UIZealot

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by UIZealot 7y ago
So harassing, heckling, and physically attaching people is "no different" from thinking some people are barbarians? And people who needed to use the road to get somewhere are automatically "pro-china"? And they deserv
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I counted three, now you're telling there are five. But I believe you. I didn't discard anything, I never said kidnappings are OK. Neither are your violence and destruction. Stop justifying your own evil with China's.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Thanks for filling in the information. So there're two confirmed cases, and an alleged failed kidnap attempt. But these are still exceptional cases, the vast majority of HK people have no reason to fear the same fate. > The extradi
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by UIZealot 7y ago
People who speak Mandarin are regularly harassed, told to "go back to Mainland", and attacked physically. Even Cantonese speaking local HKers, who tried to remove roadblocks (so their vehicles could pass) set up by the protesters,
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> They have claimed there are 2 systems, yet they kidnap people in HK. They kidnapped one person, as far as I know. I agree they crossed the line there, and there's no excuse for that. But that's an exception, not the norm. &
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by UIZealot 7y ago
And since the Heaviside has many pairs of small rotors, it has another option which is to switch the rotors gradually pair by pair, but switching each pair quickly .
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Isn't that true for all winged aircrafts? By all means let's hold the Heaviside to the same high safety standard as other aircrafts, but not higher.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Windows 2000! You've got impeccable taste! I still use it in a VM to this day.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Can you give an example where it means terrible? I can't think of any.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
That's terrific ! I LOLed.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Thank you! That's an interesting read. Directly from the article: > And when Mao founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he and Zhou Enlai decided not to seize Hong Kong— which the British at the time expected The other si
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> Countries without extradition treaties can still extradite criminals on a case by case basis. That doesn't seem to be true in this particular case, since said suspect is still enjoying his freedom in HK. An extradition treaty to
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by UIZealot 7y ago
That's true. Prior to the handover, the executive head of HK had been the governor, appointed by the British government.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> Nice UX or freedom - the big corporates will always win the battle of UX. Free software will always be less cool. The big corporations will probably always win the battle of new and shiny . But free software can win the battle of
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by UIZealot 7y ago
China is not doing anything new to take away freedom in Hong Kong. To expand on whoevercares' comment, recently someone committed a crime in Taiwan and fled to Hong Kong. To close this loophole and prevent HK from becoming a safe hav
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by UIZealot 7y ago
OK I got to ask. Who is oppressing whom? What have they done exactly?
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> It’s still not withdrawn, Ms. Lam has only promised she will. But the bill is still in second reading. The chief executive publicly announced the withdrawal of the bill. It's as good as done, technicalities notwithstanding. >
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> China has not yet brought down the hammer on Hongkong, and they have not removed property rights and the overall freedom. Thank you! > Sadly, these protests are more likely to bring the dictatorship closer. That's my fear as we
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Again , how exactly is it being implemented? All you came up with is the extradition bill, and that, again , has been withdrawn.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I was baiting for good information, not downvotes. My apologies if it came out wrong.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> the independent judiciary which the CCP is trying the dismantle now with the extradition bill That narrative is never supported by the facts, and the extradition treaty has been withdrawn. You keep saying it does not make it true. &gt
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Any broadening of rights after the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration is suspect. These are ploys to alienate the Hong Kong people from China (離間計). They are what we call 陽謀, ploys we will nevertheless fall for even though w
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Truth be told, I'm having too much fun calling out bullshit. You should try to enjoy it too. It gets lonely sometimes :)
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> After months of protests. It was suspended almost immediately after initial protests. > self destructive bill That's a stretch. Personally I believe Ms. Lam proposed it out of good faith. It was too naive perhaps, and did not
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by UIZealot 7y ago
I'm only aware of Gui Minhai, a book store owner. He had to appear on TV in China and give a confession of guilt, but was afterwards free to go home. He is not missing. And he is not serving time, the GGP was mistaken. (EDIT: I stan
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Any time there's an article about China and Hong Kong, people who know nothing about either, besides that China is ruled by the communist party, come out of the woodwork to take a dump on China. People look down on Trump and ridicule h
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by UIZealot 7y ago
The extradition treaty has officially been withdrawn as a result of the protests. That alone should tell you that Hong Kong has been able to maintain substantial autonomy from the central Chinese government.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
Influence? Certainly. Just like the UK could influence HK matters when it was a British colony, China can influence HK matters now that it's a Chinese special administrative region. Control? Not so much.
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> The CCP control is being implemented which is what the protesters are against. Really ? How exactly is it being implemented? EDIT: Down-voters, can you answer the question? Or are you just going to try to bury it with down-vot
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by UIZealot 7y ago
> A better anaology would be if the US implemented extreme Sharia law, how cavalier would people who don't want to live like that be? That's a very poor analogy. Hong Kong citizens already enjoy the benefit of an independent l

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