Pinches... Canadienses

Esto, es un poco fuera del tema al que normalmente se dedica este blog, pero considero que es mucho mas grave que la piratería china.

La siguiente Información es de la página www.protectseals.org

Nota: La cacería empieza hoy martes 29 de Marzo, y oficialmente Canadá formará parte a partir de hoy de artículos frecuentes en pincheschinos.blogspot.com

The Seal Hunt

The Canadian seal hunt is the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. This was true even before the Canadian government announced that it would allow fishermen to kill 975,000 harp seals off Newfoundland and Labrador between 2003 and 2006. Despite scientific evidence that such a high quota is unsustainable, the government claims the hunt will not harm seal populations. To make matters worse, it's doubtful that the Canadian government will even enforce the quota should sealers exceed it. After all, officials have turned a blind eye when sealers have exceeded quotas in the past.

The hunt targets very young seals. The Canadian government's own figures show that 96.6% of the reported 286,238 seals killed during the 2002–2003 hunt were between 12 days to 12 weeks old. These seals were most likely beaten to death with a club or a large ice-pick-like hakapik. Later in the season, hunters use rifles.

An alarming number of the seals are skinned while alive and responsive to pain. Recently, an independent, international team of veterinarians observed the hunt and examined the corpses of skinned seals. They found evidence that up to 40% of them had skull injuries that were not sufficient to have caused death.

Many Canadians—as well as citizens of other nations—are appalled by the brutality and unsustainability of this pointless hunt. And they don't believe the claims by the Canadian government that the hunt is necessary to protect the region's crashing fish populations, which have been devastated by many years of industrial fishing. These people want the Canadian government to stop not only promoting the hunt, but also helping out the seal fur, meat, and oil industries.

The 2003–2004 hunt was met with massive protest. It wasn't only the number of seals killed—the current, incomplete, count is 321,199—but also the rampant brutality exhibited even while sealers knew observers were both watching and videotaping. The video footage and still photographs were seen around the world, hardening opposition to the hunt. Politicians in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other nations have joined citizens in pressuring Canada to do the decent thing and end this barbaric and wasteful hunt.

Sudaderas

Lleve su poquemón pirata.. es chino, es barato es el "Monste" ...lleve la "Kitay" original, no se deje confundir por la Hello Kitty y por imitaciones... aquí está la de adeveras.

Regateando en China

beijingtraveltips.com nos enseña a regatear en China.

El artículo, tiene el ejemplo de una conversasión típica entre un comprador y un pirata chino, para que aprendamos que no todo lo que parece original lo es, y para que nunca paguemos el precio original de etiqueta en las pulgas chinas.

Extracto de la Conversasión:

A Successful Beijing Bargaining Example
You	(looking at a nice pair of fake Calvin Klein pants) How much ?
Seller	500
You	(You look and decide the pants are worth about 100 to you) Cheaper !
Seller	How much you want to pay ?
	(never answer this straight away, just look the pants over many times, ask why such a high price, remind them its a fake, find holes etc.)
You	Cheaper !
Seller	300
You	40
Seller	No. No ... these are real Calvin Klein pants, good quality .. 280
You	50
Seller	200
You	(laughing) 60
Seller	Ok, ok, last price, last price 160
You	Ok, ok, last price 70
Seller	These good pants must be at least 100
You	80
Seller	No, no, sorry, no profit.
You	Ok, sorry ... (start walking away)
Seller	(calls you back, put items in bag) Ok 90 !
You	Ok 85 !!
Seller	Ok sold... wow, you good negotiator.

Beijing Travel Tips dice: Todo es Pirata!

Un artículo que da tips de viaje para China dice: Fake goods are easy to find in Beijing algo que nos sorprende demasiado, porque aunque sabíamos que había cosas piratasm no creíamos que fueran fácil de encontrar, según esto, las famosas marcas Tommas, Pucci, Rendi, Crada, Apidas, Raebok, Mike, Roles, Bolivares, Tacos Heur, North Faz y Janspot pululan en el mercado Xiu Shui

Algunos de los tips dicen:

- Que TODO en el Mercado es PIRATA: "However, we would have to say, that everything you are likely to see in the Xiu Shui market and places like it, are total fakes. Do not be fooled. Don't pay anything like the brand name price".

- También recomiendan, que si quieren conocer un reloj original, mejor chequen en internez o en una tienda de ricos... porque fuera de esos lugares no van a encontrar ninguno: Best quality fake watches can be found in a little lockable case separate from the other watches. Its a good idea to look around good watch stores or magazines to have a good knowledge of what the real thing looks like.

- Ah y claro.. no podía faltar la guía sobre películas Piratas:
a) DVDs / CDs / VCDs are all fake.
b) The quality usually depends on the release date of the movie.

El viejo truco de la "handicam" en el cine:
c) If it has been released in the past month or two, the DVD is likely to have been shot using a video camera in a cinema.

y, el arte milenario chino de quemar discos:
d) If the movie is 6 months old or more, the DVD is usually a direct copy of one of the commercial DVDs available in some country.

todo cortesía de la fuente sobre el buen turismo en China:
http://www.beijingtraveltips.com/

Campaña China contra la Piratería

Ya empezó la campaña contra la piratería en China, y mandaron a hacer unos cartelones muy bonitos:

Definitivamente, en China tienen un sentido del humor muy ácido, sarcasmo puro.

Esta foto tenía copyright, pero no se de donde salió.