gizmodo.com — These BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag MP3 players may be quite stylish, but wtf is up with their Chinese site? The splash page features some one gloved Michael Jackson guy standing in front of what looks like the WTC ruins. Yeah? Seemed like a good idea at the time?
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7of7Dec 2, 2006
It's no worse that the US government using whatever happened on 9/11/2001 to sell the Iraq war and all their other failed policies. It's no worse than making a movie called Pearl Harbor or Flight 93. It's no worse than those stupid John Mellencamp commercials. On balance this is nothing to get offended about. In other words man up and STFU.
lqqkout4elfyDec 2, 2006
TRANSLATION"Even if the world crumbles, I still believe in music"
ezkielDec 2, 2006
Another translation using phrases:even when s**t hits the fan, there is still music
epiccollisionDec 2, 2006
so you seemed to have failed @ the internets....there are plenty of links above to pics of the torn building yet you can't seem to make the connection...do colors confuse you ...maybe your blind i can respect that...maybe your just an idiot(or troll but then the comment is still apt)
epiccollisionDec 2, 2006
well first its not as worthless as their currency
unknownczarDec 2, 2006
@patrickbwellsyou have access to the Internet, do you know what the Beslan school looks like? Hundreds of children were massacred there by terrorists, and you probably don't know where it is even located.Face facts, if asked about pretty much any other non-American terrorist attack, you might know of it, but wont "have these images burned into your mind."Same for any other country when they think about America. They have their own crap to worry about. So don't go round expecting people half way around the world to show the same sympathy to your horrors, if you wont act the same way to theirs.
patrickbwellsDec 2, 2006
@unknownczarUmm...I do remember the incident. And there are several differences here. 1) Beslan school is a small, nondescript school building and the World Trade Center is one of the largest buildings in the world. 2) Thousands (not hundreds, as in the Beslan school hostage crisis) died in the WTC attack. 3) I'm not posting to a message board related to the Beslan school crisis denying that what is an obvious picture of it is not really a picture of it. I can understand how someone in a different part of the world (or even in the US) may not recognize the WTC wreckage. What I don't understand is why someone who is grossly uninformed would assert something so obviously incorrect. If you search "wtc wreckage" in Google images, the actual photograph that was used in the BenQ advertisement is on the first page of the results (it is the 11th image).
p5ychoDec 2, 2006
Exactly what wakayama said.You park people in Guantanamo without civil rights ? You don't mind.You build pyramids off naked people in Iraqi jails and take a photo of this ? You don't care.You throw Koran in the toilet in these jails ? You don't care.You invade Iraq and cause more civilian deaths than Saddam could have committed in three lifetimes ? You don't even think about that.You refuse to observe the Kyoto protocol yet you are responsible of a fscking quater of the CO2 emissions of the earth ? You don't give a damn.Thousands of people are dying in Eastern Timor because your country supports its regime ? Who gives a f*ck, you want your Xbox.But when a silly ad depicts ground zero, you go berserk ? Hey, I don't give a $#!T.
fritzedDec 2, 2006
@yukevsterYou have clearly never been to China and I'd be suprised if you have ever spoken to some one from China. Having spent a significant amount of time in varioius cities in China, I can assure you that it is one of the most America friendly countries you can find.
pyrix86Dec 3, 2006
Get the F*** over it. And I'm sorry if you think I'm a bastard and bury this comment, but honestly. Do you know how many people die every day from AID's. How many innocent citizens of the Middle East had their lives turned upside down or ended by the american 'war on terror.' A damnable heap more than those that died in 9/11, I'd be willing to bet.Sure it was sad, but move on. I'm sorry if that offends you, I'm sorry if anyone you knew died, but that is the fact of the matter. We aren't still crying for the Titanic.