It felt like eons ago when I saw anyone off in the airport. Remember that? Once upon a time, you could wait with your loved ones right at the terminal gate. Imagine that!
The entire Japanese culture is about ripping off other cultures. There's even a term for it - idokotori - which means to take or copy what is best for oneself. They have always taken superior inventions or achievements from other nations and transplanted them back to Japan for continual improvement. The auto industry from the west. The Chinese language from China. Buddhist/Confucianism from Korea. If you look at the Japanese language, they have gone and replaced existing native Japanese words with English loanwords at a breakneck speed in the last 50 years, which is certainly not the norm when compared to other languages of the world (and they also did this with Chinese loanwords during the Ming dynasty). Or to extrapolate this one step further - I read an essay the other day that over 75% of Japanese females in the U.S. marry Caucasian men (with an noted increase also observed with women in Japan). Disregarding the social implications of this, this can be seen as another way of "incorporating" what they perceive as "superior" genetics into the Japanese bloodline.
I'm old enough to remember when Japanese cars were inferior to American cars, and my parents and grandparents remember when general Japanese consumer products were shoddy like a majority of the low-cost Chinese products today (albeit we're talking about pre-war and turn-of-the-century Japan). Therefore, I don't see anything different that Japan was doing 50-80 years ago versus what China and Korea are doing today (Korea being about 10-15 years ahead in its industrial growth when compared to China).
The Chinese province of Xinjiang and Qinghai in the northwest of the country are Muslim strongholds. An independence movement for East Turkmenistan is ongoing to be chagrin of the Chinese officials. Every once a while, some marketplace will get blown up and everyone gets clamped down upon.
BTW - You seem to be bothered by the label of "religious nutcases" being applied to Tibetans? What makes them so special as to be exempt from this label?
Then Microsoft would launch a mass-education campaign telling people that CD-ROMs from China contain "stale bits" or something like that. Yamaha has been battling gray-market pianos for years (ones imported from Japan because not many people want to buy second-hand pianos there), so they tell people that somehow wood used there is different than wood used for pianos shipped to North America.
Chinese food in the U.S. these days is likely to be cooked by guys named Juan and Alejandro, even at high-end authentic places. I assure you your last sweet and sour chicken contained very little if no ingredients from China.
How could you possibly spend $220/7/3 = $10.50 per meal for 3 meals every day of the week if you're not eating out? What are you buying? And this is after you hit multiple places to shop around?
The decision making becomes a little different when your annual income is $X and the brand new car cost $X (and the understeering car can be bought from a street vendor at the train station for $X/1000)
We've been losing foreign-born scientists much longer than that. During McCarthyism, Caltech rocket science pioneer Tsien Hsue-shen was deported to Communist China for having leftist affiliations (the yesteryear's "terrist"), and lots of "secret documents" which turned out to be nothing but log tables.
Because of this shortsightedness, he single-handedly built the nuclear and space programmes for Mao.
I'm sure there are countless examples of scholars being deported in such a manner. Nowadays, we just make it so hard for them to apply for visas that it's all over before it even started.
NES lol NES I download something from Napster NES And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done NES I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you" NES "getting my song back fucker"
...when I worked in Redmond, I already overhear many MS employees enthusiastically talking over lunch about selling people the "right" to use Word at $0.25 a pop. Some of them really feel like they're curing cancer or something.
doubtless they really hate Taiwan and all it represents
This may have been very true 10-15 years ago, but certainly not now. In fact, millions of Taiwanese (including 5 from my own family) have moved to the mainland to live and work permanently. It's the mainlanders who are the ruthless capitalist running dogs these days.
10-15 years ago, it worked even better. There was a huge noticeable difference as you drive from Portland to Washington state. The roads in Washington state were decrepit and bumpy, whereas Oregon roads were paved more often. Of course, as the population surged in Portland, it's getting crowded and congested just like everywhere else. And when they started outsourcing all the crew work to contractors, the quality went down and the cost went up 3x.
Off-topic - but how do you, as a collector, store beverages? Evidently, I know nothing about this. And this is very evident when my 2 cans of Vancouver 2010 Olympics memorabilia Coke started leaking at the bottom of the can after 2 years of storage in my pantry. Just curious.
Actually, when I was there (less than 10 years ago...) it was $37 a quarter for the "technology fee," which pays for the computer labs, bandwidth, 50,000 licenses for Photoshop, etc.
$37 is not bad for Internet2 speeds. During the good old days there, everyone had Windows 95 and all the shared folders were wide open.:-)
Aside from the powerful Cuban lobby, there's also a sizable Hawaiian tourist industry lobby at play. Why fly halfway across the Pacific to Hawaii when you can fly 1 hr to Cuba?
I've had work meetings/visits to Beijing and other parts of China. Not only have I not met anyone who has not heard of it, I've met coworkers who openly tell me that they were at the protests themselves when they were at university.
People there just don't care because they're too busy making money.
When I was at both Weyerhaeuser and Honeywell, I had to sit through week-long corporate orientations for new employees. In both companies, it was explained that sometimes, a "gift" or "token contribution" is a widely accepted practice in some cultures and therefore part of doing business in such cultures. (i.e. it's OK - it's not _really_ bribery)
So no, the FCPA is practically on-paper only. Corporations obviously thumb their collective noses at it if they plainly justify it in their orientation PowerPoint slides.
Valgrind is nice - I'd like to use it but I couldn't find support for the arm platform.
I ended up using ccmalloc. It even claims to do multi-threaded apps too, although we found a bug in that portion of it but it was no biggie since we had the source.
Hong Kong, which has universal health care, free education (minus token school fees), heavily-subsidized mass transit, heavily-subsidized government housing, is not socialist?
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It felt like eons ago when I saw anyone off in the airport. Remember that? Once upon a time, you could wait with your loved ones right at the terminal gate. Imagine that!
The worst parts of S. Korea use donkeys to pull their plows and don't have electricity within 100 miles.
:-)
Have you ever been to rural West Virginia?
The entire Japanese culture is about ripping off other cultures. There's even a term for it - idokotori - which means to take or copy what is best for oneself. They have always taken superior inventions or achievements from other nations and transplanted them back to Japan for continual improvement. The auto industry from the west. The Chinese language from China. Buddhist/Confucianism from Korea. If you look at the Japanese language, they have gone and replaced existing native Japanese words with English loanwords at a breakneck speed in the last 50 years, which is certainly not the norm when compared to other languages of the world (and they also did this with Chinese loanwords during the Ming dynasty). Or to extrapolate this one step further - I read an essay the other day that over 75% of Japanese females in the U.S. marry Caucasian men (with an noted increase also observed with women in Japan). Disregarding the social implications of this, this can be seen as another way of "incorporating" what they perceive as "superior" genetics into the Japanese bloodline.
I'm old enough to remember when Japanese cars were inferior to American cars, and my parents and grandparents remember when general Japanese consumer products were shoddy like a majority of the low-cost Chinese products today (albeit we're talking about pre-war and turn-of-the-century Japan). Therefore, I don't see anything different that Japan was doing 50-80 years ago versus what China and Korea are doing today (Korea being about 10-15 years ahead in its industrial growth when compared to China).
The Chinese province of Xinjiang and Qinghai in the northwest of the country are Muslim strongholds. An independence movement for East Turkmenistan is ongoing to be chagrin of the Chinese officials. Every once a while, some marketplace will get blown up and everyone gets clamped down upon.
BTW - You seem to be bothered by the label of "religious nutcases" being applied to Tibetans? What makes them so special as to be exempt from this label?
Then Microsoft would launch a mass-education campaign telling people that CD-ROMs from China contain "stale bits" or something like that. Yamaha has been battling gray-market pianos for years (ones imported from Japan because not many people want to buy second-hand pianos there), so they tell people that somehow wood used there is different than wood used for pianos shipped to North America.
Chinese food in the U.S. these days is likely to be cooked by guys named Juan and Alejandro, even at high-end authentic places. I assure you your last sweet and sour chicken contained very little if no ingredients from China.
If everyone had to opt-in to pay an extra for $90 every time they bought a computer at Best Buy, you'd see a lot of piracy too.
How could you possibly spend $220/7/3 = $10.50 per meal for 3 meals every day of the week if you're not eating out? What are you buying? And this is after you hit multiple places to shop around?
The decision making becomes a little different when your annual income is $X and the brand new car cost $X (and the understeering car can be bought from a street vendor at the train station for $X/1000)
Looks like some programmer messed up some mundane detail like a decimal point or something.
We've been losing foreign-born scientists much longer than that. During McCarthyism, Caltech rocket science pioneer Tsien Hsue-shen was deported to Communist China for having leftist affiliations (the yesteryear's "terrist"), and lots of "secret documents" which turned out to be nothing but log tables. Because of this shortsightedness, he single-handedly built the nuclear and space programmes for Mao. I'm sure there are countless examples of scholars being deported in such a manner. Nowadays, we just make it so hard for them to apply for visas that it's all over before it even started.
Will only 4 cores be enough to render all the flying doves and the ten thousand bullets that Chow Yun Fat will fire as he glides down the stairs?
NES lol
NES I download something from Napster
NES And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
NES I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
NES "getting my song back fucker"
...when I worked in Redmond, I already overhear many MS employees enthusiastically talking over lunch about selling people the "right" to use Word at $0.25 a pop. Some of them really feel like they're curing cancer or something.
doubtless they really hate Taiwan and all it represents
This may have been very true 10-15 years ago, but certainly not now. In fact, millions of Taiwanese (including 5 from my own family) have moved to the mainland to live and work permanently. It's the mainlanders who are the ruthless capitalist running dogs these days.
10-15 years ago, it worked even better. There was a huge noticeable difference as you drive from Portland to Washington state. The roads in Washington state were decrepit and bumpy, whereas Oregon roads were paved more often. Of course, as the population surged in Portland, it's getting crowded and congested just like everywhere else. And when they started outsourcing all the crew work to contractors, the quality went down and the cost went up 3x.
Off-topic - but how do you, as a collector, store beverages? Evidently, I know nothing about this. And this is very evident when my 2 cans of Vancouver 2010 Olympics memorabilia Coke started leaking at the bottom of the can after 2 years of storage in my pantry. Just curious.
Actually, when I was there (less than 10 years ago...) it was $37 a quarter for the "technology fee," which pays for the computer labs, bandwidth, 50,000 licenses for Photoshop, etc.
:-)
$37 is not bad for Internet2 speeds. During the good old days there, everyone had Windows 95 and all the shared folders were wide open.
Families like this one are a bit short on brain mass to begin with...
Aside from the powerful Cuban lobby, there's also a sizable Hawaiian tourist industry lobby at play. Why fly halfway across the Pacific to Hawaii when you can fly 1 hr to Cuba?
many of them have no idea it ever happened
That's a bit simplistic, don't you think?
I've had work meetings/visits to Beijing and other parts of China. Not only have I not met anyone who has not heard of it, I've met coworkers who openly tell me that they were at the protests themselves when they were at university.
People there just don't care because they're too busy making money.
When I was at both Weyerhaeuser and Honeywell, I had to sit through week-long corporate orientations for new employees. In both companies, it was explained that sometimes, a "gift" or "token contribution" is a widely accepted practice in some cultures and therefore part of doing business in such cultures. (i.e. it's OK - it's not _really_ bribery)
So no, the FCPA is practically on-paper only. Corporations obviously thumb their collective noses at it if they plainly justify it in their orientation PowerPoint slides.
Valgrind is nice - I'd like to use it but I couldn't find support for the arm platform.
I ended up using ccmalloc. It even claims to do multi-threaded apps too, although we found a bug in that portion of it but it was no biggie since we had the source.
Hong Kong, which has universal health care, free education (minus token school fees), heavily-subsidized mass transit, heavily-subsidized government housing, is not socialist?
The same reactionary school that handcuffs its students uppity 11-year-old black kids for "rowdy behavior."