You say "of what few freedoms the people of China have left". Like they had more freedom before? While I agree that China certainly has a lot of problems in this area, it was not very long ago they had the same kinds of policies as North Korea (e.g. kill 3 generations down of a family if you suspect a member is a "liability") so things are definatly better today than they have been. I'm not saying things are good, if someone publicly speaks negatively about the government they get thrown into jail. But that's still a lot better than what would have happened a couple of decades ago. I for one think things are moving in the right direction. It may take a long time for them to reach the kind of freedom we are talking about and every once in a while repots like these show up. But if you only focus on the negative information and don't see the bigger picture of course things will look bad.
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You say "of what few freedoms the people of China have left". Like they had more freedom before? While I agree that China certainly has a lot of problems in this area, it was not very long ago they had the same kinds of policies as North Korea (e.g. kill 3 generations down of a family if you suspect a member is a "liability") so things are definatly better today than they have been. I'm not saying things are good, if someone publicly speaks negatively about the government they get thrown into jail. But that's still a lot better than what would have happened a couple of decades ago. I for one think things are moving in the right direction. It may take a long time for them to reach the kind of freedom we are talking about and every once in a while repots like these show up. But if you only focus on the negative information and don't see the bigger picture of course things will look bad.
Wow the stuff you just wrote goes way of the scale on the geek-o-meter. But for some reason it arouses me ... a lot
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"barely even exploiting it"? How about "without the sun the earth wouldn't survive"?