It does not stop the employers from looking up your name in Google. They will find out how big of a trouble maker you can be and reject your application.
The drop in stocks over the health concern of Steve Jobs does not prove that Apple is dependent on one person. This is merely out of speculation that Apple may not be doing well without him. Uncertainty plays a big role in determining stock prices.
Finding a replacement for Steve Jobs is no easy task, but Apple is in a good position in several markets. His successor will have an easier job.
"Sure I can speak out against the government and not worry about being hauled off (generally), but the USA actually has a greater ratio of its citizens in prisons than China does in there.
So statically, if you are an US citizen you are more likley to be in prison than you are a Chinese citizen. Maybe we just have more criminals over here, but sometimes it just feels like this anti-Chinese sentiment is pot calling kettle black."
That's a misleading statistic. China's population is so much larger than the US. Do you think China can afford putting so many people in prison? Don't forget China executes far more criminals, who would be serving decades or whole life in prison in US for the same crime committed.
We need to understand that after 9/11, the government had to put up measures that will prevent more terrorist attacks in US. The tightening security was not only necessary, but also supported by many Americans who felt insecure. Sure enough it had negative impacts on business and travels, but you cannot get best of everything. Increased security usually means inconvenience.
I am, however, concerned about how the government followed up these measures and further removes rights and privacy from everyone in the name of security. It is literally intimidating citizens into believing that everything is for security, while in reality it is a power gathering measure.
News agencies hire reporters to collect news and verify them, and they need to obtain licenses and stuff to do their reports. An ordinary person does not have the resource to do the same. The responsibilities of news agencies and a random person should, therefore, be different.
Most lasers are within visible spectrum, red to green are especially common. If you have a filter that blocks both red and green, you may as well build a wall.
Kuomintang took most of the blow when fighting Japanese in WWII. Communists were using Guerrilla tactics and rarely engaged in major battles, in order to conserve power for war against Kuomintang later. To say Communists contributed more is quite unfair, if anything it should be the other way around.
Reminds me a few cases I saw. People made up stories of someone unfairly treated in some ways, posted them on popular interactive sites. Some of the people who believed the story quickly found contact info of the target and bombarded them with phone calls and e-mails. These cases ended without serious damages, but eventually this practice will ruin life of an innocent person.
"Always has been" is not a very accurate term to use. Tibet was not part of China until last two hundred years or so. It enjoyed self-governance for majority of its history. Second, China in fact had invaded Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia, and other countries along its borders throughout its history. Its borderline had expanded and diminished many times. And Korean War was started by North Korea's surprise attack on South Korea, not by USA.
The Iranian government wants to remove an effective way for oppositions, or outside influences, from informing the Iranians the negative views about it. That way Iranians can only gather information from TV, radio, and newspapers. All are much easier to control. Apparently the government does not care about its reputation in Western countries. Secretive or not, the US and co. are after them anyways.
Literal meanings of party names in Asia quite often do not represent their true ideologies. Most of them just put democratic/liberal in their names just to sound good, or whatever.
I'd trust my own hands over a computer at any time.
There are too many unpredictable things on the road. I guess the technology is already able to detect and handle most of them, but even a small thing not included in the calculation can have disastrous results. As we all know, computers are usually poor at exception handling. Although most of these unpredictable events can be eliminated by removing human controls completely, that black ice on the road may still cause a crash.
Kind of interesting that former-British colony Hong Kong has something almost exactly as you described (called the ICAC I think). It worked very well and largely ended the corruption in government some decades ago.
And no, corruption in UK is not nearly comparable to that in China.
It is not only CD and DVD. Many Chinese companies are known to copy popular brands of goods, with names and appearance slightly modified, but far inferior performance and quality. A search engine is probably least of the concerns when it comes to piracy. This ruling will not improve the slightest bit of China's piracy problems.
It's not just electromagnetic waves traveling at different speed as the universe expands. Imagine a universe where dimension is not only space and time, or perhaps does not have time. No one really knows how laws of physics were like before the Big Bang.
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It does not stop the employers from looking up your name in Google. They will find out how big of a trouble maker you can be and reject your application.
You are missing one bit: the dog is convinced that the stick is good for it.
But you will end up certainly killing half of them.
The drop in stocks over the health concern of Steve Jobs does not prove that Apple is dependent on one person. This is merely out of speculation that Apple may not be doing well without him. Uncertainty plays a big role in determining stock prices.
Finding a replacement for Steve Jobs is no easy task, but Apple is in a good position in several markets. His successor will have an easier job.
Not really. With 6 cents added to the price, people will purchase less tracks. Apple loses even though profit-per-track is still the same.
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I thought you tried to send me to Cuba.
Last time I checked, Canada was to the North of the US... Ummm wait, do you live in Alaska?
"Sure I can speak out against the government and not worry about being hauled off (generally), but the USA actually has a greater ratio of its citizens in prisons than China does in there.
So statically, if you are an US citizen you are more likley to be in prison than you are a Chinese citizen. Maybe we just have more criminals over here, but sometimes it just feels like this anti-Chinese sentiment is pot calling kettle black."
That's a misleading statistic. China's population is so much larger than the US. Do you think China can afford putting so many people in prison? Don't forget China executes far more criminals, who would be serving decades or whole life in prison in US for the same crime committed.
We need to understand that after 9/11, the government had to put up measures that will prevent more terrorist attacks in US. The tightening security was not only necessary, but also supported by many Americans who felt insecure. Sure enough it had negative impacts on business and travels, but you cannot get best of everything. Increased security usually means inconvenience.
I am, however, concerned about how the government followed up these measures and further removes rights and privacy from everyone in the name of security. It is literally intimidating citizens into believing that everything is for security, while in reality it is a power gathering measure.
So you were at the party? How was the sex? Ummmm wait, why are you on slashdot?
News agencies hire reporters to collect news and verify them, and they need to obtain licenses and stuff to do their reports. An ordinary person does not have the resource to do the same. The responsibilities of news agencies and a random person should, therefore, be different.
There are very few (if any) hentai featuring Sumo-wrestlers. I think they are falling out of favour in recent years.
Most lasers are within visible spectrum, red to green are especially common. If you have a filter that blocks both red and green, you may as well build a wall.
Quite a number of good points and observations there. If I had mod points, I would have modded you up.
Kuomintang took most of the blow when fighting Japanese in WWII. Communists were using Guerrilla tactics and rarely engaged in major battles, in order to conserve power for war against Kuomintang later. To say Communists contributed more is quite unfair, if anything it should be the other way around.
Reminds me a few cases I saw. People made up stories of someone unfairly treated in some ways, posted them on popular interactive sites. Some of the people who believed the story quickly found contact info of the target and bombarded them with phone calls and e-mails. These cases ended without serious damages, but eventually this practice will ruin life of an innocent person.
"Always has been" is not a very accurate term to use. Tibet was not part of China until last two hundred years or so. It enjoyed self-governance for majority of its history. Second, China in fact had invaded Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia, and other countries along its borders throughout its history. Its borderline had expanded and diminished many times. And Korean War was started by North Korea's surprise attack on South Korea, not by USA.
The Iranian government wants to remove an effective way for oppositions, or outside influences, from informing the Iranians the negative views about it. That way Iranians can only gather information from TV, radio, and newspapers. All are much easier to control. Apparently the government does not care about its reputation in Western countries. Secretive or not, the US and co. are after them anyways.
Literal meanings of party names in Asia quite often do not represent their true ideologies. Most of them just put democratic/liberal in their names just to sound good, or whatever.
Am I the only one who thinks this test is more of a memory test, than a test that shows learning ability in genetics?
I'd trust my own hands over a computer at any time.
There are too many unpredictable things on the road. I guess the technology is already able to detect and handle most of them, but even a small thing not included in the calculation can have disastrous results. As we all know, computers are usually poor at exception handling. Although most of these unpredictable events can be eliminated by removing human controls completely, that black ice on the road may still cause a crash.
Kind of interesting that former-British colony Hong Kong has something almost exactly as you described (called the ICAC I think). It worked very well and largely ended the corruption in government some decades ago. And no, corruption in UK is not nearly comparable to that in China.
Yes it happens, but only if the corrupted official has no friends in the power circle.
It is not only CD and DVD. Many Chinese companies are known to copy popular brands of goods, with names and appearance slightly modified, but far inferior performance and quality. A search engine is probably least of the concerns when it comes to piracy. This ruling will not improve the slightest bit of China's piracy problems.
It's not just electromagnetic waves traveling at different speed as the universe expands. Imagine a universe where dimension is not only space and time, or perhaps does not have time. No one really knows how laws of physics were like before the Big Bang.