In China right now.
Chinese nationals require a visa to exit the country, unless willing to take the cargo container trip out of Wenzhou.
This visa can be obtained by legitimate means only in rare circumstances.
If you actually want to get it you need legitimate reasons and a moderate bribe (8 to 12 thousand yuan) or a major bribe (20 to 50 thousand yuan) and suitable connections.

Us foreign types are thankfully able to leave at will.

>> back then the average life expectancy was about 35. So if you didn't have kids young, you wouldn't be around to raise them for long.

Slight side note there. The average life expectancy may have been 35, but remove all the infant deaths (those dying aged 0-2 years old) and the average bounces way up into the mid-60's, not so massively different to today's.

But still pretty crap.

If you can't afford the expert then you can't afford to collect such data. Move away from this project to something you have the ability to do.

Every reputable medical doctor, along with every pundit even slightly knowledgable about medicine or even basic biology has been warning of this issue ever since the antivaxxer morons got their idiotic campaign going.

So, the main message from the article (Despite the "Author"'s efforts to slant it othewise) is that bad design and programming practises should be called "liberal" as opposed to simply ignorant?

Looking at the example they have out ( http://vimeo.com/44280691 ), it appears they want to make really bad powerpoint presentations.

More like "Powerpoint" really.

Speaking from China, unproxied, I think I can safely answer that with "Nope".

I live and work in China.
The standard Great Firewall error is displayed as "Connection Reset" in Firefox.

There are two (commonly known) sets of blocking. A lengthy list of domains that never work, and content scanning temporary blocks.
The scanning works on both outgoing and incoming traffic, and once triggered for a domain will block that domain in its entirety for a given user/connection for between 5 and 30 minutes.

In essence if you search for something using the key words then you get a connection reset immediately. If your results contain key words then you will see the result list, but further access to that domain is blocked and gets the connection reset message.

In either case the block is frustrating and unpredictable enough to encourage people to modify their browsing habits.

Seconding the motion.
If I'm good enough to draw special note, then I'm damn well worth an actual award of value, not some freaking 2-cent "Badge".

You call it wasting and procrastinating.
I call it living.

... Ask me again in 300 years.

Zip ties. Soooooo many zip ties.

Already been done, or as near as makes no difference.

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