And when you walk around the red-light district, you would see clients roll up in their Rolls Royces or Mercedes, and a kind gentlemen would go to all of them and cover up the license plates with a piece of velvet cloth while they are patronizing their favorite businesses.
A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician are sitting in an outdoor cafe. They watch two people go into a building across the street. Shortly thereafter, three people come out.
"Hmm," says the biologist. "It looks like they reproduced."
"Nah," says the physicist. "There was obviously error in our initial measurement."
The mathematician looks up from his coffee. "Who cares? If another person goes in, it'll be empty."
Disclaimer: My wife is a purchaser for a fashion conglomerate, and I have somewhat of an interest in the outsourcing of fashion manufacturing.
If you are implying that Chinese textiles are inferior to those of Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Turkey, then you are incorrect. These places that you mention, often along with the Philippines, India, and Vietnam are contracted for lower-end fashion. (Although Turkey does manufacture very high-quality leather goods). Higher-end fashion now mostly manufacturers in China or Hong Kong (for even higher-end fashion). The quality has improved so much that higher-end fashions have no problems moving their base of manufacturing to China. Sure - China still makes crappy $2 socks for Walmart, but it also makes that $800 cocktail gown at BCBG. The move upwards has a lot to do with Vietnam going into WTO and upping its textiles quotas for the U.S.
What you have said about Chinese textiles was true 5-7 years ago. Not anymore. They no longer don't exclusively make cheap stuff.
I volunteer once or twice a year at my local hospitals. Many of the other volunteers are billing / admin employees from these respective hospitals. There were several times where we held a charity auction, and rich folks come by and bid $60,000 on a bottle of wine or something like that.
Windows computer terminals with a very straightforward tallying application are set up for us to record all final auction wins and purchases. It required 3 simple steps - enter the item number, the bidder's auction ID number, and the bid amount. These people who worked in the hospital - the ones who deal with data entry and accounting and whatnot on a daily basis - took 60 minutes of frustratingly painful training before _starting_ to understand the trivially simple application. I've worked in other hospitals before and have also seen a girth of not-so-bright individuals working the billing / admin sectors of health care.
I've heard that up to 20% of overhead in health care costs comes from inefficient billing methods (due to the practice of hiring the aforementioned people) and lack of data integration with insurance companies. Maybe fixing this along with hiring better people would go a long way in reducing costs.
One time, I happened upon the resume of our top honcho at our Bangalore office. It says that he graduated from "IIT". I found it strange that a person who graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology would simply abbreviate the school's name. Most would think to write down the name in its entirety to milk it for all it's worth.
A google search or two later, I saw that "IIT" meant online degree from "Illinois Institute of Technology". Quite different than the other IIT.
Last I remember, I don't remember seeing any kissing at all in Bollywood movies. Not even pecks on the cheek. So it's probably a cultural thing rather than just noise from a handful of extremists.
In the mid-80's, I wrote a short story about a group of terrorist who seized a building and ended up killing many people in their quest.
Not only did I not get into trouble, I was rewarded with an excerpt reading in class and a free trip to a gifted writers' workshop where I won awards and accolades.
If I did that today, I'd be sent away pretty quickly, I'd imagine.
I never understood the whole "Korean" angle that the newsmedia was taking with this story. It was almost they're implying that his barbaric behavior somehow grew out of his exotic and foreign upbring - but he's been in this country since he was 8 years old. An overwhelming majority of Asian people who immigrate to the U.S. before the age of 10 or 11 will have completely lost their native accent by the time they are 23. Most probably, you would not be able to tell them apart from American-born Asians. If there is some lame attempt to blame this on Korean culture or upbringing for cultivating violence, then it doesn't make any sense at all. The violence and gun culture was proven to be a solely American contribution to his deranged psyche, but what probably tipped him over the edge was all the taunting due to his shyness, and perhaps over-pressure from his working-class Korean parents His sister graduated from Princeton, but he only got into "lowly" Virginia Tech and majoring in a non-traditional-according-to-Koreans thing like English - I'm sure they gave him plenty of crap for that as well, if there's any contribution of Korean culture in this matter.
It's been shown in numerous studies that a band consisting of gold and diamonds causes an allergic reaction of which a typical symptom is excessive bloating.
On the Nature channel, they also talked about how they would trade food rations for photographs of "alpha-male" top monkeys. Very analogous to humans buying US Weekly or People at the checkout stands.
You would think that in places like China and India, the government would not disrupt activities which are surefire methods of decreasing reproduction rates.
For Cantonese, the Wade-Giles or Yale systems are still widely used. IIRC, The Yale system is considered to be more academically correct. Although, there is technical debate on what is "real" Cantonese. There are literally hundreds of different dialects of Cantonese, but they're overshadowed by the Hong Kong flavor as they have the most cultural hegemony.
and they've decided to movie the manufacturing and R&D of their most profitable product overseas (this is a crucial safety device used on pretty much any aircraft flying with more than 2 engines). My neighbor was in manufacturing QA, and was slated to be laid off, but his entire group was forced to stick around since last summer to train their replacements. Their pensions were being effectively held hostage, so they all obeyed dutifully. They were supposed to be done and all laid off by last October, but they are still working right now due to "difficulties with the transition of labor." I know they're not purposefully delaying or sabotaging the transition, because they know the company's a sinking ship and would just as quickly look for another job if they didn't hold their pensions hostage. Meanwhile, wages at the to-be-outsourced destination has thus far risen 5-8% plus increased transport costs across the Pacific.
In my neighborhood, there's Comcast and Verizon FIOS. After Verizon started offering their free installation and teaser rates, Comcast bumped up my 3Mbps for $50 package up to 12Mbps.
Robert Rodriguez made El Mariachi, later quasi-remade into Desperado, with a budget of only $6,000. He did everything from selling his own blood for fundraising to casting his own family members in the movie.
On the El Mariachi DVD, there was a special feature called something like "The 10-minute film school of Robert Rodriguez". It probably talks about some of the stuff in his book, like how not to waste film. For example, if somebody throws a gun up to a balcony, but misses the balcony - don't throw the film away. Just cut the part after the gun misses the balcony and paste other footage which shows the gun landing on the balcony. Hollywood would have just scrapped the whole day's take and reshot the whole scene and what a waste that is. This is why old-school Hong Kong films like Hard Boiled can have more explosions and action than Die Hard, but only costing $4 million US to make.
If this happened in India, the succesful group would have been hounded mercilessly and demonized for political purposes.
That's only because there are relatively few Indians in the US. I'm guessing around 50% of Americans have never actually interacted with or even seen an Indian. (Besides, they'd think "smoke signals" Indian, not "dot-on-the-forehead" Indian - sorry). Just like the successful Jews were hounded in Europe 60 years ago, the early Chinese immigrants (who were starting to do well as they starting enterprising into other ventures other than getting themselves whipped or blown up while building railroad tracks out West) were targeted by the Chinese Exclusion Act and had all their assets taken away and kicked out of the U.S. 1 in 8 Koreans are entrepreneurs in their home country, and most of these people have migrated to the U.S. in recent years. It's not too much of a stretch for some hypothetical hate-baiter politician to use Koreans as a convenient statistic for their own gains.
Because of the relative recent prosperity of the U.S., there have been very few conflicts arising from jealousy of groups of foreigners perceived to be "doing better." But off the top of my head, as recently as the 80s, people like Vincent Chin have been murdered for being perceived to take jobs away from the "natives" when times do get bad in the U.S. Or witness the fervor surrounding the debate on Affirmative Action in the last 10-15 years, where an insignificant 1-5% of positions slated for minorities are bitterly fought and debated over and you can see how nasty things can get.
When I had to switch my clock back on Ubuntu (the timezone fix did not make it in the apt-get updates somehow), my makefile on my hour-long build project refused to build (citing misalignment of the timestamps of the files). So I had to delete all my files and fetch them all again after I put the clock back to the way it was before.
After that, I turned on my amp and surround sound system and watched a movie during lunch while blasting away the AC because I got so hot from all the work.
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If they're REALLY young Asian females, the reply comes back at the same moment that your message goes out.
Even light spankings are heavily frowned upon.
And when they grow up, they'll be so messed up that they end up paying for what they didn't receive as children!
I have an Echo, which is a great car. Unfortunately Toyota DISCONTINUED it.
and reincarnated as the Yaris.
And when you walk around the red-light district, you would see clients roll up in their Rolls Royces or Mercedes, and a kind gentlemen would go to all of them and cover up the license plates with a piece of velvet cloth while they are patronizing their favorite businesses.
Or so I was told.
Thailand is very hot. And very humid. Feet are not pleasant in such climates.
Most cultural or religious taboos probably came from community leaders who wanted to curb some unhealthy practice.
"People are dying from eating bad pork. What should we do?"
"Tell'em God doesn't want them to eat pork!"
But most likely hot and humid feet are just plain nasty.
A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician are sitting in an outdoor cafe. They watch two people go into a building across the street. Shortly thereafter, three people come out.
"Hmm," says the biologist. "It looks like they reproduced."
"Nah," says the physicist. "There was obviously error in our initial measurement."
The mathematician looks up from his coffee. "Who cares? If another person goes in, it'll be empty."
Disclaimer: My wife is a purchaser for a fashion conglomerate, and I have somewhat of an interest in the outsourcing of fashion manufacturing.
If you are implying that Chinese textiles are inferior to those of Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Turkey, then you are incorrect. These places that you mention, often along with the Philippines, India, and Vietnam are contracted for lower-end fashion. (Although Turkey does manufacture very high-quality leather goods). Higher-end fashion now mostly manufacturers in China or Hong Kong (for even higher-end fashion). The quality has improved so much that higher-end fashions have no problems moving their base of manufacturing to China. Sure - China still makes crappy $2 socks for Walmart, but it also makes that $800 cocktail gown at BCBG. The move upwards has a lot to do with Vietnam going into WTO and upping its textiles quotas for the U.S.
What you have said about Chinese textiles was true 5-7 years ago. Not anymore. They no longer don't exclusively make cheap stuff.
I volunteer once or twice a year at my local hospitals. Many of the other volunteers are billing / admin employees from these respective hospitals. There were several times where we held a charity auction, and rich folks come by and bid $60,000 on a bottle of wine or something like that.
Windows computer terminals with a very straightforward tallying application are set up for us to record all final auction wins and purchases. It required 3 simple steps - enter the item number, the bidder's auction ID number, and the bid amount. These people who worked in the hospital - the ones who deal with data entry and accounting and whatnot on a daily basis - took 60 minutes of frustratingly painful training before _starting_ to understand the trivially simple application. I've worked in other hospitals before and have also seen a girth of not-so-bright individuals working the billing / admin sectors of health care.
I've heard that up to 20% of overhead in health care costs comes from inefficient billing methods (due to the practice of hiring the aforementioned people) and lack of data integration with insurance companies. Maybe fixing this along with hiring better people would go a long way in reducing costs.
One time, I happened upon the resume of our top honcho at our Bangalore office. It says that he graduated from "IIT". I found it strange that a person who graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology would simply abbreviate the school's name. Most would think to write down the name in its entirety to milk it for all it's worth.
:-)
A google search or two later, I saw that "IIT" meant online degree from "Illinois Institute of Technology". Quite different than the other IIT.
Technically, he didn't lie.
Last I remember, I don't remember seeing any kissing at all in Bollywood movies. Not even pecks on the cheek. So it's probably a cultural thing rather than just noise from a handful of extremists.
In the mid-80's, I wrote a short story about a group of terrorist who seized a building and ended up killing many people in their quest.
Not only did I not get into trouble, I was rewarded with an excerpt reading in class and a free trip to a gifted writers' workshop where I won awards and accolades.
If I did that today, I'd be sent away pretty quickly, I'd imagine.
I never understood the whole "Korean" angle that the newsmedia was taking with this story. It was almost they're implying that his barbaric behavior somehow grew out of his exotic and foreign upbring - but he's been in this country since he was 8 years old. An overwhelming majority of Asian people who immigrate to the U.S. before the age of 10 or 11 will have completely lost their native accent by the time they are 23. Most probably, you would not be able to tell them apart from American-born Asians. If there is some lame attempt to blame this on Korean culture or upbringing for cultivating violence, then it doesn't make any sense at all. The violence and gun culture was proven to be a solely American contribution to his deranged psyche, but what probably tipped him over the edge was all the taunting due to his shyness, and perhaps over-pressure from his working-class Korean parents His sister graduated from Princeton, but he only got into "lowly" Virginia Tech and majoring in a non-traditional-according-to-Koreans thing like English - I'm sure they gave him plenty of crap for that as well, if there's any contribution of Korean culture in this matter.
It's been shown in numerous studies that a band consisting of gold and diamonds causes an allergic reaction of which a typical symptom is excessive bloating.
On the Nature channel, they also talked about how they would trade food rations for photographs of "alpha-male" top monkeys. Very analogous to humans buying US Weekly or People at the checkout stands.
That's right, fools. Jesus was Asian! (Israel is technically in the Asian continent). Hehe.
You would think that in places like China and India, the government would not disrupt activities which are surefire methods of decreasing reproduction rates.
For Cantonese, the Wade-Giles or Yale systems are still widely used. IIRC, The Yale system is considered to be more academically correct. Although, there is technical debate on what is "real" Cantonese. There are literally hundreds of different dialects of Cantonese, but they're overshadowed by the Hong Kong flavor as they have the most cultural hegemony.
The Seven Samurai and The Last Samurai mentioned in the same sentence.
Reader disregards context and head explodes.
and they've decided to movie the manufacturing and R&D of their most profitable product overseas (this is a crucial safety device used on pretty much any aircraft flying with more than 2 engines). My neighbor was in manufacturing QA, and was slated to be laid off, but his entire group was forced to stick around since last summer to train their replacements. Their pensions were being effectively held hostage, so they all obeyed dutifully. They were supposed to be done and all laid off by last October, but they are still working right now due to "difficulties with the transition of labor." I know they're not purposefully delaying or sabotaging the transition, because they know the company's a sinking ship and would just as quickly look for another job if they didn't hold their pensions hostage. Meanwhile, wages at the to-be-outsourced destination has thus far risen 5-8% plus increased transport costs across the Pacific.
only if they have to compete with someone.
In my neighborhood, there's Comcast and Verizon FIOS. After Verizon started offering their free installation and teaser rates, Comcast bumped up my 3Mbps for $50 package up to 12Mbps.
My cheapo Canon ZR100 MiniDV camcorder also accepts analog input and the quality is good enough for home vids.
Remember, the bait must be accompanied by a 12-ft length of Monster RCA cable from Best Buy.
Robert Rodriguez made El Mariachi, later quasi-remade into Desperado, with a budget of only $6,000. He did everything from selling his own blood for fundraising to casting his own family members in the movie.
On the El Mariachi DVD, there was a special feature called something like "The 10-minute film school of Robert Rodriguez". It probably talks about some of the stuff in his book, like how not to waste film. For example, if somebody throws a gun up to a balcony, but misses the balcony - don't throw the film away. Just cut the part after the gun misses the balcony and paste other footage which shows the gun landing on the balcony. Hollywood would have just scrapped the whole day's take and reshot the whole scene and what a waste that is. This is why old-school Hong Kong films like Hard Boiled can have more explosions and action than Die Hard, but only costing $4 million US to make.
If this happened in India, the succesful group would have been hounded mercilessly and demonized for political purposes.
That's only because there are relatively few Indians in the US. I'm guessing around 50% of Americans have never actually interacted with or even seen an Indian. (Besides, they'd think "smoke signals" Indian, not "dot-on-the-forehead" Indian - sorry). Just like the successful Jews were hounded in Europe 60 years ago, the early Chinese immigrants (who were starting to do well as they starting enterprising into other ventures other than getting themselves whipped or blown up while building railroad tracks out West) were targeted by the Chinese Exclusion Act and had all their assets taken away and kicked out of the U.S. 1 in 8 Koreans are entrepreneurs in their home country, and most of these people have migrated to the U.S. in recent years. It's not too much of a stretch for some hypothetical hate-baiter politician to use Koreans as a convenient statistic for their own gains.
Because of the relative recent prosperity of the U.S., there have been very few conflicts arising from jealousy of groups of foreigners perceived to be "doing better." But off the top of my head, as recently as the 80s, people like Vincent Chin have been murdered for being perceived to take jobs away from the "natives" when times do get bad in the U.S. Or witness the fervor surrounding the debate on Affirmative Action in the last 10-15 years, where an insignificant 1-5% of positions slated for minorities are bitterly fought and debated over and you can see how nasty things can get.
When I had to switch my clock back on Ubuntu (the timezone fix did not make it in the apt-get updates somehow), my makefile on my hour-long build project refused to build (citing misalignment of the timestamps of the files). So I had to delete all my files and fetch them all again after I put the clock back to the way it was before.
After that, I turned on my amp and surround sound system and watched a movie during lunch while blasting away the AC because I got so hot from all the work.