scrummie02
Bentley
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join:2004-04-16
Arlington, VA
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Re: Not detected
meh...not concerned.
We've been doing that a lot longer than they have. Not to mention a good majority of their stuff is American made.
People seem to think China has the upper hand on us...they don't. Except for man-power, they aren't even close militarily, technologically and they lack innovation.
At this point I'd me more worried about terrorist cells, they are harder to track and a surprising number are actually educated here or the UK.
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RayW
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join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
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| I read a sci-fi short story back in the 70's or 80's that talked about how a couple of terrorist cells smuggled pieces of a pocket nuke into several US cities and then set them off, triggering a nuclear exchange between USSR and USA. The story was written as a top secret report on that piece of history, and the last paragraph (as I recall) ended with the revelation that China was now the top dog, and had instigated that action. That was before anyone really thought that China had anything going for it.
I think that China has more ability than most people think they do, it is just the fact that they have much more people at a lower 'standard' than the 'West' causes many to think the entire country is that way. And yes, you are probably right about innovation, the information available implies that the penetration of our systems was a result of some of Microsoft's trade deals with China and the MS Windows internal information that they got and the ability to find more of the hidden 'features' that most of us consider holes or bugs in the Microsoft software.
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drussel2
join:2002-11-05
San Diego, CA
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That attitude is one of the things I think is "wrong with this (USA) country..."
"Everybody" is so busy pushing their finger into the air shouting, "We're number one, we're number one"... the rest of the world is quickly catching up/passing us by.
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scrummie02
Bentley
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join:2004-04-16
Arlington, VA
| It's not a problem. The Chinese aren't as technological as you think. Ones that are work here with us because it's a better standard of living. They can't innovate. most if not all of their advances are copies of our stuff or actually American goods (with a small amount copied from the Russians). That's a fact.
I'd still be more worried about Jihadist who are winning the propaganda war against us by using our own technology.
That's not nationalism, it's the way it is.
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