Tor project is one well-established effort for both bypassing the firewall of China and encrypting traffic so that the government can not tell that you are accessing forbidden sites. The project's official home page is at http://tor.eff.org/, however that's probably blocked from China. Therefore, I mirrored some key files on my own site. Please download them for yourself or your friends.
Let me know if it works for you or if you have further questions. You can reach me at my mac username without underscores at gmail (scrambled to avoid spam). Once you are able to surf anonymously, you might want to get started with the following sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_ China - unbiased history of your country created by contributors from around the world http://www.cnn.com/ - The most popular news source in US. Biased in it's own way (for example, whitewashing or involvement in Iraq), but still a good source of information. http://www.sfgate.com/ - Local newspaper in my area which is far more liberal than CNN.
I am sure other slashdot readers can add more suggestions here.
I am glad China doesn't yet block slashdot, because you are misinformed about, among other things. labor conditions in your own country. I am attaching one article to get you started. If you need help getting around government firewall, just reply here and I can help you to find/setup a secure proxy that you can use to find out the truth about China and the rest of the world. Even if $50/month is Ok to get by, 15 hour workdays suck big time. It's sad that communist movement introduced 40 hour work weeks and yet they are enforced is US much more than in China.
Apple's iPod production in China falls under scrutiny
Steve Jobs' Think Different campaign celebrated labor leaders like Gandhi, who used strikes as a form of civil protest, and Ceasar Chavez, who organized poor, migrant farm workers. But a British newspaper at the weekend published a rather shocking report about the factories in China that make his company's iPods.
A report in the middlebrow Mail on Sunday entitled "iPod City" features photos and first-hand accounts from inside factories operated by Foxconn, a company contracted by Apple to assemble millions of iPods by hand.
According to the report (paraphrased here by Macworld UK), Foxconn's giant Longhua plant employs 200,000 workers, who work 15-hour days but are paid just $50 a month -- miserable even by China's standards. It claims they work and live in the plant, in dormitories housing 100 people, and outside visitors are forbidden.
The report says another plant that makes Apple's iPod shuffle in Suzhou, Shanghai, employs mostly women, because they are more trustworthy. Another factory is secured by Chinese police officers, the paper said.
Workers at these factories earn more -- about $100 a month -- but are not housed by the company. The paper says rent and living costs eat up about half the worker's salaries.
Of course, companies have to follow the laws of the countries in which they operate.
Companies can not be put in jail (and shouldn't be as well, as most employees are innocent bystanders). However, corporate executives must agree to uphold either labor laws of the country of their citizenship or alternatively each country in which they do business. In the later case, they should be extradited and imprisoned, caned, tortured, executed and so on according to local law of that country.
Current situation is that rich people are effectively "above the law" of any country in the world because of difficulties with international enforcement.
Again a company might as well just sever ties with the US and move their US offices to a friendly place like Dubai, rather than getting taxed by two countries on the same income. There's a cost barrier to making such a move, especially if they're selling to US markets.
If the duty accurately reflects lost tax income, it will be still cheaper for the company to outsource and sell in US than pay US workers. After all we are not paying 100% tax from our salaries. All this will do is eliminate the incentive for businesses to move out of US into a tax haven. Also, companies selling goods in US are making use of public infrastructure - roads, security, intellectual property law enforcement - subsidized by american companies. It's only fair to impose a duty on estimated cost recovery basis.
The standard of living enjoyed in the US can only exist because there are billions living in poverty elsewhere in the world to support it.
For centuries US had little interaction with the rest of the world and enjoyed living standards higher than villages and sweatshops in modern India and China. While people were still living in poverty, I say we can do a bit better with modern technology and experience learned from history.
A good measure is the amount of garbage a person generates. I am continually amazed that many North American households produce many bags of garbage per week while I might produce one every two weeks.
Certainly garbage, by definition, does nothing to raise people's living standards. Perhaps if stores start selling stuff like milk and electronics in customer-provided reusable containers, there will be some extra money available to pay to both American and Chinese workers.
The answer is not to raise the standard of living elsewhere in the world to match ours (which simply is not possible anyway) but is to lower ours to a realistic and sustainable level,
Certainly curbing insane incomes earned by top executives and independently wealthy would be a big step in that direction.
Go ahead, flame me for stating the truth, as is inevitable on Slashdot.
Economics is driven by living, thinking human beings. To say that there is any single "truth" independent on culture and structure of the society is a flame in itself.
Why? I don't see american overpaid corporate management getting the boot. Surely improving conditions of someone currently working 16h/day in a sweatshop will do more good to product quality than increasing a rich guy's net worth from 4 to 8 billion.
If we actually passed laws requiring US based companies to pay 5-7 dollars to workers anywhere in the world, their only option would be to leave the US altogether.
Fine, as long as:
a) The company agrees to follow all Chinese laws and we agree to promptly extradite any executives residing in US to stand trial for any violations. I hear death penalty is common for stuff like environmental accidents and allowing employees to access information about Tinamenn square events through corporate intranet gets you sent to a re-education camp for a few years. Are you actually suggesting that a company should be allowed to avoid laws of ALL countries by shifting people and corporate registrations around?
and
b) The company goods are charged a non-punitive duty to compensate for the loss of tax income compared to a US company paying wages to american workers.
IMHO (and RMS's opinion) non-free software is unethical, because it's basically a scam: making software is a service with value; making copies of software is of (marginally) zero value. So, the GPP is right on the mark.
In this case, I hope both you and RMS start using creative commons license for your work rather than one that places severe restrictions on making copies.
I have never seen anyone does an hour of vigorous exercise per day and is severely obese. Muscles burn energy even when at rest. Exercise suppresses hunger and makes you not want to eat a heavy meal. Staying outdoors for long periods distracts you from desire to eat junk snacks and restricts access to the fridge. Physical activity alleviates depression, making you want to take better care of yourself.
Or you could consider that the US company could easily double their salary, reduce work week to, say, 60 hours and fix the most grievous safety hazards - all at the cost of cutting compensation of top executives by half. Just like we are prosecuting ordinary citizens for patronizing child prostitutes in Thailand, we should start going after companies (and their CEOs) that break US labor laws abroad. 5-7 bucks minimum wage per hour is not to expensive for a company, will help 3rd world countries stand up on their feet rather than being cheap slaves and will give US workers at least a slight chance to compete for jobs.
According to TFA, even home videos are degraded in quality. What does THAT have to do with media industry?
On the other hand, companies with tens of billions of dollars in the bank like Microsoft that additionally have experience in firing American workers and supporting communism or widow burning with their money can well afford to ignore Hollywood and build up marketshare of Bollywood movies or creative content from other countries where even 5% of honor system sales justifies the effort.
So are you saying that there are no health conditions that cause obesity and require medical treatment in addition to lifestyle changes? Even if that's a tiny minority of obese, millions of people in US are affected.
While this is scary, use of computers in everyday life necessarily equals loss of privacy as everything you do can be automatically scanned for patterns, archived indefinitely and disclosed to 3rd parties. If we don't want to be under constant surveillance, we as geeks should abandon our jobs and insist that critical functions in our society are performed by direct interaction between humans who, unlike computers, can be taught discretion.
This is true on the most primitive level. However, for a significant number of people "eating correctly" will mean a 1000 calorie-a-day diet of pure protein and in addition to not being obese they will be constantly hungry and lethargic, lose muscle mass and suffer from various diseases associated with malnutrition. They really need medication as well as medically designed diet/exercise program to take care of those genes and hormones.
Yes, 90% of fat people just need to lay off McDonald and other heavily processed food and throw away TVs.
Well, now we're getting in to other issues. Why do their children get shot? Is it because the majority of them want nothing more than to go to school and be left alone? Are most of the shootings random or stray bullets?
Pretty much, yes and yes. Most of the victims had at most a peripheral evolvement with gangs - as in kissing one of the boss'es girls, falling $20 short to pay for an occasional joint or being a gang member's brother. Nothing for which we would expect killed as adults.
Also please note that MUCH of the government-assisted housing is in such areas. I thought those programs HELPED people! Yet many times, they simply keep them tethered to horrible places.
I totally agree. Let lazy bastards get off their bums and build their own home - such as a tent or a wooden shack - in any area of their choosing and start planting vegetables on the grounds. That's what poor do around the world and they have way more self-respect that our government housing types. Maybe then we'll start focusing on eradicating poverty and crime everywhere rather than just in rich white neighborhoods.
If this job gets outsourced (why the fear? They can't outsource EVERYTHING, you know), I'll simply go get another job. I've worked manual labor before and it doesn't scare me. They'll never outsource things like construction, because, you know, it would be impossible. Also, I see 'help wanted' signs ALL OVER THE PLACE. It can't be THAT hard to get a job washing dishes.
Can we ALL be employed washing each other's dishes? Most kinds of jobs involve making stuff rather than being a servant for a rich guy (after all, really poor generally wash their own dishes). It doesn't seem fair to blame someone for not getting a job when we made 75% of occupations - making furniture, working on assembly line, brewing beer, writing Java code - unavailable in US. Let's at least demand that interested workers are allowed to freely move to India or China and try their luck there.
This should be an important item in green apple campaign. After all, packaging material is used only once, while a bill repeats every month. iPhone owners should get online bill only through their iTunes account.
Have you ever worked with the homeless? I have. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen? I have.
and
America has usually been among the best places in the world to be 'poor'. 'Poor' people in America usually have cars and televisions and places to live. Some 'poor' people have multiple cars.
Ok, let's get it straight. Homeless "have places to live"? People with cars and TVs can only get food in soup kitchens? It sounds like you haven't actually worked with poor people who have it good in US. If you did, I think you would find that they would love to get a (better) job, but everything that doesn't require a master's degree has been outsourced. They would love to live a decent life, but their children get killed in random shootings in the only areas where they can afford rent. They have to raise their 3 children without a father who ran away and doesn't have money for child support. They are met with condescending attitude even from people such as yourself who claim to be charitable.
One day when your profession is outsourced you will have to literally get a "fucking job" and wonder why someone has to get screwed in the ass to get a car and a TV when possessing a university degree and being willing to work do good hard work with hands.
Agreed, also we don't need to leave Earth to create more living space, as skyscrapers show. With nuclear and geothermal energy now (with nuclear reactors sequestered in abandoned mile-deep geothermal shafts) and fusion later, we can get by for quite a while without melting Antarctica. Agricultural plants can be grown in hydroponics within the same structures and irrigated with fresh water extracted by reverse osmosis from the ocean. And if we want something on a bigger scale, underground/underwater habitats are a possibility. These might even be resistant to the effects of a stray asteroid.
We don't need to prove global warming beyond reasonable doubt. Rather, we are changing composition of Earth atmosphere to historically unprecedented parameters. Science says that more likely than not we are going to cause undesirable climate change. But even if that turns out to be an error, we are definitely using up a non-renewable resource while subsidizing terrorists. So in any case, we should do the same thing.
Dude, if driving is so dangerous, why force people to drive? Just do some urban planning and provide another realistic way for people to get from a bar to home. Futhermore, "2-4 tons of steel" is a result of "safety regulations" that make people who share the road with you less safe. We are perfectly capable of making half a ton vehicle transporting 2 adults and a child at 35mph while not contributing much to global warming and minimizing risk to others regardless of driver's level or impairment.
Great, so you agree that we should either a) have a realistic way to get from point A to point B without driving. $200 taxi fee, or two hour wait time for CalTrain do not count. Walking is not an option at -40F for 10 miles. or b) not be allowed to live or work at point A and/or point B. Most places in the world solve the problem by having a metro and limiting urban sprawl. Sincerely sorry about your friend - it's just there are also many people who got irreversibly injured or killed by encountering a tired or inexperienced driver. Certainly there should be no need to endanger yourself or others just because you need a safe place to sleep.
So effectively each photon is a CPU core and the running time is reduced by massive parallel computing rather than inherent reduction in complexity, which is (N^N)*(N^2).
Regardless, teaching Darwin's origin of species as an infallible doctrine ignores the complexity of how humans shaped themselves and the rest of the Earth. It can even be said that religious figures "designed" humans by restricting marriage and promoting desirable traits to look for in a mate. I am well aware that this is not how Kansas board of education would like to present things. Personally I can neither proof or disproof that these individuals influenced human DNA in any other way, but the holy books certainly smuck of being written by ordinary humans seeking to preserve their contemporary culture.
Even if humans can actually code DNA (and not just copy genes around) doesn't make it above and beyond evolution.
We can design organisms that don't fit the concepts of evolution as it's currently understood. For example, many current genetically engineered crops are not capable of producing offsprings. And certainly coding DNA can be reasonably described as "intelligent design".
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Hi Jamar,
_ China - unbiased history of your country created by contributors from around the world
Tor project is one well-established effort for both bypassing the firewall of China and encrypting traffic so that the government can not tell that you are accessing forbidden sites. The project's official home page is at http://tor.eff.org/, however that's probably blocked from China. Therefore, I mirrored some key files on my own site. Please download them for yourself or your friends.
http://homepage.mac.com/cat_plus_plus/tor.html - text of tor documentation (I didn't copy all the images, but it should be usable)
http://homepage.mac.com/cat_plus_plus/tor.exe - Windows installer
http://homepage.mac.com/cat_plus_plus/tor.tar - Linux source
http://homepage.mac.com/cat_plus_plus/tor.dmg - Mac installer.
Let me know if it works for you or if you have further questions. You can reach me at my mac username without underscores at gmail (scrambled to avoid spam). Once you are able to surf anonymously, you might want to get started with the following sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of
http://www.cnn.com/ - The most popular news source in US. Biased in it's own way (for example, whitewashing or involvement in Iraq), but still a good source of information.
http://www.sfgate.com/ - Local newspaper in my area which is far more liberal than CNN.
I am sure other slashdot readers can add more suggestions here.
Entry level xxx-industry jobs in America? No such animal any more. All gone overseas.
With all the due respect, entry level jobs in XXX industry are not going anywhere and they pay $100+ per hour!
I am glad China doesn't yet block slashdot, because you are misinformed about, among other things. labor conditions in your own country. I am attaching one article to get you started. If you need help getting around government firewall, just reply here and I can help you to find/setup a secure proxy that you can use to find out the truth about China and the rest of the world. Even if $50/month is Ok to get by, 15 hour workdays suck big time. It's sad that communist movement introduced 40 hour work weeks and yet they are enforced is US much more than in China.
Apple's iPod production in China falls under scrutiny
Steve Jobs' Think Different campaign celebrated labor leaders like Gandhi, who used strikes as a form of civil protest, and Ceasar Chavez, who organized poor, migrant farm workers. But a British newspaper at the weekend published a rather shocking report about the factories in China that make his company's iPods.
A report in the middlebrow Mail on Sunday entitled "iPod City" features photos and first-hand accounts from inside factories operated by Foxconn, a company contracted by Apple to assemble millions of iPods by hand.
According to the report (paraphrased here by Macworld UK), Foxconn's giant Longhua plant employs 200,000 workers, who work 15-hour days but are paid just $50 a month -- miserable even by China's standards. It claims they work and live in the plant, in dormitories housing 100 people, and outside visitors are forbidden.
The report says another plant that makes Apple's iPod shuffle in Suzhou, Shanghai, employs mostly women, because they are more trustworthy. Another factory is secured by Chinese police officers, the paper said.
Workers at these factories earn more -- about $100 a month -- but are not housed by the company. The paper says rent and living costs eat up about half the worker's salaries.
Of course, companies have to follow the laws of the countries in which they operate.
Companies can not be put in jail (and shouldn't be as well, as most employees are innocent bystanders). However, corporate executives must agree to uphold either labor laws of the country of their citizenship or alternatively each country in which they do business. In the later case, they should be extradited and imprisoned, caned, tortured, executed and so on according to local law of that country.
Current situation is that rich people are effectively "above the law" of any country in the world because of difficulties with international enforcement.
Again a company might as well just sever ties with the US and move their US offices to a friendly place like Dubai, rather than getting taxed by two countries on the same income. There's a cost barrier to making such a move, especially if they're selling to US markets.
If the duty accurately reflects lost tax income, it will be still cheaper for the company to outsource and sell in US than pay US workers. After all we are not paying 100% tax from our salaries. All this will do is eliminate the incentive for businesses to move out of US into a tax haven. Also, companies selling goods in US are making use of public infrastructure - roads, security, intellectual property law enforcement - subsidized by american companies. It's only fair to impose a duty on estimated cost recovery basis.
The standard of living enjoyed in the US can only exist because there are billions living in poverty elsewhere in the world to support it.
For centuries US had little interaction with the rest of the world and enjoyed living standards higher than villages and sweatshops in modern India and China. While people were still living in poverty, I say we can do a bit better with modern technology and experience learned from history.
A good measure is the amount of garbage a person generates. I am continually amazed that many North American households produce many bags of garbage per week while I might produce one every two weeks.
Certainly garbage, by definition, does nothing to raise people's living standards. Perhaps if stores start selling stuff like milk and electronics in customer-provided reusable containers, there will be some extra money available to pay to both American and Chinese workers.
The answer is not to raise the standard of living elsewhere in the world to match ours (which simply is not possible anyway) but is to lower ours to a realistic and sustainable level,
Certainly curbing insane incomes earned by top executives and independently wealthy would be a big step in that direction.
Go ahead, flame me for stating the truth, as is inevitable on Slashdot.
Economics is driven by living, thinking human beings. To say that there is any single "truth" independent on culture and structure of the society is a flame in itself.
Why? I don't see american overpaid corporate management getting the boot. Surely improving conditions of someone currently working 16h/day in a sweatshop will do more good to product quality than increasing a rich guy's net worth from 4 to 8 billion.
If we actually passed laws requiring US based companies to pay 5-7 dollars to workers anywhere in the world, their only option would be to leave the US altogether.
Fine, as long as:
a) The company agrees to follow all Chinese laws and we agree to promptly extradite any executives residing in US to stand trial for any violations. I hear death penalty is common for stuff like environmental accidents and allowing employees to access information about Tinamenn square events through corporate intranet gets you sent to a re-education camp for a few years. Are you actually suggesting that a company should be allowed to avoid laws of ALL countries by shifting people and corporate registrations around?
and
b) The company goods are charged a non-punitive duty to compensate for the loss of tax income compared to a US company paying wages to american workers.
IMHO (and RMS's opinion) non-free software is unethical, because it's basically a scam: making software is a service with value; making copies of software is of (marginally) zero value. So, the GPP is right on the mark.
In this case, I hope both you and RMS start using creative commons license for your work rather than one that places severe restrictions on making copies.
I have never seen anyone does an hour of vigorous exercise per day and is severely obese. Muscles burn energy even when at rest. Exercise suppresses hunger and makes you not want to eat a heavy meal. Staying outdoors for long periods distracts you from desire to eat junk snacks and restricts access to the fridge. Physical activity alleviates depression, making you want to take better care of yourself.
Or you could consider that the US company could easily double their salary, reduce work week to, say, 60 hours and fix the most grievous safety hazards - all at the cost of cutting compensation of top executives by half. Just like we are prosecuting ordinary citizens for patronizing child prostitutes in Thailand, we should start going after companies (and their CEOs) that break US labor laws abroad. 5-7 bucks minimum wage per hour is not to expensive for a company, will help 3rd world countries stand up on their feet rather than being cheap slaves and will give US workers at least a slight chance to compete for jobs.
According to TFA, even home videos are degraded in quality. What does THAT have to do with media industry?
On the other hand, companies with tens of billions of dollars in the bank like Microsoft that additionally have experience in firing American workers and supporting communism or widow burning with their money can well afford to ignore Hollywood and build up marketshare of Bollywood movies or creative content from other countries where even 5% of honor system sales justifies the effort.
So are you saying that there are no health conditions that cause obesity and require medical treatment in addition to lifestyle changes? Even if that's a tiny minority of obese, millions of people in US are affected.
While this is scary, use of computers in everyday life necessarily equals loss of privacy as everything you do can be automatically scanned for patterns, archived indefinitely and disclosed to 3rd parties. If we don't want to be under constant surveillance, we as geeks should abandon our jobs and insist that critical functions in our society are performed by direct interaction between humans who, unlike computers, can be taught discretion.
This is true on the most primitive level. However, for a significant number of people "eating correctly" will mean a 1000 calorie-a-day diet of pure protein and in addition to not being obese they will be constantly hungry and lethargic, lose muscle mass and suffer from various diseases associated with malnutrition. They really need medication as well as medically designed diet/exercise program to take care of those genes and hormones.
Yes, 90% of fat people just need to lay off McDonald and other heavily processed food and throw away TVs.
Bone Hormone Linked to Obesity and Diabetes
Come on, we all know that fat people and diabetics find themselves unable to bone even when they get a rare opportunity.
Well, now we're getting in to other issues. Why do their children get shot? Is it because the majority of them want nothing more than to go to school and be left alone? Are most of the shootings random or stray bullets?
Pretty much, yes and yes. Most of the victims had at most a peripheral evolvement with gangs - as in kissing one of the boss'es girls, falling $20 short to pay for an occasional joint or being a gang member's brother. Nothing for which we would expect killed as adults.
Also please note that MUCH of the government-assisted housing is in such areas. I thought those programs HELPED people! Yet many times, they simply keep them tethered to horrible places.
I totally agree. Let lazy bastards get off their bums and build their own home - such as a tent or a wooden shack - in any area of their choosing and start planting vegetables on the grounds. That's what poor do around the world and they have way more self-respect that our government housing types. Maybe then we'll start focusing on eradicating poverty and crime everywhere rather than just in rich white neighborhoods.
If this job gets outsourced (why the fear? They can't outsource EVERYTHING, you know), I'll simply go get another job. I've worked manual labor before and it doesn't scare me. They'll never outsource things like construction, because, you know, it would be impossible. Also, I see 'help wanted' signs ALL OVER THE PLACE. It can't be THAT hard to get a job washing dishes.
Can we ALL be employed washing each other's dishes? Most kinds of jobs involve making stuff rather than being a servant for a rich guy (after all, really poor generally wash their own dishes). It doesn't seem fair to blame someone for not getting a job when we made 75% of occupations - making furniture, working on assembly line, brewing beer, writing Java code - unavailable in US. Let's at least demand that interested workers are allowed to freely move to India or China and try their luck there.
This should be an important item in green apple campaign. After all, packaging material is used only once, while a bill repeats every month. iPhone owners should get online bill only through their iTunes account.
Have you ever worked with the homeless? I have. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen? I have.
and
America has usually been among the best places in the world to be 'poor'. 'Poor' people in America usually have cars and televisions and places to live. Some 'poor' people have multiple cars.
Ok, let's get it straight. Homeless "have places to live"? People with cars and TVs can only get food in soup kitchens? It sounds like you haven't actually worked with poor people who have it good in US. If you did, I think you would find that they would love to get a (better) job, but everything that doesn't require a master's degree has been outsourced. They would love to live a decent life, but their children get killed in random shootings in the only areas where they can afford rent. They have to raise their 3 children without a father who ran away and doesn't have money for child support. They are met with condescending attitude even from people such as yourself who claim to be charitable.
One day when your profession is outsourced you will have to literally get a "fucking job" and wonder why someone has to get screwed in the ass to get a car and a TV when possessing a university degree and being willing to work do good hard work with hands.
Agreed, also we don't need to leave Earth to create more living space, as skyscrapers show. With nuclear and geothermal energy now (with nuclear reactors sequestered in abandoned mile-deep geothermal shafts) and fusion later, we can get by for quite a while without melting Antarctica. Agricultural plants can be grown in hydroponics within the same structures and irrigated with fresh water extracted by reverse osmosis from the ocean. And if we want something on a bigger scale, underground/underwater habitats are a possibility. These might even be resistant to the effects of a stray asteroid.
We don't need to prove global warming beyond reasonable doubt. Rather, we are changing composition of Earth atmosphere to historically unprecedented parameters. Science says that more likely than not we are going to cause undesirable climate change. But even if that turns out to be an error, we are definitely using up a non-renewable resource while subsidizing terrorists. So in any case, we should do the same thing.
Dude, if driving is so dangerous, why force people to drive? Just do some urban planning and provide another realistic way for people to get from a bar to home. Futhermore, "2-4 tons of steel" is a result of "safety regulations" that make people who share the road with you less safe. We are perfectly capable of making half a ton vehicle transporting 2 adults and a child at 35mph while not contributing much to global warming and minimizing risk to others regardless of driver's level or impairment.
Great, so you agree that we should either a) have a realistic way to get from point A to point B without driving. $200 taxi fee, or two hour wait time for CalTrain do not count. Walking is not an option at -40F for 10 miles. or b) not be allowed to live or work at point A and/or point B. Most places in the world solve the problem by having a metro and limiting urban sprawl. Sincerely sorry about your friend - it's just there are also many people who got irreversibly injured or killed by encountering a tired or inexperienced driver. Certainly there should be no need to endanger yourself or others just because you need a safe place to sleep.
So effectively each photon is a CPU core and the running time is reduced by massive parallel computing rather than inherent reduction in complexity, which is (N^N)*(N^2).
Regardless, teaching Darwin's origin of species as an infallible doctrine ignores the complexity of how humans shaped themselves and the rest of the Earth. It can even be said that religious figures "designed" humans by restricting marriage and promoting desirable traits to look for in a mate. I am well aware that this is not how Kansas board of education would like to present things. Personally I can neither proof or disproof that these individuals influenced human DNA in any other way, but the holy books certainly smuck of being written by ordinary humans seeking to preserve their contemporary culture.
Even if humans can actually code DNA (and not just copy genes around) doesn't make it above and beyond evolution.
We can design organisms that don't fit the concepts of evolution as it's currently understood. For example, many current genetically engineered crops are not capable of producing offsprings. And certainly coding DNA can be reasonably described as "intelligent design".
Nobody designs species, nobody ever has.
If we are not 100% there, we are coming very close