It’s hard to tell since the facelift(s).
Eric Idle disagrees,
'Cause he likes Chinese:
They came up with a writing system on their own, too!
Oy, my poor liver…
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Don’t forget the fact that the GOP is ideologically controlled by people who believe that Adam and Eve had vegetarian dinosaurs for neighbors in the Garden of Eden 5,000 years ago. Throwing that ignorant twaddle in the face of people of a culture that venerates education and science is nothing less than insulting.
So… What you seem to be saying is, yes, the Chinese are stealing US corporate secrets and US corporation CEOs are too stupid to stop it. Makes sense.
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This is absolutely correct. The Chinese system in school is “drill-n-kill”. Chinese are mostly robots, but they can do math, like a robot. Creative? Nope, not at all. And, theft of intellectual property? Hell, yes. There are a LOT of Chinese H-1Bs who steal 1) seed technology (in Iowa, 2014 or so); 2) mobile phone technology just last week
3) and all sorts of other technology. About every other month, some chinese scum scab is arrested with secrets. We invite these scum in, and they steal our intellectual property. Liberals mostly are too stupid to understand the problem.
I wish that I were more clever and I could come up with a snide quip about how Carly is an unimaginative twat who stumbled into a CEOship at HP and then (along with that other know nothing, Meg Whitman) succeeded only at driving a good American company into the ground, but I am not that clever. So I will just say it:
Carly Fiorina is one to talk. She’s an unimaginative twat who stumbled into a CEOship at HP and then (along with that other know nothing, Meg Whitman) succeeded only at driving a good American company into the ground.
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I’ll say this much for Carly Fiorina: no candidate for any office, ever, has inspired my to stand up, turn my printer around and check the tag where it was made. I’m a little disappointed to learn the answer was Malaysia instead of China, but my point stands.
It’s the ultimate cop-out to blame anything on the Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Malaysians, or anyone but American business executives like Carly Fiorina. Factories don’t evolve spontaneously; they take many person-months of meticulous and deliberate central planning. American business executives import the shit. American business executives decide the specifications and prices. American business executives determine the quality control standards. Never has there existed a class of people more desperately in need of a generous helping of personal responsibility, than American business executives like Carly Fiorina.
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Italians aren’t at all artistic, so they make pictures with cameras only.
China steals a lot of IP (and/or reverse-engineers it). This is not really in dispute.
However, Fiorina falls into the racist/jingoist trap of claiming that China CAN’T play the game straight because of some racial design flaw. That’s bullshit.
They are simply doing to us as we (and every other major world power) have done to everyone else for years. Fiorina doesn’t like that, so she drops the race card.
Geopolitics isn’t a nice game. It’s full of skullduggery, espionage, hypocrisy and much worse.
The stakes are the highest, and the object is to win. She’s mad that they’re “cheating”. She might as well be mad that we don’t cheat as well as we used to.
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Gawd, I am soooo drunk now…
Gladly.
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仆街
For years the old Soviet Union legally bought copies of US patents right out of the patent office.
It saved them millions in engineering dollars that could otherwise be spent on arms design instead of consumer products. So for years one could buy only one kind of refrigerator in Russia – a copy of a 1936 Kelvinator with the coils on top.
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I loved West Wing. My mom used to tape it and send it to me, four or five episodes to an old VCR recording. I always loved Martin Sheen anyway. I had to stop with House of Cards when Kevin Spacey murdered a member of congress who had the goods on him and threatened him. I hear he’s murdered again. But I have to say Kevin Spacey is deliciously wicked in that show. But I couldn’t love his deliciously wicked ways when he was murdering. I mean wicked is one thing, murder is another. But West Wing, yes. Loved it. I think my favorite character was Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler. Then, of course, Stockard Channing. Just a great great series.
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Actually, that was Lindsey Graham who singled out the Iranians. Huckabee hates the wimmins and the gays.
Her real name is Cara Carleton Sneed. Is that Italian for anything?
The Chinese invented egg rolls. I love 'em. Could eat them all day. I tried a box of Hewlett-Packard egg rolls once. They were crap. You’ll never catch me voting for Carly as long as the taste of those horrible egg rolls lingers in my mouth.
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The Chinese invented facelifts.
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