Come on, dispensing with human civilization and socialization as it has been practiced for millennia, in favor of sitting in your home alone pressing the buttons on a Skinner box...well it just doesn't bode well. Normal? Quite the opposite, this is extraordinary and has never happened before.
OK, maybe it's just me, but browser speed has absolutely not been an issue since the Netscape days. I've never said, "gosh, these pages look great, but they're just being rendered too slowly!" and then abandoned a web browser. The only thing that's an issue is download speed - rendering speed is not even noticable. Is this just me? I get the feeling that the "browser speed" issue that slashdot talks so much about is like some obscure industry metric that is rather meaningless, but still gets brought up in conversation because it's a bright shiny number that people can quote when regurgitating arguments.
What are you, f'in nuts? The US Navy rules the waves. The only thing stopping them from blasting the pirates out of the water is the ruthless international media, which would change the focus from the good guys destroying criminals, to the poor oppressed Africans always getting screwed by the imperialist aggressors. Rome never had to deal with that, did they? I'd say that's more of a societal breakdown than a few rag-tag out-of-work sailors next to Arabia. "The fact that the US can not control it anymore"? Seriously, what planet do you live on.
That would tend to void your warranty. Best to design the product without the bright LEDs. However, blinky lights are one of the things that customers like when they buy a product at the store, so it looks like the problem is here to stay. If you've got a choice between the ZhangTai DVD player with colored lights, and the RonsonCo DVD player that is a slim gray box that sits unobtrusively out of the way, you're going to pick the blinky one every time, especially if it's $0.99 cheaper than anything else on the shelf.
I don't get it - the educated people illegally immigrated? Seriously man, either you're intentionally answering the wrong argument (par for the course for a journalist) or you're misunderstanding the whole thing (also sadly predictable).
Actually, I came to China initially exclusively to attend a scientific meeting
So why on Earth did you need a journalist visa? Seriously, WTF? This trip needs a tourist visa, which is the easiest kind to get.
Haha, you hicks in flyover territory never fail to amuse me. "I could be a dancer if I wanted" "I could be an architect if I wanted" well guess what buddy you're not good enough, that's why you're not up on that stage under the bright lights. If you've been doing a dance for 3 years, and go see some REAL dancers, then those "errors" that they make are probably types of expression that your tiny Bush-voting mind cannot comprehend. Move out of the sticks and get some culture, and we'll talk.
Educated people don't illegally immigrate, poor people do. If a restaurant worker came back to China, he wouldn't be driving an Audi, he'd still be a restaurant worker, with a much lower salary and a crappy country to live in.
Either that or you get all your news from Fox, because most journalists I know are remarkably unbiased in their reporting in all corners of the world.
So let me get this straight - Fox is biased, but the rest of the Western media is not? Laughable. I'm one of a handful of people in China who publishes his own English magazine, and I've moron journalists like yourself come and go. You've already got your China story written before you get off the plane, and all you want is a quote to support your position.
I like your "You obviously have a bias against the press"...that's got all kinds of double reverse irony in it.
Durr...we're humans and we always copy what's come before. That, and we have no idea what to put on a new medium, so we put what came before, and then get feedback and revise it. Not too hard to understand.
Oh yeah and trumpet playing has always been a specialized skill...I don't think marching bands will be replacing their trumpet lines with casio keyboards anytime soon.
Odd that nobody seemed to make a brilliant movie about the soldiers or civilians who died in the Bosnian conflict. A movie maker making movies about journalists? I bet you that journalists write about his movie...hey it's like a backrub circle! I also bet that reporters come are portrayed like heroes instead of the journalism school graduates that they are.
What's obvious about it? The fact that governments make deals with one another? Oh my shocking I'm getting the vapors Auntie Mae...cheneyhalliburtonearthquakemachine....WHARRRGARBL...
There's no reason to get a journalist visa unless you're a bonafide journalist. I saw that you took pictures of the toilets - no serious journalist would pull stuff like that, it's a guaranteed mark of the China greenhorn.
The US makes getting a visa difficult because Chinese people have a big problem with not going home after their visas expire. China makes getting journalist visas difficult because foreign journalists have a big problem with lying their asses off and distorting stories to fit their political viewpoints. A visa is a sovereign act of a country, it's not like buying tickets to a Mets game. Believe it or not, governments occasionally have other priorities than inviting foreign tourists to spend money.
"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain."
-- Odo Marquard, Philosopher
Nah, any tree hugger would be outraged by the thought of the forest being preserved because it is 'useful'. Do you actually know any of them? Forests should be preserved, because trees have the same rights as people.
No, it's more like, "People who see the current state of affairs in America and give up and write stupid crap like 'we're finished and we should give up' should get the hell out, and leave the rest of us to do the hard work that Americans are famous for worldwide."
I should know, I've been overseas now for five years.
First off, 1 hour is not jet lag. When I go from GMT+8 to GMT-8, that's jet lag. One hour isn't even noticable.
Second, I live in a country with no daylight savings, and it's just stupid. In the summer, it gets dark way too early, and the sun rises at 4:30am. I just love baking in my hotbox of a room at 7:30 in the morning.
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Can we please have less anti-intellectual bullshit on Slashdot, and more stimulating discussions? Take your uneducated opinions back to the trailer park that you came from. Why don't you create something yourself, then we'll talk? And I'm not talking about creationism, you cretin.
Uh, the PRI in Mexico succesfully rigged elections for 90 years, using nothing but paper ballots. Heck, the 1960 presidential election was rigged in Texas and Illinois, throwing the election to Kennedy instead of Nixon - using nothing but paper ballots.
Yeah, you're right, you have no idea how important that is, and how abuse by the media has led to so many of our current problems. I live abroad, in a country with a censored media, and I even run my own publication which has to be reviewed before it hits print. It's so blatantly obvious when a doctored media report comes out of the state press. After a steady diet of such misrepresentations, I look back at the Western media - they're exactly the same! Two differences are that they're not under government control, and their censorship has different goals. Otherwise, they're doing the exact same thing, distorting the news to support their political positions. It's so readily obvious when looked upon from outside.
Let's talk about the other thing you'd use an email-only company for: mailing lists. For obvious reasons, it's good to go with a legitimate provider when sending out mass emails, even to people who requested to be on them. Any good/cheap hosts of mailing lists?
It's not a hypothetical scenario, it is daily life for a foreign businessman in China. The situation is as I describe. See http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20051029_2.htm for a starter.
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Come on, dispensing with human civilization and socialization as it has been practiced for millennia, in favor of sitting in your home alone pressing the buttons on a Skinner box...well it just doesn't bode well. Normal? Quite the opposite, this is extraordinary and has never happened before.
OK, maybe it's just me, but browser speed has absolutely not been an issue since the Netscape days. I've never said, "gosh, these pages look great, but they're just being rendered too slowly!" and then abandoned a web browser. The only thing that's an issue is download speed - rendering speed is not even noticable. Is this just me? I get the feeling that the "browser speed" issue that slashdot talks so much about is like some obscure industry metric that is rather meaningless, but still gets brought up in conversation because it's a bright shiny number that people can quote when regurgitating arguments.
What are you, f'in nuts? The US Navy rules the waves. The only thing stopping them from blasting the pirates out of the water is the ruthless international media, which would change the focus from the good guys destroying criminals, to the poor oppressed Africans always getting screwed by the imperialist aggressors. Rome never had to deal with that, did they? I'd say that's more of a societal breakdown than a few rag-tag out-of-work sailors next to Arabia. "The fact that the US can not control it anymore"? Seriously, what planet do you live on.
That would tend to void your warranty. Best to design the product without the bright LEDs. However, blinky lights are one of the things that customers like when they buy a product at the store, so it looks like the problem is here to stay. If you've got a choice between the ZhangTai DVD player with colored lights, and the RonsonCo DVD player that is a slim gray box that sits unobtrusively out of the way, you're going to pick the blinky one every time, especially if it's $0.99 cheaper than anything else on the shelf.
Why don't you get a bell jar and find out?
Actually, I came to China initially exclusively to attend a scientific meeting
So why on Earth did you need a journalist visa? Seriously, WTF? This trip needs a tourist visa, which is the easiest kind to get.
Haha, you hicks in flyover territory never fail to amuse me. "I could be a dancer if I wanted" "I could be an architect if I wanted" well guess what buddy you're not good enough, that's why you're not up on that stage under the bright lights. If you've been doing a dance for 3 years, and go see some REAL dancers, then those "errors" that they make are probably types of expression that your tiny Bush-voting mind cannot comprehend. Move out of the sticks and get some culture, and we'll talk.
Either that or you get all your news from Fox, because most journalists I know are remarkably unbiased in their reporting in all corners of the world.
So let me get this straight - Fox is biased, but the rest of the Western media is not? Laughable. I'm one of a handful of people in China who publishes his own English magazine, and I've moron journalists like yourself come and go. You've already got your China story written before you get off the plane, and all you want is a quote to support your position.
I like your "You obviously have a bias against the press"...that's got all kinds of double reverse irony in it.
Oh yeah and trumpet playing has always been a specialized skill...I don't think marching bands will be replacing their trumpet lines with casio keyboards anytime soon.
Odd that nobody seemed to make a brilliant movie about the soldiers or civilians who died in the Bosnian conflict. A movie maker making movies about journalists? I bet you that journalists write about his movie...hey it's like a backrub circle! I also bet that reporters come are portrayed like heroes instead of the journalism school graduates that they are.
What's obvious about it? The fact that governments make deals with one another? Oh my shocking I'm getting the vapors Auntie Mae...cheneyhalliburtonearthquakemachine....WHARRRGARBL...
The US makes getting a visa difficult because Chinese people have a big problem with not going home after their visas expire. China makes getting journalist visas difficult because foreign journalists have a big problem with lying their asses off and distorting stories to fit their political viewpoints. A visa is a sovereign act of a country, it's not like buying tickets to a Mets game. Believe it or not, governments occasionally have other priorities than inviting foreign tourists to spend money.
"Where cultural progress is genuinely successful and ills are cured, this progress is seldom received with enthusiasm. Instead, they are taken for granted and attention focuses on those ills that remain." -- Odo Marquard, Philosopher
What does ATM stand for? And what would an ATM machine be? A machine that dispenses ATMs?
Nah, any tree hugger would be outraged by the thought of the forest being preserved because it is 'useful'. Do you actually know any of them? Forests should be preserved, because trees have the same rights as people.
Yeah, but Solaris systems only get rebooted to apply OS patches.
I should know, I've been overseas now for five years.
Second, I live in a country with no daylight savings, and it's just stupid. In the summer, it gets dark way too early, and the sun rises at 4:30am. I just love baking in my hotbox of a room at 7:30 in the morning.
Can we please have less anti-intellectual bullshit on Slashdot, and more stimulating discussions? Take your uneducated opinions back to the trailer park that you came from. Why don't you create something yourself, then we'll talk? And I'm not talking about creationism, you cretin.
Uh, the PRI in Mexico succesfully rigged elections for 90 years, using nothing but paper ballots. Heck, the 1960 presidential election was rigged in Texas and Illinois, throwing the election to Kennedy instead of Nixon - using nothing but paper ballots.
Yeah. Because elitism is SUCH a great form of government. It's not like it's ever been tried before...
Yeah, you're right, you have no idea how important that is, and how abuse by the media has led to so many of our current problems. I live abroad, in a country with a censored media, and I even run my own publication which has to be reviewed before it hits print. It's so blatantly obvious when a doctored media report comes out of the state press. After a steady diet of such misrepresentations, I look back at the Western media - they're exactly the same! Two differences are that they're not under government control, and their censorship has different goals. Otherwise, they're doing the exact same thing, distorting the news to support their political positions. It's so readily obvious when looked upon from outside.
A: Because it breaks the flow of a message.
Let's talk about the other thing you'd use an email-only company for: mailing lists. For obvious reasons, it's good to go with a legitimate provider when sending out mass emails, even to people who requested to be on them. Any good/cheap hosts of mailing lists?
It's not a hypothetical scenario, it is daily life for a foreign businessman in China. The situation is as I describe. See http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20051029_2.htm for a starter.