I can envision Google moving its offices and other operations to another country or location that is more tolerant of their activities.
For instance they could move to Myanmar, buy off the ruling junta and solve that problem by asking the generals to retire and setting their own people at the top of the political foodchain.
We could have Sergey as President, Captain Crunch as VP, Kevin Mitnick as Secretary of State and Gates as Secretary of the Treasury.
He is a foreigner therefore he is guilty. This is how it works in Japan. He was working illegally and despite the first crime not being able to be prosecuted the Japanese police MUST have a reason to hold him and force him to, at the minimum, pay various monies in fines and penalties.
I have been held for questioning 3 times to date in Japan and if the first charge didn't hold water new charges were quickly filed based on data that was extracted during interrogation.
In Japan, despite being much bemoaned and having newspapers and TV stations taking long morbid looks at suicide, suicide clubs and the reasons for it. Suicide is not illegal, committing suicide on the JR tracks at Shinjuku Stn or some other busy trainstation or other venue is illegal only because you are upsetting the schedule and costing time, effort and money to the business or taxpayer.
Other than that it's not a crime and is quietly encouraged by the government in the case of the elderly infirm, drug abusers and the mentally insane.
friend of mine was just picked up, his crime was writing about children who are unable to attend school and setting up a fund to help them get an education.
There is something very wrong in the PRC.
Picture a library full of books and all the most interesting and controversial books are under lock and key. Picture large, unfriendly guards standing watch over who gets access to these works. This is a Chinese research library at a major university. Given the political situation and the conflicting need for information all the major Chinese libraries have a wealth of information on any subject that is deemed important. Unfortunately, most of the information is locked away with safeguards, rules and regulations as to who can see it and at what times they can see it.
It's no wonder that Wikipedia is a useful resource for Chinese University students.
I have 2 arrowanas and a pair of korat cats. Now arrowana are top predators and they will try to consume anything that they believe will fit into their mouths. The male was approaching 1 meter in length when the incident with the cat happened. The cat spent much of his time baiting the fish and plotting how to catch it. One day as usual he was peering into the tank from above when the fish lunged, grabbed him by the head and dragged him into the tank. Since then the cat has never looked at fish the same again, he avoids the fishtanks like they are the plague. The arrowana...He spends his time plotting how to get a delicious cat dinner.
Has anyone watched this series. Geeks or Otaku as they are called in Japan and Korea have a hard time of it. The only time they get noticed is if they become president of a company/self made millionaire at the age of 14 or 16. Once that happens every Japanese or Korean mother will be throwing her daughter to the lucky boy.
Remember in SE Asia a successful Otaku can do anything he wants and get away with it.
The used software shops basically dissappearede and used bookshops with an extensive inventory of used movies, games and other software sprung up in their place. There have been no arrests, shop closings or proclamations since these rulings-in fact it's business as usual right down to the Korean and Chinese bootleg CD's, DVD's and other goods in the back of the store.
Let the Chinese build all the infrastructure they want. This will only benefit the Tibetans in the longrun.
When the Chinese bubble crashes and they have to face an unhappy mainstream Han populace in the lower provinces the Tibets will be able to replace the Chinese in the local government and take over all the improvements for themselves.
Go to Japan or China. As an English teacher you will be paid enough to cancel your loan within 2-5yrs, get hassled on a daily basis by management types that will think of you as replaceable furniture, ignored by your students and fawned/lusted over by single women you meet in the local bars.
You may even get a profitable sub rosa sidejob working at a club/business that will permit you to get drunk and laid on a regular basis and put even more $$ away. Or you may luck into a niche market that the natives haven't thought of/exploited yet and become filthy rich.
Japan has its own set of rules regarding people, their lifestyle and their pets. Everyone is required to register their domicile with the police and just to make sure the local police come around 2x a year to check on who is living where. They have several questions they ask such as family members ages, names, occupation, whether you have a car, pets and do you have the proper documentation. For cats and dogs this usually means are the shots etc up to date. They don't care if you keep your dog in a 50cm cage or beat it everyday-animal rights aren't well established here.
I can see this intrusion being extended to asking if you have exotics and the police being supplied with a list-complete with pictures of supposedly dangerous or prohibited animals and plants which they will then look for when they invite themselves into your house or apartment.
The B5 people should talk to Studio Ghibli or some another Japanese animation company. Given their success with Macross, Gundam, Evangelion and other sci fi series they should be able to do something that will at make least 1 million geeks spend their hard earned money.
Failing that I could put a team together to do this.
Please list the economic disadvantages. I would think that they would be few to none as a whole new field of technologies needs to be implemented and this opens up many possibilities.
Well, since I'm living in Tokyo and the last ballistic test by the North Koreans was of a missle that can easily reach out and touch any part of the four main islands-I say Dubya should "nuke em". No warning, no threats, just fire off a slew of stealthy cruise missles and target the suspected and confirmed nuclear and chemical weapons sites.
Of course there will be nuclear fallout, collateral deaths and casualties and a slew of difficult diplomatic problems to deal with. World trust of the current Republican regime will fall to an all time low, the prestige of the USA will be tarnished but, many of the extremist Islamic groups and countries will sit up and take notice, many will tone down their rhetoric and operations-afterall the leaders are are worried about their skins and usually require the rank and file terrorists risk their skins and and those of their families to execute the groups' policies. A few nukes would change those perceptions in the same way it changed the Japanese military's in WW2.
I take it everyone here has read Logan's Run. One of the really neat pieces of technology was a gun that was programmed to the user and contained smart rounds for taking out Runners.
But that's just it! The PRC Gov't is fixated on MONEY{(3)3}. They have been ever since Deng's counter-revolution and great pickthepocket of the western powers caper. Spam, porn and other ayashii (Japanese for dubious) websites are proliferating because that's where the money is.
Very nice Master Sidious! Then you take control of the company and make even more horrendous, totally evil and insidious popups, spamware and spyware...
Well said!!
My first brush with the PRC was during that "very" enlightened time called the Reign Of The Gang Of Four. Just imagine Red Guards everywhere being judge, jury and executioner with MacDonald's like speed.
The ensuing regimes were much more "enlightened" and judged their victims much less efficiently than their predecessors-executions at the speed of Denny's as opposed to MacDonald's...
Luckily, these trends towards becoming a more enlightened government are continuing-all the old farts in power are getting Alziemer's or being purged and replaced by more moderate old farts. Hopefully, this trend will continue and within the next decade there will be more, more intelligent, more moderate and younger old farts to take power.
In the meantime, all that can be done is to watch your back, influence and bribe the right people in the right places, watch the backstabbers in the governments around the PRC (especially the bigwigs in the LDP (Japan), some choice characters in South Korea and some suspects in Taiwan's ruling party. (cynical but spoken from experience)
As a parting shot, "Globalization" is good-it gets the couch potatos (the American public) to get up off their dumpy posteriers, get their acts together, become mean and lean once more and compete with the sharks-or face extinction...
Some countries such as Singapore have default VOIP. You get a phone from Singtel and you also get a little box that plugs into your computer, your phone and other networked devices and lets you communicate for about US$20 a month.
My Japanese service provider gave me a complete package that includes my ADSL, telephone on VOIP and my mobile for about US$60 a month. As the system is totally integrated one tel number gets either my regular or my mobile phone, allows me to access the net through my phones, my laptop and my desktop and get satellite TV service as well.
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I can envision Google moving its offices and other operations to another country or location that is more tolerant of their activities. For instance they could move to Myanmar, buy off the ruling junta and solve that problem by asking the generals to retire and setting their own people at the top of the political foodchain. We could have Sergey as President, Captain Crunch as VP, Kevin Mitnick as Secretary of State and Gates as Secretary of the Treasury.
He is a foreigner therefore he is guilty. This is how it works in Japan. He was working illegally and despite the first crime not being able to be prosecuted the Japanese police MUST have a reason to hold him and force him to, at the minimum, pay various monies in fines and penalties. I have been held for questioning 3 times to date in Japan and if the first charge didn't hold water new charges were quickly filed based on data that was extracted during interrogation.
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In Japan, despite being much bemoaned and having newspapers and TV stations taking long morbid looks at suicide, suicide clubs and the reasons for it. Suicide is not illegal, committing suicide on the JR tracks at Shinjuku Stn or some other busy trainstation or other venue is illegal only because you are upsetting the schedule and costing time, effort and money to the business or taxpayer. Other than that it's not a crime and is quietly encouraged by the government in the case of the elderly infirm, drug abusers and the mentally insane.
friend of mine was just picked up, his crime was writing about children who are unable to attend school and setting up a fund to help them get an education. There is something very wrong in the PRC.
Picture a library full of books and all the most interesting and controversial books are under lock and key. Picture large, unfriendly guards standing watch over who gets access to these works. This is a Chinese research library at a major university. Given the political situation and the conflicting need for information all the major Chinese libraries have a wealth of information on any subject that is deemed important. Unfortunately, most of the information is locked away with safeguards, rules and regulations as to who can see it and at what times they can see it. It's no wonder that Wikipedia is a useful resource for Chinese University students.
Mmmmmm! Long pig!
I have 2 arrowanas and a pair of korat cats. Now arrowana are top predators and they will try to consume anything that they believe will fit into their mouths. The male was approaching 1 meter in length when the incident with the cat happened. The cat spent much of his time baiting the fish and plotting how to catch it. One day as usual he was peering into the tank from above when the fish lunged, grabbed him by the head and dragged him into the tank. Since then the cat has never looked at fish the same again, he avoids the fishtanks like they are the plague. The arrowana...He spends his time plotting how to get a delicious cat dinner.
Has anyone watched this series. Geeks or Otaku as they are called in Japan and Korea have a hard time of it. The only time they get noticed is if they become president of a company/self made millionaire at the age of 14 or 16. Once that happens every Japanese or Korean mother will be throwing her daughter to the lucky boy. Remember in SE Asia a successful Otaku can do anything he wants and get away with it.
It really doesn't... Until they pull your name out of the hat and decide you have to cough up a couple hundred thousand dollars. Then it matters!
The used software shops basically dissappearede and used bookshops with an extensive inventory of used movies, games and other software sprung up in their place. There have been no arrests, shop closings or proclamations since these rulings-in fact it's business as usual right down to the Korean and Chinese bootleg CD's, DVD's and other goods in the back of the store.
Let the Chinese build all the infrastructure they want. This will only benefit the Tibetans in the longrun. When the Chinese bubble crashes and they have to face an unhappy mainstream Han populace in the lower provinces the Tibets will be able to replace the Chinese in the local government and take over all the improvements for themselves.
Go to Japan or China. As an English teacher you will be paid enough to cancel your loan within 2-5yrs, get hassled on a daily basis by management types that will think of you as replaceable furniture, ignored by your students and fawned/lusted over by single women you meet in the local bars. You may even get a profitable sub rosa sidejob working at a club/business that will permit you to get drunk and laid on a regular basis and put even more $$ away. Or you may luck into a niche market that the natives haven't thought of/exploited yet and become filthy rich.
Japan has its own set of rules regarding people, their lifestyle and their pets. Everyone is required to register their domicile with the police and just to make sure the local police come around 2x a year to check on who is living where. They have several questions they ask such as family members ages, names, occupation, whether you have a car, pets and do you have the proper documentation. For cats and dogs this usually means are the shots etc up to date. They don't care if you keep your dog in a 50cm cage or beat it everyday-animal rights aren't well established here. I can see this intrusion being extended to asking if you have exotics and the police being supplied with a list-complete with pictures of supposedly dangerous or prohibited animals and plants which they will then look for when they invite themselves into your house or apartment.
If an alligator or croc should attempt to eat me I will not hesitate to eat them.
The B5 people should talk to Studio Ghibli or some another Japanese animation company. Given their success with Macross, Gundam, Evangelion and other sci fi series they should be able to do something that will at make least 1 million geeks spend their hard earned money. Failing that I could put a team together to do this.
Please list the economic disadvantages. I would think that they would be few to none as a whole new field of technologies needs to be implemented and this opens up many possibilities.
Well, since I'm living in Tokyo and the last ballistic test by the North Koreans was of a missle that can easily reach out and touch any part of the four main islands-I say Dubya should "nuke em". No warning, no threats, just fire off a slew of stealthy cruise missles and target the suspected and confirmed nuclear and chemical weapons sites. Of course there will be nuclear fallout, collateral deaths and casualties and a slew of difficult diplomatic problems to deal with. World trust of the current Republican regime will fall to an all time low, the prestige of the USA will be tarnished but, many of the extremist Islamic groups and countries will sit up and take notice, many will tone down their rhetoric and operations-afterall the leaders are are worried about their skins and usually require the rank and file terrorists risk their skins and and those of their families to execute the groups' policies. A few nukes would change those perceptions in the same way it changed the Japanese military's in WW2.
I take it everyone here has read Logan's Run. One of the really neat pieces of technology was a gun that was programmed to the user and contained smart rounds for taking out Runners.
But that's just it! The PRC Gov't is fixated on MONEY{(3)3}. They have been ever since Deng's counter-revolution and great pickthepocket of the western powers caper. Spam, porn and other ayashii (Japanese for dubious) websites are proliferating because that's where the money is.
Very nice Master Sidious! Then you take control of the company and make even more horrendous, totally evil and insidious popups, spamware and spyware...
Chinese don't go in for torture. They prefer the double tap to the head route. Ever since Mao there has been no sublety to what they do.
Well said!! My first brush with the PRC was during that "very" enlightened time called the Reign Of The Gang Of Four. Just imagine Red Guards everywhere being judge, jury and executioner with MacDonald's like speed. The ensuing regimes were much more "enlightened" and judged their victims much less efficiently than their predecessors-executions at the speed of Denny's as opposed to MacDonald's... Luckily, these trends towards becoming a more enlightened government are continuing-all the old farts in power are getting Alziemer's or being purged and replaced by more moderate old farts. Hopefully, this trend will continue and within the next decade there will be more, more intelligent, more moderate and younger old farts to take power. In the meantime, all that can be done is to watch your back, influence and bribe the right people in the right places, watch the backstabbers in the governments around the PRC (especially the bigwigs in the LDP (Japan), some choice characters in South Korea and some suspects in Taiwan's ruling party. (cynical but spoken from experience) As a parting shot, "Globalization" is good-it gets the couch potatos (the American public) to get up off their dumpy posteriers, get their acts together, become mean and lean once more and compete with the sharks-or face extinction...
Some countries such as Singapore have default VOIP. You get a phone from Singtel and you also get a little box that plugs into your computer, your phone and other networked devices and lets you communicate for about US$20 a month. My Japanese service provider gave me a complete package that includes my ADSL, telephone on VOIP and my mobile for about US$60 a month. As the system is totally integrated one tel number gets either my regular or my mobile phone, allows me to access the net through my phones, my laptop and my desktop and get satellite TV service as well.
The girl you are fanatasizing about is probably a Shanghai massage girl...