Dolphin says he will no longer post. Dolphin's gokunming posting behaviour was better than that of most of those who responded to him. He complained of personal attacks in his last(?) post. My sympathies are entirely with him, although I wish he were not so sensitive. This has nothing to do with my own very frequent and very fundamental disagreements with him.
Gee, congratulations folks. My thumbs-down to all involved - ridicule rather than reason, information, or anything else useful. Personalities and egos rather than pretended topics.
And I'm not pretending to be completely innocent of anything.
Baidu CEO's comments ignite internet privacy discussion in China
发布者@tiger: good post. I spend a lot of time offline. No, it's no real solution. The internet seems to belong to somebody else: Surveill, predict, control, program.
Baidu CEO's comments ignite internet privacy discussion in China
发布者as well as BAT's dystopian ranking project.
Baidu CEO's comments ignite internet privacy discussion in China
发布者Add me to the list of people who despise the attitude of the CEO of Baidu.
From China to Myanmar: Lisu Christians chase the sunset
发布者Anybody interested in the Lisu in Myanmar might like to take a look at Gertrude Morse's book, "The Dogs Bark but the Caravan Moves On"; and Eugene Morse's "Exodus to a Hidden Valley" - explains how the Lisu got there. Written by 2 members of an amazing Protestant missionary family.
Bureaucratic declaration limits Yunnan countryside fun
发布者Agree with michael: goal is fine, but measures proposed probably unenforceable. Not sure I could propose a better method, but methods that don't work simply makes the problem worse - cultural attitudes don't change according to somebody's policy, and if coercion is necessary, it's got to be effective and not just breed contempt for the enforcer.. .