Minority ethnic groups used in Games' opening were fake

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

So next we will hear that all the medals are fake...

You mean - you didn't see the athletes on the winners podium biting their medals to see if they're genuine

I hear Michael Phelps has quite the case of lead poisoning...

Edited August 18, 2008 by Number 6

[Niels Bohr 72]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

The capacitors and resistors are made from China. Many of these, if you don't know, are counterfeits. How? The capacitors themselves is made with a dielectric sandwiched between two plates. The dielectric is the key to counterfeit. The ones that uses a low quality material will reduce the lifespan of your electronics.

Those who do no know that these parts are counterfeits will probably always think that it's impossible. However, when a TV manufacture buys the circuit elements to assemble into a TV, they buy in bulk. Within the bulk, there are capacitors are from unknown sources. These capacitors are used without knowlodge of them being counterfeited. FYI.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

The capacitors and resistors are made from China. Many of these, if you don't know, are counterfeits. How? The capacitors themselves is made with a dielectric sandwiched between two plates. The dielectric is the key to counterfeit. The ones that uses a low quality material will reduce the lifespan of your electronics.

Those who do no know that these parts are counterfeits will probably always think that it's impossible. However, when a TV manufacture buys the circuit elements to assemble into a TV, they buy in bulk. Within the bulk, there are capacitors are from unknown sources. These capacitors are used without knowlodge of them being counterfeited. FYI.

Wow interesting stuff - cut price components for the Export market.

[Dan J 277]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

The capacitors and resistors are made from China. Many of these, if you don't know, are counterfeits. How? The capacitors themselves is made with a dielectric sandwiched between two plates. The dielectric is the key to counterfeit. The ones that uses a low quality material will reduce the lifespan of your electronics.

Those who do no know that these parts are counterfeits will probably always think that it's impossible. However, when a TV manufacture buys the circuit elements to assemble into a TV, they buy in bulk. Within the bulk, there are capacitors are from unknown sources. These capacitors are used without knowlodge of them being counterfeited. FYI.

There were a few motherboard manufactures that had problems with capacitors leaking or exploding a couple years ago.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

The capacitors and resistors are made from China. Many of these, if you don't know, are counterfeits. How? The capacitors themselves is made with a dielectric sandwiched between two plates. The dielectric is the key to counterfeit. The ones that uses a low quality material will reduce the lifespan of your electronics.

Those who do no know that these parts are counterfeits will probably always think that it's impossible. However, when a TV manufacture buys the circuit elements to assemble into a TV, they buy in bulk. Within the bulk, there are capacitors are from unknown sources. These capacitors are used without knowlodge of them being counterfeited. FYI.

A "ghost" shift in China is when a back shift is used to make products in a factory that makes the real products. Of course the QA/QC department is missing I'm sure.

[MichelleN 0]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

Ever been to a Chinatown in a big city? I don't think they're shaking in their boots about getting in trouble for counterfeit lol The law is lax, at least in those areas (from what I've personally observed)

[Scott & Lai 12]

"There is nothing special about it. They will wear different apparel to signify people are friendly and happy together."

Organisers often use Han Chinese instead of the genuine ethnic groups in national displays to avoid any spontaneous outbursts of independence

If they are really so friendly and happy together, why not use the real ethnic people? Surely, if they are so happy, there won't be any "spontaneous outbursts."

Another reason why the IOC made a big mistake in awarding the games to China. Should never have done it IMO.

I agree completely.

But then again, they once allowed Nazi Germany and the Evil Empire to host the games, so it's not the IOC hasn't capitulated to terror and evil before.

Otoh, let's look at it this way: 1936: Berlin Olympics...1945: Nazisim is defeated. 1980: Moscow Olympics...1991: U.S.S.R. falls. 2008: Beijing Olympics... well, I'm looking forward to seeing what might happen by 2019

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

But then again, they once allowed Nazi Germany and the Evil Empire to host the games, so it's not the IOC hasn't capitulated to terror and evil before.

Otoh, let's look at it this way: 1936: Berlin Olympics...1945: Nazisim is defeated. 1980: Moscow Olympics...1991: U.S.S.R. falls. 2008: Beijing Olympics... well, I'm looking forward to seeing what might happen by 2019

[JULIAFERNO 0]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

Ever been to a Chinatown in a big city? I don't think they're shaking in their boots about getting in trouble for counterfeit lol The law is lax, at least in those areas (from what I've personally observed)

Try to import counterfeit Cisco networking hardware and you'll see just how LAX the law is. I've worked in the telecom hardware business for years and I know of people who are in jail for this. Not sure where/how they draw the line.

[JULIAFERNO 0]

Hmmm...China IS the counterfeit capital of the world

We rely on these counterfeit on a daily basis.

Do we? From my understanding, counterfeit items are illegal in the States, and any importer faces heavy fines or even jail time if caught.

The capacitors and resistors are made from China. Many of these, if you don't know, are counterfeits. How? The capacitors themselves is made with a dielectric sandwiched between two plates. The dielectric is the key to counterfeit. The ones that uses a low quality material will reduce the lifespan of your electronics.

Those who do no know that these parts are counterfeits will probably always think that it's impossible. However, when a TV manufacture buys the circuit elements to assemble into a TV, they buy in bulk. Within the bulk, there are capacitors are from unknown sources. These capacitors are used without knowlodge of them being counterfeited. FYI.

Are they counterfeit or 3rd party?

Edited August 18, 2008 by JULIAFERNO

[b4byd09 0]

How could we not tell they were frauds!?!?!?

You know those people all look alike

Yes they do look alike.

[Niels Bohr 72]

J,

I hear ya. As a whole a counterfeit cisco router, bridges, network hubs, etc cannot be counterfeit. However, there are ways of getting counterfeit components into machines. Our cellphones for example carry a few counterfeited circuit element. No matter how highly advance it is.

It goes unnoticed until something breaks.

Heck, Intel didn't throw away the defective microprocessors. In the case of manufacturing, a Celeron chip is born when a Pentium chip is defective. They simply shut off the access to the higher level cache in it. It would've been a big waste of money for them to throw away a semi-functional processor.

This method of fooling consumers has been in place for decades. Renaming a product that was defective at manufacturing, then calling it their LOW END. I see it all the time.

[Dan J 277]

Heck, Intel didn't throw away the defective microprocessors. In the case of manufacturing, a Celeron chip is born when a Pentium chip is defective. They simply shut off the access to the higher level cache in it. It would've been a big waste of money for them to throw away a semi-functional processor.

That practice is pretty normal in the semiconductor industry. Maintaining high yields can be difficult especially at the size most transistors are made.

[Imua 0]

I hope something bad didn't happen to the real kids. This is China after all.

Yeah - look what happened to the Panchen Lama....

If you're not familiar with his story:

http://tashilhunpo.org/monastery/panchen11.htm

http://tashilhunpo.org/amber-alert.htm

Edited August 19, 2008 by Pattu Rani