What about NGOs?

> What good is freedom and democracy if it doesn't give you enough to eat?

It's called escape from freedom.

You don't know how communism works. There are no "Chinese companies" or "Chinese investment founds", or "Chinese 5%". There is only the Party. The single and only united entity, political and economical. There are wealthy people but they don't own any capital or means of production. They may own a Ferrari but can't own a wheelbarrow. They may decide if they want to buy a villa in Italy, but they can't decide to buy a Pizzeria in Verona.

There is no difference between political and economical power. If you accept any Chinese capital, you are dealing with the Party. The Party's decisions are not economical, they are political. They will destroy any company for a political gain. They don't make any decisions that are apolitical.

It's not about selling your products or services to China, it's about following the politics of the party.

There are no Chinese students. You can't leave a communist state just like that. Money don't matter. You have to be a good citizen, you must leave your family behind, you must agree to cooperate with the intelligence and to follow politics of the Party or you will never will be allowed abroad again or something bad will happen to your family.

There is no China, there's just the Party. There are no individuals, there's just the Party.

I disagree. It's not about her ignoring her obligation for doing her schoolwork, it's about her not following the court's order. Law may be harsh and fair in the same time. Being ordered to do her homework was a weak sanction, she ignored it, so she needs a stronger stimulus. So law isn't dumb, it's just consistent.

You should read the article. In short, she didn't actually ignore the court's order to meet her academic obligations.

A law could be harsh, but fair, sure. However, an excessively harsh law is not fair, nor is an inconsistently-enforced one. This situation ticks both of those boxes.

> Being ordered to do her homework was a weak sanction, she ignored it, so she needs a stronger stimulus.

This simple-minded, old-fashioned line of thinking is out of touch with contemporary scholarship and a major contributor to the US criminal justice system's inefficacy.

Organised crime sending message to others unwilling to "cooperate".

It's hard to say how Russia would look like without the Revolution. It could be democratic.

Seeing how and where Kerenskij directed Russia after the february coup, we can safely say that Russia would be non-existent. Just like Ottoman or Habsburg empires, that disappeared at the same time.

But Russia would be on the winning side. But that's just some alternative history.

I don't know why everybody assumes the Russian populace doesn't like Putin.

Could you please elaborate?

I live near an aluminum foundry and everything going in goes through a radiation detector.

Same with waste incineration plants, for the same resons - apparently it is sensitive enough to detect even diapers with radio contrast therapy residue inside a full garbage truck.

Some airports got these post-911. They were called "granny detectors" because rather than finding dirty bombs they always found the old person who just underwent a scan using radioactive tracer.

They reality is that many medical procedures irradiate patients. Many dead bodies, if they were not human, would be radioactive enough to be considered hazardous.

> Many dead bodies, if they were not human, would be radioactive enough to be considered hazardous.

I'm curious, can they be (safely) cremated?

Well... they are. A more interesting question is whether such people should be allowed out of hospital. For all the people afraid of letting thier kids play near cellphone towers, perhaps they shouldn't hug grandma for a while after such procedures.

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