There is film released in 2002, which was filmed on film, not digital, and talks about the girl in question could be a international start at age 10.
The medias conveniently don't mention that.
When I was sleep deprived and wrote anything down, I could not understand what I wrote the next day. I doubt you could figure what happened 7 years later.
Rachel, what are you talking about ? I have used Sidekicks since the very first B&W one, and traveled to Europe extensively. Sidekick/T-mobile never worked in Europe.
This is wrong. Contracts are legally binding only when they are legal, which is up to the court to decide in this case. If the customer did not know, was no way to disable or to set a limit, the contract wasn't fair to begin with, and could be thrown out.
Imagine getting a receipt at a restaurant for thousands of dollars due to a few tea refills. If you're ordering some sort of special tea that costs that much, you'd expect someone to tell you, right? Would you accept it if they pointed to some fine print at the bottom of the back of the menu?
While this happen to me once in a restaurant in Prague. Everything on the menu looked good ncluding wine, so we ordered a nice meal, and got surprised by the bill. As it turned out, the two small dishes of innocent looking peanuts laying on the table before dinner cost more than the 3-course mean plus wine.
No data roaming in Vancouver and no peanuts in Prague for me.
China supports 5 times the population, and the majority of cheap goods productions. Also GDP number is not a indicator to use because it ties to how you value services, not manufacturing.
How would these get them better ratings? They do exactly the opposite. Hate those personal profiles clips. Just awful. Same old story lines from 4 years, 8 years ago and 12 years ago. The athlete grandma's clip could be used and you can't tell the difference. Who cares? Show the damn event. Thats what everyone was waiting for, not their personal stories.
So Bob the talking-head could talk? It doesn't make sense, but it does to the people who own NBC. It is such a pain watching him kept talking the minutes away instead of showing hundreds of hours event tapes already available. What did we do to deserve this?
The "discovery" is that you could use the data link to send txt msgs. However in many areas the data link is down/not available, but voice/txt mgs would still be up. The "discovery" won't work.
Well, if your time doesn't worth money, sure. But if the time your spent making those juice could earn you 100 dollars, would you still do it. that's the question most people face.
you can believe what you want to believe, or you could do some research to find out the truth. The truth is most people on here don't have a clue, talking through the nose about China. Maybe when you grow older you will learn?
I remember being asked to see my passport on the street in Czech Republic post-communists. In China, it is a society free for all. There is nowhere the fear people are talking about here. Some of the comments are just plain ridiculous from people know nothing about the condition of China.
Its very hard to ethically argue that non-representational governments are ethically fine.
The whole issue of China's non-representational government is overblown. First of all, we can't really say how representative the US government is, given how the election process are being influenced manipulated by the powers. You can only vote on the people given to you, and you can't even stop the war the majority don't want. Second, the Chinese has a history of governing by "merit", a career autocrat system where all the officials are not elected, but rather chosen based on their varies exam scores all the way upto the Premier. Now a days, the government is implementing a similar system where a mayor, minister, smaller bureaucrats all have to pass certain exams to be awarded a position to govern. It is an alternative way of governing, and it has worked for 5000 years for China. Would you rather be managed by a high school dropout or a ph.D in Economics? I am not trying to say China's path is better, but it works for China, it is different than yours, and you should do some research before criticizing something tried and true.
Human Rights has different definition in different countries. Trying to force your version of human rights on to other people is by itself a violation of other people's human rights. For Chinese people, the rights to a better life, to be able to eat, to have a decent roof covering their family, those rights trump you typical American's human rights. Considering what condition China was in just 20 years ago, the Chinese government delivered, and the population by and large are having more and more freedom to voice different opinions. That is the reality in China, and your constant bashing of China do not help at all.
look, guys, you have no idea what you are talking about.
If you know just a tiny bit of the history of China, the people, and the culture, all your comments wouldn't be too off mark.
Many people here on slashdot make casual comments like the Chinese government is evil, and it seems it goes unchallenged and accepted universally here. For starters, I suggest you read German born American columnist, Sasha Matuszak (http://antiwar.com/matuszak/) who lives and reports from China on Antiwar.com since 2003.
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Of course. What do you think all those people playing on golf courses all day do? Their job is called CEO.
There is film released in 2002, which was filmed on film, not digital, and talks about the girl in question could be a international start at age 10. The medias conveniently don't mention that.
$9.5B is a little over 100th, not 10th, of the bank bailout.
When I was sleep deprived and wrote anything down, I could not understand what I wrote the next day. I doubt you could figure what happened 7 years later.
Rachel, what are you talking about ? I have used Sidekicks since the very first B&W one, and traveled to Europe extensively. Sidekick/T-mobile never worked in Europe.
This is wrong. Contracts are legally binding only when they are legal, which is up to the court to decide in this case. If the customer did not know, was no way to disable or to set a limit, the contract wasn't fair to begin with, and could be thrown out.
Imagine getting a receipt at a restaurant for thousands of dollars due to a few tea refills. If you're ordering some sort of special tea that costs that much, you'd expect someone to tell you, right? Would you accept it if they pointed to some fine print at the bottom of the back of the menu?
While this happen to me once in a restaurant in Prague. Everything on the menu looked good ncluding wine, so we ordered a nice meal, and got surprised by the bill. As it turned out, the two small dishes of innocent looking peanuts laying on the table before dinner cost more than the 3-course mean plus wine. No data roaming in Vancouver and no peanuts in Prague for me.
China supports 5 times the population, and the majority of cheap goods productions. Also GDP number is not a indicator to use because it ties to how you value services, not manufacturing.
this year in Power emission pollution. Consider China is less efficient, and has 5 times population than the U.S., it consumes less energy, pollutes less, and makes most of the goods, until today. Guys got the nerve to complain. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603096.html
Insightful? Printed photo is a raster dump, the original file is an almost vectorized object.
I would say China, and its population, corrects itself much faster than the U.S.
China Youth Daily is a communist mouth piece owned by the communist party. If you read the editorials, you will see for yourself, some of the comments on here are so far off from reality. Here is the google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F2008.china.com%2Fzh_cn%2Fsy%2Fpl%2F11068961%2F20080821%2F15042887.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en People, you are supposed to be the smart bunch.
Well, the number 1 in Chinese is one stroke, horizontally (2 is two strokes stacked horizontally).
How would these get them better ratings? They do exactly the opposite. Hate those personal profiles clips. Just awful. Same old story lines from 4 years, 8 years ago and 12 years ago. The athlete grandma's clip could be used and you can't tell the difference. Who cares? Show the damn event. Thats what everyone was waiting for, not their personal stories.
So Bob the talking-head could talk? It doesn't make sense, but it does to the people who own NBC. It is such a pain watching him kept talking the minutes away instead of showing hundreds of hours event tapes already available. What did we do to deserve this?
The "discovery" is that you could use the data link to send txt msgs. However in many areas the data link is down/not available, but voice/txt mgs would still be up. The "discovery" won't work.
armed merchant vessels are the pirates, usually.
Well, if your time doesn't worth money, sure. But if the time your spent making those juice could earn you 100 dollars, would you still do it. that's the question most people face.
If you were going to hire a wedding photographer, you will have to install Flash to see the photographer's work, don't you?
you can believe what you want to believe, or you could do some research to find out the truth. The truth is most people on here don't have a clue, talking through the nose about China. Maybe when you grow older you will learn?
I remember being asked to see my passport on the street in Czech Republic post-communists. In China, it is a society free for all. There is nowhere the fear people are talking about here. Some of the comments are just plain ridiculous from people know nothing about the condition of China.
Thanks for a long and detailed explanation. Here is just one example http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080511_the_defining_moment_for_climate_change/ , which form of government do you think will be able to act quickly and forcefully to address an issue on things of such grand scale?
Its very hard to ethically argue that non-representational governments are ethically fine. The whole issue of China's non-representational government is overblown. First of all, we can't really say how representative the US government is, given how the election process are being influenced manipulated by the powers. You can only vote on the people given to you, and you can't even stop the war the majority don't want. Second, the Chinese has a history of governing by "merit", a career autocrat system where all the officials are not elected, but rather chosen based on their varies exam scores all the way upto the Premier. Now a days, the government is implementing a similar system where a mayor, minister, smaller bureaucrats all have to pass certain exams to be awarded a position to govern. It is an alternative way of governing, and it has worked for 5000 years for China. Would you rather be managed by a high school dropout or a ph.D in Economics? I am not trying to say China's path is better, but it works for China, it is different than yours, and you should do some research before criticizing something tried and true.
Human Rights has different definition in different countries. Trying to force your version of human rights on to other people is by itself a violation of other people's human rights. For Chinese people, the rights to a better life, to be able to eat, to have a decent roof covering their family, those rights trump you typical American's human rights. Considering what condition China was in just 20 years ago, the Chinese government delivered, and the population by and large are having more and more freedom to voice different opinions. That is the reality in China, and your constant bashing of China do not help at all.
look, guys, you have no idea what you are talking about. If you know just a tiny bit of the history of China, the people, and the culture, all your comments wouldn't be too off mark. Many people here on slashdot make casual comments like the Chinese government is evil, and it seems it goes unchallenged and accepted universally here. For starters, I suggest you read German born American columnist, Sasha Matuszak (http://antiwar.com/matuszak/) who lives and reports from China on Antiwar.com since 2003.