Asians and domestic crime
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Domestic crime (in the Western sense) is not considered a crime in most Asian societies. What goes on at home is no one's business. Example, several years ago one of my neighbors was beating his wife. I called the police and when they came they almost took ME in. I was told quite bluntly to mind my own business. The wife was pissed too because I made her "lose face".
For a first hand account, read the court statement by mass murderer Charles Ng's father.
Hmmm. I served 7 years in th US Army, was in the 82nd Airborne and did 14 months in the Republic of South Vietnam. I've lived the past 19 years in Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam and Taiwan. I'm very interested in how you were "shown to handle terorists (sic)" armed or otherwise. Please enlighten us.
You ever hear of Rwanda? How about Cambodia? In both places you had 14 year olds with machetes, plastic bags and clubs....they killed millions. Mass murder did NOT start with the invention of the Colt.45.
Simply because you haven't killed anyone means nothing. I haven't either.
The fact remains that even though guns were MUCH easier to get 30 years ago (I got my first rifle when I was 12) the murder rate amoung young people was also much LOWER.
You can't use a TV to babysit kids and then expect them to grow into civilized human beings.
But the problem is that most kids now *don't* have good parenting....most kids now are brought up in daycare centers either private or state-owned. Beause of the nature of my job and location, I'm able to keep my children at home and educate them myself. There is a big difference between their behavior and that of my friends' kids who attend public schools or daycare centers. BTW, I live in an Asian country where guns are completely illegal (always have been here) and the murder rate is actually slightly higher than that of the US. The difference is that here they use poison, baseball bats, gasoline, knives, acid, etc.
For the past 35 years American culture has been subjected to a barrage of increasingly mindless & violent movies, TV shows and yes, video games. To even suggest that children and young adults haven't been affected by this is ridiculous. Of course, everytime something happens, the News media and Entertainment industry come out blaming guns, phases of the moon, PMS or something instead of the real culprits...themselves. They are the one profiting from showing these images. People seem to forget that young children/teenagers are not rational creatures who can separate reality from fantasy. (Why do you think the Marines like to recruit 17-18 year olds? It's because they can brainwash an 18 year old to believe all that "Sands of Iwo Jima" bullshit.) When "The Wild Bunch" and "Straw Dogs" came out 25-30 years ago, they were the most violent movies ever made. If you were under 17 you couldn't get in. Take a look at the stuff that's on TV now..."Die Hard" or "Air Force One" for example. Psychopaths coldly murdering innocents. Didn't Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman look BAD blowing away people? Yeah, I know they were the bad guys, but gee, they look so cool.
Here's a good French example: "Tarzan, Shame of the Jungle". I think Jane did alot of swinging from Tarzan's vine. Anyway, the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs sued with a notable lack of success. The French courts said it was parody and thus exempt from copyright laws.
Pirating Japanese products is something all together different. This has more to do with Japanese/Taiwanese relations and history than anything else. Until fairly recently, Japanese books, music and movies were completely banned in Taiwan. In addition, if you want to see some really novel aspects copyright/patent "protection", check out how Japan handles it. 14 years to recieve a patent? As far as Taiwan not caring about copyrights.....true. but then again, 20 years ago, the US was one of the larger pirates in the world. Take a look at the author's foreward to "Lord of the Rings". Tolkien had his books pirated by Ace in the US. American law (at that time) didn't protect foreign copyright holders. It's only now (when the US has something valuable-software) that IPR has become such an important issue.
Actually, Taiwan has some of the strongest anti-piracy laws in the world.....the problem is in having them enforced. For example, the only way the courts will take action against a pirate is for the copyright owner (in the US, UK, wherever) to find out and bring action locally. In addition, the President of the company holding the copyrights has to personally sign the papers asking the court to take action. If the court *does* act, it's considered a criminal offense, not civil. As a result, the President/CEO of the company doing the pirating faces serious jail time and fines. FYI, pirated CD-ROMs containing about 10 programs (Win98, Photoshop, etc) sell openly in the government managed Kwang Hwa Computer Market on Pa-Te Road for about $30 US.
How do you think he got all his money????You ever hear of EDS (Electronic Data Systems)?? When Jimmy Carter (a Democrat) left American citizens in the lurch in Iran, Perot had the balls to send a commando team made up of nerds in to get them out.
When I was going to the University of South Carolina (25 years ago) it was a well known fact that you should date Democrat girls but marry Republicans.:^) Seriously, in the South, the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is in the number of Black members/voters. Philosophically there's no difference. Just another reason I have to continue living overseas.
Microsoft could always release their code contained in OS/2. It would end any excuses IBM could have about releasing Warp as Open Source and put IBM in the position of putting their money where their mouth is. It's not as if Microsoft is threatened by Warp anymore and this would also act as a sop to the DOJ.
Last night I saw a QNX demonstration on a P133 notebook with 48 megs of ram.....283 jobs running at the same time and the guy pulls the hard drive out. It kept running! Most amazing thing I've EVER seen. I've never had an Amiga but if the QNX/Amiga OS is even half as fast and stable as QNX 4.25, I'm going to be first in line to buy one. I just hope they're cheaper than QNX:^)
So what? Most of the foreign language distros (Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian etc, etc) are based on Redhat. Considering that China has a population of about 1.3 billion, I'd say that's a MUCH larger market for Redhat than your small europe.
I run Turbolinux 3.01 (with the supplied SMP kernel) along with BeOS R4. Two Pentium 150s on a Giga-byte GA-586DX board with 96Mb RAM. It cooks. You do *any* image processing and you'll see the difference.
Come over here to Asia and see the extremely high prices for legal software and then you'll understand why people *have* to pirate it. These companies exploit people all over the world but here it's more evident. BTW, the policy of bringing in lower paid foreign programmers to work in the United States serves 2 purposes: (1) Keeps programmers pay low in the US. (2) Removes the possibility of foreign countries being able to compete in producing software because of lack of skilled programmers.
Software can and *is* being used as a tool of economic and political oppression. If some of you people in the US would get out in the rest of the world, you might realize that. I have a good friend in Indonesia who works at a local ISP. He's paid approximately $12.00US per month and works 6 days a week. Think about *that* for 5 minutes.
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Domestic crime (in the Western sense) is not considered a crime in most Asian societies. What goes on at home is no one's business. Example, several years ago one of my neighbors was beating his wife. I called the police and when they came they almost took ME in. I was told quite bluntly to mind my own business. The wife was pissed too because I made her "lose face".
For a first hand account, read the court statement by mass murderer Charles Ng's father.
Hmmm. I served 7 years in th US Army, was in the 82nd Airborne and did 14 months in the Republic of South Vietnam. I've lived the past 19 years in Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam and Taiwan.
I'm very interested in how you were "shown to handle terorists (sic)" armed or otherwise. Please enlighten us.
You ever hear of Rwanda? How about Cambodia? In both places you had 14 year olds with machetes, plastic bags and clubs....they killed millions. Mass murder did NOT start with the invention of the Colt .45.
Simply because you haven't killed anyone means nothing. I haven't either.
The fact remains that even though guns were MUCH easier to get 30 years ago (I got my first rifle when I was 12) the murder rate amoung young people was also much LOWER.
You can't use a TV to babysit kids and then expect them to grow into civilized human beings.
But the problem is that most kids now *don't* have good parenting....most kids now are brought up in daycare centers either private or state-owned. Beause of the nature of my job and location, I'm able to keep my children at home and educate them myself. There is a big difference between their behavior and that of my friends' kids who attend public schools or daycare centers. BTW, I live in an Asian country where guns are completely illegal (always have been here) and the murder rate is actually slightly higher than that of the US. The difference is that here they use poison, baseball bats, gasoline, knives, acid, etc.
Didn't mention Mandrake 5.3 (a big seller) at all and Turbolinux only in passing. Seemed to me to be slightly out of date and discriminatory
For the past 35 years American culture has been subjected to a barrage of increasingly mindless & violent movies, TV shows and yes, video games. To even suggest that children and young adults haven't been affected by this is ridiculous. Of course, everytime something happens, the News media and Entertainment industry come out blaming guns, phases of the moon, PMS or something instead of the real culprits...themselves. They are the one profiting from showing these images. People seem to forget that young children/teenagers are not rational creatures who can separate reality from fantasy. (Why do you think the Marines like to recruit 17-18 year olds? It's because they can brainwash an 18 year old to believe all that "Sands of Iwo Jima" bullshit.) When "The Wild Bunch" and "Straw Dogs" came out 25-30 years ago, they were the most violent movies ever made. If you were under 17 you couldn't get in. Take a look at the stuff that's on TV now..."Die Hard" or "Air Force One" for example. Psychopaths coldly murdering innocents. Didn't Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman look BAD blowing away people? Yeah, I know they were the bad guys, but gee, they look so cool.
So maybe they need to change the way they do business.
Why doesn't Apple release Openstep as open source?
Here's a good French example: "Tarzan, Shame of the Jungle". I think Jane did alot of swinging from Tarzan's vine. Anyway, the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs sued with a notable lack of success. The French courts said it was parody and thus exempt from copyright laws.
Pirating Japanese products is something all together different. This has more to do with Japanese/Taiwanese relations and history than anything else. Until fairly recently, Japanese books, music and movies were completely banned in Taiwan. In addition, if you want to see some really novel aspects copyright/patent "protection", check out how Japan handles it. 14 years to recieve a patent?
As far as Taiwan not caring about copyrights.....true. but then again, 20 years ago, the US was one of the larger pirates in the world. Take a look at the author's foreward to "Lord of the Rings". Tolkien had his books pirated by Ace in the US. American law (at that time) didn't protect foreign copyright holders. It's only now (when the US has something valuable-software) that IPR has become such an important issue.
Doesn't Caldera also have a certification program?
Actually, Taiwan has some of the strongest anti-piracy laws in the world.....the problem is in having them enforced. For example, the only way the courts will take action against a pirate is for the copyright owner (in the US, UK, wherever) to find out and bring action locally. In addition, the President of the company holding the copyrights has to personally sign the papers asking the court to take action.
If the court *does* act, it's considered a criminal offense, not civil. As a result, the President/CEO of the company doing the pirating faces serious jail time and fines.
FYI, pirated CD-ROMs containing about 10 programs (Win98, Photoshop, etc) sell openly in the government managed Kwang Hwa Computer Market on Pa-Te Road for about $30 US.
How do you think he got all his money????You ever hear of EDS (Electronic Data Systems)?? When Jimmy Carter (a Democrat) left American citizens in the lurch in Iran, Perot had the balls to send a commando team made up of nerds in to get them out.
When I was going to the University of South Carolina (25 years ago) it was a well known fact that you should date Democrat girls but marry Republicans. :^)
Seriously, in the South, the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is in the number of Black members/voters. Philosophically there's no difference. Just another reason I have to continue living overseas.
Believe it or not, some of us who support the Republicans have come down out of the trees and can actually walk on two legs. And use Linux!
Microsoft could always release their code contained in OS/2. It would end any excuses IBM could have about releasing Warp as Open Source and put IBM in the position of putting their money where their mouth is. It's not as if Microsoft is threatened by Warp anymore and this would also act as a sop to the DOJ.
The US has been like this for a LONG time. I'm an American who left the US 16 years ago. This just gives me another reason to make it another 16.
He doesn't seem to be. Read the interview at http://www.linuxworld.com
"Freedom of choise is what you've got,
Freedom from choise is what you want." - Devo
til Corel, Apple and all those other open source "supporters" finish doing their number on Linux.
Last night I saw a QNX demonstration on a P133 notebook with 48 megs of ram.....283 jobs running at the same time and the guy pulls the hard drive out. It kept running! Most amazing thing I've EVER seen. I've never had an Amiga but if the QNX/Amiga OS is even half as fast and stable as QNX 4.25, I'm going to be first in line to buy one. I just hope they're cheaper than QNX :^)
So what? Most of the foreign language distros (Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian etc, etc) are based on Redhat. Considering that China has a population of about 1.3 billion, I'd say that's a MUCH larger market for Redhat than your small europe.
I run Turbolinux 3.01 (with the supplied SMP kernel) along with BeOS R4. Two Pentium 150s on a Giga-byte GA-586DX board with 96Mb RAM. It cooks. You do *any* image processing and you'll see the difference.
Come over here to Asia and see the extremely high prices for legal software and then you'll understand why people *have* to pirate it. These companies exploit people all over the world but here it's more evident.
BTW, the policy of bringing in lower paid foreign programmers to work in the United States serves 2 purposes:
(1) Keeps programmers pay low in the US.
(2) Removes the possibility of foreign countries being able to compete in producing software because of lack of skilled programmers.
Software can and *is* being used as a tool of economic and political oppression. If some of you people in the US would get out in the rest of the world, you might realize that. I have a good friend in Indonesia who works at a local ISP. He's paid approximately $12.00US per month and works 6 days a week. Think about *that* for 5 minutes.