Hasn't this always been the case, or they forgot the lessons from the 60's and 70's, when the Japanese car manufacturers trashed them.

It's a hypothesis, not a theory...

Removal of using 'theory' as a replacement for 'hypothesis' should be mandatory...

Anyone who read "Chaos" by James Gleick, and had some mathematical knowledge, knew that was going to happen this way. I probably read it between 1987 and 1990, and have had a copy since 2000 somewhere.

Not so different from some sports betting scandals...

But they also say, where there is smoke, there is fire...

Also, those that prefer 'natural immunity' do not seem to know how immunity works: you have to catch the disease and survive it to get immunity for a next time.

Good luck with things like smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, plague, rabies, tetanus, etc...

Nobody seems to use a cokes grill.

Linux + KDE Plasma is the best way to replace Mac OS X. Did it on my MacBook Pro 2011, and on my daughter's MacBook Pro Retina.

mutt was the best :-p

Funny how everywhere around the world people have the same perceptions of BMW drivers...

Well, cigarettes kill slowly, but obesitas and diabetes level II also kill slowly.

You forgot "dig my own ore, grow my own trees". ;-)

It is up to the scientific and technically minded people to see to it that nothing in the government that is based on science works anymore.

To get back in the state at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Where a big country found (already after 1870, check that date) that he didn't need to respect the neutrality (internationally agreed upon) of a small country with a small army.