There's no CCTVs in most residential areas here, FYI. The only places I've seen CCTVs on the street in Singapore are the crowded shopping areas.
If you come to Singapore you'll realize a lot of the draconian stuff here is basically just show-business, which is pretty sad, actually.
I laughed when I saw the CCTV thing - because AFAIK the police here are so lazy they wouldn't actually go out and nab people even if we actually had a CCTV for every house. They basically have an iron rice bowl, given that the majority seems to find policing as a job below them and, as Gibson put, everyone here already has a policeman in their heads.
Living on an island of only about 700 square kilometres, I'm pretty sure a large part of our population would be very worried about a local nuclear plant unless it was built offshore under the ocean or something.
That said, the government is reportedly considering it, and they have a prominent history of doing what they believe best regardless of polls or popular sentiment, for better or worse.
If the mere status of a cellphone being on and broadcasting implicitly gives permission to police to track it, then if an unsecured Wifi network is broadcasting - where it's set to automatically let anyone in - I suppose it no longer counts as a crime to use it?
Much of the food that Malaysia is trying to copyright include dishes that Singaporeans have considered all along to be their own. For example, Hainanese chicken rice (which was apparently created by a guy from Hainan who set up shop in Singapore), "all kinds of laksa" (essentially noodles in spicy soup with prawns) and even chilli crab, which is apparently the dish the island is best known for (and never Malaysia).
Many Singaporeans here believe this to be a response by the Tourism Minister to recover her country's injured pride after having been given a kicking by Indonesia over the dance incident.
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There's no CCTVs in most residential areas here, FYI. The only places I've seen CCTVs on the street in Singapore are the crowded shopping areas. If you come to Singapore you'll realize a lot of the draconian stuff here is basically just show-business, which is pretty sad, actually. I laughed when I saw the CCTV thing - because AFAIK the police here are so lazy they wouldn't actually go out and nab people even if we actually had a CCTV for every house. They basically have an iron rice bowl, given that the majority seems to find policing as a job below them and, as Gibson put, everyone here already has a policeman in their heads.
Living on an island of only about 700 square kilometres, I'm pretty sure a large part of our population would be very worried about a local nuclear plant unless it was built offshore under the ocean or something. That said, the government is reportedly considering it, and they have a prominent history of doing what they believe best regardless of polls or popular sentiment, for better or worse.
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If the mere status of a cellphone being on and broadcasting implicitly gives permission to police to track it, then if an unsecured Wifi network is broadcasting - where it's set to automatically let anyone in - I suppose it no longer counts as a crime to use it?
Much of the food that Malaysia is trying to copyright include dishes that Singaporeans have considered all along to be their own. For example, Hainanese chicken rice (which was apparently created by a guy from Hainan who set up shop in Singapore), "all kinds of laksa" (essentially noodles in spicy soup with prawns) and even chilli crab, which is apparently the dish the island is best known for (and never Malaysia). Many Singaporeans here believe this to be a response by the Tourism Minister to recover her country's injured pride after having been given a kicking by Indonesia over the dance incident.
It's bleeding Russell's Teapot. Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
I think Great Cthulhu might have something to say about that. Cthulhu ftagns no more
Did anyone actually take note of the name of the Japanese Corporation making this thing? Way to leave out actually survival-critical news.
I don't suppose anyone knows where the nearest Thousander math is located?