I am, right now, IN CHINA. In person. I have just visited both links. Both show the same sets of images, both view after view after view of a column of tanks with some guy standing in front of them.
The 2nd row has a sketch of a run-over protester.
The 3rd row has a painted picture of the fronty gate of the forbidden city and a photograph of apparently the same run over protestor.
The 5th row has a map of the area and an aerial photo of the forbidden city.
Every other picture on both.cn and.com is of the protestors and the tanks. Some prior to the running over, some of the aftermath.
I am not on some fancy foireigners connection, nor am I in any way attempting to bypass any censorship. What gives? Where is this supposed censorship of Googles?
I'm not saying there is no censorship. Wikipedia, News.bbc.co.uk (and anything else starting news.bbc), all of the big photo hosting sites, geocities, tripod etc are all permanently blocked, but there is no sign of these limitations on google.
Perhaps the mediocre is simply becoming more pronounced because there are more of them too
I personally suspect it all comes down to wooly-headed soft-hearted liberals demanding that morons deserve to be heard too. Democracy does not mean everyone has a valid opinion. It just means we're not supposed to ignore the invalid ones.
This is not considered a particularly usefull example as it depends entirely on a specific piece of crude slang.
It also fails as an example as it features a preposition being used as a verb, due to the dropping of the secondary verb ("to get"), again due to clumsy slang use.
I'm a crappy typist. I know. Feel free to comment on the typos that probably occured.
Actually, as the sentence (in it's non-perverse form) consists of a subject verb clause ("I had to help my uncle"), a defining relative clause ("Jack") and a verbal noun (or secondary verb) clause there should be no commas in either version.
This example is used only to demonstrate the importance of the capitalisation of proper nouns and is not considered a particularly usefull example as it depends entirely on a specific piece of crude slang.
It also fails as an example as it features a preposition being used as a verb, due to the dropping of the secondary verb ("to get"), again due to clumsy slang use.
All told, this example needs to be retired, and it's proponents [given some time to think of a better one/re-educated/fed into a wood-chipper] depending on how seriously they take themselves.
I'm a crappy typist. I know. Feel free to comment on the typos that probably occured.
Bulgarian folklore tells of an instance during one (of the very many) Turkish Invasion/re-conquering outings, when a clerk deliberately moved the comma in the the local equivalent of "Burn the town, not spare it".
These stories go everywhere, whenever any of the Romantic or Slavic languages get involved.
I asume yu've seen the sutdy shwoing you hve no trobule reding tihs?
Actually the study inquestion claimed that you sohlud hvae no torulbe radenig tihs.
Kid, you can't even misspell correctly. You have to have the correct letters start and finish, and the correct letters (and number of letters) in the words.
Actually you need to rethink. The original form is quite corrct. The posessive "have" is fully accepted to incorporate the statement of ownership of the object of the sentence, even where physical posession is absent. Do you stop having a home every time you step out to buy a coke?
That is, if he/she had stated "I own a working model. It is stranded in another galaxy" I'm sure you'd not have objected? In this context under the English language "have" is a perfectly acceptable synonym for "own".
I have a car. It is in Ireland. I am in China. I am not going to be returning to Ireland within the working lifespan of a regular modern built car. I still have a car in Ireland.
Why, yes, I am an English teacher (and a lousy typist).
Man do you ever think small. Go Metric (at the least). A ten meter killer body, now thats worth something. Personally I reckon humanoid forms are overrated. I'll take a 10 Km (a side) cube any day.
And also posted by an AC (presumably a novice search engine spammer, or recipient of banner add cash) in response to every single slashdot story, usually multiple times.
Occassionally he/she/it changes the first sentence to match the story content, but usually doesn't bother.
You know these protests about cartoons of Muhammad? They are caused by people like you
You say that like it's a bad thing.
In the short view, these cartoons have brought to light a very important fact (which various media outlets are scrabbling to bury again). The middle east and other affected areas are by and large still culturally and socially backward. 17th/18th century backward. Which isn't to say other countries and cultures have all the answers, but we don't burn or bomb their embassies every time they print mockeries of (for example) the vatican hierarchy, Jesus or the beard in the sky modern christian god. Which they do. Non-stop. It's surprising to find a cartoon (in those areas which actually allow pictures) or editorial in any of the media there that isn't scathing, mocking and considerably more offensive (and deliberately so) to all that the western religious fanatics hold dear.
In the long view, there are two viewpoints. Correct and incorrect. Otherwise known as religious and non-religious.
I have very few genocidal wishes, but the day the atheists and deists finally eradicate each other completely in a 3 way war and leave those of us with working intellects in peace will be a very very good one. I just hope they can be reasonably professional about it and take their propagandistic "holy" books with them.
Dude, You're getting ripped off. The right street price for the DVD's is 4 Yuan/Remnimbi (5 if you want them in a proper box). That is about 50 to 60 cents American.
I don't often appreciate AC's, and I NEVER waste mod points on funnies, but dammit, if I had any mod points right now I'd break both rules for this parent...
Don't get me wrong though. China still has a way to go in terms of social reform, and yes, even the US is probably ahead (Though they've also got a ways to go), but people need to understand, Chinese citizens do not go around living with their heads down in fear and trembling of their government. Much like the states, Chinese people pay their (low) taxes, and in exchange the govt keeps the roads intact, the hospitals open and the water and electricity on. Beyond that, the average Chinese citizen cares nothing for the government.
2. Ooh, 2 levels in, and Godwins proven right once again.
3. everyone in Texas was systematically killed because of some fucktards dogma : Well, at present it seems more a case of "Everyone outside Texas, plus all the African Americans in Texas", but yeah, you almost have a straight comparisson there.
4. the CCP have been doing this on a massive scale : As have the USA and the UK. Only difference is they do it in areas where they have no actual defensible jurisdiction at all. Your point?
Just so you know, this is Slashdot, not Fark. You are actually allowed be an adult here and use grown up words, including "fuck", "shit", "ass", "cunt", "hell" and indeed "piss"...
Not that this has done much for the maturity of the actual content.
they can make the voice of the billion opressed chinese heard loud in clear throughout China and the rest of the world.
Ummm, dude, seriously...
1. Chill.
2. Try living here for a while. The voice of the alleged billion opressed will simply say "What? Oh, America? Bah. Stop being assholes about WoW servers, kthx" and get on with their lives.
In reality government here is a lot less interfering with day to day life than in any of the other countries I've lived in. They have a larger list of "unforgivable infringements", and a rather more direct approach to punishment than most places (outside Texas), but it is exceptionally rare that anyone here cares.
Or, we could be observant and wait for a meteor impact.
Which leaves the techs of NASA looking at two ionised molecules of random gas and wonderring which was a bit of Mars and which was a bit of random meteor...
A nice homogenous impactor is essential for this form of research.
Lookit man (woman/whatever), the only unnatural or incorrect thing about abortion is that we don't wait till they're born and then eat them as so many other species due in the natural course of life.
Yeeesh, seriously, get over it. It's not like anyone state institution iss forcing or even coercing you to getting pregnant and then aborting.
Incidentally, the pro-abortion lobby consists of 3 people who like pointing out the idiocy. There are actually only two choices in this arena. Pro-choice (Better defined as pro-availability) and anti-choice (best described as mysogynistic anti-availability fundie nutbags).
Nope. There is a quick throwaway to his having left tuppence in an account and thus acquiring vast fortune (and bankrupting Earth). However the next sentence points out that he left a light on, so the electrical company wants its [5*value of Listers bank account] right now, thank you. Plus late payment fees.
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I am, right now, IN CHINA. In person. I have just visited both links. Both show the same sets of images, both view after view after view of a column of tanks with some guy standing in front of them.
.cn and .com is of the protestors and the tanks. Some prior to the running over, some of the aftermath.
The 2nd row has a sketch of a run-over protester.
The 3rd row has a painted picture of the fronty gate of the forbidden city and a photograph of apparently the same run over protestor.
The 5th row has a map of the area and an aerial photo of the forbidden city.
Every other picture on both
I am not on some fancy foireigners connection, nor am I in any way attempting to bypass any censorship. What gives? Where is this supposed censorship of Googles?
I'm not saying there is no censorship. Wikipedia, News.bbc.co.uk (and anything else starting news.bbc), all of the big photo hosting sites, geocities, tripod etc are all permanently blocked, but there is no sign of these limitations on google.
Perhaps the mediocre is simply becoming more pronounced because there are more of them too
I personally suspect it all comes down to wooly-headed soft-hearted liberals demanding that morons deserve to be heard too. Democracy does not mean everyone has a valid opinion. It just means we're not supposed to ignore the invalid ones.
An asshole (AC) blared :
For the love of God, read this book![link killed to reduce spamminess]
P.S. Learn to spell, while you are at it!
But be sure to use the referrerless link to it (here) to deny the referrer income to the asshole spammer.
but things always seem to turn out ok anyways
:-P
Turn out ok, yeah maybe.
Turn out great, good, or even just a little better than they were? No... generally not.
When you aim for just Ok you should consider yourself lucky to get it
(And there's no 's' in "anyway", nor in "afterward").
This is not considered a particularly usefull example as it depends entirely on a specific piece of crude slang.
It also fails as an example as it features a preposition being used as a verb, due to the dropping of the secondary verb ("to get"), again due to clumsy slang use.
I'm a crappy typist. I know. Feel free to comment on the typos that probably occured.
Actually, as the sentence (in it's non-perverse form) consists of a subject verb clause ("I had to help my uncle"), a defining relative clause ("Jack") and a verbal noun (or secondary verb) clause there should be no commas in either version.
This example is used only to demonstrate the importance of the capitalisation of proper nouns and is not considered a particularly usefull example as it depends entirely on a specific piece of crude slang.
It also fails as an example as it features a preposition being used as a verb, due to the dropping of the secondary verb ("to get"), again due to clumsy slang use.
All told, this example needs to be retired, and it's proponents [given some time to think of a better one/re-educated/fed into a wood-chipper] depending on how seriously they take themselves.
I'm a crappy typist. I know. Feel free to comment on the typos that probably occured.
Bulgarian folklore tells of an instance during one (of the very many) Turkish Invasion/re-conquering outings, when a clerk deliberately moved the comma in the the local equivalent of "Burn the town, not spare it".
These stories go everywhere, whenever any of the Romantic or Slavic languages get involved.
I asume yu've seen the sutdy shwoing you hve no trobule reding tihs?
Actually the study inquestion claimed that you sohlud hvae no torulbe radenig tihs.
Kid, you can't even misspell correctly. You have to have the correct letters start and finish, and the correct letters (and number of letters) in the words.
Dammit! Three re-reads and I still didn't catch the missing 'e' till after the submit.
Actually you need to rethink. The original form is quite corrct. The posessive "have" is fully accepted to incorporate the statement of ownership of the object of the sentence, even where physical posession is absent. Do you stop having a home every time you step out to buy a coke?
That is, if he/she had stated "I own a working model. It is stranded in another galaxy" I'm sure you'd not have objected? In this context under the English language "have" is a perfectly acceptable synonym for "own".
I have a car. It is in Ireland. I am in China. I am not going to be returning to Ireland within the working lifespan of a regular modern built car. I still have a car in Ireland.
Why, yes, I am an English teacher (and a lousy typist).
Man do you ever think small. Go Metric (at the least). A ten meter killer body, now thats worth something. Personally I reckon humanoid forms are overrated. I'll take a 10 Km (a side) cube any day.
And also posted by an AC (presumably a novice search engine spammer, or recipient of banner add cash) in response to every single slashdot story, usually multiple times.
Occassionally he/she/it changes the first sentence to match the story content, but usually doesn't bother.
You know these protests about cartoons of Muhammad? They are caused by people like you
You say that like it's a bad thing.
In the short view, these cartoons have brought to light a very important fact (which various media outlets are scrabbling to bury again). The middle east and other affected areas are by and large still culturally and socially backward. 17th/18th century backward. Which isn't to say other countries and cultures have all the answers, but we don't burn or bomb their embassies every time they print mockeries of (for example) the vatican hierarchy, Jesus or the beard in the sky modern christian god. Which they do. Non-stop. It's surprising to find a cartoon (in those areas which actually allow pictures) or editorial in any of the media there that isn't scathing, mocking and considerably more offensive (and deliberately so) to all that the western religious fanatics hold dear.
In the long view, there are two viewpoints. Correct and incorrect. Otherwise known as religious and non-religious.
I have very few genocidal wishes, but the day the atheists and deists finally eradicate each other completely in a 3 way war and leave those of us with working intellects in peace will be a very very good one. I just hope they can be reasonably professional about it and take their propagandistic "holy" books with them.
For the record, keeping in the "no evil, more or less, kinda" vein, they'd be far better off hiring a few snipers rather than lobbyists.
When a sniper solves a problem it stays solved, rather than requiring monthly payments.
And yes, I do feel assassination is a less evil action than "lobbyisting".
Dude, You're getting ripped off. The right street price for the DVD's is 4 Yuan/Remnimbi (5 if you want them in a proper box). That is about 50 to 60 cents American.
Microsoft: Try to do no evil.
Google: Do no evil.*
*not available in China
I don't often appreciate AC's, and I NEVER waste mod points on funnies, but dammit, if I had any mod points right now I'd break both rules for this parent...
Don't get me wrong though. China still has a way to go in terms of social reform, and yes, even the US is probably ahead (Though they've also got a ways to go), but people need to understand, Chinese citizens do not go around living with their heads down in fear and trembling of their government. Much like the states, Chinese people pay their (low) taxes, and in exchange the govt keeps the roads intact, the hospitals open and the water and electricity on. Beyond that, the average Chinese citizen cares nothing for the government.
1. Facism.
2. Ooh, 2 levels in, and Godwins proven right once again.
3. everyone in Texas was systematically killed because of some fucktards dogma : Well, at present it seems more a case of "Everyone outside Texas, plus all the African Americans in Texas", but yeah, you almost have a straight comparisson there.
4. the CCP have been doing this on a massive scale : As have the USA and the UK. Only difference is they do it in areas where they have no actual defensible jurisdiction at all. Your point?
told the DOJ to go fark itself.
Just so you know, this is Slashdot, not Fark. You are actually allowed be an adult here and use grown up words, including "fuck", "shit", "ass", "cunt", "hell" and indeed "piss"...
Not that this has done much for the maturity of the actual content.
the U.S. will simply enact legislation that says that Chinese bonds are null and void
Thereby ensuring that no informed entity will ever purchase a US Bond again.
Seems reasonable.
they can make the voice of the billion opressed chinese heard loud in clear throughout China and the rest of the world.
Ummm, dude, seriously...
1. Chill.
2. Try living here for a while. The voice of the alleged billion opressed will simply say "What? Oh, America? Bah. Stop being assholes about WoW servers, kthx" and get on with their lives.
In reality government here is a lot less interfering with day to day life than in any of the other countries I've lived in. They have a larger list of "unforgivable infringements", and a rather more direct approach to punishment than most places (outside Texas), but it is exceptionally rare that anyone here cares.
Or, we could be observant and wait for a meteor impact.
Which leaves the techs of NASA looking at two ionised molecules of random gas and wonderring which was a bit of Mars and which was a bit of random meteor...
A nice homogenous impactor is essential for this form of research.
Lookit man (woman/whatever), the only unnatural or incorrect thing about abortion is that we don't wait till they're born and then eat them as so many other species due in the natural course of life.
Yeeesh, seriously, get over it. It's not like anyone state institution iss forcing or even coercing you to getting pregnant and then aborting.
Incidentally, the pro-abortion lobby consists of 3 people who like pointing out the idiocy. There are actually only two choices in this arena. Pro-choice (Better defined as pro-availability) and anti-choice (best described as mysogynistic anti-availability fundie nutbags).
Yeeeesh.
Nope. There is a quick throwaway to his having left tuppence in an account and thus acquiring vast fortune (and bankrupting Earth). However the next sentence points out that he left a light on, so the electrical company wants its [5*value of Listers bank account] right now, thank you. Plus late payment fees.
You may maintain it, but do so knowing that there are those who disagree.
That's fair enough to my mind.