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taofu | 13 years ago | on: ChilledLime - A new way to ask decidable questions and crowdsource opinions
taofu | 13 years ago | on: Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
a)The toilet spray isn't sufficient to eradicate your fecal remains, unless it is adjusted to garden-hose spray levels. Painful.
b)Drying your sprayed behind with a heated fan is uncomfortable.
taofu | 13 years ago | on: Writers' Writing Sheds
taofu | 13 years ago
The rash implementation of Moral and National Education is but another attempt by the Central Government in the grand scheme of things to assimilate Hong Kong. Although the protest will probably succeed in stalling it, given its massive public inertia , such victory is short-lived.
China will reclaim Hong Kong, no matter how vehement we protest . Deng Xiaoping's 'One Country, Two Systems' is the sole reason why Hong Kong has been allowed to escape the fate of its neighbouring provinces, and evolve into what it is now.
According to Chapter 1, Article 5 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the constitutional document of HKSAR reads: 'The socialist system and policies shall not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years.'
28 years has passed. The Communist Party of China (CPC) has already demonstrated that it will not lie dormant until then.
Consider the 2012 Legislative Council Election, which is to be held tomorrow. It introduces the new system of 'Super Seats', where elected 'Super' district councillors' votes will count twice as much as their 'ordinary' colleagues. Thanks to CPC, pro-establishment district councillors' are likely to be voted in, and thus fulfill their function as pawns of the Hong Kong government in the legislative council, passing whatever law CPC desires.
http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1030842/electile-d...
For the past decades, Hong Kong has never been a true democracy. I fear my generation will fare worse.
taofu | 13 years ago
Live stream of protest outside government headquarters in Hong Kong.
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taofu | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
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