I use usabox.com and after living in the US, I have lived in two different countries in different continents and this guy not only deliver fast using DHL, they take pictures of the incoming stuff, so you get an e-mail like interface for your packages. Plus the truly neat thing is that they have a re-packing option where if you allow them, they will open your stuff and repackage it to make it more efficient (especially useful with stuff like MicroSDs).

Setting up the service though was a bit of a hassle so make sure you do that before you go to Australia, since it involves going to a public notary to have a third-party open your mail and stuff like that.

I doubt that people in other countries buying online from China will be buying brands like Apple, Samsung and whatnot. China is actually very cheap once you get out of your comfort zone and stop using the local City Shop (foreigner's supermarket). I'm talking about things like buying Xiaomi, Meizu, or even some stuff from Huawei like the Ascend line, and if you want to get even cheaper stuff while sacrificing performance in tablets for instance, you can always buy brands like Teclast, Pipo, Ramos among others. All of them have good quality so they are not cheap knockoffs. As for computers, Hasee is a terrific value, especially with gaming laptops. Same deal with TVs with brands like Haier, Skyworth, Changhong, etc.

But really, if you want to come to China and buy things you destined for the US and expect them to be at the same price, just forget it.

I didn't see anything particularly special about US drivers. The law-abiding part is more of a real fear of getting a ticket than anything else. Hell you see people doing 8-9 mph over the limit all the time, and even more, especially when they are in a pack, that is until they spot a police car and everybody is scared to death.

Plus if you want to say that the only responsible drivers are in the US you should really stop comparing first world countries with third worlds hellholes. Go to France or Canada and let me know if you feel any different.

As for multi-lingual, just go to Western Europe. Switzerland might look to you like out of this world based on what you said.

Lol, those zero dollars is more like it is included in the price. Check whatever you bought in those stores that say "free shipping" and then find the same article in Taobao or even JD.com or Tmall.com. After that please don't hate me for letting you know how much they are ripping you off.

They make good PCs and are kind of like the only profitable PC vendor. We used their workstations at work and they were the exact same thing as Dell back in the day as far as we were concerned.

That issue can be solved easily by using a regional system. So apart from locale, you can just follow national standards for things as defined borders, etc. For instance, in Google Maps in Argentina, you could see the Falklands labeled as Malvinas, while in the UK version you could see the Malvinas labeled Falklands. Same deal for the rest of places in dispute. No more controversy.

Tell that to the government in Beijing. The only thing that has prevented mainland China from taking over Taiwan is direct confrontation with the US. So in a way, Taiwan is a "country" that exists because of the US, very much like South Ossetia exists because of Russia, but in fact it is still part of Georgia.

This is the major reason why I always choose Mac laptops. I have been through three of their laptops, starting with the white iBook and they all worked flawlessly. It never ceases to amaze me to this day that only until recently is that I have found some Windows laptops that are able to behave like the Macs in this regard. Then again when you see the kind of crap Apple pulled with the video cards of the new MacBook Pros it becomes hard to recommend Apple nowadays.

And you are forgetting that it is almost a disgrace for a Japanese family to have one of their women married to a foreigner. It is in their culture and they are not even shy about it.

Shouldn't they be pleased? That's exactly what the Japanese ended up doing to a lot of folk. So in a weird sense of justice, it is only fair that they had to endure that. The atomic bombs were too much, even for a nation full of unrepentant war criminals.

Just because somebody is poor does not make them trash. Even if you want to be an elitist there are less offensive ways to state the same thing without paiting yourself like an asshole.

Actually what Amazon is doing amounts to driving out the competition and there are several anti-dumping laws in place to deal with those issues. Just because it is a well known brand as opposed to some nameless Chinese factory does not make it right. Monopolies are not good.

The whole NYC metro system is something I really cannot understand about the US. I haven't visited the whole world but NY city metro is by far the worst I have been, starting with the dirty station that includes God knows how many rats and the old equipment. Hell there are places in Latin America that have better stuff. Sure it has a lot of coverage and works 24/7 but either everybody else is doing something extraordinary or I don't know what's the deal.

So now seeing this whole 'debate' about whether to use articulated cars is like watching a discussion about the merits of the wheel to improve transportation. They really need to invest heavily into the system, especially in a city like NY where millions depend on the subway as their primary mean of transportation.

Venezuela? Dude you should really go over there, there are shortages of toilet paper as we speak. Whenever I hear such remarks is when I realize is that the menace to the world is not only the US government, but people like yourself as well. And that is a far bigger threat than the Iranians getting nukes or some crazies killing each other in the Middle East.

I would really like to know which state of the US you are from since you have reached a level of stupidity I haven't seen in a while.