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Haier posted:So have any of these constant HK protests ever accomplished anything except getting places shut down or too crowded? I think the CCP see them the same way some guy in Zimbabwe sees them. "Heh, why are they standing around?" Well, the intital protests did get several young lawmakers elected into the LegCo, two of which are at the center of the oath row currently. If anything Beijings heavy handed responses to these protests does put more and more HK people off China. So yeah, they achieve more than a billion people collectively shrugging and going "eh, what can you do" before spitting on the ground and lighting up under a no-smoking sign.
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Haier posted:So have any of these constant HK protests ever accomplished anything except getting places shut down or too crowded? I think the CCP see them the same way some guy in Zimbabwe sees them. "Heh, why are they standing around?" Seriously?
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guys we need to do a SWOT analysis before resisting tyranny and corruption the triads probably did though when they sided with beijing
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caberham posted:Seriously? Seriously.
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Grand Fromage posted:My last apartment in Korea had nowhere to vent the AC, so the guy just smashed a hole in my window and ran the tube out through it. 
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caberham posted:Seriously? Also  at that photo. When you said they made a hole, I thought they used glass cutters or something. This is like something out of a 1980s British sitcom.
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UltraRed posted:Seriously. If you want to do a write up, it'd be enlightening. I live in a country that saw the biggest protests since the civil war, and we still invaded Iraq. You'll have to forgive my pessimism. Beijing doesn't care because they know HK is theirs and they will not wait the allotted time to merge respectfully, and this is already being proven regularly. Whatever changes happen by HK locals will be short-lived and/or temporary. Once the Mainlander saturation (and their kids grow up) forces out the locals, HK will be a slightly fancier Shanghai or an extension of Shenzhen. Nobody is going to come rescue HK when the sloppy hillbilly army storms through Futian/Lowu/Huanggang Checkpoint in their poorly-made jackboots, calling relatives to tell them that they are going abroad for the first time. I'm not saying surrender and die, but the writing is on the wall and now that HK is back to China, China is going to do their best to throw their tantrums and grasp as much control as possible. It sucks HK shares a land border with China, because otherwise I would see it as being a Taiwan 2.0 situation instead. But the posters from HK can all just fly back to their home countries when it gets too China-fied.
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Funny enough, Hong Kong indigneous, the nativist party is actually full of kids born/grew up in the mainland. Edward Leung tin kei and quite a few handful of the new kids reject their mainland roots and hate mainlanders.
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oohhboy posted:gently caress Mainlanders.
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It will be interesting to see if China collapses economically (as opposed to just slowly stagnate) what will happen to HK. Also what's happening in HK might not save HK, but it sure as hell might be a wake up call for Taiwan, I'd be surprised if the independence movement in Taiwan does not get increased support after what's happening in HK.
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quote:Recovering from their initial surprise, most of the middle-aged Chinese visitors joined in. “F--- the Japanese devils! F--- their mothers!” they cheered back, with whistles and clapping, in an expletive-filled echo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...omepage%2Fstory
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quote:Wealthy Beijingers left disillusioned after shelling out AU$1 million for Aussie ranch Surprise at laws and regulations, environmental protection, lack of planning, forcing wife to back breaking work, using tcm, surprised at lonely life on the range. 
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Outrail posted:For the most part anyway. I lived there for a while. 4.0% seems pretty low from casual observation on the street. It is truly the most hateful place I can conceive of. put all slavers to torch.
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BCR posted:Surprise at laws and regulations, environmental protection, lack of planning, forcing wife to back breaking work, using tcm, surprised at lonely life on the range. While I've never subscribed to the whole "eat the rich" mentality, I must say that seeing rich Mainlanders get owned fills me with immense schadenfreude.
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quote:she uses herbal medicine to relax her muscles at night. well, I mean, so do I... 
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UltraRed posted:Also Mine looked the same. A glass cutter would be vaguely professional. The guy at my place just took out a wrench and smashed a hole.
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:I lived there for a while. 4.0% seems pretty low from casual observation on the street. Jesus, have any stories? Edit: Stuck, "site:imgur.com mauritania OR nouakchott," into reddit's search and this was on the first page of results Title: Two girls we met in an oasis town in Mauritania. They were offered to us as wives - we politely declined [1280x850] Image:  
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Let it be known this is for typical POS goon apts. The apt I am renting they used a cement cutter and cut a small circle through the wall and epoxy'd it up after so no air comes through. This is less of an Asia thing and more of a lowest price option for whoever hired them since they dont have to live there.
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quote:He also never imagined that the cost of labor in Australia would be three times that of China. Can't he just do what the Chinese do in Africa and bring a bunch of desperate Chinese with him to till the land?
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That chemical plant explosion from a few pages back actually had two angles: Angle 1: http://i.imgur.com/y4O2PiC.mp4 Angle 2: http://i.imgur.com/coIrEce.mp4 (^^Korea)
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nickmeister posted:Can't he just do what the Chinese do in Africa and bring a bunch of desperate Chinese with him to till the land? Gina Rinehart is certainly trying to legalise just that. $2 pay a day for all imported labourers who fail the paper bag test 
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Accretionist posted:Jesus, have any stories? I tried to buy a slave's freedom. I was able to set his price with pocket change. I was then asked by the slaver, how I was going to care for him, that hosed me up more than anything. People are literally ok with slavery and slavers because it's a life... As for bride life in Mauritania, read about fat farms (I didn't read your link). Another bleak story that will have you lobbying pre-emptive first strike. There are few places in the world sadder than Mauritania. e2a: My Great China story involves Huawei in Mauritania. Basically, the "engineer" on site performs a change at the request of some rear end clown in Shenzen. The change is to shift all prepaid mobile traffic from the route to bill as a prepaid call, to the post paid route. In a country where 99.9% of traffic is prepaid this is devastating. Huawei refused to acknowledge their role, or even assist in remediation. The client was lucky I was there to diagnose the problem. ming-the-mazdaless fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Guys, we're all going to jail!quote:China Monday passed a controversial cybersecurity bill further tightening restrictions on online freedom of speech, raising concerns that it could intensify already wide-ranging Internet censorship. https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/11/07/china-passes-controversial-cybersecurity-law-as-online-freedoms-tighten-further/ gently caress this, I'm saying 8 more months, maybe I'll cut my time here short, contracts be damned.
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Mauritania (and many other places people are desperate to gtfo of) is getting into the lucrative skype dating scam industry. http://romancescamsnow.com/scammer-albums-lists/ Which Chinagoon had the coworker who was totally worried about her Nigerian prince?
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“disturbs economic or social order” = "Talking about the bubble and other economic problems and impending doom." They'll just wake up one day and be like "What happened? Nobody told me this was going on."
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Not to turn this thread into groverhaus, but I got the pipes cemented in. Did I do it to UK building regulations? No. Was the original building built to UK building regulations? No. Was what the guy who added a tap before me did done to any sort of building regulations? No. Could I get the tools and materials that I'm familiar with? No. Is mine an improvement and will it work? Yes.
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Haier posted:“disturbs economic or social order” = "Talking about the bubble and other economic problems and impending doom." Hey maybe Chinese banks are as solid as people believe? *disappears in an unmarked van, until seven months later being paraded on CCTV1*
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Baronjutter posted:I knew a guy who's job was basically doing exactly that. Rich middle-eastern folk would buy his crew and containers full of north-american sourced materials to build McMansions because even a mcmansion was a huge quality step up compared with the poo poo they had. He was from arizona so they were more south-west style houses rather than that Korean example, which made a lot more sense in the middle east. Unfortunately, the American SW is full of lovely matchstick McMansions that need to run ac on full blast for 9 months of the year. Building the easy way instead of the climate-appropriate way is the case for construction companies everywhere.
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simplefish posted:Not to turn this thread into groverhaus, but I got the pipes cemented in. Need more house stories
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Didn't someone recently ask about plastic rice? https://twitter.com/Dakini_Goddess/status/795297813206798336
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They're not... really going to... try to feed that to people, are they?! That's for like displays or something, right? 
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Fake food is just the most bizarre thing in this entire thread for me. It just goes against everything I thought I knew about how things should work.
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*Chinese immigrant bites into wax apple* ah yes, I fell for a similar scheme back in my homeland *you try to explain that it's face saving and he smiles and nods but in his heart thinks you're trying to save face*.
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ming-the-mazdaless posted:I tried to buy a slave's freedom. I was able to set his price with pocket change.
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i'm no slavery expert but i'm pretty sure that even if you free slaves but still allow slavery, there will still be lots of slaves. another scenario is that i am not a slaver, but i see some charity paying out for slaves. now there is a demand, and i will become a slaver.
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