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BrigadierSensible posted:Forgive me if this is stupid. But I have questions about Chinese citizenship. China does not allow dual nationality. To hold a Chinese passport you are required to give any up others. Stores abound of Chinese nationals who were married and living abroad who went to renew their passport but having their Chinese passport cut in half and handed back to them. Ouch! As regards Party etc membership, there will be rules regarding highest promotion possible and accepted spousal requirements (people of a certain rank will not be permitted to marry non Chinese). Most countries have similar stuff for military (officer class obv). url fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Oct 18, 2020 |
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Noblesse Obliged posted:I still thing 5G is a big dumb marketing ploy and won’t do anything for me. OK angry grandpa. It simply means more speed. Like 4G/LTE and 3G/UMTS(?) before it, “nobody would ever need that” and “they can’t even cover all areas”.
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screamin and creamin posted:OK angry grandpa. There are significantly different challenges between maging 5G vs 4G work.
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Oct 18, 2020 12:10
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for the majority of areas where it will be deployed you won't really notice a difference. it will probably be faster but for most places there's no reason to do a mmWave deployment which is the one that everyone is jizzing themselves about.
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screamin and creamin posted:OK angry grandpa. 3G is faster than 4G at peak times where I live because everyone connects via 4G. I know this is not because of the tech but still 
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Oct 18, 2020 12:18
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I never noticed the difference between 3g and 4g
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Oct 18, 2020 12:42
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5G is currently pointless here in Canada because our data plans are so piss poor you'd run through your monthly allotment in record time if you actually made use of the speeds for anything like downloading or streaming. Like the average data package is something like 4 GB maybe?
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Oct 18, 2020 14:47
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:5G is currently pointless here in Canada because our data plans are so piss poor you'd run through your monthly allotment in record time if you actually made use of the speeds for anything like downloading or streaming. gently caress Canadian Internet/Mobile plans forever. When I was with Bell I had to log into every streaming site/service and dial down the bitrate/quality so we wouldn't get hit with overage charges half way through the month, and we're not big screen fiends either. My mom is 2km too far away to get DSL, so her options are Satellite/Turbo Hub which offer pitiful amounts of bandwidth per month, but are fast enough to auto-load HD video in YouTube/Netflix. If she tried to watch a movie or two she'd likely got hit with overage charges. Last summer my brother's computer was uploading/syncing with his cloud service and racked up $600 in overages in one month.
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Thank you for all the replies. Yes, it's all currently pointless. But that could also have been said about every older standard before it. (Maybe a good subject for a philosophical paper about tech/life?) To tie this all back to China: What's really crap is if something that is hyped as 5G isn't even 5G.
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Oct 18, 2020 22:36
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An expert troll and well executed I applaud it
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:An expert troll and well executed I applaud it I still don't see him holding the ball? The announcers say he caught it but does he show it?
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UltraRed posted:I still don't see him holding the ball? The announcers say he caught it but does he show it? 1:12 of the video, you can barely see it because the cameraman is bad but right at the top of the screen you'll see a white fuzz enter his glove.
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Get the gently caress out NOW WASHINGTON — Chinese officials have told the Trump administration that security officers in China might detain American citizens if the Justice Department proceeds with prosecutions of arrested scholars who are members of the Chinese military, American officials said. The Chinese officials conveyed the messages starting this summer, when the Justice Department intensified efforts to arrest and charge the scholars, mainly with providing false information on their visa applications, the American officials said. U.S. law enforcement officials say at least five Chinese scholars who have been arrested in recent months did not disclose their military affiliations on visa applications and might have been trying to conduct industrial espionage in research centers. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/politics/china-us-threats-detain.html
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How low are the standards for Chinese diplomats? Do they merely rate applicants based on how insulting and threatening they can be to other countries? https://twitter.com/Dan_c715/status/1318036839819845633
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Taiwan does not allow dual citizenship, but lots of Taiwanese are dual passport holders. If you move to Taiwan and want to become Taiwanese, you have to give up your previous nationality. Even then, it's not a guarantee that your citizenship will be approved. Taiwan is notorious for how reluctant it is to create new Taiwanese nationals. Hell, it often makes the news. There's been outrage in the expat community because Taiwan loves to make a big deal over rewarding someone with citizenship but it's frequently like a priest or an elderly pensioner, basically people unlikely to have children who would then be Taiwanese. Meanwhile people who have lived their entire adult lives in Taiwan, are married to Taiwanese people, have children, pay taxes, and speak Chinese are usually limited to permanent resident status and can never vote. Taiwanese who hold dual citizenship do so because they were Taiwanese first. The government doesn't inquire if you have a second citizenship. Some people are pretty dumb about it though and enter Taiwan on the wrong passport (which is super illegal) and try to avoid military service. I wouldn't recommend that.
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diplomat to fiji is prolly where they shove the fuckups problem with the prc diplomat corp is that the fuckups are loud, not quiet like the american ones
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bob dobbs is dead posted:diplomat to fiji is prolly where they shove the fuckups Not necessarily, they have been trying to make strategic inroads with Pacific island countries through low-interest loans, etc. Far easier to bribe/push around little Pacific countries with small populations and economies than larger places like Sri Lanka, etc. It's been making the rounds in policy circles for the last few years. The ABC ran an article about it recently, mentioning they've seemingly withdrawn/slashed aid in the last year or two. Not a lot of explanation as to why though. no why Atlas Hugged posted:Taiwan does not allow dual citizenship, but lots of Taiwanese are dual passport holders. From memory, Americans have a sort of backdoor "sike" to renouncing their nationality whereby if you aren't doing it 100% because you want to renounce it (such as having to do so to acquire foreign citizenship), it basically doesn't "count" as genuine and you can get it back later. Some guy thought he'd be clever and do that to naturalise in Japan, but naturally with FBAR reporting his bank caught him and long story short Japan yanked his citizenship, womp womp. I've met plenty of adults who have been skating by on what's essentially "don't ask, don't tell" wrt their citizenship acquired at birth, I don't think there's a big appetite for enforcement from the governments involved. I met one or two people who renounced their Japanese citizenship to do JET, also a Singaporean guy who was on his way to his 4th passport. As you say though, many of these same governments are *very* stingy about offering naturalisation to foreign residents.
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I loving hate FBAR.
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I literally just did mine last week, lol, like 2 days before the "you missed the last 2 deadlines" deadline.
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Atlas Hugged posted:If you move to Taiwan and want to become Taiwanese, you have to give up your previous nationality. Even then, it's not a guarantee that your citizenship will be approved. Taiwan is notorious for how reluctant it is to create new Taiwanese nationals. Hell, it often makes the news. There's been outrage in the expat community because Taiwan loves to make a big deal over rewarding someone with citizenship but it's frequently like a priest or an elderly pensioner, basically people unlikely to have children who would then be Taiwanese. Meanwhile people who have lived their entire adult lives in Taiwan, are married to Taiwanese people, have children, pay taxes, and speak Chinese are usually limited to permanent resident status and can never vote. I liked that guy who's been a famous journalist there and lived in Taiwan since like 1948 and is still always referred to as foreigner in the press. "Foreigner, who has been in Taiwan longer than 90% of the population has been alive, says,"
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Ethics_Gradient posted:From memory, Americans have a sort of backdoor "sike" to renouncing their nationality whereby if you aren't doing it 100% because you want to renounce it (such as having to do so to acquire foreign citizenship), it basically doesn't "count" as genuine and you can get it back later. It's more like that the American government has to accept their resignation. Since FBAR, this was a pain in the rear end. It was made an even bigger pain in the rear end since that one Facebook investor renounced his citizenship to avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes. Renouncing your citizenship can take a decade and cost a ton of money. The UK explicitly say if you renounced your citizenship to get a passport elsewhere, we'll just give you it back. ninjoatse.cx fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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I'm still not clear what FBAR is, since I was poor I didn't do anything tax related while abroad. I filed taxes in the US for the first time last year. Wasn't a big deal and never heard anything about getting audited or whatever so . Guess I got lucky and avoided Sauron's eye, not that I owed them anything due to aforementioned poverty.
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Grand Fromage posted:I'm still not clear what FBAR is, since I was poor I didn't do anything tax related while abroad. If you have over 10k USD in a foreign bank at any point of the tax year, you're supposed to file. You don't owe anything, just have to let the IRS know it's out there. There are also some requirements for the banks on reporting the assets of American citizens, which prompted some of them to just boot all of their American clients when it came into effect 
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Ethics_Gradient posted:If you have over 10k USD in a foreign bank at any point of the tax year, you're supposed to file. You don't owe anything, just have to let the IRS know it's out there. Ah well lol at the idea having anything close to 10k USD. Though with my dad's estate likely to pay off my student loans I will have to start considering what it's like to have a bank account above zero at the end of the month.
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hakimashou posted:Its not called the world's largest racist ethno-state for nothing. China is not a racist ethnostate, and I find it especially  how this assertion is coming from someone with a literal fascist symbol next to their username; I’m sure that is just a coincidence with you whining about those evil lefties all day on this site
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Oct 19, 2020 20:59
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WarpedNaba posted:Here we go again. Someone has to balance out all the morose state department propaganda being regurgitated itt unchallenged once in awhile But have it!
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Oct 19, 2020 21:03
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Rudatron just got permabanned for spewing literal scientific racism/white supremacist bullshit for pages and he had that loving redpill icon next to his name go figure lmao
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Malkina_ posted:China is not a racist ethnostate, and I find it especially Woah hey friendo, you seem to have taken a wrong turn. Defending a hyper capitalist conservative regime actively engaging in the suppression of minority cultures as somehow being leftist belongs in the Bad China Thread. That's over yonder in D&D. This here's the Good China Thread. Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Oct 19, 2020 21:06
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Woah hey friendo, you seem to have taken a wrong turn. Defending a hyper capitalist conservative regime actively engaging in the suppression of minority cultures as somehow being leftist belongs in the Bad China Thread. That's over yonder in D&D. Do I need a fascist icon next to my username in order to participate in state department propaganda tho? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Malkina_ posted:China is not a racist ethnostate, and I find it especially Normally I would find the semi-annual emergence itt of a crazy person to be an opportunity for lols but I dunno this seems weaker than usual
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Oct 19, 2020 21:09
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if u want a fasces next to ur username go post in cspam they hand them out like candy if you don't have one yet it's because you're posting too much in other subforums
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Oct 19, 2020 21:11
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I don't think not posting enough in CSPAM is this guy's problem.
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The White Dragon posted:if u want a fasces next to ur username go post in cspam they hand them out like candy lol I shouldn't be surprised that it's a CSPAM wrongthink punishment
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Fojar38 posted:Normally I would find the semi-annual emergence itt of a crazy person to be an opportunity for lols but I dunno this seems weaker than usual No one really has the energy for a tankie these days
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Malkina_ posted:China is not a racist ethnostate, and I find it especially Yes it is you revolting genocide apologist trump supporter piece of poo poo.
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The White Dragon posted:if u want a fasces next to ur username go post in cspam they hand them out like candy F that I don’t wanna lose my burrito
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hakimashou posted:Yes it is you revolting genocide apologist trump supporter piece of poo poo. Nazi goon gently caress off
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when are they going to make ohhhboy a dang thread IK
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Malkina_ posted:Nazi goon gently caress off Lol goon supporting a fascist ethnostate calling some one a Nazi.
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