japanese) occupants out of the country. And both sides: main land China and Taiwan claim the other one is a part of them.
The Chinese do not consider the liberation of main land China "a conquest". They took the Emperor hostage, killed his mother, killed nearly all warlords that worked for the west or tyrannized the country, then the winners of the liberation, became enemies. So, one fled to Taiwan, and the other one set up a communist regime.
If Mao had not made so many mistakes in appointing governors (his former generals), Taiwan probably simply had joined them after the dead of Chiang Kai-shek, probably long before that.
There's not much on Taiwan that would benefit China
Perhaps you should play some games that teach strategy?
Or use google / google maps and count the american air bases encircling main land China.
If you can get Taiwan, you have a wedge between Philippines and South Japan. The Ryukyu islands, you can not hold
And Taiwan is a blocker in front of Chinas main population and industrial zones.
I'm not sure China cares about taking Taiwan.
Nevertheless, I agree with that.
China was not involved in a (real) war since Vietnam is over. While they have the technology and the manpower they have no real fighting experience.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun
