Chineese Government up to old tricks
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I know it was a typo but it also sums up some people's thoughts about China's actions. "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
Baconbutty wrote: "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" Oops. :-O I think there is a work for that. Not sure its quite a spoonerism though.
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
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Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
Madaha wrote: why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? So it doesn't look like official government repression.
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Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
Madaha wrote: If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please. That is utter bollocks and has nothing to do with it, though you seem happy to jump to conclusions. If I was woried about my job then I should be worrying about India, Russia or South America as well. I would be worried baout my job if I was in manufacture but I'm not. China is known for its human rights abuses and suppression of free speech. Coming from a former communist block youself, I though you may know something ahout that but you seems to have forgotton all about that. Mabe thats becuase there has been so much violence in your region of the world recently people there would just like to forget it never happened? Or mabe even used to that kind of thing as part of normal life? Madaha wrote: Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. I am using my head thankyou. Sounds more like you are trying to convince yourself that these things are not common. They just get away with it becuase they have such a tight control over the media especially foreign journalists. Foreign companies are falling over themselves to get in. Cisco providing the "Great Firewall of China" to make sure no Chineese see what the world thinks from the outside, and recently MSN bowing to chineese censorship requests. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67842,00.html[^] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4088702.stm[^] Wake up and smell the coffee before you wade in with gross assumptions about my motives, or I can just as easily question yours. Did you even watch the video? Do don't make explosions with a sho
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Madaha wrote: If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please. That is utter bollocks and has nothing to do with it, though you seem happy to jump to conclusions. If I was woried about my job then I should be worrying about India, Russia or South America as well. I would be worried baout my job if I was in manufacture but I'm not. China is known for its human rights abuses and suppression of free speech. Coming from a former communist block youself, I though you may know something ahout that but you seems to have forgotton all about that. Mabe thats becuase there has been so much violence in your region of the world recently people there would just like to forget it never happened? Or mabe even used to that kind of thing as part of normal life? Madaha wrote: Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. I am using my head thankyou. Sounds more like you are trying to convince yourself that these things are not common. They just get away with it becuase they have such a tight control over the media especially foreign journalists. Foreign companies are falling over themselves to get in. Cisco providing the "Great Firewall of China" to make sure no Chineese see what the world thinks from the outside, and recently MSN bowing to chineese censorship requests. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67842,00.html[^] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4088702.stm[^] Wake up and smell the coffee before you wade in with gross assumptions about my motives, or I can just as easily question yours. Did you even watch the video? Do don't make explosions with a sho
IMO it is more than time to move this conversation to the Soapbox :suss:
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Baconbutty wrote: "...Everyone is on the China badwagon" Oops. :-O I think there is a work for that. Not sure its quite a spoonerism though.
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mal·a·prop·ism Pronunciation Key (ml-prp-zm) n. 1. Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound. 2. An example of such misuse. Giles wrote: I think there is a work for that that makes two :P
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13371337,00.html[^] This really pisses me off, and yet there is so little pressure from governments around the world about these kind of human rights abuses. They were actually using explosives on the crowd, blowing people up. The area is blocked to forieners. Apparently though this kind of thing goes on all the time. I swear next time I go to buy something and I see made in china on it I'm boycotting it. If enough people did that maybe the government would take notice.
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Excuse me, the incident described in your link sounds more like a property disbute gone out of control. Why would you guys eagerly jump to the conclusion that it must be politically motivated and the Chinese government must be guilty? Use your head, please. Due to the size of the population and uneven levels of development in the country, such incidents (riots) are bound to occur once in a while. The government has policemen and other troops, the number is more than you could imagine, why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? Plus, it is just stupid and hard to make the gunfire and explosion noise your hear from the video using a shovel. If you want to boycott Chinese product, do it for the real reason: your own job. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing the chinese people a favor. Please.
that's a lot of BULL ... if the Chinese Govt. believed what it was doing was right then why the heck should it cover it up? ... registering websites ... censorship via Cisco and MSN products...c'mon ... use your head. http://www.boreddude.com
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hmm...let's see ...stop buying german products coz of Hitler and the Nazi's, ...stop buying british products coz of their immoral nature of forming colonies and ruining lives, ...stop buying oil from the gulf countries bcoz of their medevial laws and other screw-ups ... anyone? http://www.boreddude.com
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hmm...let's see ...stop buying german products coz of Hitler and the Nazi's, ...stop buying british products coz of their immoral nature of forming colonies and ruining lives, ...stop buying oil from the gulf countries bcoz of their medevial laws and other screw-ups ... anyone? http://www.boreddude.com
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No, but unlike in China, I would not be locked up for having this conversation about the Waco fiasco if I was living in the US.
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Madaha wrote: why whould they want to hire thugs carrying shovels? So it doesn't look like official government repression.
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that's a lot of BULL ... if the Chinese Govt. believed what it was doing was right then why the heck should it cover it up? ... registering websites ... censorship via Cisco and MSN products...c'mon ... use your head. http://www.boreddude.com
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No, but unlike in China, I would not be locked up for having this conversation about the Waco fiasco if I was living in the US.
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Giles wrote: I would not be locked up for having this conversation about the Waco fiasco if I was living in the US. Hey, nobody was locked up in China for talking about Waco either. ;P Seriously, I think you are likely to be wrong this time. If the chinese government was afraid of media coverage so that they choose to use shovels to crack down, then why use guns and explosives at all? You have to come very close to see if a person is holding a shovel instead of a gun, but gun shots can be heard miles away. It does not make any sense. Nowadays it is so easy for someone to enhance a news clip by adding sound effect (preferrably gun shots for more sensation) you just cannot believe every thing you see and hear. By the way, I searched CNN for "Shovel China", guess what I found? There is no mention of this story, but a lot of "shovels made in China". :)