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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
Taiwan never was colonized by a Western power, and they are the most progressive democracy in Asia (quirky-folksy democracy, but democracy nonetheless). Thailand never was colonized at all, and it sucks for them right now, but there are man
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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
Human Rights are about as real as money: you can claim it's a made-up social concept, but good luck denying its worth.
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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
You are missing the scope of the discussion. My point is that abdicating proper law enforcement has historically always failed at improving society. Yes you can "declare war". This will certainly not improve your country (Cf Colom
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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
No offense, but you sound like an aging white man slamming his fist on the table and hectoring "what we need is a good war!" at family dinners. Human rights, and more specifically due process, are not 'Western', they&#x2
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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
It looks like they have switched the Cantonese and Chinese content, the "Chinese" vocabulary is Cantonese written in Yale romanization (edited to add: I assume, being a non-speaker. On second look I'm not so sure of myself).
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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
"Learn cantonese". Let's see how that one goes. Click. "I would like to welcome you to the Cantonese lessons. I'm here to help you (bold)learn Cantonese(/bold)". Hello there, content-farm-robot-pretending-
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by Hasknewbie 10y ago
A colony in the general sense is a territory that has been invaded and is permanently occupied, and where the native population does not have equal rights and cannot decide on their independence (or integration, since the idea is that they
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by Hasknewbie 11y ago
His premises are not very sound. > We make similar bad “bargains” with a few kinds of workers, to whom we grant extraordinary privileges of “self-regulation.” That is, we let certain “professionals” run their own organizations which tell
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by Hasknewbie 11y ago
Botswana is an upper-middle-income economy with a freer press and lower corruption than a number of European countries. Their level of corruption is slightly worse than that of France, and way better than most South or East European country
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by Hasknewbie 12y ago
Yes, Hongkongese too can say that "We used to build shit in this country".
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by Hasknewbie 12y ago
I believe he goes by the name Explaino The Clown these days.
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by Hasknewbie 12y ago
Nicely broken redirection on oreilly.com: - While searching for interesting ebooks, I open each new title in a separate tab, - I then open a new tab to log in, then "Reload All" other tabs... - ...and BAM, half the tabs are now di