Check Out China's Gorgeous $55 Billion Fiasco
Shanghai's Expo 2010 is the most expensive party ever.
Weird...
$55 Billion Fiasco
Check Out China's Gorgeous $55 Billion Fiasco
Shanghai's Expo 2010 is the most expensive party ever.
Weird...
Freedom - When people learn to embrace criticism about politicians, since politicians are just employees like you and me.
The Pavillions from various countries, are freaking awesome.
wow, what happened to the Dutchies, were they stoned?
I liked the one from Poland. And the murals, those were nice.
When I was in Shanghai in Feb, everyone was going on about "the expo". Someone actually asked me, "Did you hear about the sequel we are having to your world's fair?"
I imagine they were referring to the 1964 fair or something. At first I thought maybe I had just missed something, but the reality is that almost no one outside of China had heard of this "grand exposition" to showcase China's glory. A lot of the fair gave folks a reason to impose further development projects and provide a rally-point for development/pork in Shanghai.
EG, eliminating Chinglish signs: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/wo...chinglish.html
Here's a picture I took of a sign I saw in Shanghai at the end of January:
Ironically, you never see skies that blue in Shanghai.
What were the skies like, when you were young
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
There were these little fluffy clouds...
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
... and they were long and clear ... and there were lots of stars, at night ...
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
And a little man with a camera built inside to spy on you, reminding you to LET UPLIFTED PUBLIC ETHICS GUIDE A SPLENDID WORLD EXPO. COMPLIANCE IS MANDATORY.
Ignorance is strength
Freedom is slavery
War is peace
Eternally
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I love this place.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
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