It depends if you're talking about the "average person" or the "average television viewer."
It seems that they're talking about the "average television viewer," and you're not listening and understanding their feelings. Instead you hear the word "average" and are triggered. Notice in what you quoted them saying, they said "of representative homes," not "of homes."
Listen to their words, they didn't lie; the lie was when you claimed to understand their words.
My TV watching peaking in 1986, the year I watched re-runs of The Pirate Movie (1982) over 100 times. Also MTV was a music video channel featuring almost entirely new music, and there was a second (!!) music video channel that mostly showed classic rock videos and last years hits. That's before even adding up Star Trek, The Gummy Bears, Smurfs, etc.
Much of their society is ruled by local elected officials.
So having one guy in charge of foreign policy and national direction leaves it exactly at "semi-autocratic Confucian Republic."
Also, Xi Jinping didn't "boot" the opposition, he won the support of bunch of people in the party who are themselves elected by members of the party. So that part is all exactly as you would expect in a Confucian Meritocracy. In a Communist system you would expect instead of have selected the people with enough Virtue to choose the leaders, you wouldn't want it to be mostly Democratic.
In China they give the kids a lot more testing, and exceptional students get moved to better schools. They already know how smart all the kids are, and if they've been selected to be receive an education that benefits from creative thought or if they are being trained as a regular worker.
Kids not being interested in school means their parents will have poor Social Credit for failing to instill meritorious values and habits in their children. If your kids don't get good grades, and don't even pay sufficient attention, then don't expect to get a promotion, or rent convenient housing, or take foreign vacations.
If the problem is bad enough, you might not even be able to buy train tickets during high demand times of day.
In America, if your parents want you to get ahead they'll buy you smart glasses that monitor your attention and make sure you're learning the Right Things.
And other kids will still be doing Free Range learning.
And poor kids will ignore all that stare out the window or doodle on the desk because they're not going to get in trouble at home for not having learned anything, and are also not encouraged to value education.
I'm even a Harry Harrison fan, but that series was just crap that he spewed out quickly to make his publisher happy between more serious creative efforts.
I know, many teenagers find it entertaining. Try reading it again though, now, and see if it still seems insightful.
They have internet in China, you could probably actually go and talk to some real Chinese women and find out if it is true. Or even just check twitter.
If you actually read Adam Smith, then invisible hand of the market is something that arises when government looks over the shoulders of business and enforce fairness and market access.
Without regulation, Capitalism predicts the established interests will collude and strangle the market, leading to a weak economy.
If these bitcoin miners are using an excessive amount and it is harming the resource, then the natural Capitalist response is to have the Government enforce some sort of sharing system. This is actually the whole reason that in the US the government doesn't normally engage in business! So that they can be the neutral third party necessary for Capitalism.
why anyone would continue to use Oracle software knowingly anymore?
Corporate executives often simply look up to people who are trying to screw them over! They look at Oracle and say, "Gosh, I wish we could screw our customers the way Oracle screws us, I sure love that rich guy for making so much money! I want to be like him! I'd never switch."
I should have been more clear. I was referring to proprietary data formats and lockin which they did quite well in securing Windows and Office on the desktops.
Not really. I remember in the late 90s people kept telling me that I couldn't work any job using computers without MS Office, because File Formats. The thing is, my tools opened the files just fine, and people could open and read my documents fine too. Sometimes there would be problems between different people on a project sharing files, because they had different versions of MS Office, so they'd give the files to me to load and re-save in an open tool which all tended to produce portable files. So it was never true. And eventually people stopped saying it, without anything having changed.
It took over a decade for most people to comprehend that free software and open source are real options and not an imaginary hippie commune from a movie. For people already using it, of course, we're in the 20th year of Linux on the Desktop.
They don't even teach those things in the same classes.
"The customer is always right" is part of marketing and PR classes, it is never part of the business classes.
You might be mistaking the quality of the student for the quality of the lessons the school teaches; graduates of MBA-mills might really even be good enough at business to keep the subjects straight, and the school might nevertheless have a working strategy to lead them to a passing grade in each class. But even there, a student who understands the material might be getting the same lessons as they would at a "better" school.
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It depends if you're talking about the "average person" or the "average television viewer."
It seems that they're talking about the "average television viewer," and you're not listening and understanding their feelings. Instead you hear the word "average" and are triggered. Notice in what you quoted them saying, they said "of representative homes," not "of homes."
Listen to their words, they didn't lie; the lie was when you claimed to understand their words.
It knows if it wants to, because the device ID and capabilities get communicated.
It isn't like detecting a headphone jack, where you only know if something is physically connected.
In my case that is true, because I bought a "not smart" TV. But keep in mind, they only had 2 non-smart models in the store; 1 in each of two sizes.
If you have a "smart TV," you really can't make statements about what it can or can't do, because you don't know and they won't tell you.
My TV watching peaking in 1986, the year I watched re-runs of The Pirate Movie (1982) over 100 times. Also MTV was a music video channel featuring almost entirely new music, and there was a second (!!) music video channel that mostly showed classic rock videos and last years hits. That's before even adding up Star Trek, The Gummy Bears, Smurfs, etc.
In Soviet Russia, garden walls you!
Much of their society is ruled by local elected officials.
So having one guy in charge of foreign policy and national direction leaves it exactly at "semi-autocratic Confucian Republic."
Also, Xi Jinping didn't "boot" the opposition, he won the support of bunch of people in the party who are themselves elected by members of the party. So that part is all exactly as you would expect in a Confucian Meritocracy. In a Communist system you would expect instead of have selected the people with enough Virtue to choose the leaders, you wouldn't want it to be mostly Democratic.
Nope.
It seems more likely that that is the purpose, rather than something where it would make sense to wonder "how long will it be before..."
In China they give the kids a lot more testing, and exceptional students get moved to better schools. They already know how smart all the kids are, and if they've been selected to be receive an education that benefits from creative thought or if they are being trained as a regular worker.
Kids not being interested in school means their parents will have poor Social Credit for failing to instill meritorious values and habits in their children. If your kids don't get good grades, and don't even pay sufficient attention, then don't expect to get a promotion, or rent convenient housing, or take foreign vacations.
If the problem is bad enough, you might not even be able to buy train tickets during high demand times of day.
In America, if your parents want you to get ahead they'll buy you smart glasses that monitor your attention and make sure you're learning the Right Things.
And other kids will still be doing Free Range learning.
And poor kids will ignore all that stare out the window or doodle on the desk because they're not going to get in trouble at home for not having learned anything, and are also not encouraged to value education.
If you consider bustle to be an insult, just give up and don't try to comprehend Chinese concepts of Merit.
What if it turns out that China stopped being Communist decades ago and are actually a semi-autocratic Confucian Republic?
Does it change the creepiness?
It just means his brain is past menopause.
Maybe it is not even intended to help the teacher, but to help the student by teaching meritorious behavior.
I'm even a Harry Harrison fan, but that series was just crap that he spewed out quickly to make his publisher happy between more serious creative efforts.
I know, many teenagers find it entertaining. Try reading it again though, now, and see if it still seems insightful.
They have internet in China, you could probably actually go and talk to some real Chinese women and find out if it is true. Or even just check twitter.
It's about time they used this technology to help the children, instead of just using it for advertising!
If you ever find a dictionary, look up imbecile. You might be surprised.
If you actually read Adam Smith, then invisible hand of the market is something that arises when government looks over the shoulders of business and enforce fairness and market access.
Without regulation, Capitalism predicts the established interests will collude and strangle the market, leading to a weak economy.
If these bitcoin miners are using an excessive amount and it is harming the resource, then the natural Capitalist response is to have the Government enforce some sort of sharing system. This is actually the whole reason that in the US the government doesn't normally engage in business! So that they can be the neutral third party necessary for Capitalism.
Are there any happy Oracle customers?
Lots of them, especially executives who have a solid firewall between the technical departments and themselves.
why anyone would continue to use Oracle software knowingly anymore?
Corporate executives often simply look up to people who are trying to screw them over! They look at Oracle and say, "Gosh, I wish we could screw our customers the way Oracle screws us, I sure love that rich guy for making so much money! I want to be like him! I'd never switch."
It was a typo; it was supposed to be software Greeks .
Spoiler for Furreners: it means people who lived at Fraternities or Sororities while attending University.
I should have been more clear. I was referring to proprietary data formats and lockin which they did quite well in securing Windows and Office on the desktops.
Not really. I remember in the late 90s people kept telling me that I couldn't work any job using computers without MS Office, because File Formats. The thing is, my tools opened the files just fine, and people could open and read my documents fine too. Sometimes there would be problems between different people on a project sharing files, because they had different versions of MS Office, so they'd give the files to me to load and re-save in an open tool which all tended to produce portable files. So it was never true. And eventually people stopped saying it, without anything having changed.
It took over a decade for most people to comprehend that free software and open source are real options and not an imaginary hippie commune from a movie. For people already using it, of course, we're in the 20th year of Linux on the Desktop.
They don't even teach those things in the same classes.
"The customer is always right" is part of marketing and PR classes, it is never part of the business classes.
You might be mistaking the quality of the student for the quality of the lessons the school teaches; graduates of MBA-mills might really even be good enough at business to keep the subjects straight, and the school might nevertheless have a working strategy to lead them to a passing grade in each class. But even there, a student who understands the material might be getting the same lessons as they would at a "better" school.
Often for American companies "Asia-Pacific" only means Australia and Japan. And sometimes only Australia.