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Not so much the part about rampant genetic modification destroying its society, more about the fact that those mother fuckers could turn invisible, just by taking pictures of teleporting schizophrenics.
That's what I want science to do for me... Minus the teleporting schizophrenic of course.
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Yeah - and the reasons that this has worked so well is because for a long time 'growth' was synonymous with 'power', and the system could expand and grow as long as it could find and adapt itself to new resources.
But when you run into the limits of your resources, what happens to a system that requires perpetual growth to sustain itself? Who do we take power and resources away from now that there aren't any unclaimed resources left?
It seems like we're running into that limit wall right now.
I'm not angry per se, just spiteful
I'm at least going to bed from this thread
None of this is functionally relevant. Not giving near my potential is still inestimably different from actively & ironically marginalizing the plight of other human beings. First of all, the nature of the authorial figure has no bearing on the function of the signifiers (hi, Foucalt/Derrida), and second of all, even were it to be accepted that I was apathetic, apathy is a big jump away from apparent derision. It sounds to me like you legitimately believe that one either (A) must be perfectly virtuous and entirely without sin or (B) is not allowed to be entirely astonished at reprehensible and disgusting behavior in another, which is an awfully black and white worldview to have.
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Yup! The question now is that things will change; they have to! How they will change is another story, because every time there's been a major shift in the predominant "ideal" systems of the world, it's always been a pretty big dramafest.
I would imagine BRIC will have a lot to do with how the systems change, particularly because they are only JUST coming to the point where they are benefitting from the capitalist system instead of being on the otherside of the unbalanced see-saw.
Just that, Brazil is trending leftwards (with the election of Luis Silva), Russia, well, not so much. India has a natural leftward tilt in their politics, and well, China is China.
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Now that they are finally gaining some benefit from it, they're not going to stop. Their mentality is "it's OUR turn now, and why shouldn't it be when much of what everyone ELSE (i.e., developed nations) has now was built on our backs and shoulders?"
So really, how are you going to convince BRIC that they shouldn't or can't have what these other developed countries already have? You can't, not really.
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Most likely it will be a bloody revolution, since those in power are pretty firmly entrenched and don't even make the pretense of acting outside their own self-interests.
Do you think any of the BRIC nations could ever actually become a power on center stage and a force for social stage, given how some of the biggest economic players there are still very much invested in western-style Captialism? Am I just looking through this with my western-centric viewpoint and missing the obvious?
The honest answer here is I have no friggin' idea.
ehhhhhhhhhhh, I can't genuinely account for the IRC part, but Brazil is doing REALLY well recently w/r/t corruption. Luis Silva is a really good man.
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you think it's not okay to make light of human death when, debateably, that's exactly what abortion is! (I don't think so, but there are plenty of people who would argue until they're blue in the face that that's what it is)
not to mention the emotional and mental turmoil women go through because of such a procedure
yep, let's joke about it! it's hilarious! marginalize their pain and all that jazz!
to try and lambaste skull man for a type of joke that we've all made a million times is pretty ridiculous, and it's even more ludicrous to act like you've never done it
Beijing is relatively okay... but the smaller local governments are not. The further west you go, the worse it is. There's a myriad of reasons for it aside from physical distance, and addressing them is going to be a pretty hefty undertaking.
but it's going to be a cake walk compared to India
I thought Brazil was knee deep in unrest because of the huge influence foreign interests and the drug trafficking industry has over the military/police/politics.
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Travellers red-faced over new customs porn rule
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Another problem is China targeting dissident groups abroad and all that state sanctioned hacker jazz.
If Debby Does Dallas makes it into the country the terrorists have won
totally not going to go into this in too much depth
but I will say this
given what capitalism is and given how Chinese culture is, information control was a logical (if not GOOD) result of China's rapid modernization
I don't mean to get touchy...freedom of information is the biggest issue I'm truly passionate about, is all.
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Well look, I can understand the rule on importation of pornography into australia.
The idea is to stop peadophilia, beastality and all that, I can get behind that, :winky:
But who the fuck is going to say they have illegal pornography on their person? It just means they're going to go through everyone's baggage that ihas perfectly legal porn on them.
This is why everyone lies to get past Australian Customs, because they are stupidly strict.
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Does this give them the right to go through somebody's PC?
I could see this getting into trouble if they go through your laptop looking for photos/videos, or even cookies.
I'm not claiming I've been perfect! In fact, I still, today (or a month and a half ago), make comments that I'm not proud of; the sorts of comments that I didn't care much about one way or the other a year ago today. Thank you for pointing that out to me; I'm not proud of it, I don't condone it, and I'll make a greater effort to abstain in the future.
I cannot, unfortunately, become the sort of person I'd like to be overnight; however, I'm doing my best to get there, and although I may falter (and, although I'm ashamed to admit it, may snap if I get called out on faltering if I'm in a bad mood), the fact that I can see something that I've said like that and see that it's objectionable and inappropriate gives me hope that I might be able to be someone that I'm wholly proud of someday in the not-too-distant-future.
Take what you know of Chinese culture. Defensive, exploratory but not invasive, preventive over reactive, deeply respectful of roles and authority, unquestioning, minding one's own business, language that requires memorization and recitation to learn, harmony, stability.
Take what you know of recent Chinese history. Country got torn apart by foreigners the instant they let them in for the better part of a century, country got locked in a massive power struggle from 1911 on, Japanese invasion, CCP in power, GLF, Cultural Revolution, Gang of Four, Deng Xiaoping... all the way up to now.
That "now," which is where China stopped trying to DENY everything Western and instead try to learn from them and be "like" them. That is, they adopted a capitalist economic system but maintain a communist power structure (not strictly communist, as many know, but a Chinese interpretation of communist, which itself has even changed since Mao's little red book).
China, an old country that saw its heyday long before many of today's superpowers came into their own, is losing its cultural identity and tradition to the spread of capitalism. People want to "live" like the developed western nations, they want all their troubles to cease. They want stability and harmony after two centuries of not having ANY of it.
In any society, there will be those with opinions that differ to that of the government. The expression of these opinions grows much more bold with the added anonymity you have online. Dissidence and the spread of these views (which are, note, widely western) basically means that controling the volume of that dissidence is the best way to control the dissidence itself (remember: an aspect of Chinese culture is the PREVENTION of problems rather than the RESOLVING of them).
That's just one example. There are many others. None of them JUSTIFY what China has done in terms of information control, but what I'm trying to say here is that, for THEM, it makes sense. If it doesn't make sense to you, too bad, they don't care because you're not one of THEM. And believe it or not, the majority of people in China don't see a major issue with this because the sites being blocked are English ones. Chinese versions of many of these services exist, and they exist within the bounds of what the government deems appropriate. So what if Chinese Facebook doesn't allow discussion groups? The majority of the Chinese public (again, given the cultural notes above) don't really CARE enough to want to discuss it.
Yes, there are politically minded people in China, but your average Joe doesn't really care in that case. The life they have now is good and it is better than what their parents and grandparents described to them, so why bitch?
Maybe! It seems like a pretty vague rule which all most annoying about it.
The thing about Australian customs are they are stupidly strict.
You need to declare that you have timber on you. YOu will be allowed to bring it into the country if there is no bark on it. That's fine.
But if you declare it it will add probably an extra hour/45 minutes onto your processing time.
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