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  1. I wasn't pissed by anything. Today I happened to be idle so I randomly replied in some thread which interested me to spend time. Though sometimes my replies are short and full of movie clips and jokes, but it doesn't mean they are meaning less. The last one for example: China was, is and will be taking advantage of the stupidity of US politics just like Rita takes advantage of morons in that film, so does many smart parties like EU and Russia. This thread is valid now and will still be valid for years even for decades since though Trump has gone, but the stupidity in American politics will still linger.....even the "America First" has not gone with him yet-----this is why Canada can't get vaccine from US right now.... Besides, I don't think there is much room for any serious discussion. Just look most posters in this forum, instead considering and questioning others' reason and logic, they questions others' motive and identity. Jokes are better ways to reminder them how illogic and ridiculous they are.
  2. Rita takes advantage of a fool......? It seems like this is also universal even in the future.
  3. Putting belief over logic......this is why God has abandoned his believers-----he built hundreds $ worth CPUs in their head, but they only use them to record what holy books tell them like $5 worth USB thumb drives. What disappointing creations. ?
  4. The so-called independent evaluation is myth. For example: If you want to buy a F-35, how could you find an independent expert who knows F-35 better than those who work for Lockheed Martin? If you were a Canadian expert on vaccinology, before you decided to bad-mouth Pfizer's or Moderna's vaccine, should you consider that maybe someday you had to work for them when Canadian government sold your company or department to US just like they sold Bombardier C Series to Airbus?
  5. I remember years ago I red a joke from a comment under a YouTube video: Reporter: Mr. President, why does US ban Huawei 5G network? Trump: Because Huawei steals 5G technologies from American companies. Reporter: But....but American companies don't have 5G technologies.? Trump: They haven't the technology because it was stolen by Huawei....??
  6. 1. If there was sufficient supply your family doctor would decide what kind of vaccine you should receive. But since the supply shortage, the government will jab any vaccine they could get into your arm regardless whether it would fit your physical and health conditions or not....? 2. The wealthy and powerful always have more choice than common people. After last year Trump's bizarre covid infection and rapid recovery story, my wife came out a conspiracy theory that Trump wasn't infected by Covid-19 virus but was secretly ejected with Chinese inactive vaccine. The active ingredient of an inactive vaccine is dead virus. When it is injected into human body, the recipient will be tested positive science it has the antigen in its blood. But since dead virus can't duplicate, they will be neutralized shortly after the recipient's body begins to produce antibody and will no longer be tested positive a few days later. The true infected patient usually needs far more time to recover since the virus still duplicate even the body begins to generate antibody. The result won't turn to negative until the antibody generation enters "mass production" phase, which usually needs many weeks or even many months. I usually hate conspiracy theory, but I have to admit her theory sounds. Trump had motive to be vaccinated before began his election campaign because he didn't want to wear mask to tarnish his tough man image before his supporters, and then not like US, UK and Russia, Chinese inactive vaccines were tested in many foreign countries like Brazil and UAE, where Trump's friends were more easy to lay their hands on these vaccines. 3. "Approval" means if China or Russia do something which the Western countries haven't do it before, it is an unproven method to deal with the covid-19. For example: After their vaccines passed phase II clinic trial, which means the safety of the vaccines have generally been proven but the effectiveness hasn't been proven yet, China and Russia began to use their vaccine on high-risk group populations like doctors and nurses under emergency use. Their logic is simple: even if these vaccines not work, they won't cause more harm than not using them since phase II clinic trials have showed they are generally safe; but if they works, they will save many lives. Since Western countries didn't think this way, the western media immediately began to attack Russia and China "using unproven vaccine" on people. But.....but recently, due to some bad planning and management, many recipients in Western countries have found there are no vaccine for the second shot after they received the first one, so the authorities tell them they can wait longer than "proven" 4 weeks interval---like to extend the interval to 6 weeks to many months, or use other vaccine instead, like the first shot is Moderna and the second they give you an Oxford.... My question is: had these western governments proven these methods before to use them on the general public?? And where are these so-called independent Western mainstream media??
  7. I think the intellectual property transfer was supposed to happen after the clinic trail began. Since the clinic trail has never started, it seems like Cansino's Canadian partner hasn't received any key technical stuff yet.
  8. In Hollywood sci-fi disaster movies, we used to see the leaders and people in the Western world behaving noble with dignity when the world meets its end... But in reality......?? Scientifically, Trump is right on one thing---the covid-19 pandemic is just another the Spanish flu, which means lots of people will die, but it won't end the world. But politically if there is one thing worse than the death of people, it is that the pandemic has revealed the true color of the Western world. Currently due to the shortage of covid vaccine, Trudeau is under fire by Canadian media and opposite parties for "sticking too long to Chinese vaccine". But my question is: Is the delay of ordering other vaccines really because Trudeau only stuck on the Cansino vaccine, or because he tried to stick on something else? Firstly, let's see what is the content of the Cansino vaccine deal: How Ottawa utterly botched Canada's COVID vaccine acquisition So it would be a really good deal for Canada by saving hundreds million $ on search without needing to mention saving the more valuable thing in the world----time......if the deal worked. But it didn't. The first thing I suppose everyone here understands is: a deal means it will benefit both sides of the deal. If you walk into a car dealer's shop to buy a car, he gets your money and you get his car. But we can't see what Cansino would get from the deal. The vaccine had already passed phase I and II clinic trails in China since these two phases only test side effects of the vaccine so they don't require an epidemic area to do the tests. What Cansino really needed was the phase III clinic trail, which needed to test in a community with high infection rate, this is why all Chinese vaccine makers need to test their vaccines in foreign countries since the infective rates had dropped to nearly zero in China before their vaccines entered this phase. Unfortunately, or fortunately I mean, the pandemic was also under control then in Canada. So if Cansino stuck on the deal, it would get nothing by handing over its intellectual property freely to Canada. After read these, some Canadian may think Trudeau is too stupid to stick on the unrealistic deal. But he didn't. I bet he probably hadn't been counting on the deal from the beginning. If Canada government did count on the vaccine, it should approve its phase III trail from the beginning, not asking to redo the phase I and II clinic trails which would delay the whole progress for months. The only reasonable explanation of the intentional delay on the phase III trail is that Trudeau just wanted to use the deal as a bargaining chip to strike deals with other Western vaccine makers. This isn't the first time Canadian government uses this method. I remember a decade ago when I first come to this forum, there was a thread on build a pipeline to export oil to China. I saw lots of comments saying like "who cares about China's feeling". I remember I commented "If you don't care about China's feeling, at least you need to pretend to want making a deal with China so you can use it to bargain with US". It seemed someone in Harper's inner circle thought the same, so Canada began the endless and fruitless discussion with Chinese oil companies on the pipeline and used it as a bargaining chip to make Keystone Pipeline XL deal with US. Besides, once the phase I/II clinic trails began in Canada, Canada still could get the intellectual property transfer from Cansino even if the phase III clinic trail would never happen due to the reason I have stated above. This is why Trudeau appeared to "stick" to the deal even if he knew the shipment of the vaccine probably would never come. Secondly, Trudeau didn't stick to the Cansino deal but stick to the liberal political-correctness---equal, fairness.., etc. He wanted Canada's Western allies acting like first movie clip I attached above, by distributing vaccines via WHO or COVAX mechanism, so did Emanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, now both of them also had some vaccine supply problem. So it seems not bad that the three tried to play the good guy in the first video above.....until they realized others would not hesitate to play the bad guys in the second video.? Then they turned themselves as bad as the guys in the second video, by securing more doses of vaccines than their countries' need to secure their political career and left poor developing countries behind. This is why Trudeau doesn't want to explain the reasons of his decisions publicly. Because if there is one thing worse than being a bad guy, it is that a bad guy who used to pretend being good guy has to uncover his true face to the public... ? LOL. Maybe, I think I can say I believe that Trudeau isn't that bad. I think he genuinely tried to be a good guy but finally end up had to be not much different with the guys in the second video since liberal political-correctness just can not overcome human weakness which is defined by our DNA. It's kinda like that an idealist liberal politician comes to Africa and lectures impala "don't fear lions. If you stick together and point your antlers outward, you can defeat lions." But when lions appear on horizon, all impala begin to flee. Realizing he is alone against the whole lion pack, the politician jumps on his SUV and flees faster than any impala. Should we blame him for fleeing faster than impala? Probably not....??
  9. Just assume: Before ww2 if US was bordered by Poland in Europe and Soviet was located by Canada in North America, would US still win the Cold War or could even exist until the Cold War began? I mean there would still be a cold war but it would probably be between Soviet and Nazi, not US vs CCCP at all. The "Market System Always Triumph" theory is just a political-correct day-dream which was created by fiscal conservative nerd professors. Even those conservative politicians and economists in power don't believe the theory. If they truly believe the theory, why do they always blame China for subsidizing state-owned companies since the non-marking method would result that China eventually fail? If the CEO of Boeing believed the theory, why would Boeing sue Bombardier for getting subsidies from Canadian government to kill the CSeries? Since subsidizing wasn't a market solution and was deemed to fail according to the theory, why wouldn't Boeing just wait for CSeries failed by itself? Without Chairman Mao's state-owned factories which had trained hundreds of millions of Chinese illiterate peasants to skilled industrial workers during 26 years of Mao's rule, where would you assume that Deng Xiao Ping could find so many workers to fill in Walmart factories in China? If Americans truly believed that an individual should be free to be what the person is, why should they ban Trump free to be what he is on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, ?Tik Tok?, mainstream media .... and even try to ban him as the President of US----I mean the impeachment?
  10. When I was a littler kid in China, there was a soldier who was made a model citizen by communist party's propaganda department because he reportedly always did selfless things to help others. When the soldier was killed in a car accident, Chairman Mao wrote an eulogy praising him: "It isn't difficult for a man to do a few good things selflessly, but it is hard to be a man who always does good things selflessly, never does anything bad or selfish." After Mao died, some Chinese began to use Mao's words, with a bit alteration, as a joke to describe a bad person...exactly the worst of bad guys: It isn't difficult for a man to do a few bad things selfishly, but it is hard to be a man who always does bad things selfishly, never does anything good.....? When making Return of the Jedi, George Lucas added a bit good in Darth Vader, the main villain of the first Star Wars movie, so he could re-define Vader/Anakin Skywalker as a good person, then exploit Anakin's story in prequel trilogy to round up extra billions $ for him. If Trump was truly a good businessman, he should see it would be a good investment for him if he added a bit good in his image, especially Pelosi as well as his republican comrades will throw him into a jail to eliminate his chance of return in 2024 anyway.
  11. I'm serious. I know it is politically, legally.....incorrect. But I think one of these true universal values which beyond race, culture, ideology....is: if some one does a favor to us as we requested, we feel obliged to do something in return once he or she has trouble for doing it. I think most of these rioters wouldn't be criminals but common normal people if they didn't believe in Trump. And they did the crime for Trump. I know it seems not right according to all kinds of political-correct books, but since Trump has done many not-right things, what does it matter if he does a bit more wrongdoing? Maybe someday Hollywood would make a movie President Trump. Would it be a noble ending that in the last day in the White House, the president, after all those dumb things he had done, signed a pardon for his nobody brainless followers, knowing Pelosi would use it as evidence of inciting a riot to throw him into a jail?
  12. empire 1 is the definition of those old empires, like Roman Empire and British Empire. But a modern empire like CCCP or US is more like a commercial empire defined by 2, which is usually composed by a parent company with many subsidiary companies. The bands between the parent country and subsidiaries are no longer the loyalty to a king or an emperor but how many shares of a subsidiary are hold by the parent country. The USA holds the majority shares of western countries on security, technology and economy fields, which makes it the boss of the empire and makes others subsidiaries. The boundary of an empire is far beyond the boundary of its parent country. Russia was once the parent country of Russian Empire and then the Soviet Empire. But nowadays Russia alone even isn't sustainable as a great power in the world. Lots of people mixed the power Russia inherited from the CCCP empire with the power of Russia as a stand-alone country. Without those toys which Emperor Stalin and Emperor Brezhnev left, Putin even couldn't sell his new toy Su-57 to India and find a dock to get his Brezhnev era old toy Admiral Kuznetsov overhauled. There is a huge difference between sustainable and surviving.? Soviet Empire failed mainly because most Russian people didn't understand the importance of those subsidiaries of CCCP Empire to them and merely saw them as liabilities to Russia. Now Putin's best spy Donald Trump has introduced this Russian mental virus into US and gotten half of the population infected. I think within a few decades we will see if the USA will also go down the same path which Soviet Empire went down in 1980s-1990s. Now Putin's best shot is to let China and US fight each other, then Russia could seize the chance to regain the lost territory of the old Russian Empire and lay the foundation to make Russia great again. Since Trump has made the decoupling between US and China irreversible, I'm a bit optimistic that Putin will make it. --------------- ??
  13. When talking the rise of socialism, it isn't necessary to be a Chinese century. I remember about 10 years ago, there was a Chinese web forum in which most members were Chinese immigrants in Canada. One day a Chinese nationalist came and asked: "Our country are getting better and better now. Why do you still want to immigrate to Canada?" Then somebody answered with a joke:" Because we want continue to pursuit socialism..... "? The joke reflected the fact that Canada and other western countries had economically become more socialist than China after Mao was gone. In recent years, I see more and more Chinese used to compare Trump's ways to incite and control his supporters with Chairman Mao's, and call Trumptards Trump Guards, referring Mao's Red Guards in the Great Culture Revolution. And lots of people use Planned Economy to describe Trump's way to use governmental power to interfere economic activity. And now, Twitter has banned Trump permanently. So in US a few media will decide what people can say even if what a president can say. What if someday scientists invent this brainwash machine, then these perfect and powerful beings decide to use it on everyone to make every man on this planet as perfect as them? In short: Even in this socialism race, US may still be #1, just as these two parodies showed.?
  14. Socialism Is Good was a CCP political propaganda song during Chairman Mao's time. I don't know who created these parodies but they are hilarious. If you don't understand Chinese, please click CC for English subtitle. The Original Song:
  15. Every empire was sustainable before it collapsed due to the common weakness of mankind: greed. Just like in this ad video: every rat is alive before it meets this rat trap which exploits rats' weakness. The only question that remains is: When will the empire of USA meet its bitter end?
  16. Senator Booker: "But this time, we brought this hell upon ourselves." What an irony! Have these American politicians had any idea on how many times they and CIA have brought this hell upon other nations? How many lives in those poor weak third world countries have been lost just because they are too enthusiastic to play regime-changing games for their own domestic political gain?
  17. I have never been a fan of Trump and Trumptards, but this time I have to speak something for them. What these Trump supporters did today is nothing worse than what those HK protesters did in 2019:Using rumors and baseless accusation to prop their movement against the system, illegal gathering and rallying, breaking in governmental buildings, etc. Exactly they appeared to be more civilized than those HK mob protesters, at least I see they have damaged nothing but a door which they needed to get through: But why are they treated differently by mainstream media and politicians? The mainstream media called HK protesters "peaceful protesters". American politicians invited these foreign HK protesters whom they were not committed to represent to congress and praised them. But to these Trump supporters, media call them rioters, politicians who are committed to represent them just ignore them and condemn them for the violation of law, and police shoot them. Nobody even bother to listen what they want to say? At least Carrie Lam invited protesters in to listen their requests during HK protests. American politicians In 2019: American politician Today: Even in 1989, CCP also invited the leaders of student protesters in to listen what they would say...before they decided to crackdown the protest:
  18. Just don't worry. TJ or Biden won't force anybody to take the vaccine. Since most people who doubt the vaccine on internet are conservative supporters, if they don't force it, which means most liberal supporters will take the vaccine meanwhile conservatives will most likely refuse it, the virus will spread out only among conservative supporters and kill lots of them after the mask and social distancing measures are cancelled for fully reopening economy, then liberal politicians will easily win any election....? What your liberal national leader is doing is just what Captain Kirk did to Captain Nero in this Star Trek 2009 film----offering help in hope that the offer being refused...? LOL, I'm joking. I'm sure JT isn't that bad. But if you all refuse to take the vaccine, the results will be no different.?
  19. The 200Mb/s is the speed between your router/modem and the server of your internet service supplier like Bell. If you use cable to link your computer and the router, it will be no problem. But if you use Wi-Fi, the real speed you can get depends on many factors, include radio interference in vicinal area and the objects between your computer and the router. Anyway, it isn't my problem and neither would be yours if you were comfortable to pay for 200Mb/s service but only get 20Mb/s real speed to watch blurry video. Back to the topic: Comparing to US mainstream media's way of making fake news, the British one looks like just a baby, so cute.... The Wall Street Journal: China's Plan to ?Conquer? the Moon, Mars and More Moon, Mars and what? Universe? It's so scary. If American tax payers don't donate every penny they have on funding capitalists like Elon Musk to make Wall Street great again, They will be doomed...?
  20. YouTube will automatically drop the video replying resolution if there isn't enough internet connection speed. If you use Wi-Fi, you need to check the internet connection speed via some websites like Bell Speed Test(you needn't be a Bell internet user), especially if you live in a crowded place like a big city. In these places since there are too many Wi-Fi routers, their radio signals interfere each other like some kinds of electronic warfare which results the transmission rates are far bellow the router's specification. If you live in a house and the computer is on 2nd floor but the router is in the basement, the transmission rate will also drop significantly even if the signal bar on you computer shows full. I have to run a cable up to 2n floor and link it to an AP to resolve the problem. If you use wi-fi in a high-rise building, you will never get high speed connection unless your computer is in the same room with the router, since there are lots of steel bars inside walls which block radio waves between the router and the wi-fi card in your computer.
  21. Both are BBC video which was shot by a BBC reporter and his cameraman and both with the resolution of HD/1080p. BBC broadcasts worldwide with many languages, so does VOA.
  22. LOL but if you read this post, you will know the title is 100% accurate. This evening I randomly clicked open this BBC Chinese language news video How Everyday Life Has Changed in Wuhan via Google recommendation: It is a story of the lives of common Chinese residences in Wuhan city after the city recovering from the outbreak of Covid-19. I found lots of Chinese writing on comment section "Wow, BBC begins to report truth!" I told them that BBC would not show this video to its western audience. It's just made for its Chinese audience since they would have known the truth already via their relatives and friends in China so it is smart for BBC Chinese Language Channel not reporting fake news on this issue. Then a Chinese youtuber gave me link and told me that BBC also had an English version of the video. I almost began to write a apology before I decided to open the link first to watch the English version video. He is not wrong. The English version used the same footage of the Chinese language version.......except......except the tint of the footages were deliberately adjusted into grayish and greenish color, which gave audience the Hollywood doomsday looking and depression feeling, and entirely changed the theme of the first one. You just need to play both video clips together and compare them, then you will see the title of this post is 100% accurate.....?
  23. The joke was questioning your method of asking more military spending rather than your right. For example: if you were a worker in a factory and you felt you needed more tools to do your job, you could not just walk into your manager's office and ask him "I need $10,000 to buy tools and equipment." You needed to specific what kinds of tools and equipment you needed and explain why you needed them. If you were a general of RCAF and you wanted to buy F-35, you needed to explain to Canadian why you needed them. An explanation like "A F-35 looks pretty cool" isn't appropriate unless most Canadians are fan boys and girls of fighter-jets. "I want to use them in Afghanistan" is also a lame excuse since Taliban has no radar which makes F-35's stealth features useless, etc. After the fiasco of the Battle of Stanlingrad, German boy Donald Trump was drafted into Waffen-SS and sent to France. “My boy has bone spurs on his heel, which would endanger him when he needed to run from enemy,” his mom were so worried that she consulted a Nazi doctor then mailed the best medicine for spur, quinine, to her son. A few weeks later, the mom received a letter from the son: "Dear mom, I write this letter because I have 2 news to tell you. The good one is my bone spur is healed. Thank you for the medicine. The bad one is my CO told me yesterday, since I no longer had the spur on my heal, I was qualified to transfer to the Eastern Front. He told me there needed men because the last transfers had all died...."? You know why most, I mean not only Canadian but of most NATO members' governments, don't want to invest in their military too much? Because NATO is a communism organization, which means if you have more equipment more ability, you will have to take on more difficult jobs without being paid more, and you will have greater chance to die. And after all, these wars aren't their wars but US wars. Why bother? If you paid attention to leaders of other NATO countries or even those people who work for Trump in the White House, you would find out that JT wasn't the only two-faced man among them.....and I suggest you to think why. Since Canada no longer have strong arm industry, increasing military spending means you bleed your economy to feed those which have strong arm industries. This is why US always wants other NATO members to increase their defense budgets.
  24. I guess Army Guy was born in a millionaire family. When he was a kid, he used to go to toy stores with dad every boxing day. When he piled all sorts of toy tanks, fighter jets, warships, missiles, nukes....into his shopping cart, he never needed to worry about answering questions from dad why he needed these toys and on what he planned to use them.?
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