Swift advocated cannibalism as a solution to poverty in Ireland. What a monster.
Actually, that was pretty monstrous. Swift wasn't bound by modern political correctness, and thus his bigotry is all the more heinous. Racism against the Irish was widespread in his day. What would you say to someone today who advocated cannibalism as a solution to poverty in Bangladesh? No matter how good his writing, he'd be pilloried as a racist (Orson Scott Card comes to mind).
Wow, so for you, there is no difference between Japanese and Chinese. Those yellow people all look the same, eh? How is a screaming monkey any worse or better than a factory-killed pig? Look at yourself before you EVEN think of criticizing others.
Why don't you wait until your own culture is guilt-free, before you go criticizing the cultural practices of an East Asian nation? This just makes me so angry when white people do this.
Well - the documentary film as an art form is pretty degraded these days. Opinion and casting aspersions are the order of the day. You saw what won the Academy Award in 2002, right?
Ah - but China doesn't have drug gangs murdering police chiefs, and the entire force on the take. That, and rampant corruption, are why my company does business in China rather than in Mexico. The Chinese are corrupt as well, but consistently corrupt - in other words, you can plan for it, and it won't cost you very much. A friend of mine just got a zoning variance from the fire marshal for four cartons of Chung Hwa cigarettes.
There is also the imperialism factor. The USA would encounter problems in Mexico due to its imperialistic past - Mexicans have a long memory for such things. China is more consumed with Japan, the USA was a bit player in the imperialist exploitation of China.
It was named after the Gimp in "Pulp Fiction", which was popular at the time that the software was originally released. I thought it was a stupid name then, and it's still a stupid name now. It's just that idiot geeks have made the realization that "I can call my own product anything I want, and people will have to use that word! Let's call it something really stupid! Won't that be funny?"
I work in China, manufacturing garments (management...DUH! People have accused me of being a factory worker...who speaks native level English...and posts on Slashdot...anyway). It does indeed cost quite a bit more to manufacture a quality shoe. You are correct that the factory cost and the retail price are quite a bit different. However, you forget to factor in such factors as research & development (yes running shoes require R&D), the cost of advertising, shipping, and so on. When you buy a brand name, you're not just buying leather and laces, you're also buying the brand...by displaying its logo, you are enhancing your status among your peers. This is why brand name merchandise is so much more profitable than other types. I could show you a shoe equal to the one that you have, at half the price, and you wouldn't buy it because you'd think that there's something wrong with it because the price is too low. Seen it happen a million times, and I've lost contracts because my prices weren't high enough.
Let me tell you a story about cheap sunglasses. I was exporting a container of them from China to America. I asked the Chinese factory guy if they had UV protection. Well, there was some problem translating this, so we go back and forth for a while. Finally, the Chinese factory guy gets it, and his face lights up and he says, "Yes! We have sticker!"
The segment begins in Damascus, where Ms. Zeller announces that because "it's a very sensitive issue here in Syria," she will be accompanied to the Golan by a government minder, a gloomy, balding fellow named Mohammad Ali. One wonders whether Ms. Zeller is aware that quite a few issues are unusually "sensitive" in Syria. She is taken on a tour of a ghost town called Quneitra, a bombed-out relic of the 1973 war that the Syrian government perversely maintains in its ruination as an example of "Zionist aggression." (Once all of the Golan is liberated, Mr. Ali explains, it will be rebuilt in a jiffy. In the meantime: first propaganda, then housing.)
Ms. Zeller appears to swallow most of Mr. Ali's history lesson, but the following day brings a surprise: Her visit to Quneitra has been written up in a Damascus paper. She finds someone to translate the article, and discovers to her undisguised astonishment that the "report," which has her saying things she never said to people she never met, is pure fiction."That is an absolute lie!"she shrieks, laughing in amazement. Somehow her gullibility dramatizes the rote governmental brainwashing in a way a more seasoned journalist could never do. But the logical next step an attempt to visit the newspaper office and talk to the reporter is not even contemplated. "We have been made part of Syrian propaganda, but at least Current TV is now famous in Syria," Ms. Zeller concludes. At least she doesn't say,"It's all good."
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As a foreigner living in America, you're sadly out of touch. Dr. Demento's show was around before Weird Al ever got big. And America's best target for laughs is always itself - there are a million movies and TV shows that demonstrate this.
In short, Al is a minor contributor to American pop culture, and deserves a moderate amount of praise for it.
Chinese people use message boards a *lot* more than Americans. You might browse a few boards, even be a regular, but (some) Chinese people are rabid about it. In a nation with people are used to not getting the whole story from the media, message boards are looked upon as a source of "true" information. Of course, this is taken advantage of and people post fake information in order to hurt people, hurt business, or just cause mischief. Online witch-hunts are fairly common, when someone will post a complaint about you and a mob of posters will go and look up all sorts of information about you, call your boss, harass your company's support line, send you nasty SMS to your phone, etc. Here is a sample of a few of these types of stories.
For China, this is especially worrisome, because not only is the social order hurt, but the government as well. They're mostly worried that a particularly outrageous false rumor might force the government to change in some way. Note that this was done by a single provincial government - the lower ranks of government are particularly threatened. The Chinese government isn't a single monolith - the different ranks of government can be quite independent of each other. This article should have been titled "Chongqingnese ban internet rumors". But, after living in China for a while, I no longer expect the news that I read to be accurate in any way, nor do I expect that people who give me the news to care that they are not accurate.
SL is not *for* you. It was made for creative people so that they could better express themselves virtually. It's much easier to consume content created by others (*ahem* us). I'm sure that you have much more fun playing WoW than "playing" a "game" like SL. Don't feel bad because we're better than you - dealing with the total absence of your kind of person is one of the best things about SL.
I thought that you enlightened Europeans always take the train. I certainly hear no end of it from snotty Eurotrash who take every opportunity to criticize other forms of travel.
Nobody "whistled into pay phones". You could use a tone generator to make the same sound as a quarter dropping, and get a free call. 2600Hz was from home phones, to 800 numbers. Typical how people misremember things that they never did in the first place.
No, you're not a terrorist, but you are a racist for denouncing a Chinese company. You need to allow other cultures to make their own decisions instead of fitting the template of Western imperialism as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Two-letter abbreviations were instituted at the same time as ZIP codes, back in the 70s. They standardized the way that states were abbreviated. For example, you could have Texas, Tex., Tx., et cetera. Does Ma. mean Maine or Massachusetts?
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Uh, no. Expedia says $1470 from Houston to Nairobi. Not all of us have trust funds...we have these things called "jobs" that require us to "work".
Swift advocated cannibalism as a solution to poverty in Ireland. What a monster.
Actually, that was pretty monstrous. Swift wasn't bound by modern political correctness, and thus his bigotry is all the more heinous. Racism against the Irish was widespread in his day. What would you say to someone today who advocated cannibalism as a solution to poverty in Bangladesh? No matter how good his writing, he'd be pilloried as a racist (Orson Scott Card comes to mind).
Because it is racist to criticize other cultures without recognizing that your own culture is even worse? Did you even go to university, redneck?
Wow, so for you, there is no difference between Japanese and Chinese. Those yellow people all look the same, eh? How is a screaming monkey any worse or better than a factory-killed pig? Look at yourself before you EVEN think of criticizing others.
Why don't you wait until your own culture is guilt-free, before you go criticizing the cultural practices of an East Asian nation? This just makes me so angry when white people do this.
Have a look at the Underworld in Ultima V, and you'll see something huge. Or medieval Germany from Darklands.
Well - the documentary film as an art form is pretty degraded these days. Opinion and casting aspersions are the order of the day. You saw what won the Academy Award in 2002, right?
There is also the imperialism factor. The USA would encounter problems in Mexico due to its imperialistic past - Mexicans have a long memory for such things. China is more consumed with Japan, the USA was a bit player in the imperialist exploitation of China.
It was named after the Gimp in "Pulp Fiction", which was popular at the time that the software was originally released. I thought it was a stupid name then, and it's still a stupid name now. It's just that idiot geeks have made the realization that "I can call my own product anything I want, and people will have to use that word! Let's call it something really stupid! Won't that be funny?"
I work in China, manufacturing garments (management...DUH! People have accused me of being a factory worker...who speaks native level English...and posts on Slashdot...anyway). It does indeed cost quite a bit more to manufacture a quality shoe. You are correct that the factory cost and the retail price are quite a bit different. However, you forget to factor in such factors as research & development (yes running shoes require R&D), the cost of advertising, shipping, and so on. When you buy a brand name, you're not just buying leather and laces, you're also buying the brand...by displaying its logo, you are enhancing your status among your peers. This is why brand name merchandise is so much more profitable than other types. I could show you a shoe equal to the one that you have, at half the price, and you wouldn't buy it because you'd think that there's something wrong with it because the price is too low. Seen it happen a million times, and I've lost contracts because my prices weren't high enough.
True story.
Ms. Zeller appears to swallow most of Mr. Ali's history lesson, but the following day brings a surprise: Her visit to Quneitra has been written up in a Damascus paper. She finds someone to translate the article, and discovers to her undisguised astonishment that the "report," which has her saying things she never said to people she never met, is pure fiction."That is an absolute lie!"she shrieks, laughing in amazement. Somehow her gullibility dramatizes the rote governmental brainwashing in a way a more seasoned journalist could never do. But the logical next step an attempt to visit the newspaper office and talk to the reporter is not even contemplated. "We have been made part of Syrian propaganda, but at least Current TV is now famous in Syria," Ms. Zeller concludes. At least she doesn't say,"It's all good."
In short, Al is a minor contributor to American pop culture, and deserves a moderate amount of praise for it.
For China, this is especially worrisome, because not only is the social order hurt, but the government as well. They're mostly worried that a particularly outrageous false rumor might force the government to change in some way. Note that this was done by a single provincial government - the lower ranks of government are particularly threatened. The Chinese government isn't a single monolith - the different ranks of government can be quite independent of each other. This article should have been titled "Chongqingnese ban internet rumors". But, after living in China for a while, I no longer expect the news that I read to be accurate in any way, nor do I expect that people who give me the news to care that they are not accurate.
SL is not *for* you. It was made for creative people so that they could better express themselves virtually. It's much easier to consume content created by others (*ahem* us). I'm sure that you have much more fun playing WoW than "playing" a "game" like SL. Don't feel bad because we're better than you - dealing with the total absence of your kind of person is one of the best things about SL.
A: Because it breaks the flow of a message.
Q: Why is top posting annoying?
Q: Why is beginning a comment in the Subject: line annoying?
I thought that you enlightened Europeans always take the train. I certainly hear no end of it from snotty Eurotrash who take every opportunity to criticize other forms of travel.
Nobody "whistled into pay phones". You could use a tone generator to make the same sound as a quarter dropping, and get a free call. 2600Hz was from home phones, to 800 numbers. Typical how people misremember things that they never did in the first place.
As long as it's on the Southern border, you've got me convinced.
K5? What is this site? Can anyone give a link?
--Hussein Massawi, Hezbollah leader
The strategy you advocate, appeasement, does not work and has never worked.
No, you're not a terrorist, but you are a racist for denouncing a Chinese company. You need to allow other cultures to make their own decisions instead of fitting the template of Western imperialism as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Two-letter abbreviations were instituted at the same time as ZIP codes, back in the 70s. They standardized the way that states were abbreviated. For example, you could have Texas, Tex., Tx., et cetera. Does Ma. mean Maine or Massachusetts?
Q: Why is starting a post in the Subject: line irritating?