Someone got a deal on cottage windows from Home Depot.

No, it's a side effect of 山寨, Shanzhai. The word means mountain fortress and comes from when bandits could live on a massive hill/small mountain and essentially run their own microcosm. It started to mean knockoffs when making fake cellphones in these workshops became a hell of a way to make money and avoid the…

China + chinese knockoffs+buyers=better Chinese economy. Why are these guys allowed in the global economy again? Clearly playing by the rules.

This is what VW needs to do to save the beetle, a 4 door.

I don't think its a beetle knock off. There is no vase.

I *love* how China has no respect for copyright/patent/trademark. We need that in this world with ever-increasing durations for copyright, ever-broadening patent scopes, and ever-increasingly litigious companies lawyering up at the merest implication of a violation of "their" IP.

Go forth, China, and copy ALL the…

Seriously, with over a BILLION people, there's got to be some original ideas among them.

Nope, nothing to see here. I don't know what intellectual design property you are talking about.

I mean, come on, what proof do we have that this is really a beetle knockoff? It could be anything...

what he's saying to them

Mr. Gorbachov , tie up this dog

All democratically elected leaders have to walk the fine line between luxury and modesty when it comes to their appearances. Despots, CEOs and other wealthy individuals in the private sector are free to flaunt their wealth and power all they like, but if a democratically elected official were to do the same the public…

I feel I should know what that wooden box is, it looks a bit familiar, but I haven't a clue. Musical instrument? Weird abacus? Conversation starter?

Tyler, have you considered doing a collection of the non-747 Air Force One and Air Force Two aircraft? They're not limited to the VC-25 (the 747) and the C-32 (757) like most people think. There was at least one 707 as AF1, a Lockheed JetStar as AF2 (that a former colleague of mine flew for Ford), as well as a G-V as…

Rick, let me be clear, those glasses don't make you look any smarter

I lived there.

Can you not look at these Chinese copies and think they're somehow some sort of satire?

It'll break in a week, it's Chinese.

Here's my question: