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scout6900 said:

They had me at no more untangling the f’g cords. 

lkrupp said:

pulseimages said:

Shouldn’t the suit be against the artist who used the sample illegally and not Apple? 

Deep pockets my friend, deep pockets. 🧳

waveparticle said:

slow n easy said:

joogabah said:

tmay said:

waveparticle said:

22july2013 said:

Xed said:

LOL I can't wait to hear the contortions of people ... that hate private US companies from doing any business outside the US, especially in China.

I buy from non-dictatorships any time I can, even when it costs more. But I don't hate. Don't make it sounds that I'm motivated by hate. I'm motivated by love for freedom and democracy. 

If you want to imagine that I'm motivated by hate, I guess that's your right to be wrong.

Are you an American? You are illogical. You do not live in China. Why are you afraid of losing freedom and democracy because of China? 

Gee, if only the PRC would limit itself to occupying Mainland China.

Instead, it's all about invading Taiwan, occupying the South China Sea, and the First Island Chain, as if those were exclusive economic zones for the PRC. Moreover, the PRC is more than happy to export its brand of authoritarianism. Fortunately, the West is quite aware of the PRC's broad expansionist plans, and while late to constrain the PRC, the West is strengthening alliances to resist that expansionism, both militarily and economically.

Meanwhile, the PRC has a limited timeframe to do all of this before its heavily senior demographics overwhelms its shrinking working population, all with a birth rate that is too little to maintain the population. It's probable that the PRC won't ever be a rich country, and can expect its population to halve by 2060.

What the West is concerned about is that Xi will launch an invasion of Taiwan by 2025, and will attempt to challenge the West's military supremacy in the Pacific in this decade, but that risk diminishes by 2035.

Both the PRC and Taiwan officially consider themselves to be the governments of ALL of China.
You can't invade your own country.  This is an internal matter between factions within China, part of a stalemate in a civil war, and it is wildly inappropriate for the USA to be dictating who should prevail.  It should be up to the Chinese people to forge their own destiny.

Yes, it would be about invading. Taiwan is democratic with very different laws and a very different political system. China is a Dictatorship which does not have the Rule of Law. The Taiwanese people do not want to be ruled by China. So yes it would be an invasion. Also it is not up to the Chinese people to forge their own destiny. It is up to Xi Jinping to forge the destiny of the Chinese people because he makes all the rules and there is nothing the Chinese people can do about it. If a Chinese citizen doesn’t like one of Xi Jinping’s rules and speaks up about it, then they can go to prison. Or I guess you could say the Communist Party’s rules but Xi Jinping is the head of the party so he usually gets what he wants.

Yes, Xi want to peacefully reunite with Taiwan. Do you understand the political meaning of the word peacefully here? 

StrangeDays said:

slow n easy said:

A little off topic but Foundation is one of my favorite shows. I don’t understand why some people are saying that it is unfilmable. I totally understand why a movie would be unfilmable because there is just not enough time to cover everything, but a series gives plenty of time to lay everything out. There are actually a large number of tv+ shows I enjoy watching and more are coming out all the time.

Read the books and you’ll see why. Jumps across decades at a time, lots of characters, little character development, lots of exposition, little action, and economic warfare. Doesn’t exactly lend itself to the visual medium. Asimov tried to address some of these things but it’s still challenging.

joogabah said:

tmay said:

waveparticle said:

22july2013 said:

Xed said:

LOL I can't wait to hear the contortions of people ... that hate private US companies from doing any business outside the US, especially in China.

I buy from non-dictatorships any time I can, even when it costs more. But I don't hate. Don't make it sounds that I'm motivated by hate. I'm motivated by love for freedom and democracy. 

If you want to imagine that I'm motivated by hate, I guess that's your right to be wrong.

Are you an American? You are illogical. You do not live in China. Why are you afraid of losing freedom and democracy because of China? 

Gee, if only the PRC would limit itself to occupying Mainland China.

Instead, it's all about invading Taiwan, occupying the South China Sea, and the First Island Chain, as if those were exclusive economic zones for the PRC. Moreover, the PRC is more than happy to export its brand of authoritarianism. Fortunately, the West is quite aware of the PRC's broad expansionist plans, and while late to constrain the PRC, the West is strengthening alliances to resist that expansionism, both militarily and economically.

Meanwhile, the PRC has a limited timeframe to do all of this before its heavily senior demographics overwhelms its shrinking working population, all with a birth rate that is too little to maintain the population. It's probable that the PRC won't ever be a rich country, and can expect its population to halve by 2060.

What the West is concerned about is that Xi will launch an invasion of Taiwan by 2025, and will attempt to challenge the West's military supremacy in the Pacific in this decade, but that risk diminishes by 2035.

Both the PRC and Taiwan officially consider themselves to be the governments of ALL of China.
You can't invade your own country.  This is an internal matter between factions within China, part of a stalemate in a civil war, and it is wildly inappropriate for the USA to be dictating who should prevail.  It should be up to the Chinese people to forge their own destiny.