KJP191

The person in the booth is literally employed by the movie theater

My theory is milk. Breakfast cereal is designed to be covered in milk, but compared to North America and Western Europe, milk and milk products are far less popular in most of the world. I think I remember reading that there's even a biological reason, ethnic Europeans have some enzyme for digesting milk (and cheese etc) that others lack.

This would imply that other milk-drinking Western countries would also eat a lot of breakfast cereal. And indeed it's something I notice when I go back from China to Belgium or the UK.

(Disclaimer: I haven't been to the US, so perhaps Americans like breakfast cereal even more than Europeans)

Academic teaching organisations too, for that matter. It's quite common for a college to also offer some degree-level courses that are accredited by a local university.

(Note to non-Brits: "college" in the UK is mostly for lower-level and vocational courses, it's not a synonym for university like in the US)

You think a thief won't go through an unlocked phone they stole? Even if they don't, the person they fence it to will.

It used to work like that in an old version of Opera back in the day (perhaps Opera 5.0? I think it was the same version that introduced gestures),but a bunch of sites saw it as insecure and blocked Opera users from their sites so they backed down and switched to the standard method.

Sounds like an effective (if slightly underhand) way to monetize. If paying up is the only way to retrieve an account someone cares about...

I live in Beijing and can assure you that there is no shortage of lazy Chinese people with degrees. If you're American, perhaps what you see is just a result of the type of people who make it through the immigration process

Their videogame deal with Lego seems to be working out OK. And they've got loads of experience licensing out their IP for toys etc.

I've been through security multiple times before (my daughter left her book in one of the groundside restaurants) and nobody cared. Anecdotal I know, but n=1 is better than n=0

This is not actually true. Although the conditions for permanent residence are pretty lenient on paper, they are hardly ever given out. Less than 5000 were issued in the 10 years to 2014 (in total, ie less than 500 per year). In practice it's FAR harder to get a Chinese green card than an American one.

Also, many of those 5000 "foreigners" are actually the children of senior Chinese officials who have taken foreign citizenship then returned to China. The number of "real" foreigners with permanent residence is even lower.