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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71885)	12/29/2009 4:20:24 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 74559

"stringing fibre and mobile, cyberspace around the planet bringing Qualcomm technology and It to the benighted hordes." You, el mat, I consider believers in the future, a man that digs holes in his backyard to bury shiny metal a 15th century pirate going in reverse. That gold could be used to bring laptops with gold silicon stuff in them to children with thier laptops to surf over the wireless internet and take man to his next level of ascension. "While he does real work, TJ nancy boi speculates against speculators, which I hasten to add is useful work and I have defended speculators before as being the most courageous of investors, putting their money where their mouths are to smooth peaks and troughs when others are too scared or irrationally exuberant. " I fail to see how burying holes in your backyard and putting shiny metal in it makes "one laptop per child" or gets towers put in places like iraq or the jungles of south america or stereo3D unreal tournament. In fact I can see no useful purpose at all of digging gold up from one hole just to be buried back down into another in chens backyard. "A real bull wouldn't give up so easily with a few picadores annoying him." EXACTLY - someone got the mad crowd to prevail over the bull! Ilaine told me many years ago to beware silver tongued serpents who would turn the MAD CROWD against the john galts of this world. " Taunting TJ is nowhere near as much fun as taunting ElM." El Mat is a laborer, TJ is a kleptocract type whose granpa was temprorary acting emporer of china (for only 1 day I believe - but still 1 day) - Ilaine told me to watch out for TJ, she didn't tell me to beware el mat. TJ's granpa tricked the british empire who trusted him, TJs genetics is all about lying, deciet, deception, avoiding jails with lice covered assassins etc etc "TJ evolved from a repressive culture where hiding from the man with the gun is the norm." TJ's granpa didn't even speak english and was 1 of 10 of the biggest heroes in the history of china, how is el mat even in the same league as a target? Poor El Mat, be wary of what Ilaine said, TJ is a silver tongued serpent that would sell out his best friend for a little money, status, and power like his granpa showed him. "The British Empire freed many, such as TJ's grandfather, from the mindset by good British education in John Stuart Mill and other English thinking, but he bit the hand that fed him and his "success" enabled the murderous Japanese to cause catastrophic carnage." LOL! Chen's granpa was a good newspaper man, I like how you think MQ - but someone was going to get them, if not the russians, or the UK, then the japanese, do you think we can agree Chen or No Chen - the peasants of that day was going to get someone's boot - all Granpa Chen caused to happen was for it to be those panty sniffers giving the boot instead of some round eyes. "I could leave [as a fifth of the population has done] if I find it too unpleasant." I find many college kids here wanting to leave florida to go to new zealand. Bobby Fischer? LOL! I talked to sam sloan and susan polgar about him moving to iceland and taking an asian wife - sam sloan said I would be an idiot to stay in the USA and if I were to take a wife make sure she wasn't from the USA. "Being top predator seems an atavistic barbarian occupation suitable for ignorant savages like Aztecs and Spaniards hunting gold." If we must dig gold and hurt people, I would rather it be because we give those peoples kids some laptops made with gold in them so those kids could surf over your wireless internet MQ and get educated, not so that gold can go into a hole in general chens backyard :(

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71885)	12/29/2009 5:44:09 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

You're lucky Box is not reading else he would come after you derriere to Sodomize you! And since he is at it down there he may get the junk scientist too!

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71885)	12/29/2009 6:40:28 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

China fries Brit drug dealer. China has warned Britain that it must stop its fierce condemnation of the execution of Shaikh for drug smuggling, or risk harming diplomatic ties between the two countries. The official statement from the Chinese embassy said the "strong resentment" felt by the Chinese public to drug traffickers was in part based on "the bitter memory of history". China warns Britain that the bilateral relationship is at risk Now we know what China really thinks of Britain Jonathan Fenby, the author of The Penguin History of Modern China, said it was a reference to the two Opium Wars fought between China and Great Britain and its allies in the middle of the 19th century and the wider opium trade. "It is one of those historical events that is still brought up," he said. "How much your average Chinese person would think about it I'm not sure but it would be taught in Chinese schools for instance." The trade in opium, often grown in India, boomed in China despite efforts to ban it with large amounts of the drugs being shipped into the country by British merchants. Attempts by the Chinese government to disrupt the trade were met with force and Britain twice went to war to protect its stranglehold on the market and expand its reach into a country which had been closed off to western influence. British merchants forced the Chinese to grant them access to Chinese ports and won the right for their citizens to be exempt from Chinese law. Mr Fenby said: "The unequal treaties, as they became known, caused a great deal of resentment in late 19th century and 20th century China among Chinese nationalists. "They would inveigh against the foreigners who came in and spread opium in China and the presence of the foreigners was blamed for the bad state China was in. "If you spoke to the average 20 or 30-something Chinese person they would say the British forced us to take opium. It is established as part of the historical story." Shaikh's execution has provoked strong criticism from Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, who said in a statement that he was “appalled”. Government ministers repeatedly called on China to show clemency because Shaikh was believed to suffer from severe bipolar disorder. On Tuesday, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry expressed China’s anger at the British Government’s response to the death sentence. “Nobody has the right to speak ill of China’s judicial sovereignty,” said spokeswoman Jiang Yu. “We express strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition over the groundless British accusations. We hope that the British side can view this matter rationally and not create new obstacles in bilateral relations.” Shaikh was executed by lethal injection at 10.30am local time on Tuesday (230am GMT) at the Xishan Detention Centre in Urumqi, in the far west of China. Since Shaikh was arrested at Urumqi airport with four kilos of heroin in September 2007, China denied repeated requests for him to be examined by a doctor. His family insist he was tricked into carrying the drugs by a criminal gang. The Chinese Embassy in London defended its failure to evaluate Shaikh, who was from Kentish Town, north London. In a statement, it said the 53-year-old father of five had no “previous medical record” of mental illness and that his “rights and interests were properly respected and guaranteed”. China has a zero tolerance policy towards drug smugglers, whether Chinese or foreign. It is also extremely sensitive towards any attempts to interfere in what it regards as its internal affairs. Beijing was infuriated earlier this month when Ed Miliband, the British Environment Secretary said China had “hijacked” the failed Copenhagen summit.