I am under the impression that Japanese firms are generally fastidious about obtaining licenses for someone else’s designs. Can you show otherwise?
They have pretty flexible patent laws and a history of infringement, quasilegal or otherwise, they said if you patented a car in Japan someone would just need to paint it red to copy it. Japan, South Korea and China all have a history of such mercantile attitudes, and ripping off technology, at least while they were growing. There are such things as trade secrets and formulas though and there is big money at stake. They would also be deceiving shareholders if such an announcement were false, Japan's corporate culture is not the smash and grab CEO American kind. In the states you might be able to bullshit your way through this, make your fortune and retire, but even then, shareholders would sue.
The batteries aren't there yet but soon, even Toyota promises a solid-state battery with big capacity and less weight by 2025 and there are a couple of companies introducing lithium sulfur batteries for evaluation. I don't think Tesla Li-ions will get off the ground, too heavy and too little gravimetric power density plus they are a fire hazard.
If I had the money I'd be right into that kind of stupid! I'm still hoping to go skydiving again.
Back in the 30's the Japanese made a Harley Davidson copy bike with the same off-centre crankshaft configuration that gives Harleys their distinctive sound. Toyota reverse engineered a US Army jeep to make their first models as well. Bought some surplus ones after the Korean War I gather.
They even named a city in Japan called USA rather than U.S.A. so they could brand things as Made in USA. Think they got into serious shit over that and had to rename the city or some such. We used to joke, Made by the J.A.Pan Co.
I thought that was just an American/Canadian thing. It's gotta be what they put in cans of Bud and Labatt's Blue and Kokanee here.
"It is Skeleton Party time"
Anyone who thinks that's a quote from Nietzsche hasn't read Nietzsche.
Dunno much about German philosophers, he thought Kant a fool I believe. Perhaps he observed that compassion fosters happiness, it is a rather obvious fact of life.
Wiping out cultures is as old as civilization and the Chinese are old fashioned about somethings like imperialism. They are just one victim that includes Tibet and now even the Cantonese, it is Xi's doing mostly he controls the party apparatus, for life it would appear. All such fascist authoritarians ride the tiger and dare not fall off lest the beast consume them. It's the same with Vlad and Trump who is in the tiger's jaws, and Bebe who is having a rough ride on his tiger too.Meanwhile in fascist China
Uyghurs in China: Filmmaker's Detention Shows That Arrests of Minority Continue
Through its propaganda, China is trying to convince the world that the Uyghurs in the country are safe now. But the arrest of filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet in Beijing shows that the opposite is true.www.spiegel.de
"Uyghur culture has been Disneyfied. They are made to dance and sing for tourists from other provinces. Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, especially the elites, have been put in prisons."
As not uncommon with Nietszche quotes, many attributed to him are the words from Zarathustra, a character from his philosophical fiction with fitting title Thus Spoke Zarathustra. A positive message of course, but not one of the many he was trying to convey, more part of a dialog and thought excercise. It’s like: “Luke, I am your father” - George Lucas. Which is a good analogy because that’s not verbatim what Darth Vader, the character to whom that quote should be attributed to, said either. Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, meaning good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, are the basic principles of Zoroastrianism but similar quotes exist in islam too.
That’s ok, Nietzsche last words supposedly were “Mom, I am dumb!”
