Uncensored for the rest of the world. Search (tiananmen) and the connection resets and you're locked out of the google.com.hk domain for a few minutes. I'm sure this happens at the ISP level because the connection reset is immediate.
In fact, I doubt this message will even submit now that I've typed those words in here. Here's hoping it works.
I'm reading Slashdot from China at the moment. That link causes an immediate connection reset from the ISP (Chrome: Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.) This happens every time something forbidden is accessed, and the entire domain will be inaccessible from this IP address for about 10 minutes
Google may not be censoring itself but when the censorship happens at the ISP level there's nothing they can do.
What is freedom of speech but the acknowledgment that controversial, unpopular, or provocative ideas nonetheless have a right to be aired in the public sphere? What is the Chinese way of pursuing social harmony but the active suppression of controversial, unpopular, and provocative ideas from being aired in the public sphere?
I recognize that the Chinese government has improved vastly, especially over the last 2 decades. But, contrary to your claim, the Chinese government does indeed oppose freedom of speech -- and it is precisely due to that single issue. There is no such thing as 99% freedom. Either there is freedom or there isn't.
Boy that's rather dismissive. I suspect that if progress in intellectual pursuits resulted in as much endorphin and oxytocin release as progress in social interaction does, more people would jump on it.
I worked in a small city in China last year (Shaoxing - a leading textile manufacturing area south of Shanghai) Exchange rate with USD is 6.8 at the moment. So 0.65USD x 6.8 x 9hr/day = about ¥40 a day. Times 6 days a week is about ¥950 per month, which is typical.
Typical income for a local office worker is ¥1500 to ¥2000 per month, ¥800-1200 for a migrant or factory worker. Compare that to a relative of mine who owns an export business in the city, he makes around $20000 per month (USD and 4 zeros) after deducting office wages, expenses, and bribes -- which are partially offset by the 13% tax return he gets as subsidy for his branch of export. He's still a small player compared to the larger business owners in the city.
Some numbers on the cost of living (relevant as of february of this year): Average apartment (the minimum quality that a city local would tolerate) - ¥1000 Shitty apartment (the min quality that a migrant worker would tolerate - bare concrete, at least 5 to a bathroom)- ¥500 Domestic rice - ¥4/kg bulk Imported oatmeal - a little under ¥30/kg packaged Domestic oatmeal - under ¥20/kg packaged Cabbage - ¥1.5 per half kilo (1.1lbs) Bokchoy - ¥3 per half kilo Tomatoes - ¥3.5 per half kilo Eggs - ¥3.5 per half kilo Pork - ¥6 to ¥18 per half kilo depending on cut KFC (the most popular fast food) - ¥6 per piece of fried chicken, ¥15 for sandwich combo meal with small drink and fries Chinese-style fast food meal (cafeteria style food that office people get during lunch) - ¥12 for a hygienic place (maybe pass inspection if in the USA), ¥6 for a place that at least wipes the tables, ¥1.50 for rice and cabbage. You typically have to buy your own health insurance, and even then a hospital checkup would cost ¥40 to ¥100. City buses are ¥1, or ¥0.8 if you buy a pass. Cheap cell phone plan is about ¥100/month
As ratios of monthly income, it's apparent that comfortable wages for the average citizen have a long way to go.
My usual favorite, FreeGate, stopped working around August of this year. There are sporadic times where the client software will find 1 server with >1000ms pings, which makes it effectively useless.
I tried every other free proxy client out there to no avail and gave up soon after. Apparently they're all blocked now.
I've got nothing now. No more youtube, no more boobs in gis along with 90% of other perfectly legitimate pictures (not to say that boobs are never legitimate), certain word searches in google will give me a reset connection error right after giving me a millisecond flash of the rendered page.
What really bugs me is sometimes when I'm googling I'll be hit by that connection reset error (like if my finger slips and out comes "constitstution" or something), and on top of that my connection to all google servers is cut for a few minutes (I guess timeout as punishment?).
I rarely curse back in the US, but I let the "fuck you"s fly freely here, and quite often.
(ctrl+a ctrl+c just in case something happens to this message...)
But when everyone is confident that everyone else would do everything to avoid war, wouldn't each of them be more inclined to pursue increasingly provocative actions in the economic and political arenas due to this "assurance"?
I think you'd get sick of a place after a decade or so. Maybe it's just the continual moving about and variations in sensual stimulation that makes for happier people. Variety is the spice of life and all that, you know?
But then that means bums should be the happiest people on earth...
Why begin at Ford? It seems that the short sample range would belie a certain bias. If one truly wants a graph of the party spending differences irrespective of circumstantial considerations either domestic or foreign, e.g. wars, natural disasters, financial cycles, etc., then one would start at the time when the two parties emerged -- right before the American Civil War.
The author of that graph would then have had to include the deficits generated by the Republican president that presided over the Civil War and the Democratic president that presided over The Reconstruction, along with those deficits generated by the Democratic Party presidents that presided over both World Wars, as well as the New Deal during the inter-war period.
But I'm certain that would balance out the parties far too much for a political partisan to handle.
The stimulus bill is for jump-starting the economy. We need to give it a good crank to restart the stalled engine, not use the starter motor to move the car.
Those projects should be in a bill whose focus is long term growth, which I would fully support once the economy is self-supporting again.
They didn't say whether or not they turned off these two services for Vista and 7. They sacrifice some hard drive performance for safety and convenience. I'm familiar with using Ubuntu, but I don't know if it has the linux equivalent of these running by default (I'm fairly sure system restore isn't in Ubuntu)
The fact that boot up times were so close to each other would attest to Windows being at least on par with Ubuntu in hdd read performance. The sudden drop in hdd performance after boot up may be attributed to the above two features.
Why is every MS story being tagged astroturfing? Do people even know what that word means, or are there really people who harbor such paranoia and belief in grand conspiracies (some kind of tech version of 9/11 Truthers)?
I bet someone's going to accuse me of astroturfing with this post and being a shill for Gates..
Please don't trivialize the rationales behind foreign policy decisions by describing them like playground relationships.
Governments don't intervene because they don't like another country -- they intervened because of the area's strategic importance to their interests.
During the so called Cold War, communist countries in South America presented a Soviet-backed thrust into the USA's dominion in the western hemisphere. To not intervene would have allowed the Soviets to strengthen their strategic position in the world (militarily, economically, politically, culturally, etc), but intervention would have (and did) cause local unrest and future resentment. Somewhere along the line, it was deemed that such local unrest and resentment to be more easily dealt with than letting the immediate adversary strengthen itself.
USA's (and Britain's) intervention in the Middle East are primarily due to economic interests, but just as Soviet-allied South American countries were a strategic thrust into USA's dominion, so too is a Western-allied Middle East country a thrust into Russia's and China's dominion. All the governments involved know this and react to it accordingly.
Russia and China are countering this strategic thrust by strengthening ties with Iran and providing them with technology and weapons. And presently, Russia is dealing with its Georgia and Ukraine problems because somewhere along the line these were deemed more easily dealt with than standing by and doing nothing while the EU (and reflexively, NATO) strengthens itself by recruiting more members.
A discussion of foreign policy that is grounded in reality must acknowledge that decisions are never based on morality, but on strategic positioning -- my chess pieces pushing on your chess pieces while yours push on mine. The fact that innocent people suffer will always be a secondary concern. Any politician who insists otherwise is lying, but at the same time any morality based criticism of foreign policy rationales misses the point.
NS is still high quality. Their illustrations and covers have gotten snazzier with time, but the intelligent articles are still there (the guest writers and ethics/philosophy perspectives are especially enjoyable), unlike Popular Mechanics/Science which are basically booklets of ads.
GP wasn't talking about inaccuracies in terms of the pacing of events.
Those who have played RTW will know that the gp was referring to the inaccuracies in depicting the military composition and the social/political foundations upon which the militaries were built.
An example of the former would be the inclusion of chariots and armored archers for the Egyptian faction in 280 BC when the Ptolemaic empire at the time would have fielded phalanxes and light cavalry like all the other Greek successor states that covered most of Europe and Asia Minor all the way to India.
Examples of the latter would include all the supposed nations in RTW (barbarians and greeks) that historically were warring tribes that allied from time to time but had none of the true cohesion of a single nation.
Imagine launching Rainbow Six: Las Vegas and in the game you're armed with a Mauser K98 and a laser blaster sidearm, and the terrorists are ninjas on rollerblades. It was like they made a sandbox for gamers to play in, but got the physics of the sand all wrong.
The Europa Barbarorum mod fixed many of these inaccuracies but engine limitations kept the developers from doing all that they wanted. Even then, it took years just to get that mod out.
Slashdot Mirror
Uncensored for the rest of the world.
Search (tiananmen) and the connection resets and you're locked out of the google.com.hk domain for a few minutes. I'm sure this happens at the ISP level because the connection reset is immediate.
In fact, I doubt this message will even submit now that I've typed those words in here.
Here's hoping it works.
I'm reading Slashdot from China at the moment.
That link causes an immediate connection reset from the ISP (Chrome: Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.)
This happens every time something forbidden is accessed, and the entire domain will be inaccessible from this IP address for about 10 minutes
Google may not be censoring itself but when the censorship happens at the ISP level there's nothing they can do.
What is freedom of speech but the acknowledgment that controversial, unpopular, or provocative ideas nonetheless have a right to be aired in the public sphere?
What is the Chinese way of pursuing social harmony but the active suppression of controversial, unpopular, and provocative ideas from being aired in the public sphere?
I recognize that the Chinese government has improved vastly, especially over the last 2 decades.
But, contrary to your claim, the Chinese government does indeed oppose freedom of speech -- and it is precisely due to that single issue.
There is no such thing as 99% freedom. Either there is freedom or there isn't.
Boy that's rather dismissive.
I suspect that if progress in intellectual pursuits resulted in as much endorphin and oxytocin release as progress in social interaction does, more people would jump on it.
>I'd get lynched, and rightly so.
Well, it took you a while to discredit yourself, but you managed it at the end. Congrats.
Fuck them. Let them try to close themselves off.
The more they clamp down, the more of their citizenry will see what oppression they live under.
I worked in a small city in China last year (Shaoxing - a leading textile manufacturing area south of Shanghai)
Exchange rate with USD is 6.8 at the moment.
So 0.65USD x 6.8 x 9hr/day = about ¥40 a day. Times 6 days a week is about ¥950 per month, which is typical.
Typical income for a local office worker is ¥1500 to ¥2000 per month, ¥800-1200 for a migrant or factory worker.
Compare that to a relative of mine who owns an export business in the city, he makes around $20000 per month (USD and 4 zeros) after deducting office wages, expenses, and bribes -- which are partially offset by the 13% tax return he gets as subsidy for his branch of export.
He's still a small player compared to the larger business owners in the city.
Some numbers on the cost of living (relevant as of february of this year):
Average apartment (the minimum quality that a city local would tolerate) - ¥1000
Shitty apartment (the min quality that a migrant worker would tolerate - bare concrete, at least 5 to a bathroom)- ¥500
Domestic rice - ¥4/kg bulk
Imported oatmeal - a little under ¥30/kg packaged
Domestic oatmeal - under ¥20/kg packaged
Cabbage - ¥1.5 per half kilo (1.1lbs)
Bokchoy - ¥3 per half kilo
Tomatoes - ¥3.5 per half kilo
Eggs - ¥3.5 per half kilo
Pork - ¥6 to ¥18 per half kilo depending on cut
KFC (the most popular fast food) - ¥6 per piece of fried chicken, ¥15 for sandwich combo meal with small drink and fries
Chinese-style fast food meal (cafeteria style food that office people get during lunch) - ¥12 for a hygienic place (maybe pass inspection if in the USA), ¥6 for a place that at least wipes the tables, ¥1.50 for rice and cabbage.
You typically have to buy your own health insurance, and even then a hospital checkup would cost ¥40 to ¥100.
City buses are ¥1, or ¥0.8 if you buy a pass.
Cheap cell phone plan is about ¥100/month
As ratios of monthly income, it's apparent that comfortable wages for the average citizen have a long way to go.
My usual favorite, FreeGate, stopped working around August of this year. There are sporadic times where the client software will find 1 server with >1000ms pings, which makes it effectively useless.
I tried every other free proxy client out there to no avail and gave up soon after. Apparently they're all blocked now.
I've got nothing now. No more youtube, no more boobs in gis along with 90% of other perfectly legitimate pictures (not to say that boobs are never legitimate), certain word searches in google will give me a reset connection error right after giving me a millisecond flash of the rendered page.
What really bugs me is sometimes when I'm googling I'll be hit by that connection reset error (like if my finger slips and out comes "constitstution" or something), and on top of that my connection to all google servers is cut for a few minutes (I guess timeout as punishment?).
I rarely curse back in the US, but I let the "fuck you"s fly freely here, and quite often.
(ctrl+a ctrl+c just in case something happens to this message...)
But when everyone is confident that everyone else would do everything to avoid war, wouldn't each of them be more inclined to pursue increasingly provocative actions in the economic and political arenas due to this "assurance"?
I think you'd get sick of a place after a decade or so. Maybe it's just the continual moving about and variations in sensual stimulation that makes for happier people. Variety is the spice of life and all that, you know?
But then that means bums should be the happiest people on earth...
Why begin at Ford? It seems that the short sample range would belie a certain bias. If one truly wants a graph of the party spending differences irrespective of circumstantial considerations either domestic or foreign, e.g. wars, natural disasters, financial cycles, etc., then one would start at the time when the two parties emerged -- right before the American Civil War.
The author of that graph would then have had to include the deficits generated by the Republican president that presided over the Civil War and the Democratic president that presided over The Reconstruction, along with those deficits generated by the Democratic Party presidents that presided over both World Wars, as well as the New Deal during the inter-war period.
But I'm certain that would balance out the parties far too much for a political partisan to handle.
Where's the penis attachment?
prepare for smug flood.
I can tell from the brushstrokes and having seen a few 'shops in my time.
sexually? Done.
European Space Agency picks the planetoid named after Europe? Who didn't see this coming?
the last resort of art school and engineering school dropouts.
The stimulus bill is for jump-starting the economy. We need to give it a good crank to restart the stalled engine, not use the starter motor to move the car.
Those projects should be in a bill whose focus is long term growth, which I would fully support once the economy is self-supporting again.
They didn't say whether or not they turned off these two services for Vista and 7. They sacrifice some hard drive performance for safety and convenience. I'm familiar with using Ubuntu, but I don't know if it has the linux equivalent of these running by default (I'm fairly sure system restore isn't in Ubuntu)
The fact that boot up times were so close to each other would attest to Windows being at least on par with Ubuntu in hdd read performance. The sudden drop in hdd performance after boot up may be attributed to the above two features.
Why is every MS story being tagged astroturfing? Do people even know what that word means, or are there really people who harbor such paranoia and belief in grand conspiracies (some kind of tech version of 9/11 Truthers)?
I bet someone's going to accuse me of astroturfing with this post and being a shill for Gates..
Please don't trivialize the rationales behind foreign policy decisions by describing them like playground relationships.
Governments don't intervene because they don't like another country -- they intervened because of the area's strategic importance to their interests.
During the so called Cold War, communist countries in South America presented a Soviet-backed thrust into the USA's dominion in the western hemisphere. To not intervene would have allowed the Soviets to strengthen their strategic position in the world (militarily, economically, politically, culturally, etc), but intervention would have (and did) cause local unrest and future resentment. Somewhere along the line, it was deemed that such local unrest and resentment to be more easily dealt with than letting the immediate adversary strengthen itself.
USA's (and Britain's) intervention in the Middle East are primarily due to economic interests, but just as Soviet-allied South American countries were a strategic thrust into USA's dominion, so too is a Western-allied Middle East country a thrust into Russia's and China's dominion. All the governments involved know this and react to it accordingly.
Russia and China are countering this strategic thrust by strengthening ties with Iran and providing them with technology and weapons. And
presently, Russia is dealing with its Georgia and Ukraine problems because somewhere along the line these were deemed more easily dealt with than standing by and doing nothing while the EU (and reflexively, NATO) strengthens itself by recruiting more members.
A discussion of foreign policy that is grounded in reality must acknowledge that decisions are never based on morality, but on strategic positioning -- my chess pieces pushing on your chess pieces while yours push on mine. The fact that innocent people suffer will always be a secondary concern. Any politician who insists otherwise is lying, but at the same time any morality based criticism of foreign policy rationales misses the point.
Looks like MI6 doesn't want to lose one of their best guys.
NS is still high quality. Their illustrations and covers have gotten snazzier with time, but the intelligent articles are still there (the guest writers and ethics/philosophy perspectives are especially enjoyable), unlike Popular Mechanics/Science which are basically booklets of ads.
NS a British mag, though.
GP wasn't talking about inaccuracies in terms of the pacing of events.
Those who have played RTW will know that the gp was referring to the inaccuracies in depicting the military composition and the social/political foundations upon which the militaries were built.
An example of the former would be the inclusion of chariots and armored archers for the Egyptian faction in 280 BC when the Ptolemaic empire at the time would have fielded phalanxes and light cavalry like all the other Greek successor states that covered most of Europe and Asia Minor all the way to India.
Examples of the latter would include all the supposed nations in RTW (barbarians and greeks) that historically were warring tribes that allied from time to time but had none of the true cohesion of a single nation.
Imagine launching Rainbow Six: Las Vegas and in the game you're armed with a Mauser K98 and a laser blaster sidearm, and the terrorists are ninjas on rollerblades. It was like they made a sandbox for gamers to play in, but got the physics of the sand all wrong.
The Europa Barbarorum mod fixed many of these inaccuracies but engine limitations kept the developers from doing all that they wanted. Even then, it took years just to get that mod out.
They've got nekkid people too.
http://starosta.com/3dshowcase/inude.html
Too much eye-crossing for me, though.