Blaise Zebrataur
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Post by Blaise Zebrataur on Dec 1, 2010 2:41:55 GMT -5
I don't think America is losing influence on anything right now.The jobs and such might be bad as well as the selling houses market but I think its as best as a country can get.I mean sooner or later a country will run into a problem like this and everyone will always try to blame the president.
And you can't do that as Obama(or whoever the President is at anytime) can only do so much as president because of Congress below him has to agree with what stuff he does and so forth.And of course people will disagree with him and then Obama can't do what he promised people before he got elected.So people will say its so and so fault for the USA being in the state that it is.
I mean you just can't expect a country to always been like perfect and not make mistakes.All they have to do is focus,relax(as best they can) and try to right the mistake as best as they can.Atleast then they can say to themselves "I tried my best and that is all anyone can expect of me."
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Dec 1, 2010 3:25:38 GMT -5
Actually many people already blaming the president, some blacks said that the unemployment rate for blacks are 10% during the Bush era, but now it's around 25% during Obama's reign.
Most of all, when it comes to jobs, I'll have to agree with Donald Trump who thinks about becoming president for 2012 in order to create jobs via charging 25% tax on all China-imported products. After all, why should we want to buy such a big tax from Chinese products. Hopefully you also watch the video why the Donald sees the country is in so much trouble.
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Regarding the 1 currency idea, actually here's one thing you should know, in Asia, legit copies of movies and games are very high while the Western countries are lower. I would rather spend $30 on a legit game, not some RM70. RM70 maybe the same as paying for $30, but most of us prefer lower numbers rather than big numbers.
Big numbers = Expensive = High fear factor Small numbers = Cheap = Low fear factor = In Asia, affordable and still works pirated copies
Same case for Chinese Yuan & Japan's Yen, their currency scares the hell of me when I was on a trip to Tokyo. And I couldn't even calculate correctly. That's why lower numbers are easier to calculate and will not put a intense pressure on us consumers.
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Clone
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Post by Clone on Dec 3, 2010 3:37:11 GMT -5
i do agree a lot on the currency numbers, even though value wise 60$'s is the same as 50$ from like 10 or so years a go 60$ freaks me the hell out when considering what games to get. i don't even want to try what some of the other cerencies are like...
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Post by Atecom on Dec 3, 2010 8:28:30 GMT -5
New games here have been around $100 for as long as I can remember here, I think our inflation is higher than Americas.
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Post by Clone on Dec 4, 2010 2:30:23 GMT -5
holy smokes your games are expensive! that's 97USD's your paying for games! i'm starting to think that games and media in general is cheapest in America...
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Dec 4, 2010 3:30:08 GMT -5
The inflation was bad enough too, even game industries like Electronic Arts is getting more stingy as well. Last time our games used to have special edition items like special boxes, pewter figurines, pendants, A2 size posters, etc.. Today, they're down all nothing but cheapskate downloadables. Even so, CGI technology is getting outsourced rather than in-house.
Other companies like Blizzard at least they keep their promise not to reduce all that just like EA did with their games, Starcraft 2 we get to see CGI & great special edition items. As for EA, ah ah, they're ain't gonna happen, they call themselves a game giant, but in reality, they're just as stingy for not being huge risk takers.
Overall, if I would to buy the game in the past, I rather spend $60 for the whole thing, rather than in my country which they label like around $200 to $300, that's scary for being overpriced, currency problems and that's where we turn to piracy.
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Post by Atecom on Dec 4, 2010 7:17:23 GMT -5
holy smokes your games are expensive! that's 97USD's your paying for games! i'm starting to think that games and media in general is cheapest in America... Everything is a lot more expensive here than in America... Although to be fair our average annual Salaries are higher as well.
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Post by SoCalDrag on Dec 4, 2010 15:28:28 GMT -5
Not necessarily. The living standard in Tokyo, Moscow, Hong Kong, and many others, are HIGHER than the living standard in New York. Yet, the people in these countries do not have such a high salary, and their governments are not staggering under a huge amount of debt.
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Post by Clone on Dec 4, 2010 18:20:28 GMT -5
the majority of the United States debit comes form the fact that we are just about required to be the police of the world. if a tragedy happens some where were frowned a pawn if we don't act ASAP but if one happens in the states no one offers to help. also not to mention our government likes to spend parc loads of money on R&D for weapons and things that we only find out about 20 years after they've been decommissioned. for all we know the USA all ready has inter stellar space flight or worm hole generators. (they could easily hid a Star Gate like operation)
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Post by SoCalDrag on Dec 5, 2010 3:13:39 GMT -5
Well, that problem should go away soon. Forbes magazine just placed China's president, Hu Jin Tao, as the world's most powerful person, not Obama. This indicates that the world will not need to depend on the US so much anymore.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Dec 5, 2010 22:16:34 GMT -5
But don't forget, those who live in the US, even like the Donald said, US is only getting rip off by China. And within a decade, China is going to overtake the US itself.
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Post by Clone on Dec 6, 2010 0:43:31 GMT -5
the only reason why Obama isn't top is because we have a republic, China is a communist state meaning that one man gets 99% of the control. if we were the same in control standards, then we would still be topping it.
besides i don't care about that, which country is still the most powerful? USA's still ranking #1 and China's really slow to ever offer help (if any at all), so i don't see much shift in that occurring soon.
besides China's been causing more problems lately territorial wise than the USA's done in the past 30 years. when we kick some ones ass we give them the choice what to do after, with China they say "YOU IS US NOW, NOW WORK FOR ME!" and force or at least try to force everyone to be them.
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Post by SoCalDrag on Dec 6, 2010 1:14:39 GMT -5
The shift is actually occurring as we chat. China was the world's most powerful country in the 1400s, and lost it. Spain, 1500s to 1600s, Britain 1600s to 1945, United States 1900s to early 21st century. China is definitely next. China, ideally, is Communist, but the WAY the government is running things proves otherwise. Yes, some concepts are still kept, but with Maoist Communism, China was a third world country. Their country is growing at 9% a year and China is not causing territorial problems, it is US!!! Yes, the United States. Any country has the right to control their own boundaries (not invade others, that is never justified) and keep peace and security inside their own country. The whole China/Tibet debate should have never happened. In fact, Tibet had been part of China ever since the Yuan Dynasty. Other provinces actually HELP Tibet develop economically. Tibetans put this problem on themselves, and it is about time China control the situation. Furthermore, China does not try to make everyone like them... that is why they have the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and also the Autonomous Regions of Guangxi, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and yes, Tibet. These people are allowed to rule themselves under Chinese supervision.
In conclusion, China does not exercise dictatorship anymore... their president changes every 10 years. The United States does not have the right to meddle with anyone's affairs, and China does not try to make everyone like them.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Dec 6, 2010 5:04:02 GMT -5
When it comes to world & military power, US is #1, but economy wise, it is China, except if US can't regain its feet in the market field, US will lose its influence for sure and it's going to take over the country.
In summary, not to say I hate China, it's just when US is getting worse with jobless still increasing, people are going to migrate. Luckily since I'm not a US citizen, I'm ok with it, except I do have hearts for them.
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Post by Atecom on Dec 6, 2010 21:13:04 GMT -5
the only reason why Obama isn't top is because we have a republic, China is a communist state meaning that one man gets 99% of the control. if we were the same in control standards, then we would still be topping it. besides i don't care about that, which country is still the most powerful? USA's still ranking #1 and China's really slow to ever offer help (if any at all), so i don't see much shift in that occurring soon. besides China's been causing more problems lately territorial wise than the USA's done in the past 30 years. when we kick some ones ass we give them the choice what to do after, with China they say "YOU IS US NOW, NOW WORK FOR ME!" and force or at least try to force everyone to be them. So had Iraq by public vote, chosen to have another dictator, the US would have been ok with this?
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