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So regional governments and bureaucrats in China can go against the wishes of the great Communist Party of China without ending up in the Gulag? Seriously? They were told "don't build so many coal plants" from the top, but didn't listen? They'd be sent to prison or the firing squad. More likely, central government DID want those coal power plants built, but made it appear as though it had no hand in making the DECISION to have them built.

China's Communist Party designed education system is so restrictive, tightly scripted and based on rote-learning that even "educated" Chinese simply cannot excel at creative tasks like disruptive innovation, R&D and creating original product ideas or designs. When Chinese students go to universities abroad in the UK, U.S. and other Western countries, they tend to work very hard, but fail woefully at tasks that involve critical thinking, questioning established methods or developing original approaches to tackling problems old and new. China has money to burn, a workforce that works cheap and hard, thousands of factories that can make almost anything, but is not, at present, capable of pulling off American-style innovation and inventing because of its lousy education system. So China has to look abroad for "ideas" - it has to steal them from where they are most plentiful. The concept of Intellectual Property Rights is also woefully underdeveloped in China - culturally, this country has no problem whatsoever copying or stealing the fruits of someone else's labor. This is why nobody even bothers to patent ideas in China - a patent provides no protection whatsoever in China. So yes, the "rogue chips on motherboards" story sounds exactly like something the Chinese government would do. Amazon and Apple are probably terrified of losing tens of billions of Dollars in future product sales in China, so they are flat out denying that any such "rogue chips" were ever found. The rogue chips probably do exist, and are designed to do exactly what Bloomberg claims - steal ideas.

Copyright granted! Now nobody can steal or plagiarize the EU's Plan For Wrecking The Internet (EU-PWTI). If we were to also DRM protect the EU-PWTI... bla bla bla bla...

Back in the Amiga days, cracked games sometimes came with viruses, and instead of being able to play the games, we died. If only Nintendo had bought Commodore at the time and "locked everything down", there would not have been such exploits, and we wouldn't have died. And if we hadn't all died, and had in fact been able to buy further Commodore products, Commodore would not have died either. Nintendo are wonderful people. XOXO

Dear Nintendo Management: A fantastic feature would be if Nintendo Online encrypted all game saves with military grade encryption that cannot be cracked. This way if some villainous "deviant" were to figure out "an illegal way to move save files", that horrible, horrible person would be unable to do anything productive with those save files. Please let me know if you like my suggestion. P.S. My CV is attached to this email. If you have an open position in the "customer shafting department", I would love to come in for an interview! Best Regards, Ivan The Bastard.

FarCry 5 looked great in Youtube promos, but is the most simple, repetitive, dumbed down, soulless and unenjoyable FarCry ever made. Even the story is terrible. Now this CEO is probably chums with Microsoft's current "Cloudmaniac" CEO. They must have played Golf together and decided "Lets make really terrible AAA games, charge lots of dough for them and put them all in the cloud!"

Ever seen a knockoff sneaker with Niiikee printed on it that you can wear for 2 weeks before it comes apart? Or an AyePhone X with a 800 x 460 pixel screen and Android running on it? Or a Chinese knockoff of a Ford SUV that crumbles to dust when it hits an obstacle at a mere 30MPH? Well... heeeeere comes the submarine equivalent of that: The engine makes enough noise to be detected from a continent away. The sub can dive to about 150 feet before the hull cracks and everybody on board dies. And when they try to launch missiles from the sub, the missiles launch vertically down, exploding the sea floor... aaand the knockoff submarine as well. Tom Clancy could have written a novel about this: The Hunt For Red Shrimp.