Yeah. I had a crap job at a call center back in '98. They had a bunch of documentation lying around for adjacent departments. I found one for this football game - it listed a whole bunch of genuinely stupid issues in the game. After most of them, some idiot had gone and made up some reason why it couldn't be fixed. I'm talking about minor UI issues and things like that, not screen screwups or anything. Issues that could be fixed quite easily. I swear, the guy was going out of his way to dream up something even remotely connected, so that he could write off the issue and avoid fixing it. Glad I never bought that program.
Well, it just goes to show you, you can talk to a bigot all day long, and you won't change his views one bit. I might as well try to tell you that Chinese people place a high value on human life.
Let's see - "In China, they just don't value human life the way that we do." This is a bigoted statement, based (like all bigotry) on ignorance. Change China to Texas, and suddenly it's not bigoted?
The only way to defeat "terrorism" is by getting rid of interventionism and changing the foreign policy.
Indeed, this is the stated goal of most terrorist groups. When did giving in to an aggressor's demands ever "defeat" anyone? Would not this course of action be called appeasement?
Nah...actually, the cutoff of Banco Delta really put the hurt on the North Koreans. No money to purchase luxuries for the elite = much much less support for Kim Jong Il. The only way for them to make money is by arms sales, drugs, and counterfeiting U.S. dollars. All of that money came into the country through Banco Delta, and now that it's gone, things are a lot more difficult for the ruling clique.
If you think political ideals can be softened or swayed with some of that fine American cognac... then you're sorely mistaken.
North Korea isn't a political ideal of any kind. It's simply power for power's sake - North Korea is what it would be like if the Mafia (or any other organized crime gang) managed to sieze control of your country. Kim Jong Il bribes a lot of people to keep his regime in power. And the bribes are luxury goods such as iPods and plasma TVs. Think of it - you already have six villas, an army of servants, absolute power of life and death over an entire country - what more could you want? Of course...the latest nifty gadgets that the imperialists have come up with. The elites that are allowed to travel internationally know what's going on outside their countrywide gulag.
I was a foreign student in Japan. Overstaying your visa gets you immigration detention and a 5-year ban on reentry. How can you "work under the table" when your visa legally allows 20 hours of work per week?
Living abroad, you really get to see just what idiots Americans are, compared to the rest of the world's population. Their women are the worst kind of racists, refusing to stay with any local men.
You must be American. Other countries, such as Japan, take their immigration laws quite seriously. American immigration law is a joke, the Americans can't even control their own borders.
Yeah...an Islamic government repressing its citizens is just like the US government. In every way, an exact parallel can be drawn between the two actions. They are 100% morally equivalent.
It's the old "China is always right and Tibet is historically a part of China" crowd. I run into them somewhat often. They are irrational and frequently attempt to change the subject when China's shortcomings are mentioned. It is pointless to argue with them.
50 cents an hour is 1100RMB per month, assuming a 40 hour workweek. Of course, being the China expert that you are, you know that everyone here works 6 days a week, and frequently more than 8 hours a day. Also, you have the conversion rate completely backward.
Let me guess, your legitimate DVDs were bought in America, Region 1? And China is Region 7. I wonder why they don't work...
I can even read this post and all the comments, even the ones that bash the Chinese Government. I don't think it's because the censors are asleep today.
No, it's because THIS WEBSITE IS IN ENGLISH. Duh! You think the Chinese censors give a shit about what overseas websites talk about in their native languages? Hint: No. Try zonaeuropa.com sometime.
I write this b/c I think there is a tremendous amount of misunderstanding in the US of what it is really like to live in China.
Yeah, because you're the first foreigner to ever come to China. *rolls eyes* This is known as "Marco Polo Syndrome", and is a common affliction of the soft-minded foreigner.
Please. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that ignorant bigots have false ideas about what it's like in any other place than in their own city.
Because the Democratic Party is the party of gay people. Any gay Republican is the same as an "Uncle Tom" - in other words, a gay person who sells out his own people's interests to help people who are opposed to his lifestyle. It's the same with black Republicans, female Republicans, Muslim Republicans, and pretty much any Republican who's not a male college-educated Caucasian (or a pro-military redneck chickenhawk). It's self-degrading, and one can only imagine what kind of psychological damage someone had to endure to make them debase themselves like this.
It doesn't matter - you'll never max out that pipe, anyway. I have an 8Mb connection at work, and it gets about 4k/s outside of China. Inside China, the speed is great, but who reads Chinese web sites, or downloads files from inside China?
Uh - China doesn't have completely free networks. Not even close. Residential service costs 80RMB per month (5% of a person's monthly income) and it frequently fails. Not even mentioning the censorship imposed by the benevolent socialist government.
Many of those on the internet blacklist are countries that are regularly criticised by human rights groups, such as China and Burma
First of all, it's Myannmar, not Burma. Second of all, I hope that the USA is on the list...it's one of the "countries that are regularly criticised by human rights groups" for such things as torture, racism, warmongering, profiteering, and so on. (I can't read the linked article - it appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China)
What's the difference between those two? A generation ago, homosexuality was considered a deviant sexual practice. Today, pedophilia is considered a deviant sexual practice. It is argued that pedophilia harms children. Why does it harm them? Because it is condemned by society. Why is it condemned by society? Because it harms children. A circular argument. If pedophilia was not considered deviant, it would cease to harm children. Clearly, what is needed is a campaign of public awareness, much like the long campaign waged to make homosexuality socially acceptable. One day, we will look back and consider ourselves barbaric for denying the sexual liberation of children for so long.
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Why on Earth do you list a URL that points to a website with zero content?
That's because Nethack is perfect.
Yeah. I had a crap job at a call center back in '98. They had a bunch of documentation lying around for adjacent departments. I found one for this football game - it listed a whole bunch of genuinely stupid issues in the game. After most of them, some idiot had gone and made up some reason why it couldn't be fixed. I'm talking about minor UI issues and things like that, not screen screwups or anything. Issues that could be fixed quite easily. I swear, the guy was going out of his way to dream up something even remotely connected, so that he could write off the issue and avoid fixing it. Glad I never bought that program.
Well, it just goes to show you, you can talk to a bigot all day long, and you won't change his views one bit. I might as well try to tell you that Chinese people place a high value on human life.
Let's see - "In China, they just don't value human life the way that we do." This is a bigoted statement, based (like all bigotry) on ignorance. Change China to Texas, and suddenly it's not bigoted?
A misanthrope is a person who hates or distrusts mankind and in most cases his or her own humanity. Limiting this hate to one nationality is bigotry.
Let me see - if you say it about Asian countries, it's racist. If you say it about Texas, then it's not bigoted?
Indeed, this is the stated goal of most terrorist groups. When did giving in to an aggressor's demands ever "defeat" anyone? Would not this course of action be called appeasement?
If you think political ideals can be softened or swayed with some of that fine American cognac... then you're sorely mistaken.
North Korea isn't a political ideal of any kind. It's simply power for power's sake - North Korea is what it would be like if the Mafia (or any other organized crime gang) managed to sieze control of your country. Kim Jong Il bribes a lot of people to keep his regime in power. And the bribes are luxury goods such as iPods and plasma TVs. Think of it - you already have six villas, an army of servants, absolute power of life and death over an entire country - what more could you want? Of course...the latest nifty gadgets that the imperialists have come up with. The elites that are allowed to travel internationally know what's going on outside their countrywide gulag.
Living abroad, you really get to see just what idiots Americans are, compared to the rest of the world's population. Their women are the worst kind of racists, refusing to stay with any local men.
You must be American. Other countries, such as Japan, take their immigration laws quite seriously. American immigration law is a joke, the Americans can't even control their own borders.
Yeah...an Islamic government repressing its citizens is just like the US government. In every way, an exact parallel can be drawn between the two actions. They are 100% morally equivalent.
CallerID? Weak. Can you set your own ANI? Now THAT'S cloaking.
Ah. I figured - the old "moral equivalence" saw. Yeah, keep on self-criticizing. I live in China, and it's much worse here. Believe it or not.
Tibet is historically a part of America? What?!?
It's the old "China is always right and Tibet is historically a part of China" crowd. I run into them somewhat often. They are irrational and frequently attempt to change the subject when China's shortcomings are mentioned. It is pointless to argue with them.
Let me guess, your legitimate DVDs were bought in America, Region 1? And China is Region 7. I wonder why they don't work...
No, it's because THIS WEBSITE IS IN ENGLISH. Duh! You think the Chinese censors give a shit about what overseas websites talk about in their native languages? Hint: No. Try zonaeuropa.com sometime.
I write this b/c I think there is a tremendous amount of misunderstanding in the US of what it is really like to live in China.
Yeah, because you're the first foreigner to ever come to China. *rolls eyes* This is known as "Marco Polo Syndrome", and is a common affliction of the soft-minded foreigner.
2. People like you made Angelides lose the race to a neocon. Great move, there.
Please. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that ignorant bigots have false ideas about what it's like in any other place than in their own city.
Because the Democratic Party is the party of gay people. Any gay Republican is the same as an "Uncle Tom" - in other words, a gay person who sells out his own people's interests to help people who are opposed to his lifestyle. It's the same with black Republicans, female Republicans, Muslim Republicans, and pretty much any Republican who's not a male college-educated Caucasian (or a pro-military redneck chickenhawk). It's self-degrading, and one can only imagine what kind of psychological damage someone had to endure to make them debase themselves like this.
It doesn't matter - you'll never max out that pipe, anyway. I have an 8Mb connection at work, and it gets about 4k/s outside of China. Inside China, the speed is great, but who reads Chinese web sites, or downloads files from inside China?
Uh - China doesn't have completely free networks. Not even close. Residential service costs 80RMB per month (5% of a person's monthly income) and it frequently fails. Not even mentioning the censorship imposed by the benevolent socialist government.
First of all, it's Myannmar, not Burma. Second of all, I hope that the USA is on the list...it's one of the "countries that are regularly criticised by human rights groups" for such things as torture, racism, warmongering, profiteering, and so on. (I can't read the linked article - it appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China)
What's the difference between those two? A generation ago, homosexuality was considered a deviant sexual practice. Today, pedophilia is considered a deviant sexual practice. It is argued that pedophilia harms children. Why does it harm them? Because it is condemned by society. Why is it condemned by society? Because it harms children. A circular argument. If pedophilia was not considered deviant, it would cease to harm children. Clearly, what is needed is a campaign of public awareness, much like the long campaign waged to make homosexuality socially acceptable. One day, we will look back and consider ourselves barbaric for denying the sexual liberation of children for so long.