tundraboy

danox said:

ravnorodom said:

Interesting. I think India will catch on eventually. That's how China and Korea started before they became proficient and excelled like today.

The Indians were supposed to have built that thorium reactor, guess what the Chinese have already built it and and are testing it, the Indians are still working on it or I should say talking about it.

The Indian Nuclear Arms program, which was embarked on decades ago with the conflict with Pakistan in mind, was built by a Muslim Indian scientist.  The current Indian government wins elections by stoking Hindu nationalism especially violent anti-Muslim sentiments.  Connect the dots.

Apple should have gone to Southeast Asia.  Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand.  I could have told them that and I wouldn't even charge a consultancy fee.

My guess is the reason there is no 'urgency' is the caste system.  You can work as hard as you can but if you are from a lower caste, unless you are exceptionally talented, it will hardly change your social and economic standing in society, so why bother?  If you are from a privileged caste, unless you are exceptionally inept with no relatives to hold you up, your position in society is secure, so why bother either?

From a pocket transistor radio in the 70s, through the Walkman cassette player era, then iPod, and onto the dumb then smart phone eras, the 3.5mm port was invariably the initial point of failure for all the devices I owned since I was 12.  It's easy to see why.  The electrical contacts in the socket depended on spring loaded pressure to maintain a tight connection with the jack.  That spring eventually loosens up, especially if you use the earphones constantly with the device in your pocket where the exposed end of the jack is subject to lateral forces that make it rock back and forth while plugged in (and thus constantly flexing the spring loaded contacts).  So it starts with signal cutting in and out as the electrical contact loosens until eventually there's no connection at all.  Thus, a device that is otherwise in perfect order becomes useless because one of its cheapest components broke.  Good riddance on the 3.5 mm jack.

crofford said:

Free Market Capitalism works perfectly everywhere except where it comes in contact with government.

This is an ignorant statement.  If you allow markets to operate unregulated, competing companies will just band together, act as a monopolist and raise prices.  Not only that, they will stifle innovation just like how Microsoft in its heyday killed any innovation that threatened the DOS-Windows stranglehold.  That includes OS-2 which tech experts agree was superior to Windows.  It can be validly argued that Microsoft held back personal computer innovation for about 20 years.

Democracies should not have super secret intelligence agencies.  Democracies can have super secret intelligence ops but agencies should be publicly known so that they can be held accountable if and when they misbehave.

So many people do not understand what liberal democracy (the type of government that western countries claim to practice) really means.