OK, what do you do when your Chinese counterpart assures you that all measures will be taken, takes you on a tour of their modern facility, presents impeccable paperwork from the State Environmental Administration certifying him as a Grade-A eco-disposal facility...and then ships the waste out the back door to be processed on the cheap, making the boss big money? USA's fault to be sure. Inevitably in these situations, I hear something stupid like "well they should post inspectors every step of the way to make sure, it's still USA's fault". The Chinese don't like it when you overtly don't trust them. It causes breakdowns in relationships, and then you really will get screwed. And the really racist part is where the West automatically assumes that those yellow people couldn't possibly be held to "our" standards of health and environment.
Ah, like the Chinese proverb states, "It's patriotic to screw foreigners." Especially when the Chinese get off scot-free and USA gets the blame once again.
No, the witness is the police officer who administered the sobriety test. The machine is just one of the pieces of evidence that the officer uses to make an arrest.
What's the best way to monitor traffic, for a joe average type like me? I could install some sort of Windows app, but they tend to be buggy, lose data, not deal with hibernation, etc. Ideally, it should go somewhere on the router, but the router is a Netgear RP614 with few features, and anyway I used to hate SNMP data when I was doing HP Openview monitoring years ago. Is it "yet another taskbar icon" for me?
You tend to get tunnel vision, and obsess about what you're doing. This gives you a freedom from distraction and enables you to fully immerse yourself in the game. Your world shrinks down until you're just living the game. It's the only way I can enjoy them these days, otherwise video games seem far too much like doing extremely laborious maniuplation of numbers in a spreadsheet.
Yeah, because governments, particularly the Chinese one, have never ever been abused by a dominant company to exclude any competition. Who holds the patents on USB chargers? This admiration of the totalitarian government of China is baffling.
Wow, this is oldschool stuff. Why is a PBX getting hacked news for nerds? It used to happen all the freaking time. And why would anyone bother these days? Phone calls are so cheap, especially international phone calls, especially international phone calls originating from America. Heck, international long distance used to be $2-5 per minute. That was why you owned PBXes and traded k0d3z. Otherwise, you could never call those cool Swedish BBS with the latest seven day warez.
There used to be people standing beside pay phones in Chinatown, give them ten bucks and they'll give you a stolen calling card, with which you could make as long a call as you liked. Whole villages would line up and call home, 48-72 hour calls were not unheard of. But now? Skype, VOIP, and a whole forest of cheap calling cards.
Nah, Bush isn't a Texan. The entire Bush family are Yankee bluebloods from Connecticut. Come on, trust fund, Yale, secret societies? Not exactly what they do in Houston or Beaumont...
Dude, there are still plenty, plenty of people in the West who cried when Communism failed and freedom broke out. Check out back issues of "Mother Jones" magazine from 1989-1991. Heck, it's still popular.
"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off." -- Janeane Garofalo
Yeah, it's really irritating how geeks will take something serious and try to crack jokes about it. Come on, it's a binding legal contract, can we leave the funny-making aside for just five minutes? Oh hell no, because that would be impinging on our glorious freedoms...
They're entertainers, dumbass, just like Britney Spears. People like to watch them, and while they're watching, advertising space can be sold. If you've got a great athlete on your team, then more people will want to watch, and you can price your advertising at a higher rate. This creates jobs all up and down the line for people selling ads, companies that sell more because people know about their products, etc. How many jobs does a typical incompetent elementary school teacher create?
Why is this being posted, in full quality, for free? Millions of American taxpayer dollars have been spent gathering this priceless data that is totally unavailable in any other context, and the full-quality raw data is simply being given away online. I can guarantee you that any other nation's research programmes would not do this, their governments would not hear of it. Could you see the Chinese doing this? Or the Russians? At the least, the data should be kept for national interest reasons, with it only available to projects that advance the government's interest. Low-quality preview images could be released to the public if PR is an objective.
Answers I don't want to hear: America is #1, that's why they do it = a bunch of nonsense. Science wants to be free = also nonsense.
Meh, don't "defer" to anyone's low id. Means nothing. I used to post on Slashdot back before there were even user accounts, and when they did start having users, I refused to participate. I only registered an account when the default threshold was set to 1 to annihilate anonymous postings. I used to be quite a fanatic about being anonymous and untrackable. It worked, too...there's barely any record of my existence for about 10 years.
Well, people today, especially video game players, are ignorant enough that someone might not get the "joke". After all, everything that's worth existing was created a maximum of 5 years ago, everything else is "crap".
Actually, painting with a less-than-perfect brush sounds pretty creative to me. Given the poverty of thought that exists today, I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone had already done it, or built a career out of it, or even founded an entire school of "thinking" based on dried-up brushes. It's a lot less than what already exists...
Wow, that's really closed-minded. Exactly the opposite of what I've been taught to expect from "creative" people. Is this why design these days is so stuck in the mud? Automatic rejection of any concept that doesn't fit inside the narrow-minded parameters of what everyone else thinks is acceptable?
Well, it wasn't flamebait - I was being serious. Abusive bosses who cuss are something to be avoided, and people think it's flamebait. Whatcha gonna do, it's freaking slashdot...
Yeah, the Chinese are the worst self-serving hypocrites on the planet. It's not as if they think they're doing anything hypocritical, either. If you confronted them with it, they'd offer a perfectly reasonable explanation (to them) as to why it's happening. They would be geniunely hurt if you said that their arguments were shallow and self-serving.
I've had my IP ripped off several times in China (I produce unique content) and it's always the same story: they're shocked that it's a problem, can't understand why I'm upset, and give some BS reasons as to why what they did was OK. I keep a bunch of copies of the local "Reporting, Complaint, and Service Center for IPR Protection" booklet, and send out about one a month. Once in a while, I get back a cursing reply that says that they're just patriotic Chinese people and that it's OK to cheat foreigners. No joke.
For native English speakers, it takes three times as long to learn Japanese as it does another related language. To put it another way, in the time it takes you to learn Japanese, you could learn French, Italian, and Polish instead. I don't know how it is to learn COBOL, but I thought I'd just throw that in there - it's a big opportunity cost. In the 4 years it takes to become literate in Japanese, one could be most of the way towards a law degree, for example.
Claims of slavery in the United States are by definition shot through with racial overtones, due to the shameful history of slavery, and the government's refusal to acknowledge or make reparations for something that it once benifited greatly from. Refusal by its citizens to acknowledge this history is racist as well.
How racist is the culture at Apple? Do they give appropriate preferences based on race? Are employees of color subject to these greater working hours? This might give them more weight for the slavery argument, otherwise it's just blowing smoke to try to borrow credibility at the expense of the Civil Rights Movement.
Actually, it sounds like a man who is altogether too comfortable with profanity and who cares little for the problems faced by his team. Would you like to work for such a man?
Hint: when he says "I'm hell-bent on making it work", he actually means "I will not be doing any of the actual work myself, but I'm hell-bent on pushing my workers". Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Mayor Daley and JFK would like a word with you. Or heck the PRI in Mexico stole elections for 90 years using nothing but paper ballots. Pretending that paper is somehow better is folly.
Nah, the rights are still there. It's just the corrupt media that abuses its position. The Western media is fully aware that it can influence elections and policy just by the choice of which stories it covers and which stories get ignored (Obama's Communist mentor would be the latest example). Living in China and viewing the officially censored media year after year gives you a real feel for what it's really like living with censorship. Then, you look at the US media, and they censor themselves as well, just with different objectives. In China, it's to maintain social cohesion at all costs, and promote the government as good guys who try really hard but sometimes fail. In America, the media is uncontrolled by the government, but nontheless its objective is societal engineering and the manipulation of elections. You should see the effect that running positive news about the country has on people...Chinese people think that China is doing all right. With the constant drumbeat of bad news about America, no wonder some Americans are down on their country. They even say things like "lazy masses" without even realizing that they have the opportunity to start their own media and say what they want freely. Here, forget it. You need to find a license and a censor to publish anything, and both of those are pretty darned hard to find.
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Ah, like the Chinese proverb states, "It's patriotic to screw foreigners." Especially when the Chinese get off scot-free and USA gets the blame once again.
No, the witness is the police officer who administered the sobriety test. The machine is just one of the pieces of evidence that the officer uses to make an arrest.
What's the best way to monitor traffic, for a joe average type like me? I could install some sort of Windows app, but they tend to be buggy, lose data, not deal with hibernation, etc. Ideally, it should go somewhere on the router, but the router is a Netgear RP614 with few features, and anyway I used to hate SNMP data when I was doing HP Openview monitoring years ago. Is it "yet another taskbar icon" for me?
You tend to get tunnel vision, and obsess about what you're doing. This gives you a freedom from distraction and enables you to fully immerse yourself in the game. Your world shrinks down until you're just living the game. It's the only way I can enjoy them these days, otherwise video games seem far too much like doing extremely laborious maniuplation of numbers in a spreadsheet.
Yeah, because governments, particularly the Chinese one, have never ever been abused by a dominant company to exclude any competition. Who holds the patents on USB chargers? This admiration of the totalitarian government of China is baffling.
There used to be people standing beside pay phones in Chinatown, give them ten bucks and they'll give you a stolen calling card, with which you could make as long a call as you liked. Whole villages would line up and call home, 48-72 hour calls were not unheard of. But now? Skype, VOIP, and a whole forest of cheap calling cards.
Nah, Bush isn't a Texan. The entire Bush family are Yankee bluebloods from Connecticut. Come on, trust fund, Yale, secret societies? Not exactly what they do in Houston or Beaumont...
"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off."
-- Janeane Garofalo
Yeah, it's really irritating how geeks will take something serious and try to crack jokes about it. Come on, it's a binding legal contract, can we leave the funny-making aside for just five minutes? Oh hell no, because that would be impinging on our glorious freedoms...
They're entertainers, dumbass, just like Britney Spears. People like to watch them, and while they're watching, advertising space can be sold. If you've got a great athlete on your team, then more people will want to watch, and you can price your advertising at a higher rate. This creates jobs all up and down the line for people selling ads, companies that sell more because people know about their products, etc. How many jobs does a typical incompetent elementary school teacher create?
Answers I don't want to hear: America is #1, that's why they do it = a bunch of nonsense. Science wants to be free = also nonsense.
Meh, don't "defer" to anyone's low id. Means nothing. I used to post on Slashdot back before there were even user accounts, and when they did start having users, I refused to participate. I only registered an account when the default threshold was set to 1 to annihilate anonymous postings. I used to be quite a fanatic about being anonymous and untrackable. It worked, too...there's barely any record of my existence for about 10 years.
Well, people today, especially video game players, are ignorant enough that someone might not get the "joke". After all, everything that's worth existing was created a maximum of 5 years ago, everything else is "crap".
Actually, painting with a less-than-perfect brush sounds pretty creative to me. Given the poverty of thought that exists today, I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone had already done it, or built a career out of it, or even founded an entire school of "thinking" based on dried-up brushes. It's a lot less than what already exists...
Wow, that's really closed-minded. Exactly the opposite of what I've been taught to expect from "creative" people. Is this why design these days is so stuck in the mud? Automatic rejection of any concept that doesn't fit inside the narrow-minded parameters of what everyone else thinks is acceptable?
Well, it wasn't flamebait - I was being serious. Abusive bosses who cuss are something to be avoided, and people think it's flamebait. Whatcha gonna do, it's freaking slashdot...
I've had my IP ripped off several times in China (I produce unique content) and it's always the same story: they're shocked that it's a problem, can't understand why I'm upset, and give some BS reasons as to why what they did was OK. I keep a bunch of copies of the local "Reporting, Complaint, and Service Center for IPR Protection" booklet, and send out about one a month. Once in a while, I get back a cursing reply that says that they're just patriotic Chinese people and that it's OK to cheat foreigners. No joke.
For native English speakers, it takes three times as long to learn Japanese as it does another related language. To put it another way, in the time it takes you to learn Japanese, you could learn French, Italian, and Polish instead. I don't know how it is to learn COBOL, but I thought I'd just throw that in there - it's a big opportunity cost. In the 4 years it takes to become literate in Japanese, one could be most of the way towards a law degree, for example.
Claims of slavery in the United States are by definition shot through with racial overtones, due to the shameful history of slavery, and the government's refusal to acknowledge or make reparations for something that it once benifited greatly from. Refusal by its citizens to acknowledge this history is racist as well.
How racist is the culture at Apple? Do they give appropriate preferences based on race? Are employees of color subject to these greater working hours? This might give them more weight for the slavery argument, otherwise it's just blowing smoke to try to borrow credibility at the expense of the Civil Rights Movement.
Criticism of abusive bosses modded to -1 flamebait. Only on slashdot...
Hint: when he says "I'm hell-bent on making it work", he actually means "I will not be doing any of the actual work myself, but I'm hell-bent on pushing my workers". Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Mayor Daley and JFK would like a word with you. Or heck the PRI in Mexico stole elections for 90 years using nothing but paper ballots. Pretending that paper is somehow better is folly.
Nah, the rights are still there. It's just the corrupt media that abuses its position. The Western media is fully aware that it can influence elections and policy just by the choice of which stories it covers and which stories get ignored (Obama's Communist mentor would be the latest example). Living in China and viewing the officially censored media year after year gives you a real feel for what it's really like living with censorship. Then, you look at the US media, and they censor themselves as well, just with different objectives. In China, it's to maintain social cohesion at all costs, and promote the government as good guys who try really hard but sometimes fail. In America, the media is uncontrolled by the government, but nontheless its objective is societal engineering and the manipulation of elections. You should see the effect that running positive news about the country has on people...Chinese people think that China is doing all right. With the constant drumbeat of bad news about America, no wonder some Americans are down on their country. They even say things like "lazy masses" without even realizing that they have the opportunity to start their own media and say what they want freely. Here, forget it. You need to find a license and a censor to publish anything, and both of those are pretty darned hard to find.