The **** China Thread

[Roadghost]

China would be nothing if they couldn't steal western ideas.

I don't have any problems with Chinese people. They're so diverse in opinions, but those who hail from the mainland bear striking resemblance to the German nationalists pre-WW2. The "we're going to run the world" attitude has become apparent in some. It's something that appears programmed into them by the communist regime. Am I concerned about China? No. What concerns me most is the complacency of the rest of the world. China just broke their treaty with the British over Hong Kong. It's the equivalent of Hitler marching into the Rhineland in 1938.

The sad reality is we could foment revolution in China, but it would be an economic disaster for the world. It would make Syria look like a soccer match. 10s of millions would die, but there's no doubt the government would eventually fall. Russia would of course support the Chinese government, trying not to get dragged into it. The reality is, the west is just going to keep walking blindfolded into the fire. That is our history. We just don't react until the ultimate cataclysm has happened. The other option is to better arm and train the Indians as a counterbalance. Right now the Indians are no match for the well-trained Chinese Red Army.

 

[mistersouthpaw]

I just did an online IQ test and scored 132
and I bet the guy that made that silly test doesn't know how to clean a carburetor.

Proof or you got 30

 

[Trials]

Proof or you got 30

 

[bigpoppa]

fun fact, the americans(and soviets) stole a lot of their tech and expertise from the germans after ww2.
History ALWAYS repeats itself, no one group has a moral or righteous high ground over another

 

[bigpoppa]

The US empire is crumbling they just don't know it yet. China is just getting started.

They've been done for a while, cant borrow to build aircraft carriers forever

 

[Trials]

fun fact, the americans(and soviets) stole a lot of their tech and expertise from the germans after ww2.
History ALWAYS repeats itself, no one group has a moral or righteous high ground over another

Before, during and after ww2 would be more accurate.

I just did an online IQ test and scored 132
and I bet the guy that made that silly test doesn't know how to clean a carburetor.

If you want to give it a shot:
Do you have a high IQ?

@油井緋色 You're up.

 

[Brian P]

The US empire is crumbling they just don't know it yet. China is just getting started.

The USA is broken ... people outside the country have seen this for years. It's verging on becoming unfixable. The presence of Donald Trump in the White House is a symbol of its brokenness, not the cause of it. Giving him the boot in the next election would be a start, but it won't solve the underlying problems.

 

[GreyGhost]

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I don't trust that test.

Do you have a high IQ?

Most people have an IQ between 85 and 115 – are you one of the 5% who scores over 125?

intellitest.me

 

[crankcall]

Oh come on, my Mensa pin is in the mail. Next I'm getting a smart serve card and being ordained. Lutheran I think.

 

[Trials]

I don't trust that test.

Do you have a high IQ?

Most people have an IQ between 85 and 115 – are you one of the 5% who scores over 125?

intellitest.me

lol we'll know if the test is any good after we see @油井緋色 's test results.

 

[油井緋色]

lol we'll know if the test is any good after we see @油井緋色 's test results.

Apologies but I won't be taking that test because I know it's a joke.

I know what my IQ is from IBM's interviews, and I was 1.x standard deviation to the right of what they wanted (aka. my ego boosted enormously that day lol) You can kinda use this to figure out my IQ (I do not know what their cut off point is, but I'm assuming >100 because I honestly didn't meet anyone stupid at IBM.)

 

[油井緋色]

China would be nothing if they couldn't steal western ideas.

I'm just gonna say that this applies to all human beings.

Even for myself as a software developer I've created no original ideas. I simply take patterns from other developers and apply them to a problem. Every competent software developer does this.

The rest of your post is what myself and others are struggling to accept I suppose. A colleague recently msged me "****, I hate China because of what they're doing in India." I replied with "what can we do?"

......yeah, that's a pretty ****** topic when you seriously think about it.

 

[ChrisCBR]

141 here lol Thats a terrible IQ test.
FWIW Ive taken the wonderlic a handful of times and typically score 42-46 out of 50

 

[Baggsy]

Apologies but I won't be taking that test because I know it's a joke.

I know what my IQ is from IBM's interviews, and I was 1.x standard deviation to the right of what they wanted (aka. my ego boosted enormously that day lol) You can kinda use this to figure out my IQ (I do not know what their cut off point is, but I'm assuming >100 because I honestly didn't meet anyone stupid at IBM.)

Did that. They put me in a room where a line printer or teletype was going constantly, I'm not sure if that was part of the test.
Unfortunately, they weren't taking people right out of high school anymore, and they told me to go back and get some more education.
I ended up signing on with a bank before I graduated.

The only other place that gave I.Q. tests was an insurance company, and they had someone sit in the room and stare at you while you were doing it.
Being a lazy git, I read through all the questions first, and started filling them in back to front, which for them was an automatic fail. It was nice of them to wait the full test period before informing me (that last should be in sarcastic font).

The problem with only using I.Q. tests, is it doesn't show anything about your personality or social capabilities.
I know at one point they used to purposefully spill coffee on some interviewees to see how they'd react under the stress.

 

[油井緋色]

Did that. They put me in a room where a line printer or teletype was going constantly, I'm not sure if that was part of the test.
Unfortunately, they weren't taking people right out of high school anymore, and they told me to go back and get some more education.
I ended up signing on with a bank before I graduated.

The only other place that gave out I.Q. tests was an insurance company, and they had someone sit in the room and stare at you while you were doing it.
Being a lazy git, I read through all the questions first, and started filling them in back to front, which for them was an automatic fail. It was nice of them to wait the full test period before informing me (that last should be in sarcastic font).

The problem with only using I.Q. tests, is it doesn't show anything about your personality or social capabilities.
I know at one point they used to purposefully spill coffee on some interviewees to see how they'd react under the stress.

Wait wait what the **** and how long ago was that?! That sounds very illegal now? lol

Mine was an online 100 question multi choice type with nearly all numbers and symbol pattern types with 10 questions presented each time. The questions got increasingly difficult and time does matter, so it's worth it to guesstimate some answers.

The IQ test was just the cognitive ability filter I believe. There's an actual interview after and that's the behavioral one.

Despite having a job, I still do these to force humility and see if I'm competitive. The most recent one was by Amazon. There were only 2 questions, and it took me 2 hours. Felt pretty stupid after won't lie....but I got an offer...after another 2 horribly difficult interviews (edited this for clarification in case anyone reads this, does the filter test, then finds out there's 2 more hard mode lvls after.)

 

[Baggsy]

Wait wait what the **** and how long ago was that?! That sounds very illegal now? lol

Mine was an online 100 question multi choice type with nearly all numbers and symbol pattern types with 10 questions presented each time. The questions got increasingly difficult and time does matter, so it's worth it to guesstimate some answers.

The IQ test was just the cognitive ability filter I believe. There's an actual interview after and that's the behavioral one.

Despite having a job, I still do these to force humility and see if I'm competitive. The most recent one was by Amazon. There were only 2 questions, and it took me 2 hours. Felt pretty stupid after won't lie....but I got an offer...after another 2 horribly difficult interviews (edited this for clarification in case anyone reads this, does the filter test, then finds out there's 2 more hard mode lvls after.)

It was over 40 years ago. Mine was a booklet, and if you looked, you could tell you'd never finish it in the time allotted.
The insurance one was much later, and was some I.Q. questions, mixed with some Myers Briggs, or other personality type questions.
I'm not sure if IQ testing is legal anymore. At the interview was where I was told to go back and get more school.
I used to get my uncle to backorder system 370 manuals, and I'd devour them. It made schooling easier, as I'd do others assembler homework and let them do my Cobol, as that was a lot more typing, and figuring out different ways to do the same thing in Assembler was more fun.

 

[油井緋色]

It was over 40 years ago. Mine was a booklet, and if you looked, you could tell you'd never finish it in the time allotted.
The insurance one was much later, and was some I.Q. questions, mixed with some Myers Briggs, or other personality type questions.
I'm not sure if IQ testing is legal anymore. At the interview was where I was told to go back and get more school.
I used to get my uncle to backorder system 370 manuals, and I'd devour them. It made schooling easier, as I'd do others assembler homework and let them do my Cobol, as that was a lot more typing, and figuring out different ways to do the same thing in Assembler was more fun.

I'm pretty sure IQ testing isn't legal. That's why IBM calls it something completely different (it's an obvious IQ test despite that.) But honestly I'd take the IQ tests over the stuff I've seen from Google and tech giants.

Also, you're a masochist lol I started with C and C++, got into assembly because I needed to reverse engineer (cheat) something. I haven't touched C/C++ for a few years and purposely went into C# because I'm a lazy mofo and don't want to think that hard lol I guess all languages were low level back then though.

 

[Baggsy]

I'm pretty sure IQ testing isn't legal. That's why IBM calls it something completely different (it's an obvious IQ test despite that.) But honestly I'd take the IQ tests over the stuff I've seen from Google and tech giants.

Also, you're a masochist lol I started with C and C++, got into assembly because I needed to reverse engineer (cheat) something. I haven't touched C/C++ for a few years and purposely went into C# because I'm a lazy mofo and don't want to think that hard lol I guess all languages were low level back then though.

Don't forget C is only 48 years old. I started working in Cobol.
People still had CRT monitors covered in tar from cigarette smoking, so things like Screen Cobol were used for that.
I didn't move to C until years later, when I started working on reconciling very large databases.
The kind where if you messed up, you'd hang the production box for a week or more, doing table scans.
I learned C# but never worked at it.

 

[Trials]

Apologies but I won't be taking that test because I know it's a joke.
...

Well colour me shocked and disappointed

 

[crankcall]

I took a grade 8 math test when I was applying for a sales job. I was 28. The owner had the mindset he needed you to look at a list of numbers , or something you divided into even parts, or calculated to sq ft and say "hey , that doesnt look right" . You did not get a calculator or to take your phone into the room.
It seemed a bit archaic , but his point was any monkey can add up a column, he wanted a monkey to say 'that seems odd' . I learned a lot from that guy.