uhligfd
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I spent some weeks in China and in Moscow over the last few years.
I loved the street scenery, the bustle and people. Never had any problems with photography. Bus driver ladies of M. would stop the bus until I had their picture, ... It was free roaming for me, except for some housing developments from Chrushtshov's time where they had fancy uniformed private guards who looked outside the front door via video cameras and would come out shouting at me .. But these are cops for hire, not the "law". The residents there all enjoyed my camera wieldings. So they did in Shanghai, Bejing (I always took a stroll around the neighborhoods each morning before breakfast and shot rolls and rolls. Got to know the people and scenes and understood the light for my purposes.)
Now I plan a few days in - of all places - England. Will write you from jail, I guess.
I loved the street scenery, the bustle and people. Never had any problems with photography. Bus driver ladies of M. would stop the bus until I had their picture, ... It was free roaming for me, except for some housing developments from Chrushtshov's time where they had fancy uniformed private guards who looked outside the front door via video cameras and would come out shouting at me .. But these are cops for hire, not the "law". The residents there all enjoyed my camera wieldings. So they did in Shanghai, Bejing (I always took a stroll around the neighborhoods each morning before breakfast and shot rolls and rolls. Got to know the people and scenes and understood the light for my purposes.)
Now I plan a few days in - of all places - England. Will write you from jail, I guess.
craygc
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Actually, based on any form of probability, there is going to be a significantly less than 1% chance that he belongs to anyone of these categories.
Rayt
Nonplayer Character
China bashing has always been fashionable. Not that they don't deserve much of it but it is Western hypocrisy that bowls me over. What is the death toll in the Middle East as we are sipping our coffee and eating our Freedom fries this beautiful afternoon?
Nh3
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The Reason you don't have any problem is because you're Chinese and most probably the authorities already know you're harmless.
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Roger Hicks
Veteran
Depends on whom you believe. In the Near East, in Iraq alone, estimates vary from a bit over 150,000 to rather over 1,000,000.
The mere fact that the estimates differ by close to an order of magnitude is more than a little disturbing.
But this is substantially irrelevant to what is going on in Tibet; or Darfur; or Burma; or...
Each monstrosity is terrible. There is little value in drawing comparisons, and saying that my cause is more important than your cause. Otherwise one might argue that the 2792 confirmed casulties in the Twin Towers don't matter so much, compare with more people killed elsewhere. Worse still is the argument that there are so many monstrosities that it is not worth worrying about any of them.
We each pick the causes that matter most to us. No-one can try to support every worthy cause.
R.
Rayt
Nonplayer Character
Supporting a dictator to ensure the flow of natural resources is not new and god help us no longer shocking. How can we steer others to do right when we ourselves have unclean hands? I am not fully clear what Iraq or Afganistan had to do with 9/11. Speaking of propaganda on the other thread, I remember shortly after the Afgan invasion their were many news reports of how badly women were treated there and the war had changed Afgan women's lives for the better. Meanwhile our buddies the Saudi's jails a woman for being raped. Talking about hypocrisy.
I was just following the same logic.