Posted on 12/17/2016 7:28:19 AM PST by COUNTrecount
The seizing of an unmanned US Navy drone by the Chinese is an “unpresidented [sic] act,” President-elect Donald Trump tweeted early Saturday.
The USNS Bowditch, which has a civilian crew, was about to retrieve the underwater device Thursday when it was snapped up by a Chinese warship in the South China Sea.
“China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented [sic] act,” Trump wrote on Twitter. He’s since deleted the misspelled tweet.
The $150,000, 10-foot drone was part of a scientific mission collecting oceanographic data. It’s the first time in recent history China has taken a US naval vessel, a Navy spokesman said.
Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the seizure of the drone occurred inside the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines and appeared to be a violation of international law.
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So your calling me archaic?
I was taught that it could be spelled both ways, the same for tomatoe. So was the better half of my partnership. She was raised in SoCal and I was raised in NoVa.
Either way Quail went they would have said he was wrong.
Aisle quayle at the thought!
Looks like a deliberate statement of fact to me.
We’ve been unpresidented for eight years.
Aisle quayle at the thought!
That thar has me double buffle-headed.
And I don’t give a #### what you think.
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I agree with you about the cue-card mistake. Quayle was very likely simply attempting to be polite. However, I don't believe that "potatoe" is an archaic spelling for "potato". My understanding is that "potatoes" is plural for "potato". I may be wrong.
To be honest I thought it was an intentional play on words that has backfired.
:=)
China steals United States Navy research drone international waters rips it out of the water and takes it to China an unprecedented Act.
So, let's see ...
Obviously, we have a ways to go before computers can be considered intelligent.
But, for the present, it's gotten to the point that talking is easier than keying, at least on phones.
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