> Please do not insult people stripped of their homes and political prisoners with such trivializations. These thugs punish innocent people.
Evidence please? Especially that first one. I'm sure there *are* a few examples, as in any country, but the vast majority of reports I hear of are of people who are migrants and have just parked themselves on someone else's land. *Their* homes maybe, but not *their* land. Of course, they also have a different concept of land ownership anyway.
7 years is a *long* time - certainly not recently.
I lived there from 2003 until 2 months ago. It isn't that bad. Only on occasion does it get bad, and it's not because they generate so much pollution so much as the weather is such that it just stays around; or there's a sand storm blown in from the desert. Still, pollution is pollution.
I remember the BBC World News showed some pictures of *clear* skies, suggesting it was something unusual. Bollocks - it's often like that and it just depends on the weather.
> I hope someone does not die in the marathon,
I hope not too, but it's won't be the first time they've had a marathon there...
> but I won't be watching to find out.
I will. It's quite amazing what they've done to make these Olympics possible. I've been to almost every stadium in Beijing and they're all quite excellent. I hear even the BBC complimenting them on the facilities. I'm not *that* much of a sports nut, but there are some events I will be watching for sure.
Comparisons with 1936 are severely misplaced, IMO.
> Having lived in countries with both a NHS and with entirely private healthcare, I can say from sore personal experience that I would take the NHS every time.
I agree.
I've e-screamed at more than a few health insurance agents because they can't find me a company that will insure existing conditions without paying a huge premium; and companies that decide, out of the blue, that they don't want to ensure me any more - not because I'm a huge risk, but I'm in a group of people who seem to claim more frequently that they're happy with. So, I'm forced to declare all my existing conditions and anything I've been treated for previously, and they say they won't pay for anything related to those conditions.
Private health case sucks big time, IMO. It's a SCAM.
> It certainly doesn't go to dental benefits, so where is this money going? Genuinely curious here.
If that's a dig at British dental hygiene, I can tell you that the impression that it is poor is nonsense (IMO). I've seen many US people who have poor dental hygiene, plus one or two famous historical figures - yet I've not seen anyone with noticably poor teeth (with the possible exception of the elderly)...but that's just my observation.
However, you *are* correct in suggesting that the UK tax doesn't go towards dental health care, since the last time I looked, it was nigh on impossible to sign up with an NHS dentist. The vast majority of dentists are private. It's a terrible state of affairs.
> I think what they're trying to say is that 60% of the time, it works every time....and they're certain of that because in the past it has worked most of the time.
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"We are absolutely sure that this structure should have properties that are not usual,' Mikhael says, because materials with odd structures almost always do."
Right. What kind of logic does this guy use?
"We are absolutely sure it should have 'something'... because... others almost always do..."
"We're...100%....80%....60%..." Add a few more even 'less certain' words, like "surely", "perhaps", "maybe" and the confidence in his assertion would have dropped from 100% certainty all the way to 0% certainty in a single sentence.
I mean, hedging your bets or what? This guy should be a politician.
I think you meant 'poor Chinglish'. In other words, correct usage is 'poor' instead of 'bad' and 'Chinglish' in place of 'Engrish'. I think you'll find that 'Engrish' is an attribute of Japanese attempts at English, not Chinese.
"Bad English" is more at home in a sentence about the Opium Wars - or any number (positive, non-zero) of other atrocities the English (or, more generally, the British) have been responsible for. As an Englishman, I feel no small amount of shame as I travel around Asia (or any other part of the world, actually).
> Chinese-American who knows what people are looking for in a restaurant is optimal....but Americans often don't have much of a clue about English and ABC people are pretty bad too, in my experience.
I suppose you might be right that they would be targeting dumb Americans, rather than any of the other English speaking peoples, since they tend to spend their money more liberally. American tourists are laughed at because they buy things from the Chinese at vastly inflated prices and yet think they had a good deal. Being careless with money is something akin to shameful in China, it seems.
Well, if the English isn't meant for English people, then who cares what it says. IMO it makes sense to make it as cheaply as possible. I would expect it wasn't they who translated it anyway, but one of the many dirt-cheap printing shops you get along pretty much any street.
Anyway...."a hundred yuan"...??? Are you *mad*? You clearly have no idea how much labour costs are in China. Ten Yuan is much more likely.
I always shied away from using nforce raid (instead using md-raid), since I could never be sure the array would work on newer versions (though I'm led to believe that it would actually work).
If this is even half true, I hope it scares nvidia raid users enough to check their backups (or start making some), or perhaps purchase a second motherboard to use as replacement, while they still can.
With md-raid, I've switched motherboards several times and the array just comes up without any trouble.
I get the reference, and give it the obligatory 'he he'.
However, I *really* didn't like the sand storms when I was there.
After a sand storm, everything would be covered. Even inside our flat there would be dust on everything (not as bad as outside, but still). It's quite amazing how it manages to get in through the smallest gaps.
I suppose it's reasonable to consider 'sand' and 'dust' as pollution, but it's not what I consider to be commonly considered as pollution - which would be traffic exhaust fumes and smoke/etc from factories/etc.
I don't know why they don't 'invent' a cheap Chinese electrical car (or two) and 'force' everyone to use electricity - at least in the big cities. I mean, it's sort of a dictatorship, so why not take advantage of it? IMO, it'd be obviously for the common good and so fit in with their 'communist' ideals. There are many electric bicycles already (my wife was recently 'run over' by one because they're unexpectedly fast, and close to silent - she's had to go to hospital, but she's fine now), so they're used to the concept...and petrol(ium gasoline) isn't getting any/much cheaper/plentiful.
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> Please do not insult people stripped of their homes and political prisoners with such trivializations. These thugs punish innocent people.
Evidence please? Especially that first one. I'm sure there *are* a few examples, as in any country, but the vast majority of reports I hear of are of people who are migrants and have just parked themselves on someone else's land. *Their* homes maybe, but not *their* land. Of course, they also have a different concept of land ownership anyway.
> The PRC makes GWB look as tame as Adolph Hitler.
I'd say you have that backwards, ie GWB/USA is more like Adolph Hitler/Nazi Germany in the way he tried to take over and control the world.
> and Beijing in 2001 ranked 10
7 years is a *long* time - certainly not recently.
I lived there from 2003 until 2 months ago. It isn't that bad. Only on occasion does it get bad, and it's not because they generate so much pollution so much as the weather is such that it just stays around; or there's a sand storm blown in from the desert. Still, pollution is pollution.
I remember the BBC World News showed some pictures of *clear* skies, suggesting it was something unusual. Bollocks - it's often like that and it just depends on the weather.
> I hope someone does not die in the marathon,
I hope not too, but it's won't be the first time they've had a marathon there...
> but I won't be watching to find out.
I will. It's quite amazing what they've done to make these Olympics possible. I've been to almost every stadium in Beijing and they're all quite excellent. I hear even the BBC complimenting them on the facilities. I'm not *that* much of a sports nut, but there are some events I will be watching for sure.
Comparisons with 1936 are severely misplaced, IMO.
> Having lived in countries with both a NHS and with entirely private healthcare, I can say from sore personal experience that I would take the NHS every time.
I agree.
I've e-screamed at more than a few health insurance agents because they can't find me a company that will insure existing conditions without paying a huge premium; and companies that decide, out of the blue, that they don't want to ensure me any more - not because I'm a huge risk, but I'm in a group of people who seem to claim more frequently that they're happy with. So, I'm forced to declare all my existing conditions and anything I've been treated for previously, and they say they won't pay for anything related to those conditions.
Private health case sucks big time, IMO. It's a SCAM.
Well, that's certainly refreshing to read :) Something changing for the better - not often that happens...
> It certainly doesn't go to dental benefits, so where is this money going? Genuinely curious here.
If that's a dig at British dental hygiene, I can tell you that the impression that it is poor is nonsense (IMO). I've seen many US people who have poor dental hygiene, plus one or two famous historical figures - yet I've not seen anyone with noticably poor teeth (with the possible exception of the elderly). ..but that's just my observation.
However, you *are* correct in suggesting that the UK tax doesn't go towards dental health care, since the last time I looked, it was nigh on impossible to sign up with an NHS dentist. The vast majority of dentists are private. It's a terrible state of affairs.
> I think what they're trying to say is that 60% of the time, it works every time. ...and they're certain of that because in the past it has worked most of the time.
Are you sure?
"We are absolutely sure that this structure should have properties that are not usual,' Mikhael says, because materials with odd structures almost always do."
Right. What kind of logic does this guy use?
"We are absolutely sure it should have 'something'... because ... others almost always do..."
"We're...100%....80%....60%..." Add a few more even 'less certain' words, like "surely", "perhaps", "maybe" and the confidence in his assertion would have dropped from 100% certainty all the way to 0% certainty in a single sentence.
I mean, hedging your bets or what? This guy should be a politician.
> In normal countries paying for something you did not ask for would be considered fraud.
I commit fraud if I pay someone for something that I didn't ask for?!?
Normal country, my arse. Remind me never to go to such a 'normal' country (Belgium).
> don't like
What's to stop you signing up people you like, or even have no real opinion on?
Well, I would say that using the hyphens is more correct, otherwise 'buck' would be a verb.
right!
They should sell t-shirts :)
I think you meant 'poor Chinglish'. In other words, correct usage is 'poor' instead of 'bad' and 'Chinglish' in place of 'Engrish'. I think you'll find that 'Engrish' is an attribute of Japanese attempts at English, not Chinese.
"Bad English" is more at home in a sentence about the Opium Wars - or any number (positive, non-zero) of other atrocities the English (or, more generally, the British) have been responsible for. As an Englishman, I feel no small amount of shame as I travel around Asia (or any other part of the world, actually).
I'm guessing it's America's turn next.
> Chinese-American who knows what people are looking for in a restaurant is optimal. ...but Americans often don't have much of a clue about English and ABC people are pretty bad too, in my experience.
I suppose you might be right that they would be targeting dumb Americans, rather than any of the other English speaking peoples, since they tend to spend their money more liberally. American tourists are laughed at because they buy things from the Chinese at vastly inflated prices and yet think they had a good deal. Being careless with money is something akin to shameful in China, it seems.
Well, if the English isn't meant for English people, then who cares what it says. IMO it makes sense to make it as cheaply as possible. I would expect it wasn't they who translated it anyway, but one of the many dirt-cheap printing shops you get along pretty much any street.
Anyway...."a hundred yuan"...??? Are you *mad*? You clearly have no idea how much labour costs are in China. Ten Yuan is much more likely.
Haven't you seen their t-shirts? They invariably have non-sense English printed on them. I think such t-shirts might well be popular in the west.
I wonder if people will go to this restaurant just because of the error. It could become a clever marketing trick. They could sell t-shirts :)
'better' is something to do with the women, right?
> "We do chicken right"
I wonder what it is translated into English.
Another one : "Think different"
> Not completely
Ok, though, in my experience, the other part is true - ie that they're unheard of in China (well, my experience is mainly of Beijing, but still).
I always shied away from using nforce raid (instead using md-raid), since I could never be sure the array would work on newer versions (though I'm led to believe that it would actually work).
If this is even half true, I hope it scares nvidia raid users enough to check their backups (or start making some), or perhaps purchase a second motherboard to use as replacement, while they still can.
With md-raid, I've switched motherboards several times and the array just comes up without any trouble.
> Give me my android phone. I'll wait as long as it takes.
Innovation? Almost every other phone available can do this already...certainly every S60 phone.
You can do it via USB, bluetooth, or even turn your phone into a wifi hotspot.
Either you have a very strange definition of innovation, or I'm missing something about what 'tethering' means...
Since when was 99% equal to 100%?
Could he have been talking about the *Chinese* mainstream press?
I get the reference, and give it the obligatory 'he he'.
However, I *really* didn't like the sand storms when I was there.
After a sand storm, everything would be covered. Even inside our flat there would be dust on everything (not as bad as outside, but still). It's quite amazing how it manages to get in through the smallest gaps.
I suppose it's reasonable to consider 'sand' and 'dust' as pollution, but it's not what I consider to be commonly considered as pollution - which would be traffic exhaust fumes and smoke/etc from factories/etc.
I don't know why they don't 'invent' a cheap Chinese electrical car (or two) and 'force' everyone to use electricity - at least in the big cities. I mean, it's sort of a dictatorship, so why not take advantage of it? IMO, it'd be obviously for the common good and so fit in with their 'communist' ideals. There are many electric bicycles already (my wife was recently 'run over' by one because they're unexpectedly fast, and close to silent - she's had to go to hospital, but she's fine now), so they're used to the concept...and petrol(ium gasoline) isn't getting any/much cheaper/plentiful.