Because it was made into a very very famous movie, perhaps? They certainly don't go there to do a big sumimasen apology session to atone for the crimes of their fathers. They go there because it's culturally and historically (mostly culturally due to the movie) important and well-known.
Besides, I didn't say they were at the USS Arizona to celebrate. The parent said something about how the Japanese are likely to be more wise about war and its casualties because they happen to go on more tours to Pearl Harbor, and it's really because it's a famous tourist attraction, and not (for most Japanese tourists) because they want to reflect deeply on the reasons for mankind to go to war or anything like that.
Technically, Mao did liberate China from the Japanese (hence the special treatment with the portrait and all). He was merely freely spending his "political capital" in the years following.
Forgotten history is doomed to repeat itself. The USS Arizona, if memory serves, is one of the most popular tourist magnets for Japanese tourists. Why aren't either hypocenter of the atomic bombs detonations a destination for Americans? The Japanese seem keen to remember their lessons.
It's not that the Japanese are all knowing and wise about their own past histories. Do remember that the USS Arizona is a representation of their past glory and victory against the might United States. In constrast, you will not see many Japanese tourists in Bataan or Nanking going to their war museums, I assure you.
Whoever modded this informative is a fool. Try talking to the aborigines of Formosa (called Taiwan today) what they think about all the non-natives - those who are descended from people who lived there before Chinese migration in the 1600's. Oh, and that Taiwan, like Korea, was basically a military dictatorship with martial law in place well into the 1980's.
And the other poster in this thread is on the right track - their largest airport is named after someone who sold the Chinese nation down the river, straight to Japan.
Yes, I've heard it too. It probably lacked the dynamic range and resolution of a real recording because of the digital extrapolation that must be done from the piano rolls. I have also heard a piano roll transcription of Scott Joplin playing his own music too. That was a little more interesting to hear.
Deutsche Grammophon used to put out really good stuff up until the 80's, then sort of went cheapie mainstream sometime after that.
Do realize that Criterion has to release the greatest works of Michael Bay (Armageddon and The Rock) to finance their other more worthwhile ventures.
And for the record, Robocop is an attempt at subversive filmmaking in which it could have only have been made under the guise of a bang-bang summer action thriller in order to fool the suits at the studio. Take a second look at it again.
The Time's list is by far incomplete. The Criterion Collection is a good place to start for excellent films of high caliber (plus most have excellent transfers...making gems like Kurosawa's Rashomon look like it was made just yesterday).
I hope you know that in another way you are also a victim of government propaganda.
I have traveled to China many times and work with many H1-B's from all parts of China. All of them are already quite knowledgeable about all the information provided in the links above, and most do not hesitate to engage in discussions about such topics over lunch. The fact that you feel all 1.6 billion Chinese are most certainly blind to these pieces of information is a direct result of years of indoctrination of Western (I'm assuming American) propaganda. If it appears that the Chinese people are not doing anything or caring about these things, it's because they're too busy making money and not wanting to be political martyrs. Who can blame them? When was the last time you personally put your own life (or probably in you or my case, your personal career/reputation/credit/criminal record) on the line for a cause against the government?
But really - what do you expect them to do? Start a bloody revolution because you can't do a few things? Because they execute a lot of citizens? (The state of Texas alone executes more people per capita than Communist China, by the way, according to Amnesty Intl) Just like the U.S., as long as the government can keep the middle class relatively comfortable, people will happily accept the status quo if it doesn't bother them too much. The more technology is integrated into Chinese society, the faster democracy will integrate into China. However, it seems that you're more a subscriber to the theory of instant gratification. But one doesn't have to look too much further than Russia to see how much harm sudden and unplanned transitions of complex political and economic systems can do. I'm sure you have good intentions, but the implementation of sudden riotious overthrowing never did anybody any good.
But you see...this wasn't an exercise in making useful and maintainable software. It was an exercise in illustrating extreme ivory-tower pedagogical concepts.
To top it off - I had points deducted for not having a class representing objects that made sounds! I'm just glad it was an intro course, so they didn't make me do something stupid like set up observer patterns for every character in the game.
I remember watching Good Will Hunting and freezing the part where he writes the equations on the chalkboard. I was pretty excited about it because I was taking the exact same thing in college at the moment - it was 300-level college math (I remember it as some network modeling problem...). It was funny how the professor got all dramatic and serious and said that no one has solved this before...
Visitors to Hong Kong some years ago may remember the Golden Arcade. It was infamous for bootleg software, movies, video games, and anything else that resides on digital media.
After that got closed down due to U.S. pressure, they started opening up shops in dark alleys. I remember going to one of those places one time. There was a guy who stood in front of the dark alley way (I think I was 12 years old at the time), and I swear there was a 3-carat diamond attached to each of the numbers on his Rolex (and every one of his teeth, it seemed like). Talk about heaven. Through all the cigarette smoke, I was able to make out things like NT5 alpha CDs and PlayStation games. Those were the days. Although it seemed like you needed pretty good English skills to open up one of these outfits, since most buyers were British or Australian.
Wrong. This holds to the idea that "only whites can deal with whites", "only Asians with Asians", etc. A sort of apartheid when dealing with customers! You are also dealing with just the small part of the staff that works with the public....
No, you're wrong. In this new world of globalized markets (even within the US itself, where consumer tastes run the whole gamut because of the wide diversity of peoples), it's often in a company's best interests to incorporate different viewpoints. Because by your definition, you can hire the best engineers out of JPL and they'll automatically be able to design the best automobile for the entire global car marketplace.
It's interesting that you bring up "only whites can deal with whites"...because it's true and you know it. Don't tell me that somebody raised in Peoria is going to know that, for example, that Japanese buyers are probably not going to be partial to huge trucks and cars. But in fact - that's exactly what went on - some midwestern-bred marketer tried to sell huge Cadillacs in space-tight Japan. This is exactly why a diverse pool of experience and knowledge is needed.
I once got the chance to talk to a Japanese trade delegation member, and he says that Japan's disadvantage compared to the US is that the US has a workforce that is much more dynamic and powerful because of its diversity (being able to draw the best people from around the world). Check out the new "bigass" trucks from Toyota and Nissan, who are steadily chewing up marketshare from the Big Three. What did these Japanese companies do? They hired cowboys out of the Texas Panhandle to do consumer taste research for them.
No, he cannot. That would be bordering on assault/kidnapping. The only thing they can do is scare you into voluntarily staying until the police arrive.
I used to work in Fred Meyer, and I remember it was next to impossible to get a theft charge stick to someone, even if you have it caught on tape (something about how any competent lawyer can argue that the customer was not told ahead of time that they'd be tape). Most of the time, it's some 15-year-old who agrees to sit in our little room and wait for the cops (they had every right to leave) and they almost always voluntarily confess to the cops when they get there.
Anyway, I remembered the the rule was if the item was $50, we don't go after them. Plus, the security guy is off after 6pm.
So you're telling me that an industry where only a handful of companies control the resource which happens to be in high demand at the moment by the entire planet (and that nations purportedly go to war over) only makes around 10% net profit?
You have an entire world's worth of literature readily available FOR FREE at your local city library or public university library...and are we yet witnessing the demise of Barnes and Noble or Borders?
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Yes, I noticed that too. I was suprised that a quick stop at the "US Embassy" at Bentonville, AR was not scheduled.
Because it was made into a very very famous movie, perhaps? They certainly don't go there to do a big sumimasen apology session to atone for the crimes of their fathers. They go there because it's culturally and historically (mostly culturally due to the movie) important and well-known.
Besides, I didn't say they were at the USS Arizona to celebrate. The parent said something about how the Japanese are likely to be more wise about war and its casualties because they happen to go on more tours to Pearl Harbor, and it's really because it's a famous tourist attraction, and not (for most Japanese tourists) because they want to reflect deeply on the reasons for mankind to go to war or anything like that.
Technically, Mao did liberate China from the Japanese (hence the special treatment with the portrait and all). He was merely freely spending his "political capital" in the years following.
Forgotten history is doomed to repeat itself. The USS Arizona, if memory serves, is one of the most popular tourist magnets for Japanese tourists. Why aren't either hypocenter of the atomic bombs detonations a destination for Americans? The Japanese seem keen to remember their lessons.
It's not that the Japanese are all knowing and wise about their own past histories. Do remember that the USS Arizona is a representation of their past glory and victory against the might United States. In constrast, you will not see many Japanese tourists in Bataan or Nanking going to their war museums, I assure you.
Whoever modded this informative is a fool. Try talking to the aborigines of Formosa (called Taiwan today) what they think about all the non-natives - those who are descended from people who lived there before Chinese migration in the 1600's. Oh, and that Taiwan, like Korea, was basically a military dictatorship with martial law in place well into the 1980's.
And the other poster in this thread is on the right track - their largest airport is named after someone who sold the Chinese nation down the river, straight to Japan.
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I for one welcome our vertically-challenged American-Indian overlords.
Yes, I've heard it too. It probably lacked the dynamic range and resolution of a real recording because of the digital extrapolation that must be done from the piano rolls. I have also heard a piano roll transcription of Scott Joplin playing his own music too. That was a little more interesting to hear.
Deutsche Grammophon used to put out really good stuff up until the 80's, then sort of went cheapie mainstream sometime after that.
So you're one of those people who are relieved and dance in joy when gas falls from $2.60 back down to $2.49?
All kidding aside, Die Hard should have been on the list of Top 100 __influential__ movies of all time. It literally spawned 15-20 years of clones.
Do realize that Criterion has to release the greatest works of Michael Bay (Armageddon and The Rock) to finance their other more worthwhile ventures.
And for the record, Robocop is an attempt at subversive filmmaking in which it could have only have been made under the guise of a bang-bang summer action thriller in order to fool the suits at the studio. Take a second look at it again.
The Time's list is by far incomplete. The Criterion Collection is a good place to start for excellent films of high caliber (plus most have excellent transfers...making gems like Kurosawa's Rashomon look like it was made just yesterday).
It might have been a campus-wide licensing agreement. When I was in university in the U.S., they sold Windows on CD-Rs in the student store.
I hope you know that in another way you are also a victim of government propaganda.
I have traveled to China many times and work with many H1-B's from all parts of China. All of them are already quite knowledgeable about all the information provided in the links above, and most do not hesitate to engage in discussions about such topics over lunch. The fact that you feel all 1.6 billion Chinese are most certainly blind to these pieces of information is a direct result of years of indoctrination of Western (I'm assuming American) propaganda. If it appears that the Chinese people are not doing anything or caring about these things, it's because they're too busy making money and not wanting to be political martyrs. Who can blame them? When was the last time you personally put your own life (or probably in you or my case, your personal career/reputation/credit/criminal record) on the line for a cause against the government?
But really - what do you expect them to do? Start a bloody revolution because you can't do a few things? Because they execute a lot of citizens? (The state of Texas alone executes more people per capita than Communist China, by the way, according to Amnesty Intl) Just like the U.S., as long as the government can keep the middle class relatively comfortable, people will happily accept the status quo if it doesn't bother them too much. The more technology is integrated into Chinese society, the faster democracy will integrate into China. However, it seems that you're more a subscriber to the theory of instant gratification. But one doesn't have to look too much further than Russia to see how much harm sudden and unplanned transitions of complex political and economic systems can do. I'm sure you have good intentions, but the implementation of sudden riotious overthrowing never did anybody any good.
But you see...this wasn't an exercise in making useful and maintainable software. It was an exercise in illustrating extreme ivory-tower pedagogical concepts.
To top it off - I had points deducted for not having a class representing objects that made sounds! I'm just glad it was an intro course, so they didn't make me do something stupid like set up observer patterns for every character in the game.
Pacman was my final project for my c++ class in school. And given how anal these types of classes are, I had something like:
Object
|-> MovableObject
|-> Enemy
|-> Ghost
|-> AttackingGhost
AHHH!!
Isn't Woodland the town with the Bethel Baptist Church, The Rib Eye, and the infamous Uncle Sam sign on I-5?
I remember watching Good Will Hunting and freezing the part where he writes the equations on the chalkboard. I was pretty excited about it because I was taking the exact same thing in college at the moment - it was 300-level college math (I remember it as some network modeling problem...). It was funny how the professor got all dramatic and serious and said that no one has solved this before...
Visitors to Hong Kong some years ago may remember the Golden Arcade. It was infamous for bootleg software, movies, video games, and anything else that resides on digital media.
After that got closed down due to U.S. pressure, they started opening up shops in dark alleys. I remember going to one of those places one time. There was a guy who stood in front of the dark alley way (I think I was 12 years old at the time), and I swear there was a 3-carat diamond attached to each of the numbers on his Rolex (and every one of his teeth, it seemed like). Talk about heaven. Through all the cigarette smoke, I was able to make out things like NT5 alpha CDs and PlayStation games. Those were the days. Although it seemed like you needed pretty good English skills to open up one of these outfits, since most buyers were British or Australian.
but why the hell can't we walk around naked?
I was thinking "yeah dude!" for about 4 seconds when I the thought of riding public transportation hit me. And the fact that I have diarrhea today.
That's why you can't have people walking around without clothes.
Wrong. This holds to the idea that "only whites can deal with whites", "only Asians with Asians", etc. A sort of apartheid when dealing with customers! You are also dealing with just the small part of the staff that works with the public....
No, you're wrong. In this new world of globalized markets (even within the US itself, where consumer tastes run the whole gamut because of the wide diversity of peoples), it's often in a company's best interests to incorporate different viewpoints. Because by your definition, you can hire the best engineers out of JPL and they'll automatically be able to design the best automobile for the entire global car marketplace.
It's interesting that you bring up "only whites can deal with whites"...because it's true and you know it. Don't tell me that somebody raised in Peoria is going to know that, for example, that Japanese buyers are probably not going to be partial to huge trucks and cars. But in fact - that's exactly what went on - some midwestern-bred marketer tried to sell huge Cadillacs in space-tight Japan. This is exactly why a diverse pool of experience and knowledge is needed.
I once got the chance to talk to a Japanese trade delegation member, and he says that Japan's disadvantage compared to the US is that the US has a workforce that is much more dynamic and powerful because of its diversity (being able to draw the best people from around the world). Check out the new "bigass" trucks from Toyota and Nissan, who are steadily chewing up marketshare from the Big Three. What did these Japanese companies do? They hired cowboys out of the Texas Panhandle to do consumer taste research for them.
My mother worked as a purchasing buyer in a jail about 10-15 years ago. Even back then, it cost close to $80,000 / yr / prisoner.
Imagine what it costs now.
No, he cannot. That would be bordering on assault/kidnapping. The only thing they can do is scare you into voluntarily staying until the police arrive.
I used to work in Fred Meyer, and I remember it was next to impossible to get a theft charge stick to someone, even if you have it caught on tape (something about how any competent lawyer can argue that the customer was not told ahead of time that they'd be tape). Most of the time, it's some 15-year-old who agrees to sit in our little room and wait for the cops (they had every right to leave) and they almost always voluntarily confess to the cops when they get there.
Anyway, I remembered the the rule was if the item was $50, we don't go after them. Plus, the security guy is off after 6pm.
So you're telling me that an industry where only a handful of companies control the resource which happens to be in high demand at the moment by the entire planet (and that nations purportedly go to war over) only makes around 10% net profit?
I doubt it very much.
You have an entire world's worth of literature readily available FOR FREE at your local city library or public university library...and are we yet witnessing the demise of Barnes and Noble or Borders?