brocked posted:

TAIWAN NO. 1!!

Kharnifex posted:

Yeah, mate of mine played an evil White industrialist/ shipping guy in a period drama

Outrail posted:

It get's better. It's like Calvinball law arguments.


LOL! Imagine if New Zealand demanded that all internet users referred to Australia as 'The West Island of New Zealand', and not doing so was breaking the law.

Outrail posted:

Wut?

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Some protesters who rallied in support of Beijing’s interference in the oath-taking row have revealed that they were paid to attend Sunday’s demonstration outside the legislature.

Thousands attended the rally to voice support for Beijing’s unprecedented ruling on Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, handed down last week as a means to block lawmakers critical of China from taking office. Protesters criticised the pro-independence stance of two Hong Kong lawmakers at the centre of the controversy.
pro-beijing rally

A protester told Apple Daily on camera that she came from Shekou, Shenzhen, and was promised HK$300 as reimbursement for transport. She said Hongkongers were paid HK$300 more than mainland participants. She said she came to Hong Kong alone, and did not know when or how she would receive the payment. Asked whether she knew what the demonstration was about, the protester said: “I am just hanging out here and watching [the rally].”

Another rally-goer, 12, also told Apple Daily on camera that participants would be given HK$100 and free meals after the demonstration. She said her parents brought her to the rally, and criticised Youngspiration’s lawmakers Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung Chung-hang for promoting Hong Kong independence. She said: “They are Chinese people, so why are they protesting against China?” The demonstrator said that she did not know the content of Beijing’s ruling, but she believed the decision would not affect Hong Kong’s rule of law.

An attendee told the Ming Pao newspaper that she registered for the event with three other family members through the Confederacy of Hong Kong Shanwei Clansmen. She said they would be paid HK$600 after the protest. She added that they were required to sign in with the Confederacy upon arrival, and would need to sign out before collecting the payment.

A Chinese participant, who has been living in Hong Kong for nine years, told Apple Daily that Beijing’s ruling was about “kicking out two lawmakers,” although she could only name Youngspiration’s Yau. Another Mandarin-speaking attendee said she did not know the purpose of the demonstration.

Before the rally began, the protest organisers said on stage that all of the participants were patriots and were not paid to attend the event. It would be a smear if people accused the demonstrators of being motivated by money, the organisers said.

They asked anyone who suspected protesters received payment to report to the police.

The organisers said more than 40,000 people attended the rally, while Hong Kong police said there were 28,500 participants at its peaks. Pro-Beijing lawmaker Priscilla Leung said that the high turnout proved that many people are against the idea of Hong Kong independence.

A pro-democracy rally in protest against Beijing’s interference held last month was attended by about 13,000 people, according to the organiser. Organiser Au Nok-hin said that the two events differed in that pro-China demonstrators were paid to participate, while pro-democracy protesters sacrificed their time without reward.

fish and chips and dip posted:

I always find it funny how on hand HK is derided in China for licking the boots of their imperial overlords, yet on the other hand HK independence is this grave and serious insult. Several Chinese people I've talked to genuinely believe that China somehow liberated HK from under the British yoke and that HK'ers should be grateful towards Beijing.

SPACE HOMOS posted:

Holden: You're on a social media application talking to others when all of a sudden...
NONG: What one?
Holden: What?
NONG: What app?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference which app, its completely hypothetical.
NONG: But, how come I'd be on the app? Is it Chinese? Wechat?
Holden: I don't know, maybe you are trying to have sex with an expat. Who knows? When the person you are talking to says Taiwan number one...
NONG: Taiwan? Whats that?
Holden: You know what China is?
NONG: Of Course!
Holden: Its like China but better and not owned by China.
NONG: I've never heard of this better than China.
Holden: The person repeats Taiwan number one...
NONG: gently caress YOU gently caress YOU --
Holden: China number two, Taiwan number one
NONG: gently caress YOU gently caress YOU gently caress YOU

nickmeister posted:

Put this in the OP.

Boiled Water posted:

supposedly 25% of mining is done inside china. while bitcoin doesn't have a central bank as such, it currently has a major branch inside the middle kingdom

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China‘s Shenzhou-11 spacecraft returned to earth Friday, bringing home two astronauts from the rising power’s longest-ever orbital mission in a milestone for its vaulting ambitions.

China‘s state broadcaster CCTV showed the return capsule’s separation from the Tiangong-2 space lab 393 kilometres (244 miles) above the earth, and its descent through the atmosphere to its landing on the grassland of Inner Mongolia.

After it landed, ground personnel rushed to plant two flapping red flags beside the capsule while observers applauded in China‘s mission control. CCTV did not show the men emerging, but said they had been taken to a space centre by helicopter, and the official Xinhua news agency said they were in good health.

The manned space programme’s commander in chief Zhang Youxia announced that the mission was a “complete success”.

Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong spent the 33-day mission orbiting the earth carrying out experiments including cultivating silkworms, growing lettuce, and testing brain activity. The Tiangong-2 space lab, launched in September, is also running experiments on growing rice and thale cress.

Beijing is pouring billions into its space programme in a bid to catch up with the US and Europe. It announced in April that it aims to send a spacecraft “around 2020” to orbit Mars, then land and deploy a rover to explore the Red Planet’s surface.

In their last entry in a space diary published by the official Xinhua news agency, the astronauts wrote that they kept fit in space by doing somersaults and zero-gravity tai chi.

“At the end of a busy day, we have some free time before going to bed,” they wrote. “We take selfies to have some personal record of this unforgettable journey, or just go to the window and quietly stare at that beautiful blue planet called Earth.”

Beijing sees the military-run programme as a symbol of China‘s progress and a marker of its rising global stature.
astronauts return

The nation’s first lunar rover was launched in late 2013, and while it was beset by mechanical troubles it far outlived its expected lifespan, finally shutting down only last month.

But so far China has largely replicated activities that the US and Soviet Union pioneered decades ago. It intends to set up its own manned space station by 2022, and eventually put one of its citizens on the surface of the moon.

In an interview earlier this week, Jing told Xinhua that “even in the wilderness of space” the astronauts could “always feel the love from our motherland”.

Cumslut1895 posted:

Foreigners out! #BuildTheWall

Ein cooler Typ posted:

that's not cheating that's unfair to ban people for that

they should set up the tournaments better if they don't want people to take advantage of the rules

Boiled Water posted:

legally binding in china means what exactly?

big time bisexual posted:

just search for 沈阳南湖公园



edit:

found the swan boats

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An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China.

Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens, hundreds of them convicts. They said the program was then able to correctly identify criminals in further photos 89% of the time.

But the research, which has not been peer reviewed, has been criticised by criminology experts who say the AI may reflect bias in the justice system.

"This article is not looking at people's behaviour, it is looking at criminal conviction," said Prof Susan McVie, professor of quantitative criminology at the University of Edinburgh.

"The criminal justice system consists of a series of decision-making stages, by the police, prosecution and the courts. At each of those stages, people's decision making is affected by factors that are not related to offending behaviour - such as stereotypes about who is most likely to be guilty.

"Research shows jurors are more likely to convict people who look or dress a certain way. What this research may be picking up on is stereotypes that lead to people being picked up by the criminal justice system, rather than the likelihood of somebody offending."

The researchers took 1,856 ID photographs of Chinese citizens that fitted strict criteria of males aged between 18 and 55 with no facial hair or markings. The collection contained 730 ID pictures - not police mugshots - of convicted criminals or "wanted suspects by the ministry of public security". After using 90% of the images to train their algorithm, the researchers used the remaining photos to see whether the computer could correctly identify the convicts. It did so correctly about nine times out of 10.

The researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University said their algorithm had identified key facial features, such as the curvature of the upper lip and distance between eyes, that were common among the convicts.

But Prof McVie said the algorithm may simply have identified patterns in the type of people who are convicted by human juries.

"This is an example of statistics-led research with no theoretical underpinning," said Prof McVie, who is also the director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network research centre.

"What would be the reason that somebody's face would lead them to be criminal or not? There is no theoretical reason that the way somebody looks should make them a criminal.

"There is a huge margin of error around this sort of work and if you were trying to use the algorithm to predict who might commit a crime, you wouldn't find a high success rate," she told the BBC.

"Going back over 100 years ago, Cesare Lombroso was a 19th Century criminologist who used phrenology - feeling people's heads - with a theory that there were lumps and bumps associated with certain personality traits.

"But it is now considered to be very old and flawed science - criminologists have not believed in it for decades."

Prof McVie also warned that an algorithm used to spot potential criminals based on their appearance - such as passport scanning at an airport, or ID scanning at a night club - could have dangerous consequences.

"Using a system like this based on looks rather than behaviour could lead to eugenics-based policy-making," she said.

"What worries me the most is that we might be judging who is a criminal based on their looks. That sort of approach went badly wrong in our not-too distant history."

Relin posted:

it seems like this doomsaying has been going on for a decade

maybe it will never happen

ladron posted:

nickmeister posted:

I love how a typical Chinese argument seems to boil down to calling someone a liar (without any explanation) and accusing the person of hating China (without any explanation). Bonus points if they do so with idioms or references to classical Chinese without any original words of their own.

The Great Autismo! posted:

from my WeChat moments and chat groups

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A Beijing court issued a domestic violence protection order last week to protect a male victim from domestic abuse from his wife, The Paper reports.

According to the Chinese news website, the court order required Ms. Lee to cease harassing and abusing her husband Mr. Zhang. This was also the first domestic violence protection order issued to a male victim by a Beijing court.

Zhang said that there have been multiple conflicts between him and his wife since they got married in 2014. Zhang was hospitalised after his wife physically abused him in May this year, suffering multiple soft tissue injuries.

The couple gave birth to a child earlier this year. Zhang said that Lee neglected the feelings of their baby when physically abusing him and verbally abusing her mother-in-law.

Zhang was abused again on November 29, after which he reported the case to the police. He applied for a divorce the day after, but the application did not meet requirements as his wife was still within the nursing period.

Instead, Zhang applied for domestic violence protection, submitting his medical history, photos of his injuries, and police report records as evidence.

The order was approved last Friday, and will be effective for six months. If Lee fails to comply with the order, she could face criminal charges according to Article 34 of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law of the People’s Republic of China.

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China's supreme court has ruled in favour of US basketball legend Michael Jordan in a trademark dispute. The People's Supreme Court ruled a Chinese sportswear company must stop using the characters for Jordan's name, read as Qiaodan in Chinese.

Qiaodan Sports registered the name more than a decade ago but Jordan's lawyers said it built its business around his Chinese name without his permission.

Jordan has welcomed the decision which overturns previous rulings against him. "I am happy that the Supreme People's Court has recognized the right to protect my name through its ruling in the trademark cases," he said in a statement sent to the BBC. "Chinese consumers deserve to know that Qiaodan Sports and its products have no connection to me."

"Nothing is more important than protecting your own name, and today's decision shows the importance of that principle."

The basketball star first started legal action against Qiaodan Sports in 2012. His team argued that Qiaodan's trademarks had damaged his legal rights to use his name and asked the court to invalidate more than 60 trademarks used by the company.

The court agreed Qiaodan Sports had violated trademark law and its registration of the name should be revoked.

But his win is only a partial victory.

While the company cannot use Jordan's Chinese name, the court upheld a ruling allowing it to use the Romanized version of Qiaodan, pronounced "Chee-ow-dahn."

A Shanghai court is yet to hear a separate naming rights case.