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Karim
03-25-2007, 12:15 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6483997.stm

Good for her. Definitely enlarge the picture...
cartman
03-25-2007, 12:24 AM
Ant/DC, this is the pic I was talking about.

The one I saw before didn't show the path out the back. It made it look like the house was completely cut off from everything.
flounder
03-25-2007, 12:31 AM
One requirement of Party discipline is that the minority should submit to the majority. If the view of the minority has been rejected, it must support the decision passed by the majority. If necessary, it can bring up the maker for reconsideration at the next meeting, but apart from that it must not act against the decision in any way.
Young Drachma
03-25-2007, 12:45 AM
Yeah I saw this the other day. Pretty crazy.
Mustang
03-25-2007, 01:53 AM
Looks like Isengard after Saruman stripped it...
Wolfpack
03-26-2007, 10:36 AM
Wasn't there a Bugs Bunny cartoon that played off this theme?
KevinNU7
03-26-2007, 10:48 AM
I actually see this as a great thing that the government hasn't just put her in prision and called it a day.
JPhillips
03-26-2007, 07:23 PM
When I was in Chongqing last year we were told that a lot of the old buildings were slated to be demolished. The Old City tour that we did may very well be impossible now as the whole area was set to be razed. The Hutong tour we did in Beijing will also soon be a memory as the government is trying to modernize Beijing before the Olympics.

It's actually a much more difficult problem than you might think. The cities are so huge that single dwelling buildings are highly inefficient. There is a very real lack of minimally acceptable housing in the areas that I saw. With the massive inflow of people coming into the cities something has to be done to house them.

As much as I worry about China's growing appetite for power, I'm always reassured by the almost boundless problems they face as they modernize. They're trying to turn the Edsel into a hybrid and the task is almost overwhelming.
bulletsponge
03-26-2007, 07:47 PM
As much as I worry about China's growing appetite for power, I'm always reassured by the almost boundless problems they face as they modernize. They're trying to turn the Edsel into a hybrid and the task is almost overwhelming.

they had 50 years to upgrade from an "Edsel", now they are rushing.


dola. i should add all the Comunist leaders are engineers, so theyre answer to everything is to build something
MrIllini
03-26-2007, 07:50 PM
they had 50 years to upgrade from an "Edsel", now they are rushing.

your nickname is quite possibly the funniest thing I've seen in a long time, no shit