asia

Gratuitous over-packaging in Asia is not really meant to rip you off, it's meant to make the product upscale.

The whole asia is just a boling pot that is going to explode but nobody knows when.

And replying to your comments above i was talking about the situation in asia in general.

For example in much of Asia it's often a beauty standard to have the lightest skin colour possible, for light-skinned people.

I think that is one of the reasons they want to increase land trade through central asia.

On the one hand the last 2 years bouncing about in Asia have been a unique experience that has made me a grow a lot.

To be fair, some of those island bases in Asia are used for the CIA torture program, so its purported purpose is probably not aggression towards China.

(MSX was ironically more popular in Asia than America where it was built by Microsoft).

It really sounds like the fascist/autocratic states in Asia (Russia/China) with its economy failing, is slowly resorting to territorial aggression against neighboring countries in order to claim more resources.

There is a very reasonable, very important argument against making Asian IP law more like the US, which is that medical care across Asia depends on lax IP laws.

* It has an extended segment on US job exports, as if the TPP somehow changes the fact that every job that could be viably exported to Asia already has been.

Immigrants from asia have, everywhere ( to my knowledge), brang people that work hard, have children that do great at school, and only protest to ask for more police force rather than less (true story from a recent protest in the belleville district in Paris, because chineese (sometimes illegal) immigrants were often attacked by north-africans that stole their bags, knowing they wouldn't go see the police).

In East Asia, a number of more elaborate sequences have been developed, such as (")(-_-)(") showing an upset face with hands raised.

[1] Rabies still kills tens of thousands of people a year in Asia and Africa, in places where "get vaccinated" is not the standard response to getting bitten by a wild animal (the major vector of Rabies there is feral dogs); by the time symptoms appear it's too late.

Serving sizes also tend to be much smaller in most parts of Asia, compared to America anyways.

With labor prices so cheap in Asia, what would stop company to just move all production off shore like they did for electronics?

Say you have a read-only site, and you have one copy in the Fremont CA data center, one in Frankfurt, and one in Asia.