J-SMITH69

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060106/..._blog_shutdown

Microsoft's Web log service bars use of terms such as "democracy" and "human rights." On the China-based portal of search engine Google, a search for material the Dalai Lama, Taiwan and other sensitive topics returns a message saying "site cannot be found."

buk9tp

part of there user agreement was that users must comply with local laws. its not microsofts fault. and they cant afford to be on chinas badside. theyre money hungry like that. but its cool. lets just keep outsourcing to china. and theyll be the next superpower. while theyre people have basically no rights at all..

atleast theyre cracking down on sex based abortions.. and there population..

oh, wait, those things shouldnt be problems in the first place.

china is fucked up. and were fucked up that were still outsourcing to them.

70Challenger

I agree, we are all fucked if we dont do something about China, they will become the worlds next super power, because really what does America have to offer, we dont produce ANYTHING anymore!!!

J-SMITH69

that was extremely ignorant statement 70

the US produces the most out of any country in the world...

our GDP is more than twice as much as any country, and more than the entire EU

california has a GSP that is more than a lot of countries

fyi, the thumbs down was about china, not microsoft....

jinxy

everyone knows china is fucked. thats why all the rational asians who have the chance come over here.

buk9tp

i think whats going to tip the scales. and set chinas super power status into motion is when they start selling cars here in the united states.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/...hinacars_x.htm

i think theyll learn from kia tho. and wait till they have a worthwhile product before they sell it. even tho kias new cars are really well built. theyre reputation got damaged from building shitty cars before.. but now theyre building it back up. and we shall see.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely_Automobile

how china's industry works.

step 1, find a product everyone wants
step 2, find a way to make it better appealing i.e. cheaper price (most of the time), better looks (sometimes) , better quality (rarely)
step 3, mass produce
step 4, sell
step 5, repeat


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wow... geelys website no longer has an english section

[IMG width=300]http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/876/800pxgeelybeautyleopardatiaa20.jpg[/img]

wow.. looks like there gonna be at the detroit autoshow too

http://www.autonet.ca/News/story.cfm...359880-ap.html

jinxy

The usa needs to stop with this designed failure ---- and start building things like we did in the 40's again. ------- worthless designed to break cheaply manufactured overpriced plastic products. I have a blender and a mixer made by GE in the 50's, both solid metal. both still work perfectly today. A mutron guitar phaser pedal. Solid metal hand wired, never broken. from the mid 60's, ive bought other brand new chineese made phasers and they break in a year or 2.

buk9tp

same ---- for cars too. all the new ones are designed for faliure...

so u have to change your car every 5 years...

i will never buy a new car.

jinxy

Yep, and notice how they keep geting closer and closer with the dates where they redesign the whole line of cars. so even if your car doesnt break you're now driving an older looking out of date car. and it makes vein people go buy new cars again.

70Challenger

Ok i shouldnt have listed that they way I did, i ment to say that our net production and exporting is falling off and if this trend continues we will fail to produce anything by compairison to the uprising economies around us

just wait an see, if things keep going as they have, I will be right