That is a little bit misleading.
Plenty of those "conglomerates" are in fact a bunch of separated companies, that share only a name part, like Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi does not even have a holding / mother company.

Mitsubishi is split into 3 "Great Houses" and 7 smaller companies, wearing the name Mitsubishi, and another bunch not having Mitsubishi as part of their name.

The other 5 Keiretsu have similar structures.

However, your point is that different cultures see a solid base in commerce very different than Americans.

BYD is building everything, except the glass for the windows and the tires, themselves. From the smallest screw to the car seats. I assume that statement is a bit cheating, as they most likely have their electronics inside with off the shelf Android displays/tablets, and I guess, everything containing microcomputers is most likely not self made.

That was my very first thinking, but I was not sure how the syndrome was called, and wanted to google first :P You beat me on it.

Or else some con man is bilking the gov out of a shitload of your tax dollars by selling a piece of junk to gullible wishful thinkers eager to get their hands on a magic bullet.

They just want visitors to have a fuller experience of local life.

The USA has aircraft launched anti satellite missiles since 20 or even 30 years.

You probably find a /. article about it here in the history.

I am not sure I kicked it. I still dream about EQ and the old raids.

Sony jumped the shark long ago. Only fanboi's buy Sony products these days. Overpriced under-performing junk. I remember back in the 80's a Sony Trinitron was the shiznit, now all their stuff is just plain shit.

EA sucks and I will cheer when they go down in flames. Everything they touch they leverage into shit.

Read the prior story that was posted to the front page just prior to this one.

Good jorb, editors. In a crazy world like we're living in now, it's reassuring to know that some things like slashdot editors not reading the site will never change.

"Important for our species" ... how? Trust me, our species ain't going anywhere. There's nowhere to go.

Screwing up the federal government, which was conducting multiple investigations into his companies and himself personally, was exactly his goal. He destroyed the agencies that were trying to regulate him, and investigate him. Being able to steal everyone's data was just a nice side effect to him. Being able to kill funding that was helping to keep hundreds of thousands of African children alive was his way of giving a giant FU to them.

He didn't destroy the data though, the officer did when he blindly put in the code that was given to him. If they are serious about wanting to get into the phone, they should have cloned it first, and then worked off of the copy, and none of this would have been an issue.

This is sloppy work by customs.

You know you don't have to install Adobe Reader, right?

FWIW, I had an interaction with the person responsible for PDFGear online somewhere and I've been using it since I found out about it. It's a free (gratis) PDF viewer and editor. Maybe the full, paid Acrobat product can do more things, but if so I haven't noticed.

Perhaps you should read up what "base load" is/means ....

And why should Germany do that?

Restarting the 4 remaining plants?

Ordering new nuclear fuel from Russia?

Ah, you want to see if the Germans can riot better than the French, I got it.