Why China Sucks

[CrAz3D]

http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000503040395/

My dad mentioned something about this to me that he saw on the news last night.
Some Chinese auto maker totally ripped apart & rebuilt a Chevy Aveo & called it their own! Aveos suck as it is, now China is making them & selling them & making profits? Damn Chinese.

[Joe[x86]]

*finds ergot*

[Networks]

This is something quite similar to what we were talking about in economics just the other day. Though America may be on top as far as technology goes we're only 5 steps ahead and the rest of the countries in the world are just waiting to steal our technology. Think about it, we do all the R&D for maybe a year or a little less and other countries (ex: China) rip it apart in 1-6 months and spent VERY little money on any R&D associated with the product. They're just playing smart in all honesty. It doesn't surprise me at all. Reminds me of all the kiddies on battle.net who steal open source bots, I suppose they could say the same thing China might say: Why go through all the trouble?

[CrAz3D]

Word.  What is R&D?

[JTN Designer]

Research and Development.

[Topaz]

This is something quite similar to what we were talking about in economics just the other day. Though America may be on top as far as technology goes we're only 5 steps ahead and the rest of the countries in the world are just waiting to steal our technology. Think about it, we do all the R&D for maybe a year or a little less and other countries (ex: China) rip it apart in 1-6 months and spent VERY little money on any R&D associated with the product. They're just playing smart in all honesty. It doesn't surprise me at all. Reminds me of all the kiddies on battle.net who steal open source bots, I suppose they could say the same thing China might say: Why go through all the trouble?

We're not on top anymore. Other countries are expanding into technology, while the US's graduates begin to ebb. It's been like this for a while now; if we don't begin investing more into science and technology, we'll fall behind drastically.

[CrAz3D]

We're on top in bio sciences, til other people start pshing stem cell.  I think we're ahead in general, but not as much as we used to be.

ebb?

[cefx-]

Uhh yeah seriously wtf Networks?

America is by no means at the top for technology.  Somewhere in the middle.  They just pump money into everything and claim it as theirs.

[CrAz3D]

Middle?  UHM, wtf no?

All we do is pump money into stuff & claim it as ours?...examples?