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Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud
SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here (1) and here (2), showing the age of one of China's gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government-issued passport. Now that official government documentation is available, how long will the IOC be able to keep a lid on this scandal?" I imagine the answer is "Forever."
Indeed.
Generally speaking, so-called "people's republics" are anything but. Particularly since they are almost always communist, which basically means they are either a dictatorship or an oligarchy.
Evil commie thugs are evil commie thugs, regardless of whether they dress in Russian hats, Speak an asian language, smoke Cuban cigars or go to the UN and call Bush "The Devil".
As John McCain has said, "History did not end in 1990." There is still evil in the world to fight. The question is, do any nations still have the will to fight them, or are we all to busy in vapid dissolution to care?
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China has already taken their official stance. They just don't care about the rules and don't care what other people think about it.
Reminds me of one other country, that's been acting like that for decade(s)...
reductio ad Bushium
You have to admit though. They are correct. I am a conservative so I am no great friend of Bush. Although it dose make me sad to see the outright hatred of the left wing toward Bush/Cheney. These people almost believe that they are the tag team anti-christ of the modern age. Its sad really.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Do you do crafts? Because that's one hell of a strawman you just put together for us.
I thought you were going to infer he qualified for long bouts of basket weaving and padded cells.
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
And when we couldn't find the key for the storehouse then obviously Bush must have thrown it down the well. Even after somebody found it under a grain sack...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Oh noes, Bush listens to you phoning someone to tell them you'll be there in 5 minutes? And wants you to prove your identity while travelling? The inhumanity!! Totally comparable to the concentration camps. You win at Godwin.
which is totally what she said
I think it's a common defense mechanism: it's not our responsibility, but "the leader's".
It's easier to point the finger at the leader than accept responsibility as a people, for what goes on in people's name. The leader's behavior is simply easier to see.
Most of us seem to dismiss the fact that media is also there, the support structure for everything Bush/whoever is leading does, is also there and so on.
Bush didn't torture prisoners (he just condoned it).
Sadly you see this everywhere you look: post-WWII Germany pointed fingers at "the Nazis" (if I remember correctly) and Romanians (no, my country is not clean either) pointed the fingers at "the communist regime" right after throwing it off: "we" didn't do anything :(.
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
We both know that's unpossibilical in intelligent debate....
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
It is ruled by a strong, centralized political apparatus.
Long live the emperor's cock!
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Hmm... as I read it, the Chinese are being sticklers for the rules, and quoted that the official method for age verification by the IOC is by passport, and this gymnast has a valid Chinese passport showing an age that allows her to compete. They're demanding that the rules be followed to the letter. I'm not sure it says anywhere in the IOC rules that the government needs to validate their passport birthdates. It's not that they don't care about the rules, but that they want the official rules properly enforced. They just don't care about reality.
Nah...
Obama and McCain are BOTH out savior...
Obama: Savior New Testament Flavor.
McCain: Savior Old Testament Flavor.
This is one of those Microsoft style situations where
even a senile granny would have acted with more sense.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Although it dose make me sad to see the outright hatred of most of the world toward Bush/Cheney.
Seriously, pick up a newspaper every now and again. Counts of Iraqi dead number in the hundreds of thousands. That escapade has become a precedent for Israel and Russia overstepping their bounds concerning retaliation.
America is a great country with greater people. But our current leaders, like many other countries' leaders, suck.
And regarding the 14 year old -- I think it's lame that China made a 14 year old girl lie, but I'll paraphrase the U.S.'s Liukin: "She did the work, she's super talented, she deserved the medal."
If you just watched something besides CNN/FoxNews you would have learned as much...
The fact that Obama is no less a politician than anyone else in DC.
He is VERY well connected politically in the circles he comes from. He
even "married into it". He's kind of like Arnold in that respect.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I realize that all true contenders for the Presidency will be well-connected. It is folly to think otherwise -- unconnected politicans are not serious contenders for the highest political post in the world. I just find him more unconnected than McCain, and WAY more unencumbered than H.R. Clinton.
It's not that he is morally above having connections. It's just that he lacks the age and/or high political experience which bring these connections in force.
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in essence at war and are spending enormous amounts of money, energy, and lives for no good reason.
Sorry, left out a very key word there (emphasis mine)