if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.
It works both ways. Is OP allowed to make the comment because he is more priviliged or because he has less power and is less of a threat?
Remember the McCarthy era. There can be more restrictions if needed.
Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.
The proprietary backdoors come with spies doing much more gymnastics to gain access to those who know the secrets to access those backdoors.
Not sure if that’s the reason but I heard that gnu was chosen because gnus, the animal, are essentially one herd spread across Africa. A gnu that loses its particular herd, e.g. while crossing a river, can join any other. Supposedly that’s not the same for other herd animals.
Good for Europe or bad?
American investors are increasingly acquiring European companies, prompting calls for new ownership models to protect economic sovereignty.
Only for ‘peaceful purposes’. You have to run nuclear reactors to create plutonium for the bomb. So all peaceful nuclear electricity creates the material for the bombs.
Sweden could join the Euro, but they make sure that they don’t fulfill the criteria to join. Framing this protest as Russian propaganda distracts from the necessary debate.
Beauty. It gives everybody the illusion that they can decide or at least criticize everything. We will end with an unstable system where control becomes impossible and things collapse.
The total value of US-held European business assets has surged from $1.05 trillion in 2011 to $3.79 trillion in 2024, with nearly 32 percent of European assets currently held by American investors.
And yet that’s less than Apple’s market capitalization. That’s even more worrysome than the takeovers.
What’s missing is the same number for Europe. How many American assets are held by European investors?
The USA is not comparable because they have illegal immigrants who distort the unemployment rate.
There has to be labor shortage for wages to rise. If employers can, they hire illegal imigrants instead of rising wages.
This means there can be bad employment conditions even with a low unemployment rate. Greece shouldn’t have that problem so living conditions will improve.
Absolutely. But given those circumstances the prices are still reasonable.
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From where could they get oil and food if there is a naval blockade?
For China, there exists a bigger risk than losing business. The USA could do a naval blockade. China cannot survive that without Russia. They won’t sacrifice their security for short term profits.
I don’t really disagree with you. To me the Polynesian backstory highlights that it is all just politics.
If you like to argue the history of history then there most likely are no records of Polynesians in Taiwan but there could have been.
from migrations out of Taiwan between 3000 and 1000 BC
The oldest attested Chinese writing comprises a body of inscriptions produced during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), with the very earliest examples from the reign of Wu Ding dated between 1250 and 1200 BCE.[
You seem to already have half of it. Dschingis Khan has fought slavery and given the debate about nuclear bombs, used violence wisely.
Pol Pot, I don’t know if there is a reason to justify the killings.
Stalin, you can either go the way of his education, which means that his cruelty is rooted in a Christian upbringing. Or you could look at the disclosed CIA Stalin memo that reveals that most of his image is western propaganda. Or you could look at the decline after him and realize that whatever he did (or at least most of it) was necessary given the circumstances.
Taiwan is historically Polynesian.
Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and are part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, with an Urheimat in Taiwan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesians
Taiwan is not only staging ground but also prevents Chinese access to the Pacific during times of war. It’s the only place for a deep water submarine base for China.
Lol, and you don’t see a way for China to fix this?
Heatpumps in front of houses.