Thursday, August 25, 2016

A few links for Thurs...

Jan 10, 1983.

A few links...
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"..and then this parasitical infrastructure demands action when the flow of subsidies is cut off."

These businesses deserve no sympathy for putting all of their eggs in one economic basket. Welcome to the real world!

jeremy@mail.ndhu.edu.tw said...

Hualien City is a tough one to call; there are a lot of pro-greens in the actual city, as opposed to the county, but as you say, the government will get the blame for the lack of Chinese tourists, although many of us who live there were glad to see the back of them and felt we have got our county back after 8 years! However, Hualien is still a KMT stronghold, and I would say they will win this comfortably 60-40, and they are running a local candidate from the KMT political clan. The DPP's candidate, the widow of the previous mayor, was dressed at rallies in flashy designer clothes, and has not much experience, both of which haven't gone down well apparently.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for taking me down memory lane with the counterfeit article. I used to love going to those Taiwanese electronics markets in the 80s. I was once admiring a nice Sony receiver and I asked the salesperson how he could sell it so cheap. The salesman said "It is a Goldstar receiver packed in a Sony casing." As an interesting postscript to this episode, today (30 years later) Goldstar, now know as LG Electronics, is actually a larger company and has more advanced products than Sony.

Michael Turton said...

Lol. Yeah, i wanted this for memory lane too...