Reply With QuoteThis shouldn't surprise anyone. You can go to a computer shop and buy a laptop with Windows 7, XP, Vista, any other OS, and it will function exactly like the real thing. You can even go to a "Windows" site to download the latest updates for your operating system and you'll never know the difference.
A few days after the movie 2012 came out, a mate of mine in Changchun brought me the movie and loaded it on my laptop from his flash drive. They pretend to enforce intellectual property laws. As far as free trade, an Apple I-phone costs well over $1000 over there. My wife bought two here when the new ones first came out and sent them to China to a relative to sell . We made about $1 grand in profit offa that deal. lol They are raping us when it comes to "free trade".
iPhoney: Fake Apple Store Exposed In China
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iPhoney: Fake Apple Store Exposed In China
It has the trademark winding staircase, seemingly authentic signs and the unmistakable staff badges - but an 'Apple' store in China has been revealed as a fake.
The imitation shop was spotted in the relatively obscure city of Kunming by a female American blogger, who was initially taken in.
But despite even workers at the store believing they were actually working for Steve Jobs, a few tell-tale signs indicated all was not as it seemed.
The 27-year-old woman who exposed the bogus store on her blog, BirdAbroad, described it as a "beautiful rip-off".
She writes: "They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area.
"The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks."
But a brief check on the Apple website showed the company had only opened a handful of official outlets in China - in Beijing and Shanghai.
"Of course, this was a total Apple store rip-off," she said.
"A beautiful rip-off - a brilliant one - the best rip-off store we had ever seen (and we see them every day).
"But some things were just not right; the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadn't been painted properly.
"Apple never writes 'Apple Store' on its signs - it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.
"Being the curious types that we are, we struck up some conversation with these salespeople who, hand to God, all genuinely think they work for Apple."
Fake Apple Store In China Found By Blogger Living In Kunming - And Even Staff Are Taken In | Strange News | Sky NewsI train differently than most, my beef is with gravity the weights on the bar are just the medium...Thanks to Wall Street your slice of the American Pie has been reduced to a crumb.
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Obama/Ayers 2012!!!
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in a true "free market" society there would be no intellectual property rights, trademarks, copyrights, etc.
everything would be much less expensive and the super-rich like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. wouldn't exist as the majority of their money is made from legal protection of said intellectual property and copyrights, etc.I train differently than most, my beef is with gravity the weights on the bar are just the medium...Thanks to Wall Street your slice of the American Pie has been reduced to a crumb.
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I can see that argument. It does go too far in many cases. Especially in the case of Gene patents for DNA research.
Obama/Ayers 2012!!!
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