"The most challenging aspect of doing business in China by far is dealing with the government,"
No, no, it's super easy to deal with the government in China: 1. Go out to drink with the first layer of officials; bring lavish gifts preferably cash or easily convertible to cash. Repeat step 1 x2 2: Go out to a dinner with the next level of officials; bring higher grade of lavish gifts preferably cash or easily convertible to cash. Repeat step 2 3-4x. 3: Go on a vacation trip with the highest level of officials; bring highest grade of lavish gifts preferably cash or easily convertible to cash. Repeat step 3 6-8x. 4: Modest profit! Note that if step 4 lasts more than a year or does not include "modest", re-start from step 1.
I have to agree this is the wrong term. Racketeering is mainly protection money and such. If Youtube was telling musicians that they better have their videos on Youtube or else Guido and the boys will come rearrange their vocal chords, that's racketeering. The RIAA's chasing after stores for having the radio on, waiters for singing Happy Birthday, etc, is a much better example of racketeering.
And what would the world be like if we started killing the richest people in the world? I'm not for killing anyone ever, but what happens if you kill the.01% and keep culling until it doesn't exist anymore?
You seem to think the estate would simply vanish in a poof of smoke instead of being inherited by someone.
People from the mainland are not automatically Mandarin speakers. The entire southern area of China around Hong Kong is Cantonese. Did you think that little area of Hong Kong developed Cantonese all by itself? While Mandarin is taught in primary school most people who do this kind of work probably weren't the best students. What I was trying to make light of is that the reporting writing the article wanted to sound fancy by specifying Mandarin but likely had no idea what Chinese dialect was being spoken, since it was after all, being interpreted for him.
The true unreasonable part is the past inflation that made their base unit of currency need so many to buy a book, even at such a high price relative to US prices. 140K to buy a book means probably even 100 doesn't buy anything.
That's exactly what I was wondering. They appear to be victims of circular logic; note the quote from the publishing company's marketing droid re: after spending years in school with textbooks [learning to read], no one wants to read. Publishing companies rack up massive profits on textbooks students are required to purchase, not so much on other books. If the owners of that publishing company have good connections then likely they keep out competition and don't have much interest in low profitability products.
So all those high paid Apple employees don't pay property taxes on their homes in the area? They don't pay sales taxes on the stuff they buy around town? How does a local city government think it is entitled to tax revenue earned on sales in (other country) after the company already paid (other country) income taxes?
40 years of anti-intellectualism and pandering to prejudice and we got a significant part of the country voting for someone who really would not have been good for the country. The historical parallels are obvious
He did go to a doctor. Alas, the doctor's ad claiming a high success rate with the cancer he had was a lie.
The article is skimpy on hard numbers. As in, there aren't any. What percentage recovery rate did the hospital claim in their ads? Anything less than 100% and it isn't immediately obvious that because one patient didn't make it then the claim was an outright lie. Who knows; maybe they say "we have high percentage survival rates!!**" and then in the bottom corner "** a high rate is 50% survival after 1 year". Even in US hospitals cancer survival rates are in terms of surviving a few years, not the remainder of a normal lifespan. So it's easy to see how some people might think those survival claims are misleading also.
What's this term "unicorn" in this context? Obviously not a mythical horse with a horn. Make it your habit to explain inside terms and acronyms when submitting summaries, please.
The new Samsung phones that are tied to AT&T/Verizon have been made to refuse booting when rooted. For that reason alone, I've decided not to upgrade my phone.
For this reason alone, I decided to upgrade my phone... when I left Verizon for TMobile, whose phones don't seem to have a problem with installing alternates such as cyanogenmod.
A cab would be cruising around and picking people up who just wave it down from the sidewalk. There is no waiting on an appointment with a flagged down cab.
The very term "encyclopedia" means a comprehensive store of information. The default stance to take should be there is a compelling reason to include pretty much everything and everyone. Only the most mundane should be excluded. It's not like you buy Wikipedia in leather bound volumes.
Aren't these the same companies that lay off US based workers in favor of H1-Bs? Why train more US workers just so they can be replaced before they can even start?
The cars only have to pass a laboratory test. If that test bears no resemblance to the real world (which the EU one doesn't) then thats the fault of the people who devised it.
No, no, the people who actually devised the test are not at fault; the people who legislated what the testers are to test are at fault.
2. The Bill of Rights was not meant to enumerate specific rights, but rather raise the bar so high on restricting or revoking those rights as to make it legally impossible
It was meant to enumerate specific rights AND to set the bar high enough that restricting or revoking those rights is difficult, not impossible.
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"The most challenging aspect of doing business in China by far is dealing with the government,"
No, no, it's super easy to deal with the government in China:
1. Go out to drink with the first layer of officials; bring lavish gifts preferably cash or easily convertible to cash. Repeat step 1 x2
2: Go out to a dinner with the next level of officials; bring higher grade of lavish gifts preferably cash or easily convertible to cash. Repeat step 2 3-4x.
3: Go on a vacation trip with the highest level of officials; bring highest grade of lavish gifts preferably cash or easily convertible to cash. Repeat step 3 6-8x.
4: Modest profit!
Note that if step 4 lasts more than a year or does not include "modest", re-start from step 1.
I have to agree this is the wrong term. Racketeering is mainly protection money and such. If Youtube was telling musicians that they better have their videos on Youtube or else Guido and the boys will come rearrange their vocal chords, that's racketeering. The RIAA's chasing after stores for having the radio on, waiters for singing Happy Birthday, etc, is a much better example of racketeering.
And what would the world be like if we started killing the richest people in the world? I'm not for killing anyone ever, but what happens if you kill the .01% and keep culling until it doesn't exist anymore?
You seem to think the estate would simply vanish in a poof of smoke instead of being inherited by someone.
Mandarin speakers from the mainland.
People from the mainland are not automatically Mandarin speakers. The entire southern area of China around Hong Kong is Cantonese. Did you think that little area of Hong Kong developed Cantonese all by itself? While Mandarin is taught in primary school most people who do this kind of work probably weren't the best students.
What I was trying to make light of is that the reporting writing the article wanted to sound fancy by specifying Mandarin but likely had no idea what Chinese dialect was being spoken, since it was after all, being interpreted for him.
One worker says he isn’t aware of the risks. “He had no idea,” Su says, after speaking with him in Mandarin.
Well yeah, he had no idea what she asked him. Low skilled workers in Hong Kong are likely to speak Cantonese.
If we get to the point where basic goods can be 3-d printed cheaply
We're unlikely to ever see a 3-D printer make a slice of toast.
The true unreasonable part is the past inflation that made their base unit of currency need so many to buy a book, even at such a high price relative to US prices. 140K to buy a book means probably even 100 doesn't buy anything.
That's exactly what I was wondering. They appear to be victims of circular logic; note the quote from the publishing company's marketing droid re: after spending years in school with textbooks [learning to read], no one wants to read.
Publishing companies rack up massive profits on textbooks students are required to purchase, not so much on other books. If the owners of that publishing company have good connections then likely they keep out competition and don't have much interest in low profitability products.
So all those high paid Apple employees don't pay property taxes on their homes in the area? They don't pay sales taxes on the stuff they buy around town?
How does a local city government think it is entitled to tax revenue earned on sales in (other country) after the company already paid (other country) income taxes?
40 years of anti-intellectualism and pandering to prejudice and we got a significant part of the country voting for someone who really would not have been good for the country. The historical parallels are obvious
Yep, it's Wilson vs Taft all over again.
and she has just as much money, if not more than Trump
Have you been paying attention? Clinton's campaign has out-fundraised Trump by over 5x: Trump 50M, Clinton 265M.
That sounds like an internet rumor. Airplanes are not sold from the duty-free cart IN said airplane.
He did go to a doctor. Alas, the doctor's ad claiming a high success rate with the cancer he had was a lie.
The article is skimpy on hard numbers. As in, there aren't any. What percentage recovery rate did the hospital claim in their ads? Anything less than 100% and it isn't immediately obvious that because one patient didn't make it then the claim was an outright lie. Who knows; maybe they say "we have high percentage survival rates!!**" and then in the bottom corner "** a high rate is 50% survival after 1 year". Even in US hospitals cancer survival rates are in terms of surviving a few years, not the remainder of a normal lifespan. So it's easy to see how some people might think those survival claims are misleading also.
I'm just glad you're not bitter or anything.
What's this term "unicorn" in this context? Obviously not a mythical horse with a horn. Make it your habit to explain inside terms and acronyms when submitting summaries, please.
The funniest part of the original and your reply is that neither lists 'congressman' as a step up to respectability from any of those other things.
I've heard of slave labor hours in IT but are these people actually logged in and working two weeks 24/7?
The new Samsung phones that are tied to AT&T/Verizon have been made to refuse booting when rooted.
For that reason alone, I've decided not to upgrade my phone.
For this reason alone, I decided to upgrade my phone... when I left Verizon for TMobile, whose phones don't seem to have a problem with installing alternates such as cyanogenmod.
A cab would be cruising around and picking people up who just wave it down from the sidewalk. There is no waiting on an appointment with a flagged down cab.
The very term "encyclopedia" means a comprehensive store of information. The default stance to take should be there is a compelling reason to include pretty much everything and everyone. Only the most mundane should be excluded. It's not like you buy Wikipedia in leather bound volumes.
Aren't these the same companies that lay off US based workers in favor of H1-Bs? Why train more US workers just so they can be replaced before they can even start?
The cars only have to pass a laboratory test. If that test bears no resemblance to the real world (which the EU one doesn't) then thats the fault of the people who devised it.
No, no, the people who actually devised the test are not at fault; the people who legislated what the testers are to test are at fault.
2. The Bill of Rights was not meant to enumerate specific rights, but rather raise the bar so high on restricting or revoking those rights as to make it legally impossible
It was meant to enumerate specific rights AND to set the bar high enough that restricting or revoking those rights is difficult, not impossible.
Ever been to the DMV lately? I'm not surprised there's only 170 total beautiful people in all of government.
to ratify and approve the agreement, which could take months or years
More likely "never". You want seriously think 175 legislatures can agree to something?