Idle: Four Injured In iPad Fight At Beijing Apple Store 194
fysdt writes "Four people were taken to hospital and a glass door smashed as a near-riot broke out at Beijing's top Apple store among crowds rushing to snap up the popular iPad 2 tablet computer, state press said Sunday. Angry consumers began rushing the store on Saturday afternoon after a 'foreign' Apple employee allegedly stepped into the crowd to push and beat people suspected of queue jumping, the Beijing News said."
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Re:god bless capitalism (Score:5, Insightful)
If capitalism were a success, we'd all be working fewer hours and adults would be living significantly longer.
Proof? I could just as well claim "if socialism were a success we'd be building homes on Mars by now", but that wouldn't prove anything other than my own ignorance of socialism and martian home-building.
Re:chinese racism revealed yet again... (Score:5, Insightful)
Society needs the ability to call people out for this kind of counterproductive crap. Thanks for helping to set back Star Trek another hundred years, unnamed propaganda writer. You could be working against nationalist prejudice, and trying to unite humanity, but instead you have to look at life like a competition. I hope that some day a stock market crash is named after you and your ilk.
Re:god bless capitalism (Score:0, Insightful)
Capitalism makes people work hard, because they have a purpose and goal to achieve something they build or develop. On the other hand socialism says everyone gets their equal and fair share if they work or not.So tell me, why would anyone with a goal and purpose give give that to someone who is lazy, looter, or parasite. Not me.
Re:god bless capitalism (Score:4, Insightful)
If you feel capitalism is such a failure, go live in a communist country.
Whats that, theyre all ghettos? Yea, theres a reason for that.
Re:god bless capitalism (Score:4, Insightful)
Capitalism makes people work hard, because they have a purpose and goal to achieve something they build or develop.
Under every regime from anarchism to fascism people can have "a purpose and goal to achieve something". If you're talking about the workers having control of the means of production, i.e. the productive having access to the resources they need to achieve their goals, that's precisely socialism. In capitalism, the person building/developing is usually not the owner of the results of the work.
On the other hand socialism says everyone gets their equal and fair share if they work or not.
No form of socialism has never said such a thing. 20th century socialism is worker control of the means of production. Marxist socialism is the stage before communism where everyone does his part and is rewarded according to his labour rather than according to his capital input.
You may be thinking of social democracy of the sort in Western European nations, but even that has no notion of "equal and fair share" - the welfare safety net just provides a minimum to enable people to pick themselves up, or to maintain people who are too disabled/sick to work. It also provides a level of assistance to lift people with certain conditions up to the level of someone without that condition.
Or perhaps you're thinking of Marxist communism, which also doesn't give people an "equal and fair share" - it gives to people according to their need. Just because Bob without no legs gets a wheelchair, it doesn't mean you get one.
What are you thinking of?
So tell me, why would anyone with a goal and purpose give give that to someone who is lazy, looter, or parasite. Not me.
Observing the outcome of elections in the UK and the US over the past decade, I'd say that rewarding rich, lazy, looting parasites appears to be the main goal of the citizens of those two countries.
Re:god bless capitalism (Score:2, Insightful)
The USSR had a downturn? I am not sure what they teach in American state schools, but can you begin to imagine what life would have been like as a peasant under the Tsar? 20 years later, its industrial might challenged Hitler. A decade later it was ahead of the US in the space race. When the US was still keeping niggers on the fields and women in the kitchen, the Soviets were providing excellent technical education and opportunity according to merit.
As for Cuba, I know Americans aren't allowed there (perhaps you'll be able to get in if you go via another country in the free world, like everyone else?), but it's a decent American country with good healthcare and fair education, doing thoroughly better than any other country which has been bombarded by US hate propaganda and embargo for the past half century.
NK, well... I know little about NK. As do you. Because it's really hard to get accurate information about NK. There's lots of propaganda, but very little verifiable information available to the general public. I'm sure you'll quote propaganda. Looks like a cultish dictatorship from the outside, but again, it's hard to say.
China? Well, they're certainly the most successful nation on earth right now, if success is measured in actually producing rather than trading in invisibles. And, like in the US, a lovely place to live if you're part of the middle class (except its is growing while the US is losing its own). It's its own special gem: while US government serves business interests, Chinese business serves government interests. The government still invests heavily in public works projects, so it's not exactly feudalism.. and it doesn't have the nationalism and superiority complex typical of fascism. Hard to say what it is. Certainly neither capitalist nor communist.
If I had worthwhile options, I'd take a pick.
Re:god bless capitalism (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, if you consider life expectancy at birth, the US is tied in 36th place in the latest UN list with... Cuba. Hehe. Viva la capitalizacion!