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If the U.S. were to completely disappear one day

China, India, Peru and Indonesia would have nobody to sell their cheap goods to? THEY COLLAPSE.

Japan, South Korea, Germany, Italy have nobody to sell their Electronic goods to. THEY COLLAPSE!

The Caribbean, UAE, The Bahamas, Tahiti have significantly less travelers and their economies have a very strong reliance off of Tourism. THEY COLLAPSE!

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE and other Persian Gulf Nations have nobody to sell their crappy overpriced oil to. THEY COLLAPSE!

SOME African Nations have no aid to recieve from richer nations, and most aid that enters Africa is from the U.S. THEY ECONOMICALLY DECLINE! (Special Note: Not all African nations are impoverished, I know that Egypt, Gabon, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Libya and Eq Guinea are "DECENT" nations)

NOTE: EVEN IF THE U.S. WAS GONE THESE ABOVE NATIONS WILL STILL COLLAPSE THEY HAVE CUNSUMERS WITHIN EUROPE OR THEIR OWN NATIONS, BUT U.S IS BIGGEST CONSUMERS!!
THESE NATION’S ECONOMIES WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCENED!

Also, the United States is the most invested in nation in the world, imagine what will happen to the stocks!
We don’t need to buy the other countries stuff, we just make them produce/deliver it so we can pay cheaper prices.

Our economy won’t collpase, we would just have way higher prices of certain things.

In the United States;

We have OIL
We have TOURIST DESTINATIONS.
We have AGRICULTURE
We have INDUSTRY
We have LABOR.

We have everything we need to survive and sustain a sizeable economy.
SURE, THE UNITED STATES JUST EXISTED FOR 300 YEARS BUT LOOK HOW THE WORLD LIVED BEFORE WE EXISTED, LOOK HOW THE EUROPEANS LIVED? LOOK HOW THE AFRICAN TRIBES LIVED? THE FAR EASTERNERS?

THERE HAVE BEEN NO MAJOR BACTERIAL/INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS SINCE OUR EXISTANCE!
As the worlds largest consumer we have the right to be the worlds largest polluter.

Atleast we have countles reforms to reduce CO2 emmisiions unlike China, Nigeria and India!

I will not even address the general ignorance of your "question," since others have already done so before me, but I did want to address one specific point, i.e., your claim that there have been no major bacterial or infectious disease outbreaks since the US came into existence. Au contraire, mon frere!

The influenza epidemic that broke out after World War I actually started in the US and spread throughout the world. It raged for two years and eventually killed anywhere from 20 million to 100 million people worldwide (estimates vary). In addition, there were large epidemics of polio in the United States, with more than 20,000 cases a year occurring in the four years immediately after World War II, and an even larger outbreak in 1952, with 58,000 cases.

Look bub, I’m an American myself. It is certainly true that, with things as they are now, if the US just suddenly disappeared overnight (although how that would happen is a bit of a mystery) there would be a tremendous disruption of world markets. However, the world trundled along pretty well for millenia before the US came on the scene, and if the US had never existed the world would probably still have managed quite well. Things would certainly be different, but how can you say they would be worse necessarily. They might not be better, either, but this is all pure speculation.

To be honest, I’m really at a loss to understand your issue here. Sure, the US has done some really good things in the world, but it has done some pretty bad things, too, e.g., the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Are you suggesting people shouldn’t criticize the US just because the US has done some good things and forget about the bad?

I am mainly into drum and bass and breaks but also dabble in electro, house and techno here and there. I am looking for classic tunes both past and present that will make my Ipod a better companion on my travels. Just to give you a taster of what I like, I am currently loving – Chemical Brothers – Electronic Battle Weapon 8, Apex – Space Between feat. Ayah and Plump DJs – Mad Cow, cheers in advance!

Aphex Twin. Godspeed You Black Emperor.

first of all It’s not pachinko. it is a board with nails in it and you drop the ball and try to get it into the right hole. it was featured in a sega game with a guy with a red tiger on the back of a brown jacket. the board stands up. it’s not electronic. it supposedly is played at street stands.

I want one so I can play and I don’t won’t to make one of my own cause I won’t it to be hard and well thought out with good art on the back.

also my computer is having problems so I’m not going to be able to add details and other things but I will pick a best answer. I might not be able to categorize it right.

Are you sure it is not Pachinco? Pachinco was not always electronic. It consisted of a board with lots of pins in it and the object was to get the balls in the holes before they fell all the way to the bottom. Kind of a Japanese Pin Ball. By the way our pin ball machines in ther US did not always operate with electricity, beeps, whistles and bells. The flippers were strickly mechanical with brass pins (nails) guarding the holes.

If you think about it most of the brand names shoes for example come from China and electronic products as well. So how can we say that Chinese fake goods are really fake when companies make them in China for large corporations over here.

Some goods are pure knock offs. They are just look alikes but do not match the quality of the actual product nor are made w/ any license or approval from the brand.

Goods that are made by factories licensed by a particular brand & according to the brand’s specifications but sold outside of the approved distribution channels are known as "diverted" goods.

These products are authentic but the brand’s co. doesn’t get any of the profit for their idea/design yet consumer’s will complain to the company if there is a problem.

It’s a bit like saying I use your name for a charge card but pay the bill so what’s the problem? The problem is that someone is using my name w/o my permission and I can be held liable/responsible or blamed for what he/she does – it’s identity theft.

Fred Reed
A popular illusion is that we use technology to serve our ends. In fact, we seem to follow it to ends inherent in the technology. It has a will of its own.
For example, the automobile once invented made a dense network of roads inevitable, which made suburbs inevitable, which made malls inevitable, which made community and localism impossible and utterly changed the nature of society. This wasn’t planned. Neither was the Internet, which grew as it chose while we watched in astonishment.
Today we hear much fuming about electronic surveillance and whether we should allow it. A better question might be whether we can not allow it. It is too easy, too convenient to be avoided.
The technical capacity exists for detailed watchfulness that Stalin would have envied. For practical purposes, the power of computers is now without limit. You can buy a commodity computer with a terabyte of storage. Global networking is a reality, the Web being the obvious example. Databases of virtually unlimited size can be searched almost instantly from around the globe. Google indexes billions of pages. How long after you hit the Enter key does it take for search results to appear?
This is new–not that governments will spy, but that they can do so easily, massively, and undetected. In 1950, police agencies could clandestinely open mail or tap phones, but it took time and manpower. Today enormous volumes of e-mail can be read automatically and copies sent to whoever wants them. The intended recipient has no way of detecting the interception. You can use encryption, yes. But unless you have the source code for your encryption program, and know enough cryptology and programming to read it, you can’t tell whether it has been backdoored.
An insidious quality of modern surveillance is its inconspicuousness. If jackbooted storm troopers kicked your door in and rifled through your papers, you might object. This seldom happens. Yet every use of your passport, every phone call, every purchase you make with a credit card or check, where and when and what, goes into a database. Cameras can (and in some places do) read the license numbers of all passing cars. This is not the place to go into the details of radio-frequency identification devices and cellphone tracking, but both exist.
My point here is not that any particular government is intentionally using the technology to impose totalitarian control. Some are (China, for example) and some aren’t. My question is whether, as every move we make becomes watchable and trackable, any government will be able to resist the temptation.
Local governments are not immune to the attractions of intrusion. I recently read that in York, England, the wearing of hats in pubs is illegal because it interferes with the surveillance cameras. These are supposed to spot "troublemakers." Thus quickly does the pretext go from the exalted cause of opposing terrorism to catching guys with a snootful. What can be done will be.
All of which raises a couple of questions. First, is freedom possible without privacy? Those in law enforcement will argue that surveillance doesn’t matter. If you do nothing illegal, their reasoning runs, what difference does it make what the government knows? A lot. For anyone who might butt heads with a government, whether in Beijing or Washington, being watched is intimidating. We all do things that can be used against us. A compromising e-mail about a tryst, sent to someone not a spouse, is embarrassing.
The second question is whether people really care about freedom. I think not, though we tell ourselves that we do. The majority care about prosperity and comfort–a nice house, tolerable job, consumerism’s trinkets, beer, sex, 500 channels on the cable, and a couple of weeks a year at Disneyland. They go to Joe’s Rib Pit, congregate with friends, swill Bud, and watch NASCAR. This is not contemptible. (I hope not: I do it.) It is enough freedom for most.
The abolition by disregard of the Constitution? An abstraction that doesn’t register. I’ll guess that 95 percent of the population have never heard of habeas corpus and don’t know what the Fourth Amendment is. Freedom of speech matters only to intellectuals. The cameras are everywhere, but you hardly notice them. Anyway, Kyle Busch is eating up NASCAR in that Toyota. Toyota–ain’t that something? In Georgia.
The comfortable do not revolt against what does not inconvenience them. Can the police always tell where your cellphone is? Know what books you have checked out? What websites you visit? Read your e-mail? Why, we hardly notice. Anyway, it is only to catch terrorists.
My take on article and 1984 essay

As previously stated from the article, Technology has a mind of its own, it is constantly growing without any boundaries. It seems as inevitable as the beginning of roads or strip malls, and the invention of the automobile. In other ways, the same might be possible with government. By means of a depression, people could look to totalitarian style governments for support and aid, giving them complete power. This would mean sacrificing liberty for security, giving authority the opportunity to thrive and develop. This was Orwell’s prediction, government dystopias. It seems today that government might not be as worrisome; technology could essentially have the same effect. What will the end be? As the growth of technology continues, there is hint that surveillance will be the future, and our privacy will become the past. It is a future that resembles Winston’s, in Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell).
With Winston’s contemplative views of the party, he would have felt that the article would have shown plausible ideas, in that technology could lead to a totalitarian type society. The lifestyle he abided by constricted his mind; the government surveyed and exposed it to an extent where he was unable to think freely. The technology that was used to survey Winston was archaic compared to the technology of today. It is still constantly growing and branching to make individual’s lives more accessible. E-mail, cell-phones, credit cards, internet websites like Facebook; are devices that have become invasive. Technology has not even reached full potential, and everyday innovationists are coming up with new devices to make our lives easier and more efficient, progressing in the inevitable invasion of privacy for society.
Freedom and society’s regards to it was another main idea of the article in question. “To die hating them, that’s freedom,” were Winston’s words. The speaker expresses how as a society we don’t value our liberties: “The majority care about prosperity and comfort.” Winston however valued his freedom and defended it at all costs. Unfortunately when Winston was captured by the thought police and brought to the Ministry of Love, though fighting through the process, he ultimately lost his freedom in the end. If Winston were still in his previous state he would want society to fight for their freedom and not to live under the influence of technology. He would see that, although without intentional provocation, it is used to the corporation’s advantage because of the organic qualities that technology has enveloped. Being able to question the actions taken place are key for Winston.
I KNOW IT’S LONG, BUT REALLY IT CAN’T BE SO HARD TO READ! I THOUGHT I WAS QUITE INTERESTING!
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Interesting, you get a star…Good job.

Dear sirs:
We are a manufacturer of plastic products and electronic products in Shenzhen city China.
My company name in Chinese" 深圳市金协科技有限公司", The company English name "Shenzhen Ksure technology Ltd."

Note:
"金" is my family name, can be translated into "King",
"协" can be translated into "cooperation or share or pal", "协"s pronunciation is "Xie".
How do you fell about my company English name? Or please give me a good english name.

Thank you very much!

Best regards
Mr. Jimmy King

‘Royal’ is the adjective that corresponds to the noun ‘king.’ So, how about ‘Royal Shenzhen Technology Manufacturing Co.’? Usually referred to as ‘Royal Shenzhen.’

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Hope this helps!

We still have rail systems from the 1800’s our cars still run on fossil fuels, we still have very few really good recyleing programs in place. Think of all the things that all the people from the 1800’s, 1950’s and so on had dreamed up for us and we still are living like we’er in the 1900’s when it’s 2007. Where’s our cool monrails, our hanging gardens with bountiful food, our limitless sources of free energy. Gosh we still live on moeny and forced slavery. What is the problem here where’s our flying cars, our animal translation devices that actually work. What’s the deal people it’s 2007 and we don’t have sqaut, but cheep electronic devices made in China. Come on anyone else feel jipped? What’s your thoughts on this? What do you think that we should have, but don’t?

Where’s my flying car?

There are many things that were sold as "pie in the sky" by futurists that did not understand or appreciate the magnitude of the problems associated with either the science or society for their ideas. For example Moller is still building the flying car but can you imagine all the idiots who are driving now (drunk and otherwise) going recklessly at 200 plus mph all over the place?

However a lot of what people were expecting has happened both in the marketplace and in the laboratory. Not everything that is marketable is available and not everything that is available technologically is marketable.

The biggest obstacle with change is the inertia of the status quo. While people want to be seen as first in fashion they are afraid of real change, especially change that alters the all too familiar paradigms they define their lives by. Most people are still motivated by crisis rather than opportunity to change. So long as they are comfortable with the present they avoid altering it or even exploring the possibility of changing it, that is why they are called fundamentalists or traditionalists.

But you know what?

Change is inevitable and those that cannot adapt to it perish. I guess I have lived long enough to have a more evolutionary rather than revolutionary perspective on the matter and I have not only seen a tremendous amount of change in my half century plus of life, I embrace it and see a lot more coming even faster on the way.

Even though I still see crisis as the greatest motivator for change I am nevertheless an optimistic futurist and I think that many of us will make the best of some very bad situations. I just wish we could change that paradigm of effort too but finding common cause to build habitats in the sea and off world are a really difficult sell.

Good Afternoon,

I am a mid-sized electronics company that specialises in new Chinese technology. Currently I order popular electronic good from china in bulk an sell them here at a good rate. The problem is that my storage rent has gone up and I am finding it difficult to sustain the company. I need some advice on how I can reduce my storage and overall production cost, to keep my business sustainable.
ANY IDEAS!!!

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