Ok. Fair point, then, but it could’ve been explained more clearly.
They’re not blocking the CNN website in its entirety, per se, there just appears to be something on the homepage that triggers the connection killswitch on the Chinese government’s firewall. But they’re still basically blocking it.
The CNN homepage doesn’t pass the keyword filter correctly because the Chinese government firewall detects the keyword and starts dropping packets into a black hole.
But that’s just peanuts. Explain this...
When Liu was named the peace prize winner two months ago, initial reports were blacked out on CNN, BBC and French satellite channel TV5, while the state network China Central Television did not report on the prize.
“Mysterious corruption of the video feeds prevented the reports from getting through, but any other CNN reports got through just fine!”
Yeah, it’s obviously not a problem with the infrastructure. It must be CNN’s fault.
Yes, making cutesy jokes about how little effort you deliberately make to know as little about the Bible as possible makes you extraordinarily qualified to criticize it.
With all of the ridiculousness of how they decide that someone’s been raped, it’s not at all hard to believe. If you’re a woman and you get drunk and have sex with a drunk dude, you’ve been raped! If you’re a man and you get drunk and have sex with a drunk chick, you’re a rapist! The fact that neither of them feels like they were raped or a rapist (not to mention the double standard) is irrelevant... and they need to be re-educated to “properly” perceive what happened so that they can “deal with it”. Or something like that.
It never occurs to these people that maybe having drunk sex doesn’t scar you emotionally like actual rape does and that people don’t need to “deal with it”.
They make mountains out of molehills... just because they think people need to climb a mountain to get over it. Oh, and it might also be partly because they make money by helping people climb mountains.
And don’t for a minute think that I’m trivializing real rape. They are doing that.
FACTS: Sexual violence remains the most dramatically under reported crime, with an estimated two-thirds of attacks unreported... over 70% of all rapes go unreported
China has intentionally positioned itself as the only highway between the Chinese people and the rest of the world, and it has closed that highway to anything it doesn’t like. That is censorship.
They haven’t prevented the news sites from publishing anything they want, but they have prevented the news sites from having any avenue of getting those stories to people in China. That is censorship.
They can’t censor anything for anyone outside of China, but the people living there are getting a censored version of the internet.
If all the major internet routing hubs outside China started dropping packets coming from or going to Chinese IP addresses, I wonder how long it would take for the Chinese government to be on its knees begging for another chance? More significantly, I wonder how long it would take before the Chinese people would finally rise and demand that their government act like a civilized part of the internet community?
It would probably be at least as effective as those stupid “internet addiction” camps they make their youth attend. Give them a dose of their own medicine...
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I actually had a computer with a Hercules graphics adapter and an amber monochrome monitor. I had the manual to my dot-matrix printer and wrote a program in BASIC to put it in graphics mode and print monochrome graphics on it. IIRC it could BLOAD video memory dumps to print, and I included BSAVE hotkey functions in a few of my other programs to save screenshots that I could print out.
Good times...
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if you DQ'd Obama you'd logically have to DQ McCain.
No, that would be illogical.
English common law (on which the US laws were loosely based) specifically ruled that children of diplomats, foreign agents, and invading military forces were not natural born citizens of the physical country of their birth.
OTOH, it makes complete logical sense to say that the children of diplomats and our troops born while abroad are natural born citizens of the United States. It’d be a flat-out insult to them any other way. “Sorry, but since you’re serving your country abroad we’ll reward your dedication by making your child ineligible to ever run for President.”
According to the Constitution of the United States only natural born citizens are eligible to serve as President of the United States or as Vice President. The text of the Constitution does not define what is meant by natural born: in particular it does not specify whether there is any distinction to be made between persons whose citizenship is based on jus sanguinis (parentage) and those whose citizenship is based on jus soli (birthplace)
As a result, controversies have erupted over the eligibility of a number of candidates for the office. These questions arise particularly when a candidate is an American citizen by jus sanguinis birthright, but was born outside of the territory of the United States.
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Ok. Fair point, then, but it could’ve been explained more clearly.
They’re not blocking the CNN website in its entirety, per se, there just appears to be something on the homepage that triggers the connection killswitch on the Chinese government’s firewall. But they’re still basically blocking it.
And the web censorship works the same way. When something sensitive is mentioned you suddenly see a few minu~_^*)&&%&*)(((
NO CARRIER
That sounds about as likely to work as anything I’ve tried, particularly if you did it backward starting with “Start”.
The Barbara Streisand effect – outside of China, maybe.
The people in China? The vast majority of them really, truly, still won’t care. Which is why I feel that it might be time for more drastic measures.
The CNN homepage doesn’t pass the keyword filter correctly because the Chinese government firewall detects the keyword and starts dropping packets into a black hole.
But that’s just peanuts. Explain this...
When Liu was named the peace prize winner two months ago, initial reports were blacked out on CNN, BBC and French satellite channel TV5, while the state network China Central Television did not report on the prize.
“Mysterious corruption of the video feeds prevented the reports from getting through, but any other CNN reports got through just fine!”
Yeah, it’s obviously not a problem with the infrastructure. It must be CNN’s fault.
Yes, making cutesy jokes about how little effort you deliberately make to know as little about the Bible as possible makes you extraordinarily qualified to criticize it.
Most websites accessed by Chinese people are in Chinese language. And guess where those are? Yes, in China.
Yes, I’ve heard that claim before, and it really doesn’t make any difference one way or the other.
What US has done re: wikileaks is simply illegal and immoral. Now US is threatening New York Times too....
That’s a completely different subject. You’re trolling.
And how did they compile that statistic?
With all of the ridiculousness of how they decide that someone’s been raped, it’s not at all hard to believe. If you’re a woman and you get drunk and have sex with a drunk dude, you’ve been raped! If you’re a man and you get drunk and have sex with a drunk chick, you’re a rapist! The fact that neither of them feels like they were raped or a rapist (not to mention the double standard) is irrelevant... and they need to be re-educated to “properly” perceive what happened so that they can “deal with it”. Or something like that.
It never occurs to these people that maybe having drunk sex doesn’t scar you emotionally like actual rape does and that people don’t need to “deal with it”.
They make mountains out of molehills ... just because they think people need to climb a mountain to get over it. Oh, and it might also be partly because they make money by helping people climb mountains.
And don’t for a minute think that I’m trivializing real rape. They are doing that.
You have to remove the speck from your own eye before you’re allowed to take notice of a plank in someone else’s?
FACT: That was a made-up statistic.
China has intentionally positioned itself as the only highway between the Chinese people and the rest of the world, and it has closed that highway to anything it doesn’t like. That is censorship.
They haven’t prevented the news sites from publishing anything they want, but they have prevented the news sites from having any avenue of getting those stories to people in China. That is censorship.
They can’t censor anything for anyone outside of China, but the people living there are getting a censored version of the internet.
Did you know 70% of all rapes go unreported?
And that’s definitely not a made-up statistic. At all. By any stretch of the imagination.
Not routing to China is censorship based on political views, plain and simple.
Yes, it is. Sometimes you fight fire with fire.
If all the major internet routing hubs outside China started dropping packets coming from or going to Chinese IP addresses, I wonder how long it would take for the Chinese government to be on its knees begging for another chance? More significantly, I wonder how long it would take before the Chinese people would finally rise and demand that their government act like a civilized part of the internet community?
It would probably be at least as effective as those stupid “internet addiction” camps they make their youth attend. Give them a dose of their own medicine...
I actually had a computer with a Hercules graphics adapter and an amber monochrome monitor. I had the manual to my dot-matrix printer and wrote a program in BASIC to put it in graphics mode and print monochrome graphics on it. IIRC it could BLOAD video memory dumps to print, and I included BSAVE hotkey functions in a few of my other programs to save screenshots that I could print out.
Good times...
Correct. They should’ve been more specific.
Dad, is that you?
Maybe I'm missing something here ... Men have both X and Y chromosomes. Can't they be combined as both XY and XX?
Yes... I think the part that you’re missing is the part where they did exactly that.
1.) Introduce a Y chromosome from a third party
Well, obviously! The whole point was to avoid that.
Yeah, the thing of real importance was the one completely not mentioned (summary or comments, from what I’ve seen so far):
If they created a mouse embryo and brought it to term with no surrogate mother, this is indeed a breakthrough. If they used a surrogate mother... meh!
Pygmalian married a statue that was brought to life which was a 0 Fathers, 0 Mothers scenario for the statue.
Um, that one isn’t from the Bible.
I'm certain that religious people will love this.
Some might, some might not. The prevailing attitude, however, would probably be ambivalence. Or... “hey, make your own dirt!”
Yes, “loosely” based on English common law. It got a lot of stuff right, and we didn’t change it, except where it didn’t, and we did. Hence “loosely”.
So, where did we differ? Well, in particular, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution were meant to address some of the deficiencies.
if you DQ'd Obama you'd logically have to DQ McCain.
No, that would be illogical.
English common law (on which the US laws were loosely based) specifically ruled that children of diplomats, foreign agents, and invading military forces were not natural born citizens of the physical country of their birth.
OTOH, it makes complete logical sense to say that the children of diplomats and our troops born while abroad are natural born citizens of the United States. It’d be a flat-out insult to them any other way. “Sorry, but since you’re serving your country abroad we’ll reward your dedication by making your child ineligible to ever run for President.”
Neither of you are correct. The short answer is, we’re just not sure.
Birthright citizenship in the United States#Eligibility for office of President:
According to the Constitution of the United States only natural born citizens are eligible to serve as President of the United States or as Vice President. The text of the Constitution does not define what is meant by natural born: in particular it does not specify whether there is any distinction to be made between persons whose citizenship is based on jus sanguinis (parentage) and those whose citizenship is based on jus soli (birthplace)
As a result, controversies have erupted over the eligibility of a number of candidates for the office. These questions arise particularly when a candidate is an American citizen by jus sanguinis birthright, but was born outside of the territory of the United States.
And those of "operation payback" should be tracked down, arrested, and prosecuted...
Prosecuted for what? Requesting pages from a webserver which it was configured to give them?