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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Threeup on January 08, 2014, 10:57:10 PM
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We just returned from China.
That's -40 there by the way - without windchill. You don't so much snowboard as slide down ice hills trying to hold an edge.
Can you imagine my horror when I found no AH BBS. It is a forbidden site within the Peoples Republic of China except for certain urban cities.
Now I can get by without Facebook and Youtube and a whole lot of other worthless rubbish, but I'm not going to be denied crucial pieces of information about who vulched who and who has had enough and is leaving (again and again and again and again).
Godless Marxists - how dare they! You cannot deny basic freedom! I need to know who revealed the CV location and why the Bish always horde, the Nits complain and the Rooks can't fight without an alt advantage and I need to know it now. Not when the Chairman says I can know.
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It's global warming :old: both the temp and your obvious delirious decision to put yourself in such jeopardy.
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Wait, so you went skiing in China? Whats a lift ticket cost and where is it?
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When I was in China they didnt allow Google, YouTube or Facebook and probably a whole lot of other sites. A Chinese guy I was working with there said they have their own type of Facebook .. closely monitored though I would think .. :P
One of the guys I was working with there then came to Australia for 3 months to finish the project and all he did was download truck loads of porn every single night. lol...
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Yabuli - it's about 200 miles from Vladivostok on the China side and about the same from the North Korean border.
The Chinese Ski team train there, but it's about a 4 hour drive from the nearest airport which is in Harbin.
The lift ticket is thrown into the accommodation, so I don't know the price separately. but then again so was the food and all you can drink.
As you can imagine, it's not very crowded which is a plus. No lines on the gondola.
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My god, man -- what are you doing around Harbin in winter!? :uhoh
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Yabuli - it's about 200 miles from Vladivostok on the China side and about the same from the North Korean border.
The Chinese Ski team train there, but it's about a 4 hour drive from the nearest airport which is in Harbin.
The lift ticket is thrown into the accommodation, so I don't know the price separately. but then again so was the food and all you can drink.
As you can imagine, it's not very crowded which is a plus. No lines on the gondola.
how much does it cost.. I always wanted to go to china. Maybe here is a chance for me to make a excuse
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Karl marx is a complete fetler :cry
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When I was in China they didnt allow Google, YouTube or Facebook and probably a whole lot of other sites. A Chinese guy I was working with there said they have their own type of Facebook .. closely monitored though I would think .. :P
Yeah and Facebook over here isn't closely monitored?? lol
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Lets NUKE EM :aok
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Yeah and Facebook over here isn't closely monitored?? lol
The Chinese government are extremely paranoid about western influence via internet .. then again maybe your US goverment is spying on you all via google and Facebook .. :P
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The Chinese government are extremely paranoid about western influence via internet .. then again maybe your US goverment is spying on you all via google and Facebook .. :P
They only spy on those of us who have the wrong 1st amendment protected belief systems. You on the other hand, are fair game no matter what you believe in. :D
I think exporting our western culture should be emphasized more than keeping China down all the time. Clearly that's what they fear the most, and clearly they're bad at stopping it from happening. Our objective should be that when China "catches up", it doesn't matter because they are basically their own version of America anyways (similar to Japan).
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Yeah and Facebook over here isn't closely monitored?? lol
They still allow you to criticize the government, where as your post would either be censored, or put you on a list in China. Just think about your situation before you complain :cheers:.
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They still allow you to criticize the government, where as your post would either be censored, or put you on a list in China. Just think about your situation before you complain :cheers:.
that reminds me of the us president and some communist "president" talking. the us president tells the communist that he likes to collect jokes about him. the communist president says "that's funny, i like to collect people who tell jokes about me".
semp
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Karl marx is a complete fetler :cry
Its a outrage! :mad:
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Karl marx is a complete fetler :cry
What's a "fetler"?
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that reminds me of the us president and some communist "president" talking. the us president tells the communist that he likes to collect jokes about him. the communist president says "that's funny, i like to collect people who tell jokes about me".
:lol
semp
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I've spent a lot of time in China in the past year with my new company.
Actually, you've got it backwards. China is not blocking this site. AH is blocking users from China.
Google isn't blocked, it routes through Google Hong Kong. Google isn't popular in many countries. It's so unpopular in Japan that they have to advertise on TV to try to get users.
Google search results in Chinese and Japanese aren't as good as other search engines. It's as simple as that. There are better products than Google. Bing is better for Chinese and Yahoo is better for Japanese.
I apologize for posting this thread killer... ;)
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I don’t think it is a thread killer, but I was talking about apples and you started comparing oranges. That it was moved to the OC killed it to a certain extent anyway. I’ve seen more asinine and irrelevant topics continue to be hosted on the General Discussion boards.
I never mentioned Google, but specifically pointed out that Facebook and Youtube are blocked which they are (except in certain urban areas). I used Google through our holidays and I tried to Google Tiananmen Square Riots with limited (no) success.
I also tried to get AH BBS with the flag that it was a forbidden site. I don’t know at what end it was blocked or by whom. I really don’t care and just wanted to make the point (with tongue in cheek).
In the broader context there is a huge market in China for everything and if you crack it for 1.3 billion people even a small percentage of that translates into big numbers. On line gaming no exception.
Perhaps you misread the op.