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caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
I lucked out on VPN's. It's a state sanctioned VPN I guess.

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LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

angel opportunity posted:

Yeah this is good and also doesn't count as Chinese music

Does this count as chinese music, its beijing punk so i dont kow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3R0cG44Do


Edit: hang on the box split up in like 2009 so maybe youd like joyside instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6CiiiVEbuM

LentThem fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jul 21, 2017

mikerock
Oct 29, 2005

Teen who crashed Mercedes at 250 km/h in Vancouver avoids jail time


http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/teen-who-crashed-mercedes-at-250-kmh-in-vancouver-avoids-jail-time

ntan1
Apr 29, 2009

sempai noticed me
Which one of you planted this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.be6e073df55c

Also, as an employee at a company that is actually good at AI, lololololololol.

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

Haier posted:

Chaoshan Girl said she might have to close her business or stop certain customers because of the way she does business, and relying on Paypal for certain things.

I can almost count the number of weeks I have left her on one hand, but this wonky internet doesn't help make that better. I still need VPNs to make money and do my job.
This is what I don't really get. If they are actually really cracking down hard on VPNs there are sooo many Chinese companies that are completely hosed. Like everyone in my wife's company has to use VPNs to do business and that's a company with tens of thousands of employees. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that the CCP is preparing to introduce some official state approved VPN where they will monitor everything very closely.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

There's already a system in place to get approval to use a VPN for businesses.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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ntan1 posted:

Which one of you planted this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.be6e073df55c

Also, as an employee at a company that is actually good at AI, lololololololol.

google beating that guy at Go really upset them

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


peanut
Sep 9, 2007


hell yeah still funny

cnut
May 3, 2016

I like how he kept going. Much face was saved.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
I learned sexual strategy from this guy. If you bump into enough uninterested subjects and make an impression, eventually it leads you to a comfortable hole.

Edit:

Hedenius posted:

The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that the CCP is preparing to introduce some official state approved VPN where they will monitor everything very closely.
I think this sounds like an eventual plan. Force people to pay money to the state for open-ish "VPN" internet, and give them total permission to monitor you and still control certain content. They can tier the internet for direct profit, and still follow everything you do online, and can use that against you when needed.
People would just go along with it the way they already do when they learn Wechat is monitored and controlled already.

I also know a ton of people that are using VPN to sell online, like everyone selling on Amazon and Ebay in the US. Removing the lively hoods of millions of people to do what with? That would be cause for a revolution to some people.

Haier fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Jul 21, 2017

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Tencent shares surge as government bans its competition

wechat so innovative much wow look at that market share

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
wechat and alipay are pretty cool. Google wallet and Apple Pay could have been big players but Visa and Mastercard are just sitting on their asses.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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caberham posted:

wechat and alipay are pretty cool. Google wallet and Apple Pay could have been big players but Visa and Mastercard are just sitting on their asses.

That's because the Chinese market is rigged hth

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
You mean Union loving pay and banks.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

anything is better than banking in america, lol

China Law Blog always has awesome articles and i really lol'd at this series:

http://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/07/think-your-people-in-china-are-ripping-off-your-company-they-probably-are-part-i.html
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/07/think-your-people-in-china-are-ripping-off-your-company-they-probably-are-part-ii.html

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
Traffic jam in the north west Chinese city of Xi'an on a smoggy day


I'd like to take this time to say that https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/ is a good sub to follow.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Haier posted:

Traffic jam in the north west Chinese city of Xi'an on a smoggy day


I'd like to take this time to say that https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/ is a good sub to follow.

me first me first

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057371.shtml

China offers to mediate between Israel and Palestine

quote:

China has offered to establish a new, trilateral dialogue mechanism with the Palestine and Israel to settle their conflicts, and seeks to defuse tensions in the Middle East by pushing forward the Belt and Road initiative, President Xi Jinping told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing.

"China regards both Palestine and Israel as important partners along the Belt and Road, and stands ready to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation in line with the idea of promoting peace with development to support Palestine hasten its development," Xi said, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.

Yes, China, funneling money towards yourself is the perfect way to fix a very complicated on-going issue of apartheid, religion, and theft in cultures entirely alien to your own.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1056319.shtml

Gun enthusiast proud to protect fellow Chinese with S. African security firm

quote:

According to Chen, Chinese people who live and do business in South Africa like to use cash, a habit that makes them frequent targets for robbers. Of all the Chinese people living in South Africa, people from Fuqing make up a large proportion.

"Getting robbed is common for people living in South Africa," said Chen. He has often heard stories of criminals unscrupulously robbing, and in some cases murdering, Chinese people for their belongings.

After hearing of many terrible cases, he had the idea of opening a security company to protect Chinese.
"I don't want to make the place better for everyone living there. That's stupid."

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Haier posted:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1057371.shtml

China offers to mediate between Israel and Palestine


Yes, China, funneling money towards yourself is the perfect way to fix a very complicated on-going issue of apartheid, religion, and theft in cultures entirely alien to your own.

To be fair, "slosh money around > problem solved" works like 90% of the time in China

Or at least it makes the problem someone else's, and at least for a while

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
Man being in supply chain is a lot more stress free than other industries. Sure profit is in the realm of pennies but production is constant, shipping is constant. And the biggest worry is dealing with Chinese Customs and the revolving door of the foreigners jump shipping from failed MNC's trying to bring down the house

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


Haier posted:

Traffic jam in the north west Chinese city of Xi'an on a smoggy day


How long did they take to clear it?

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Ziv Zulander posted:

How long did they take to clear it?

Rumour has it that they're still standing around, pointing fingers and ramming each other to this day.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Ziv Zulander posted:

How long did they take to clear it?

Why clear it?

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Autismo had a pretty good suggestion for why this happens, and I'm inclined to believe him, having insight into a civil engineering firm that managed to drastically reduce NYC traffic. It's all to do with timings on who can stop and go

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


and from personal experience, if you ever wonder why the area between Central and Sheung Wan in HK backs up, it's because people don't respect the yellow boxes. If they did, things could flow, but, yknow, ME FIRST. Happened the same in the UK, we lived near a major junction. If people followed the traffic engineers' plan, there'd be far fewer issues.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

simplefish posted:

Autismo had a pretty good suggestion for why this happens, and I'm inclined to believe him, having insight into a civil engineering firm that managed to drastically reduce NYC traffic. It's all to do with timings on who can stop and go

no no no I'm the sexpat racist bigot

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


The Great Autismo! posted:

no no no I'm the sexpat racist bigot

Why not both?

Sorry I mean

TGA said Chinese have no peripheral vision because of their slit eyes and that they lack any consideration of what happens to them except in a 1 metre bubble and this is racial not cultural

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

simplefish posted:

Why not both?

Sorry I mean

TGA said Chinese have no peripheral vision because of their slit eyes and that they lack any consideration of what happens to them except in a 1 metre bubble and this is racial not cultural

ya these were my exact words

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Actually you probably said chinamen, which is more racist snd also sexist

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


He's the real Chinaman so he can say it.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
You guys have a good weekend

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


caberham posted:

You guys have a good weekend

You know we will

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Haier i know you say no everytime but come have a beer, if you dont have fun you can leave us behind with all the other China bullshit youre vacating

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
He doesn't drink

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


nor does lady galaga and we still have fun

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

caberham posted:

He doesn't drink

just give him a bag of half and half, it'll be fine

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

simplefish posted:

Autismo had a pretty good suggestion for why this happens, and I'm inclined to believe him, having insight into a civil engineering firm that managed to drastically reduce NYC traffic. It's all to do with timings on who can stop and go

Everyone in that picture is obeying the traffic lights

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Dec 26, 2008

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