Chineese Government up to old tricks
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
Giles wrote: I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice. Good idea.
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
Giles wrote: swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. Check your pencil. Chances are it is made in China. :~ Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
"The film shows dozens of hired thugs running amok in a village just 60 miles from the capital Beijing." Nothing new under the Sun[^]...people of modest means fighting to improve their lifes are the first victims. Giles wrote: This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses Absolutely. 'We' are so eager to make business with China, sold 'our' products to a new wide market than any other consideration is irrelevant. More than that, it would be considered as an obstruction to the so-called Freedom to make business (moreover a profitable one: stopping making money because of moral issues? Heresy!). Giles wrote: next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it Will that hurt the people who hired the thugs, or will that hurt the people making a living with these products? Hard to tell... Giles wrote: maybe the government would take notice Warf.
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Giles wrote: swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. Check your pencil. Chances are it is made in China. :~ Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
Funnily I don't actually have a pencil. But I know what you mean. So much is made there now.
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"The film shows dozens of hired thugs running amok in a village just 60 miles from the capital Beijing." Nothing new under the Sun[^]...people of modest means fighting to improve their lifes are the first victims. Giles wrote: This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses Absolutely. 'We' are so eager to make business with China, sold 'our' products to a new wide market than any other consideration is irrelevant. More than that, it would be considered as an obstruction to the so-called Freedom to make business (moreover a profitable one: stopping making money because of moral issues? Heresy!). Giles wrote: next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it Will that hurt the people who hired the thugs, or will that hurt the people making a living with these products? Hard to tell... Giles wrote: maybe the government would take notice Warf.
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K(arl) wrote: Will that hurt the people who hired the thugs, or will that hurt the people making a living with these products? Hard to tell... Yep, thought of that, but they would just be in the same situation they are now. This kind of thing can really affect a country or industry. Just look at Canadian seal fur, though those models that were agaist it are all wearing it now. I never agreed with the olympics going to china though. Tiananmen square was not that long ago, and the government there only last month said it was still the right thing to do. Its always considered it a political endorsment of what is a cruel and represive elite who are the government. I was asked recently about offloading some work to oursourcers and how people thought China was the obvious choice. I pointed out Malaysia was a much better bet, as there is a large Cantoneese/Mandarin speaking comunity if they wanted to target the Chineese market later, and a load of well educated programmers who are cheaper than China. My brother in law has hired some guys out there to help him with a product he has been developing, and he just needed extra hands. And the company ownership laws are not as restrictive as China for forein investors. Everyone is on the China badwagon, though there are much better places to send work, and will probably be appreciated more.
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Giles wrote: I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice. Good idea.
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It would probably be just me and you but hey. ;) [Edit] Using an 'ethical' bank like the Cooperative helps I suppose as well. Fairly sure they don't touch China. I'm already with Smile. [Edit]
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K(arl) wrote: Will that hurt the people who hired the thugs, or will that hurt the people making a living with these products? Hard to tell... Yep, thought of that, but they would just be in the same situation they are now. This kind of thing can really affect a country or industry. Just look at Canadian seal fur, though those models that were agaist it are all wearing it now. I never agreed with the olympics going to china though. Tiananmen square was not that long ago, and the government there only last month said it was still the right thing to do. Its always considered it a political endorsment of what is a cruel and represive elite who are the government. I was asked recently about offloading some work to oursourcers and how people thought China was the obvious choice. I pointed out Malaysia was a much better bet, as there is a large Cantoneese/Mandarin speaking comunity if they wanted to target the Chineese market later, and a load of well educated programmers who are cheaper than China. My brother in law has hired some guys out there to help him with a product he has been developing, and he just needed extra hands. And the company ownership laws are not as restrictive as China for forein investors. Everyone is on the China badwagon, though there are much better places to send work, and will probably be appreciated more.
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I know it was a typo but it also sums up some people's thoughts about China's actions. "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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I know it was a typo but it also sums up some people's thoughts about China's actions. "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
Baconbutty wrote: "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" Oops. :-O I think there is a work for that. Not sure its quite a spoonerism though.
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
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Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
Madaha wrote: why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? So it doesn't look like official government repression.
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Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
Madaha wrote: If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please. That is utter bollocks and has nothing to do with it, though you seem happy to jump to conclusions. If I was woried about my job then I should be worrying about India, Russia or South America as well. I would be worried baout my job if I was in manufacture but I'm not. China is known for its human rights abuses and suppression of free speech. Coming from a former communist block youself, I though you may know something ahout that but you seems to have forgotton all about that. Mabe thats becuase there has been so much violence in your region of the world recently people there would just like to forget it never happened? Or mabe even used to that kind of thing as part of normal life? Madaha wrote: Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. I am using my head thankyou. Sounds more like you are trying to convince yourself that these things are not common. They just get away with it becuase they have such a tight control over the media especially foreign journalists. Foreign companies are falling over themselves to get in. Cisco providing the "Great Firewall of China" to make sure no Chineese see what the world thinks from the outside, and recently MSN bowing to chineese censorship requests. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67842,00.html[^] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4088702.stm[^] Wake up and smell the coffee before you wade in with gross assumptions about my motives, or I can just as easily question yours. Did you even watch the video? Do don't make explosions with a sho
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Madaha wrote: If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please. That is utter bollocks and has nothing to do with it, though you seem happy to jump to conclusions. If I was woried about my job then I should be worrying about India, Russia or South America as well. I would be worried baout my job if I was in manufacture but I'm not. China is known for its human rights abuses and suppression of free speech. Coming from a former communist block youself, I though you may know something ahout that but you seems to have forgotton all about that. Mabe thats becuase there has been so much violence in your region of the world recently people there would just like to forget it never happened? Or mabe even used to that kind of thing as part of normal life? Madaha wrote: Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. I am using my head thankyou. Sounds more like you are trying to convince yourself that these things are not common. They just get away with it becuase they have such a tight control over the media especially foreign journalists. Foreign companies are falling over themselves to get in. Cisco providing the "Great Firewall of China" to make sure no Chineese see what the world thinks from the outside, and recently MSN bowing to chineese censorship requests. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67842,00.html[^] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4088702.stm[^] Wake up and smell the coffee before you wade in with gross assumptions about my motives, or I can just as easily question yours. Did you even watch the video? Do don't make explosions with a sho
IMO it is more than time to move this conversation to the Soapbox :suss:
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Baconbutty wrote: "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" Oops. :-O I think there is a work for that. Not sure its quite a spoonerism though.
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mal·a·prop·ism Pronunciation Key (ml-prp-zm) n. 1. Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound. 2. An example of such misuse. Giles wrote: I think there is a work for that that makes two :P
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
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Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
that's a lot of BULL ... if the Chinese Govt. believed what it was doing was right then why the heck should it cover it up? ... registering websites ... censorship via Cisco and MSN products...c'mon ... use your head. http://www.boreddude.com
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hmm...let's see ...stop buying german products coz of Hitler and the Nazi's, ...stop buying british products coz of their immoral nature of forming colonies and ruining lives, ...stop buying oil from the gulf countries bcoz of their medevial laws and other screw-ups ... anyone? http://www.boreddude.com
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hmm...let's see ...stop buying german products coz of Hitler and the Nazi's, ...stop buying british products coz of their immoral nature of forming colonies and ruining lives, ...stop buying oil from the gulf countries bcoz of their medevial laws and other screw-ups ... anyone? http://www.boreddude.com
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No, but unlike in China, I would not be locked up for having this conversation about the Waco fiasco if I was living in the US.
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Madaha wrote: why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? So it doesn't look like official government repression.
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that's a lot of BULL ... if the Chinese Govt. believed what it was doing was right then why the heck should it cover it up? ... registering websites ... censorship via Cisco and MSN products...c'mon ... use your head. http://www.boreddude.com