Recent content by Brad Sallows

China could only pull that stunt once, and it would end them once the counter-embargoes starting throwing millions of Chinese out of work.

"We mustn't fix anything unless we can fix everything" is vacuous.

Trudeau isn't old enough to qualify for "gerontocracy", nor were almost all of his ministers. They found plenty of ways to spend. This country is short a whole bunch of things in part because they blew out their gaffs spending on their own prize pigs, starting in 2015, and were elected by...

Why stop there? We could nationalize forestry, jack up the government's take to match US timber licence costs, and resolve the essential underlying pillar of lumber disputes. We could nationalize shipbuilding and cut out some of the middlemen. We could nationalize all mines. Etc.

It already isn't difficult for some community groups to use school property.

That might be true for them. It's not best for the education of the non-disruptive students. People who can afford to pull their kids out and put them in private schools do so. It thoroughly defeats the objective of the social engineers to use schools as leveling laboratories. The kids left...

That would almost be amusing if we subsequently discovered a practical vulnerability and did the same thing. Trailing the pack on compromised telecomm; trailing the pack on compromised autos.

Aaaaand....the Nobel Prize in Economics goes for work on "creative destruction".

You're peculiarly determined to mix trivialities with security vulnerabilities.

If you're describing a "special needs" school, that's the environment. If you're describing a mainstream school, that's one of the consequences of "faddish notions". I've heard plenty about disruptive kids in classes. They used to be segregated, which meant non-disruptive kids could be...

Most of what is "wanted to teach" is faddish notions of Ed profs. It's a curious thing that experimentation on humans who cannot give informed consent is essentially forbidden, except for children.

Not too worried about my undershorts sending telemetry to China.

It is a terrible thing. Search a few results like "people living on farms" or "people working in agriculture" for 1800, 1900, 2000. Look at all those people who must be out of jobs. Where did they go? Automation is a major part of how workers' time is shifted from lower-value uses to...

India is notorious for its strangulatory regulatory regime.

We absolutely can choose. We have essentially denied them access to our telecomm industry. We can do the same with autos, which are also highly computer-enabled. It is if they're a security risk, and they've proven themselves to be a security risk.