...is that the Russians are running their mouths about their nuclear capabilities again. To channel the president, the best defense against Russian missiles is a democratic Russia.
India conducts most official business in English. There is no "Indian" language that is spoken across the entire subcontinent. Hindi (the national language) is spoken by about 30% of the population, according to the CIA world factbook.
my experience with Dell's tech support has been pretty good. I went to them with two IMO above-average-difficulty problems, and the indian tech support guys fixed them. not only that, but their english put mine to shame. as a satisfied US customer, i gotta give dell credit.
considering that many of dell's tech support calls are probably from people who can't figure out why a dvd won't play in their cd-rom drive, it doesn't make a lot of sense for dell to keep tons of top-tier tech support people on the payroll here.
I stated my point a little too strongly. The images returned for a google.cn search for FG show covers of books ridiculing FG, people who allegedly injured or killed themselves as a result of practicing FG, etc. These images correspond to the Chinese gov't's treatment of FG practitioners, which is historically not at all good.
FG is a gigantic movement in China...arguing that people in China "really do hate" it it in opposition to the facts.
By allowing Chinese web users to find these links, google is allowing the Chinese gov't propaganda effort to reach more people. I don't think it's paranoid to say that the Chinese people would benefit more by having no access to any FG search results than by having access to results designed specifically to mislead.
i'd be really interested to see if eminent domain can be applied here. i mean, after a moment's thought, it seems like the Kelo decision of a few months ago would be useful for all kinds of things in this realm: overpriced pharmaceuticals, artificial xbox 360 shortages, etc. please correct me.
a more telling example is a search for "falun gong" on each google site. the one's at.cn are clearly anti-FG propaganda, while.com results mostly document chinese gov abuses of FG practitioners. in this cases, it looks like google isn't simply censoring search results, it's helping the chinese gov't to spread propaganda.
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Win or lose, they're going to take the beautiful iPod and plaster warnings all over it. It's going to be hideous.
...is that the Russians are running their mouths about their nuclear capabilities again. To channel the president, the best defense against Russian missiles is a democratic Russia.
India conducts most official business in English. There is no "Indian" language that is spoken across the entire subcontinent. Hindi (the national language) is spoken by about 30% of the population, according to the CIA world factbook.
my experience with Dell's tech support has been pretty good. I went to them with two IMO above-average-difficulty problems, and the indian tech support guys fixed them. not only that, but their english put mine to shame. as a satisfied US customer, i gotta give dell credit. considering that many of dell's tech support calls are probably from people who can't figure out why a dvd won't play in their cd-rom drive, it doesn't make a lot of sense for dell to keep tons of top-tier tech support people on the payroll here.
I stated my point a little too strongly. The images returned for a google.cn search for FG show covers of books ridiculing FG, people who allegedly injured or killed themselves as a result of practicing FG, etc. These images correspond to the Chinese gov't's treatment of FG practitioners, which is historically not at all good. FG is a gigantic movement in China...arguing that people in China "really do hate" it it in opposition to the facts. By allowing Chinese web users to find these links, google is allowing the Chinese gov't propaganda effort to reach more people. I don't think it's paranoid to say that the Chinese people would benefit more by having no access to any FG search results than by having access to results designed specifically to mislead.
i'd be really interested to see if eminent domain can be applied here. i mean, after a moment's thought, it seems like the Kelo decision of a few months ago would be useful for all kinds of things in this realm: overpriced pharmaceuticals, artificial xbox 360 shortages, etc. please correct me.
a more telling example is a search for "falun gong" on each google site. the one's at .cn are clearly anti-FG propaganda, while .com results mostly document chinese gov abuses of FG practitioners. in this cases, it looks like google isn't simply censoring search results, it's helping the chinese gov't to spread propaganda.