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To: TobagoJack who wrote (4688)	3/6/2006 1:52:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217642

Banning movies causes the people to disrespect the government. It's a sign of weakness. Even weaker, being unable to enforce that ban. I'm just saying.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (4688)	3/6/2006 3:19:06 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217642

So as a rough analogy, baning movies is like a 65 mile per hour speed limit on the interstate in the middle of Nevada ?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (4688)	3/6/2006 11:13:14 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217642

Dubai Report: TJ, the buildings are empty!! They are built locked and left empty. Elmatador, now the Bedouin- is here thinking: Could it be that those giant real estate projects are being built this way? Say 10.000m2. Owner enters the deal supplying the land and permits. Company that does piling and foundation gets 800m2, the one that designs, gets 1200m2. The one that supplies electrical and lifts, 1000m2. and the one that does hydraulics 1000m2. Other parts are another 2000m2. That remains 6.000m2 for the owner. So the building is paid in kind. Since the market is hot, the companies leave those 4.000m2 without any tenants since they are more valuable now than if they would e leased. The outcome we already know...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (4688)	3/7/2006 7:45:47 AM
From: Crabbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217642

"OTOH, banned movies, as you had mentioned, but freely available in P2P and VCD would not impact freedom in any effective sense, as you correctly noted. So, banned movies cannot be that important in the great schema of the journey, do you think?" These are not particularly important. It does however point out a couple of problems. One is China's total disregard for intellectual properties, be they design, patents, copyright, etc., by forcing the Chinese people to cheat the intellectual property owner out of their rightful profits. Another problem that can be pointed out is China's disrespect of it’s people, banning Google for Christ’s sake, totally stupid, counterproductive, and just plain dumb. As you said every Chinese hacker knows workarounds, but, why should they need them. You see, you tend to excuse China’s faults as trivial, while they are just symptomatic of greater and deeper problems with in that society, while you also tend to over glorify China’s good points. I guess ethnocentrism lives and breaths in HK as well as NZ and the US. r