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2018-05-17 Science & Technology

China launches first rocket designed by a private company

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-17 04:05|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...a Beijing-based private firm ROFLMAO ... Private!?! ... LOL ... Gasp, *wheeze*. That wasn't a joke, seriously?

Posted by magpie 2018-05-17 10:25|| 2018-05-17 10:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Where was your phone made?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-05-17 12:18|| 2018-05-17 12:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Magpie emphasized "private", (not Mother) Thing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-17 13:50|| 2018-05-17 13:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I actually agree with the point Magpie's trying to make, as in I don't think "large technology" companies in China are really private, but they seem to have a balance of private/public ownership that works, unlike the United States, where you theoretically own your company, but (and even more so for a lot of publically traded companies) the law requires you to micromanage everything like a sociopath with amnesia and put everything out to bid and get victimized by the lowest bidder that's best at gaming the system.

So yeah, they're corrupt and authoritarian, and Marx and all that, but for a lot of industrial sectors they're doing better at it than SovietAmerica.Com is.

And SovietAmerica.Com has its own bubble areas. Watch as Elon Musk throws away the fortune he makes from SpaceX while he throws away the chance to make Tesla profitable because he's gong to attempt to make a self-driving car in incremental fashion and then proceed to get the company kicked off of NTSB investigations.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-05-17 21:34|| 2018-05-17 21:34|| Front Page Top

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