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Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Fojar38 posted:

it should still be fun though because indian feelings are almost as easy to hurt as chinese feelings

Not in my experience. Most Indians, especially the younger crowd, will unquestioningly agree with you when you bring up India's problems. The more education they have, the more they see it for what it is. Especially those who went abroad. Protesting and complaining got them independence, and every citizen there loves to gripe about how corrupt the government is. It's the nationalists, like anywhere else, that get super butthurt when the videshi brings up something against India.

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Banana Man
Oct 2, 2015

mm time 2 gargle piss and shit
Who would win between India and China in a war for dwindling water supplies

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
Every Indian I've talked to about a war with china, which is all of them the moment they learn I've lived in China, says India will win because the Chinese are about as trust worthy as their lead-based products. Of course Chinese think, due to propaganda, that the northern part of India actually belongs to China, so they will be justified in taking back what they think belongs to them.

Either way, it's dumb armchair bs.

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Banana Man posted:

Who would win between India and China in a war for dwindling water supplies

Anyone who is a political or economic rival to either.

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES





Banana Man posted:

Who would win between India and China in a war for dwindling water supplies

By the time India'd go to war over water, they'd probably be too messed up by climate change to beat China. Plus, they'd probably have gone to war with Pakistan over Kashmir's water already. That's my guess.

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Also, I'd loving love to visit Tibet.

TIBET:

















Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES




Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
On the subject of food safety...

Article: 1,000 Tons of Tainted Meat Seized in South China Including Some ‘Soaked in Bleach’
From: Time
Date: September 19, 2016

quote:

Police in China’s southern province of Guangdong have seized $12.3 million of potentially hazardous frozen meat including some reportedly soaked in bleach.

Sixteen suspects were detained in the raid late last week, say local police, who uncovered 1,000 tons meat and offal — chiefly from the U.S., Brazil and Thailand — on a vessel near Dangan Island by the city of Shenzhen.

...

Police said some of the haul — including beef cuts, tripe, tongue and chicken wings — had been soaked in bleach in order to clean the meat and increase its weight. A kilogram of beef weighs more than 1.5 kg after soaking in highly toxic bleach, said police, warning that the doctored meat would have “seriously harmed people’s health.”

...

Food safety now consistently ranks as a top concern for most Chinese, with exasperated netizens calling for tough punishments after this latest scandal, and asking why standards were not being implemented.

“Could we just execute these offenders?” asked one user of China’s Twitter-like microblog Weibo.

“I’ve become numb after so many food-safety issues,” posted another. “As long as I don’t die of poisoning, I don’t care any more. But I just don’t understand, how difficult is it to implement the rule of law?”

:cop:

Vladimir Poutine
Aug 13, 2012
:madmax:

Haier posted:

Of course Chinese think, due to propaganda, that the northern part of India actually belongs to China, so they will be justified in taking back what they think belongs to them.

I really don't envy the Nepalese, being wedged between these two fuckers and constantly having their already volatile politics interfered with by them

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Haier posted:

Either way, it's dumb armchair bs.

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
Did u know Tibet used to eat dead ppl? That's one reason China had to take back Tibet. We had to give them education.*

*Actual reason a Chinese person told me why China needs to hold onto Tibet forever.

Mistle
Oct 11, 2005

Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town
Grimey Drawer

Haier posted:

Did u know Tibet used to eat dead ppl? That's one reason China had to take back Tibet. We had to give them education.*

*Actual reason a Chinese person told me why China needs to hold onto Tibet forever.

Yeah, education on how to eat people, more like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suiyang

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Haier posted:

Did u know Tibet used to eat dead ppl? That's one reason China had to take back Tibet. We had to give them education.*

*Actual reason a Chinese person told me why China needs to hold onto Tibet forever.

Haha, that's quite the dramatization of Sky Burials, I assume.


Also, how's phone service in China? For a little China-India cross posting, I'm betting they just got one-upped:

quote:

... India's biggest industrial house has launched its 4G LTE network and is offering unlimited free voice calls forever to anyone who signs up for its services. It is also claiming to offer the cheapest 4G LTE data rates in the world.

...

Jio's network is being touted as the largest 4G LTE deployment anywhere in the world, Ambani said, adding that the network is also "future proof" with baked in support for upcoming 5G and 6G network technologies. Jio's 4G coverage is available in 18,000 cities in the country, and over 200,000 remote areas. The company aims to extend the coverage to 90 percent of India's population by next year.

“India and Indians cannot afford to be left behind,” Ambani said. "The era of paying for voice calls is ending,” he added.

The world's second most populous nation, India, already has some of the cheapest voice calling plans but data remains expensive for most subscribers. With poor wired internet infrastructure, a smartphone is mostly where many Indians experience the internet for the first time. Jio is offering the country’s 1.3 billion people free voice calls and data tariffs starting at 1GB of data at Rs 50 (75 cents).

This move to make voice calls free would be a big blow for three of India's biggest carriers — Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, which still make most of their revenues from voice calls. Voice calls on Airtel, for instance, still account for nearly two-thirds of its mobile revenues. While Airtel projects its share of data revenues will increase, Jio's offer to give free voice calls will nevertheless be a big blow. While Ambani was announcing Jio's plans in Mumbai today, Airtel's stock was down by as much as 9%. Airtel has more than 200 million subscribers in India and is the country's largest carrier.

...

Reliance Jio is also betting big on content. It is offering users a range of services including messaging, mobile wallet, security suite, magazine newsstand, music streaming, on-demand movies and TV shows, cloud storage, live TV access, and a news app. The company says that it plans to offer these services under a subscription of Rs 15,000 ($225). But as another introductory offer, Jio users will get these services for free until the end of next year.

...
http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/reliance-jio-launch-tariff-plans-india/


And how's smartphone penetration in China?

Edit: I just realized this is better than my plan

Accretionist fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Sep 19, 2016

The Sausages
Sep 30, 2012

What do you want to do? Who do you want to be?

Mistle posted:

Yeah, education on how to eat people, more like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suiyang

Women and children first :unsmigghh:

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

Accretionist posted:

Haha, that's quite the dramatization of Sky Burials, I assume.


Also, how's phone service in China? For a little China-India cross posting, I'm betting they just got one-upped:

http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/reliance-jio-launch-tariff-plans-india/


And how's smartphone penetration in China?

Edit: I just realized this is better than my plan

This plan is way better than my plan, and I live in the SF bay area

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

its my favourite thing from any of the china threads becuase of the frequency it can be used in response to posts. also that its been posted so many times googling armchair strategist bookstore makes it the first image result

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Accretionist posted:

Haha, that's quite the dramatization of Sky Burials, I assume.


Also, how's phone service in China? For a little China-India cross posting, I'm betting they just got one-upped:

http://mashable.com/2016/09/01/reliance-jio-launch-tariff-plans-india/


And how's smartphone penetration in China?

Edit: I just realized this is better than my plan

I'm on China Mobile and I don't even know what speed it is but it absolutely feels like 2G. It might even be 2G.

The Ambani family are a bunch of criminals, but whenever they back things they have nearly unlimited money and connections to do get poo poo done. I mean, holy poo poo, 50 fuckin rupes a gib. I was on Vodafone and Tata-Docomo last year and their rates were like 2GB at 2G for 100 rupees ($1.50 USD) and Rs. 300 for 2GB 3G speed (as they call it). At Rs. 50 a GB of data at 4G, that's going to be amazing.

Too bad Indian internet is censored for just the good stuff (porn, torrents, and some Indian news sites). The outcry when that happened was really big, but people were too ashamed to go protest about it because who wants to out themselves as protesting for porn and pirated movies?

Indy
Mar 30, 2005

Hey guys, what's up?

Bro Dad posted:

when hurt feelings cause you to torture animals out of spite:

How foreign protests against Yulin’s dog meat festival may have backfired


“We want to come up with some slogan like, ‘Cute girls don’t date dog eaters,'” she said, adding that most afficionados in Yulin are men, who believe the meat increases virility.

Again with the virility. How come everything is a dong medicine in china?

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Indy posted:

“We want to come up with some slogan like, ‘Cute girls don’t date dog eaters,'” she said, adding that most afficionados in Yulin are men, who believe the meat increases virility.

Again with the virility. How come everything is a dong medicine in china?

60-80 cigarettes a day will wreak havoc on your sexual potency.

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

KomodoWagon posted:

60-80 cigarettes a day will wreak havoc on your sexual potency.

And that's just from the air quality, not counting the actual smokes.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/worlds-saddest-polar-bear-offered-new-home-in-uk?CMP=fb_gu

:shobon:

Free Market Mambo
Jul 26, 2010

by Lowtax
I am moved by this ursine plight, and really hope that the shopping center does the right thing.

But in my heart's brain, I am doubtful.

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

Free Market Mambo posted:

I am moved by this ursine plight, and really hope that the shopping center does the right thing.

Milk his gallbladder for bile?

Vladimir Poutine
Aug 13, 2012
:madmax:

Indy posted:

“We want to come up with some slogan like, ‘Cute girls don’t date dog eaters,'” she said, adding that most afficionados in Yulin are men, who believe the meat increases virility.

Again with the virility. How come everything is a dong medicine in china?

I remember being in the jungle in Nepal, where there's army guys with AK-47s everywhere to stop Chinese and Indian poachers. The army guys were saying that the reason Chinese people love rhino horn is because rhinos gently caress for like 3 hours

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
I knew it was too good to be true. All that relative quiet and calm in my apartment. This is China, and one must always remember that living in an apartment in China means loving hammering, sawing, and drilling from some nearby apartment, from sun up to sun down, and maybe sometimes into the late evening.

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
It's just big cities. I moved out of Alphabet City in NYC to a more quiet spot in Brooklyn that has barely any bars....and it's still loud. It's just not bar related noise. Hoodrat poo poo.

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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Haier posted:

I knew it was too good to be true. All that relative quiet and calm in my apartment. This is China, and one must always remember that living in an apartment in China means loving hammering, sawing, and drilling from some nearby apartment, from sun up to sun down, and maybe sometimes into the late evening.

listen to that .0001% gdp being generated right next to you

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




The Great Autismo! posted:

now it's just shitposters and crazy people

Which are you? :v:

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Somebody who doesn't practice proper Mao Zedong thought. I heard him mention intelluctual friends.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Vladimir Poutine posted:

I remember being in the jungle in Nepal, where there's army guys with AK-47s everywhere to stop Chinese and Indian poachers. The army guys were saying that the reason Chinese people love rhino horn is because rhinos gently caress for like 3 hours

and here i was thinking like an idiot that it was all due to that huge dick growing outta their face

Jack2142
Jul 17, 2014

Shitposting in Seattle

Banana Man posted:

Who would win between India and China in a war for dwindling water supplies

The American people win! I think Blue Collar Factory Workers and White Collar Tech Bro's all would agree that this helps their job prospects.

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?


Facebook Aunt posted:

Which are you? :v:

Shitposting is a proud tradition of my people, please respect it

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Jack2142 posted:

The American people win! I think Blue Collar Factory Workers and White Collar Tech Bro's all would agree that this helps their job prospects.

Also the US and Russian arms industries would jerk themselves raw to see a long, protracted conventional war between these two.

BCR
Jan 23, 2011

Haier posted:

I knew it was too good to be true. All that relative quiet and calm in my apartment. This is China, and one must always remember that living in an apartment in China means loving hammering, sawing, and drilling from some nearby apartment, from sun up to sun down, and maybe sometimes into the late evening.

Sunday 7am, 2 minutes drilling
Monday 10pm, 3 minutes bang bang bang
Saturday 2am, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz buzzsaw special

China, home of the no fucks given, with any given power tool

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer

BCR posted:

Sunday 7am, 2 minutes drilling
Monday 10pm, 3 minutes bang bang bang
Saturday 2am, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz buzzsaw special

China, home of the no why, with any given power tool

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



https://youtu.be/TYKAbRK_wKA

Only 14 years left folks.

*entire thread throws their heads back and laugh in unison*

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010


hello i am here to inform you that the "no why" meme has been thoroughly run into the ground and no longer provokes any response, thank you for reading and have a good day :tipshat:

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

BCR posted:

Sunday 7am, 2 minutes drilling
Monday 10pm, 3 minutes bang bang bang
Saturday 2am, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz buzzsaw special

China, home of the no fucks given, with any given power tool

China will grow larger!

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Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES
North Korea's internet only has 28 websites on their DNS.

quote:

On Sept 20, 2016 at approximately 10:00PM, one of North Korea's top level nameservers was accidentally configured to allow global DNS zone tranfers. This allows anyone who performs an AXFR (zone transfer) request to the country's ns2.kptc.kp nameserver can get a copy of the nation's top level DNS data. This was detected by the TL;DR Project - an effort to attempt zone transfers against all top level domain (TLD) nameservers every two hours and keep a running Github repo with the resulting data. This data gives us a better picture of North Korea's domains and top level DNS.

https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer/NorthKoreaDNSLeak

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