I don't know why you think that because in "the country in which you reside" tips are non-taxed, they're not taxed elsewhere. In fact, in the USA, ALL tips are taxable income. Including this fictitious scenario's $20. So - to digress back to the original argument on this thread, yes - it's breaking the law.
In addition, using "lets assume" with a randomly pulled from your ass percentage as a counter-argument which you have labelled as isolated incidents because they (also assumed) came from the news is hardly convincing.
At least then when the smart enough people involved in the process to determine whether FAT PEOPLE are disabled and deserve protection, they can say "What the fuck is wrong with you" to their coworker or boss that proposed it - and not get fired for doing so.
OH... MY... GOD...
You mean people drive TO the airport, BACK from the airport, and TO the airport again? And..... let me guess, BACK again???? Oh no, you say, carrying passengers for less than us fellow cabbies extort? It's a disaster. Quick - get on social medias and tweet out to our fellow cabbies, get our lobbyists on the phone and let our representatives know they wont be getting that whopping $1500 campaign donation check to do our bidding any more if they don't shut this shit down ASAP.
Tried tested and failed.
China constantly cracks down on new 'evasive' methods of communicating. This year they used tons of other phrases, and were promptly blocked, like "this day" or "may 35th" or "that day" or "spring to summer" or other various 'elusive' terms...blocked. In addition they tried to hide messages in porn. This is all part of the tit-for-tat that, well, often just ends in more and more blockage and nothing more.
Don't feed the troll mate.:D
Regardless of the connection package, our VPN restriction (I'm assuming you use a European or North American server) largely comes down to geography..so the 1Mbit 8Mbit 20Mbit 100Mbit packages offered by the telecoms here largely end up with similar ping and sometimes similar bandwidth over VPN at the end of the day. In-country direct connections, however, the advertised speed is much closer to being realized..
Ok back to the facts - you want strong environmental laws? How about EXECUTION for heavy polluters in violation of regulations?
Yes, China will execute company heads who are involved in pollution violations. Just like China executed heads of the melamine milk scandal. I don't see US executing corporate heads - or prosecuting anyone from any corporation who constantly breaks the law / regulations out the window / laughs at the country as they drive profit and buy politicians, and sneer at regulations as being 'for the small people'... want to talk about tough? I think we know who wins that one.:D
Some set up constant tunnels. Personally I use StrongVPN when not at my office or on office network, so it's sorta like this:
Most of my internet use does not involve a proxy OR VPN, and is perfectly fine. When I need YouTube or Hulu or something, I open StrongVPN L2TP through San Fran. When I'm at work I'm typically going thru a proxy for common services we use like google services or whatever and need no configuration on whichever device I am using. My network connection at home is 20mbit fibre, typically when I'm NOT on VPN I can download torrents or stream videos from non-youtube sources fast, when I AM on VPN I can typically stream high quality YouTube/Hulu without buffering issues..gotta have me some Shark Tank!
I've been primarily in China since 2003, and can tell you - for anyone slightly technically inclined, the GFW is not an issue, and never really has been.. the occasional biggest problem is when they try to disrupt encrypted traffic and it grinds VPNs to a snailmail pace.
Essentially agree, the slippery slope is once prioritization is allowed, the regulation and management of that belongs to _someone_ -- and whomever that is, is going to be highly susceptible to monetary interests. How we control that aspect of prioritisation is the question...
What they didn't tell you is that Mary & Jesus were primarily looked up as a means to find ridiculous statements which can be used to argue why Religion is bullshit.
China produces more TW-h per year than any other country at this point in time. There is already a HUGE effort in China to improve on that further. This is a nonsensical piece, the US is still the world's leader in terms of human waste production and CO2 emissions *per person* - I'm not sure what the political/fearmongering purpose behind this is but I'm sure there is one.
Now he has another problem attached to his name, 1) it's rare anyone would have searched for his name for any reason whatsoever, and 2) now people will see him as this big trouble maker and want to avoid doing business with him in any way lest they also be dragged up through to the higher EU courts..
Would you rather be known as a potential hot potato, or have a 15 year old (or whatever it was) financial issue that can very obviously be proven to be no longer the case?
If you're googling specific people's names, maybe. I honestly don't google specific people's names that much, so this whole debacle doesn't bother me personally. There's a precedent and ideology in the mix, but seriously, who goes around searching Mario González.
is how the "Right to be Forgotten" started.
"Google v González" - Ok, so, this dude petitions to have his name struck from all internet search records because when his name is searched, it turns up records of a previous debt issue where he owed money, and as a result, the government forced sale of his property.
He wanted to be removed from the search!
What's the result? Precedent set, law passed, and now this fool is known notoriously as the guy who owed money and had forced property sale and whined about it to try to hide history all the way to the supreme court. All of this information is, of course, fully searchable.
Good job González.
There are lots of gizmos and gadgets dumped on the market in China. I've seen several instances where US/other companies take given gadgets, rename, and slang 'em on the local market at well jacked up prices with the addition of going through regulatory/inspection procedures as required.
There are tons of little single wheel with pegs devices I see people zipping around on, I just google'd for image and this came up:
http://www.airebike.com/airwhe...
It's equally hoverboard-like. By which I mean absolutely nothing hoverboard like and deceptive to even mention 'hover' in the title.
Currently they are being export/imported. Typically they are sold into HK - then brought back from HK and sold online or to shops for retail sales. That has been the model for the last decade - there is no hiding the fact all the consoles/games/hardware you want is available in China mainland, just as there's no hiding the fact you can buy pirated DVDs openly on the street in some areas, it's just kinda how it is. They don't allow Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft to _sell the consoles here_ -- but they do allow vendors to simply pick up their own supply line from HK and bring the consoles over for sale. There's nothing "banned" about it, beyond some complex political bureaucratic nonsense that the rest of the world would gasp at and go "Oh my, banned consoles! So oppressed in China!"
My friend was visiting me in Sichuan 3 weeks ago. Took him to a "DVD shop" - this one is a room on the parkade floor beneath a computer plaza. My buddy took a picture. The guy who owned it quickly grabbed a stack of blueray movies, posed with them up spread like cards at the entrance (full view of shelves of DVDs visible behind him) and a big toothy grin, and happily sold us a stack of movies for just over a buck (USD) each. Reality and "announced as banned" are two different things in China.
Must have been in some weird part of town. There are entire markets dedicated to knock-off-whatever, same market area will have fake golf clubs brands of clothing bags devices etc, but honestly, I've _never_ seen a "knock-off console" in over 10 years. If you go to a tech plaza, not ghetto knock-off wonderlands, I doubt you'd see 'knock offs' either:P except the games, which are typically stored in drawers in stacks, with booklets for you to flip thru to find the ones you want on the counters. You can also order consoles off TaoBao (like China's ebay) or JD (China's amazon), which is where I bought my last xbox 360.
The consoles however, are a premium price above what you'd pay overseas, about 20% more.
Except there is a huge difference. I don't have time to educate you on the differences between fully-digital decentralized bitcoins and companies that have gone public.
Go to any computer market in China and there is typically a whole floor or large area dedicated to games. In Chengdu, for example, at the digital plaza computer market, there are maybe 8 or 9 mini-shops in the plaza which sell every console available, hardware accessories, and booklets with sleeves/printed covers to pick out SKUs of the pirated copy of game you'd like.
Banned. Hardly enforced.
By definition, BitCoin is money. Troll more elsewhere.
"any article or substance used as a medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment, as checks on demand deposit or cowrie."
The less people will care. The less people will remember their lost money, and the less people will be able to do about it.
I think we're close to that point where those who lost have accepted it and those who followed the story stopped, no lessons learned, look at all the thriving bitcoin exchanges & online wallets. Like school shootings, we're about over it til the next big one hits.
2 things:
Obviously it was a joke.
A product is the sum of it's components. By significantly improving one, whether the worst or best of the bunch, the product becomes, by definition, *less crappy*.
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I don't know why you think that because in "the country in which you reside" tips are non-taxed, they're not taxed elsewhere. In fact, in the USA, ALL tips are taxable income. Including this fictitious scenario's $20. So - to digress back to the original argument on this thread, yes - it's breaking the law. In addition, using "lets assume" with a randomly pulled from your ass percentage as a counter-argument which you have labelled as isolated incidents because they (also assumed) came from the news is hardly convincing.
At least then when the smart enough people involved in the process to determine whether FAT PEOPLE are disabled and deserve protection, they can say "What the fuck is wrong with you" to their coworker or boss that proposed it - and not get fired for doing so.
OH... MY... GOD... You mean people drive TO the airport, BACK from the airport, and TO the airport again? And..... let me guess, BACK again???? Oh no, you say, carrying passengers for less than us fellow cabbies extort? It's a disaster. Quick - get on social medias and tweet out to our fellow cabbies, get our lobbyists on the phone and let our representatives know they wont be getting that whopping $1500 campaign donation check to do our bidding any more if they don't shut this shit down ASAP.
Tried tested and failed. China constantly cracks down on new 'evasive' methods of communicating. This year they used tons of other phrases, and were promptly blocked, like "this day" or "may 35th" or "that day" or "spring to summer" or other various 'elusive' terms...blocked. In addition they tried to hide messages in porn. This is all part of the tit-for-tat that, well, often just ends in more and more blockage and nothing more.
Don't feed the troll mate. :D
Regardless of the connection package, our VPN restriction (I'm assuming you use a European or North American server) largely comes down to geography..so the 1Mbit 8Mbit 20Mbit 100Mbit packages offered by the telecoms here largely end up with similar ping and sometimes similar bandwidth over VPN at the end of the day. In-country direct connections, however, the advertised speed is much closer to being realized..
Ok back to the facts - you want strong environmental laws? How about EXECUTION for heavy polluters in violation of regulations? Yes, China will execute company heads who are involved in pollution violations. Just like China executed heads of the melamine milk scandal. I don't see US executing corporate heads - or prosecuting anyone from any corporation who constantly breaks the law / regulations out the window / laughs at the country as they drive profit and buy politicians, and sneer at regulations as being 'for the small people'... want to talk about tough? I think we know who wins that one. :D
Some set up constant tunnels. Personally I use StrongVPN when not at my office or on office network, so it's sorta like this: Most of my internet use does not involve a proxy OR VPN, and is perfectly fine. When I need YouTube or Hulu or something, I open StrongVPN L2TP through San Fran. When I'm at work I'm typically going thru a proxy for common services we use like google services or whatever and need no configuration on whichever device I am using. My network connection at home is 20mbit fibre, typically when I'm NOT on VPN I can download torrents or stream videos from non-youtube sources fast, when I AM on VPN I can typically stream high quality YouTube/Hulu without buffering issues..gotta have me some Shark Tank! I've been primarily in China since 2003, and can tell you - for anyone slightly technically inclined, the GFW is not an issue, and never really has been.. the occasional biggest problem is when they try to disrupt encrypted traffic and it grinds VPNs to a snailmail pace.
Essentially agree, the slippery slope is once prioritization is allowed, the regulation and management of that belongs to _someone_ -- and whomever that is, is going to be highly susceptible to monetary interests. How we control that aspect of prioritisation is the question...
What they didn't tell you is that Mary & Jesus were primarily looked up as a means to find ridiculous statements which can be used to argue why Religion is bullshit.
China produces more TW-h per year than any other country at this point in time. There is already a HUGE effort in China to improve on that further. This is a nonsensical piece, the US is still the world's leader in terms of human waste production and CO2 emissions *per person* - I'm not sure what the political/fearmongering purpose behind this is but I'm sure there is one.
Um.... I think the right way to put it is: "given the number of catholic priests/ex-priests in the world 41k really isn't too many is it?"
Now he has another problem attached to his name, 1) it's rare anyone would have searched for his name for any reason whatsoever, and 2) now people will see him as this big trouble maker and want to avoid doing business with him in any way lest they also be dragged up through to the higher EU courts.. Would you rather be known as a potential hot potato, or have a 15 year old (or whatever it was) financial issue that can very obviously be proven to be no longer the case?
If you're googling specific people's names, maybe. I honestly don't google specific people's names that much, so this whole debacle doesn't bother me personally. There's a precedent and ideology in the mix, but seriously, who goes around searching Mario González.
is how the "Right to be Forgotten" started. "Google v González" - Ok, so, this dude petitions to have his name struck from all internet search records because when his name is searched, it turns up records of a previous debt issue where he owed money, and as a result, the government forced sale of his property. He wanted to be removed from the search! What's the result? Precedent set, law passed, and now this fool is known notoriously as the guy who owed money and had forced property sale and whined about it to try to hide history all the way to the supreme court. All of this information is, of course, fully searchable. Good job González.
There are lots of gizmos and gadgets dumped on the market in China. I've seen several instances where US/other companies take given gadgets, rename, and slang 'em on the local market at well jacked up prices with the addition of going through regulatory/inspection procedures as required. There are tons of little single wheel with pegs devices I see people zipping around on, I just google'd for image and this came up: http://www.airebike.com/airwhe... It's equally hoverboard-like. By which I mean absolutely nothing hoverboard like and deceptive to even mention 'hover' in the title.
Currently they are being export/imported. Typically they are sold into HK - then brought back from HK and sold online or to shops for retail sales. That has been the model for the last decade - there is no hiding the fact all the consoles/games/hardware you want is available in China mainland, just as there's no hiding the fact you can buy pirated DVDs openly on the street in some areas, it's just kinda how it is. They don't allow Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft to _sell the consoles here_ -- but they do allow vendors to simply pick up their own supply line from HK and bring the consoles over for sale. There's nothing "banned" about it, beyond some complex political bureaucratic nonsense that the rest of the world would gasp at and go "Oh my, banned consoles! So oppressed in China!" My friend was visiting me in Sichuan 3 weeks ago. Took him to a "DVD shop" - this one is a room on the parkade floor beneath a computer plaza. My buddy took a picture. The guy who owned it quickly grabbed a stack of blueray movies, posed with them up spread like cards at the entrance (full view of shelves of DVDs visible behind him) and a big toothy grin, and happily sold us a stack of movies for just over a buck (USD) each. Reality and "announced as banned" are two different things in China.
Must have been in some weird part of town. There are entire markets dedicated to knock-off-whatever, same market area will have fake golf clubs brands of clothing bags devices etc, but honestly, I've _never_ seen a "knock-off console" in over 10 years. If you go to a tech plaza, not ghetto knock-off wonderlands, I doubt you'd see 'knock offs' either :P except the games, which are typically stored in drawers in stacks, with booklets for you to flip thru to find the ones you want on the counters. You can also order consoles off TaoBao (like China's ebay) or JD (China's amazon), which is where I bought my last xbox 360.
The consoles however, are a premium price above what you'd pay overseas, about 20% more.
The exchange symbol for Bitcoins. Thanks, trollbait.
Except there is a huge difference. I don't have time to educate you on the differences between fully-digital decentralized bitcoins and companies that have gone public.
That process is irrelevant towards defining BitCoin as money. By the very definition of what money is and what money is used for - BTC qualifies.
Go to any computer market in China and there is typically a whole floor or large area dedicated to games. In Chengdu, for example, at the digital plaza computer market, there are maybe 8 or 9 mini-shops in the plaza which sell every console available, hardware accessories, and booklets with sleeves/printed covers to pick out SKUs of the pirated copy of game you'd like. Banned. Hardly enforced.
By definition, BitCoin is money. Troll more elsewhere. "any article or substance used as a medium of exchange, measure of wealth, or means of payment, as checks on demand deposit or cowrie."
In addition, should we eat non-invasive species? Um... YES.
The less people will care. The less people will remember their lost money, and the less people will be able to do about it. I think we're close to that point where those who lost have accepted it and those who followed the story stopped, no lessons learned, look at all the thriving bitcoin exchanges & online wallets. Like school shootings, we're about over it til the next big one hits.
2 things: Obviously it was a joke. A product is the sum of it's components. By significantly improving one, whether the worst or best of the bunch, the product becomes, by definition, *less crappy*.