America could never kill the aircraft designer and manufacturer in Japan

America brutally annhilated Japan and the Japanese during World War II. It then tried to perform mastectomy on Japan by writing Japan's constitution, prohibited Japan from becoming a nuclear power, prohibited it from developing and exporting weapons, destroyed aircraft designs created by Japanese aerospace engineers, banned manufacture of aircraft by Japan, and all but brought Japan's aircraft design/manufacturing industrial base to its coffin. But the engineer in Japan lived on [Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation - NAMC].

One acquisition here, one joint project with an American company there, one licensed manufacturing project here [Mitsubishi H-60], one fully indigenous aircraft there [Kawasaki C-1], one aerostructures and components order here, one next-generation leap there. Step by step Japan kept its aircraft design and manufacturing [and aviation engines] industrial base alive and kicking. And can we say that today Japan has resurged in this sector? Surely. To achieve total global dominance, America tried to chop the limbs of Japanese engineers, but it failed miserably [Kawasaki P-1].

Update [5-Jul-20]: US is anxious about Japan doing its next fighter jet X-2 all by itself. It doesn't want Japan to do research on various advanced technologies, and instead wants Japan to directly buy these advanced technologies from US companies, so that Japan's knowledge of advanced technologies doesn't increase, and so that US gains deep knowledge about capabilities of and innovations in Japan's new jet [for both US' military intelligence purposes and also for copying/espionage, to help US companies], and so that updated/upgrades to this plane can be limited and/or controlled by the US like in the case of F-2, and so that US earns billions by selling its overpriced stuff for this Japanese jet, and so that the US retains the critical 'kill switch' ability to remotely down any of these Japanese fighter planes if the situation for such an action arises. Such a "collaboration" will benefit only/mostly the US.

Brazil should rename Brazilian Portuguese to simply Brazilian [COMPACTIDEA]

That Brazil and Brazilians were force-fed the Portuguese language by colonizers doesn't mean that Brazil necessarily needs to keep calling its main language Portuguese, especially since the variant used there is slightly different and is hence called Brazilian Portuguese. Rename it to just Brazilian, and do a symbolic cut-off with the colonial past. Give a snub to the occupiers and more broadly to the Westerners/Whites who've invaded, occupied, looted, enslaved and destroyed numerous countries all over the world.

I don't like it that South Africa and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons [COMPACTIDEA]

I feel this even more for South Africa than for Ukraine. Why in the hell did SA eventually turn into a non-nuclear power despite developing atomic bombs by itself? What a step backward. SA's clout and its importance would've been so much higher in the world today had it continued to possess nuclear weapons.

The funny thing today is that it helps Microsoft to strengthen Apple's iOS, iPhone, etc., against Google's Android juggernaut

Weird as it might sound, Microsoft benefits from a strong Apple against Google. So Microsoft should release amazing applications for iOS and should leave out some of these great programs for Android, thus boosting Apple's iOS ecosystem. Microsoft doesn't want Google to become an insurmountable force through Android's near-total dominance.

Why does turning off the car AC - when its cooling starts to feel excessive - immediately makes one feel quite warm

Happens frequently. Rather all the time. It's summers and you turn on car's AC to cool yourself. After some time it seems as if the cabin is quite cool and the direct cool air coming to your face - which initially felt quite good and relieving - now feels a bit uncomfortably cool. You turn the AC knob and turn off the AC, but you immediately feel uncomfortable and turn it back on. Likely happens with many/most people. Why?

One explanation could be that cool AC air gives both pleasure and pain simultaneously, like two vector forces in opposite directions whose "overall" effect can be abstracted/simplified as one "net" value and direction but which nevertheless act independently. When you're feeling very hot, pain component is close to zero while pleasure component is substantial positive. As you cool down, pleasure component comes slightly down, and as you cool down very much, pain component [or call it pain effect] starts to grow. When pain [or call it displeasure] component becomes meaningful, you feel urge to turn off the AC. As soon as you turn it off, you withdraw both pleasure and pain components. Pain goes away no doubt, but pleasure also goes away and so you immediately feel urge to turn the AC back on.

Or to put it the other way, the moment you turn off AC, ambient temperature gives you pain associated with heat and so you feel urge to turn AC back on.

LinkedIn can become a potent rival to Facebook if Microsoft tries properly

When Microsoft [henceforth MS] announced the acquisition of LinkedIn [henceforth LI], at first I thought - why in the world? But after looking at both the [large] number of users LI has and also the quality of LI’s users [all grown-up professionals], I now feel that LI is one of those very few social networks in the world that have the real potential to become serious Facebook rivals, provided these networks morph into full-blown social networking platforms [others include Skype and Twitter]. It's my genuine fear that FB might become insurmountable soon if a strong rival to it doesn't emerge soon - and existing networks with hundreds of millions of users have the best chance of rivaling FB. New networks simply don't stand a chance due to network effect.

That being said, LI shouldn’t alter/adulterate the core ideology behind LI by adding FB-like features directly to the core LI service. Such a step would corrupt LI's value proposition - the very proposition that makes people have and use both FB and LI rather than shifting to FB alone. Instead, a separate service that relies on LI credentials/identity can be launched which allows these professionals to have fun with photos, videos, animations, games, etc., without disclosing their real LI profile.

Why US and UK like to install English-speaking puppets - like Petro Poroshenko - in the nations where they conduct regime change

ALSO SEE OID 203Z.

It's because no matter how advanced our computer translation software might have got, and no matter how many expert interpreters might be available to USA/UK, fact remains that for humans, there's no substitute - yet - for direct face-to-face talk in a common language. You just can't compare a direct conversation to a talk done via a middleman.

More importantly, US/UK folks want to tell the puppet directly, in clear words, and without anyone else [the interpreter] listening in - how he should act and how he should speak. For such totally secret and totally private talks and pacts, a common language is needed.

Hence it is vital that the puppet knows English.

Intriguing that many men who are bald or near-bald have dense and long beards

Everyone has likely observed this in real life - many guys/men who are balding or are already nearly-bald have thick and heavy beards. It's like there's ample growth of grass on the lower half of the face/skull, but little or none a few inches towards the top. Like gravity pulled down all the hair-growth hormones and fluids with time. This is certainly curious and deserves attention from experts working on reducing/reversing hair loss.

 

 

Replacement of Google's ad frames by ads sold by ISPs' - coupled with revenue-sharing with customers - can hurt Google

Suppose a large ISP filters out all Google ad frames from all the websites/webpages being served to its customers [at network level], and replaces those with ads that it has itself sold. Now suppose that a nation's largest ISPs collude and carry out the same practice, with a common platform on which ads are bought and sold. This possibility seems real and seems like it would quickly and materially threaten ad-dependent non-ISP companies like Google. Customer consent for this practice can be obtained by promising revenue-sharing [ad revenue shared with both publishers and consumers].

It's to be noted that any argument that an ad-blocker installed on a user's Web browser represents a conscious choice made by the user whereas network-level blocking/replacement of ads by an ISP represents a choice forced upon users by ISPs [and that this violates net-neutrality] is an illogical argument if you mix one key ingredient - opt-in performed by users. In this case, the network-level blocking/replacement effectively becomes a case of the ad-blocker being installed "in the Cloud" rather than on the PC.

Innocent-looking faces of the most rotten top officials of America

Perhaps they purposely choose those folks who have sober-looking faces for the positions where an obscene level of corruption and heartlessness are required. And of course, their newspapers choose photos which make these rascals look nice and gentle and elegant, hiding away all the filth and scum inside.