For those not interested in Binaries (porn, warez, movies) then there are still plenty of free or cheap Usenet suppliers.
A quick search of google will reveal a number.
If you don't trust a free server then for 5 dollars you can get 10gig access to usenet at NewsDemon. It lasts a year. 10 Gig not enough for a years worth of text based reading then for about 20 dollars you can get 100gig.
The Trans-Manchurian and Trans-Mongolian Railways let you do just that.
They connect with the Trans-Siberian railway in Siberia and travel to Beijing. The first through north east china and the second through Mongolia.
This means you can get a Train to take you all the way from Moscow to Beijing without having to change. It takes over 6 days and is a great journey.
When the train reaches china they pick it up and change the bogies (wheels) as the gauge on the tracks is different.
I totally recommend this trip, although rather than do the whole 6 day trip in one go you may prefer to stop off in Siberia and Mongolia for a few days.
How many Americans are fully aware of the secret wars the US fought in Cambodia and Laos?
I'm confused as to why these educated chinese would know of these things anyway. They're clearly not taught them in China (along with many other things as I have found out as an English teacher here), so I guess you're saying that the education they received in the west should have taught them about them. But does western history education really cover the Sino-Vietnamese war and how many Chinese died in Korea? I certainly don't recall them in my history lessons.
Unfortunately the term "overseas chinese" is such a catch all that it's hard to tell just what sort of peope you're talking about? Students from China or people who've emigrated to the West?
My wife and many of her friends would be considered overseas chinese even through they have been in the UK most of their lives and some are even born there. However, they all are very western and whilst they probably aren't aware of half the events you mentioned because we just weren't taught them in school, they certainly aren't waving the Chinese flag.
On a side note. It's fairly debatable about the Chinese losing the Sino-Vietnam war. Both sides claim victory (as is expected) but it's not like China was kicked back out of Vietnam. Neither did they surrender or sign a ceasefire. In fact on their way out of the country they did a lot of damage to Vietnam.
Admittedly their goal of getting the Vietnamese to withdraw from Cambodia was a failure but does that count as losing the war? Surely if that's the case then America lost it's war in Afghanistan when they failed to find Bin Laden.
If you actually listen to his first sentence he says he finds it "incredible that we use the word race as a cultural determinant". He then expands on this further with "we've made the word race a way of expressing culture."
The guy is a fraud. When he said that part, it showed his true colours. He was the biggest racist in the building.
it was pretty clear he was using the term ironically. Just listen to the tone of his voice.
There ARE different races. The world would suck pretty badly if it was one global monoculture.
you clearly missed his point about race not being the same as culture by a country mile. Do the Caucasians in America all have the same culture? How about compared to caucasians in say Hungary?
I'd been meaning to register to Linked In for a while but just hadn't bothered.
I'm teaching English in China at the moment so am only interested in parttime freelance work.
After reading this story on Slashdot I registered two days ago. I gave it my MSN contact list and had it invite those already on Linked In to link to me.
Today I received a job offer from the company I worked for before I left the UK. They seemed to think I was back in the UK, I set them straight and told them I was only available for part time work as a freelancer.
They've said this is fine and asked me my rates and to figure out how I'd access the system from here.
For me that wins points for Linked In.
Facebook I would never use for career advancement though. I set it private apart from for friends. I even refuse facebook invites from my Students.
I'm a British citizen. I flew out of the UK on 24th December 2007 and flew back on the 31st May 2008.
I flew to Russia and back from Thailand. In between I'd traveled overland to Mongolia, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Unless the UK has some sort of automatic data sharing with these countries then this database will really tell them very little about where I've been unless they get hold of my passport.
Hmm, film is released in less than a month and journos are shown a sneak peak of 30 minutes worth of clips?
That sounds like the studio has seen it, it's not good, and they are shitting themselves. Best thing to do is get the hype machine rolling with some choice clips to the press.
Hell I could pick 30 minutes of clips from 300 to make it look like a promising film but when you watch the whole film it's pretty boring. My guess is this is going to be the same deal.
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For me it's Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
Bought and played when it first came out 8 years back.
I recently bought it on steam just so I could play through it all again.
Lots of lightsabers and the force powers were done very well.
Force Griping an enemy, turning so they're hanging off a building and then letting go will never get old for me :)
WTF?
http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/05/12/peppermint-os-one/6/
For those not interested in Binaries (porn, warez, movies) then there are still plenty of free or cheap Usenet suppliers.
A quick search of google will reveal a number.
If you don't trust a free server then for 5 dollars you can get 10gig access to usenet at NewsDemon. It lasts a year. 10 Gig not enough for a years worth of text based reading then for about 20 dollars you can get 100gig.
The Trans-Manchurian and Trans-Mongolian Railways let you do just that.
They connect with the Trans-Siberian railway in Siberia and travel to Beijing. The first through north east china and the second through Mongolia.
This means you can get a Train to take you all the way from Moscow to Beijing without having to change. It takes over 6 days and is a great journey.
When the train reaches china they pick it up and change the bogies (wheels) as the gauge on the tracks is different.
I totally recommend this trip, although rather than do the whole 6 day trip in one go you may prefer to stop off in Siberia and Mongolia for a few days.
Like?
Counties mentioned are:
UK, Germany, Russia, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma and Malaysia
Probably the only one that you could call "politically unstable" would be Thailand.
How many Americans are fully aware of the secret wars the US fought in Cambodia and Laos?
I'm confused as to why these educated chinese would know of these things anyway. They're clearly not taught them in China (along with many other things as I have found out as an English teacher here), so I guess you're saying that the education they received in the west should have taught them about them. But does western history education really cover the Sino-Vietnamese war and how many Chinese died in Korea? I certainly don't recall them in my history lessons.
Unfortunately the term "overseas chinese" is such a catch all that it's hard to tell just what sort of peope you're talking about? Students from China or people who've emigrated to the West?
My wife and many of her friends would be considered overseas chinese even through they have been in the UK most of their lives and some are even born there. However, they all are very western and whilst they probably aren't aware of half the events you mentioned because we just weren't taught them in school, they certainly aren't waving the Chinese flag.
On a side note. It's fairly debatable about the Chinese losing the Sino-Vietnam war. Both sides claim victory (as is expected) but it's not like China was kicked back out of Vietnam. Neither did they surrender or sign a ceasefire. In fact on their way out of the country they did a lot of damage to Vietnam.
Admittedly their goal of getting the Vietnamese to withdraw from Cambodia was a failure but does that count as losing the war? Surely if that's the case then America lost it's war in Afghanistan when they failed to find Bin Laden.
I don't know why I'm even bothering to reply.
You're either a troll or just deaf. I'm not sure.
If you actually listen to his first sentence he says he finds it "incredible that we use the word race as a cultural determinant". He then expands on this further with "we've made the word race a way of expressing culture."
Need I really say more?
The guy is a fraud. When he said that part, it showed his true colours. He was the biggest racist in the building.
it was pretty clear he was using the term ironically. Just listen to the tone of his voice.
There ARE different races. The world would suck pretty badly if it was one global monoculture.
you clearly missed his point about race not being the same as culture by a country mile. Do the Caucasians in America all have the same culture? How about compared to caucasians in say Hungary?
listen to the tone that he says the word with. It's quite clear he's using it ironically.
This isn't double negation.
Who taught you grammar? BITCH!
I'd been meaning to register to Linked In for a while but just hadn't bothered.
I'm teaching English in China at the moment so am only interested in parttime freelance work.
After reading this story on Slashdot I registered two days ago. I gave it my MSN contact list and had it invite those already on Linked In to link to me.
Today I received a job offer from the company I worked for before I left the UK. They seemed to think I was back in the UK, I set them straight and told them I was only available for part time work as a freelancer.
They've said this is fine and asked me my rates and to figure out how I'd access the system from here.
For me that wins points for Linked In.
Facebook I would never use for career advancement though. I set it private apart from for friends. I even refuse facebook invites from my Students.
I'm a British citizen. I flew out of the UK on 24th December 2007 and flew back on the 31st May 2008.
I flew to Russia and back from Thailand. In between I'd traveled overland to Mongolia, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Unless the UK has some sort of automatic data sharing with these countries then this database will really tell them very little about where I've been unless they get hold of my passport.
You run away from the Police when they show up? Do you get arrested for photographing offical buildings or people?
I've not been in the UK for just over a year but things must have changed an awful lot.
Yet it doesn't stop you coming over in large numbers to hang around outside Buckingham Palace taking photos of the Changing of the Guard.
Another way to write it would be.
Since 1998 he has been a member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Literature.
get it now?
that's all folks
You're fine with "gook", "kraut" and "haji" but can't bring yourself to say "nigger"?
Don't get me wrong. I think racism is despicable, but surely referencing the term like that shouldn't offend anyone.
In fact it's been there since the 20th November.
I wonder how many of those 1.7 million downloaded copies remained installed for longer than a few days.
Seriously? Anyone who uses Pirate Bay regularly is going to go there to look for their movie/book/warez before they think of buying it on Amazon.
All Amazon have done is publicise something that most people wouldn't have used in the first place.
Top Marks!
Just to be pedantic about myself before anyone else. There should have been a comma before "but" in my last sentence. ;)
nice try.
'a' and 'an' are the indefinite article. 'the' is a definite article. Articles are words.
To say 'a' isn't a word is like saying 'the' isn't a word.
Sorry to be pedantic but I teach English Grammar and Writing at university in China.
wow. I mean, like.. wow
Where the heck do you guys get 4 from?
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I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie.
I guess you worked out "Evolution is a lie" is three words using the same calculation you made above.
Hmm, film is released in less than a month and journos are shown a sneak peak of 30 minutes worth of clips?
That sounds like the studio has seen it, it's not good, and they are shitting themselves. Best thing to do is get the hype machine rolling with some choice clips to the press.
Hell I could pick 30 minutes of clips from 300 to make it look like a promising film but when you watch the whole film it's pretty boring. My guess is this is going to be the same deal.
Shame, because I loved Sin City :(
And that's because being a party member is the only way of getting anywhere in this country.
But let's change the topic now...
Too late.
Don't you recognise me? I'm the one who sits at the back with the tape recorder and the big notepad ;)