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  1. How's that Chinese tea that you're gulping down? on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no excuse for what China does. You're using their excuses, their terminology, and their justifications. It reads like it was a scripted excuse instead of a sound justification.

    All China did in 1980 was to find a way to cleanse their despotism. Seeing people like you, makes me think that it worked. Yes, that's a problem.

    Unlike China, we like to still give the regular individual the chance instead of disappearing them, harvesting their organs for some Party member, and putting the family under house arrest for objecting to working conditions at the company town.

  2. Searching for them is possible unlike China on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    Publishing and searching for that information is not a crime against the US, unlike China.

  3. What business wants again the US... on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    ...is what these people are protesting against. Bad jobs are still bad even if it is the only practical option.

  4. Re:Quite the pro-business, anti-citizen country th on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1

    The only thing it really does is gives maximum freedoms to business, while giving a few trinkets to distract from the non-freedom to regular people.

    Still doesn't excuse sending work there, but to do everything to undermine that government.

  5. Explains their use of multinational corporations on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 2

    Nothing better to kill a peasant revolt than a company town.

  6. Quite the pro-business, anti-citizen country there on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So this is what businesses want our country to be like - where businesses can roam freely, and ask the government to cut coverage to (and search of) protests?

    This is what we encourage when we send work offshore to these kind of countries. No thanks.

  7. On the consequences of tampering with those device on Chinese Spying Devices Installed On Hong Kong Cars · · Score: 1

    In China, I'd think that you'd be getting off very lightly if you were charged with tampering those.

  8. Stunt "science" that's from a suspect country on Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the same country that copies everyone else and has tons of junk science. I'd rather see these results performed by non CPC controlled/influenced scientists, run on non CPC controlled equipment(which is faster than these show boxes).

    No amount of modbombing will change the facts.

  9. Re:And this is why you livestream on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    And if you happen to have access to a wi-fi link, it won't matter.

  10. Phone's gone, followed by cops' innocence. on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If there's enough of the phone to recover images, then the cops have made their situation worse. It looks like that's the case, but it's from an SD card, not a SIM card - given how Sprint's phones work.

    Another point - how about apps that instantly stream to an offsite location? The cops would still be thwarted, and still have to pay.

    Hopefully the cops end up paying tons of cash to replace the phones, along with whatever criminal penalties come from their actions.

  11. Ok, so it mangled the unicode. on China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War' · · Score: 1

    The only message worth giving in reply to the Chinese government: NÇ zhÃge piÃnzi!

    (yes, it's translated output of "You liar!", in phonetic)

  12. China did it. on China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War' · · Score: 2

    Ok.

    * Various political interests that China wants to kill off are targeted.
    * The US military is targeted.
    * The US government (outside of the military) is targeted.
    * A company that left China out of concerns for it being used as an attack platform was targeted.
    * The rest of the evidence points to China's red hands being all over this.

    The only answer worth giving to the Chinese government: 使''èZï¼

  13. Re:Sony Ericsson does the same thing on Sprint Pushes FPS NOVA With Firmware — and Users Can't Remove It · · Score: 1

    You can't just create a nearly identical APK, and make it so that Android asks if you really want to install that?

  14. Not if you don't want slavery. on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    So you want to keep people un-educated, so that they're only worth factory slave-work?

  15. Sounds a bit odd. on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 1

    Black is white, down is up, right is left, and an App Store is not an App Store.

    Riiiight.

  16. Re:Slavery on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    Which gives an opening for the company to "suicide" someone, and claim that against next of kin.

  17. PISA is quite flawed as a test on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    A few questions:

    How many of those people took that test in each of those countries?
    What is their admissions criteria for access to education?
    What determined the sets of people who were able to access the test?
    How voluntary was participation in taking the test of individuals?

    With that, PISA can easily be fooled by presenting only the set of people who are good at taking that kind of test. Second, the admissions criteria for PISA-level education is less rigid in the US than many other countries. It favors places with rigid admissions policies that deny education to most of a nation's population.

    In short, you can goose the PISA numbers by providing a known-good set of people, without regards to actual academic performance of the nation as a whole.

  18. Worthless degrees by equally worthless schools. on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 0

    Given the amount of imitation and bad research there, those are near-worthless credentials outside of China.

    Then again, unlike China, education is not reserved for the few who manage to luck out on the tests. It's more or less open to all in comparison.

  19. 1099 == The new on Why the New Guy Can't Code · · Score: 1

    That's because they actually have the luxury of choice.

    The flexibility of the few doesn't justify making everyone disposable.

  20. Where have I seen that before? on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    Charlie Sheen sure plays a good Gov Walker.

  21. Clarification on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    State open records act, and FOIA where relevant.

  22. The hypocrisy of Walkeristan, exposed. on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's OK if you use FOIA to threaten academics, but it's not OK if the GOP gets caught with their pants down?

  23. Re:Oh, Dear God No! on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    If it were that case, they'd try a few ineffective things and seize proof that their measures were ineffective.

  24. Incentives at play on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Why would they want to lose it after paying large sums of cash?

    What other events are going on with BP that would make this a distraction?

    What do they gain about making this front-and-center public?

  25. They can have their lower rates on US Competitiveness Chief Immelt's GE Tax Bill: $0 · · Score: 1

    When they've paid the higher ones first.

    Otherwise, the IRS needs to start talking with the various military/intelligence agencies and doing everything to get these companies to do the above. Pay the higher ones first.