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Comment Re:Chinese Community Party Values (Score 1) 67

India's issue is nothing to do w/ past colonization. It started after the Chicoms conquered Tibet, and then started claiming Ladakh and Arunachal. The China-India split is pretty real

Other than that, Beijing has claims on Taiwan, even though the DPP doesn't pretend to be "Republic of China" anymore, and it has had friction w/ Vietnam, to the extent of intercepting Vietnamese shipping vessels. Laos and Cambodia are vassal states, and the Nepalese communist party too is subservient to Beijing

Comment Re:I hope Vizio sees the opportunity here. (Score 1) 38

What was the GPL code that Vizio was using? Was it just Linux, or was there more? If it was just that, then Vizio could consider using something like NetBSD. If it is something else, Vizio should explore whether there are versions of it under other licenses, be it BSD, MIT, CDDL, or even just plain closed source

Comment Re:It's worse than you think (Score 1) 85

Like another poster above said, there is the question of numbers. For instance, you could have put up w/ 1-2 guests in your house for, say, a week. But if you had to put up w/ 20, you'd say no. Let alone putting up w/ 20 indefinitely. Immigration doesn't scale well, especially when one considers the populations of Britain vs that of a lot of the countries - the subcontinent, Africa and so on

Also, I'm not sure that payback is the right grounds on which British, or Western immigration at large, should be based. I don't like what the Brits did in colonial times, but that doesn't imply that today's Brits - who never colonized anyone and have their own struggles - should have to put up w/ muslims who want sharia law to replace British law. Ultimately, Western countries need to be discerning: those immigrants who do fully accept the local culture as is should be the only ones allowed in, while the rest should be sent back. That's the only thing that will prevent the current situation from erupting into a full blown civil war that Britain has not seen since Oliver Cromwell

Comment Re:Before you get too excited (Score 1) 73

I support a lot of his policies, but have been turned off by a lot of them as well - particularly in foreign policy. I loved the foreign policy of Trump 45, but hate the foreign policy of Trump 47. Particularly, him giving Turkey and Qatar an elevated importance, and normalizing relations w/ Pakistan. Or his obsession w/ peace: there are wars that other countries need to fight: just we need not be involved in them

Also, this media company a few days ago just announced an $11B investment in India. This after he's subjected India to a punitive 50% tariff rate, and called India's economy a dead economy, while cabinet members like Bessant and Navaro trash-talked India as well. Members of the MAGA crowd, instead of turning on the antisemitism, should instead ask him why his company is putting $11 billion in Telengana and not, say, South Dakota

Comment Re:Wait, the Oscars are still a thing? (Score 2) 83

There were a few actors who were openly on the Right, and many who secretly were, but said nothing about politics for two reasons:
  • They understood that people wanted to watch their performances, not hear their commentary or opinions on politics
  • Many of them were afraid of being cancelled by the big players, most of who were woke. Like Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen,...

But other than them, the majority of Hollywood always was woke, the reason being that "creative" people tend to be more emotional and less intellectual in their response to events

Comment It's worse than you think (Score 0) 85

Not to mention - given the ease w/ which "migrants" cross the English channel and land on English shores, w/o being obstructed by the Royal Navy or Coast Guard, it's not remotely surprising to see the Brits w/ such a cavalier attitude towards who enters their country

A few years ago, Heathrow was a transit point for a place I was going. When I landed there and entered the transit area, I thought that I was in Lahore, rather than London. The only English store I saw w/ English employees was the electronics store, where I bought a local British plug and iPhone charger

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