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The tweets take a few seconds to load for me, otherwise the thread works fine for me (firefox, high end PC). But I also have most of the posters on that thread on ignore so it reduces the clutter.

There is a reference in that Bloomberg article to the case of a Chinese born engineer who worked in the US for ASML who stole 2 million lines of code, and is now back in China being heralded as a 'flagbearer' for Chinas semi-con industry. Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Technology...

Hollywood studios have woken up to the fact that they are chasing fools gold with the China market. Censoring films to placate an increasingly hostile CCP to access a market where they are getting screwed at the box office is no longer viable.

Have you seen the shenanigans that go on with these CCP propaganda films and their over-inflated box office numbers? It's like their covid numbers, or their GDP numbers, it's all about face and trying to prove the superiority of China. As for foreign films not getting China releases, the China...

You could make the same arguement of any wartime leader, 'he doesn't value life' is a redundant statement. Your post is a mis-characterization of Zelensky and highly emotive and cynical, evident in the language you use such as 'lunatic', 'clown' etc. And you seem to be forgetting Zelensky was...

Haha, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Between Deep fake and Respeecher they could create absolute mayhem.

The end result is quite amazing, it sounds very close to James Earl Jones Vader voice. It does seem to lack some of the nuance of the original Vader at times, that's more a matter of the fill-in voice actor who would have provided the base dialogue that was given the respeecher treatment.

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing, given the source is RT, this story is probably complete bull crap. How did the Russians determine what they hit with such veracity? Their intel isn't that good.

I almost have a blanket policy lately of putting new posters straight to ignore, I just don't have the time to filter through all the clutter on this site. Russia v Ukraine thread has attracted alot of new low quality posters, but the spammers target these threads for obvious reasons. As for...

Wonderful post, thank you for taking the time to write it. In addition to the issues for the CCP you have identified in this scenario, would US sanctions also play a role? Existing sanctions, and the high probablilty of new sanctions in response to a CCP move to seize TSMCs foundarys, could...

Yeah I agree, I probably didn't word my comment correctly, I was mainly refering to the direct benefit of the CCP physically taking possession of TSMCs foundarys and any attempt to immediately use them.

Wouldn't it be pointless for the CCP to seize TSMCs foundarys? ASML would stop servicing the EUV machines in Taiwan, they'd be inoperative quite quickly I'd imagine ( and that's assuming the foundarys are taken intact). Sure there would be a disruption to the supply chain of high end node...

Bloomberg might have edited the comments from Wenling, “If the US and the West impose destructive Russia-like sanctions on China, we must recover Taiwan” is worded differently according to China Update Consulting, their quote from the same section is translated as " If the US and the West...

PC master race here, checking in for duty. I'm planning my next build for the end of the year. It's a good time to rebuild with forward compatibility for pcie gen 5, Zen 4 AMD, DDR 5 ram and Nvidias RTX 4000 series due by the end of the year. Target performance is 4k HDR 144 frames/s full ray...

TGM is doing very well at the box office, global cum at the end of its second weekend is 548 million, with only a 32% drop which is the lowest ever for any film that made over a 100 million. It could possibly reach a billion by the end of its theatrical run. This is course makes Ten Cents...

You're cluttering up the thread with your pro-france anti-everything else posts, the anti US stuff is just baffling. Time for the ignore option I'm afraid.

First of all the word regime in a political context isn't really applied to western liberal democracies, it refers to autocratic governments, one party states and dictatorships. So it's inaccurate to refer to an Australian or US administration (executive branch of government) as a regime. As...

Several of the island nations China courted are New Zealand dependancies. Cook Islanders have New Zealand citizenship and more than half of their population lives in the New Zealand mainland. It's a similar situation with Nuie. They are heavily dependant on foreign aid from NZ and use our...

I've actually seen it in person. I was based in Hong Kong on and off over a 15 year period, spent some time over the border. It's very common in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

Window bars are extremely rare here in New Zealand, even in our biggest city Auckland. I've lived in Australia too, and they are a little bit more common in central Sydney and Melbourne but overall are unusual.