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Comment Re:Wake me up from this nightmare... (Score 1) 147

Absolutely agree here. Voice communication over phones has degraded so much in the last three decades. I think one of the big factors is that it's pretty much impossible for two people to talk at the same time. It's like being on a radio... "Hey, how are you? Over." "Oh I'm just fine, how are you? Over." The quality of a typical cell call is leagues below what you got with POTS and a cradle phone.

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Chinese Subvert Censorship With a Popular Pun 272

Anonymusing writes "In spoken Chinese, 'grass-mud horse' sounds virtually identical to an obscenity (hint: it begins with "mother-") — and as a cartoon character, it has become an amazing phenomenon. Meant as a subversive attack on censors, the alpaca-like mythical creature has led to a cuddly stuffed animal — selling over 180,000 in a few weeks — and a wildly popular YouTube video with children's voices singing words that are either completely benign or incredibly offensive, depending on how you listen." Update: 03/13 09:29 GMT by T : Since this story was set up, the originally linked video seems to have been pulled. Searching YouTube reveals that there are some alternatives available, at least for now.

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