HP turned him down; in China, he would have been fired on the spot. That's the difference. In the US, bringing up ideas different from what your boss considered typically doesn't get you canned...
You don't want to answer because it will show you are flat-out wrong. As far as "cleaning up our yard", our emissions have been falling over the last 10 years - the EU, China, India, the rest of the world - all up. We've been doing our part, why won't you do yours? Again - is it because our CO2 molecules are worse than your CO2 molecules?
Yep - and because humans (due to our superior intellect and our opposable thumb) we can deal with climate change a whole HECK of a lot better than dinosaurs...
Take a look at the list of countries by population growth rate. Then take a look at the list of countries by GDP per capita. You'll see an interesting negative correlation - the higher the GDP, the lower the population growth rate (or, in fact, a population reduction for a lot of the top GDP-per-capita nations). The proven method of reducing overpopulation? Accelerate GDP per capita.
Per capita America is twice as bad as China, twice as bad as Europe and 10 times worse than India.
And yet, China emits twice the CO2 as the US. I did not realize that CO2 from China was less damaging to the climate as CO2 from the US. Apparently you have some unique way of quantifying the effect of CO2 from different countries?
Per capita, the US generates more than twice as much carbon as other developed nations.
How that was marked informative, I don't know - because it's a lie. Australia and Canada are neck-and-neck with the US when it comes to CO2 per capita. Or do you mean they are not developed nations?
How many small planes does it take to replace a single plane? Now multiply the number of takeoffs/landings at an airport by that number. You'll quickly discover it won't work - you cannot get that number of planes in and out. This is great for personal aviation, or charter flights to small secondary airports - but for main commuter work, where most airports are already near or at capacity in terms of gate bookings and runway utilization - this is a non-starter.
Oh silly AC! You were going SO WELL until you tried to end with an insult. You do realize that "gaijin" is a Japanese word? I believe you were looking for laowai (Mandarin) or Gwailou (Cantonese). The former really isn't much of an insult, or used as one that much. Gwailou, though, is definitely derogatory. But hey, you're just a keyboard commando trying to act all smart - and you showed us, didn't you!
Wait, are you serious? Ever listened in on a Mandarin-to-Mandarin phone call in China? Half the details have to be repeated because they are so close to each other, that a little tone or distortion in the phone system completely changes the meaning of the sentence. Each syllable is a complete word, unlike most of English. So if you get the syllable wrong - you get the entire word wrong. With words that have multiple syllables, you can still infer what was meant because the other syllables are right.
Here's some of what I've learned over the years. I've been traveling to China for 20 years, lived in Shanghai from 2005 to 2011, and married a Chinese lady.
I still spend about 3-4 months a year, at 2-4 weeks at a time, working with several Chinese suppliers and visiting friends and acquaintances.
China, as a culture, does not have the same drive for innovation. Due to 40+ years of heavy, Government/Communist control (top-down), and the same ethos in most businesses (the boss is ALWAYS right, and you cannot challenge him unless you want to clean out your desk and move on), innovation really isn't rewarded, nor even encouraged.
Innovation is looking at the world, and thinking "there's a better way". That is simply not what the ruling generation (50+), nor their kids, understand. Now THEIR kids (currently in grade school) will "get it", and change. The attitude is already starting to swing with the "gen X" age group, but out of deference to their parents and grandparents they maintain the old cultural norm against challenging your superiors.
Additionally, the culture doesn't really do development well. There's a herd mentality, where there is often a good idea of where you are, where you want to be - and not a clue how to map out between the two. Most development happens the way most things in China happen - lots of people working on the problem and one of them gets lucky. There's very little planning and process down at the level needed for real development, or for any research/innovation.
China, right now, really doesn't innovate. Even innovative companies start with someone else's direction, and typically require lots of intervention to complete their "innovation". There are a ton of really smart people over there, but culturally they are held back from actual innovation. Innovation happens with smart people in a room saying "we can do it better, and I can do better than you". China doesn't do that very well, at all, in a business situation. Doing better than your boss results in you losing your job - and thus it's implicitly discouraged to try to innovate.
Go live in the culture over there for several months - you'll get it. New ideas aren't pursued, disagreements about direction/solutions is actively discouraged, not just doing as you're told risks losing your job.
Seems his claims check out. I guess in your world, stating actual, hard facts you don't like is a troll? Most people consider that an education, but that might break your reality distortion field, so better to simply shout TROLL! and run away, eh?
It's like White Elephant gifts at Christmas (sorry, is that PC? Should I say Winter Holiday - oops, Holiday is "holy day", so again that's not PC? I meant Winter Festival. But festival assumes you're in a good mood, and that's not fair to our depressed/angry friends, so perhaps I should just say late December time when we tend to give gifts). It has 2 exchanges then it locks. So if a PC warrior shouts you down, then you shout them down - they get to shout YOU down once more and that's it - no more exchange allowed.
A list of losses in the midterms shows that the 40 lost in 2018 would be in 7th place, with Presidents Obama, Truman, and Clinton leading the list at 63, 55, and 54 respectively.
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Stealing is innovation. Got it.
HP turned him down; in China, he would have been fired on the spot. That's the difference. In the US, bringing up ideas different from what your boss considered typically doesn't get you canned...
You don't want to answer because it will show you are flat-out wrong. As far as "cleaning up our yard", our emissions have been falling over the last 10 years - the EU, China, India, the rest of the world - all up. We've been doing our part, why won't you do yours? Again - is it because our CO2 molecules are worse than your CO2 molecules?
Does CO2-driven climate change care about who emits how much CO2, or does it care about how much CO2 is emitted?
Nope. They're asking Apple to use the same terms and pay the same rates as everyone else. Apple doesn't like that.
Yep - and because humans (due to our superior intellect and our opposable thumb) we can deal with climate change a whole HECK of a lot better than dinosaurs...
Take a look at the list of countries by population growth rate. Then take a look at the list of countries by GDP per capita. You'll see an interesting negative correlation - the higher the GDP, the lower the population growth rate (or, in fact, a population reduction for a lot of the top GDP-per-capita nations). The proven method of reducing overpopulation? Accelerate GDP per capita.
And all those prices are well under what we pay in Ventura County, California (the "leader" in green energy, supposedly)...
Per capita America is twice as bad as China, twice as bad as Europe and 10 times worse than India.
And yet, China emits twice the CO2 as the US. I did not realize that CO2 from China was less damaging to the climate as CO2 from the US. Apparently you have some unique way of quantifying the effect of CO2 from different countries?
It is about wealth redistribution, not the environment.
Per capita, the US generates more than twice as much carbon as other developed nations.
How that was marked informative, I don't know - because it's a lie. Australia and Canada are neck-and-neck with the US when it comes to CO2 per capita. Or do you mean they are not developed nations?
And here is a Piper Cub taking off in ~10 feet. And the Cub can carry 4 people, not 2 like your Alpha Electro.
The Q400 also (at least with Alaska Airlines flights) often loads and unloads front AND back, meaning your gate fees are greatly reduced.
Don't worry, it's only a lithium battery, so it'll react with water a lot slower than sodium. Just don't fire the flaregun!
How many small planes does it take to replace a single plane? Now multiply the number of takeoffs/landings at an airport by that number. You'll quickly discover it won't work - you cannot get that number of planes in and out. This is great for personal aviation, or charter flights to small secondary airports - but for main commuter work, where most airports are already near or at capacity in terms of gate bookings and runway utilization - this is a non-starter.
Oh silly AC! You were going SO WELL until you tried to end with an insult. You do realize that "gaijin" is a Japanese word? I believe you were looking for laowai (Mandarin) or Gwailou (Cantonese). The former really isn't much of an insult, or used as one that much. Gwailou, though, is definitely derogatory. But hey, you're just a keyboard commando trying to act all smart - and you showed us, didn't you!
Precisely. Which means I have a unique perspective and can better see the strengths and weaknesses of the culture.
Too bad it's way below the 'historic losses' of Presidents Obama and Clinton...
Wait, are you serious? Ever listened in on a Mandarin-to-Mandarin phone call in China? Half the details have to be repeated because they are so close to each other, that a little tone or distortion in the phone system completely changes the meaning of the sentence. Each syllable is a complete word, unlike most of English. So if you get the syllable wrong - you get the entire word wrong. With words that have multiple syllables, you can still infer what was meant because the other syllables are right.
Here's some of what I've learned over the years. I've been traveling to China for 20 years, lived in Shanghai from 2005 to 2011, and married a Chinese lady. I still spend about 3-4 months a year, at 2-4 weeks at a time, working with several Chinese suppliers and visiting friends and acquaintances.
China, as a culture, does not have the same drive for innovation. Due to 40+ years of heavy, Government/Communist control (top-down), and the same ethos in most businesses (the boss is ALWAYS right, and you cannot challenge him unless you want to clean out your desk and move on), innovation really isn't rewarded, nor even encouraged.
Innovation is looking at the world, and thinking "there's a better way". That is simply not what the ruling generation (50+), nor their kids, understand. Now THEIR kids (currently in grade school) will "get it", and change. The attitude is already starting to swing with the "gen X" age group, but out of deference to their parents and grandparents they maintain the old cultural norm against challenging your superiors.
Additionally, the culture doesn't really do development well. There's a herd mentality, where there is often a good idea of where you are, where you want to be - and not a clue how to map out between the two. Most development happens the way most things in China happen - lots of people working on the problem and one of them gets lucky. There's very little planning and process down at the level needed for real development, or for any research/innovation.
China, right now, really doesn't innovate. Even innovative companies start with someone else's direction, and typically require lots of intervention to complete their "innovation". There are a ton of really smart people over there, but culturally they are held back from actual innovation. Innovation happens with smart people in a room saying "we can do it better, and I can do better than you". China doesn't do that very well, at all, in a business situation. Doing better than your boss results in you losing your job - and thus it's implicitly discouraged to try to innovate.
Go live in the culture over there for several months - you'll get it. New ideas aren't pursued, disagreements about direction/solutions is actively discouraged, not just doing as you're told risks losing your job.
You gave no facts. You made a statement without any support. That's an assertion, NOT a fact.
That's funny; my iPhone 6 Plus still shows 93% battery capacity, and has NEVER suffered a slowdown.
I'll just mimic your actions from above:
Like that story is believable.
Nice try, troll.
The phones: Xiaomi A1 64 GB for $188, iPhone Xs for $999
The watches: Samsung Galaxy for $126, and the Apple Watch for $400
The Chromecast/Apple TV: Chromecast Ultra 4K for $59, Apple TV for $179
Seems his claims check out. I guess in your world, stating actual, hard facts you don't like is a troll? Most people consider that an education, but that might break your reality distortion field, so better to simply shout TROLL! and run away, eh?
It's like White Elephant gifts at Christmas (sorry, is that PC? Should I say Winter Holiday - oops, Holiday is "holy day", so again that's not PC? I meant Winter Festival. But festival assumes you're in a good mood, and that's not fair to our depressed/angry friends, so perhaps I should just say late December time when we tend to give gifts). It has 2 exchanges then it locks. So if a PC warrior shouts you down, then you shout them down - they get to shout YOU down once more and that's it - no more exchange allowed.
A list of losses in the midterms shows that the 40 lost in 2018 would be in 7th place, with Presidents Obama, Truman, and Clinton leading the list at 63, 55, and 54 respectively.