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China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day
An anonymous reader tips us to news out of China that the Web site of the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention crashed on Tuesday, just hours after its launch, as droves of people logged on to complain about corruption among officials. "The number of visitors was very large and beyond our expectations," an anonymous NBCP official said.
China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day
It didn't crash. it just got corrupted.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
"We didn't expect too many people to know about the corruption, or the website. Damn."
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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Found it.
http://yfj.mos.gov.cn/
"The number of visitors was very large and beyond our expectations,"
Oh no. And now the slashdotters are comming!!!!
... and capital punishment for officials caught corrupting.
(I hope the above isn't construed as a death threat against Bush! And his staff. And Congress. And the Senate. DHS... TSA...)
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
Racism is in the intention, not the word.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
To complain 'on paper' like that?
With that government, i know i wouldn't. Hell, I'm almost afraid to complain about mine these days..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
how can people tag this article with "humor"?
corrupt public servants are being executed in china,
so we are talking about a webinterface to a death-list here!
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
I'm fairly sure it was planned as a publicity stunt
Or perhaps they actually want to do something about corruption, but hadn't counted on just how many would try access the site. Corruption is widespread in China, and very unpopular. The only people who want is the people - the criminals - who benefit from it. This is the people, nor is it the national government, because it causes unrest, which the national government has to deal with; and I don't think they want that.
The chinese government are like most governments in most modern nations - they by and large want to do what is best for the people, or what they think is best. They are not monsters that enjoy making the population as unhappy as possible, despite the picture that gets painted in the more reactionary media in the west. The big problem they have is that they have an incredibly vast country to control and simply not enough resources; that and the fact that corruption has been part of the Chinese society for well over 5000 years. It will probably take at least a generation of modernisation to change this.
Every time there are news from China, it is interpreted in the worst possible light - if they put a man on the moon, it must be because they starve their poor and want to rain death on America, if they tighten copyright laws, it is 'repression', if they don't, they are 'thieves'. Try to be fair - criticize where there is genuinely something to criticize, praise where that is due. That's what we expect for ourselves, isn't it?
I wonder if the 3 meg jpeg on the front page had anything to do with the crash.
Nice to know that, no matter what part of the world you're in, people are willing to listen to "my brother's little kid, he's great with this world wide web stuff!" and actually pay them to do some work.
China is making insane amounts of money from its new capital markets. The government has 51% ownership in many of these corporations. Investors will pull their money out of China if they perceive corruption to be on the rise. An "Enron" in China could cause many billions in the government's money to evaporate overnight. It is in the government's interest minimize corruption in its publicly-traded companies.
I don't share your cynicism. Feel free to criticize China for being authoritarian and for opposing what the Western world considers to be fundamental human rights, but don't assume that everything about China is bad. Corruption will cause the top of China's "Communist" party to lose power and money; they will fight it out of self-interest, not altruism. Government leaders acting out of any other motivation is a rarity in human history.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
The joke itself in this context does not lack the intent that you are implying. The use of the word chinks is a double entendre in this context. It certainly is intended as a racist comment.
No. As Opportunist said, "Racism is in the intention, not the word". Someone noticed that a double entendre existed. The fact that the word the word has a history of racist usage is entirely incidental to unique linguistic coincidence arranging that double entendre. The poster noticed a funny twist of language, and the linguistic facts pretty much precluded any freedom in how to construct the joke.
The poster was anonymous, so it is certainly possible he's a flaming racist, however I see nothing in his post indicating the presence of any ill will intent to disparage Chinese.
I just got through with a post raking someone over the racism coals for objecting to "interbreeding". I am disgusted by racists and people who actively use racist language. However I am also sick of politically correct epileptic fits treating words themselves as radioactively infectious. I am sick and tired of hearing TV reporters say "the N-word". If some racist yahoo calls a black congresswoman a Nigger Bitch, then the news reporter should damn well SAY a racist yahoo called a congress woman a Nigger Bitch. A news reporter using a word in accurate factual reporting of a literal quotation does not make the reporter a racist. And if someone viewing that news show finds it offensive - good. But their anger should be at the racist yahoo, NOT at the reporter or the news show.
A reporter going on TV and saying someone called the congress woman an "N-word B-word" sounds like an absolute moron. What are we, little kids in 6th grade? Is the reporter going to "catch cooties" if he says more than the first letter?
The word is "nigger".
The word is "bitch".
Someone who hates a congresswoman and goes ranting niggerbitch-this and niggerbitch-that desperately needs a brainwipe, but I am not going to put up with the notion that there is anything wrong or racist about the way I used the word nigger the six times I used it in this post.
Grow up people.
Hate racists, but get over the childish idea that a word itself "gives you cooties".
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