I'm not sure what point you're communicating or who you're quoting. Initially, you were alleging that my statements were false and not based on facts, but now, you're trying to say that it is commonly stated every 5 minutes? Please try to be clear. I get that these facts are uncomfortable for those of us who have benefited from these things, but the sooner we face them and try to make the world a fairer playing field the better off we will all be.
> North America is in fact nothing like the Third Reich.
No one said that North America is like the Third Reich. The point is that Hitler aspired to lebensraum (breathing room) for Germanic people and was inspired by the fact that USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand became breathing room for Anglo Saxon people. It is not bizarre or in-credible to see that this analogy holds true and the context of the article "Walking While Black" reinforces this.
> These truly incredible, bizarre claims require extraordinary evidence,
I assume your request is about the planning of this and partitioning of world regions in a racially structured way. There's ample evidence of Anglo Saxon/Germanic leaders talking about the partitioning of the world in this way. Here's Churchill's quote about China.
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I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.
I am not greatly concerned about Russian development in China. I would rather have them develop in that way down south into India. Russia has a justifiable ambition to possess a warm water port. It is really embarrassing to think that 100,000,000 people are without one.
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"I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
> It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class.
I had a conversation with a black man who pointed out that North America was in fact the ideal that Hitler had aspired to. North America, Australia, New Zealand is the realization of Anglo Saxon lebensraum. South Africa and India was also supposed to be turned into similar places but the natives fought back and survived. Churchill even wanted to turn China into a lebensraum to be divided between Slavic people in the North East and Anglo Saxons in the South West. Quite shocking when you realize what designs they had on the world.
> the suicide rate at Foxconn during that period was lower than the overall Chinese or US suicide rate.
Please allow me to change your opinion on this. The comparison being made there is the ( number of suicides at Foxconn / number of Foxconn employees ) vs number of suicides in China / population of China. At first glance, this looks like a valid comparison. But it is not. It is actually comparing apples to oranges. The real comparison is against number of employees who choose to commit suicide at their employers premise / number of employees. A useful way to paraphrase this is:
Lets say Google has 100,000 employees. How many Google employees commit suicide at the Googleplex per year? Not how many google employees commit suicide overall.
When phrased this way, it becomes clear that other companies have much lower suicide rates than Foxconn.
That's what is critical to compare. It turns out Foxconn's suicide rate is massively higher than equivalent Chinese employers and the inference is the alleged egregious mistreatment of Foxconn laborers by Foxconn is the cause.
> What about the cast system? Do you think that would be better or worse now if the british had never colonialised india?
The British aggressively codified, intensified and encouraged increased enforcement of the caste system in India in order to facilitate their divide-and-conquer strategy. Did you really not know that?
> Tharoor sits at the sharp edge of nascent Hindu nationalist resurgence
The link you gave does not substantiate that claim at all.
> is known to have a bit of an axe to grind where the Raj was concerned.
I would not be surprised that someone who is a victim has an axe to grind with a genocidal expropriative regime. What is surprising is that there are colonial apologists still around and pushing typical justifications for slavery, genocide and other crimes against humanity.
At the time of the plundering, the countries that the East India Company plundered were not the third world. They were literally wealthy self-sufficient countries that had not seen famine or serious poverty. It is not an exaggeration that the EIC brought those countries to their knee.
Eg:
"A country that was the world leader in at least three industries- textiles, steel and ship building. A country that had everything... And after 200 years of exploitation, expropriation and clean outright looting, this country was reduced to one of the poorest countries in the world by the time the British left in 1947," he said.
> We're never going to run out of lime. Ever. It is literally everywhere.
Not true. Limestone suitable for mining is a limited resource. That's why cement companies like Lafarge pay millions for mining rights in South East Asia. They clear out entire mountain ranges to turn into cement.
> limestone mining destroys the landscape just like any quarry does
In South East Asia, limestone quarrying and mining has destroyed the habitat of many species. There are dozens of species that are extinct, or are going extinct due to limestone mining. They clear entire limestone mountain ranges and turn them into cement.
> It's hard to deploy such LCD/LED sign (you require power and lots of it to be visible in sunlight) but it's possible.
What? Most of the signboards you see on the road are LED signboards. You know the ones we have in freezing winter or in blazing summer! So not only is it possible, it's what's commonly done.
> The important thing here is that this first production outdoor deployment
There's very little data provided in the article, no real accurate data on what kind of environmental conditions were experienced by the devices. Seems like a puff piece.
> Hi, Ursa from Visionect here, the company powering the Sydney traffic signs.
You're also the poster of the article which is an ad from your company.
> In many applications, it can also prove to be as much as four times more reliable than LCD.
That's a really vague answer. Are you saying your solar powered road side display panels are 4 times more reliable than the LCD panels used with everything else? Could you share some data with us?
Lets be generous and say that all Indians in the USA work in the tech sector. That would be 2 million. Then lets be even more generous and add the entire population of Bangalore, 4 million as tech workers. 6E6/1.3E9 = 0.4 percent.
That's a simple standard showing that you are a minority and under-represented on a global level.
The Southern part of India happens to be the actual point of origin of the banana plant and would therefore be the site with the greatest genetic diversity of both edible and wild inedible banana species. Same way Kazakhstan happens to be the origin of apples and used to have the most genetic variation until some Soviet era dictator decided to have much of the forests that were the gene bank for apple varieties cleared to grow cotton instead.
Of note, many have forgotten, but rice suffered from a pandemic blight in the 1980s that was saved only because a particular species of wild rice, coincidentally found in South India, happened to have disease resistant genes.
As someone who has actually lived and worked in Shenzhen and Beijing, I'm surprised by this article. It doesn't reflect the reality I experienced.
"Beijing might be of historical importance for the creative forces often associated with Silicon Valley"
I note he never explained that sentence. No data was given to further that statement. Instead he makes points about cheaper engineers and cheap housing and food.
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it offered us cheap housing and food, a network of experienced mentors that were happy to take the time to help, steady access to some of the world's greatest engineering talent at a sixth of the cost of a junior engineer in Silicon Valley
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He also says: "Beijing seems to attract large numbers of truly driven, creative and interesting people". Yes, people here are truly driven. But creative? Nope, I didn't experience that. I won't mention how the drive people exhibit here is typically negative. In the US, negotiations are rarely zero-sum, in BJ/SZ it was always Walmart style: are we screwing the partner/customer/supplier to the max.
"Beijing is a city with its eye on the future and a place that you can help shape."
The whole of China is controlled by a small (percentage wise) elite. They and they alone decide the whole future. If you're not part of the future they determine would benefit "their" China then you're out. If they decide suddenly that whatever you've built is something they want, and they can get away with it, they'll take it. Creative people don't thrive here. Ask 100 creative people in China if they'd like to move to Silicon Valley, and you'll likely get an 75% migration rate. That's even higher than the percentage of rich Chinese who want to leave. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/09/15/almost-half-of...
hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.