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Weird, i just learned the phrase rent seeking the other day. Have people been using it this whole time and I didn't notice?
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It comes up a lot in China and Hong Kong especially where capitalism almost never appears without crony in front of it.
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Sep 19, 2014 10:53
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DontAskKant posted:Weird, i just learned the phrase rent seeking the other day. Have people been using it this whole time and I didn't notice? I'm pretty sure most countries actively avoid teaching that phrase or using it in public, for reasons that should be obvious.
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Sep 19, 2014 15:48
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VideoTapir posted:I'm pretty sure most countries actively avoid teaching that phrase or using it in public, for reasons that should be obvious. I'll bite. What are these reasons?
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Sep 19, 2014 20:21
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blinkyzero posted:I'll bite. What are these reasons? Because rent seeking has been thoroughly conflated with capitalism to the point where it is almost the ideal.
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VideoTapir posted:Because rent seeking has been thoroughly conflated with capitalism to the point where it is almost the ideal. Oh okay that was what I thought you meant, I wasn't sure if there were some arcane racist connotation or something silly like that I wasn't aware of.
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GuestBob posted:Is the group a group of one? Bloodnose posted:As GuestBob implies, group tours are usually just a group of one that they arrange through a rent seeker in Shenzhen and then they cross the border and do whatever the gently caress they want. The only disadvantage to the group tour over the Individual Visit Scheme is that the group tour can't fly directly into HK and have to pay the rent seeker in Shenzhen first. Ok, good! This actually explains quite a bit. Next question: I know mainlanders have to enter HK via shenzhen to get their permits, but once they are in HK, can they fly straight out, say, to Shanghai without the Shenzhen stopover?
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Stop me if I'm asking in the wrong thread but do any of you guys know anything about traditional Chinese music? I've found a couple CDs on Spotify (two erhu CDs by Chen Xionghua, a zheng CD by Hong Ting, "Four Seasons in China" by the "China Broadcast Folk Orchestra") and I've played through all them several times. I'd kind of like to know where to go for more, and also maybe where I could start to look to have some sort of deeper understanding/background than just enjoying it.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:Stop me if I'm asking in the wrong thread but do any of you guys know anything about traditional Chinese music? I've found a couple CDs on Spotify (two erhu CDs by Chen Xionghua, a zheng CD by Hong Ting, "Four Seasons in China" by the "China Broadcast Folk Orchestra") and I've played through all them several times. I'd kind of like to know where to go for more, and also maybe where I could start to look to have some sort of deeper understanding/background than just enjoying it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMiAi4Xx41I
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Sep 20, 2014 06:54
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That video's laying it on a little too thick in my opinion.
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Sep 20, 2014 18:34
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:That video's laying it on a little too thick in my opinion. I can tell they are not really playing these. They are pretending. They are not moving their fingers across the neck, and for one of the guys, his hand was not in the correct position for the pitch being played. No one should be bowing any Erhu, or any Huqin like a Cello. Please bow correctly Completely crappy.
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Sep 20, 2014 18:41
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I don't get it.
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So what goes on for the mysteriously named National Day? What kind of stuff is open/closed?
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Sep 22, 2014 01:27
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Grand Fromage posted:So what goes on for the mysteriously named National Day? What kind of stuff is open/closed? Who the gently caress cares. If you have time off, go drink or something.
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VideoTapir posted:Who the gently caress cares. If you have time off, go drink or something. I guess drinking is open then.
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Sep 22, 2014 01:53
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Everything is open on national day week. You can do whatever you want but taking a train is usually a bad idea.
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Oh and a lot of small restaurants and street food sellers are away for the holiday (at least in the tier 1 cities), so that stuff is "closed."
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VideoTapir posted:Who the gently caress cares. If you have time off, go drink or something. lolllll
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTZC-j48JWg
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Grand Fromage posted:So what goes on for the mysteriously named National Day? What kind of stuff is open/closed? Most stuff is open I think, but if you want to travel, do it midweek and don't go anywhere that could be considered a "tourist destination". You will literally be trampled to death if you attempt to enter a train station near the beginning or the end of the week off. It's sorta like mini Chinese New Year, except people go on vacation instead of to their hometown.
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Sep 22, 2014 04:16
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It will never be cleaned, ever.
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Sep 22, 2014 04:20
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VideoTapir posted:It will be wiped down with a lukewarm dishrag, once a day.
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Sep 22, 2014 06:00
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Do you all get Cheung Yeung Festival off too? That week, my schedule is watching four student presentations then taking a five-day weekend.
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Sep 22, 2014 06:40
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I figured travel was a bad idea but I have no money anyway so no big deal. I was going to go see museums and explore around the city a bit. And poopsock Wasteland 2.
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fart simpson posted:Most stuff is open I think, but if you want to travel, do it midweek and don't go anywhere that could be considered a "tourist destination". You will literally be trampled to death if you attempt to enter a train station near the beginning or the end of the week off. It's sorta like mini Chinese New Year, except people go on vacation instead of to their hometown. Does this go for HK too? I've had an unfortunate change of plans and may or may not be going there then. E: No mainlanders holiday there? vvv Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Sep 22, 2014 16:05
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People here don't like "National Day".
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Grand Fromage posted:I figured travel was a bad idea but I have no money anyway so no big deal. I was going to go see museums and explore around the city a bit.
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Sep 22, 2014 21:59
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The only place I saw here (HK) making a big deal of "National day" was the Bank of China building
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simplefish posted:I know a guy who got complaints from parents in Taiwan because of his accent: I'm from the Americana-est part of America and the way I say it has two distinct syllables.... That's bizarre.
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: You, what have you been teaching my kid?
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Eifert Posting posted:I'm from the Americana-est part of America and the way I say it has two distinct syllables.... That's bizarre. I'll bet you don't say it like Jeremy Clarkson does.
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simplefish posted:The only place I saw here (HK) making a big deal of "National day" was the Bank of China building There's lots of banners all over town that are like "x district passionately celebrates the 65th anniversary of the people's republic of china!" but they're only in Chinese and you didn't notice because you're illiterate
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Bloodnose posted:There's lots of banners all over town that are like "x district passionately celebrates the 65th anniversary of the people's republic of china!" but they're only in Chinese and you didn't notice because you're illiterate Hey I know like 7 individual characters!
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I've just farted.
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simplefish posted:Hey I know like 7 individual characters! 我很喜歡打飛機 wo hen xi huan da fei ji (I like to masturbate)
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Sep 24, 2014 14:40
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simplefish posted:Hey I know like 7 individual characters! 一二三四五六七!
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caberham posted:我很喜歡打飛機 Don't you mean 我很歡喜打飛機 ngo han fun hei daa fei gei I don't hit aeroplanes, I leave that up to Russia in Ukraine simplefish fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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blinkyzero posted:一二三四五六七! caberham posted:我很喜歡打飛機 What are the rest of the words to this song?
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I see the cheapest tickets from Tokyo to HK are on China Eastern Airlines or whatever; just how lovely is it? Worth spending $30 more for China Air? Also anything interesting happening Halloween weekend and Nov 1 and 2, which are apparently holidays?
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Arglebargle III posted:What are the rest of the words to this song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwvWtZl2ICY
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