#linuxcnc Logs

Jan 20 2021

12:00 AM mrec: maybe it matters if you want to drive the gantry to a corona virus and take an HD picture of it
12:06 AM CaptHindsight: and you wanted micron accuracy with a 20Km long gantry
12:06 AM CaptHindsight: it's actually closer to sub micron accuracy with gantry that reaches to the moon
12:08 AM mrec: CaptHindsight: yes
12:08 AM mrec: I'll stay here long term.
12:09 AM CaptHindsight: mrec: how are the feeling there towards mainland China recently?
12:09 AM mrec: nothing, taiwan and china is completely separate
12:09 AM CaptHindsight: I haven't been to Taiwan in a few years
12:09 AM mrec: they're flying over taiwan with their warplanes that's certainly not good though
12:10 AM CaptHindsight: yes, how long do you think that the separation will continue?
12:10 AM CaptHindsight: been following the news
12:10 AM mrec: one asset of Taiwan are foreigners, other countries more or less have to watch their people too
12:10 AM mrec: forever?
12:10 AM CaptHindsight: watching what happened to honk Kong
12:10 AM mrec: I don't see that Taiwan can join China any time soon
12:11 AM mrec: Hong Kong is small and the authorities didn't give a damn about their people
12:11 AM CaptHindsight: also just across the river vs an ocean straight
12:11 AM mrec: but Taiwan has grown up..
12:11 AM mrec: I doubt that authorities would be willing to swap to China
12:11 AM mrec: the president is the smallest issue... Authorities are.
12:12 AM mrec: my personal experience with the Taiwan authorities is very positive
12:12 AM CaptHindsight: mine was a well
12:13 AM CaptHindsight: was mostly around Taipei
12:13 AM mrec: my kid was born in Taiwan a few years ago
12:16 AM mrec: I see the country is still advancing life quality will increase within the next 10-20 years for many more people on that island.
12:17 AM CaptHindsight: so you don't feel much pressure from China
12:17 AM mrec: nothing at all as a citizen
12:17 AM mrec: there's also a lot business between CN / TW citizens (just like everywhere in the world)
12:18 AM mrec: china would be more than stupid to cut themselves
12:18 AM mrec: after all it's not only China, it's about likewise people in Taiwan the communist party KMT has a bad record in the south of Taiwan
12:19 AM mrec: I've been told that there were mobs in southern Taiwan killing and knocking down their own people (but those people were not Chinese..)
12:19 AM mrec: that was decades ago
12:20 AM mrec: now the south is usually pro democracy
12:20 AM CaptHindsight: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2021/01/14/2003750538
12:20 AM mrec: Taiwanese more feel like a gambling ball between the US and CN
12:21 AM mrec: the attitude would be: please leave us alone
12:21 AM mrec: and accept taiwan as an official country in the world
12:21 AM CaptHindsight: Beijing is on a land and ocean grab
12:22 AM mrec: not sure what they're up to
12:22 AM CaptHindsight: it's late here, nice to see you, we don't get many visitors here from Asia
12:23 AM mrec: they have many issues in CN
12:23 AM CaptHindsight: I was in CN for a while, Nanjing, Shanghai and Beijing
12:24 AM mrec: in general everyone is welcome to go to Taiwan, people welcome foreigners here.
12:24 AM CaptHindsight: I didn't stay
12:24 AM mrec: (except now.. Taiwan has banned all tourists due to Corona)
12:24 AM CaptHindsight: and it's working there :)
12:24 AM mrec: they're worried now due to an outbreak in a hospital in New Taipei City
12:25 AM CaptHindsight: we mostly ignored it and 400K are dead
12:25 AM mrec: they're tracing and locking down everything where people got in touch
12:25 AM mrec: they always took care about those things, I remember swine flu they really checked every luggage for meat many years ago
12:26 AM mrec: I didn't take it serious back then what they're doing but that shows they really try to take care about their country
12:26 AM CaptHindsight: yes, i used to go to Computex Taipei often
12:26 AM CaptHindsight: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2021/01/19/2003750829
12:27 AM CaptHindsight: "most likely caught the virus from a Taiwanese man in his 60s who is being treated at the hospital after returning from the US late last month"
12:27 AM mrec: https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/5478/141457/142068/
12:27 AM CaptHindsight: figures
12:27 AM mrec: they even allow regular foreigners to overstay 180 days
12:28 AM mrec: anyway since my family is half Taiwanese it's easier for me.
12:29 AM mrec: time to go back to m cnc :-)
12:30 AM CaptHindsight: see you
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