In the U.S., there are a lot of things they can do if they feel they're being picked on, but in China there's not a lot they can do.

Even before Microsoft, there was the idea of having a homegrown PC platform, and over the years there have been a number of attempts at this.

IBM and HP came in much earlier (to China), so they learned the techniques of how to deal with government officials and the press.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.