Yeah, great idea. Then the world's population would EXPLODE. What we really need to do is fill up thousands of crop dusters with contraceptives and start spraying. Either that, or genetically engineer a human-terminator virus (preferably, several, so as to reduce the chances of a cure being found) and release it. That's the only thing that can save the entire planet and its biosphere. IMPROVING conditions for humans will not help the situation one bit.
Oh, it's nothing...it's just that she kept forwarding them to me, and doing it again, and again, and again, and I didn't have the heart to come down on her like a sack of wet cement like I do to most people when they send me chain letters. The "smart" people that she works with sent her all that crap, as well as a ton of urban legends, email worms, and other nice things that I get to clean off of her computer every year. I finally had a heart-to-heart with her on one Christmas, and she understood, she just wanted me to share in the "fun". Sorry, but a doctor of philosophy should know better. I know, I shouldn't bitch about these things but it just bothers me.
(with apologies to Senator Vreenak) This is an obvious fake...it's not like Bill Gates at all. It sounds just like one of those email chain letters that the Ph.D's at my mom's job are always sending her. Bill Gates has a much more...precise way of talking. Look at all the pointless bitching, it sounds just like a stream-of-conciousness rant by some random internet idiot posting on a forum.
Shame on every news outlet that picked this up, including Slashdot. It looks like all that has to happen is some borderline internet site posts something, and the next thing you know, it's on AP and Reuters. I've seen it more than once, and it seems that retractions never make it in the same way.
Yeah, Atlanta is a minority-majority city. Being from the Bay Area, you've probably never lived around so many black people in your life. You can go ahead and say that you just plain don't care for black people, intstead of veiling your criticisms in terms of "arcane blue laws", (which are not arcane at all, they are very easily understood). But feel free to keep practicing your bigotry against whites, that is perfectly socially acceptable.
Which feeds, not what feeds. Sorry, living abroad as I do, it's embarrassing to see native speakers with a lower level of written English than ESL students. Anyway, here's my list:
http://www.chinalawblog.com/index.xml
China Law Blog, all sorts of interesting stuff about China and IPR. The law is actually pretty good in China, the problem is people don't know how to use it.
http://feed.feedsky.com/danweirss10 Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else.
http://www.ningboguide.com/rss.xml An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it.
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/index.xml EastSouthWestNorth, a weblog with all sorts of interesting stories about dissent in China, and it's not even blocked by the GFW. Unfortunately the website editor is a radical leftist and this colors his coverage of some events. The web page is ugly as sin and includes a bunch of irrelevant crap about Taiwanese actresses and such, so RSS is the best bet.
Nobody will ever read this, but it's nice to hear the racism bomb being thrown as a first resort. The entire Japanese postwar economy was a giant pyramid scheme, something called "credit ordering". You'll remember that the whole house of cards collapsed in 1989, and the Japanese economy was in a zombie state for the next 15 years.
It's bullshit that all developing economies need to steal. No reason for that at all. And for Chinese Ph.D's? Have you ever been to a university? Cheating is rampant and even expected. A friend of mine got fired because students were blatantly cheating during exams, and he refused be a party to the fraud.
See? Copying. No innovation, no new ideas, no paradigm-shattering venture. Just a clone of XP, just as accurate as they can get it. And that you called it "my country's linux" is very very revealing. Do Americans call Redhat "their country's linux"? Germans call SuSE theirs? (Novell whatever) Rabid nationalism is going to play a huge part in the future, too. Foreigners are to blame for all of China's problems.
QQ sucks raging donkey balls. I'm not surprised they constantly monkey with the protocol. When all you do is rip off others, you get really good at it, and you know how to avoid getting ripped off yourself. I would call this blatant hypocrisy, but then hypocrisy is a Western concept that has no equivalent in China. It's always been "the leader commands this" and instead of wanting to make everyone equal, Chinese just want to become the leader so that they can be hypocrites, too. Fundamental cultural difference.
My, the ignorance is breathtaking. Wishful thinking, at best.
China is *hugely* inefficient, which is mostly masked by their huge growth. One thing that you have to remember is that the Chinese economy has *never* gone down in living memory. It's all up, up, up since Mao died and the national nightmare ended. This results in things like people opening businesses with no idea what they're doing, and the business succeeds anyway due to runaway demand. I see small shops open and close all the time, and it's the same story - no plan, no strategy, no marketing. It's just 'I'll open the doors and people will flood in.' The Chinese are geniunely shocked when they don't, and can't figure out what they did wrong. Really. Massive inefficiency is a hallmark of a prolonged boom (more annoying facts again - don't worry, I won't include any math) and China has been a boom (14%+ growth) for 30 years.
The Chinese don't invent new things, which is going to really start hurting in a few years when all their low-cost manufacturing isn't low-cost any more. I see it every day, a lot of people really don't know how to solve problems except for copying someone else, even to the point of investing huge efforts into it. Just think of how much better off China would be if they had developed their own indigenous computer systems instead of just pirating Windows. And no, I have yet to see a single installation of this "Red Flag" linux that someone always spouts off about. China does in fact have IPR laws, and they do work, but you have to actually follow them. Speaking of laws, there is a new anti-monopoly law in effect this year, and it's going to be used by the government as a club to bash foreign enterprises. Of course, Chinese monopolies are safe. Remember, cheating foreigners is patriotic.
Anyway, that's just my personal experience. Feel free to keep wishing hard for America to fall and China to rise. For further reading, for those of you who made it this far, check here (true today as when it was written) and Danwei and China Law Blog. Sorry to inject facts into the fantasy exercise - I realize it's a downer.
Well, let's be honest here, the student radicals and trade unionists wanted to turn Spain into a charnel house like Cambodia or the Soviet Union. Funny how that never gets pointed out, despite the students shouting it through megaphones.
Yeah, no kidding. I am continually surprised and shocked by the casual abuse of laws here in China. Like you said, it comes from living under an oppressive government that has a law for EVERYTHING (hurrah for the radical left). A couple of Chinese businessmen who went to America spent more time trying to figure out how to break the laws and not get caught, when it was just easier to comply with them and file their paperwork on time.
After living here for a while, you get the idea that you're *not supposed* to obey the law. My local friends laugh at my efforts to comply with every regulation. If everyone obeyed the law, then nothing in society would work. The government even sort of tacitly acknowledges this with lax enforcment of the unimportant laws (but boy howdy they come down like a ton of bricks on the ones they consider important).
The constitution is a living document, subject to re-interpretation and change. Words like "invasion" can be interpreted differently, depending on the situation. Darwinism has had a great effect on the "fixed" constitution so beloved of Christians and other white people like yourself. Where the 19th century saw the Constitution as a set of immutable laws like Newtonian physics, the 20th century viewed it in terms of Einstein's relativity, in which everything depends on where - or when - the observer is situated. In the 1930s, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes put it bluntly: "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."
A quote from one of your most hated opponents: "I would look for justices of the Supreme Court who understand that our Constitution is a living and breathing document, that it was intended by our founders to be interpreted in the light of the constantly evolving experience of the American people." --Al Gore
Oh, come on. China has tons of problems, your post is typical of people who only read Western media (no offense meant). The corruption has to be seen to be believed, tons of schools collapsed, killing thousands of children during the recent earthquake. People were breaking apart the sandy concrete in their hands, and the government is 100% responsible. Try zonaeuropa.com or danwei.org if you want some real news. Or chinalawblog.com for the huge regulatory problems up ahead. We're not even talking about the stock market melting down, which is bound to happen due to rampant speculation.
20 years ago, I didn't have any "conservative buddies", I was 17 (I was 2 during Nixon) and confused as to why the newspaper twisted its news all the time. You know, I can see bias when it's as obvious as the NYT makes it. And just because our opinions don't agree doesn't make anyone stupid. Labeling people like this is just an excuse to avoid intellectual debate. Why bother with a discussion when you can just slap a label on anyone who disagrees with you, and be done with it?
You know, it's funny, I was saying the same thing about them 20 years ago. They're horribly biased, twist the news to suit their agenda, and so on. All 100% true.
Now, liberals are saying the same thing. It's not because anything has changed at the NYT - they're still pulling the same crap that they always have. No, it's because you NO LONGER AGREE with their biases. Funny how that makes a world of difference, eh?
OK, thanks for qualifying that with "I live in Beijing". Living in Beijing, I can understand why you're so ignorant (it's like living in New York City in America, it's at sea regarding the rest of the country). There's plenty of censorship in music, it's just because you never see it (because it's censored, duh). One reason that music isn't so popular in China is due to its bland uniformity...the Party likes inoffensive drivel like love songs, not Rage Against the Machine or Dead Kennedys. Even "punk" bands like Brain Failure toe the line. Trust me, music is censored just like everything else.
Don't Chinese people feel humiliated because their largest technology company helps citizens to violate IPR laws? I know they feel ashamed, otherwise they would not check your IP. This way, they can hide their actions from the outside world.
The whole point that I was making is to look at the HCL ***before*** you install. I get tons of idiots asking why they're having problems when it did not even occur to them to check it. Then, they get angry because Solaris won't run on their craptacular hardware and then they say Solaris "sucks". Solaris is fine, you just have to be a little bit professional about it.
Why would ANYBODY go buy a random PC and then just expect Linux to work on it? WTF? You find out what works and then buy the PC, not the other way around!
I suppose this explains all the linux lusers showing up on #solaris complaining that Sol-X86 sucks and won't install. Looking for a hardware compatibility list before spending hundreds of dollars is evidently far too advanced for some people.
You are seriously out to lunch and evidently you have watched too many History Channel shows about WWII. Psych warfare? The undead? Force power? This only confirms my stereotypes about the sort of people who participate in rallies (they can be safely ignored).
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Yeah, great idea. Then the world's population would EXPLODE. What we really need to do is fill up thousands of crop dusters with contraceptives and start spraying. Either that, or genetically engineer a human-terminator virus (preferably, several, so as to reduce the chances of a cure being found) and release it. That's the only thing that can save the entire planet and its biosphere. IMPROVING conditions for humans will not help the situation one bit.
Oh, it's nothing...it's just that she kept forwarding them to me, and doing it again, and again, and again, and I didn't have the heart to come down on her like a sack of wet cement like I do to most people when they send me chain letters. The "smart" people that she works with sent her all that crap, as well as a ton of urban legends, email worms, and other nice things that I get to clean off of her computer every year. I finally had a heart-to-heart with her on one Christmas, and she understood, she just wanted me to share in the "fun". Sorry, but a doctor of philosophy should know better. I know, I shouldn't bitch about these things but it just bothers me.
Shame on every news outlet that picked this up, including Slashdot. It looks like all that has to happen is some borderline internet site posts something, and the next thing you know, it's on AP and Reuters. I've seen it more than once, and it seems that retractions never make it in the same way.
Yeah, Atlanta is a minority-majority city. Being from the Bay Area, you've probably never lived around so many black people in your life. You can go ahead and say that you just plain don't care for black people, intstead of veiling your criticisms in terms of "arcane blue laws", (which are not arcane at all, they are very easily understood). But feel free to keep practicing your bigotry against whites, that is perfectly socially acceptable.
Correlation does not equal causation. Name one product or idea or anything that Chinese have done in the past 10 years. I can't.
China Law Blog, all sorts of interesting stuff about China and IPR. The law is actually pretty good in China, the problem is people don't know how to use it.
Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else.
An English magazine that occasionally has something interesting on it.
EastSouthWestNorth, a weblog with all sorts of interesting stories about dissent in China, and it's not even blocked by the GFW. Unfortunately the website editor is a radical leftist and this colors his coverage of some events. The web page is ugly as sin and includes a bunch of irrelevant crap about Taiwanese actresses and such, so RSS is the best bet.
It's bullshit that all developing economies need to steal. No reason for that at all. And for Chinese Ph.D's? Have you ever been to a university? Cheating is rampant and even expected. A friend of mine got fired because students were blatantly cheating during exams, and he refused be a party to the fraud.
QQ sucks raging donkey balls. I'm not surprised they constantly monkey with the protocol. When all you do is rip off others, you get really good at it, and you know how to avoid getting ripped off yourself. I would call this blatant hypocrisy, but then hypocrisy is a Western concept that has no equivalent in China. It's always been "the leader commands this" and instead of wanting to make everyone equal, Chinese just want to become the leader so that they can be hypocrites, too. Fundamental cultural difference.
China is *hugely* inefficient, which is mostly masked by their huge growth. One thing that you have to remember is that the Chinese economy has *never* gone down in living memory. It's all up, up, up since Mao died and the national nightmare ended. This results in things like people opening businesses with no idea what they're doing, and the business succeeds anyway due to runaway demand. I see small shops open and close all the time, and it's the same story - no plan, no strategy, no marketing. It's just 'I'll open the doors and people will flood in.' The Chinese are geniunely shocked when they don't, and can't figure out what they did wrong. Really. Massive inefficiency is a hallmark of a prolonged boom (more annoying facts again - don't worry, I won't include any math) and China has been a boom (14%+ growth) for 30 years.
The Chinese don't invent new things, which is going to really start hurting in a few years when all their low-cost manufacturing isn't low-cost any more. I see it every day, a lot of people really don't know how to solve problems except for copying someone else, even to the point of investing huge efforts into it. Just think of how much better off China would be if they had developed their own indigenous computer systems instead of just pirating Windows. And no, I have yet to see a single installation of this "Red Flag" linux that someone always spouts off about. China does in fact have IPR laws, and they do work, but you have to actually follow them. Speaking of laws, there is a new anti-monopoly law in effect this year, and it's going to be used by the government as a club to bash foreign enterprises. Of course, Chinese monopolies are safe. Remember, cheating foreigners is patriotic.
Anyway, that's just my personal experience. Feel free to keep wishing hard for America to fall and China to rise. For further reading, for those of you who made it this far, check here (true today as when it was written) and Danwei and China Law Blog. Sorry to inject facts into the fantasy exercise - I realize it's a downer.
Well, let's be honest here, the student radicals and trade unionists wanted to turn Spain into a charnel house like Cambodia or the Soviet Union. Funny how that never gets pointed out, despite the students shouting it through megaphones.
Argh, my eyes! This sentence hurts them, precious, it does. We hates it, we hates it forever!
PS how's the whole being a bigot thing working out for you?
After living here for a while, you get the idea that you're *not supposed* to obey the law. My local friends laugh at my efforts to comply with every regulation. If everyone obeyed the law, then nothing in society would work. The government even sort of tacitly acknowledges this with lax enforcment of the unimportant laws (but boy howdy they come down like a ton of bricks on the ones they consider important).
It's been tried.
So, Ulysses was a neocon, eh?
A quote from one of your most hated opponents: "I would look for justices of the Supreme Court who understand that our Constitution is a living and breathing document, that it was intended by our founders to be interpreted in the light of the constantly evolving experience of the American people." --Al Gore
You don't know many Christians, do you? Ignorance is a common trait of loudmouthed bigots like yourself.
Oh, come on. China has tons of problems, your post is typical of people who only read Western media (no offense meant). The corruption has to be seen to be believed, tons of schools collapsed, killing thousands of children during the recent earthquake. People were breaking apart the sandy concrete in their hands, and the government is 100% responsible. Try zonaeuropa.com or danwei.org if you want some real news. Or chinalawblog.com for the huge regulatory problems up ahead. We're not even talking about the stock market melting down, which is bound to happen due to rampant speculation.
20 years ago, I didn't have any "conservative buddies", I was 17 (I was 2 during Nixon) and confused as to why the newspaper twisted its news all the time. You know, I can see bias when it's as obvious as the NYT makes it. And just because our opinions don't agree doesn't make anyone stupid. Labeling people like this is just an excuse to avoid intellectual debate. Why bother with a discussion when you can just slap a label on anyone who disagrees with you, and be done with it?
Now, liberals are saying the same thing. It's not because anything has changed at the NYT - they're still pulling the same crap that they always have. No, it's because you NO LONGER AGREE with their biases. Funny how that makes a world of difference, eh?
OK, thanks for qualifying that with "I live in Beijing". Living in Beijing, I can understand why you're so ignorant (it's like living in New York City in America, it's at sea regarding the rest of the country). There's plenty of censorship in music, it's just because you never see it (because it's censored, duh). One reason that music isn't so popular in China is due to its bland uniformity...the Party likes inoffensive drivel like love songs, not Rage Against the Machine or Dead Kennedys. Even "punk" bands like Brain Failure toe the line. Trust me, music is censored just like everything else.
Don't Chinese people feel humiliated because their largest technology company helps citizens to violate IPR laws? I know they feel ashamed, otherwise they would not check your IP. This way, they can hide their actions from the outside world.
The whole point that I was making is to look at the HCL ***before*** you install. I get tons of idiots asking why they're having problems when it did not even occur to them to check it. Then, they get angry because Solaris won't run on their craptacular hardware and then they say Solaris "sucks". Solaris is fine, you just have to be a little bit professional about it.
I suppose this explains all the linux lusers showing up on #solaris complaining that Sol-X86 sucks and won't install. Looking for a hardware compatibility list before spending hundreds of dollars is evidently far too advanced for some people.
You are seriously out to lunch and evidently you have watched too many History Channel shows about WWII. Psych warfare? The undead? Force power? This only confirms my stereotypes about the sort of people who participate in rallies (they can be safely ignored).