On point 5- None of the Koreans I have seen are like that. They move to China (Shanghai, where I live now), they settle, learn Chinese, and generally blend in (well, sort of-one odd habit I noticed with a group of old Korean people is that they'll bring a bag of chili peppers to a restaurant if they think the food's not spicy enough...). It's not like they "feared and distrusted outsiders" at all.
Although I suppose if they move out of Korea that says that they are willing to blend in wherever they move to, as opposed to those who don't.
Like the exceptions which delayed Virgin America? I don't see the threat to national security they posed, yet they were unable to open for business until this year.
Ignorance of the law has never been a defense in criminal cases. Why should it be a defense here? If they don't want to share and don't want to bother to learn how to set WEP, they can go for an Ethernet router.
Only for Intel wireless cards that support a or n networks. the b/g cards have a driver available. Other wireless chipsets are natively recognized as AirPort Extreme.
If people would stop bitching and vote for third parties that stood for what they wanted then this wouldn't be such an issue, would it? It's not like they don't exist- if enough people go Libertarian or Green or whatever they'd actually have a chance of winning.
OSx86- You don't have to pirate it; you can buy an install disc and patch that. I've seen Japanese blogs popping up every so often talking about how they got Mac OS X on their laptops (one mentioned how liberating it was to have -essentially- a Mac with 8 hours of battery life- the computer in question was a Panasonic T5).
Yahoo Japan + Babelfish. Yahoo Japan is operated separately (by Softbank) and they'd probably not do such a thing, given that they have no presence in China (and China forcing them to would bring them mounds of "We hate China" demonstrations from the Japanese, and possibly withdrawal of Japanese investment in China).
Will that ever happen, though? Everyone's using Google these days (in fact, my free e-mail provider switched to the GMail system very recently- now I essentially have a Gmail account without actually having GMail).
I have to concede the first point. You called me a foreigner, I drew upon the definition of foreigner that I use, that is, European/African. And on the school- I did look at the tuitions recently. I will concede that also (the tuitions are high, but touring the school you'd wonder "where the hell is all the money going?" and no amount of student petitioning and activism has changed that- guess the administration's taken some lessons from the local government).
I will also concede the rest of my statements due to the fact that I am merely an adolescent, and not really a political person. I'm enjoying high school, worrying about college, not living a working life, and as such shouldn't really have run my mouth off like that.
On to the ad hominem attacks, are we? Anyway, I only wish I was a foreigner to China. I'm a US citizen, sure, but that doesn't make me white and it sure doesn't make me rich. "Foreigner bubble world"? I think, at the very least, I've seen more of Shanghai's underside than the kind of person you think I am would.
I've lived in both China and America (currently live in the former and am a citizen of the latter) and I'm just commenting on what my everyday life feels like. I can talk political all I want at school and with friends. That's not been taken away from me when I left America. For me freedom is being able to toss my current carrier when they're crap, to be able to walk the streets at night without being harassed by cops, (for my friends, not so much for me) to be able to go clubbing without being denied just because they're a little young. That's what matters to me as a teenager right now. Oh, and about half that list woud be valid and half not- I can go anywhere I want without problems, I can live where I want without problems, and... I don't have kids, but I have had friends who have come close to (one girl at my school is known for having multiple abortions- that's also a freedom that's in danger in America, due to pro-life groups, that's not in China).
You misunderstood. I meant that iPhones were not an exception to the "locals will find a way to unlock it". For that matter, you've haven't been around Shanghai, have you? Unlocked iPhones iwth Chinese are everywhere, even some of the Apple resellers.
This is probably mostly because I'm "only" a teenager. That's the most I worry about right now. And the government's action on the internet? My school works around that the "local" way- apparently the telecom companies have the discretion to route certain lines around the Great Firewall given enough "motivation".
Same here- I use Japanese e-mail accounts and jump from provider to provider every so often (pulling names and addresses from a cellphone I found lying on the road- on a related note I wish NEC would start selling phones in America again).
Depends on what you do in your day-to-day life. Quite a few times I feel more free in China than I do than America (particularly when it comes to cellphones- carrier locking? Even the CDMA carrier here has open phones, and if it's locked, the locals will find a way to unlock it- with a couple of exceptions- not the iPhone).
I have some clue about that. I have a bathroom outlet where I live with what I think is a similar fault- when I plug in 2-prong devices, if the device has a metal surface, that surface will suddenly feel "odd" (a slight resistance of sorts when I rub any exposed metal parts). What would I do for the 3-prong appliances, though? I imagine I'd have 3-prong outlets, so I could wire that third pin to the same ground the rest of the building uses, correct?
I'm not exactly well-versed in these kinds of matters, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
On point 5- None of the Koreans I have seen are like that. They move to China (Shanghai, where I live now), they settle, learn Chinese, and generally blend in (well, sort of-one odd habit I noticed with a group of old Korean people is that they'll bring a bag of chili peppers to a restaurant if they think the food's not spicy enough...). It's not like they "feared and distrusted outsiders" at all.
Although I suppose if they move out of Korea that says that they are willing to blend in wherever they move to, as opposed to those who don't.
"By contrast, most Taiwanese citizens who chose to reside permanently in Japan have conscientiously wanted (and obtained) Japanese citizenship."
Given recent events, the Taiwanese have *quite* the reason to take up Japanese citizenship- being more widely recognized diplomatically is a start.
Like the exceptions which delayed Virgin America? I don't see the threat to national security they posed, yet they were unable to open for business until this year.
1.5M? My god. America needs a telecom overhaul. This came from Japan, land of 100M residential fiber connections.
If people would vote for third parties instead of saying that it wouldn't work, then we'll see some change.
Depending on who I'm writing and what I'm writing about, they'll wish they could un-capture that.
Ignorance of the law has never been a defense in criminal cases. Why should it be a defense here? If they don't want to share and don't want to bother to learn how to set WEP, they can go for an Ethernet router.
Well, at least you can deal with 1 and 2 by getting Panasonic laptops (love that 10+hour battery life on my T5).
Only for Intel wireless cards that support a or n networks. the b/g cards have a driver available. Other wireless chipsets are natively recognized as AirPort Extreme.
If people would stop bitching and vote for third parties that stood for what they wanted then this wouldn't be such an issue, would it? It's not like they don't exist- if enough people go Libertarian or Green or whatever they'd actually have a chance of winning.
And Lotus Notes? That's blocked too- is that stealing?
OSx86- You don't have to pirate it; you can buy an install disc and patch that. I've seen Japanese blogs popping up every so often talking about how they got Mac OS X on their laptops (one mentioned how liberating it was to have -essentially- a Mac with 8 hours of battery life- the computer in question was a Panasonic T5).
You know, a return to "Made in the USA" wouldn't hurt any.
Yahoo Japan + Babelfish. Yahoo Japan is operated separately (by Softbank) and they'd probably not do such a thing, given that they have no presence in China (and China forcing them to would bring them mounds of "We hate China" demonstrations from the Japanese, and possibly withdrawal of Japanese investment in China).
Will that ever happen, though? Everyone's using Google these days (in fact, my free e-mail provider switched to the GMail system very recently- now I essentially have a Gmail account without actually having GMail).
I have to concede the first point. You called me a foreigner, I drew upon the definition of foreigner that I use, that is, European/African. And on the school- I did look at the tuitions recently. I will concede that also (the tuitions are high, but touring the school you'd wonder "where the hell is all the money going?" and no amount of student petitioning and activism has changed that- guess the administration's taken some lessons from the local government).
I will also concede the rest of my statements due to the fact that I am merely an adolescent, and not really a political person. I'm enjoying high school, worrying about college, not living a working life, and as such shouldn't really have run my mouth off like that.
On to the ad hominem attacks, are we? Anyway, I only wish I was a foreigner to China. I'm a US citizen, sure, but that doesn't make me white and it sure doesn't make me rich. "Foreigner bubble world"? I think, at the very least, I've seen more of Shanghai's underside than the kind of person you think I am would.
I think I'll enjoy my adolescence just a little longer, thanks (and return to America for college).
I've lived in both China and America (currently live in the former and am a citizen of the latter) and I'm just commenting on what my everyday life feels like. I can talk political all I want at school and with friends. That's not been taken away from me when I left America. For me freedom is being able to toss my current carrier when they're crap, to be able to walk the streets at night without being harassed by cops, (for my friends, not so much for me) to be able to go clubbing without being denied just because they're a little young. That's what matters to me as a teenager right now. Oh, and about half that list woud be valid and half not- I can go anywhere I want without problems, I can live where I want without problems, and... I don't have kids, but I have had friends who have come close to (one girl at my school is known for having multiple abortions- that's also a freedom that's in danger in America, due to pro-life groups, that's not in China).
You misunderstood. I meant that iPhones were not an exception to the "locals will find a way to unlock it". For that matter, you've haven't been around Shanghai, have you? Unlocked iPhones iwth Chinese are everywhere, even some of the Apple resellers.
This is probably mostly because I'm "only" a teenager. That's the most I worry about right now. And the government's action on the internet? My school works around that the "local" way- apparently the telecom companies have the discretion to route certain lines around the Great Firewall given enough "motivation".
Go buy a Panasonic. You won't be disappointed.
Same here- I use Japanese e-mail accounts and jump from provider to provider every so often (pulling names and addresses from a cellphone I found lying on the road- on a related note I wish NEC would start selling phones in America again).
Depends on what you do in your day-to-day life. Quite a few times I feel more free in China than I do than America (particularly when it comes to cellphones- carrier locking? Even the CDMA carrier here has open phones, and if it's locked, the locals will find a way to unlock it- with a couple of exceptions- not the iPhone).
I have some clue about that. I have a bathroom outlet where I live with what I think is a similar fault- when I plug in 2-prong devices, if the device has a metal surface, that surface will suddenly feel "odd" (a slight resistance of sorts when I rub any exposed metal parts). What would I do for the 3-prong appliances, though? I imagine I'd have 3-prong outlets, so I could wire that third pin to the same ground the rest of the building uses, correct?
I'm not exactly well-versed in these kinds of matters, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Wasn't there a big fuss about that some time ago? About how noma-neko was a ripoff of mona?