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Sovereign state =/= capitalist enterprise.

The State need never make a profit... ever.

Don't work too well against Zionists, though.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

You've not been paying attention, have you?

Perhaps the Chinese are not as comfortable with the NSA watching everything they do as you are.

Don't underestimate the impact of how the news of the NSA-Big American Tech orgy is playing out abroad. The Snowden leak has confirmed the most cynical suspicions of most mainland Chinese, and the pressure in that billion+ market for products unstained by NSA influence will become a major tech driver in the near future. In fact, for most people in the world, the only spying they dislike more than being spied on by their own governments is being spied on by the USA. Unless Microsoft, Google, and Apple can put together a successful Hail Mary marketing campaign to salvage their images, alternatives like Firefox OS are very likely to see surprising growth in their market share.

In other words, what Foxconn is doing may not be Open Source altruism. More likely, they are positioning themselves to ride an anti-NSA wave, particularly in mainland China.

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The earthquake was survivable. Other areas are rebuilding from the tsunami. The area around Fukushima Daiichi remains empty. It will stay empty of humans for years to come.

No, they won't. If you don't understand this then you don't understand the Japanese people. In some respects the Japanese people view the meltdowns at Fukushia Daiichi as the very worst disaster to ever befall their country. Considering some of the things that have happened to Japan, that might seem overstated, but it is not. Those other disasters were ones that could be worked around and made better. Tons of radioactive crud being spewed across the countryside is not something that they can make better. They can collect as much of it as they can and bury it, but they know it is still there, waiting to kill just inches beneath the surface of the elementary school playgrounds. That's the sort of horror that will have Japanese people waking up in cold sweats for decades to come. This is the kind of horror that will spawn a new generation of Japanese monster movies as the culture tries to exorcise these demons.

Whatever. Nuclear power is dead in Japan, and it is the average Japanese citizens who want it that way.

and the services in the area suck at the moment

Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be those "tiny amounts of radiation" that leaked and caused all the folks who used to provide services to go and live in school gymnasiums in the next prefecture over?

The nuclear power industry just took a mammoth dump all over the Japanese people's beloved countryside. They are in no mood to "suck it up." Nuclear power is dead in Japan. Get used to it.

and the services in the area suck at the moment

Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be those "tiny amounts of radiation" that leaked and caused all the folks who used to provide services to go and live in school gymnasiums in the next prefecture over?

The nuclear power industry just took a mammoth dump all over the Japanese people's beloved countryside. They are in no mood to "suck it up." Nuclear power is dead in Japan. YOU suck it up.

When someone comes to a very diferent conclusion, we shouldn't be so quick to assume they're stupid

Very true! I believe that life begins with ejaculation! Every one of you masturbators is a mass murderer!

One nuclear aircraft carrier worth ought to do it.

Good riddance. All schools should be able to do that, not just the charters. If a child is disrupting his classmates' education and refuses to stop, ie: he's a troublemaker, then he should face discipline and expulsion.

Really. Go to your friendly neighborhood high school and visit some of the classrooms at the end of the day. It's nasty. Kids today have taken slobbery to a whole new level. It is unfair to students that the only time they get a clean classroom is the first period of the day. Without either proper upbringing from their parents or firmly enforced rules from the school, kids will be pigs. The empirical evidence to support this claim can be found within a few miles of where you live.

Not arbitrary authority. The school's authority. If the school doesn't want kids to bring Sharpies to school so they can cut down on the graffiti and vandalism, then the students need to not bring Sharpies to school. If students do so anyway, they need to learn that their feelings and opinions on the matter do not count. If the school has a dress code and the child violates the dress code, then they need to learn that their feelings and opinions on that matter are irrelevant as well.

In other words, children need to learn to follow the rules of the organization that they find themselves a part of.

I won't debate your points about the rich, though. After all, the rich are the main reason why most politicians suck.