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9. Re: Comment snob Aug 31, 2008, 01:48 kxmode

 
    Fucking assholes. How are those two 70 year old ladies you put in a labor camp for "re-education" because they dared apply for a permit to protest during the Olympics doing, shitfuckers?
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8. Waggling conservative whites Aug 30, 2008, 23:26 rist3903

 

 It did seem to be a tenuous simile at best.
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7. No subject Aug 30, 2008, 22:21 xXBatmanXx

 

 China calling action against the Gubmint?

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
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6. No subject Aug 30, 2008, 22:18 space captain

 

 maybe the white supremacist nazi shit? i dunno
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5. Re: China Aug 30, 2008, 16:49 Charlie_Six

 

 What exactly about my post do you find disagreeable? I need a bit more to go on than "Ooooookay" I'm afraid.
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4. Re: China Aug 30, 2008, 15:32 beigemore

 

 Oooooooookay.......................
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3. Re: China Aug 30, 2008, 14:56 Charlie_Six

 

 I don't see the Chinese government's "anti-unhealthy" policy here as unwise. China's economy/society is much more state-sponsored/regulated than America's. To borrow a term from Tony Blair, the government is basically a "Nanny" to the people of China.

Having lots of young people play video games for huge amounts of time is like watching your investment go down the tube. Who wants to spend huge sums of yuan on kids' health and education, just to see them convert that yuan into video game play time?

Similarly, few parents in America like watching their kids spend most of their growing lives playing games. Again, what parent likes investing tens of thousands of dollars into their child just so they can kill electronic monsters all day? They much prefer they go to the library, do community service, or something that feels more intellectually/socially stimulating. This is especially important for China, a country that is far, far poorer than America. I'm sure the government feels the youth of China should be helping alleviate the great poverty of the country instead of playing games.

To put this in perspective, here in America, many conservative whites get extremely frustrated with black parents who allow their children to play basketball and listen to rap music. For decades, these whites have wagged their fingers at black parents, demanding they get their kids to study their school books more often.
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2. China Aug 30, 2008, 13:44 Creston

 

 Internet gaming is unhealthy! Breathing in the pea soup smog in Beijing is apparently perfectly fine.

Fucking assholes. How are those two 70 year old ladies you put in a labor camp for "re-education" because they dared apply for a permit to protest during the Olympics doing, shitfuckers?


As for that map thing, it's just the plain luddite old people whining about technology changing things. In this case, it's some bint from the Cartography Society who worries she soon won't have a job anymore just sitting in an office playing bridge with her fellow 98 year old co-workers.

People use google maps to find directions to drive somewhere. Not to see what interesting churches and abbeys might be around. If they want to go on a sight seeing tour, they'll find themselves a sight-seeing map. Which might still even be one of your priceless "hand drawn by 14th century Sicilian Monks" one.

Those of us that just want directions to drive somewhere will take the FREE service offered by Google Maps or Mapquest or whatever. Rather than spend 20 bucks on your map that tells me I'll be driving past Tewkesbury Abby on my way to a meeting.

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1. Comment snob Aug 30, 2008, 05:56 CommunistHamster

 

 That would be 99% of youtube comments then.

Also, re the maps article, have they even used google earth? It even shows the position of all the WW2 home guard pillboxes. If that isn't historical I don't know what is.
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