No disagreement about lying to get people on your side. That was not necessary. But also, the arguments even without the lie are still good. Microsoft shouldn’t have to lie too, to discourage people from having more control over their machines.

The links were China related, and also, except for a few racists, there hasn’t been a rift between Japan and the West for a while now.

It’s a complex situation in Asia. It’s not only Japan that is wary of China. The rest of the region that share a border with China, and there are many of them including my country, are constantly having border disputes with China. As with any country, Japan has its share of loud conservatives that like similar conservative things, and if there’s anything conservatives are good at (and the left is ridiculously bad at), it’s getting into government positions.

Those Palestinian children were going to be used to populate the schools and hospitals so they can’t be bombed. Better starve them.

50+ years younger too.