Posted on 10/14/2007 6:06:46 PM PDT by rb22982
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Your favorite pants are fraying? You may soon be able to order replacements directly from the factory where they were made, according to the chief scientist of an ambitious Chinese Internet project.
China's government is building a vast virtual world dubbed Beijing Cyber Recreation District, which founders say will help the manufacturing superpower evolve into an e-commerce juggernaut.
Some supply-chain experts say the project is impossibly grandiose in its goal to provide direct links between tens of thousands of Chinese manufacturers and millions of individual customers around the world. But every "Made in China" label eventually could include a Web site where customers could order more - and Chinese factories would produce custom-made goods and send them directly to consumers' homes, mused Chi Tau Robert Lai, chief scientist of the virtual world.
The 3D world is supposed to be the online counterpart to the China Recreation District, a theme park, mall and playground being built in a former steel plant in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.
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Who is going to put his or her credit card number in a Chinese website?
I’ll be impressed when I can order a hose nozzle that won’t self destruct in the first five minutes of use.
Is there some hotline where one can order stuff that doesn’t suck?
Good question.
Now we know where to go to get:
Tainted leukemia drugs.
Melamine-laced albumin
poisonous flammable pajamas
lead-painted tasty children’s toys
dioxin-flavored ice cream
human food made from dog’s penises
pharmaceuticals laced with lead, roadkill
unstable blowoutable tires,
defective tires missing ‘gum strips’
garbage- and feces-fed seafood
coma-producing melamine-dog food
dioxin- and melamine-filled vitamins
polyethylene glycol-flavored toothpaste
cardboard-asbestos filled buns
and WHO could forget those Chinese embalming-fluid filled
candies and pastries!
communist/socialist-controlled market....no thanks
And clothes that disintegrate....
Grrrrrrrrreat. This no doubt will increase the trade deficit even more which according to some of the geniuses who post here at FR will make the USA’s economy even stronger. Ha,ha, we’ll see !!!
They just decided to cut out the Wal-Mart middleman.
To locate products that don't suck, try the Suzhou DML Electric Company vacuum cleaner page.
“Who is going to put his or her credit card number in a Chinese website?”
They’ll just take Paypal instead.
Yeah right. What about my dog just keeled over or my child has lead contamination? I'm sure these Chi-Com companies will disappear as fast as the appear.
Trust me, if you have ever ordered anything online your information is already in at least two foreign databases. One in China and the other in India. ;-)
OMG! ROTFLOLOL That just hit my funny bone!
OMG! ROTFLOLOL That just hit my funny bone!
This would be the attempt to circumvent US corporations that buy or build things in China for pennies or fractions thereof and charge dollars in the US.
Probably won’t work very well.
OMG! ROTFLOLOL That just hit my funny bone!
I wish my wi-fi didn’t suck but I can’t blame the Chinese ...can I?
Triple post...oy vey!
Your router or Wifi plug in board is probably made in china. LOL
They’ll just take Paypal instead.
They'll cut out PayPal. You will be using ChinaPal
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