SubscribeReported Attack Site!I could make a snarky comment about "our friends the Chinese" but - wait - I already did!
This web site at www.geely-global.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 3 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 05/10/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 05/10/2008.
Malicious software includes 2 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 16 new processes on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including wodegezi.cn, seobw.cn, mylls.cn.
3 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including vccd.cn, 158baidu.cn, dmfwq.cn.
Now, there’s a lot that’s left out of this equation, such as the fact that free trade may help richer Americans by increasing corporate profits. And cheap DVD players may not, on balance, make up for lost jobs. But the reality is that if we toughen our trade relations with China the benefits will be enjoyed by a few, since only a small percentage of Americans now work for companies that compete directly with Chinese manufacturers, while average Americans will feel the pain—in the form of higher prices—far more quickly and more directly than rich Americans will.Quality, equality, and inequality are about more than stuff. People are more than consumers. The idea that low-priced manufactured goods are a true boon to the poor is an updated "let them eat cake." I'd trade low-priced goods for decent universal healthcare, equalized access to education, safe neighborhoods, and more employment at a living wage, with benefits, within our borders.
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Income inequality has emerged as a highly contentious political issue in many countries as the latest wave of globalisation has created a “superclass” of rich people.
A United National Development Programme report in 2005 estimated that the world’s richest 50 people were earning more than the 416m poorest.
According to the latest FT/Harris poll, strong majorities in five European countries – ranging from 76 per cent in Spain to 87 per cent in Germany – consider that income inequality is too great.
But 78 per cent of respondents in the US, traditionally seen as more tolerant of income inequality, also think the gap is too wide.
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These new facts have important implications for the measurement of inequality and the debate on trade and inequality....We present several facts that are crucial in our re-examination of the impact of Chinese trade on U.S. income inequality...The debate on trade and wages in the U.S. has entirely focused on the impact that trade with developing countries has on the wages of the unskilled in America. This debate has overlooked the impact that trade has had on the prices of the goods consumed by different income groups. In particular, since developing countries typically produce low quality goods that are disproportionately consumed by the poor in America, this implies that inequality measures that do not correct for differences in the basket of goods consumed by rich and poor neglect this "price" effect of trade.
Examples of durable goods include cars, appliances, business equipment, electronic equipment, home furnishings and fixtures, houseware and accessories, photographic equipment, recreational goods, sporting goods, toys and games.But this paper's definition of "non-durable" includes things that one might expect to be classed "durable" if they were better made. They used data from a Nielsen database called "HomeScan," in which families get a scanner and scan everything they purchase as it arrives in their home. The report says:
Durable goods are typically characterized by long interpurchase times--the time between two successive purchases.
Nondurable goods or soft goods are the opposite of durable goods. They may be defined either as goods that are used up when used once, or that have a lifespan of less than 3 years.
Examples of nondurable goods include cosmetics, food, cleaning products, fuel, office supplies, packaging and containers, paper and paper products, personal products, rubber, plastics, textiles, clothing and footwear.
The majority of these goods are non-durable products sold in groceries, drugs, and mass merchandise stores...Examples of the type of non-food modules included in this database include "cosmetics," "toys and sporting goods," "house ware appliances," "cookware," and "wrapping materials and bags."That's the only place they're specific about types of goods they're looking at. Their data does, though, include things like irons, vacuums, the famous toaster, lots of consumer electronics, cookware, and so on - things you don't have to replace in under 3 years if they are decently made. Of the list they give, only "cosmetics" and "wrapping materials and bags" would traditionally be considered non-durable.
. . . The toaster just doesn't look very cheap any more.So very well said.
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I dunno about Geely. The cars are, by most descriptions, crap. Under-powered, severely unsafe, over-polluting, chintzy interior. They are what Hyundai was at its introduction, without the concern for protecting an established brand. You can tell just from the web site that Geely doesn't understand marketing, since they've already changed the names of every single one of their models, from one set of incomprehensible two-letter designations to another set of two-letter designations.
Oh, and I love that the car based on Daewoo designs is a "model for China's self-development."
posted by 1adam12 at 5:29 PM on May 19, 2008