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China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power (theguardian.com)
Speaking of things the Chinese government has been censoring in the country, The Guardian reports: It is the 14th letter in the English alphabet and, in Scrabble, the springboard for more than 600 8-letter words. But for the Communist party of China it is also a subversive and intolerable character that was this week banished from the internet as Chinese censors battled to silence criticism of Xi Jinping's bid to set himself up as ruler for life. The contravening consonant was perhaps the most unusual victim of a crackdown targeting words, phrases and even solitary letters censors feared might be used to attack Beijing's controversial decision to abolish constitutional term limits for China's president. The Communist party has painted the move -- which experts say paves the way for Xi to become a dictator for life -- as an expression of overwhelming popular support for China's strongman leader. However, there has been widespread online push-back in China since it was announced on Sunday on the eve of an annual political congress in Beijing.
Well that makes sense.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
All "BUT WHATABOUT TRUMP" posts where you accuse Trump of basically being worse than this without evidence can just be posted as replies here so we can stay organized.
K-Thanks!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Did you mean "M" Comrade?
It's a little early for April Fool's jokes on Slashdot.
We have to say this to Xi Jinping: Nnnnnnnnnnnnnooo!
Ch-ch-ch-chia
N. N. N.
Chia ow has it's ow iteret?
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1. There is no capital punishment.
2. The highest leader has absolute fixed term limits.
I hate fat people.
E.g. look what they've done to wan4sui4. Simplified Chinese stripped down version on the left, Traditional Chinese version on the right
https://translate.google.com/?...
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
You can't even say "I'm not sure".
The military regime banned: long hair, miniskirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, Russian-style toasts, strikes, Aristophanes, Ionesco, Sartre, Albee, Pinter, freedom of the press, sociology, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, modern music, pop music, modern math, and the letter Z, which means HE LIVES in Ancient Greek.
(end credits for the film "Z" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., by Costa-Gavras)
Why u so upset?
Or did you think our political leadership wasn't trying to censor discussion here in the US?
All hail president Xi Jinping-ping-pong-wing-wong the 1st.
look at all those n's I used.
President Jipig-pig-pog-wig-wog the 1st
China needs a good 'ol population reduction. I do hope they try to poke the hornest's nest. A few hundred million or so reduction would do the world good.
So they remove the letter 'N' so China becomes Chia... Maybe time to invest in Chia Pets..
Apparently in the Chinese calendar, April 1st falls on our February 28th.
Have you read my blog lately?
Alternate headline, "Future God Emperor of China Xi tells World that he is Afraid of a Mere Letter".
Seriously, that is what he has just done, he has told everyone that he is a coward who is afraid of 1 singular letter.
They obviously prefer to go deeply into Fascism instead. What an utterly deranged decision.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
wheel of fortune needs to ax any trips to china
Jesus, what a paranoid bunch. We're trying to stop you from crumbling. Purely out of self-interest, mind you: nobody wants to see yet another nuclear-capable government collapse under the weight of those in power who can't let go of their own dicks long enough to govern responsibly. The idea that anyone with an IQ above room temperature would "hope" for a Chinese collapse is frankly laughable.
The Chinese are laughing at us. We need to ban the letter 'O'!
Too many god damn Ivans in this thread!
China is on it's way to become the next North Korea and Trump is asleep at the wheel as usual.
I suspect there will be a long episode of Sesame Street in China when somebody will go looking for the letter "N".
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Cogratulatios Xi Jipig for removig the letter ""! - I bet your coutry of Chia must be proud!
Chia bas letter from iteret as xi jipig exteds grip o power?
China bans letter "N". Crypto currency now huge hit as Chinese hipsters can't stop talking about the "Block Chai".
I do't uderstad how this is supposed to work. But will be fu to watch, I suppose...
for ( ittr = vec.begi(); ittr != vec.ed(); ++ittr ) {
if ( ittr != ullptr ) {
ittr->update();
}
}
Check your premises.
Chia?
Do we have to water dear leader now? And dump shit on him to promote growth?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Do chinese citizens need some of the USA's extra guns to take care of this little problem yet?
Asia face eats a boiled dog at dog-food festival. Ugly yellow people resemble a flat-face macaque as they eat the dog tissue, like a disgustable wild creature. Asia girl are less attractive because the face looks retarded. The child has the face of a retarded.
That if we obey this Anglos will now call him Jipig which sounds close to "the pig?"
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How ca|\| anyo|\|e defe|\|d the Commu|\|ist Chi|\|ese gover|\|ment whe|\| they act the way they do?
All hail Emperor Xi Jinping!
They obviously prefer to go deeply into Fascism instead. What an utterly deranged decision.
They have a billion people, they're centrally led, and they're making massive investments in AI, and they move more towards being data-driven every year. Democracy has a lot of advantages, but if their central leadership is done reasonably well, that'll be very, very hard to beat economically. It's like trying to out-compete amazon.
Do you waut iuteruet to stop usiug a character, to preveut them from from sayiug "Zo!" ?
Good luck with that! I expect that this will be takeu as a challeuge!
Claude Shauuou once showed that Euglish only coutaius about 1.2 bits of iuformatiou per character. Thus one cau remove a lot more characters and still make seuse out of it!
Joking aside, I'm a bit sad that what the tools that once was seen as the tools for liberating and informing people, have turned into tools for disinformation and oppression.
Google is suppressing gun-identifies shopping results, at least in the US, even for legal products. What could be wrong with this?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
It is the 14th letter i the Eglish alphabet ad, i Scrabble, the sprigboard for more tha 600 8-letter words. But for the Commuist party of Chia it is also a subversive ad itolerable character that was this week baished from the iteret as Chiese cesors battled to silece criticism of Xi Jipig's bid to set himself up as ruler for life. The cotraveig cosoat was perhaps the most uusual victim of a crackdow targetig words, phrases ad eve solitary letters cesors feared might be used to attack Beijig's cotroversial decisio to abolish costitutioal term limits for Chia's presidet. The Commuist party has paited the move -- which experts say paves the way for Xi to become a dictator for life -- as a expressio of overwhelmig popular support for Chia's strogma leader. However, there has bee widespread olie push-back i Chia sice it was aouced o Suday o the eve of a aual political cogress i Beijig.
While many things are wrong with China, simplified Chinese characters are not one of them. I would much prefer to learn simplified writing than traditional. Anyone upset with simplified characters (Taiwan) is exhibiting the same protectionism given to cursive and (in France) the French language. However easier is always better - lets more of those poor pheasants learn writing and integrate with society. Korea had a similar epiphany centuries ago, much to their benefit.
By my understanding, they only removed the limit on the number of consecutive terms allowed, they did not remove any limit on the duration of any single term. Individual terms are still 5 years long, afaik, and he could still be voted out after any one of them.
Lots of countries don't have limits on the number of terms that a person can be elected, and there's not any significant problems there. This is mitigated either by upper fixed bounds on the length of any single term (or fixed term lengths) that themselves are not overly long, or else an established legal policy for allowing a sufficient amount of dissent within the government structure to force a re-election if there is no explicit upper bound on a single term.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Name one major brand of software... Oracle, Microsoft, Google, facebook that doesn't include the letter 'N' in their compiled code?
Watch Oracle release their 'chineese' database user guide where all the n's removed.... you get your varchar2 a_d your varchar2 fields. o_e is actually better tha_ the other, but i'm _ot going to be able to tell you why
Ten thousand years - 833 1/3 zodiac cycles
Disagree - DONOTWANT
Xi Zedong - Mao Xi, or No Moa Xi (sounds like "no more Xi" in English)
Shameless - goes naked in public
Lifelong - until worm-food
Personality cult - cult of fake man-god
Emigrate - leave home for good
Immortality - lifetime of fake man-god
and for n, m+1
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Is this supposed to be a early April fools joke, or is this real?
Are they filterig the letter from every website ad text?
How do they deal with pictures cotaiig the word?
which experts say paves the way for Xi to become a dictator for life
China has been a communist dictatorship for longer than most of us have been alive.
For Western sources to cover this little internal squabble as though it has much significance is disturbing, at least in the clueless way it is being covered. China is still a brutal communist dictatorship, whether they periodically rotate people into and out of various positions or not.
I'm sure Ella Minnow Pea was consulted. https://www.amazon.com/Ella-Mi...
me no rikey dis retter
Miss Little Bottle yet?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Monty Python FTW.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
If he really had ''overwhelming popular support'' then he would have little problem with some on-line criticisms. That he feels it necessary to stamp out any dissent suggests either: that his grip on power is not as it appears, or: that he is a snowflake that cannot stand any criticism.
What he does not understand is that by shutting down opposition discussion: he will find it harder to know what others think; underground dissent will grow and, because of a lack of safety valve, might blow up in his face. Absolute suppression may work for a few years, not forever. Does he want the history books in 100 years to describe him as a great reformer or as a tyrant ?
Nixon was a traitor. Trade with China has only made us a prison state like THE CHINKS. Fuck anyone who backs thise small cock'd faggots.
My favorite is (\/
Back in the L33t speak days, there was a guy named (\/eo\/) for NeoN. I always admired that tag for some reason. He made a kick ass password cracker. My 2 cents lul.
... over to China: That looks like it might not have been such a good idea now does it?
Think you'll have much bargaining power with some petty tyrant that wants to be dictator-for-life and whose first move is to ban letters of the alphabet?
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
_/t
Have gnu, will travel.
Oh what times we are livimg im whem ramdom ruffiams dare say Mi to old ladies.
The simplified character set is lipstick on a pig.
Both should be abolished in favour of pinyin, or some other phonetic alphabet.
Thanks to computers, the archaic Chinese writing system is not quite the handicap it used to be, but it is still a significant drag on Chinese progress.
How old are kids before they've rote-learned enough characters to read a newspaper?
Conveniently removing "temporarily" from the headline for dramatic effect.
Banning a letter from the Internet is harder than Chinese Algebra. And, since the letter 'n' was just banned along with a few numbers, that is getting quite difficult indeed...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Great news, everybody! Letter N is out of rehab.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
ENC . HEIGH on HEIGH . FALUTIN `OCTILE on HEIGH .
ENC . HEIGH on HEIGH . FALUTIN `M tot M . HEIGH .