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To: brian h who wrote (44415)	1/8/2004 5:21:50 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Brian, Hong Kong airport is so dumb! At Singapore, way back in 1999, reasonably priced cyberspace services were available. China is so dumb too. They haven't figured out this cyberspace stuff and are trying to control users minds. They don't have a show of catching up to real places like New Zealand, Singapore, USA, Japan, or the glorious freedom-loving people of Taiwan, while they remain in the industrial age with repressive Big Brother government. Samsung has provided 12 terminals where you have to stand, but there is no charge, so there is of course a wait for use of them. They are an advertizing medium for Samsung. Auckland has swarms of cyberspace shops at cheap prices [US$1.30 an hour]. Beijing has a few but they are slow. China thought it was pretty cool taking over Money Rock and Freedom Mountain [or the reverse, or obverse; I forget how Jay defined them]. "Hahahaha!! Now we've got hold of the cash flow from Hong Kong" they thought. Ooopps, it slipped away. It's hard to take Freedom prisoner and enslave it. There is a boy [I guess about age 14 or 15] in Beijing. He's a good kid, slaving over a hot stove, 18 hours a day, week after week after week without a break. He's learning that Freedom comes from outside China, not from the Maoist Masters of the Universe who are going to be hollowed out from within. Hong Kong is a Trojan Horse. The Beijing bosses towed it inside and Freedom Frontiersmen came busting out, whacking away, right there is the living room [while politely refraining from hoiking on the carpet]. Ironically, the actual people seem more free than some other places. In NZ, it is illegal to think while in charge of a motor vehicle and in the USA everyone is presumed to be a terrorist until proven otherwise. In China, you have to think, constantly or die or crash in the turbulent but fun traffic. You have to run your own ship and keep it above water. They also seem happy, cheerful, and generally good blokes. Even the police seem to do their job with serious demeanour, but a wink and good nature just under the surface [plenty of them anyway, thought the surly plain clothes creeps at Tienanmen Square don't look as though there were selected for their public relations talents]. Anyway, that's enough of wild and superficial generalisations for now. Mqurice