Mr. Jeremy is not bashing the United States of America
What Mr. Jeremy did was to be honest, that he recognizes that the United States of America isn't perfect, that criticisms of the USA can be used to make America better
I, a non-American, have a lot of respect for Americans such as Mr. Jeremy
On the other hand, butthurts like you, only want to hear praises, and you are doing nothing to help your own country
You have no respect from anyone - for you do not even respect yourself
I'm a college professor at a college that actively recruits Chinese students. I guess I missed the faculty meeting where they told us to never let Chinese students fail, because I fail them just as often as American students.
This brings back the memory...
I enrolled into this calculus class, and I was the only foreigner there
So it came time for the first test
It's not a multiple choice test, I can tell you that
During the test, I swear I could hear heavy breathing all around me - my American classmates, are like groaning and breathing heavily
By the time I finished all the regular questions, I still had 20 minutes left, so... not wanting to waste time, I did all the bonus questions as well
Two days later, the professor invited me to go to his office, where he told me, politely but very firmly, to NOT touch any bonus question on any subsequent test
He basically told me that I was giving him a big problem - that because of me, he had a hard time grading other (American) students in the same class - for I had done all the regular questions correctly (that's already full mark), plus, I had done all the 3 bonus questions correctly as well
He also told me a "secret" - that those bonus questions weren't for me - the bonus questions were there for my American classmates only
That was really an eye-opener, at least for me, a young foreign student
In graduate school, I noticed next-to-zero foreign students interacting with the american students.
They did not socialize with us, or even speak our language.
Having had an exercise to critique and evaluate a classmate's written paper, I was downright shocked at the complete lack of any kind of grasp of the English language: half of the paper was plagiarized straight from the textbook, and the other half was poorly constructed syntax intended to glue the pieces together than only a native English speaker would have any hope of discerning (even after a lot of effort).
Having read what you wrote, Sir, I can only conclude the following:
You are making this up
Speaking from my past experience as a foreign student studying in America - it's mostly the reverse
I tried to mix with the Americans -
- I mean, I was inAMERICA, and if I do not mix with Americans when I was in America, what the fuck I was doing in America in the first place? -
- but due to my lousy English -
- yes, my English was really really bad, what can I say but English was a FOREIGN LANGUAGE to me, at that time -
- I had a hard time making friends with Americans
I had to spend time mixing with other International Students, - those from Latin America, from Europe, from Asia, from Africa, - in order to find people to talk to, to practice my English
Only after some months doing that - and also watch a hell of a lot of TV news programs which were in English - I got my English pretty understandable, before Americans started to want to mix with me
It's not that the foreign students - not only those from China - do not want to mix with Americans, it's often the other way around
I even got beaten up in a stadium, by American boys, because I went there with an American friend, who happened to be a very sexy looking American female
Yep, I got beaten up because those American boys do not like the idea of "their babes" going out with a "foreigner"
As for the thesis in English - as I said, it took me quite a while to learn English, and there are times, even after using English for the past 3 decades, I still find myself writing really really lousy English
All you are doing is nothing more than negative stereotyping of the students from China
The concept of this "ship" (if we can call it a ship, that is) is actually not that new
Back in the 1980's, someone tried to build a merchant container ship that used the principle of a catamaran, that could, reportedly, travel in a speed of over 100 knots per hour
And according to the news report that I read, that ship supposed to be very fuel efficient too
This "ship" only adds in the option of supercavitation
My question is - how long before Russia and China come out with their own ship with similar capabilities?
What I mean is, the technology behind this "ship" is not new, supercavitation has been studied and researched to death for decades
Not only that, many of them want to stay here. It's the Chinese brain drain.
Think again
Many of the Chinese (and other foreign) students, stayed in America after they graduated, not because they love America
Because there are so many thing they can learn in America - so many new ideas, new concept, new way of thinking - that they can soak in
I am speaking from experience
After I graduated from college, I stayed in America for almost 3 decades
Did I like America? Well... yes and no
I like America, because there are so many good things in America that I learn
But I just can not substitute America for my homeland
For the 30 or so years that I was in America, not for a day I did not think of my homeland, not for a day my homeland did not beckon
So, after the 30 years I spent in America, after 30 years of learning what America can offer me, I went back to my homeland
So yes, you can say, during the 30 years that I was in America, it was a "brain drain" for my homeland
But ultimately, I came back home
And I suspect many of those Chinese (and other foreign) students will go back to their respective home countries
You gotta understand one thing - the time I was in America, it was when Ronald Reagan was the president, when America was still _something_ to be reckoned with
Not the America now
When I was in America, the "camp city phenomenon" only happened once - when the blue collar worker from rust belt flocked to Houston and Dallas, TX
Today?
"Camp Cities" are everywhere - America just isn't the America it used to be
And that only translate to - More and more of the foreign students ultimately will end up going home
Yes, I am not from America, and Yes, I once studied in America
And Yes, I do not live in America
Why?
Because, although America is good in many ways, I do not feel that America is my home
Plus, not everything in America is hanky dory - there are things that I, no matter how much I tried, just can't accept - like gay marriage, like late-term (trimester) abortion, for instance
American value? Maybe...
After staying in America for more than 2 decades, for better of worse, I do understand the worldview of many of my American friends
But that does not mean I will emulate _everything_ that I have come across in America in my homeland
After all, in America, I was a foreigner
And America, no matter how good it is, is still a foreign land for me
BTW, the businesses that I run do have offices in America, as well as China, among other countries
Yes, I am not from America, and Yes, I once studied in America
And Yes, I do not live in America
Why?
Because, although America is good in many ways, I do not feel that America is my home
Plus, not everything in America is hanky dory - there are things that I, no matter how much I tried, just can't accept - like gay marriage, like late-term (trimester) abortion, for instance
American value? Maybe...
After staying in America for more than 2 decades, for better of worse, I do understand the worldview of many of my American friends
But that does not mean I will emulate _everything_ that I have come across in America in my homeland
After all, in America, I was a foreigner
And America, no matter how good it is, is still a foreign land for me
Not quite, because some KDE and Gnome daemons run even if there is no X server started. But, restarting these should do the trick.
Now, can you guarantee that the system after the reboot will never have any problem left ?
The list of daemons that runs on the background, even after X is taken off, is already known.
They could have just create a script to off all those daemons, after that, patch the system, after that, re-launch all those daemons, without having to reboot
Do that, and 4 months later, -one- of the many successfully applied updates will screw things up, and you'll have to figure out which update exactly was the culprit.
Problem is, it still does NOT make any sense !!
Okay, they took the whole system down and do a reboot
Does that provide any guarantee that 4 months from now one of the updates will not fuck up and leave you scratching your head?
The RIAA has often stated that it represents the copyright interests of signed artists to its group member; now, many people have pointed out that this is false, but from a quasi-political / legal aspect
It's all because of POLITICIANS
The MAFIAA has gone as far as they could go because they got the support of the FUCKING POLITICIANS !!
Without those FUCKING POLITICIANS the MAFIAA would have closed shop a long long time ago !!
I mean, MAFIAA is aiming not on the word "STEAL", but actually, they are aiming to curtain almost _EVERYTHING_ that we do online (and offline)
I mean, what if I come across a very stunning picture in some site somewhere and I dl it and make it my desktop screen background - it's legally not 'stealing', just borrowing, and we do that all the time
What MAFIAA wants is an online world where no one can do nothing - yes, that's what they are after
I actually took time to read the TFA and as many background freaking thing that are related that I can find on this thing, and tell you the truth, I am still trying to understand
I just do not understand why they want to take the thing offline, in order to run an update
I mean, what is wrong in keeping the system running while the patches run in the background?
I can understand it if the thing got a big hit - either from a worm attack or trojan or attacks from the outside -... in real big emergency where the system can't just take it anymore, maybe, just maybe, take the whole thing offline (or power down the entire system), that makes sense
But... just updating the damn thing you gotta take it offline, just like Windoze?
Very easy - those belly-aching "American Chamber of Commerce" are there to provoke tensions
The practice of "restriction of commerce" isn't a one-way street
There are tons and tons of restrictions we've placed on Chinese companies in the West - and I can't help but wonder why there isn't any belly-aching on the part of the "American Chamber of Commerce" regarding this matter?
The Americans never stop dreaming - it's their dreams that have changed
Instead of having a collective dream - of a nation going forward - the collective spirit of Americanism had collapsed
And the American dreams went with it
Nowadays, if you ask any typical American kids what their dream is - most will tell you about materialistic stuffs, like iPAD or iPhone or stuffs like that
This is not new, for some 20-30 years ago, the materialistic dreams had pervaded the American psyche
In the 1980's/1990's, if you ask average American kids what their dreams was, they will tell you about $200 Nike shoes
No wonder many American dreams have turned into American nightmare
FYI, I have businesses in China, and I have them since the 1980's
I am not a Chinese, I am a foreigner, when I am in China
Even though my company, legally speaking, is an American company - I was (and still am) not permitted to use certain technology inside China, because of the official, - and often unwritten - embargo
There were technologies that my company has legally purchased, and were being used, in other factories in places like Indonesia or Thailand, but we can't use the same technology in our factories inside China
Some of those technologies are much more ecologically friendly and produce much less waste
It's okay to scold China when they fucked up because of their own fault
But it's patently unfair when it's the West (and Japan) chose not to cooperate with China
When the old technologies China is using bellowing out tons and tons of toxic waste - whose fault is that?
It's clearly been a LONG time since you checked... it's been a Federal Republic with a multi-party representative democracy since the 25th of December 1991...
Umm...
I didn't say anything about democracy, did I?
I was saying that Russia remains a communist country - and it still is , in more ways than one - despite being a so-called "democracy"
BTW, "Federal Republic" doesn't really mean anything other than it has no "king"
So what? The Chinese are so stupid they can't learn from anyone else so they have to repeat every other country's mistake?
It's not about "repeating every other country's mistake"
It's about the very fact that there is simply _NO_ way to build up any serious industrial program without having any pollution
And...
The West (including Japan) aren't helpful in that regards either
When China was progressing ahead in the 1980's and 1990's, the West (and Japan) already had technologies that they were already using, that can produce the same amount of products while drastically cutting down on the pollution
If the West (and Japan) offered those technology to China and China refused to accept those technologies, then you are right - China is so stupid and they can't learn
But the truth is, during 1980's, 1990's and the early 2000's, the West (and Japan) were holding all those technologies close to their chest, and refusing to share them with China
The fact is - In 1990's, the technology an average China factory was using, was actually at the same level as technologies that the West (and Japan) were using during the 1950's, the 1960's and the 1970's
Average level of tech China's factories are using now is equivalent to the level of technology the West (and Japan) were using in the 1980's and early 1990's
When the Japanese sent their spacecraft to a comet, collected some comet dusts, and then brought those space dusts back to earth, I don't see CCP immediately sent their own spacecraft in doing the same thing
It's more likely that the CCP really does not care what others think - they just do whatever they do on their own schedule
The Chinese appear to have the same general interest in space stunts that the Soviets did: to convince their own population that progress is amazing
[citation needed]
It's much more likely that your imagination had run wild
In China, there were no "China is great because we go to the space" slogans blaring across TV screens, nor anything like that
The average Chinese look at the space program thing as a natural progression - for them, it could be the Taiwanese or the Hongkongnese who done it, they don't really care, as long as _someone_ from East Asia is doing it
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Mr. Jeremy is not bashing the United States of America
What Mr. Jeremy did was to be honest, that he recognizes that the United States of America isn't perfect, that criticisms of the USA can be used to make America better
I, a non-American, have a lot of respect for Americans such as Mr. Jeremy
On the other hand, butthurts like you, only want to hear praises, and you are doing nothing to help your own country
You have no respect from anyone - for you do not even respect yourself
I'm a college professor at a college that actively recruits Chinese students. I guess I missed the faculty meeting where they told us to never let Chinese students fail, because I fail them just as often as American students.
This brings back the memory ...
I enrolled into this calculus class, and I was the only foreigner there
So it came time for the first test
It's not a multiple choice test, I can tell you that
During the test, I swear I could hear heavy breathing all around me - my American classmates, are like groaning and breathing heavily
By the time I finished all the regular questions, I still had 20 minutes left, so ... not wanting to waste time, I did all the bonus questions as well
Two days later, the professor invited me to go to his office, where he told me, politely but very firmly, to NOT touch any bonus question on any subsequent test
He basically told me that I was giving him a big problem - that because of me, he had a hard time grading other (American) students in the same class - for I had done all the regular questions correctly (that's already full mark), plus, I had done all the 3 bonus questions correctly as well
He also told me a "secret" - that those bonus questions weren't for me - the bonus questions were there for my American classmates only
That was really an eye-opener, at least for me, a young foreign student
In graduate school, I noticed next-to-zero foreign students interacting with the american students.
They did not socialize with us, or even speak our language.
Having had an exercise to critique and evaluate a classmate's written paper, I was downright shocked at the complete lack of any kind of grasp of the English language: half of the paper was plagiarized straight from the textbook, and the other half was poorly constructed syntax intended to glue the pieces together than only a native English speaker would have any hope of discerning (even after a lot of effort).
Having read what you wrote, Sir, I can only conclude the following:
You are making this up
Speaking from my past experience as a foreign student studying in America - it's mostly the reverse
I tried to mix with the Americans -
- I mean, I was in AMERICA, and if I do not mix with Americans when I was in America, what the fuck I was doing in America in the first place? -
- but due to my lousy English -
- yes, my English was really really bad, what can I say but English was a FOREIGN LANGUAGE to me, at that time -
- I had a hard time making friends with Americans
I had to spend time mixing with other International Students, - those from Latin America, from Europe, from Asia, from Africa, - in order to find people to talk to, to practice my English
Only after some months doing that - and also watch a hell of a lot of TV news programs which were in English - I got my English pretty understandable, before Americans started to want to mix with me
It's not that the foreign students - not only those from China - do not want to mix with Americans, it's often the other way around
I even got beaten up in a stadium, by American boys, because I went there with an American friend, who happened to be a very sexy looking American female
Yep, I got beaten up because those American boys do not like the idea of "their babes" going out with a "foreigner"
As for the thesis in English - as I said, it took me quite a while to learn English, and there are times, even after using English for the past 3 decades, I still find myself writing really really lousy English
All you are doing is nothing more than negative stereotyping of the students from China
GP is nothing but a lousy troll
If you forgot, here's what GP wrote:
Have you any idea of what Chinese ethics consist of? Typically, it's "I got mine, screw you"
How can anyone ever take such crap seriously?
People, of any racial background, come in all kinds of personalities - some good, some bad, some in between
By saying that only the Chinese have the "I got mine, screw you" mentality, GP has shown off two fallacies:
I. People of all races - not just those from one specific racial background - have this "I got mine, screw you" trait
II. The Chinese, like all people, come in the "Good", the "Bad", and the "Ugly" varieties
Sure, there are Chinese with the "Screw You" POV
But there are also Chinese who do not subscribe to that POV
The concept of this "ship" (if we can call it a ship, that is) is actually not that new
Back in the 1980's, someone tried to build a merchant container ship that used the principle of a catamaran, that could, reportedly, travel in a speed of over 100 knots per hour
And according to the news report that I read, that ship supposed to be very fuel efficient too
This "ship" only adds in the option of supercavitation
My question is - how long before Russia and China come out with their own ship with similar capabilities?
What I mean is, the technology behind this "ship" is not new, supercavitation has been studied and researched to death for decades
Not only that, many of them want to stay here. It's the Chinese brain drain.
Think again
Many of the Chinese (and other foreign) students, stayed in America after they graduated, not because they love America
Because there are so many thing they can learn in America - so many new ideas, new concept, new way of thinking - that they can soak in
I am speaking from experience
After I graduated from college, I stayed in America for almost 3 decades
Did I like America? Well... yes and no
I like America, because there are so many good things in America that I learn
But I just can not substitute America for my homeland
For the 30 or so years that I was in America, not for a day I did not think of my homeland, not for a day my homeland did not beckon
So, after the 30 years I spent in America, after 30 years of learning what America can offer me, I went back to my homeland
So yes, you can say, during the 30 years that I was in America, it was a "brain drain" for my homeland
But ultimately, I came back home
And I suspect many of those Chinese (and other foreign) students will go back to their respective home countries
You gotta understand one thing - the time I was in America, it was when Ronald Reagan was the president, when America was still _something_ to be reckoned with
Not the America now
When I was in America, the "camp city phenomenon" only happened once - when the blue collar worker from rust belt flocked to Houston and Dallas, TX
Today?
"Camp Cities" are everywhere - America just isn't the America it used to be
And that only translate to - More and more of the foreign students ultimately will end up going home
Yes, I am not from America, and Yes, I once studied in America
And Yes, I do not live in America
Why?
Because, although America is good in many ways, I do not feel that America is my home
Plus, not everything in America is hanky dory - there are things that I, no matter how much I tried, just can't accept - like gay marriage, like late-term (trimester) abortion, for instance
American value? Maybe ...
After staying in America for more than 2 decades, for better of worse, I do understand the worldview of many of my American friends
But that does not mean I will emulate _everything_ that I have come across in America in my homeland
After all, in America, I was a foreigner
And America, no matter how good it is, is still a foreign land for me
BTW, the businesses that I run do have offices in America, as well as China, among other countries
Yes, I am not from America, and Yes, I once studied in America
And Yes, I do not live in America
Why?
Because, although America is good in many ways, I do not feel that America is my home
Plus, not everything in America is hanky dory - there are things that I, no matter how much I tried, just can't accept - like gay marriage, like late-term (trimester) abortion, for instance
American value? Maybe ...
After staying in America for more than 2 decades, for better of worse, I do understand the worldview of many of my American friends
But that does not mean I will emulate _everything_ that I have come across in America in my homeland
After all, in America, I was a foreigner
And America, no matter how good it is, is still a foreign land for me
Not quite, because some KDE and Gnome daemons run even if there is no X server started. But, restarting these should do the trick.
Now, can you guarantee that the system after the reboot will never have any problem left ?
The list of daemons that runs on the background, even after X is taken off, is already known.
They could have just create a script to off all those daemons, after that, patch the system, after that, re-launch all those daemons, without having to reboot
Couldn't they?
Do that, and 4 months later, -one- of the many successfully applied updates will screw things up, and you'll have to figure out which update exactly was the culprit.
Problem is, it still does NOT make any sense !!
Okay, they took the whole system down and do a reboot
Does that provide any guarantee that 4 months from now one of the updates will not fuck up and leave you scratching your head?
I have read TFA, and I still CAN NOT understand the whole thing !!
If it's the FF, they can kill FF and re-launch the thing after the patch are done
What's the freaking need to take the whole system down?
The RIAA has often stated that it represents the copyright interests of signed artists to its group member; now, many people have pointed out that this is false, but from a quasi-political / legal aspect
It's all because of POLITICIANS
The MAFIAA has gone as far as they could go because they got the support of the FUCKING POLITICIANS !!
Without those FUCKING POLITICIANS the MAFIAA would have closed shop a long long time ago !!
I mean, MAFIAA is aiming not on the word "STEAL", but actually, they are aiming to curtain almost _EVERYTHING_ that we do online (and offline)
I mean, what if I come across a very stunning picture in some site somewhere and I dl it and make it my desktop screen background - it's legally not 'stealing', just borrowing, and we do that all the time
What MAFIAA wants is an online world where no one can do nothing - yes, that's what they are after
I am _really_REALLY_ sick of MAFIAA !!
I actually took time to read the TFA and as many background freaking thing that are related that I can find on this thing, and tell you the truth, I am still trying to understand
I just do not understand why they want to take the thing offline, in order to run an update
I mean, what is wrong in keeping the system running while the patches run in the background?
I can understand it if the thing got a big hit - either from a worm attack or trojan or attacks from the outside - ... in real big emergency where the system can't just take it anymore, maybe, just maybe, take the whole thing offline (or power down the entire system), that makes sense
But ... just updating the damn thing you gotta take it offline, just like Windoze?
What's the freaking point?
Very easy - those belly-aching "American Chamber of Commerce" are there to provoke tensions
The practice of "restriction of commerce" isn't a one-way street
There are tons and tons of restrictions we've placed on Chinese companies in the West - and I can't help but wonder why there isn't any belly-aching on the part of the "American Chamber of Commerce" regarding this matter?
Now they bundled up 98 micro-cameras, each with a 14-megapixel sensor, around a shared spherical lens
What if they do the same with the AWARE-2 camera?
What if they grouped up 98 gigapixel cameras around a shared spherical lens?
How much clearer would the resulted picture be?
Looks like the Syrian government is much more technically advanced than the one ran by the late Colonel Gaddafi in Libya
Again, if China would change its policies and let foreign companies operate freely in China, there wouldn't be the need for these restrictions
Again, [citation needed]
And those protest by "American Chamber of Commerce" not included, because of their own self-serving whinings
I think you are too harsh on the Americans
The Americans never stop dreaming - it's their dreams that have changed
Instead of having a collective dream - of a nation going forward - the collective spirit of Americanism had collapsed
And the American dreams went with it
Nowadays, if you ask any typical American kids what their dream is - most will tell you about materialistic stuffs, like iPAD or iPhone or stuffs like that
This is not new, for some 20-30 years ago, the materialistic dreams had pervaded the American psyche
In the 1980's/1990's, if you ask average American kids what their dreams was, they will tell you about $200 Nike shoes
No wonder many American dreams have turned into American nightmare
This is completely inaccurate.
[citation needed]
FYI, I have businesses in China, and I have them since the 1980's
I am not a Chinese, I am a foreigner, when I am in China
Even though my company, legally speaking, is an American company - I was (and still am) not permitted to use certain technology inside China, because of the official, - and often unwritten - embargo
There were technologies that my company has legally purchased, and were being used, in other factories in places like Indonesia or Thailand, but we can't use the same technology in our factories inside China
Some of those technologies are much more ecologically friendly and produce much less waste
It's okay to scold China when they fucked up because of their own fault
But it's patently unfair when it's the West (and Japan) chose not to cooperate with China
When the old technologies China is using bellowing out tons and tons of toxic waste - whose fault is that?
with its creationism, rejection of science and education, whilst China looks forward.
But no worry
Whilst US has its own bout with Creationism, the China has Confucianism to content with
And Confucianism is actually worse than Creationism in many ways - it is very very limiting
It's clearly been a LONG time since you checked... it's been a Federal Republic with a multi-party representative democracy since the 25th of December 1991...
Umm ...
I didn't say anything about democracy, did I?
I was saying that Russia remains a communist country - and it still is , in more ways than one - despite being a so-called "democracy"
BTW, "Federal Republic" doesn't really mean anything other than it has no "king"
So what? The Chinese are so stupid they can't learn from anyone else so they have to repeat every other country's mistake?
It's not about "repeating every other country's mistake"
It's about the very fact that there is simply _NO_ way to build up any serious industrial program without having any pollution
And ...
The West (including Japan) aren't helpful in that regards either
When China was progressing ahead in the 1980's and 1990's, the West (and Japan) already had technologies that they were already using, that can produce the same amount of products while drastically cutting down on the pollution
If the West (and Japan) offered those technology to China and China refused to accept those technologies, then you are right - China is so stupid and they can't learn
But the truth is, during 1980's, 1990's and the early 2000's, the West (and Japan) were holding all those technologies close to their chest, and refusing to share them with China
The fact is - In 1990's, the technology an average China factory was using, was actually at the same level as technologies that the West (and Japan) were using during the 1950's, the 1960's and the 1970's
Average level of tech China's factories are using now is equivalent to the level of technology the West (and Japan) were using in the 1980's and early 1990's
When the Japanese sent their spacecraft to a comet, collected some comet dusts, and then brought those space dusts back to earth, I don't see CCP immediately sent their own spacecraft in doing the same thing
It's more likely that the CCP really does not care what others think - they just do whatever they do on their own schedule
The Chinese appear to have the same general interest in space stunts that the Soviets did: to convince their own population that progress is amazing
[citation needed]
It's much more likely that your imagination had run wild
In China, there were no "China is great because we go to the space" slogans blaring across TV screens, nor anything like that
The average Chinese look at the space program thing as a natural progression - for them, it could be the Taiwanese or the Hongkongnese who done it, they don't really care, as long as _someone_ from East Asia is doing it