Comment Re:Chinese government's "complex" as to what passe (Score 1) 125
fine in Beijing
Comment Re:Ping Pong (Score 1) 432
In Beijing right now. No, it's not.
Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 651
I dunno. In a way, "decent" works here too.
Comment Re:I only hope (Score 1) 300
I'm in China.
I did a search for "tiananmen square 1989"
images were blocked, but the first 10 results all referred to the "massacre", "protests", or "incident"
no idea what the results would have been a week ago.
Comment Re:1000 Yuan (Score 1) 204
As someone that lives in Beijing.....
-5USD will get you a lunch at MacDonalds, it takes 25RMB to get the same thing in Beijing
-1USD will get you a can of Coke, 2RMB for the same thing
-5USD at Starbucks, 25RMB for the same thing
Two boneless chicken breasts are ~15rmb
Butter cookies (the xmas traditional kind) are 50rmb for a tin
New modern paperback novel is 60rmb to 160rmb depending on author
mp3 headphones are 20rmb to 160rmb depending on brand and what store
The other night, dinner for 2, fish hot pot, with veggies and mushrooms was 300rmb
People carry 100rmb notes the way most Americans carry 20 dollar bills. 1000rmb is not that much.
(Of course, Im talking about a city like Beijing, middle class consumers. Not farmers out west.)
Comment Re:Oh no (Score 1) 57
agreed. Seems like it would be an obvious tactic to use against obvious targets
Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process 191
CFTM writes "The New York Times is running an interesting article about how human memory works and the theorized adaptive nature of forgetfulness". From the article, "Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is trying to recall something important. The study, appearing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is the first to record visual images of people's brains as they suppress distracting memories. The more efficiently that study participants were tuning out irrelevant words during a word-memorization test, the sharper the drop in activity in areas of their brains involved in recollection. Accurate remembering became easier, in terms of the energy required."
Online Shoppers are Willing to Pay More for Privacy 106
Caroline Matische writes "People are willing to pay more to buy items from online retailers who make their privacy policies clear, a new Carnegie Mellon University study showed. People were more likely to buy from online merchants with good privacy policies and were also willing to pay about 60 cents extra on a $15 purchase when buying from a site with a privacy policy they liked."
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