Hint: science majors are overwhelmingly white and Asian. It's not a secret why such a man would support this. What have science majors ever done for the African-American community?
Why does anyone idolize Richard Feynman? Did anyone read his book? He's a hardcore male chauvinist pig. He actually seems to be proud of it! Why is Feynman's reputation not in the toilet like other sexist pricks?
What we need is a return of the intelligence test in order to vote. With an exception for groups traditionally discriminated against, of course. This should eliminate a large portion of the racist voters holding us back from true progress.
Yeah, God forbid that I should let things I have personally witnessed color my viewpoints. Shocking!
You went on an off-topic healthcare rant and lost me in the second paragraph. The audacity in calling someone else intellectually lazy! Ideology...yeah I didn't say a damn thing about that. What's the phrase about projecting our insecurities onto others and showing the whole world what we're really thinking?
Overstated inefficiency of government organizations? I see we have never worked for one. I have. The difference between government and business is night and day. Breathtaking inefficiency, in areas I would never have considered inefficiency could exist. Seriously, it's quite creative.
The "arriving at your destination drenched in sweat" part is quite enough to disqualify this vehicle. I tried actually riding a bicycle for transportation and quickly discovered this. I note also that this vehicle discriminates against the differently-abled.
Yeah, God forbid the rules should be relaxed during a disaster. No, the law is the law for a reason, and if anything enforcement should be stepped up after a big storm.
Capslock is used in Asian language input. I use it daily. Maybe better to leave your Western-centrism at the door and learn some fucking multiculturalism?
This is what happens when dams are built. It doesn't matter if it's meant to prevent flooding or generate electricity. Either way, animals are genocided and humans benefit. Maybe we could use less electricity so we don't need so many damn dams.
Then the citizens of Texas need to pass a law, using the usual techniques, allowing international monitors special privileges during election time. Problem solved. If Texas wanted to be an asshole, they'd just make arrests during election day instead of issuing a warning beforehand.
Syria and Texas ain't even in the same ballpark, son. The issue is "internationals" barging into someone's house and expecting the same deferential treatment they get everywhere. Texans are fairly Lawful Neutral when it comes to laws. Good or bad, obey the law, don't give a shit who you are. I live abroad and I'm expected to not only know but follow all local laws.
An excellent example of "spin". A world in which people are not expected to follow state and local laws, simply because they are "international" and above such petty annoyances. Crazy, but here we are, eh?
What's going to happen is, about ten seconds after this technology is deployed, the cell phone companies will halve the number of cell towers using the argument that the new tech makes them unnecessary. Your battery is again drained as weaker signals mean more amplification is necessary.
See, I don't buy this. Whenever an (R) does something bad, it is incontrovertible proof that they are uniquely and wholly evil. When a (D) does something bad, both parties are the same and the other side is no better.
Start watching for this phenomenon, you'll begin to see it everywhere.
If that happened to New Orleans, the Buffalonians would be laughing their asses off at the hicks from the sticks who don't know basic life skills like driving on ice. Seen it before. There would also be racist and classist comments.
A lot of butthurt in this thread - maybe for once the shoe's on the other foot and the laughers are getting a dose of their own medicine.
It seems that you share her preconceptions and are familiar with the narratives. Typical Westerner - come to China to save it from itself. Believing that ACLU values are "universal" when they are anything but.
The mag was before, during, and after the Olympics. The color code thing came straight from Beijing. I'm not interested in talking with Foreign Policy magazine - one thing I learned from my foray into publishing was just how much journalists lie and cherry-pick your quotes to support the story they already wrote. Been there, done that, no thanks.
How about some tales of Black Sunday? That would be some good reading. The whole article is a slashvertisement anyway, I was expecting an Amazon link to the book that's being promoted.
It's not about robots.txt. It's about them getting $$$$ from Google. If they wanted to block Google, they could. They don't want to, they just want cash. Who can blame them? Google is a megacorp of the kind that people protest all the time. Oh, boo hoo, cry me a river because the megacorp finally ran into a country where they couldn't buy the laws they wanted.
Jeez, not a mention of what China actually censors. Did she actually run a magazine? I ran an English magazine in China. Here's what my censor told me:
The forbidden topics are in three categories, color-coded for your convenience. The colors have cultural significance, if you're in to that sort of thing. The first, YELLOW. Yellow is pornography (think of "blue movies" and you'll get the color reference). Don't print anything too sexy. This one's pretty easy. Moving on: RED. Anti-government activity. Falun Gong, Tibetan separatists, Xinjiang separatists, talking about local unrest, protests, etc. Anything that makes the government look bad, basically. BLACK, mafia and crime. As the mafia competes with the government for authority and taxes, this one seems a no-brainer as well. Don't report about the gambling den that takes up an entire floor of a local 5-star hotel and you'll be fine.
For all other topics not covered above, follow the lead of Xinhua News.
I know I'm going to get some dumbass in here saying something like "but Chinese publications break these rules all the time!" Yes. Chinese publications. Foreigners in China, especially those in communications, have this obsession with overthrowing the system...in English. Basically, nobody cares about what's written in English, and few people read it. Even foreigners don't usually read English magazines. The Chinese government doesn't care too much about what happens in foreign languages. In fact, they're more worried about foreign influence spoiling Chinese culture than any revolution sparked by an angry ABC managing editor. "Zhong shang Ying xia" was how they put it, "Chinese up and English down" literally, or in the American vernacular "G's up and hoes down". And you ain't the G's.
I was more disturbed by the article and how the lady was just determined to hate her censor. Why? Her Western mindset, of course, and the ingrained "hero journalists vs. mustache-twirling government villains" mentality. Censors aren't evil. They're just government workers, that's all. Actually, having a censor is GOOD because if anything goes wrong, you can point to her and say, "but she APPROVED it!" Trying to dehumanize such a person as "teh CoMM13z"...well, it's just not what I would expect from a journalist. And the part at the end where she thinks the lady is looking for a "lifeline"...bah. I've done the exact same thing before, I call it "planting the seed." You see someone who's obviously going on to bigger and better things in life and you give them a nod and say, "call if you need anyone like me." Hey, it could work, right? I've had some longshots pay off before. But this journalist is so eager to be utterly depressed by seeing her tormentor exposed with feet of clay, she never bothers to question her preconceptions.
Yeah, I don't think the number of portable devices being recharged is going to cause the global apocalypse. But keep that part about regret burning bright in your mind, it certainly isn't coloring your thought processes.
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Hint: science majors are overwhelmingly white and Asian. It's not a secret why such a man would support this. What have science majors ever done for the African-American community?
Why does anyone idolize Richard Feynman? Did anyone read his book? He's a hardcore male chauvinist pig. He actually seems to be proud of it! Why is Feynman's reputation not in the toilet like other sexist pricks?
That's greengrocers' apostrophe, dumbass.
What we need is a return of the intelligence test in order to vote. With an exception for groups traditionally discriminated against, of course. This should eliminate a large portion of the racist voters holding us back from true progress.
Yeah, God forbid that I should let things I have personally witnessed color my viewpoints. Shocking!
You went on an off-topic healthcare rant and lost me in the second paragraph. The audacity in calling someone else intellectually lazy! Ideology...yeah I didn't say a damn thing about that. What's the phrase about projecting our insecurities onto others and showing the whole world what we're really thinking?
Dude, you have no freaking idea what you're talking about. As a businessman, I'll take cash any day.
Overstated inefficiency of government organizations? I see we have never worked for one. I have. The difference between government and business is night and day. Breathtaking inefficiency, in areas I would never have considered inefficiency could exist. Seriously, it's quite creative.
The "arriving at your destination drenched in sweat" part is quite enough to disqualify this vehicle. I tried actually riding a bicycle for transportation and quickly discovered this. I note also that this vehicle discriminates against the differently-abled.
Yeah, God forbid the rules should be relaxed during a disaster. No, the law is the law for a reason, and if anything enforcement should be stepped up after a big storm.
Here we go again. The PRI in Mexico rigged elections for 80 years using nothing but pens and cardboard boxes.
Capslock is used in Asian language input. I use it daily. Maybe better to leave your Western-centrism at the door and learn some fucking multiculturalism?
This is what happens when dams are built. It doesn't matter if it's meant to prevent flooding or generate electricity. Either way, animals are genocided and humans benefit. Maybe we could use less electricity so we don't need so many damn dams.
Then the citizens of Texas need to pass a law, using the usual techniques, allowing international monitors special privileges during election time. Problem solved. If Texas wanted to be an asshole, they'd just make arrests during election day instead of issuing a warning beforehand.
Syria and Texas ain't even in the same ballpark, son. The issue is "internationals" barging into someone's house and expecting the same deferential treatment they get everywhere. Texans are fairly Lawful Neutral when it comes to laws. Good or bad, obey the law, don't give a shit who you are. I live abroad and I'm expected to not only know but follow all local laws.
Everyone says this. It gets old. The PRI in Mexico rigged elections for 80 years using nothing but paper ballots.
An excellent example of "spin". A world in which people are not expected to follow state and local laws, simply because they are "international" and above such petty annoyances. Crazy, but here we are, eh?
What's going to happen is, about ten seconds after this technology is deployed, the cell phone companies will halve the number of cell towers using the argument that the new tech makes them unnecessary. Your battery is again drained as weaker signals mean more amplification is necessary.
"they are just as bad as democrats"
See, I don't buy this. Whenever an (R) does something bad, it is incontrovertible proof that they are uniquely and wholly evil. When a (D) does something bad, both parties are the same and the other side is no better.
Start watching for this phenomenon, you'll begin to see it everywhere.
US is nowhere near Chinese levels of corruption. Does Obama have anywhere near the wealth of Wen Jiabao? If he was corrupt to the same level he would.
If that happened to New Orleans, the Buffalonians would be laughing their asses off at the hicks from the sticks who don't know basic life skills like driving on ice. Seen it before. There would also be racist and classist comments.
A lot of butthurt in this thread - maybe for once the shoe's on the other foot and the laughers are getting a dose of their own medicine.
It seems that you share her preconceptions and are familiar with the narratives. Typical Westerner - come to China to save it from itself. Believing that ACLU values are "universal" when they are anything but.
The mag was before, during, and after the Olympics. The color code thing came straight from Beijing. I'm not interested in talking with Foreign Policy magazine - one thing I learned from my foray into publishing was just how much journalists lie and cherry-pick your quotes to support the story they already wrote. Been there, done that, no thanks.
How about some tales of Black Sunday? That would be some good reading. The whole article is a slashvertisement anyway, I was expecting an Amazon link to the book that's being promoted.
It's not about robots.txt. It's about them getting $$$$ from Google. If they wanted to block Google, they could. They don't want to, they just want cash. Who can blame them? Google is a megacorp of the kind that people protest all the time. Oh, boo hoo, cry me a river because the megacorp finally ran into a country where they couldn't buy the laws they wanted.
Jeez, not a mention of what China actually censors. Did she actually run a magazine? I ran an English magazine in China. Here's what my censor told me:
The forbidden topics are in three categories, color-coded for your convenience. The colors have cultural significance, if you're in to that sort of thing. The first, YELLOW. Yellow is pornography (think of "blue movies" and you'll get the color reference). Don't print anything too sexy. This one's pretty easy. Moving on: RED. Anti-government activity. Falun Gong, Tibetan separatists, Xinjiang separatists, talking about local unrest, protests, etc. Anything that makes the government look bad, basically. BLACK, mafia and crime. As the mafia competes with the government for authority and taxes, this one seems a no-brainer as well. Don't report about the gambling den that takes up an entire floor of a local 5-star hotel and you'll be fine.
For all other topics not covered above, follow the lead of Xinhua News.
I know I'm going to get some dumbass in here saying something like "but Chinese publications break these rules all the time!" Yes. Chinese publications. Foreigners in China, especially those in communications, have this obsession with overthrowing the system...in English. Basically, nobody cares about what's written in English, and few people read it. Even foreigners don't usually read English magazines. The Chinese government doesn't care too much about what happens in foreign languages. In fact, they're more worried about foreign influence spoiling Chinese culture than any revolution sparked by an angry ABC managing editor. "Zhong shang Ying xia" was how they put it, "Chinese up and English down" literally, or in the American vernacular "G's up and hoes down". And you ain't the G's.
I was more disturbed by the article and how the lady was just determined to hate her censor. Why? Her Western mindset, of course, and the ingrained "hero journalists vs. mustache-twirling government villains" mentality. Censors aren't evil. They're just government workers, that's all. Actually, having a censor is GOOD because if anything goes wrong, you can point to her and say, "but she APPROVED it!" Trying to dehumanize such a person as "teh CoMM13z"...well, it's just not what I would expect from a journalist. And the part at the end where she thinks the lady is looking for a "lifeline"...bah. I've done the exact same thing before, I call it "planting the seed." You see someone who's obviously going on to bigger and better things in life and you give them a nod and say, "call if you need anyone like me." Hey, it could work, right? I've had some longshots pay off before. But this journalist is so eager to be utterly depressed by seeing her tormentor exposed with feet of clay, she never bothers to question her preconceptions.
Yeah, I don't think the number of portable devices being recharged is going to cause the global apocalypse. But keep that part about regret burning bright in your mind, it certainly isn't coloring your thought processes.
And the No True Scotsman fallacy rides to the rescue again. Where would socialism be without it?