For more about my relatively uneventful earthquake experience in this city which saw almost no damage in or around the CBD, you can check out the blog I keep for my family members, though it's unaccessible from China:
I live in Chengdu (about 100 km from the epicenter of the initial quake), the nearest big city to the affected area, and have noticed no change in what's accessible, be they Chinese or foreign hosted sites. Information was slow to spread after the earthquake, with, according to a friend, CCTV first reporting the earthquake about 4 hours afterwards. Here, the internet (but not intranet) was down until at least 2 hours afterwards, and the radio stations were almost exclusively running one track on repeat since everyone had fled from the studios. The cell network went down too, of course, though oddly enough international calls seemed to be able to make their way in.
Add google.com to that list, at least here in Xi'an. It starts to load, but is quickly replaced by a TCP reset error.
It sure is annoying when the website you use most often is blocked. Fortunately, there are proxies, and the searchmash.com site mentioned earlier on/. isn't blocked.
Yo también recuerdo ese cuento, titulado "El sueño" y escrito así:
Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.
De todas maneras, si le gusta ese género del minicuento, recomiendo que lea los cuentos de Alejandro Jodorowsky. Tengo los libros El paso del ganso y Sombras al mediodia, y los dos son bastante buenos y contienen muchos cuentos cortísimos. Intenté encontrar uno de seis palabras, pero la mayoría son de doce o más, así que sólo menciono su nombre por si acaso le interesa.
I'm pretty sure the second one is Chinese, from what I heard about it.
It isn't Mandarin, which I happen to be studying at the moment, since it the tone changes the meaning of individual words, not whole sentences. Furthermore, though I can't speak very much, I do happen to know my colors and all five listed have distinct words.
but I'm quite surprised you could split up "New York"
So am I. That's why I asked the question - I'd love to learn more about these languages, if only I knew what they were.
"The Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
I wholeheartedly agree that anything you enjoy can be considered an addiction, but what if you want your life to be ruled by it? There's no reason people can't choose to spend the rest of their life doing coke, smoking cigarrettes, or playing around in the InterTubes.
David Lenson wrote an excellent essay on diversity of consciousness in his book On Drugs in which he proposes that society discriminates against those who prefer a different state of consciousness, such as being high or tripping or what have you. His point is that everything you do affects your brain chemistry, and that the pleasure response from "healthy" activities is roughly the same as from the "unhealthy" ones. The perceived difference between the two is artificially created by society, just like the concept of sobriety, which Lesson calls an empty notion. Are you sober after smoking tobbacco? What about after drinking coffee? And after taking adderall? Or prozac? Or psilocybin?
Like you said, the same is true for addiction. The difference between being addicted to something and simply really enjoying it is virtually nonexistant. I say give the masses whatever opium they want. Let people live as they choose.
zh.wikipedia.org is not blocked here in Xianyang, but of course the Great Firewall is not consistent around the country, so it may still be blocked elsewhere.
Do you really think that 46 percent wasn't thinking the wiretaps were going to be used for finding terrorists? It's the goal of the Bush administration (and the terrorists, incidentally) to make citizens fear terrorists even when they aren't specifically mentioned.
Being "harassed constantly by all sorts of riffraff" is an effect of not having widespread public use of public transportation. If anyone who can afford to have a car doesn't use public transportation, you're left with the poorer segment of society forced to use buses and trains, which aparently you consider "riffraff."
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For more about my relatively uneventful earthquake experience in this city which saw almost no damage in or around the CBD, you can check out the blog I keep for my family members, though it's unaccessible from China:
I live in Chengdu (about 100 km from the epicenter of the initial quake), the nearest big city to the affected area, and have noticed no change in what's accessible, be they Chinese or foreign hosted sites. Information was slow to spread after the earthquake, with, according to a friend, CCTV first reporting the earthquake about 4 hours afterwards. Here, the internet (but not intranet) was down until at least 2 hours afterwards, and the radio stations were almost exclusively running one track on repeat since everyone had fled from the studios. The cell network went down too, of course, though oddly enough international calls seemed to be able to make their way in.
Just tried it here in Chengdu. No dice. Google works but Google Pages does not.
In Chinese, one word for computer can be literally translated as "electric brain."
Add google.com to that list, at least here in Xi'an. It starts to load, but is quickly replaced by a TCP reset error.
/. isn't blocked.
It sure is annoying when the website you use most often is blocked. Fortunately, there are proxies, and the searchmash.com site mentioned earlier on
Yo también recuerdo ese cuento, titulado "El sueño" y escrito así:
Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.
De todas maneras, si le gusta ese género del minicuento, recomiendo que lea los cuentos de Alejandro Jodorowsky. Tengo los libros El paso del ganso y Sombras al mediodia, y los dos son bastante buenos y contienen muchos cuentos cortísimos. Intenté encontrar uno de seis palabras, pero la mayoría son de doce o más, así que sólo menciono su nombre por si acaso le interesa.
It isn't Mandarin, which I happen to be studying at the moment, since it the tone changes the meaning of individual words, not whole sentences. Furthermore, though I can't speak very much, I do happen to know my colors and all five listed have distinct words.
So am I. That's why I asked the question - I'd love to learn more about these languages, if only I knew what they were.
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"The Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
Care to share which languages those are?
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I wholeheartedly agree that anything you enjoy can be considered an addiction, but what if you want your life to be ruled by it? There's no reason people can't choose to spend the rest of their life doing coke, smoking cigarrettes, or playing around in the InterTubes.
David Lenson wrote an excellent essay on diversity of consciousness in his book On Drugs in which he proposes that society discriminates against those who prefer a different state of consciousness, such as being high or tripping or what have you. His point is that everything you do affects your brain chemistry, and that the pleasure response from "healthy" activities is roughly the same as from the "unhealthy" ones. The perceived difference between the two is artificially created by society, just like the concept of sobriety, which Lesson calls an empty notion. Are you sober after smoking tobbacco? What about after drinking coffee? And after taking adderall? Or prozac? Or psilocybin?
Like you said, the same is true for addiction. The difference between being addicted to something and simply really enjoying it is virtually nonexistant. I say give the masses whatever opium they want. Let people live as they choose.
zh.wikipedia.org is not blocked here in Xianyang, but of course the Great Firewall is not consistent around the country, so it may still be blocked elsewhere.
Do you really think that 46 percent wasn't thinking the wiretaps were going to be used for finding terrorists? It's the goal of the Bush administration (and the terrorists, incidentally) to make citizens fear terrorists even when they aren't specifically mentioned.
The personalized search sounds an awful lot like the googlezon I've been fearing for the past year or so.
Was there a 5100 lawsuit? The 5100 is the Canadian version of the 5105, and there are many upset owners here and here.
Irrational, meaning unable to be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers.
Nice try though.
or to eat while sitting on or near the floor.
Being "harassed constantly by all sorts of riffraff" is an effect of not having widespread public use of public transportation. If anyone who can afford to have a car doesn't use public transportation, you're left with the poorer segment of society forced to use buses and trains, which aparently you consider "riffraff."