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Apple TV+ commissioned 'Foundation' after a one-sentence pitch
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/From science fiction to science…
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US vaccine donation to Taiwan may help avoid chip factory shutdowns
We made a mistake with AIDS. Unfortunately, in hindsight, even if we were more reactive our patient 0 turned out to be only one of many in an early SF cluster. The earliest cases come from Congo sometime between 1915 and 1941 most likely through consumption of bushmeat. That the US was homophobic back in the 80-90s led to stupidly slow response.waveparticle said:
Did the western leader US say any virus should not be allowed to escape early detection and contact tracing should be allowed? Let's take a look of history of the example set by US. Is HIV a virus? What kind of leadership US set of AIDS? The patient name is strictly confident to protect privacy. Tens of millions of people have died of AIDS.nht said:
Right. A vaccine for a virus that may be from a PRC lab leak at worst or at best a virus that was allowed to escape early detection and contact tracing due to suppression of information and arrest of whistleblowers.waveparticle said:Trouble is not from Beijing. Taiwan is the trouble maker. Notice it politicizing the vaccine donation event?The PRC lost any chance of peaceful reunification by their heavy handed and unnecessary power grab in HK that resulted in riots and further heavy handed responses like arresting anyone that disagrees with the party line. Anyone smart (and rich) in Hong Kong is going to try very hard to move to Canada or the UK.
The one China policy is effectively dead. The US will pay lip service to it but support for Taiwan is going to be stronger than ever.One Country Two Systems is dead dead.Not even KMT politicos are going to want to rejoin China and risk ending up in Qincheng Prison for saying the wrong thing or simply for being in the wrong power block at the wrong time.
The only good thing about the PRC system is that if you are high enough up then in a purge they DO send you to prison so maybe 20 years later you can be habilitated. As opposed to being executed by antiaircraft guns like in North Korea.
Taiwan is a tiny little island the size of New Jersey that has little importance other than Winnie the Pooh wants to go down in history as the bear that “reunified” China.
Whatever you want to say about the DPP, they never sent in tanks to crush a student protest in Tiananmen Square. There are asshats from the PRC that are so brainwashed that they don’t believe that it happened or that the students deserved it.For folks that lived through both the cultural revolution and Tiananmen Square the events in Hong Kong were sadly predictable.
The Wuhan COVID event, particularly after SARS, was an unnecessary fiasco at best due to the actions of the local cadre trying not to get crucified by Beijing and at worst the cover up of a lab leak by the central leadership.EVERY national health organization in Asia was on the lookout for SARS or SARS like cases because SARS was super scary and sucked.That the PRC dropped the ball in Wuhan in such a spectacular fashion can’t be dodged by infantile false equivalences with AIDS.
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US vaccine donation to Taiwan may help avoid chip factory shutdowns
Right. A vaccine for a virus that may be from a PRC lab leak at worst or at best a virus that was allowed to escape early detection and contact tracing due to suppression of information and arrest of whistleblowers.waveparticle said:Trouble is not from Beijing. Taiwan is the trouble maker. Notice it politicizing the vaccine donation event?The PRC lost any chance of peaceful reunification by their heavy handed and unnecessary power grab in HK that resulted in riots and further heavy handed responses like arresting anyone that disagrees with the party line. Anyone smart (and rich) in Hong Kong is going to try very hard to move to Canada or the UK.
The one China policy is effectively dead. The US will pay lip service to it but support for Taiwan is going to be stronger than ever.One Country Two Systems is dead dead.Not even KMT politicos are going to want to rejoin China and risk ending up in Qincheng Prison for saying the wrong thing or simply for being in the wrong power block at the wrong time.
The only good thing about the PRC system is that if you are high enough up then in a purge they DO send you to prison so maybe 20 years later you can be habilitated. As opposed to being executed by antiaircraft guns like in North Korea.
Taiwan is a tiny little island the size of New Jersey that has little importance other than Winnie the Pooh wants to go down in history as the bear that “reunified” China.
Whatever you want to say about the DPP, they never sent in tanks to crush a student protest in Tiananmen Square. There are asshats from the PRC that are so brainwashed that they don’t believe that it happened or that the students deserved it.For folks that lived through both the cultural revolution and Tiananmen Square the events in Hong Kong were sadly predictable. -
Amazon acquiring MGM Studios in $8.45 billion deal
Disney+'s new content has been excellent. There should be no surprise that they are largely from their family friendly classic franchises like Marvel, Star Wars and Disney films.I find Apple TV+'s new content to be more interesting than Disney+'s new content, the latter of which seems mostly like spin-offs of historical programs like Star Wars.
Seriously did you expect from something called Disney+? I really like the mini-series format for MCU content.
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M1X Mac mini will be thinner, use iMac's magnetic power connector says leaker
Minis can be mounted behind monitors. Thinner is better when you do that.CiaranF said:What is ‘s aesthetic obsession with making everything smaller? I mean there is no reason to make an Mac Mini or iMac smaller. It’s not a handheld device like an iPhone or iPad or something you bring around with you regularly. Why not keep them the same size or make then even bigger and fit more to them? Give me function and modularity over making something that doesn’t need to be made more portable anyday. Groan.
