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China's War Against Wires

Posted by timothy on from the stephensonian-detritus dept.

hodet writes "On sections of Beijing Road, you can barely see the sky. On Tibet Road, they dangle in garden-hose rolls and knots intricate enough to confound a Boy Scout. Over on Hefei Street, one enterprising apartment dweller even used them to hang-dry selected cuts of meat. Tech-happy Shanghai, the most wired city in China, has a problem: wires. Telephone wires. Fiber-optic wires. Electrical wires. Wires no one can seem to identify. Black wires. Blue wires. Magenta wires. They're everywhere, and they're gumming up the works."

8 of 244 comments (clear)

  1. Re:just pull it out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is that the advice you give your boyfriend when you worries aloud about passing his AIDS onto you?

  2. Re:Tell the Afghans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Umm.. Fuck the Afghans? Who cares about those ragheads.

  3. aut0tr0ll is teh sp0kE!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hello master.

    sid=90275
    formkey=3BNy8ImvB4

    This is a joint venture that will be mutually advantageous to both parties involved.

  4. aut0tr0ll is teh sp0kE!? by Jack+Froidalbungle · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hello master.

    sid=90275
    formkey=ds38b0WVzQ

    This is a joint venture that will be mutually advantageous to both parties involved.

  5. aut0tr0ll is teh sp0kE!? by Jack+Froidalbungle · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hello master.

    sid=90275
    formkey=hYYZUlzjdc

    This is a joint venture that will be mutually advantageous to both parties involved.

  6. This is red-blooded capitalism! by Serveert · · Score: 0, Troll

    Darn socialists in the US wanna regulate my wires! :tinfoilhat:

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  7. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wires wage war against YOU!

  8. Damn communistic bureaucractic regulations... by weave · · Score: -1, Troll
    I hate government regulations that specify where wires can run, that they have to be registered with the central authorities -- and that is if you can get the permits and the permission to do so in the first place.

    Companies should be allowed to regulate themselves and run wire where they see the need, without big brother government looking over their shoulder. That is what capitalism is all about damn it.

    Who knows better what is needed, people and private businesses, or some bureaucrat sitting in some office making the rules?

    I tell you, we need to get rid of all the liberals that are ruining this great country, damn it. I'll give them free speech. They can say whatever they want as their last words right before they are all shot for being traitors.

    God liberals get me all upset. Where is my bottle of Oxycontin? It's all Clinton's fault you know.