Clearly a troll based on these intro messages, permanent ban.
New members introduce yourselves!!
- Thread starter Gollevainen
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Hello everyone. I am an engineer living in Tokyo for about 20 years.
I remember very well when I was working with Chinese colleagues when I was designing glass materials used in semiconductor lithography equipment.
I have been following this forum for about 6 months now with great interest in the wealth of topics on Chinese science and technology, and have recently registered.
Recently I have been interested in Chinese semiconductor technology.
I remember very well when I was working with Chinese colleagues when I was designing glass materials used in semiconductor lithography equipment.
I have been following this forum for about 6 months now with great interest in the wealth of topics on Chinese science and technology, and have recently registered.
Recently I have been interested in Chinese semiconductor technology.
Hi friends!
Long-time on and off lurker, first time poster on this board! I wanted to keep quiet, but looks like the CHAD/SHAD/6th gen saga got me worked up enough to participate . . .
Started PLA watching as a teenager, but I've taken a few multi-year breaks over the decades. Then got back into it during Covid.
First registered on the original CMF in the late 1990s and then on CDF in the early 2000s. I had always thought of or assumed this board to be their spiritual, albeit more mature and professional successor.
Hope I'll be able to contribute to a thread or two.
Long-time on and off lurker, first time poster on this board! I wanted to keep quiet, but looks like the CHAD/SHAD/6th gen saga got me worked up enough to participate . . .
Started PLA watching as a teenager, but I've taken a few multi-year breaks over the decades. Then got back into it during Covid.
First registered on the original CMF in the late 1990s and then on CDF in the early 2000s. I had always thought of or assumed this board to be their spiritual, albeit more mature and professional successor.
Hope I'll be able to contribute to a thread or two.
Hello from Hong Kong. I'm a mechanic, a husband, and a father. Passionate about military and political topics. Here to learn.
From the Philippines and just started last year. I was sent to this site from lurking on the PLA thread of spacebattles and getting to know more about the sources of Eurasia naval insight. Honestly, I'm surprised that I was going to be a fan of pla watching if only the type 055 wasn't so god damn gorgeous! From then on I was hungry for more military eye candies. Luckily, China was generous enough to give me that dosage everytime I needed it. There's plenty to gawk at such as: j20, j35, type 052D, Fujian supercarrier, etc and there's more coming in the near future. It's just overwhelming!
I have not introduced myself here so I thought I should put here the note of my departure.
When a traveler finds a place to his dislike he is always faced with two choices. He can either spend time and effort to change the place for the better or he can leave so that the place does not change him for the worse.
Initially I found this place to be of much interest. Then as my time here passed I started noticing troubling elements but being who I am I thought that that was nothing that couldn't be overcome. Over time however it has become clear to me that this place is not, and would never be Edoras for it always has been Isengard. Only I was fooled, or perhaps chose to fool myself.
As such only one outcome here is possible and it is not something in which I should partake. And I hate the thought that this place could influence me more than it already did. For the only influence that I feel is one that I revile. There are already too many Sarumans in the world and every day more seems to spring up angrily from the ground like the Uruk Hai.
I like to end with a joke so I will only say that the time to light my pipe and walk away will never be more proper than now. So here it is.
<lets out a puff of smoke>
Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar.
Nai elyë hiruva. Namárië!
When a traveler finds a place to his dislike he is always faced with two choices. He can either spend time and effort to change the place for the better or he can leave so that the place does not change him for the worse.
Initially I found this place to be of much interest. Then as my time here passed I started noticing troubling elements but being who I am I thought that that was nothing that couldn't be overcome. Over time however it has become clear to me that this place is not, and would never be Edoras for it always has been Isengard. Only I was fooled, or perhaps chose to fool myself.
As such only one outcome here is possible and it is not something in which I should partake. And I hate the thought that this place could influence me more than it already did. For the only influence that I feel is one that I revile. There are already too many Sarumans in the world and every day more seems to spring up angrily from the ground like the Uruk Hai.
I like to end with a joke so I will only say that the time to light my pipe and walk away will never be more proper than now. So here it is.
<lets out a puff of smoke>
Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar.
Nai elyë hiruva. Namárië!
It is hard for those in the West to adapt to a nation of Easterlings* on an equal basis.
* In Tolkien's Eurocentric world, the men outside of Middle Earth to the East and South -- "Easterlings" and "Southrons" -- are considered corrupt and inferior to the Dunedain of the West.
If we look at the world in historical perspective though, it was Europe that was the Mordor to the rest of the world.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"
And finally, we are slowly returning to that merrier world.