We're #2! We're #2! We're #2!

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by s2d4

OK, america is number 1. Does that make you feel better?

Yes.

Thanks.

How is Australia's mining sector doing, BTW?

[s2d4]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Yes.

Thanks.

How is Australia's mining sector doing, BTW?

Pretty shit at the moment.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

So the dog salivates dependent upon atomic decay or whether the cat is alive or dead?

That's where the elegance of the Uncertainty Principle comes into play and makes it interesting!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

That's where the elegance of the Uncertainty Principle comes into play and makes it interesting!

Well you don't get much more uncertain then dog drool!

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

So the dog salivates dependent upon atomic decay or whether the cat is alive or dead?

Both, of course! Actually all four.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by babydriver

Both, of course! Actually all four.

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[bcj]

[Sarlacc]

@bcj That's so clever! I wish I had thought of that!
Now the questions is, will the wormhole be big enough to drive a GT86 through it?

[babydriver]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

@bcj That's so clever! I wish I had thought of that!
Now the questions is, will the wormhole be big enough to drive a GT86 through it?

Only if the wormhole has a "cat" back exhaust.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by babydriver

Only if the wormhole has a "cat" back exhaust.

Makes sense.

BTW, is it weird if I wonder how your engine feels?

[GhostRai]

Yay for state capitalism I guess. But I wouldn't worry anything like they are taking over our way of life and in 5 years we will all be driving Chinese cars because... well they are about as safe as a car made of the tin cans my soup this morning came out of.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by GhostRai

Yay for state capitalism I guess. But I wouldn't worry anything like they are taking over our way of life and in 5 years we will all be driving Chinese cars because... well they are about as safe as a car made of the tin cans my soup this morning came out of.

I really wasn't going to take part in this discussion (since I'm not American I really don't care), but this made me change my mind.

The Chinese don't want your way of life. Why would they? They have a highly sophisticated culture with millennia of documented history. They want to improve their own way of life, not steal nor copy anyone else's.

Chinese owns Volvo, the spearhead of automobile safety since the 1950's. Chinese also own 50% of Peugeot-Citroen, and saved that company from serious problems; and Fisker Automotive is owned by Wanxiang Group of China.

Seriously though, these numbers, why do you think they are so important? What do they mean? If you consider the European Union a single economic entity it thrones on top of that list, way ahead of both China and USA. But so what?
It does not measure happiness, welfare, health, safety, life expectancy, gadgets or anything else that really matters to people.
And it certainly does not mean that Chinese people will come and forcibly replace your Japanese FR-S with a Chinese Volvo. So chill out, America :-)

[reni]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

The Chinese don't want your way of life. Why would they? They have a highly sophisticated culture with millennia of documented history. They want to improve their own way of life, not steal nor copy anyone else's.

Anyone referring to Chinese people as "sophisticated" has clearly never been to China or any area popular with Chinese tourists....

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by reni

Anyone referring to Chinese people as "sophisticated" has clearly never been to China or any area popular with Chinese tourists....

I wasn't, actually. I said their culture is sophisticated.
But please tell us more about your visits to China and your interactions with Chinese people; and why you see them as unsophisticated. I'm sure it'll be very enlightening.