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China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout
dcm writes "As U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson prepares to introduce a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to censure the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) government for increasing 'repression of its people using the Internet, democratic dialogue, religious expression,' the regime continues to block discourse.On Friday, China began blocking access to Typepad, a paid weblog hosting service in San Mateo, California. The communist regime previously blocked access to BlogSpot, Blogger's free hosting site. Yan Sham-Shackleton filed a report on the Glutter weblog, mentioning China is '...now using blocking software to stop information from leaking into the county via personal sites, an increasingly vibrant China Internet community, and a place where users are slipping in banned information. Some sites in the blogging community are turning black in protest of this event while others are reporting the incident.'"
When its hot outside, and your hemmoroids are even hotter,
just look to the cool relief of Preparation-H to get you
on your way.
But are they using open source software to do it?
Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
I just hope they go with black scollbars. Those things are l337.
In communist China, government blogs YOU!
[ insert your own witty .sig here ]
In Communist China, lawns pee ON YOU!
This (IMHO) is the exact same analogy that I use when people mention ranked voting. Ranked voting seems like a great idea, the canidate who most people prefer wins. However, in practice this doens't work.
If there are 4 people in the election facing off: Bush, Gore, Buchanan, and Nader. Out of 100 votes, Gore gets 49 - 1st, Bush gets 48 - 1st, Nader 2 - 1st, Buchanan 1 - 1st. This gives Gore a 4 point lead over Bush (if 1-4pts,2-3pts,3-2pts,1-1pt). Say I've voting for Gore, even though I would like to have Bush over Nader or Buchanan, I realize he is the closest competitor to Gore so I rank him last (and of course all the Bush supporters do likewise with Gore). If I the rank my last three repectively Nader, Buchannan, Bush; and the Bushites rank Buchannan, Nader, Gore. Follow so far? Then the Nader rankers, who also know this, rank the last three Gore, Buchannan, Bush; and likewise the Buchannan voters rank Bush, Nader, Gore.
Here are the final totals in this case:
Nader - 253 pts
Gore - 251 pts
Buchanan - 250 pts
Bush - 246pts
What does this tell us? Ranked voting is more fucked up than majority when there are lots of differing opinions. Ranked voting works well for high school class elections when everyone has the same stance (See: CHEAPER POP/SODA/CHIPS FOR ALL!). :( sigh...)
(Scientific America had an outstanding article that I learned most of this information from last month, I'd link it, but now you have to pay for old articles on the website now
"The truth suffers from too much analysis"
Are you suggesting that there is no such thing as an idiot? Or that only they are exceedingly rare in the public world, or especially on slashdot?
I doubt that you are doing so, if you are, you have proven the point opposite of the one you are supporting.
So, if you don't think idiots are so rare, why the problem with me speaking of them? Do you come from some strange polynesian culture where cretinish imbecility is a cultural taboo?
Do you have a loved one that is mentally retarded? If this is so, please know that I harbor them no ill feelings, and would be exceptionally polite if I ever met them. Somehow, the idiots that annoy me tend to manage rather average scores on IQ tests.
Or maybe, just maybe, you are one of the idiots I speak of. If so, feel free to visit me at my home. You may attempt this "punch in the face" knowing that I'm not some pussy-assed faggot like yourself and that I won't call the cops. I won't hide, either, behind any literal or figurative shield. Bring it on.
In the meantime, though, I hope you don't mind if I explain to the exalted slashdot readership about the gaps... nay, leaps... hrmm. About the chasms of logic that you are using in this piddly, flamish little post of yours. What would you expect this punch, even if successful, to accomplish? Please tell me that you would hope that it brought some primitive level of satisfaction, difficult to describe. I beg this of you, because, well, all the other explanations would be so, so fucking lame.
Let's see, there is:
#1 Teach me a lesson.
#2 Vengeance for a trivial, even debatable slight/crime/insult.
#3 Deterrence for other would-be trolls.
#4 Moral righteousness.
#5 Tradition.
#6 Because the woman that is your sister and wife would lose all respect for you.
Ok, so that last one is at least understandable. With family relations as close and inbred as yours, it is truly a big deal if some stranger cityslicker like myself causes social chaos. If this is the case, you only need publically post a scanned image both your birth certificates and the marriage license, and I will submit a formal, public apology. While others would joke at your expense about the shallow end of the gene pool, a learned man like myself knows that your incest provides a valuable genetic service to humanity, namely that of concentrating birth defects in the worthless white trash demographic.
For those of you who have read til this point, I only have three things left to say. My original post was quite serious, more so than you will believe. There is no denial, I am a troll. And finally, I just went to the bathroom, and shat a big turd that bears an uncanny, almost unholy resembalance to Jay Leno. He/it will be known from this point on, as Turd Leno.