I must disagree. Japan is not a small country. Maybe from an American standpoint. I just really dislike how every time someone speaks of Japan they call it a "small country." No one ever says that about any of the countries in Europe. "Oh my goodness, that England is a small country." In fact Japan is a medium sized country, very average in this world, with a population of 125 million people. Plus, those $400 phone everyone keeps talking about, they're usually free with a plan here. Just 1 yen. I should know, I'm using one now.
Japanese youth are very status oriented. Meaning they want big name items, big brand name items. Shoot, Japan is a giant test market for soft drinks. I finally find a Fanta drink I like, and its replaced by a new flavor in a week.
Japan is highly misunderstood in the US. Quite frankly its a wonderful place to live, and a hell of a lot more friendly then most of the US.
I'll probably get modded down for being a troll, but I've got Karma to burn these days.
I can say for a fact that the Chinese are quite 'savy' in every which way. I was in China over January and had to get my some digital media turned into CDs, so I went to a Kodak Film Processing area in Xi'an. I don't speak Chinese, do you know how tough it is to communicate using a CD, an xD Memory card, and your hands? I'm sure they found it funny. While waiting for it to get processed I watched as people in another area were using computers and Photoshop. I couldn't follow what they were doing, they were going so fast and so skilled. So I guess my point is the chinese are just as Techno-savy as anyone in the United States, and for anyone out there to make such statements as to their lack of technical skill should go see the Great Wall.
Does no one around here ever read up on their Asian history? China has had control of Tibet for far longer then the US has been around. The fact that the Chinese government finally had the means to send in military forces in large numbers was a change. The problem isn't that China took over Tibet, its that Communist China took over Tibet. Get your Chinese History right.
Now I finally have a simple and quick way to check if my room mate is using my computer for porn. I often come home to find my browser history is cleared for some strange reason...
Didn't anyone else already do this gag over Halloween? I know I saw at least four or five people dressed up as RIAA Cops. Then again, I also saw quite a few people dressed up as 'Software pirates.' Nothing like a man with SDRAM as ear ware.
I'm using a Mac Classic as a clock. I put a screensaver on it, set the time, and unplugged the keyboard. I mannaged to pick up several for $5 each, and I've been giving them away as Mac Clocks for a year now. They make great birthday gifts.
I also have a Macintosh SE that'll make a nice fishtank eventually.
It must feel good to know that a multi-billion dollar company can make an extra two thousand bucks from a disadvantaged family. Though this should help out the fight against the RIAA, seeing that this thing will probably catch the eye of many major news sources.
This also shows how stupid people are. It only takes a few days of college tech support to find out how stupid most everyone is when it comes to computers. I'm sure we'll see a lot more of these cases in the next few months, people who were under the impression that they were doing legal downloading.
The only options left for us are:
1) Move to Canada.
2) Use the iTunes Music Store
3) Full scale nuclear combat.
So if the kid plays video games, its the games fault. If a kid listens to rap music, and enter a gang, its the rap artists fault. If a guy reads a book and starts a revolution, its the books fault. Where does the blame end? I don't belive we can blame any one thing for violent bahavior, any more than you can blame one specific thing for the Russin Revolution, or Hitler's conquest of Europe. I think there are several reasons, some of which have been said before, America is being so damn stupid about these things.
First we need to look at the person. These are mentally unstable people who found something, or someone, to connect with. The fact that these kids may or may not have connected to a video game has nothing to do with their behavior. It could have been some Metalica music, or a book, or a movie. These kids had issues long before they started playing video games.
Second, whats with the blame? Well, America is built on blame these days. 20 years ago we didn't have all these stupid lawsuits where criminal sue the people whose home they break into, because they were hurt inside while robing the place. I mean, all we need to do is turn on the news to see another instance of 'Shuffle the Blame.' Its part of moden society. The fact that we chose video games, or more over media violence in general, is because its an industy not a person. We focus on the people being hurt, and the big mean industy thats turning our kids into killers. It works, people go for it. (I once watched a show looking into the war against violence in the media, and how a lot of it is done by groups who are actually targeting sex in the media, but its easier to go after violence because of the negitive spin. The end result in their minds, is to get rid of the sex).
Violence is all around us naturally. The fact that we don't see more kids break out and kill people is quite interesting indeed, especially in America. You dont' have to look to Video games or Movies for violence, just watch C-SPAN. Gulf War coverage. If you watch long enough you can probably see real people being killed in the streets, blood and guts all over the place. I was once watching CNN and saw a guys brain covering half the street. If thats not shocking to a child, than Doom should be fine. Quite frankly the problem has to do with something that no one wishes to talk about. Parenting. Parents are spending less and less time with their children, and allowing TV and games to take its place. As with these children, or the columbine kids, had their parents noticed the fact that they painted their room black, maybe this could have been avoided. I dont' know. There really isn't one answer. People want strait answers, but there isn't any answers.
Some Mormans came to my home at 9 am one day (got me out of bed). I walked down thinking it was the UPS guy with my RAM, so I only had pants on. Scared the two ladies half to death. They asked if I read the bible, and I said that I did (which is true). They wanted to know if I'd noticed a decrease in the values and morals in this country. "Well, only being 21 years old I really havn't had a long enough time to grasp the situation and assess the state of our values." They didn't know what to say. They handed me some booklets and left. This got me to thinking, whose values are we looking at? The Christian right? The European Liberals? Old School Jewish Laws? Do we regress back to Victorian Era ideas on morals and make our women cover up their feel so we men don't go crazy over them? (the weirdest thing is that during the Victorian Era we saw the first pornography pop up, and it was selling like mad. There was a whole giant underground network of porn! People are never as pure as you think) I guess every generation longs for the 'Good times' of yesteryear, only they had the same issues we did back than. Different issues too, things we may never think of. I mean, those damn dirty Romans! Or Bristish, for that matter. Lets get all violent and kill them. People were just as violent in any other time
If thats how it works I've been prirating women for the better part of my life! Good lord, I'd better wipe my mind clean of women fast. Someone find me a spoon, stat!
I would have thought that people who posted on Slashdot would have a much better view of international relations and other cultures. I guess I was wrong. As someone who has spent a good part of his college life studying China and American Asian relations I find your comments to be very ignorant.
Sputnik was a wake up call for America that it should start thinking about Space. Yes, the Russians used ex-German scientists to build rockets, so did we. We also used Japanese scientists, who committed some of the worst biological warfare tests of WWII on the Chinese population, to further our biological weapons programs.
Yes, the Russian did steal some documents on how to make an H-Bomb, but if I recall from many a/. post, if you're smart enough and know it can be done, that it just takes a few skilled college students to make an H-Bomb. Its kind of like me watching my friend ride a bike, and than him claim that I learned how to ride because of him. The Russians would have built a bomb just as quickly anyhow, heck, the Germans were getting quite close to makeing a working H-Bomb at the end of WWII.
So what if the Chinese wish to put a Man on the moon? Whoo dee. Sure they COULD drop a rock on us. Which would result in everyone else nuking the hell out of mainland China. I see it as no more a threat than China having nukes pointed at us right now. I do see it as a another wake up call for the American Space program.
Plus, if you look at Chinese economic reform, they're not a true "commie" state. China has always followed it's own path, which resulted in the tense relations between the USSR and China. China has a Socialist Market Economy. Most major industy is controled by the state, but a large portion is controled in a free market. As the Chinese people come to enjoy the freedoms of a market economy the government will ease restraints. We're more likly to see a reformed socialist state in China than we are ever to see an actual demoracy. (I just got done writeing a ten page paper on Chinese economic reform about a week ago).
The Chinese don't worship Confucius, they never have. Its a way of life, a mindset. Heck, if America worshiped Confucius we'd probably have some really interesting reforms. Like the confucian ideal that no man is bad, and that people can change other people by just acting good (the goodness of your acts will compell other people to be better). The idea that the government serves the people, and that serving is its own reward. Come on, the Chinese were living high while Europe was having fun in the mud. (Side note Chinese discovered America a long time before Europe, its just that they didn't find anything interesting, so they went back to China. Why move when you've got everything you need?)
Lastly the one child policy is in effect because the Chinese population was out of control. China is a country the size of the United States with less than a forth of the available farmland. The way the one child policy works is that after you have one child you sign an agreement not to have another child, and than your family gets lots of benifits from the state. If you don't sign the policy and have a second child you get docked some state benifits. If you sign the policy and have a second child you get docked a lot of benifits. Also, the one child policy is not enforced for minorities in China, and in the countryside there are a lot of extra births. China is teh only country to try this. India (which is a democracy)also tried this, except they couldn't inforce it. So they than tried to solve the problem by having military units in vans drive around, snatch boys off that street and than sterilize them. Randomly. But last I checked we still love India, and really disliked China (although India has nukes, and has been extreamly close to nuking its neighbors).
For the record, I'm not a commie. I love America, pie, and Apple Computer. I do have a problem with people who don't look outside their little box of a worl
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Every time I drive by the PeopleSoft building I yell out "PeopleSoft is made of PEOPLE!" To which I then get hit.
Japanese youth are very status oriented. Meaning they want big name items, big brand name items. Shoot, Japan is a giant test market for soft drinks. I finally find a Fanta drink I like, and its replaced by a new flavor in a week.
Japan is highly misunderstood in the US. Quite frankly its a wonderful place to live, and a hell of a lot more friendly then most of the US.
I can say for a fact that the Chinese are quite 'savy' in every which way. I was in China over January and had to get my some digital media turned into CDs, so I went to a Kodak Film Processing area in Xi'an. I don't speak Chinese, do you know how tough it is to communicate using a CD, an xD Memory card, and your hands? I'm sure they found it funny. While waiting for it to get processed I watched as people in another area were using computers and Photoshop. I couldn't follow what they were doing, they were going so fast and so skilled. So I guess my point is the chinese are just as Techno-savy as anyone in the United States, and for anyone out there to make such statements as to their lack of technical skill should go see the Great Wall.
Just to be a troll, I'll say it. Buy a Macintosh. Are you all happy now.
Does no one around here ever read up on their Asian history? China has had control of Tibet for far longer then the US has been around. The fact that the Chinese government finally had the means to send in military forces in large numbers was a change. The problem isn't that China took over Tibet, its that Communist China took over Tibet. Get your Chinese History right.
So where is the part about the cell phones turning into giant robots? I mean its the least we can expect from superior Japanese technology.
Now I finally have a simple and quick way to check if my room mate is using my computer for porn. I often come home to find my browser history is cleared for some strange reason...
the cover art buys y.... its not even worth it anymore.
Then maybe I'd be googled.
Didn't anyone else already do this gag over Halloween? I know I saw at least four or five people dressed up as RIAA Cops. Then again, I also saw quite a few people dressed up as 'Software pirates.' Nothing like a man with SDRAM as ear ware.
Gee, this proves that if I spend enough time surfing slashdot, I can get first post. Or not.
I'm using a Mac Classic as a clock. I put a screensaver on it, set the time, and unplugged the keyboard. I mannaged to pick up several for $5 each, and I've been giving them away as Mac Clocks for a year now. They make great birthday gifts. I also have a Macintosh SE that'll make a nice fishtank eventually.
It must feel good to know that a multi-billion dollar company can make an extra two thousand bucks from a disadvantaged family. Though this should help out the fight against the RIAA, seeing that this thing will probably catch the eye of many major news sources. This also shows how stupid people are. It only takes a few days of college tech support to find out how stupid most everyone is when it comes to computers. I'm sure we'll see a lot more of these cases in the next few months, people who were under the impression that they were doing legal downloading. The only options left for us are: 1) Move to Canada. 2) Use the iTunes Music Store 3) Full scale nuclear combat.
So if the kid plays video games, its the games fault. If a kid listens to rap music, and enter a gang, its the rap artists fault. If a guy reads a book and starts a revolution, its the books fault. Where does the blame end? I don't belive we can blame any one thing for violent bahavior, any more than you can blame one specific thing for the Russin Revolution, or Hitler's conquest of Europe. I think there are several reasons, some of which have been said before, America is being so damn stupid about these things. First we need to look at the person. These are mentally unstable people who found something, or someone, to connect with. The fact that these kids may or may not have connected to a video game has nothing to do with their behavior. It could have been some Metalica music, or a book, or a movie. These kids had issues long before they started playing video games. Second, whats with the blame? Well, America is built on blame these days. 20 years ago we didn't have all these stupid lawsuits where criminal sue the people whose home they break into, because they were hurt inside while robing the place. I mean, all we need to do is turn on the news to see another instance of 'Shuffle the Blame.' Its part of moden society. The fact that we chose video games, or more over media violence in general, is because its an industy not a person. We focus on the people being hurt, and the big mean industy thats turning our kids into killers. It works, people go for it. (I once watched a show looking into the war against violence in the media, and how a lot of it is done by groups who are actually targeting sex in the media, but its easier to go after violence because of the negitive spin. The end result in their minds, is to get rid of the sex). Violence is all around us naturally. The fact that we don't see more kids break out and kill people is quite interesting indeed, especially in America. You dont' have to look to Video games or Movies for violence, just watch C-SPAN. Gulf War coverage. If you watch long enough you can probably see real people being killed in the streets, blood and guts all over the place. I was once watching CNN and saw a guys brain covering half the street. If thats not shocking to a child, than Doom should be fine. Quite frankly the problem has to do with something that no one wishes to talk about. Parenting. Parents are spending less and less time with their children, and allowing TV and games to take its place. As with these children, or the columbine kids, had their parents noticed the fact that they painted their room black, maybe this could have been avoided. I dont' know. There really isn't one answer. People want strait answers, but there isn't any answers. Some Mormans came to my home at 9 am one day (got me out of bed). I walked down thinking it was the UPS guy with my RAM, so I only had pants on. Scared the two ladies half to death. They asked if I read the bible, and I said that I did (which is true). They wanted to know if I'd noticed a decrease in the values and morals in this country. "Well, only being 21 years old I really havn't had a long enough time to grasp the situation and assess the state of our values." They didn't know what to say. They handed me some booklets and left. This got me to thinking, whose values are we looking at? The Christian right? The European Liberals? Old School Jewish Laws? Do we regress back to Victorian Era ideas on morals and make our women cover up their feel so we men don't go crazy over them? (the weirdest thing is that during the Victorian Era we saw the first pornography pop up, and it was selling like mad. There was a whole giant underground network of porn! People are never as pure as you think) I guess every generation longs for the 'Good times' of yesteryear, only they had the same issues we did back than. Different issues too, things we may never think of. I mean, those damn dirty Romans! Or Bristish, for that matter. Lets get all violent and kill them. People were just as violent in any other time
If thats how it works I've been prirating women for the better part of my life! Good lord, I'd better wipe my mind clean of women fast. Someone find me a spoon, stat!
I would have thought that people who posted on Slashdot would have a much better view of international relations and other cultures. I guess I was wrong. As someone who has spent a good part of his college life studying China and American Asian relations I find your comments to be very ignorant.
/. post, if you're smart enough and know it can be done, that it just takes a few skilled college students to make an H-Bomb. Its kind of like me watching my friend ride a bike, and than him claim that I learned how to ride because of him. The Russians would have built a bomb just as quickly anyhow, heck, the Germans were getting quite close to makeing a working H-Bomb at the end of WWII.
Sputnik was a wake up call for America that it should start thinking about Space. Yes, the Russians used ex-German scientists to build rockets, so did we. We also used Japanese scientists, who committed some of the worst biological warfare tests of WWII on the Chinese population, to further our biological weapons programs.
Yes, the Russian did steal some documents on how to make an H-Bomb, but if I recall from many a
So what if the Chinese wish to put a Man on the moon? Whoo dee. Sure they COULD drop a rock on us. Which would result in everyone else nuking the hell out of mainland China. I see it as no more a threat than China having nukes pointed at us right now. I do see it as a another wake up call for the American Space program.
Plus, if you look at Chinese economic reform, they're not a true "commie" state. China has always followed it's own path, which resulted in the tense relations between the USSR and China. China has a Socialist Market Economy. Most major industy is controled by the state, but a large portion is controled in a free market. As the Chinese people come to enjoy the freedoms of a market economy the government will ease restraints. We're more likly to see a reformed socialist state in China than we are ever to see an actual demoracy. (I just got done writeing a ten page paper on Chinese economic reform about a week ago).
The Chinese don't worship Confucius, they never have. Its a way of life, a mindset. Heck, if America worshiped Confucius we'd probably have some really interesting reforms. Like the confucian ideal that no man is bad, and that people can change other people by just acting good (the goodness of your acts will compell other people to be better). The idea that the government serves the people, and that serving is its own reward. Come on, the Chinese were living high while Europe was having fun in the mud. (Side note Chinese discovered America a long time before Europe, its just that they didn't find anything interesting, so they went back to China. Why move when you've got everything you need?)
Lastly the one child policy is in effect because the Chinese population was out of control. China is a country the size of the United States with less than a forth of the available farmland. The way the one child policy works is that after you have one child you sign an agreement not to have another child, and than your family gets lots of benifits from the state. If you don't sign the policy and have a second child you get docked some state benifits. If you sign the policy and have a second child you get docked a lot of benifits. Also, the one child policy is not enforced for minorities in China, and in the countryside there are a lot of extra births. China is teh only country to try this. India (which is a democracy)also tried this, except they couldn't inforce it. So they than tried to solve the problem by having military units in vans drive around, snatch boys off that street and than sterilize them. Randomly. But last I checked we still love India, and really disliked China (although India has nukes, and has been extreamly close to nuking its neighbors).
For the record, I'm not a commie. I love America, pie, and Apple Computer. I do have a problem with people who don't look outside their little box of a worl