"It's a bit of an annoyance, but most people around here simply use the native Chinese versions and don't notice anything of the outside world."
In other words, it's working exactly as intended. :-(

The Chinese are more like Americans than you expected?

Windows 8 will be nothing but a bug-fixed Windows 7, but we're going to charge you for it.

Very interesting. I don't think I've ever gotten a false positive from Gmail's spam filter.

Maybe they do know it's a symptom, but refuse to acknowledge it because there's nothing they can do about it?

Definitely a YMMV situation here. I found the effects of Salvia divinorum to be decidedly unpleasant. The best thing I can say about a salvia high is that it's over quickly.

They could not tell the fully story. Literally. They left out Tom Bombadil and Goldberry. I can understand that back story behind that, but as a child, I understood him to be literally beyond the powers of the rings themselves. That grabbed my mind and imagination.

I could forgive Peter Jackson for that, but I will never forgive him for excising "The Scouring of the Shire" from ROK. Tolkien himself stated that it wasn't an afterthought or epilogue, but an essential part of the story.

Why would someone do that?

It's on a site with a "poor reputation".

it's on a site with a "poor reputation".

So, you call requiring every adult in the country to report all of their financial information every year to the government so that said government can tell each person how much money said government is going to forcibly take from each person NOT an invasion of privacy?

I don't. I call it a reasonable approach toward getting everyone who uses the common infrastructure to actually pay something approaching their fair share of society's costs. Maybe it's not the best approach, but it sure beats any proposals I've seen from the libertarians. Wait, have there even BEEN any? I'm not including the puerile rantings of Ayn Rand and her disciples.