Unless you burn at the same time all books and kill all people with any basic scientific knowledge, your scenario is a pointless exercise best suited for a bad SciFi book or movie.
And then Bush goes and kills thousends of people
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And somehow that makes the US system better.
Your country has aided to kill bw 30000 and 600000
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And you still insist to mkae it appear as a good and heroic endeavour.
It seems not only Chinese citizens are completely idiotic when it comes to judge their own governments actions.
In today's world Nazi Germany would have investments everywhere and would produce good for many countries.
But in today's world a country like Nazi Germany can't exists, by the simple fact that Nazi Germany has already happened and it is highly unlikely it will happen again.
In the years previous to WWII international commerce was not as big as it is today, so any boycott would have been pointless.
Some terms and how your provider interprets them become only apparent only after you have signed a contract.
Also some terms may be illegal but you will not contact a lawyer to check all documents you agree to (if an agreement includes the right to marry your first daughter let me tell you that would be illegal, but I can guarantee you that if put in place many people would agree to it, that does not make it legally binding. This is an extreme, stupid example if you want, but I think it makes the point clearly enough).
Say what you may wish, but Chinese people live in general terms better today than what they did 50 or 100 years ago, and many of them are old enough to remember those times and tell their younger relatives about them.
Somebody that is working in a manufacturing plant in China earning a reasonable living will have on his mind the bad times when granddad almost starved to death during the first half of the last century or will recall the histories of the disastrous Cultural Revolution that dad had to endure. Compared to that the current lot, promoting economic development, are real saints.
People in the West think that democracy with multi party elections is the only way to achieve material progress, places like Singapore (a dictatorship in all sense but name), Malaysia (an "apartheid light" Muslim state) and of course China (which defies definition nowadays, they are not a dictatorship strictly speaking, they are not a democracy in the western sense, but they have elections) probe that people can be bettered by different social means and they will fierce loyal to their respective leaderships even if by Western standards the governments are dismal in one way or another.
Now pray tell me, what should I boycott? If I add that to a boycott against China then my only option would be to live in a cave, but not here in the UK I suppose because I would still be aiding the disastrous foreign UK policies. I suppose I should get rid of my job and feed myself with wild strawberries and road kill....
When you stand for your principles you have to strike a balance between what you would like to do and between what you can do and will have any real effect.
Nowadays media shamming is the most successful tool against any government, any person committed enough can help a lot with that.
Or give money to one of several organizations doing work in the ground documenting abuses of human rights and helping political prisoners.
The sense of entitlement that some people show around here is staggering.
You may want to go online on your office computer. Well I am even pickier, I want blonde masseuses at my disposal for my lunch break, as well as the massages provided in rooms with plasma TVs and free drinks.
The sky is the limit to what employees think they should be entitled to do with company's resources....
If you are not encrypting your email you are as exposed as your grandpa, so your recommendation is based in wishful thinking and not in actual hard technical facts.
email is not a secure mechanism to transmit information, unless it is encrypted. End of the history.
And as in regard to all those valuable contracts and what have you, I would like to inform you that email is not a guaranteed delivery mechanism, it works in a "best effort" to deliver basis. So I will not be sending any urgent information by email any time soon.
MBAs have this pesky habit of not being perfect. Also they are perfectly happy to spend money in something that delivers dubious results for the company like advertising.
Any company that plays nice with the Linux folk gets a bunch of loyal clients that will spread the world about how nice those guys supporting Linux are.
That is priceless, even if the percentage of costumers is not the biggest one.
Classical music, being a niche genre really, has to be more creative about how to sell things.
I have still to find one of those noxious root kits or idiotic copy protection measures in classical music CDs, after all you want to reach the widest audience possible.
Several classical music labels (Naxos, Chandos amongst them) have been selling DRMless stuff for long time, as well as renowned orchestras in their own websites.
As always classical music is the avant garde that shows the way where eventually everybody else will follow:-P
In most cases pop artists sell you a single and then the CD with all the other songs.
This nonsense about albums being complete works is just a myth, very few artists work in that fashion, and curiously enough most CD tracks are exactly of the length required for broadcasting. Quite a curios way to go about artistic integrity.
My point is that songs in CDs in the immense majority of cases are just a bunch of songs by the same artist slapped together in the same CD, no connection whatsoever between the songs bar that they are being performed by the same group of musicians.
What I am sure happens in most cases is that the CD is just stored somewhere never to be seen again.
For some lucky CDs you'l check the cover once or twice at most, and as for most "cover art" I am sure most people look at it once or twice at most before moving on to something else.
One buck saved for all this unnecessary stuff is money well saved.
Franco knew he and his ilk where Fascists and behaved as such, including mass executions, Fascist salutes, repression of minorities, supression of political parties not of their liking and all the rest.
How is a discussion site suppossed to work if not by different people describing their own experiences and personal opinions?
In other words, thanks for poinitng the bleeding obvious, I hope you feel schmug and clever, that would be about the only positive thing comming out of such post.
Can you guarantee I will be able to access my data, created with MSOffice in 10 years without the helping hand of MS?
That is the crux of the matter. I don't care how usable MSOffice is. THat is a completely secondary matter to the fundamental issue of access to your own damned data.
I have been willing to jump through the hoops only for that reason.
Also the form factor is quite well thought out.
Finally, you can go to the Apple stores and play with them to your heart content. No other shop I know of allows you that degree of freedom (no idiotic salesperson either checking you don't steal it or making a sales pitch).
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Unless you burn at the same time all books and kill all people with any basic scientific knowledge, your scenario is a pointless exercise best suited for a bad SciFi book or movie.
And somehow that makes the US system better.
And you still insist to mkae it appear as a good and heroic endeavour.
It seems not only Chinese citizens are completely idiotic when it comes to judge their own governments actions.
In the meantime between 30000 and 600000 people (depending who you believe) have died in Iraq as a consequence of the US invasion.
But they are free to pray.
Give me a fucking brake.
In today's world Nazi Germany would have investments everywhere and would produce good for many countries.
But in today's world a country like Nazi Germany can't exists, by the simple fact that Nazi Germany has already happened and it is highly unlikely it will happen again.
In the years previous to WWII international commerce was not as big as it is today, so any boycott would have been pointless.
guangxi is not corruption, no matter how you want to spin it. Corruption is corruption and it is completely different from the concept of guangxi.
Also naming the Chinese government as fascist shows a lack of education that should not go unnoticed.
Some terms and how your provider interprets them become only apparent only after you have signed a contract.
Also some terms may be illegal but you will not contact a lawyer to check all documents you agree to (if an agreement includes the right to marry your first daughter let me tell you that would be illegal, but I can guarantee you that if put in place many people would agree to it, that does not make it legally binding. This is an extreme, stupid example if you want, but I think it makes the point clearly enough).
Say what you may wish, but Chinese people live in general terms better today than what they did 50 or 100 years ago, and many of them are old enough to remember those times and tell their younger relatives about them.
Somebody that is working in a manufacturing plant in China earning a reasonable living will have on his mind the bad times when granddad almost starved to death during the first half of the last century or will recall the histories of the disastrous Cultural Revolution that dad had to endure. Compared to that the current lot, promoting economic development, are real saints.
People in the West think that democracy with multi party elections is the only way to achieve material progress, places like Singapore (a dictatorship in all sense but name), Malaysia (an "apartheid light" Muslim state) and of course China (which defies definition nowadays, they are not a dictatorship strictly speaking, they are not a democracy in the western sense, but they have elections) probe that people can be bettered by different social means and they will fierce loyal to their respective leaderships even if by Western standards the governments are dismal in one way or another.
I hate what the US and the UK are doing in Iraq.
Now pray tell me, what should I boycott? If I add that to a boycott against China then my only option would be to live in a cave, but not here in the UK I suppose because I would still be aiding the disastrous foreign UK policies. I suppose I should get rid of my job and feed myself with wild strawberries and road kill....
When you stand for your principles you have to strike a balance between what you would like to do and between what you can do and will have any real effect.
Nowadays media shamming is the most successful tool against any government, any person committed enough can help a lot with that.
Or give money to one of several organizations doing work in the ground documenting abuses of human rights and helping political prisoners.
The sense of entitlement that some people show around here is staggering.
You may want to go online on your office computer. Well I am even pickier, I want blonde masseuses at my disposal for my lunch break, as well as the massages provided in rooms with plasma TVs and free drinks.
The sky is the limit to what employees think they should be entitled to do with company's resources....
If you are not encrypting your email you are as exposed as your grandpa, so your recommendation is based in wishful thinking and not in actual hard technical facts.
email is not a secure mechanism to transmit information, unless it is encrypted. End of the history.
And as in regard to all those valuable contracts and what have you, I would like to inform you that email is not a guaranteed delivery mechanism, it works in a "best effort" to deliver basis. So I will not be sending any urgent information by email any time soon.
MBAs have this pesky habit of not being perfect. Also they are perfectly happy to spend money in something that delivers dubious results for the company like advertising.
Any company that plays nice with the Linux folk gets a bunch of loyal clients that will spread the world about how nice those guys supporting Linux are.
That is priceless, even if the percentage of costumers is not the biggest one.
Just a thought.
Classical music, being a niche genre really, has to be more creative about how to sell things.
:-P
I have still to find one of those noxious root kits or idiotic copy protection measures in classical music CDs, after all you want to reach the widest audience possible.
Several classical music labels (Naxos, Chandos amongst them) have been selling DRMless stuff for long time, as well as renowned orchestras in their own websites.
As always classical music is the avant garde that shows the way where eventually everybody else will follow
Even Picasso understood that.
In most cases pop artists sell you a single and then the CD with all the other songs.
This nonsense about albums being complete works is just a myth, very few artists work in that fashion, and curiously enough most CD tracks are exactly of the length required for broadcasting. Quite a curios way to go about artistic integrity.
My point is that songs in CDs in the immense majority of cases are just a bunch of songs by the same artist slapped together in the same CD, no connection whatsoever between the songs bar that they are being performed by the same group of musicians.
What I am sure happens in most cases is that the CD is just stored somewhere never to be seen again.
For some lucky CDs you'l check the cover once or twice at most, and as for most "cover art" I am sure most people look at it once or twice at most before moving on to something else.
One buck saved for all this unnecessary stuff is money well saved.
Franco knew he and his ilk where Fascists and behaved as such, including mass executions, Fascist salutes, repression of minorities, supression of political parties not of their liking and all the rest.
Only a very few weird countries think that citizenship grants teir law some extra territorial relevance.
In most countries is territoriality (i.e. an alleged crime must be commited in a given country for that law to apply) what counts.
How is a discussion site suppossed to work if not by different people describing their own experiences and personal opinions?
In other words, thanks for poinitng the bleeding obvious, I hope you feel schmug and clever, that would be about the only positive thing comming out of such post.
Can you guarantee I will be able to access my data, created with MSOffice in 10 years without the helping hand of MS?
That is the crux of the matter. I don't care how usable MSOffice is. THat is a completely secondary matter to the fundamental issue of access to your own damned data.
Sun has made several deal with MS to ensure that does not happen.
With the departure of McNeally as Sun's CEO the confrontational relationship with MS became a thing of the past.
It is simply a stroke of genius.
I have been willing to jump through the hoops only for that reason.
Also the form factor is quite well thought out.
Finally, you can go to the Apple stores and play with them to your heart content. No other shop I know of allows you that degree of freedom (no idiotic salesperson either checking you don't steal it or making a sales pitch).
... in the discussion when SCO filed for chapter 11. Short answer is no, Novell gets the money because it is not a debt strictly speaking.
Check SCO stories of the last few days.