Namaste Anonymous coward. Although maybe not as many as they were before, there are some older souls in this world not yet fully overcome by the ocean of cynicism. They need to find inspiration for a better world elsewhere than from the US though nowadays.
To a Chinese colleague telling me a few days ago that this whole thing must of course be instructed/manipulated by US executive power, I answered I did not believe so because unlike China and other authoritarian regimes, the ground of our western democracies is that justice is not a tool of the executive power but independent. As an example a meaningful symbolic action in the beginning of the French revolution was to free the prisoners from the King's prison La Bastille. Apparently I was wrong. Is America going to let Trump undermine democracy until there is nothing left of it?
I use Uber and its Chinese competitors in Shanghai (or in China I'd rather say I use the Chinese car hailing apps and their competitor Uber). Yidao and Didi already have those scheduled rides and quite some other options: - Pick-up at the airport, where you provide your flight number so the car adapts to the plane being late - Hire a car for a half day or full day - Choose your driver instead of letting the system select - Integrated text message facility, where you can save your usual messages to be sent in one click to your driver
Uber big advantage is its translated app and worldwide support team that is able to handle cases in your language.
I just come back from one year in China and exchanged SMS with French located mobile phones (between China Mobile and SFR or Orange) - all was ok except that you cannot see hanzi if your Nokia was bought in France.
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Namaste Anonymous coward.
Although maybe not as many as they were before, there are some older souls in this world not yet fully overcome by the ocean of cynicism. They need to find inspiration for a better world elsewhere than from the US though nowadays.
To a Chinese colleague telling me a few days ago that this whole thing must of course be instructed/manipulated by US executive power, I answered I did not believe so because unlike China and other authoritarian regimes, the ground of our western democracies is that justice is not a tool of the executive power but independent.
As an example a meaningful symbolic action in the beginning of the French revolution was to free the prisoners from the King's prison La Bastille.
Apparently I was wrong. Is America going to let Trump undermine democracy until there is nothing left of it?
I use Uber and its Chinese competitors in Shanghai (or in China I'd rather say I use the Chinese car hailing apps and their competitor Uber).
Yidao and Didi already have those scheduled rides and quite some other options:
- Pick-up at the airport, where you provide your flight number so the car adapts to the plane being late
- Hire a car for a half day or full day
- Choose your driver instead of letting the system select
- Integrated text message facility, where you can save your usual messages to be sent in one click to your driver
Uber big advantage is its translated app and worldwide support team that is able to handle cases in your language.
I just come back from one year in China and exchanged SMS with French located mobile phones (between China Mobile and SFR or Orange) - all was ok except that you cannot see hanzi if your Nokia was bought in France.