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Getting U.S. Visa in China hmm actually american officials are as much corrupted if not worse than any other nation besides north korea or maybe columbia how ever there is a fine line when it comes to chinese authority i dont concider it a bride i concider it to be a more of a chinese business custom that goes thousands of years back the chinese people and government doesnt woant any problems so what they do is allow certain but controlled risk involvements such as the person and depending crime onwhich it allows unless you kill or like the guangzhou people do esp the rich ion which they eat baby dumblings then yes they the government has the right to increase such attitudes how ever in american a cop will just bang ur head against the wall even for looking at him the wrong way so as an american/expat i suggest stay away from the american soils and property plus there is far more addictions/drugs gangs and crime why bother with a useless way of life |
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My Own Cartoon Picture with Home Style+ WHATS THE NAME OF THE WEBSITE |
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Getting U.S. Visa in China hi every one i jjust came across this sight and was interested and yes i am too an american born and raised and not of chinese decent but none the less i love china so much i am currently living here in hefei,anhui capital and damn there is far less attitudes laws and crime ( far far less than that of america ) by the way i am planning to marry my g/f and would like to know would i be able to have a multible entry to china and america? my g/f never wanted and never wants to live or become an american citizen and personally i would never allow her too or if i could i wouldn't want any one too anyways why not australia canada germany atleast whats the big hype about america? oh yea propaganda lol!!!!!! thanks anyways for you'r time i will be back on this sight in the near future |
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Shanghai is Still Highly Polluted Hello Wangjianshuo, I've traveled to Shanghai twice now and I love the city. I also appreciate the fact that China is again rising and frankly look forward to the cultural enrichment of the world that will take place as a result. I did notice the pollution you're talking about, but I also noticed three other things (health-related) that concerned me even more: 1. Smoking. EVERYBODY WAS SMOKING, even doctors!!!!! If any doctor in the USA smokes, he gets publicly shamed for it, and with good reason. But in Shanghai, it seemed that half the population was chain-smoking like crazy. This is not only terrible for the health of Chinese themselves-- it also, frankly, drove me away at one point, because there was so much secondhand smoke that I, too, was getting poisoned. A couple other would-be foreign investors had the same sort of opinion; one of them told me that about 1/3 of Chinese smoke, and he was sick of inhaling the smoke everywhere he went, it was too dangerous for his health. What's worse is that the Chinese government has not been pushing anti-smoking campaigns like what we have in the USA, because the government makes money from cigarette taxes. This is about the stupidest reasoning I've ever heard, since the government *loses* much more in smoking-related costs than is gained in cigarette taxes. Those costs are (a) the direct costs of smoking-related diseases (lung, bladder and pancreatic cancers, emphysema, heart disease, hypertension, strokes, many other things), (b) loss of productivity as smokers start to get health problems in their early 40's, and (c) loss of foreign investors in China who leave (as I and others did) in part b/c of the health dangers of second-hand smoke. As for the "lost revenue" from reduced taxes-- give me a break! The government can make just as much money from selling things that *help smokers quit* (like chewing gum and nicotine patches), and in any case, foreign tobacco companies are soon going to be entering China and making money of your smokers anyway. C'mon-- you have so many millions of brilliant people in Shanghai, why can't you all implement a decent anti-smoking campaign? (In California, we had a brilliant ad, which hinted that smokers not only get terrible lungs, but become impotent-- which they indeed do in elevated numbers-- and it worked magnificently, dramatically cutting the smoking rate!) I'm serious here. You'll not only suffer massive health care costs, you'll keep driving us foreign investors away. Get realistic about this! 2. Everybody wanted to eat a Western-style diet, fried fast food and junk food like at McDonald's, *in Shanghai*. Again-- what are you thinking??? In this sense at least, US pop culture, movies, ads, English-language media is like a weapon against your country, because it's getting to make you Chinese eat like us Americans-- which, needless to say, is by far the worst diet in the world. We have the world's highest rates of obesity and Type II diabetes, and this is bankrupting our health care system. Why in the world are you following our lead? Your more fish- and vegetable-dominant diet in Shanghai and China generally historically has been quite helpful for your health, but you're messing it all up now by eating like Americans. It's fine to learn and adopt US efficiency and business practices, but not our diet. When I was in Shanghai years ago, almost everybody was slender and fit, lean and hungry. When I went back this year, there were fat people all over the place, more than a few eating at US-style fast-food places. Again-- think!!! Eat soy burgers at your McDonald's places, and celebrate and emphasize your Chinese diet, don't follow the USA here. 3. People with untreated depression in Shanghai were "self-medicating"-- i.e., getting drunk on alcohol-- and committing suicide in alarming numbers, because *they weren't getting proper mental health treatment*. I know there's a stigma about mental illness in China, as there is in many other countries, but you have to get over this, because the costs are too high. We're not perfect in the US either, but we have a strong psychiatry establishment that works hard to treat depression, anxiety, psychosis, and other mental disorders and help people be more productive. Part of this is the drugs, the serotonergic pschiatric drugs and all that-- and they *do* help, though they're not sufficient alone-- but also the commitment among professional psychiatrists to provide psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and group therapy. Aside from this, I also noticed-- as any American does-- all the pirated CD's and other products in Shanghai. You all really need to get serious about intellectual property, for your own good more than ours. You're basically killing incentives toward innovation w/o proper patent and copyright protection. I predict that, when China introduces stronger intellectual property laws, the number of Chinese Nobel laureates will go way up. |
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MSN Messenger Spam Hey, if anyone has any questions that they cannot be botherd waiting around for someone to reply to on this forum, just give me an email with the problem, what needs to be fixed and what version and what Windows version you have. And I will see if I can help you out. altmann_ta(at)hotmail.com , replace (at) with @ -ALSO- Does anyone has a KeyGen, Hack, Crack or anything to help me get MSN 5.0 working again (NOT Windows Messanger) I just need some sort of code or help finding where this 'thing' tells MSN to look for an update or sends out it's version number. |
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MSN Messenger Virus BR2002 In regards to the post about the viral worm named BROPIA. Symantec released an update on this worm on the 22nd of February 2005. You can read about this worm and download a removal tool if you find you are infected with it here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bropia.html Regards, Timothy |
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MSN Messenger Virus BR2002 There is no Fun Buddy virus that I am aware of. However there is a Enduser Licence Agreement for those using the Fun Buddy Icons to message their friends with. One paragraph of this licence states: "Unfortunately, that means that your friends must have the Fun Buddy Icons software in order to see your smileys. To facilitate this, we periodically include a link to the Fun Buddy Icons download page when you send messages to people who have not yet downloaded Fun Buddy Icons." You can read more about that here: http://help.funbuddyicons.com/msnim.html Regards, Timothy |