No, you gave yourself a painful neurological condition. Your smartphone is aa non-sentient object and cannot “give” you anything. It cannot make you do anything either.

This. The Chinese haven’t come up with any invention or innovation of note in literally 1,000 years, in spite of their vast population, bullshit propaganda about superior IQ, and hundreds of years’ exposure to others’ technology. They can’t even put together 11 guys that can think well enough to form a national footie…

Unlike the West, the Chinese don’t have patents. They copy everything. As a result, they have tons of cool, cheap stuff we don’t have.

Comparing your desire to use grey market chips that incorporate stolen tech to the civil rights movement is disgusting at best.

The logical gymnastics used to pretend that reverse engineering and reproducing someone else's product doesn’t make one a thief are astonishing.

FLom each aKKoLding tu He AbiRity, TuEach aKKolding tu he need!

Great insights and very interesting read! One question comes to mind: how big is the ‘yield’ in the Chinese tech culture, i.e. the ratio of ‘new’ stuff churned out, but forgotten after two weeks, and ‘innovative’ stuff that has a little more permanence in the market (and in people’s lives)?

lol. Cool story, bro.

Rant:

“empowered by our fair use rights, we decided to embark on a journey to reverse engineer” That is a beautiful sentence right there, but it’s still called theft of intellectual property, here in the boring old USA. :) Still though you should go into Law with such a linguistic mastery of interpretative skills toward the…

i see your side but letting the engineers in china have limitless resources is also whats causing all the pollution and trash pile up over there

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for today.

tl;dr: Chinese don’t pay any attention to copyright and other IP constructs; the US is hampered by lawyers and patent trolls.

You know what book sucked? Middlemarch. It’s like, can you bitches shut up about your periods for ten seconds? God!

If you ask me, college feminists are the weak minded individuals the Victorians said that women are. How can you read it any other way?

After reading this, do you wonder why any thinking man would take feminism seriously?

Imagine being a man on the pointy end of this.

sacred cows are the death of any movement.

Right. That’s why they go into poor neighbourhoods 24/7/365 to help them with their bullshit neighbours. Fuck off, idiot.

It is a stunning example of feminism devouring itself.