Errr... No, actually Chinese did more atrocities then most of the Western civilazations sheerly because they existed for a longer time. However, if you're talking about the effects of these atrocities then China might be no match than what Western civilazations did for the rest of the world in these 200 years after Industrial Revolution.
Still of course, there is no arguement that the PRC government should keep on oppress its people, but we can't just take a moral high ground from the Western point of view. We have to be more anthrophilic to understand this problem, and try to encourage people that a change would be necessary if China wants to modernize further.
Why should the rich elites be able to use us all to increase their profit margin?
I was going to sleep but I couldn't resist to answer this question by posing another one - could you think of a better system?
We, as human, are intrinsically selfish, we try to earn our maximum instead of getting equal. Once we leave substance living we persue mostly in our lives into gaining more profit, that's because we want better for ourselves. Of course there's a problem of increasing profit margin, but we do have to accept that we could earn some scraps from them. You know, not just those fat bastards benifit, but also share holders, even though the diviends are mostly dismal I must say. Scadinavian model might be nice, but are you willing to pay about 50% tax to support that? Remember that the riches could always find loopholes in the system and pay less than they deserve to pay, that's their other way to "maximise their own profit". Hence I think Inheretence Tax should remain and actually charge more in the higher end, that's a way force those billionaires to pay back from their massive profits.
Revolution is the only answer.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with that, when there's a revolution, not just the ones who used to have power suffer, but also everyone else. Let me tell you, if my grandparents didn't flee from the communist I wouldn't be here, cause my maternal grandfather was a god-child of a landlord. You may say that landlords deserve their unfair judgement from years of ripping off the peasents, fair enough, but how about other intellectuals who were killed the most during the years of revolution? Enough said.
(P.S. I'll also talk about why an real estate-based society could not substain for a long time when I've got time to type that out.)
Haha, you reminded me, when we get a temperature, we always measure them in Fahrenheit, and recorded as such in medical records, though normally we use Celcius for other intended functions with an exception of oven of course.
OT: I think 70F is a bit too low for a unmilked cup of tea, for me, a cup of tea needs to stay at least 30C/86F to be good to drink...
400 grams of turkey is of course more than enough for a meaty sandwich, but should be less than enough to feed a family for a week. We used to have turkey sandwich for breakfast, and we bought them by pounds, in a family of 4 we finished them in 5 days at most.
Incidentially, in Hong Kong, we essentially got three measures:Imperial system, metric system and Chinese system. We use metric totally for volumes and distances, but not for weights. We normally weigh ourselves in pure pounds (as in US usage) and measure our height in feet and inches (though the teenagers do use metric). We bought food in pounds or catties (a Chinese unit which is based on Imperial pound, 1 1/3 pound equals a catty), and bought flats/apartments in square feets. Petrols are sold in litres (and it's extremely expensive, second to the UK!). Jewellers use Chinese weight system as well. That's a whole lot of confusion and makes the metric law almost impossible to enforce. Hence, the government didn't bother at all, and even supermarkets sold fresh produce in Imperial system!
In China they use metric, but they still got their odd inches (1/30 of a metre) and there's a convient measure of catty in half a kg, so when we go across the border to shop we have to be vigilant about the measures!
Most standardised test are written with some inaccuracies and many ambiguous questions, because they are not written by the professionals. More often those who write the test are those are the least qualify to write them. And obviously multiple choice questions make this worse because they have to think of several plausible answers to trick you.
If you genuinely want to change the system, scarp multiple choice first, and ask questions which are more demanding. You won't get many multiple choice questions with limited range of answers in real life other than voting, instead you get tons of open end questions, and that's a skill we need to get trained more often.
Hmmm... There are many ways to curb overpopulation, but most of them are too cruel for the modern democratic society. You know like the methods they used in modern China and such...
If you're so concern about over population, then we should start not to produce them in the first place! If you have more than 2 kids and you're yearning 2 decades later that there's too many people competing for your kid's place, then it's just plain wrong I tell you. Automation would mean we need less people, not more. Globalization means we will off-load/off-shore a lot of jobs to other places. This is the truth because we are presuing for profit. So don't blame that you're going to get less chance, and don't blame that your childern are not going support you when you get old.
Yeah, that is particularly important to send this message through to the less advantange population as well, because more than often, the more educated you are, the less you are committed to give birth and raise childern.
I would totally agree with that. There's a Chinese saying, frequently said by my dad - "To know how to relate yourself with others is harder yet more important than to know how to do a proper job". Management, though a lot of us despise, is much more difficult art. The ones who manage that well and agreeable should be actually be rewarded more.
(P.S. Not that I think many people on the top manage well though.)
They don't, they trust the cardholder to prove that the picture is indeed "a true likeliness of the said person". You might better suggest them to "refer" to the states driver's license database or the biometric passport database to check that.
There's a simple way to do that - if you really want to push through things like that, you need a national mandate from all the banks to upgrade the system. Heck, even the grocers in the UK are literally being forced to upgrade their system within 3 years due to the fraud problem. I know that the US is many times bigger, but I sure there's someway to do that - either upgrade or your merchant's account being cancelled.
Oh, and there are significant returns for the issuer, people are willing to spend more on it as they preceive the card is safer, and fraud will definitely come down. Do you seriously think that issuers don't suffer from all these fraud when they couldn't find someone to shoulder that?
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Errr... No, actually Chinese did more atrocities then most of the Western civilazations sheerly because they existed for a longer time. However, if you're talking about the effects of these atrocities then China might be no match than what Western civilazations did for the rest of the world in these 200 years after Industrial Revolution.
Still of course, there is no arguement that the PRC government should keep on oppress its people, but we can't just take a moral high ground from the Western point of view. We have to be more anthrophilic to understand this problem, and try to encourage people that a change would be necessary if China wants to modernize further.
Why should the rich elites be able to use us all to increase their profit margin?
I was going to sleep but I couldn't resist to answer this question by posing another one - could you think of a better system?
We, as human, are intrinsically selfish, we try to earn our maximum instead of getting equal. Once we leave substance living we persue mostly in our lives into gaining more profit, that's because we want better for ourselves. Of course there's a problem of increasing profit margin, but we do have to accept that we could earn some scraps from them. You know, not just those fat bastards benifit, but also share holders, even though the diviends are mostly dismal I must say. Scadinavian model might be nice, but are you willing to pay about 50% tax to support that? Remember that the riches could always find loopholes in the system and pay less than they deserve to pay, that's their other way to "maximise their own profit". Hence I think Inheretence Tax should remain and actually charge more in the higher end, that's a way force those billionaires to pay back from their massive profits.
Revolution is the only answer.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with that, when there's a revolution, not just the ones who used to have power suffer, but also everyone else. Let me tell you, if my grandparents didn't flee from the communist I wouldn't be here, cause my maternal grandfather was a god-child of a landlord. You may say that landlords deserve their unfair judgement from years of ripping off the peasents, fair enough, but how about other intellectuals who were killed the most during the years of revolution? Enough said.
(P.S. I'll also talk about why an real estate-based society could not substain for a long time when I've got time to type that out.)
Haha, you reminded me, when we get a temperature, we always measure them in Fahrenheit, and recorded as such in medical records, though normally we use Celcius for other intended functions with an exception of oven of course.
OT: I think 70F is a bit too low for a unmilked cup of tea, for me, a cup of tea needs to stay at least 30C/86F to be good to drink...
400 grams of turkey is of course more than enough for a meaty sandwich, but should be less than enough to feed a family for a week. We used to have turkey sandwich for breakfast, and we bought them by pounds, in a family of 4 we finished them in 5 days at most.
Incidentially, in Hong Kong, we essentially got three measures:Imperial system, metric system and Chinese system. We use metric totally for volumes and distances, but not for weights. We normally weigh ourselves in pure pounds (as in US usage) and measure our height in feet and inches (though the teenagers do use metric). We bought food in pounds or catties (a Chinese unit which is based on Imperial pound, 1 1/3 pound equals a catty), and bought flats/apartments in square feets. Petrols are sold in litres (and it's extremely expensive, second to the UK!). Jewellers use Chinese weight system as well. That's a whole lot of confusion and makes the metric law almost impossible to enforce. Hence, the government didn't bother at all, and even supermarkets sold fresh produce in Imperial system!
In China they use metric, but they still got their odd inches (1/30 of a metre) and there's a convient measure of catty in half a kg, so when we go across the border to shop we have to be vigilant about the measures!
Or of course, become a fat brat which intrinsically useless to the society and life his life on parent's hand out.
Most standardised test are written with some inaccuracies and many ambiguous questions, because they are not written by the professionals. More often those who write the test are those are the least qualify to write them. And obviously multiple choice questions make this worse because they have to think of several plausible answers to trick you.
If you genuinely want to change the system, scarp multiple choice first, and ask questions which are more demanding. You won't get many multiple choice questions with limited range of answers in real life other than voting, instead you get tons of open end questions, and that's a skill we need to get trained more often.
Hmmm... There are many ways to curb overpopulation, but most of them are too cruel for the modern democratic society. You know like the methods they used in modern China and such...
If you're so concern about over population, then we should start not to produce them in the first place! If you have more than 2 kids and you're yearning 2 decades later that there's too many people competing for your kid's place, then it's just plain wrong I tell you. Automation would mean we need less people, not more. Globalization means we will off-load/off-shore a lot of jobs to other places. This is the truth because we are presuing for profit. So don't blame that you're going to get less chance, and don't blame that your childern are not going support you when you get old.
Yeah, that is particularly important to send this message through to the less advantange population as well, because more than often, the more educated you are, the less you are committed to give birth and raise childern.
I would totally agree with that. There's a Chinese saying, frequently said by my dad - "To know how to relate yourself with others is harder yet more important than to know how to do a proper job". Management, though a lot of us despise, is much more difficult art. The ones who manage that well and agreeable should be actually be rewarded more.
(P.S. Not that I think many people on the top manage well though.)
They don't, they trust the cardholder to prove that the picture is indeed "a true likeliness of the said person". You might better suggest them to "refer" to the states driver's license database or the biometric passport database to check that.
There's a simple way to do that - if you really want to push through things like that, you need a national mandate from all the banks to upgrade the system. Heck, even the grocers in the UK are literally being forced to upgrade their system within 3 years due to the fraud problem. I know that the US is many times bigger, but I sure there's someway to do that - either upgrade or your merchant's account being cancelled.
Oh, and there are significant returns for the issuer, people are willing to spend more on it as they preceive the card is safer, and fraud will definitely come down. Do you seriously think that issuers don't suffer from all these fraud when they couldn't find someone to shoulder that?