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At the moment, China is still the 500 kg gorilla, so a lot of the things they do , companies do not follow up on because they think (and shareholders also demand growth) they have to be in the China market. Read an article that the president of Apple has visited mainland China three(?) times in the past year. I know one company involved in the oil and gas industry that will sell/license technology in China that is one or two generations behind because they know the Chinese will try and reverse engineer it, put a Chinese company name on it, and then require Chinese companies to only purchase from them. I think there has been some success with the semi conductor business and the sanctions on that but I don't think that can be done across all businesses.

@Horace said in No blacks here...: ok And on top of that you make a white supremacy hand gesture. You are truly a horrible human being.

I try to avoid it though in my long life I’ve not always been successful

@Horace said in Why spend $2K on a perfectly good engine?: There's still room here, but it's filling up fast. Build that wall!

You know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

@Klaus said in 31 years: Thanks but no thanks. If I'd get a dog, I'd like to have a chance to reconsider my dog love 15 years later. If that's the case then do the dogs a favor and never get one.

Much better upside in the airport hotel bar. Pick them up on a flight and the best you get is a phone number.

I wonder if she likes duck vag....oh, never mind.

Didn’t we talk about an episode a few months back where Vivek refused to talk to some magazine or network for some reason or another? Or is that my age prograf brain talking?

@jon-nyc said in I shit you not: @Horace said in I shit you not: I think they sell duck vaginas in Chinese supermarkets. So I guess it’s true what they say about the size of their dicks… [image: looney-toons-daffy-duck.gif]

Sharp as a basketball, lad.

@Copper said in Today's Inman - "Dope on a Rope.": Fake? Possible, but those falls look pretty genuine to me.

https://x.com/BLSchmitt/status/1716824701904068799?s=20 Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1716824701904068799.html Additional updates from Finnish presser: ️Object recovered is anchor. ️Marks on seabed suggest anchor was dragged for at least several kilometers before hitting Balticconnector. ️Seabed mark continued at least several kilometers after pipeline damage site. Further updates from Finnish presser: ️Remains unclear still if strike is intentional or accidental so investigation still being treated as gross sabotage. ️Chinese vessel <NEWNEW POLAR BEAR> remains under investigation. Important Context: <NEWNEW POLAR BEAR> vessel managed in joint venture with Russian entity and was near Russian icebreaker <SEVMORPUT> at time of seismic event suggesting pipeline strike timing. Important Context: fact anchor was dragged several kilometers (and that there is damage also ~200 km away at the Sweden-Estonia telecoms cable (confirmed by Estonia to be connected to the Balticconnector & FEC cable damage)… …may suggest intentional action since many recent media reported cable cuts from accidental anchor drags elsewhere appear to be caused by weather or ship motion only starting a few hundreds of meters from damage site… …(vessel anchors then either it’s negligent motion or weather action drag anchor into subsea infrastructure). Both vessels were traveling over ~10knots the entire path through all three damage sites according to AIS data so no slowdown for anchoring appears to have happened… Time will tell what is to blame, but the investigations of all three damage sites continue:

You're right, Otis is the only Cat 5 while making landfall, and therefore the strongest ever during landfall.

Yes, but... The author hopes the hearing date will be in February or March. A ruling would probably be much later than that. The court granted the Biden administration request to pause the lower court's order about "censorship." IOW, "Keep in carrying on to carry on while we make a decision."

Pennies. Hot glue. Silly Putty. Shotgun. Fantastic.