NaibofTabr

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I’d like to recommend two books:

• Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh (and/or Peace is Every Step and/or No Mud, No Lotus)
• Getting to Where You Are by Steven Harrison

They’re really reaching for some material, aren’t they?

On 5 April 2016, Alibaba Group acquired the media properties of the SCMP Group, including the SCMP. In January 2017, former Digg CEO Gary Liu became the SCMP’s chief executive officer.

Since the change of ownership in 2016, concerns have been raised about the paper’s editorial independence and self-censorship. Critics including The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Atlantic have alleged that the paper is on a mission to promote China’s soft power abroad.

This source is basically a propaganda outfit for the PRC. Of course, they used to be owned by Murdoch:

The SCMP was owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation from 1986 until it was acquired by Malaysian real estate tycoon Robert Kuok in 1993.

So they’ve basically gone from one set of propaganda objectives to another.

This criticism seems most relevant:

Since the Alibaba acquisition, the SCMP has discontinued several subsidiary publications, including its Chinese-language edition, the 48 HOURS weekend magazine, and the popular HK Magazine alternative weekly. The 48 HOURS staff continue to write on other SCMP platforms. Zach Hines, former editor-in-chief of HK Magazine from 2000 to 2015, said that closing the magazine is an effort to shift the focus away from Hong Kong to mainland China and target western readers. Hines wrote in the Hong Kong Free Press of its closure:

[…]

To be a truly independent press, you cannot be beholden to anyone except your readers. But, to my great dismay, this is becoming an increasing impossibility in Hong Kong, in both the mainstream Chinese and much-smaller English media. SCMP is owned by Alibaba, perhaps the biggest pro-China organization in the world, if you don’t count the Communist Party. The paper’s business interests are also drifting away from Hong Kong, and toward readers in the United States and the rest of the west. HK Magazine is a canary in the coal mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post

The current owners of South China Morning Post have a personal financial interest in projecting the message “China economy strong!” Skepticism is warranted.

This assumes that

1. There’s a process to read.

2. The steps in the process are complete and thorough.

Those are bad assumptions.

Define “better”.

Although clear examples of the difference between cake and bread are easy to find, the precise classification has always been elusive. For example, banana bread may be properly considered either a quick bread or a cake. Yeast cakes are the oldest and are very similar to yeast bread. Such cakes are often very traditional in form and include such pastries as babka and stollen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake#Comparison_with_bread

Apparently the shooter was in the crowd, which means it wasn’t a long gun of any kind. Probably a pistol, something small enough to conceal. 22 makes sense.

It’s costing them money, and they’re not sure they’re going to get it back.

Metronet will be supplying an Optical Network Terminal, probably like this one:

This is basically the equivalent of a modem for cable networks. It does not provide routing functions. You’re probably stuck with the ONT they supply, but it shouldn’t matter much, definitely not for anything internal.

It looks like Metronet normally supplies Eero WiFi mesh devices for home networking - are the ones you currently have supplied by Metronet? They might just replace the modem with the ONT and leave the existing Eero gear, or they might upgrade the Eero gear to support the higher speed available on the fiber network.

In any case, if you are using ISP-supplied network devices then you don’t control the router, which means you can’t set up things like port forwarding to access your home network from outside, or configure VLANs to segregate devices on your network, or control things like DHCP.

Technically there’s no reason you have to use the Eero devices from Metronet, you should be able to plug any router into the ONT WAN port and have internet service. If you don’t want to get too deep into network config, then any modern consumer WiFi router will work (but not a modem/router AIO device). If you want to have a bit more control, look for one that supports OpenWRT.

So, when is it fucking enough!? When will these people have enough money?

It’s all about keeping score, see. When the best capitalist finally gets all the money, they win. And then we can all quit this game and do something else.

Believe it or not, I can be concerned about both.

Does anyone remember MSN WebTV?

It technically worked.

DPP politicians should fear for their lives.

Ah, another appeal to violence as the source of morality.

It’s very funny for you to accuse anyone else of being authoritarian.

No, that is not the point that was made in this comment:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

This comment makes very plain that the writer believes that a nation only achieves independence through military force.

We’re not talking about what is ‘widely acknowledged’, we are talking about what you have expressed as your personal belief. And you do have a morality problem:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

You believe that in order to be independent from mainland China, Taiwan should have used military force - or again, that might makes right.

You made this statement. It is not about international law, or opinio juris, or any other deflection you want to attempt. It is about what you believe justifies a nation’s independence, and it is solely based on the exercise of military power.

No, you said:

I would simply win the civil war instead of losing

Which indicates quite clearly that you believe military power should decide whether a nation has the right to independence. You don’t get to try to deflect that ex post facto. You either admit that this is what you genuinely believe in spite of its obvious morality problem, or you admit that you were wrong to make such a statement and acknowledge that your ideas about national independence need changing.

I see, so “might makes right” for you then?

I appreciate you making your sense of morality - or lack thereof - so very clear.

Yes, an authoritarian government with a lot of economic and military power just made it a crime to even speak about their own country’s independence, so they have legitimate reason to be afraid.

Or just reinstalls it in the next update.