Jack Comics,
You are a liar. It was Nixon, a Republican, who began trading with China. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have all renewed China's Most Favored Nations status.
This is for obvious reasons. Intel has something to defend, namely its near monoploy. IBM would like to see nothing more than Intel find itself against a competator.
China has been looking for ways for a decade now to stick it to the US economy. Someone over there must think that they can have a measurable effect on world PC standards.
That's it exactly. A pretty good game call Galatic Civilizations came out recently. They tried to do a similar thing, where they removed the tech tree. The players hated it.
Most kiddie gamers are little powergamers. I hate it, and them, but that's the way it is.
A soldier in China, according to my fiance (Chinese), can only serve for 5 years. Sounds like China has a really poor NCO pool.
Also, the one child policy was only used for cities. Some of the smaller cities and countrysides have either simply ignored it or been exempt. So China still has a positive growth rate, abet a low one.
But, the one child policy has been expanding. China should reach a zero growth in another 20 years or so.
Could you point me to the documentation that shows that the Chinese government kills off newborns. As I understand it, it's the Chinese people who do this because they all want sons, and the one-child policy is pretty clear.
You are incorrect. The United States does not send its people to reeducation camps. The United States does not threaten to nuke defacto independent countries. The United States does not destroy religions with millions of followers.
China does all these things and more. There are serious problems in China. To ignore them is to ignore a danger.
The real thing that will change PRC (mainland China) domestic policy is the rise of the Single Child generation. Families will not be willing to give up their one son in a war, as China has done in the past against Tibet, Korea, India, Vietnam.
The Single Child Generation (often called the little Emperor generation) will force China to no longer threaten war whenever it does not get what it wants.
The Chinese have a hard time putting that "L" sound in the middle or at the end of a word. It's not so much the L sound that is the problem, it's putting all that stuff around it.
QUOTE: You do realize that there would be no cds to buy used if everybody followed your advice, right?
I fail to see a problem. The price of new CDs would drop. The price of used CDs would rise. Then, the same thing would happen again. But eventually, one of two things would happen.
1. The overall price of all CDs (used, but especially new) would drop.
OR
2. The quality of music being realized would rise.
The industry has placed a large tariff on new CDs. That is, you are not paying for the music, you are paying for: worthless artists who don't create art, executives, CDs that don't have anything special in them as vinyl used to have, and the RIAA. If anything, Congress should be looking into the music industry for collusion.
Buy CDs used. They're a more reasonably price, even if still over priced.
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The Beatles don't control Apple Records anymore. I believe that EMI controls Apple.
As you've probably guessed, I'm not opposed to all aspects of Chinese culture. But, I'm not going to remain silent either. Other cultures find it easy to critize US culture. Well, I'm going to fire back. Chinese culture has a lot it can learn from Western Culture, and I'm going to point out what it can learn.
When I say Western Culture, I should be specific and say Western Enlightment Culture (American and modern more or less), although that's kind of the point in history when it ceases to be a culture, and more of a way of thought. Kind of. Hmmmm. Better definitions are needed. But that's my bench mark and I'll stick to it.
Now, why am I picking on Chinese culture? First, because it's so damn big. As a world citizen, I think it would be recalcatrent of me not to critically appraise a culture that composes 20% of the world's population. Also, the more time I spend with Chinese, the more I feel like some of this culture is beginning to be my own. And I don't like some of what I see.
I do the same for US culture. It just doesn't earn me as many foes or as much notice, as more people are use to it.:)
Chinese culture is admirably focused off the individual, but it does so in an incorrect manner, which leads to poor results. I believe that you and I would both agree with it is an individual actions that deservce notice or emphasis. Chinese culture de-emphasises the individual without placing emphasis on (or often even recognizition of) individual accomplishments or actions. This isn't good. By doing this, it robs the individual of basic (in the West) humanitarian rights. I think (and I believe most would agree), that this is not a good thing.
The problem is that this leads to the sort of group-think that Chinese have been historically more likely to follow than Europeans and especially Americans. (This is not to say that Europeans and Americans do not do this. It's just that less of them tend to.)
There are other problems as well with the lack of emphasis placed on the individual. Too much group think leads to a loss of individuality. Without a degree of individuality, Chinese tend to do dumb things. Like the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward. Or building a massive dam across the Yangtze that already has many cracks in it. (Good bye Nanjing and Shanghai? I hope not.) Or to allowing Japanese to line you up and begin cutting off heads.
I counted athiesm as a religion. (Though it's really not, it's more of an offshoot of science, but we don't need to get into that, as I think we're probably in agreement again.) Regardless, most Chinese are less religious than their Western Counterparts. Really, there is less conviction in their worship. If you want to do a little personal test, think of the amount of Western Buddhists you know, and the amount of Chinese Buddhists. Now which have you seen eat meat? (My Chinese fiance pointed that one out to me.)
I don't dismiss the Chinese people. Nor should others dismiss Western. That is the kind of thinking that leads to things like Nanjing, Palestinian Occupation and September 11. But, the Chinese culture is, well, kind of dangerous. Group think leads to the sort of attacks I just mentioned. In this case (the root), a group of PRC generals who think that the ROC might change its name to Taiwan and decide to nuke it.
I won't retract my accusation of Chinese culture teaching bullying and cowardice. First, this is because I quote that straight from Bo Yang. But, it is true. The same thing used to happen in Western armies (still does, but to a lesser extent). That is, with the removal of individual rights, those in power tend to take control. In order to avoid wrath of superiors (bullying), it's best to back down (cowardice). Do this enough, and it becomes ingrained, as in Chinese culture. This leads to straification and a whole mess of other bad things.
I tend to vote democrat, but clearly there is delaying going on. However, the delaying is no worse than the delaying that occurred for previous presidents.
It's just that the Republicans are better at whining than the Democrats during Clinton. So it sounds like more delaying it happening. Heh.
The RIAA will remain relevant as long as they have the money to do so. These bastards are going to get away with it for as long as we let them.
It's really going to take grass roots effort to remove this RIAA threat. It's the only way to really combat a monetarily powerful organization.
Speaking of grassroots, the Dean Campaign should take note of folks distrust of the RIAA. If they promise to do something about the RIAA, then they'll probably wind up with a few thousand more votes than they may have had. If nothing else, bringing this up in a fair political manner about it might put a stop to some of this insanity.
Chinese culture needs to change. It's the culture that allowed for Mao, Deng and Zemin.
German culture allowed for the murder of 12 million. We forced it to change. Japan murdered 6 million or more. We forced it to change. Russia murdered 12 million. We forced a change. Chinese culture allowed for the murder of 60 million or more. We trade with them.
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Jack Comics, You are a liar. It was Nixon, a Republican, who began trading with China. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have all renewed China's Most Favored Nations status.
China's own government is keeping the Chinese as a cheap labour force. Preventing strikes and non-government approved unions does that sort of thing.
Intel has always pushed MS Windows. Don't you recall their alliance?
China has been looking for ways for a decade now to stick it to the US economy. Someone over there must think that they can have a measurable effect on world PC standards.
Most kiddie gamers are little powergamers. I hate it, and them, but that's the way it is.
A soldier in China, according to my fiance (Chinese), can only serve for 5 years. Sounds like China has a really poor NCO pool.
Also, the one child policy was only used for cities. Some of the smaller cities and countrysides have either simply ignored it or been exempt. So China still has a positive growth rate, abet a low one.
But, the one child policy has been expanding. China should reach a zero growth in another 20 years or so.
It is not US Govt. Policy to needlessly abuse US citizens, as Chinese Govt. Policy is..
You twit. China has gone to war with Tibet, Korea, India and Viet-nam, all in the past 60 years.
You are wrong. Communism is designed to remove the economy. It was planned to be political, economical, and social. Read Das Kapital.
I would be happy to. China Wakes
You are incorrect. The United States does not send its people to reeducation camps. The United States does not threaten to nuke defacto independent countries. The United States does not destroy religions with millions of followers.
China does all these things and more. There are serious problems in China. To ignore them is to ignore a danger.
You are a liar. It was Nixon, a Republican, who began trading with China. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have all renewed China's MFN status.
The Single Child Generation (often called the little Emperor generation) will force China to no longer threaten war whenever it does not get what it wants.
As the United States reaches closer to a Wilsonian idea of diplomacy, we'll see a stronger movement in the United States for an independent Taiwan.
Check out my journal. http://slashdot.org/~Stargoat/journal
The Chinese have a hard time putting that "L" sound in the middle or at the end of a word. It's not so much the L sound that is the problem, it's putting all that stuff around it.
My ferret writes more realistic dialog. This can't really be the script.
I fail to see a problem. The price of new CDs would drop. The price of used CDs would rise. Then, the same thing would happen again. But eventually, one of two things would happen.
1. The overall price of all CDs (used, but especially new) would drop.
OR
2. The quality of music being realized would rise.
Buy CDs used. They're a more reasonably price, even if still over priced.
Interesting
But I thought we all loved DARPA cash?
Hmmmm. I think I'll go inverted again.
As you've probably guessed, I'm not opposed to all aspects of Chinese culture. But, I'm not going to remain silent either. Other cultures find it easy to critize US culture. Well, I'm going to fire back. Chinese culture has a lot it can learn from Western Culture, and I'm going to point out what it can learn.
When I say Western Culture, I should be specific and say Western Enlightment Culture (American and modern more or less), although that's kind of the point in history when it ceases to be a culture, and more of a way of thought. Kind of. Hmmmm. Better definitions are needed. But that's my bench mark and I'll stick to it.
Now, why am I picking on Chinese culture? First, because it's so damn big. As a world citizen, I think it would be recalcatrent of me not to critically appraise a culture that composes 20% of the world's population. Also, the more time I spend with Chinese, the more I feel like some of this culture is beginning to be my own. And I don't like some of what I see.
I do the same for US culture. It just doesn't earn me as many foes or as much notice, as more people are use to it. :)
Chinese culture is admirably focused off the individual, but it does so in an incorrect manner, which leads to poor results. I believe that you and I would both agree with it is an individual actions that deservce notice or emphasis. Chinese culture de-emphasises the individual without placing emphasis on (or often even recognizition of) individual accomplishments or actions. This isn't good. By doing this, it robs the individual of basic (in the West) humanitarian rights. I think (and I believe most would agree), that this is not a good thing.
The problem is that this leads to the sort of group-think that Chinese have been historically more likely to follow than Europeans and especially Americans. (This is not to say that Europeans and Americans do not do this. It's just that less of them tend to.)
There are other problems as well with the lack of emphasis placed on the individual. Too much group think leads to a loss of individuality. Without a degree of individuality, Chinese tend to do dumb things. Like the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward. Or building a massive dam across the Yangtze that already has many cracks in it. (Good bye Nanjing and Shanghai? I hope not.) Or to allowing Japanese to line you up and begin cutting off heads.
I counted athiesm as a religion. (Though it's really not, it's more of an offshoot of science, but we don't need to get into that, as I think we're probably in agreement again.) Regardless, most Chinese are less religious than their Western Counterparts. Really, there is less conviction in their worship. If you want to do a little personal test, think of the amount of Western Buddhists you know, and the amount of Chinese Buddhists. Now which have you seen eat meat? (My Chinese fiance pointed that one out to me.)
I don't dismiss the Chinese people. Nor should others dismiss Western. That is the kind of thinking that leads to things like Nanjing, Palestinian Occupation and September 11. But, the Chinese culture is, well, kind of dangerous. Group think leads to the sort of attacks I just mentioned. In this case (the root), a group of PRC generals who think that the ROC might change its name to Taiwan and decide to nuke it.
I won't retract my accusation of Chinese culture teaching bullying and cowardice. First, this is because I quote that straight from Bo Yang. But, it is true. The same thing used to happen in Western armies (still does, but to a lesser extent). That is, with the removal of individual rights, those in power tend to take control. In order to avoid wrath of superiors (bullying), it's best to back down (cowardice). Do this enough, and it becomes ingrained, as in Chinese culture. This leads to straification and a whole mess of other bad things.
But perhaps this problem wi
I tend to vote democrat, but clearly there is delaying going on. However, the delaying is no worse than the delaying that occurred for previous presidents.
It's just that the Republicans are better at whining than the Democrats during Clinton. So it sounds like more delaying it happening. Heh.
It's really going to take grass roots effort to remove this RIAA threat. It's the only way to really combat a monetarily powerful organization.
Speaking of grassroots, the Dean Campaign should take note of folks distrust of the RIAA. If they promise to do something about the RIAA, then they'll probably wind up with a few thousand more votes than they may have had. If nothing else, bringing this up in a fair political manner about it might put a stop to some of this insanity.
German culture allowed for the murder of 12 million. We forced it to change. Japan murdered 6 million or more. We forced it to change. Russia murdered 12 million. We forced a change. Chinese culture allowed for the murder of 60 million or more. We trade with them.
Surely you'll admit that something here is wrong.