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does anyone remember that book on Amazon that was like 2,000 dollars and it had ridiculous series of titles and it was posted in this thread?
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't see how it actually changes anything. North Korea attacking South Korea in any force means Seoul likely gets wrecked and North Korea's utter annihilation, which everyone is aware of and has been the status quo for a while. They can get away with the border skirmishing they've been doing for decades but that doesn't matter anyway. China doesn't give a gently caress about or like North Korea at all they just don't want the refugee crisis or another American ally on the border. Consensus in the mil hist thread is that the artillery positions would be crushed the minute they fire, possibly getting just one shot off. That is if they can fire since it's mainly 70s soviet gear in god knows what shape.
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Mar 23, 2017 13:02
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They did a pretty good number on that SK island a few years back...
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Mar 23, 2017 13:07
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I'm in Thailand right now. First time in SEA. Being 6'8" I expected some stares as attention but I really haven't seen that. However, I did a boat trip to phi phi and bamboo island and got mobbed by some Chinese tourists wanting to take some selfies. It was fun but after the 50th photo I started to get bitter and basically jogged outta there. Was still fun though. I felt like a celebrity. Without the money.
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Mar 23, 2017 13:33
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hakimashou posted:What do the chinese call THAAD? 萨德 (sàdé). the characters become easier to remember the more protest slogans you see.  抵制乐天反对萨德 boycott Lotte, fight against THAAD The Great Autismo! posted:does anyone remember that book on Amazon that was like 2,000 dollars and it had ridiculous series of titles and it was posted in this thread? Lovey Banh 
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Mar 23, 2017 13:58
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Turns out it means job descriptions. She is writing a resume and wanted to put that she wrote job descriptions for her company, I was going to ask why she is putting that on a resume but I figured it was best to avoid an argument. Make a PPT for the JD with your APP, SB
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Mar 23, 2017 14:22
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China is pissed off about THAAD because they think it opens NK up for invasion. They are well aware of it's capabilities, and how it is not going to affect them directly, but they are frightened of the possibilities it opens up with regards to NK's "ace in the hole" (their alleged nuclear missiles). "If THAAD can shoot down any NK missiles, then the US and ROK can invade them, defeat them in 5 days, blanket the country with food aid, then establish airbases and missile sites right on our border!"Really, the ROK Navy should have just upgraded their Aegis Destroyers to include the ABM package the Japan has in theirs, then they could have avoided the whole THAAD issue altogether and China would have never known.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:20
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Blistex posted:China is pissed off about THAAD because they think it opens NK up for invasion. They are well aware of it's capabilities, and how it is not going to affect them directly, but they are frightened of the possibilities it opens up with regards to NK's "ace in the hole" (their alleged nuclear missiles). Maybe they didn't upgrade their Aegis destroyers in order to antagonize China.
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Mar 23, 2017 17:14
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I talked briefly with a Japanese guy here who didn't have tiptop English recently. Him: "Do you like Japanese girls or Korean girls?" Me: "Oh, I don't know. Probably Japanese. Korean girls are fine too. For Koreans it's just the men that are a problem." Him: "Oh?" Me: "They're assholes." Him: "Assholes?" Me: "Like angry monkeys." Him: Nodding Japanesely: "haha yes" He also let me know that he didn't like Chinese. Nice guy overall.
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Mar 23, 2017 18:01
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big time bisexual posted:萨德 (sàdé). If I were you I'd just start making bad jokes referencing the singer when talking about it with Chinese people to amuse myself. "I know China doesn't like the idea of THAAD but to us Americans it's the Sweetest Taboo." "Sure China is scared of THAAD but you have to admit the USA is a Smooth Operator."
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Turns out it means job descriptions. She is writing a resume and wanted to put that she wrote job descriptions for her company, I was going to ask why she is putting that on a resume but I figured it was best to avoid an argument. Effort post: That is actually a thing in HR. If you write the job desc- err, JDs, you are writing the judgment criteria for who gets interviews/hired vs. who doesn't. If you are bad or inexperienced at it, you can really screw up by always getting the wrong person for the job. So, yeah, in that horrifying little slice of corporate life, it's a thing.
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Mar 23, 2017 22:34
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THAAD also has pretty long range radar that could theoretically be used to penetrate pretty deep into the Chinese interior but lmao if anyone thinks the US doesn't have almost complete radar coverage over eastern China already
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Mar 23, 2017 22:42
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Haier posted:In one of my never-ending delirious half-sleeps I've been having (I am still sick, somehow), it somehow popped into my head that Scientology and modern Chinese culture (and government) are very similar. you have Scientology as a whole confused with the Sea Org. All valid points, but they dont apply to the whole group. My high school had a bunch of Scientologists and several of my friends are. Most of them are pretty normal people its just the sea org ones that are too much. Like any religious organization there is a scale of crazy Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 22:47
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thank you In other news, china played a shockingly good game in the World Cup qualifying round against South Korea and won. China has three of their last four games away, and still look like long shots to qualify, but props to china for showing up at home and playing a great game against a team that historically has owned Asia (along with Japan)
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Mar 24, 2017 00:17
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How dare America have world dominance! They should butt out of everyone's business so a country who believes white people are literally a different species of human can rule the world!
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Mar 24, 2017 00:57
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nickmeister posted:How dare America have world dominance! They should butt out of everyone's business so a country who believes ftfy Fojar38 posted:THAAD also has pretty long range radar that could theoretically be used to penetrate pretty deep into the Chinese interior but lmao if anyone thinks the US doesn't have almost complete radar coverage over eastern China already "Who me? I'm . . . a. . .an . . . oil tanker!" 
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Mar 24, 2017 01:07
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https://www.quora.com/My-friend-sai...ocess?srid=C5SvWumao Rocess posted:What’s more, China will soon have the world’s largest economy and is to some extent using that to influence what we see online, on television, and in the movie theaters - just read about their growing influence in Hollywood. No major studio will produce a film today that would put China in an unfavorable light.
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Mar 24, 2017 01:49
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As the decades go by? They'll be on top by 2020, this author's a hack.
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Mar 24, 2017 01:51
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2020 AH maybe
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Mar 24, 2017 01:52
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What's more what's more what's more what's more what's more.
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Mar 24, 2017 04:00
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big time bisexual posted:萨德 (sàdé). the characters become easier to remember the more protest slogans you see. SOUFFLE IM STRAIGHT I STEAK MY PLATE 萨德 IM A SMOOOOOOOOOVVVVVE OPERATOR
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Mar 24, 2017 04:06
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The Chinese economy has been losing ground in GDP to the US since 2014 and that's if you believe the government's numbers which only idiots do
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Mar 24, 2017 04:48
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70% of china's household wealth is apartments jfc
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Fauxtool posted:you have Scientology as a whole confused with the Sea Org. All valid points, but they dont apply to the whole group. http://i.imgur.com/S3N8qhS.gifv
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Mar 24, 2017 05:22
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quote:Gan’s research on China’s housing sector has also made waves. He figures that 70 percent of total household wealth is made up of the value of apartments. About 50 million already-sold units sit empty, much more than some investment banks had estimated. (The government doesn’t release national data on empty apartments.) China has a vacancy rate of 18 percent, compared with 13 percent in the U.S., Gan says. That's a recipe for success if I ever heard one. Basically rich people are buying and selling apartments back and forth from each other, at higher and higher prices, until it reaches a point where they realize that nobody wants to buy empty apartments that they will never occupy. Also, I'm wondering it that takes into account Apt blocks that were built in ghost cities that were never sold or occupied.
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Mar 24, 2017 05:28
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thoughts and prayers posted:Effort post: HR's job is to always hire the wrong person. That's why HR exists.
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Blistex posted:ftfy lol
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Blistex posted:That's a recipe for success if I ever heard one. Basically rich people are buying and selling apartments back and forth from each other, at higher and higher prices, until it reaches a point where they realize that nobody wants to buy empty apartments that they will never occupy. It makes all those "the power of 1 billion potential consumers!" op-eds all the funnier. How many apartments for an Xbox?
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Mar 24, 2017 06:03
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Sheep-Goats posted:HR's job is to always hire the wrong person. That's why HR exists. HR exists for the same reason storage closets do.
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Mar 24, 2017 06:05
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what's the point? Also, Quora is awesome for China stuff. Will find more later.
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quote:Gan has his detractors. His Gini coefficient estimate of 0.61 was unbelievably high, with the real figure now closer to 0.45, says Li Shi, an economist at Beijing Normal University, who uses data the statistics bureau collects. Gan’s survey sample is skewed by focusing on rich urban areas and excessively poor villages, Beijing Normal’s Li says. 
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Mar 24, 2017 06:35
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nickmeister posted:what's the point? human money counter I miss being paid in giant wads of hundos in china.
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Do you still see the old style bills in China anymore? When I first went there you'd still see the older notes sometimes where each note had 2 ethnic minorities or something on it. I remember they were phasing them out for all-Mao money. Thinking back I think Guangdong had tons of jiao notes while anhui always had coins? Or maybe vice versa? It's been ages and lol jiao.
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hakimashou posted:Do you still see the old style bills in China anymore? The notes for < 1RMB still have ethnic minorities on them. Coin/Bill thing for that stuff seems to be geographic for what's more common, but you see both anywhere in the country. I think its like shanghai up to bejing likes the coins while southern to western china prefers bills for whatever reason.
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Mar 24, 2017 08:19
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Korea Chat: I found out today that South Korea bans loving pokemon episodes of all things for the sin of having Japanese cultural references like character costume
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Mar 24, 2017 12:28
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And the chabuduo award goes to https://twitter.com/mattsheehan88/status/845250846606577664
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Imperialist Dog posted:And the chabuduo award goes to Judging at the look of the sink, the fixture was designed to use a proper faucet, but at the last minute they subbed out a cheaper stubby one (for use with rectangular institutional basins) to save about 10-20 rmb a model.
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Mar 24, 2017 13:47
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Imperialist Dog posted:And the chabuduo award goes to "The water ultimately will leak into the sink at some point, so what's the problem" <---- the actual thing said by the project manager when someone from the hotel pointed it out
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I overheard the electrician at a project I'm working on mutter "chabuduo" to himself and now I'm nervous.
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