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Pig Latin and Chinese Checkers


Pig Latin, the language of the future?
A. First, you know Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc, reads your email and messages.  Mostly looking for advertising tips, but all is stored.
B. All kids learn Pig Latin in school.  Not taught in classes, all pick it up with ease.  Just take a word such at “stuff” and move the first letter to the end and add and “a.”  So, “stuff” -> “tuffsa  (pronounced “tuff-say”).
The sentence, “I want to go shopping” becomes “Ia antwa ota oga hoppingsa.”
C. Big Question.  Suppose we all started, like today, using Pig Latin in our messaging.  How long will it be before the big boys write a Pig Latin translator so they can once again read your messages?  One week?  One month?  One year?  That you made a guess proves you believe they would do it.
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Chinese Checkers – 2019 style
They are resisting, but why shouldn’t China open its markets to the US and even Europe?  They do make very good quality stuff.  And if so, will not the Chinese still buy Chinese?  Or does the government fear the purchase of foreign goods because it’s exotic, or because the great leader looks weak, or because it’s symbolic of governmental defiance. Totalitarian governments exist in a murky world where they see everywhere moves and counter moves cloaked in shadows of discontent. “Shall we move for or shall we not?” asks leader Xi Jinping on fair trade.   So goes the game.
Options: Sacrifice Huawei?  Sacrifice hacking?  Sacrifice IP seizure? Sacrifice nothing and hope for Trump’s opposition to prevail. This means delay, delay, delay. But can Xi (i.e. me) survive delay? A slow game this Checkers has become.
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The Taliban must be heroes of their country. Why?  Because they seem willing to kill every single Afghan peasant to prove their system of government works. Impressive sacrifice, yes?

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