Unless Beijing promoted a BBC food correspondent to the head of their food safety administration and then executed her, I rather think you mean Zheng Xiaoyu.
Have a look at the Russian S-300 family of SAMs (NATO SA-10 GRUMBLE/SA-12 GLADIATOR and successors). Max engagement altitude is ~100k ft, and top speed is in excess of Mach 6. The SR-71 lives near the edge of the S-300's engagement envelope, but it's close enough to be a real hazard, and the S-300s are pretty widely deployed. It's at least as much of a threat as the SA-2 GUIDELINE represented to the U-2.
Have you seen the claim form? My brother-in-law was mailed one because he actually registered a copy of Windows while he was living in California. It assigns a certain voucher value to each Microsoft product (something like Windows - $16, Office - $26, DOS - $13, I don't remember the exact values), and you can claim up to $100 worth of vouchers without any proof (i.e., product ID's or license keys). Then, if you have license keys, you can list those on the form and claim vouchers for those too.
Also, the vouchers you get are not for Microsoft products -- they're for any PC hardware or software. So once you get the vouchers, you can, for instance, buy a PC (for more than the total amount of the vouchers), then send the vouchers back to the claims adminstrator along with receipt and proof of purchase for the PC. Then they send you a check for the amount of the vouchers. (You can also use it for hardware/software you already bought, within a certain timeframe.)
It's a pain in the ass, of course, but you can actually get a fair amount of money back from them. Especially if, hypothetically, you claim a fictional combination of products which comes to exactly $100 (and don't need proof of purchase), then claim whatever additional products you can dig up license keys for (as long as you've got the CDs in their original cases or envelopes sitting around the house somewhere in boxes -- the CD cases usually have the license key on them.) If one were to do that, one might wind up getting $200-300 back from them.
A small, subtle, but clever example of this is in Whiplash, where you play as a weasel chained to a (conveniently invulnerable) rabbit, and the gameplay centers around hitting things with the rabbit, when you're not setting him on fire, freezing him, dipping him in toxic waste, shoving him down toilets, inflating him with helium, or just whirling him around your head to make a helicopter.
The rabbit, not surprisingly, keeps up a constant stream of complaints about the indignities you're subjecting him to. One of the things he yells is, "I'm a rabbit! Not a core mechanic! OKAY?"
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Unless Beijing promoted a BBC food correspondent to the head of their food safety administration and then executed her, I rather think you mean Zheng Xiaoyu.
Have a look at the Russian S-300 family of SAMs (NATO SA-10 GRUMBLE/SA-12 GLADIATOR and successors). Max engagement altitude is ~100k ft, and top speed is in excess of Mach 6. The SR-71 lives near the edge of the S-300's engagement envelope, but it's close enough to be a real hazard, and the S-300s are pretty widely deployed. It's at least as much of a threat as the SA-2 GUIDELINE represented to the U-2.
...before they link this into the MAGINOT BLUE STARS system for look-to-kill capability, eh?
Have you seen the claim form? My brother-in-law was mailed one because he actually registered a copy of Windows while he was living in California. It assigns a certain voucher value to each Microsoft product (something like Windows - $16, Office - $26, DOS - $13, I don't remember the exact values), and you can claim up to $100 worth of vouchers without any proof (i.e., product ID's or license keys). Then, if you have license keys, you can list those on the form and claim vouchers for those too.
Also, the vouchers you get are not for Microsoft products -- they're for any PC hardware or software. So once you get the vouchers, you can, for instance, buy a PC (for more than the total amount of the vouchers), then send the vouchers back to the claims adminstrator along with receipt and proof of purchase for the PC. Then they send you a check for the amount of the vouchers. (You can also use it for hardware/software you already bought, within a certain timeframe.)
It's a pain in the ass, of course, but you can actually get a fair amount of money back from them. Especially if, hypothetically, you claim a fictional combination of products which comes to exactly $100 (and don't need proof of purchase), then claim whatever additional products you can dig up license keys for (as long as you've got the CDs in their original cases or envelopes sitting around the house somewhere in boxes -- the CD cases usually have the license key on them.) If one were to do that, one might wind up getting $200-300 back from them.
A small, subtle, but clever example of this is in Whiplash, where you play as a weasel chained to a (conveniently invulnerable) rabbit, and the gameplay centers around hitting things with the rabbit, when you're not setting him on fire, freezing him, dipping him in toxic waste, shoving him down toilets, inflating him with helium, or just whirling him around your head to make a helicopter.
The rabbit, not surprisingly, keeps up a constant stream of complaints about the indignities you're subjecting him to. One of the things he yells is, "I'm a rabbit! Not a core mechanic! OKAY?"
Thought that was a nice touch, myself.