Physical attacking such vessels is obviously not an option. But I wonder if directed targeted signal jamming and other electronic countermeasures could disrupt or at less severely affect such intelligence gathering. Intelligence gathering, specially signal intelligence is vital for future drone war, so I believe this question will become critical for everybody, regardless if they are pacifists or warmongers.
That is an direct act of war against near peer level opponent. They can't just roll over. But must respond in kind and cause at least similar or larger damage. Say sinking a aircraft carrier or a few.
Because china has the means to reply. It's one thing to bully countries that can't defend themselves like Venezuela, Cuba or Iran, it's another one to do the same with the factory of the world
It could backfire in a way that ends American actions like the one the Chinese have pulled there ballistic missled arm chair up to watch the action more closely.
The recent embarasment of european tech by chinese tech in pakistan india scuffle, is a hint at what are otherwise unknown Chinese missle capabilities, ie the two OTHER ships in the flotilla, there will of course be many oilers , tenders, and whatnot joining up, complicating things further.
Plus given that China got this hardware on site in 10 days, is a message all it's own.
Because they are an industry, aren’t they?
Printing, binding, cover productions, transportation and storage, all that are much easier and much cheaper with a few standardized sizes.
Oh, on my old PC, FF sometimes mysteriously crashed for apparently no reason. I sent bug reports and cleared the profile and it seemed to help for a while, then it crashed again.
Much later, I suspected and tested the RAM and turned out, it had a faulty module!
Isn't this partly what explained the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt?
e.g. the government made university education free, lots of people went to university, there was now excess supply of college educated professionals, this led to unhappy young professionals, in turn led to unrest etc etc.
May be it was one of factors but unlikely the main one. University education was free in the USSR but it was a stable authoritarian state for decades (until eventually collapsed for reasons having little to do with education).
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The problem with educated youth who understand the game is that if there’s no room for them to join the ruling class they become very angry.
My experience/observation is that only few (university-)educated people really do understand the game. Only a subset of them actually make serious attempts to understand the rules of the game, and of those, most get to believe in often very dangerous falsehoods about what the rules are.
> The rules are simple and ancient: noble blood breeds nobles; common blood breeds commoners.
This is a great narrative for folks who want to be fatalistic.
From my view:
- Much of what you call “nobles” and “commoners” are more about values than blood. Yes, “noble” values are difficult to develop if you’re not born in that class. That said, these values are easier to learn and develop today for a wider group of people than has ever been true in the past.
- Some people think the “noble” side is all rainbows and unicorns. The noble class is shedding its weak non-stop. It may take a generation or two before a branch of a noble family becomes common, but it happens often, and it’s a source of great consternation to that branch when it does.
> What’s sophisticated are the layers of ideology and falsehood that made people believe that aristocracy was dead.
Did anyone actually think the aristocracy was dead?
The relative power of the aristocracy dipped a bit mid-20th century, but what they may have temporarily lost in economic power was gained in social and political power.
> The rules are simple and ancient: noble blood breeds nobles; common blood breeds commoners.
This does not describe the current situation: even if we just consider net worth, there are at least 2-3 rather separated kinds of elites:
- the "aristocracy": what you name "noble blood"
- "old money": there is some partial overlap to "aristocracy", but not the same; for example think of family with a long pedigree, but not necessarily of aristocratic origin, think of family empires that have a standing in some industries over multiple generations.
- "new money": people who got rich in particular by building some internet company. Their values and attitudes are quite different from "old money".
These are three quite different groups of people. So, it's much more complicated than "noble blood breeds nobles; common blood breeds commoners".
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And this is just the "already net worth rich".
For example there exist groups of intelligent people who are highly ambitious, but aren't given a chance, so they look for allies, and sometimes they succeed.
In some sense the classical hacker scene can be considered as an example. Some of them actually got rich by founding some internet startup.
...which is where the "Marx in a Moustache" critique comes from, because it's all just immediately downstream from inequality.
If you can slap a moustache on economic inequality, you avoid academic accusations of unoriginality and the popular antibodies against "he who must not be named." This is good for the author, but for the reader? It's about as useful as trying to stick a fake moustache over that magnificent beard.
In general, Japanese are not very comfortable in using English. Thus for safety and critical information, broadcasting in their native language would feel much more trustworthy, reassuring and connected than any other language.
Yeah, I remember the time when we had to use satellites to connect. The long delay was really annoying and so unusual that most people without "training" could not even use the phone for conversation and just wasted the dollars.
A former boss of mine took off to Everest for a month leaving me (a 22 year old, at the time) in charge of the office. I was out to dinner with my now wife when I got a call from a very long phone number I didn't recognize, so I ignored it. I then got another one right after, and picked it up. It was my boss, he needed me to log into his personal email to grab a phone number for the medical insurance he purchased for the trip, because he had been vomiting for days due to altitude sickness, and needed a medical evacuation.
That was the most stressfully hard to use phone call I've ever had. The delay was nearly 10 seconds, and eventually I just said I was only going to speak yes or no, if he needed a longer answer he needed to shut up. And that worked. We no longer talked over eachother.
Are you serious? Don't you know how many wars did China wage? It tried to assimilate Vietnam for 1000 years. The last large scale war against Vietnam was just 1979. In fact, China had started war with all its neighbors, with no exception.
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