The sat radio services have been live for what, less then two years? It seems disturbing that a venture of this size wouldn't have had a longer term plan.
Sat radio is a great idea, and an idea that I have held off embrasing due to too many uncertianties. Why they chose to go with propritary hardware for their services is beyond me. $200-400 for the setup, and if the service goes out of business, you can't just call up the compitition to reprogram the radio.
This can, and should be able to work in the long run; It's just that good of an idea.
10 of 13 root servers a phyiscally located withen the United States.
I am unaware of one of the remaning three being located in Croatia.
If it upsets you that US law enforcement is protecting interests owned or located withen the United States, perhaps instead of complaning about the big bad US you could take steps to encourage development of higher level backbone resources in your country of choice.
Which special privledges do these minority blood lines deserve in the first place?
There is an argument that states that due to historical abuse (racism, access to educational resources etc.) of certian minority groups, their ancestors alive today have been placed into an economic situation which keeps them in a cycle of ignorent poverty. Afermative action programs were put in place by Nixon et. al. with the hopes that it would make it easier for the intellegent to escape that cycle.
Maybe this will sweep out a lot of that BS.
Weather that really works or not is certinatly up to debate. Just as the article mentioned the blond haired blue eyed surfer discovering Hawaiian ancestry from study of DNA to be eligable for a grant, I would assume this would start happining all over the place.
My personal hope is, with the development of genetic tracing of ancestry, we will begin to 'sweep out the BS' that cyclical poverty is universal in this day and age. Personal, legal and institutional racial discrimination are, if not gone already, on their last legs. If we begin to show a blind eye towards ethnicity, perhaps the rare rose born in the trailor of poor white trash has the same chance as the Aferican American boy born in the ghetto.
now people like the KKK can use this to further their cause!
Doubtful. If anything it'll take those folks down a notch. The article touches on the fact that we all have some sort of mixed ancestry; "We are all mutts".
What happens when the KKK weirdos discover they have (which in all likelyhood they do) have Aferican or *gasp* Jewish ancestry?
More likely the danger would be in non-minority people discovering faint genetic traces of minority blood lines and abusing that fact to gain special privlidges they otherwise wouldn't be able to receive (or deserve).
On another note, you have to wonder about what the insurance companies would do about this. On the one hand, it seems likely they would raise premiums on those with genomes with a higher predisposition towards certian deseases. On the other hand, one could assume that in the interests of profits insurance companies would push for cheaper gene thearpy to remove potentially dangerous mutations before they lead to expensive medical positions.
I could easily see a day where insurance companies encourage (or perhaps even mandate) an analysis of DNA shortly after conception and modify the geneitics of the new life while it's still just a few cells. The logic is simple: Spend $5k to remove defects to save $100k in 40 years.
It could be very scary, or it could be very benificial. Now is the time to watch the lawmakers very, very carefully.
Take a copy of a movie and show it to other people while not making any money, go to jail.
Make millions as a CEO through deception and fraud destroying the financial lives of thousands and contributing to the collapse of the economy as a whole... you can go free.
Sell a relitivly harmless plant to someone to help them releave stress, go to jail.
Make billions by putting out drugs at prices that bankrupt people less they die... you can go free.... there examples a pleanty. But the moral of the story is, in America's justice system it's only really wrong if you don't make a fortune.
Later she says she switched from Netscape. Doesn't she mean 'bookmarks'?
the process of switching was as easy as the marketing hype had promised.
There's something so creepy about that statement withen the context of the peice that... oh I don't know.
I am a freelance writer; I demand the best in mobile computing.
I am too. But I can't see how a DVD player or oodles of ram have anything to do being a writer. If I wasn't also a computer geek, I'd probably find a mac to be much more accomidating a platform.
AppleWorks (previously called ClarisWorks)
I went to my bookshelf to dust off some of the old floppies from the old//e days. My office suite was called appleworks back in mid 80s. Am I missing something here?
you'll need to know your ISP's name (e.g., MSN®), of course! Not that anyone would need a different ISP. your user name (the part of your e-mail address before the @ symbol), Yes. Of course. Everyone always uses their ISP's e-mail service. Espically credible freelance writing Lexus renters.
There are more... but boy, this really borders between silly and absurd.
There are lots of good reasons to have Macs. There are lots of good reasons to have Windows. At least Apple does a good job in trying convince people to switch.
will fail because there's no good way of charging for it.
I just don't get it. That's like saying VCRs will die because the companys that make VCRs can't figure out a way to keep bringing in money.
Perhaps if Tivo was interested in making money by actually selling hardware and farming out the technology to television makers they could turn a profit.
I think the difference is South Park (as well as the Beavis and Butthead movie) were great because the premis of the shows rarely, if ever, were really focused around a plot; the plot in both being nothing more then a simple frame to law a series of jokes and gags around.
So changing the show from 22 minutes to 90-120 minutes wouldn't be hard. The Simpsons, on the other hand, do have (or try to) stories behind them, and the show relies on the stories as part of what makes it good. Trying to stretch one of those stories to 2 hours will be very difficult.
I was pleasently surprise to discover one of the bonus features on the Tron DVD was a pretty comprehensive utility that you can run through to improve the image quality on your TV.
From what I understand, a good portion of poor image quality has to do with improper television settings. After I ran through that utility, the picture quality on my TV was dramatically improved.
I wonder why more DVDs don't do this, or even video game consols. It just seems like such a good idea to improve the quality of the experience.
Of course they are. Al Gore (D) invented the Internet afterall!
In reality I couldn't say which party is more with it, but as a general rule it seems that the dems at least understand the technology a little better.
This just strikes me as odd considering so many Hollywood types seem to be linked closer with democrats then republicans.
That's not really true. I was given accolades for my sympathy and empathy at work. Even with mac users.
I did my best to be kind and helpful regardless of if I knew the user was lying to me (I'm not in frount of my computer was a common one with mac users).
And yes, there ARE pc users who are like that too, but again, in my expereince, there is a much higher percentage of mac users who are more interested in being right then being helped.
This has nothing to do with being a newbie. If you don't know how to use a computer, there is nothing wrong with asking for help, espically when it's from someone who is paid to help you.
On the other hand, the person on the other end of the phone is in fact a person. If he or she is good at what they do, they will do everything they can to help you and treat you as a person. And if they are really good, they will still try to treat you as a person even when you are a compleate prick to them.
So, let me rephrase this. As a percentage of people who call tech support, mac users have more assholes.
And just what is wrong with this? I personally tend to push the limits of my computers in many ways and know the ins and outs of hardware and software, but my mother and my grandmother just want to be able to get email, surf the web and get photos and movies of the kids and grandkids.
There is nothing wrong with that. And if you don't quite understand your computer, you should by all means call tech support.
But the problem is mac users, again as a general rule, are just plain rude.
"Ok. in the upper left hand corner of your screen, you should see a little apple. I want you to click on that"
"There is no little apple in the corner"
"There should be, look again"
"I'm telling you, there is no little apple"
"I'm sure it's there. Take your time."
"I'm not some idiot. If there was an apple, I'd tell you"
(... continues for 15 minutes).
"Sir, I hate to say this, but I can't help you. I want to help you, but I just can't. If you don't see a little apple, either you have a different kind of computer or there is something seriously wrong with yours that we don't have the resources to fix"
"fine. I'll go into the den and turn the damn thing on"
This is not some rare funny story... this is typical of the mentality of a mac user who calls tech support.
Again, I'm not saying mac users are dumb, but the ones who use the support resources of a company, at least in my experience, sure the heck are.
You'll probably be modded down for saying that, but your right. I long ago conceded the fact that Macs were at the very least as good as PCs (in some areas), but Mac users are a whole different story.
I worked the phones in tech support for quite some time for a major ISP. I hated having to get mac calls. Not because they were difficult to troubleshoot; macs are surprisingly easy to fix when there are network issues, and I always liked that.
But the users, as a general rule, were much much worse then PC users. The worst were the imac users. I have dozens of theories about why this is, but the only one I can come up with is mac users simply don't invest the time needed to really understand their own computers, or at least the time needed to properly opperate a PC, but instead just want everything to work right. When it doesn't it's the fault of whoever is on the other end of the phone.
This is not a bash of macs. Macs are so easy to troubleshoot, the computer literate mac user rarely needs to call tech support, so the support folks just get the worst of the worst.
you can always add "did volunteer work rating messages submitted to a public web site. Work involved reading posted comments, deciding quality and relevance of posting, and moderating accordingly. Also did oversight work rating moderators performance."
Perhaps you could add "Rated people poorly who made comments that were over my head by moderating them down despite the fact they were insightful, funny, or full of usefull information. Continue to do this because I am an idiot"
1: I'm not sure I agree with you. I would think that any prospective employer would be thrilled to know about my stamp collecting, model car building, awards for being a top notch bird caller, and my highly developed talent in the fine art of taxidermy. I think they would see that that makes a highly dynamic and professional person. But your right. My unhealthy infatuation with Stanley Kubrick might be a bit overboard.
2. Yeah, I've made that mistake. Aparently "In 10 years I hope to be dating your daughter, forcing her to have childern and selling them to white slavery rings" is just too ambitious for a future boss on a resume. I've switched that to 'I hope to finally finish the original Zork in 2 years'.
You might even try to do the really insane idea of instead of replying to this and telling me I'm wrong/I'm an idiot, you could start a new message and tell the world why linux needs an undelete.
Really.
Telling people why you're right is a heck of a lot more effective then telling me that I'm wrong.
I just am uncomfortable with the idea of linux trying to be more like windows. It shouldn't and doesn't have to do that.
So everyone can stop calling me pompus or whathaveyou. If you want a windows like OS, get windows. If you're looking for a very user freindly OS, get windows.
If you like to play with things and get under the hood of your computer, run Linux (actually, I run BSD... but I'm not touching that debate with a 10 foot pole).
I have been using computers for over 20 years. I have never, ever, ever 'accidently' deleted an important file.
I'm smart enough to know what 'delete' does. I don't need to be asked if I'm sure. (Yeah, on second thought I don't want to delete it?). And I don't need to have a recovery system if I delete a file.
One of the more charming aspects of *nix is that it's designed by and for people who have a clue. The more you make it easy to use by the common user, the more it becomes bastardized.
Why do I see linux not including a command line in 5 years.
Oh yeah. Sports games have if anything developed far too a complex interface. Yes, it allows you do to many new things, but it's still far to complex an interface to make it easy to just pick up.
To me, football games lived and died around Techmo bowl. I thought that was the greatest football video game ever made. I know the '92 teams better then I know the modern teams from playing that over and over again.
Then a few years ago my roomate got madden, and I was just lost. I won't say it was worse, but it was too hard.
Normally, I like games that are harder, but not sports games, and that's just me. But I'm glad they continue to make sports games more complex.
For the last 5 years game makers have been sacrificing game play to graphics in an attempt to bring in more customers.
EA is a great example of doing this. I can remember a time when Maxis produced or distributed interesting, technical games. Titles like sim ant, sim city, or a-train.
Those days are gone. The sim city franchise (once considered their 'flag ship' title) actually lost many of its technical features in the last release, and the next release has been delayed not by programming, but because EA's marketing people have decided to hold off on the next release due to yet another version of the sims.
Don't get me wrong, 'The Sims' is a neat game, but the novelty (for me) wears off quickly after the AI becomes so woefully predictable. But Maxis (EA) beats the quick fad like a dead horse. 'Look, now your sim can have a puppy! That'll be $35' Meanwhile more technical and thought provoking games get better graphics and less gameplay. "We want to make the game more accessable to childern and novices" was a justification in the last Sim City game. Read: We want to dumb it down and have pretty colors.
So, if chic means computer games are reaching a new more sophisticated level where art and game play are merged together, they are wrong. If Chic means the game industry is going more Holywood insofar as artistic quality and new or unique innovation is sacrificed to the gods of safe, rehashed ideas to maximise profits... then ok, yeah.
There are creative people all over the world, including China. The only difference is, the United States provides a far better and free envrionment for those creative people to create.
contributions of einstein and other great german thinkers where the heck would the US be?
Well, Einstein and many of the other scientists might possibly be dead.
It's called freedom, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. The US isn't the best because of it's indigious population, it's the best because in the past we've allowed individuals from different walks of life to live peacefully here.
Sadly, that's been changing, but I'd still rather live here then a country that thinks nothing of relocating my entire town, along with hundreds of thousands of other people from homes their famlies have had for over 1,000 years for a public works project that will be usless in 30 years.
I'd rather live here then in a country that basically forces people to have abortions.
I'd rather live here then in a country that kills you for a minor drug violation.
And people like you who love to bash me as an 'egotistic idiot'... I have nothing against Chinese people. I just don't like the Chinese government, and to that extent, I'm happy for all of the people of Chinese descent who have made it over here.
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The sat radio services have been live for what, less then two years? It seems disturbing that a venture of this size wouldn't have had a longer term plan.
Sat radio is a great idea, and an idea that I have held off embrasing due to too many uncertianties. Why they chose to go with propritary hardware for their services is beyond me. $200-400 for the setup, and if the service goes out of business, you can't just call up the compitition to reprogram the radio.
This can, and should be able to work in the long run; It's just that good of an idea.
10 of 13 root servers a phyiscally located withen the United States.
I am unaware of one of the remaning three being located in Croatia.
If it upsets you that US law enforcement is protecting interests owned or located withen the United States, perhaps instead of complaning about the big bad US you could take steps to encourage development of higher level backbone resources in your country of choice.
Which special privledges do these minority blood lines deserve in the first place?
There is an argument that states that due to historical abuse (racism, access to educational resources etc.) of certian minority groups, their ancestors alive today have been placed into an economic situation which keeps them in a cycle of ignorent poverty. Afermative action programs were put in place by Nixon et. al. with the hopes that it would make it easier for the intellegent to escape that cycle.
Maybe this will sweep out a lot of that BS.
Weather that really works or not is certinatly up to debate. Just as the article mentioned the blond haired blue eyed surfer discovering Hawaiian ancestry from study of DNA to be eligable for a grant, I would assume this would start happining all over the place.
My personal hope is, with the development of genetic tracing of ancestry, we will begin to 'sweep out the BS' that cyclical poverty is universal in this day and age. Personal, legal and institutional racial discrimination are, if not gone already, on their last legs. If we begin to show a blind eye towards ethnicity, perhaps the rare rose born in the trailor of poor white trash has the same chance as the Aferican American boy born in the ghetto.
now people like the KKK can use this to further their cause!
Doubtful. If anything it'll take those folks down a notch. The article touches on the fact that we all have some sort of mixed ancestry; "We are all mutts".
What happens when the KKK weirdos discover they have (which in all likelyhood they do) have Aferican or *gasp* Jewish ancestry?
More likely the danger would be in non-minority people discovering faint genetic traces of minority blood lines and abusing that fact to gain special privlidges they otherwise wouldn't be able to receive (or deserve).
On another note, you have to wonder about what the insurance companies would do about this. On the one hand, it seems likely they would raise premiums on those with genomes with a higher predisposition towards certian deseases. On the other hand, one could assume that in the interests of profits insurance companies would push for cheaper gene thearpy to remove potentially dangerous mutations before they lead to expensive medical positions.
I could easily see a day where insurance companies encourage (or perhaps even mandate) an analysis of DNA shortly after conception and modify the geneitics of the new life while it's still just a few cells. The logic is simple: Spend $5k to remove defects to save $100k in 40 years.
It could be very scary, or it could be very benificial. Now is the time to watch the lawmakers very, very carefully.
Take a copy of a movie and show it to other people while not making any money, go to jail.
... there examples a pleanty. But the moral of the story is, in America's justice system it's only really wrong if you don't make a fortune.
Make millions as a CEO through deception and fraud destroying the financial lives of thousands and contributing to the collapse of the economy as a whole... you can go free.
Sell a relitivly harmless plant to someone to help them releave stress, go to jail.
Make billions by putting out drugs at prices that bankrupt people less they die... you can go free.
and keep my Web favorites.
//e days. My office suite was called appleworks back in mid 80s. Am I missing something here?
Later she says she switched from Netscape. Doesn't she mean 'bookmarks'?
the process of switching was as easy as the marketing hype had promised.
There's something so creepy about that statement withen the context of the peice that... oh I don't know.
I am a freelance writer; I demand the best in mobile computing.
I am too. But I can't see how a DVD player or oodles of ram have anything to do being a writer. If I wasn't also a computer geek, I'd probably find a mac to be much more accomidating a platform.
AppleWorks (previously called ClarisWorks)
I went to my bookshelf to dust off some of the old floppies from the old
you'll need to know your ISP's name (e.g., MSN®), of course! Not that anyone would need a different ISP. your user name (the part of your e-mail address before the @ symbol), Yes. Of course. Everyone always uses their ISP's e-mail service. Espically credible freelance writing Lexus renters.
There are more... but boy, this really borders between silly and absurd.
There are lots of good reasons to have Macs. There are lots of good reasons to have Windows. At least Apple does a good job in trying convince people to switch.
will fail because there's no good way of charging for it.
I just don't get it. That's like saying VCRs will die because the companys that make VCRs can't figure out a way to keep bringing in money.
Perhaps if Tivo was interested in making money by actually selling hardware and farming out the technology to television makers they could turn a profit.
I always figured Strom Thurmond would play Mr. Burns.
And a desperatly aging Leondardo DeCaprio with lots of makeup doing Millhouse
If lucy isn't availble for Lisa, somebody might call up that annoying pepsi girl.
I think the difference is South Park (as well as the Beavis and Butthead movie) were great because the premis of the shows rarely, if ever, were really focused around a plot; the plot in both being nothing more then a simple frame to law a series of jokes and gags around.
So changing the show from 22 minutes to 90-120 minutes wouldn't be hard. The Simpsons, on the other hand, do have (or try to) stories behind them, and the show relies on the stories as part of what makes it good. Trying to stretch one of those stories to 2 hours will be very difficult.
I was pleasently surprise to discover one of the bonus features on the Tron DVD was a pretty comprehensive utility that you can run through to improve the image quality on your TV.
From what I understand, a good portion of poor image quality has to do with improper television settings. After I ran through that utility, the picture quality on my TV was dramatically improved.
I wonder why more DVDs don't do this, or even video game consols. It just seems like such a good idea to improve the quality of the experience.
Of course they are. Al Gore (D) invented the Internet afterall!
In reality I couldn't say which party is more with it, but as a general rule it seems that the dems at least understand the technology a little better.
This just strikes me as odd considering so many Hollywood types seem to be linked closer with democrats then republicans.
That's not really true. I was given accolades for my sympathy and empathy at work. Even with mac users.
I did my best to be kind and helpful regardless of if I knew the user was lying to me (I'm not in frount of my computer was a common one with mac users).
And yes, there ARE pc users who are like that too, but again, in my expereince, there is a much higher percentage of mac users who are more interested in being right then being helped.
This has nothing to do with being a newbie. If you don't know how to use a computer, there is nothing wrong with asking for help, espically when it's from someone who is paid to help you.
On the other hand, the person on the other end of the phone is in fact a person. If he or she is good at what they do, they will do everything they can to help you and treat you as a person. And if they are really good, they will still try to treat you as a person even when you are a compleate prick to them.
So, let me rephrase this. As a percentage of people who call tech support, mac users have more assholes.
And just what is wrong with this? I personally tend to push the limits of my computers in many ways and know the ins and outs of hardware and software, but my mother and my grandmother just want to be able to get email, surf the web and get photos and movies of the kids and grandkids.
There is nothing wrong with that. And if you don't quite understand your computer, you should by all means call tech support.
But the problem is mac users, again as a general rule, are just plain rude.
"Ok. in the upper left hand corner of your screen, you should see a little apple. I want you to click on that"
"There is no little apple in the corner"
"There should be, look again"
"I'm telling you, there is no little apple"
"I'm sure it's there. Take your time."
"I'm not some idiot. If there was an apple, I'd tell you"
(... continues for 15 minutes).
"Sir, I hate to say this, but I can't help you. I want to help you, but I just can't. If you don't see a little apple, either you have a different kind of computer or there is something seriously wrong with yours that we don't have the resources to fix"
"fine. I'll go into the den and turn the damn thing on"
This is not some rare funny story... this is typical of the mentality of a mac user who calls tech support.
Again, I'm not saying mac users are dumb, but the ones who use the support resources of a company, at least in my experience, sure the heck are.
You'll probably be modded down for saying that, but your right. I long ago conceded the fact that Macs were at the very least as good as PCs (in some areas), but Mac users are a whole different story.
I worked the phones in tech support for quite some time for a major ISP. I hated having to get mac calls. Not because they were difficult to troubleshoot; macs are surprisingly easy to fix when there are network issues, and I always liked that.
But the users, as a general rule, were much much worse then PC users. The worst were the imac users. I have dozens of theories about why this is, but the only one I can come up with is mac users simply don't invest the time needed to really understand their own computers, or at least the time needed to properly opperate a PC, but instead just want everything to work right. When it doesn't it's the fault of whoever is on the other end of the phone.
This is not a bash of macs. Macs are so easy to troubleshoot, the computer literate mac user rarely needs to call tech support, so the support folks just get the worst of the worst.
you can always add "did volunteer work rating messages submitted to a public web site. Work involved reading posted comments, deciding quality and relevance of posting, and moderating accordingly. Also did oversight work rating moderators performance."
Perhaps you could add "Rated people poorly who made comments that were over my head by moderating them down despite the fact they were insightful, funny, or full of usefull information. Continue to do this because I am an idiot"
I like that idea.
1: I'm not sure I agree with you. I would think that any prospective employer would be thrilled to know about my stamp collecting, model car building, awards for being a top notch bird caller, and my highly developed talent in the fine art of taxidermy. I think they would see that that makes a highly dynamic and professional person. But your right. My unhealthy infatuation with Stanley Kubrick might be a bit overboard.
2. Yeah, I've made that mistake. Aparently "In 10 years I hope to be dating your daughter, forcing her to have childern and selling them to white slavery rings" is just too ambitious for a future boss on a resume. I've switched that to 'I hope to finally finish the original Zork in 2 years'.
3. I'll try to remember.
Ok
You really can stop replying to this thread.
Really.
You might even try to do the really insane idea of instead of replying to this and telling me I'm wrong/I'm an idiot, you could start a new message and tell the world why linux needs an undelete.
Really.
Telling people why you're right is a heck of a lot more effective then telling me that I'm wrong.
No, I'm not special and smart.
I just am uncomfortable with the idea of linux trying to be more like windows. It shouldn't and doesn't have to do that.
So everyone can stop calling me pompus or whathaveyou. If you want a windows like OS, get windows. If you're looking for a very user freindly OS, get windows.
If you like to play with things and get under the hood of your computer, run Linux (actually, I run BSD... but I'm not touching that debate with a 10 foot pole).
I use pico. I think it's rad.
I have been using computers for over 20 years. I have never, ever, ever 'accidently' deleted an important file.
I'm smart enough to know what 'delete' does. I don't need to be asked if I'm sure. (Yeah, on second thought I don't want to delete it?). And I don't need to have a recovery system if I delete a file.
One of the more charming aspects of *nix is that it's designed by and for people who have a clue. The more you make it easy to use by the common user, the more it becomes bastardized.
Why do I see linux not including a command line in 5 years.
um.. I don't get it. AOL is actually trying to divorce itself from software that requires quite a bit of tweeking to work right?
And how many of those sales were from students with brand new computers who quickly discovered how bad ME is?
Oh yeah. Sports games have if anything developed far too a complex interface. Yes, it allows you do to many new things, but it's still far to complex an interface to make it easy to just pick up.
To me, football games lived and died around Techmo bowl. I thought that was the greatest football video game ever made. I know the '92 teams better then I know the modern teams from playing that over and over again.
Then a few years ago my roomate got madden, and I was just lost. I won't say it was worse, but it was too hard.
Normally, I like games that are harder, but not sports games, and that's just me. But I'm glad they continue to make sports games more complex.
I think that's an execption to the rule.
That's really all I can equate this too.
For the last 5 years game makers have been sacrificing game play to graphics in an attempt to bring in more customers.
EA is a great example of doing this. I can remember a time when Maxis produced or distributed interesting, technical games. Titles like sim ant, sim city, or a-train.
Those days are gone. The sim city franchise (once considered their 'flag ship' title) actually lost many of its technical features in the last release, and the next release has been delayed not by programming, but because EA's marketing people have decided to hold off on the next release due to yet another version of the sims.
Don't get me wrong, 'The Sims' is a neat game, but the novelty (for me) wears off quickly after the AI becomes so woefully predictable. But Maxis (EA) beats the quick fad like a dead horse. 'Look, now your sim can have a puppy! That'll be $35' Meanwhile more technical and thought provoking games get better graphics and less gameplay. "We want to make the game more accessable to childern and novices" was a justification in the last Sim City game. Read: We want to dumb it down and have pretty colors.
So, if chic means computer games are reaching a new more sophisticated level where art and game play are merged together, they are wrong. If Chic means the game industry is going more Holywood insofar as artistic quality and new or unique innovation is sacrificed to the gods of safe, rehashed ideas to maximise profits... then ok, yeah.
There are creative people all over the world, including China. The only difference is, the United States provides a far better and free envrionment for those creative people to create.
contributions of einstein and other great german thinkers where the heck would the US be?
Well, Einstein and many of the other scientists might possibly be dead.
It's called freedom, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. The US isn't the best because of it's indigious population, it's the best because in the past we've allowed individuals from different walks of life to live peacefully here.
Sadly, that's been changing, but I'd still rather live here then a country that thinks nothing of relocating my entire town, along with hundreds of thousands of other people from homes their famlies have had for over 1,000 years for a public works project that will be usless in 30 years.
I'd rather live here then in a country that basically forces people to have abortions.
I'd rather live here then in a country that kills you for a minor drug violation.
And people like you who love to bash me as an 'egotistic idiot'... I have nothing against Chinese people. I just don't like the Chinese government, and to that extent, I'm happy for all of the people of Chinese descent who have made it over here.