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Fur20 posted:south korea... i've been training for this job all my life If you build the road one section at a time it will actually flatten the land for you. A pivotal tip for such a mountainous country
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Atopian posted:2: it is evident that the authorities *can* stop all VPNs from working, at least for a while, since they all regularly poo poo the bed around Party Conference time. I don't know how trivial it is, but they obviously can do it since like you say, magically your internet access stops working around June 4th every year. Definitely a big reason they don't block all VPNs is that any company in China that does international business requires VPN access to, you know, be able to do anything online. Completely shutting down VPNs would rock the economy. That plus the fact that the majority of the population supports the Party and aren't interested in using a VPN to learn about reality means the best option is to look the other way. The economic harm is vastly greater than some discontents who already don't buy into the Party's message being able to access Twitter. Also you'd be stopping all your wumaos from being able to flood social media with bullshit. Plus every once in a while when they throw someone in prison forever for selling VPNs, it reinforces the message.
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Blistex posted:East Germany at least had something resembling modern infrastructure and industry, something that doesn't exist off a select few beaten paths in North Korea. Imagine trying to bring a nation of that size and population from 1900 to 2021 just from a construction point of view. You're talking trillions of dollars when all is said and done. It would take several generations of planning to even begin the process of rebuilding North Korea While NK has trillions of dollars of minerals and rare earth metals buried underground, the infrastructure to tap even that is beyond costly. It'd be easier to modernize Afghanistan
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s korea itself was exactly two generations, the basic trouble is doing it with democracy
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North Korea is obviously way beyond "1900s" level of development, and saying that it's easier to modernize Afghanistan seems dumb as well.
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know how trivial it is, but they obviously can do it since like you say, magically your internet access stops working around June 4th every year. Express and Astrill are the most popular VPNs in China, unless you know how to use Shadowstocks. It seems like they release a new weekly update nowadays. They didn't go down on the 4th, but when the two sessions meeting happened, all VPNs took a poo poo, especially if you live here in Beijing.
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It's also somewhat safe to assume that a lot of the popular VPNs are compromised.
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the panacea posted:It's also somewhat safe to assume that a lot of the popular VPNs are compromised. Yeah I'd be shocked if a lot of them aren't honey pots for various intelligence organizations.
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Does WG still work or did that only work back in 2019 due to the novelty of it?
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SerCypher posted:Yeah I'd be shocked if a lot of them aren't honey pots for various intelligence organizations. They all will retain your data and sell it to whoever.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Fixed - you need to make use [url] not [img] woops, thanks, it does have audio
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the panacea posted:It's also somewhat safe to assume that a lot of the popular VPNs are compromised. If your privacy is "of interest to intelligence agencies" valuable, you should be looping it through several different VPNs, based in mutual uncooperative jurisdictions, paid for with some hard-to-trace crypto, with some personally set up / obtained servers in the middle. They'll still get you, of course, but at least it'll be a chase.
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SerCypher posted:Yeah I'd be shocked if a lot of them aren't honey pots for various intelligence organizations. Yeah, most of them are. Express is actually based in Hong Kong. A lot of the "Free" VPNs collect your data. Then again, what tech doesn't nowadays?
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I doubt most of them are explicit honeypots, moreso profiteering companies with optimistic venture capital revenue targets and willing to sell out customers to achieve them.
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know how trivial it is, but they obviously can do it since like you say, magically your internet access stops working around June 4th every year. it's May 35th you dumbass
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Forceholy posted:Express and Astrill are the most popular VPNs in China, unless you know how to use Shadowstocks. It seems like they release a new weekly update nowadays. Yeah I know, I lived there. Astrill stopped working entirely in Sichuan so I had to switch to... I think Vypr for my backup. Express usually works. the panacea posted:It's also somewhat safe to assume that a lot of the popular VPNs are compromised. It's a common theory that Express/Astrill at least cooperate with the government. You're in China, you just shouldn't be doing anything electronically that would get you in trouble. Part of the price of living in an authoritarian state. Be happy that foreign citizenship means they don't care about you unless you're running a Tibetan separatist movement or something.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3148597/chinese-police-arrest-suspect-fatal-shooting-law-firm i wonder where the gun came from - if there's gonna be any official words on that or they'll just ignore it
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feizhouxiongdi2 posted:https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3148597/chinese-police-arrest-suspect-fatal-shooting-law-firm China makes a shitload of guns, and exports a lot too, even to civilian markets like Canada. We can't get them here in the US because of some arms export thing I believe. I'm actually surprised more of them don't go missing or get used in crimes.
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SerCypher posted:China makes a shitload of guns, and exports a lot too, even to civilian markets like Canada. US laws ban a bunch of the scarier looking foreign produced weapons, including a lot of the stuff Chinese companies had been importing. Norinco, specifically, got totally banned from importing firearms because they tried to sell a ship full of AK's to federal agents posing as gang members/the mafia in the mid-90's. They also supposedly offered tanks and missiles. They're probably much more careful about that sort of thing domestically - but yeah undoubtedly things fall off the backs of trucks often enough when somebody is willing to pay. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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Norinco and subsidiaries getting to sling Type 81's here while domestically-made AR-15s got banned is one of the uglier things about the Canadian gun market.
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SerCypher posted:China makes a shitload of guns, and exports a lot too, even to civilian markets like Canada. The guns are there, but their (known) use in crime is very rare. Definitely seems like something is up with that story.
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Something blessed from the cursed thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsDRDoy8o3o
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Kharnifex posted:Something blessed from the cursed thread Please don't doxx the CSPAM people who come into this thread.
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Kharnifex posted:Something blessed from the cursed thread taiwan #1
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中國Mac同我
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Dumb question maybe but is Google Chrome or any other applications available in China? Obviously I know they sell Android-based phones there, but the whole Google doing business on the mainland due to concerns about the CCP and access to their servers made me wonder.
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sticksy posted:Dumb question maybe but is Google Chrome or any other applications available in China? You can install Chrome but any sort of syncing it tries to do with Google's servers will be blocked by the firewall
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The Android phones also don't have Google Play or any of the other Google services. Which definitely doesn't cause crippling problems all the time or anything.
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Kharnifex posted:Something blessed from the cursed thread I don't remember taking DMT but I guess I did
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If you haven't watched the video, you've seen the good parts now
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I like the part where the two presumably kung-fu masters were incapable of landing a blow to its giant, swollen head.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I like the part where the two presumably kung-fu masters were incapable of landing a blow to its giant, swollen head. Heh, I see you couldn't even track his movements
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This looks... interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/china-property-giant-evergrande-admits-debt-crisis-as-protesters-besiege-hq The Guardian posted:Property giant China Evergrande Group has said that it cannot sell properties and other assets fast enough to service its massive $300bn debts, and that its cashflow was under “tremendous pressure”.
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Strong move blaming Xi for not controlling the press enough. Let's see how that plays out.
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if theres a tipping point itll be evergrande going down without a bailout. maybe even with one
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bob dobbs is dead posted:if theres a tipping point itll be evergrande going down without a bailout. maybe even with one I'm typically quite blasé about announcements of China's imminent demise, since they have been a recurring theme in this thread and others for years and years, but I will confess to watching the Evergrande thing with a certain amount of alertness. Probably nothing, but not certainly nothing.
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I like that literally everything all over the world is blamed on the press now
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Pistol_Pete posted:This looks... interesting. Oooo we gonna see some global ripple effects soon??
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ilmucche posted:I like that literally everything all over the world is blamed on the press now 
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