Comments | da_shrewgod: AhhH! The page finally loaded!

da_shrewgod

AhhH! The page finally loaded!

Jan 14, 2007 00:23

China! I am alive, but the internet connection here is incredibly slow. I believe it has to do with the earthquake in South Asia a few weeks ago. Chinese sites load slowly, but they actually load, while many American sites (namely my e-mail, and for that matter any page at CMU, and Suikox) never load at all. I tried an internet cafe, but after 30 ( Read more... )

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da_shrewgod January 15 2007, 07:21:43 UTC

I cannot upload them!

lebenengel January 14 2007, 10:30:50 UTC

Be good and stay safe, and remember to start Tiananmen II or something. I want shit on the news.

da_shrewgod January 15 2007, 07:21:08 UTC

Actually, it would be Tiananmen III. The first Tiananmen was in the 70s, after Zhou Enlai died, I think. I'd look it up on wikipedia, but is both banned and impossible to reach through proxy because of slowness.

Ah! This whole internet cable-outage business is just a scam so the government can censor everything!

lebenengel January 16 2007, 06:05:57 UTC

"The Tiananmen incident took place in the People's Republic of China immediately following the April Fifth Movement. Stirred by resentment against repression by the government of the People's Republic of China, it was catalyzed by the death of Zhou Enlai on January 8, 1976 ( ... )

gandyalf January 19 2007, 00:04:41 UTC

Sounds amazing.