In China, most of the organs for transplantation are harvested on such condemned. It will take time to develop other means of obtaining them (considering the cultural reluctance, I do not think 5 years will be enough).

In traditional Chinese culture, it is important to preserve the body whole for the afterlife. I think the belief is that any deficiency is passed over to the afterlife.

Still, I have to think consciously about it each time because 12 PM is not after 11 PM.

Read about the Great Gatsby Curve : http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/the-great-gatsby-curve/

The same thing happens in India. I sometimes get a little caramel to replace a rupee (2 cents at the current exchange rate).

Do not forget health consequences. I am OK with waiting some more and have time to check that we are not creating the next asbestos ...

Right now I get 30 kbit/s. It is painful even to read Slashdot, and I feel snubbed by the options.

It is on a 3G key and sometimes I get much faster connection, around 1Mbit/s. I am not sure if it is because of a cap or because of the crumbling infrastructure.

Do not despair, India is much worse and they will soon outnumber China.

I am quite sure you could do it yourself, but here are the answers for the other readers :

Two of the three blog posts are from Han Han, a very popular and influential blogger, who recently explained his positions on democracy and revolution (he followed up with another post about freedom). Pretty boring stuff actually, but gave rise to political discussions in blogs and weibo. The third blog post was an answer from another blogger to this post about revolution by Han Han.

The three Weibo queries give the same answer : According the the relevant regulations and policies, no results are shown for "..." (the query terms were Communist Party, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao)

Nice try, but Facebook failing in China is due to it not being accessible from there. Why would Chinese language have anything to do with it ? Maybe it would fail anyway, but for the moment it did not even have the possibility to try.

I live in China and I can assure you that the censorship is not invented by reporters. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blogspot, Dailymotion, etc. are all blocked. A lot of smaller blogs and websites specialized on China are also blocked (Peking Duck, China Digital Times, etc. ). Gmail has a lot of issues, Google Cache is unavailable, Wikipedia is censored on sensitive subjects, etc.

For website in China, it is not much better. Sina Weibo (the Twitter equivalent) can delete posts very quickly and censor a lot of search terms. Popular political bloggers often get their more sensitive articles removed (Han Han is a good example).

What are these China-based blogs that deny censorship ? I am quite sure they would be interesting to follow.

I call bullshit on this one, do you have any concrete example to back it up ? Do you mean the treatment of Chen Guangcheng ? Ai Weiwei in jail ? The uprising in Wukan ? Anything about Tibet ? What are the story that you deem significant enough to deserve a worldwide coverage but did not get it (and did get a treatment in the local media) ?

The Chinese abroad I have seen complain much more often that too many bad news are covered, and not enough good news about China's achievements.

As if French and Spanish were only spoken in France and Spain.

I think he is talking about this bug : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051

There is no way to have default printer settings, which means setting again the options you need every time. This is the fourth most hated bug in KDE.

This argument is valid, but it is not in the TSA's defense, it only highlights that the whole thing is useless. If I were a terrorist aiming the US, I would first choose carefully the country from where I start, no need to fly a domestic flight.

My thought exactly. I have no idea what it is about. Some kind of curse that makes you buy more than you need ?