There are tons of reports contradicting this analysis, but unfortunately they have been censored. If they were censored, you wouldn't know about them... unless you were involved in censoring them.:)
Hu? Is that you, buddy? How's the golf game these days?
Read the report. It isn't as black-and-white as the summary makes it out to be.
The findings for one type of online content -- politics -- may seem more puzzling. Since 2005, the percentage of users who say that online content about "politics" should be controlled or managed jumped from 8% to 41%, by far the biggest increase of any items tested.
Guo said that the explanation for this increase probably lies in the spate of widely publicized incidents of fraud, blackmail, sensationalism, and other abuse of Chinese citizens via the internet. The Chinese word used for "politics" in this survey, zhengzhi, is not confined simply to political rights or competition for political control but may be understood to include larger questions of public morality and social values. While I love bashing Communists, the report simply doesn't allow it. It appears to be more of a cultural, rather than political, difference.
The "Mormons" in El Dorado weren't the same religion as the "Mormons" in the OP. Oh, get real.
And speaking of which, "well-documented fraudster" is easy to say as an AC. He was a conman and anyone who claims to be a Mormon today is either intellectually lazy or a conman.
What say you walk around that cloak of secrecy and provide some first hand accounts of Joseph Smith's fraud? First hand? Wait, what? You mean travel back in time, allow myself to be conned by him, and then come back here and give you a report?
Ask your Super Daddy in the Sky to send me back in time. I mean, wow, if he can create the universe... certainly he can send me back in time!:)
Of course, if you actually used Linux, you would know that. Ouch. I'd hate to see you try to teach a classroom full of kids how to use their shiny, new OLPCs.
How can you develop a culture of innovation when you promote a mindset which discourages tinkering? Look, we're talking about developing a cheap, little, rugged laptop so little M'beka can learn fractions, read Wikipedia articles, and IM his friends about tonight's home.
This "culture of innovation" bullshit - and the rest of the FOSS ideology - is the anchor around the OLPC's neck.
Apparently, the mods have deemed it not a very good one.:( "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of trolls and mods." - urCreepyNeighbor
Some of my family members had to foot the bill for the last thousand feet, but they were able to get Comcrap to drag their signal a mile from the main drag once they saw 8 houses that were interested. Hold on. I call bullshit.
If someone "can barely afford to live there", where are they getting the money "to foot the bill for the last thousand feet"?
It sounds to me like we've got a bunch of dumbfucks that are going to spend their lives in poverty because of their piss poor choices ("we're broke, but we got broadband!") or we've got a bunch of spoiled fucks that want the world to wipe their asses and smile about it.
Which is it?
If you choose to live in the middle of nowhere, don't expect the latest-and-great tech. One of the benefits of living in the middle of nowhere is to get away from the latest-and-greatest. What you sacrifice in convenience you make up for in privacy and peace of mind.
Give me a little house in the middle of nowhere with dialup instead of a condo in the valley with broadband. Any day.
Not everyone that goes into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of intelligence. I spent 6 years in the Navy, and I (nor anyone I knew) didn't shoot, rape OR pillage anyone. Don't waste your time defending yourself. The little fucktards that bash the military as a whole and/or those that serve wouldn't know their ass from the ASVAB.
3. Mark Steyn's thesis is that muslims are taking over the west, "breeding like mosquitoes," and that they plan to replace our western legal system with Sharia law. And he is pretty offensive in the way he argues it. The truth isn't pretty.
We love that one. Did you hear the one about the sociopath who got cutoff by a soccermom on a cell phone? Yeah, seems he followed her home, waited outside her house until night, broke in and... well, I'm sure you can image the rest of the story. Goes without saying that duct tape, a baseball bat, and a few pairs of women underwear were involved.
Gruesome mess. Just awful.
When the cops finally arrived, the poor git - dressed in women's panties and covered in blood - was screaming "Can you hear me now, bitch?! Honk-honk!"
As a side note: http://www.helveticafilm.com/ is an interesting documentary on the history of a single font (at least i found it interesting) It's a damn good doc. For a couple days after watching it, you'll notice the typeface everywhere.
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Unless the PRC plans on using this sometime in the immediate future, why wouldn't they simply develop this technology locally?
AFAIK, the principles behind the technology aren't all that complicated.
Hu? Is that you, buddy? How's the golf game these days?
Guo said that the explanation for this increase probably lies in the spate of widely publicized incidents of fraud, blackmail, sensationalism, and other abuse of Chinese citizens via the internet. The Chinese word used for "politics" in this survey, zhengzhi, is not confined simply to political rights or competition for political control but may be understood to include larger questions of public morality and social values. While I love bashing Communists, the report simply doesn't allow it. It appears to be more of a cultural, rather than political, difference.
Pretty damn interesting, actually.
Ask your Super Daddy in the Sky to send me back in time. I mean, wow, if he can create the universe... certainly he can send me back in time!
...when the Zionists burned down their homes in Palestine and forced them. Those damn Jews again, right?This "culture of innovation" bullshit - and the rest of the FOSS ideology - is the anchor around the OLPC's neck.
Let M'beka learn.
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If someone "can barely afford to live there", where are they getting the money "to foot the bill for the last thousand feet"?
It sounds to me like we've got a bunch of dumbfucks that are going to spend their lives in poverty because of their piss poor choices ("we're broke, but we got broadband!") or we've got a bunch of spoiled fucks that want the world to wipe their asses and smile about it.
Which is it?
If you choose to live in the middle of nowhere, don't expect the latest-and-great tech. One of the benefits of living in the middle of nowhere is to get away from the latest-and-greatest. What you sacrifice in convenience you make up for in privacy and peace of mind.
Give me a little house in the middle of nowhere with dialup instead of a condo in the valley with broadband. Any day.
Note to fucktards: Yeah, go Google ASVAB.
Mod parent up! It's funny!
Get it? Still running?
Again: their server(s) and their software. Don't like their rules? Don't play. Use another service or start your own.
Talk to me about censorship when the force of government is involved.
Gruesome mess. Just awful.
When the cops finally arrived, the poor git - dressed in women's panties and covered in blood - was screaming "Can you hear me now, bitch?! Honk-honk!"
Censorship is something the government can try/do, not a company or individual.
I think MS is being beyond stupid with this little game (if they are, that is), but it's their servers and their software.
Don't like it? Use something else. It's not like their aren't a hundred IM apps out there.
And most of them are populated with just as many "13/f"'s looking for love.