singiht34-02

okay, first of all you're getting awfully defensive and I did qualify my first reply with "This is purely anecdotal..."

So I'm open to being wrong about Croatia's attitude to having a immigrant community of muslims - it's just not what I saw.

"Its true that most refugees are trying to make it to Germany - but if Germany closes its doors, they wouldn't get stuck in the immediate neighbouring countries "

No, the Germans would never close the door per se, they'd just stall and delay things till the bordering countries end up having huge camps while the famous EU bureaucracy does it's thing. Macedonia was clever and quickly managed to get them all across the country and dump it off on the next guy. Croatia pulled off something similar.

And ofcourse Croatians aren't painting all muslims with the same brush - sorry if I gave that impression. But one group, the one they seemingly don't want, comes from a land of boogeymen full of religious extremism Al Qaeda and the IS while the other is their war-buddies/neighbors (and as far as I know hasn't yielded a single terrorist - though with all the money coming from Saudi and Turkey that may change..)

I think "heavily affected" is a matter of opinion. It's been mostly some rather unorganized and heavily suppressed unrest in Xinjiang...

As far as we know the country isn't infiltrated by Al Qaeda or the IS (like Europe and maybe the US)

As for your second point, sure - a perfect climate to clamp down on the internet some more without upsetting anyone.

I'm not mixing up my countries, passage was granted b/c no one was concerned that they would stay in Croatia and they were just dumping the problem on to the next neighboring country. Everyone knows they're trying to go to Germany and the Nordic countries. The countries that border Austria/Germany obvious were a bit more concerned that they refugees wouldn't be let in and so they'd end up with all these people on their border.

When the gov't agreed to accept several thousand refugees several people told me they thought it was a horrible idea and that they don't need these communities in Croatia.

This is purely anecdotal, but countries that haven't actually been touched by terrorism seem to be a lot more terrified of terrorists than countries that have been. It's a lot more of a boogeyman when it's those-people-over-there-doing-crazy-things

I remember in Poland and Croatia people were so scared that a common sentiment was basically wanting to ban all muslims.. you know.. just-to-be-on-the-safe-side

So while yes, this is a scapegoat, people in China are actually scared of the terrorists.. it's bizarre

I've never actually seen a union used in a C++ codebase. What's the usecase? I know people use them in C for bitfields, but outside of embedded (which is almost always just pure C) that just doesn't seem to come up

You know it's funny, living now in China sometimes it feels a lot more free than the US. You can drink, smoke and piss anywhere, and you can go and buy basically whatever you want (except drugs), drive any way you want - as long as you're not really bothering other people no one really cares. It helps that the cops are more bored teenagers and less ex military assholes waiting to blow some holes in some meatbag. It's s bit of a free for all and sometimes it feels like a bit of fresh air

Like sure you can't talk about a few things or criticize the gov't, but I have better things to do anyways

"(for example see the fate of Google Street View in Germany)"

and b/c you can't find everyone easily on facebook

I think the undercurrent that in implied is that there are countries like China who don't play by the normal rules of international espionage. Since they are so tightly coupled to Chinese industry they abuse their resources and power to feed domestic industry. To most people this seems very scummy.

Are there examples the other way? Where the US stole secrets and then handed them off to domestic companies? Maybe in defense? but otherwise?

I think a big big part of this is that English is hard and Japan is just large enough that they get away with doing everything in Japanese (compared to something like.. Estonia). They have their own Physics and Engineering journals, their own textbooks on everything, their own programming world. In the tech sphere they basically don't really have to learn English at all to be successful and so they end up being incredibly disconnected from the rest of the world. They put in a lot of resources in getting people to learn English and yet it doesn't seem to pay off (I don't know what the solution is)

The horrible web design to me can only be partly explained by that though. As a people with an special eye to detail and design this is simply incomprehensible to me...