Putin is an autocrat, what equivalent is there to the DNC for him?

I think democracies are more at risk at this kind of thing because they have real elections and the data mined during elections is important. Its managed by a non-profit political party and as such usually has lax security.

Yeah, but the problem with their systems is, it's all written in chinese. Our systems store information in english, which is a much easier language to read. So they have a natural advantage there...

And the us doesn't have native Chinese speakers?

guess this wasn't the thread for deadpan humor.

I didn't read any humor in it. It came off as something a stereotypical single language speaker (typically English) would say.

Or in other words: 说话像一个男人谁不说第二语言

I've had the pleasure of speaking to people who have actually said that - or something along the lines. "Why are you studying Japanese? Don't they teach English in Japanese schools? You can just speak English with Japanese people."

I enjoy introducing English-only speakers to "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité. It gives them a good idea of how terrible English can be - as even people who consider themselves "fluent" in English will struggle through the poem and mispronounce many of the words. ( http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html )

As a person that is not a native english speaker I find english extremely powerful language, with hundreds of nuanced words that convey different aspects and facets of seemingly same ideas - like emotions! Thesaurus raids can be fun! As well as reading well written, witty prose (#Fuck poetry) I also love how it can compress complex ideas into one word - it actually makes speaking in my native tongue hard, because a lot of such words siply do not have translations (or just are translated into way more general ones)