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Beijing will soon have pollution police:
Officials in Beijing are taking steps toward tackling the city's long-standing smog problem with the creation of an environmental police force, according to state media. Spearheaded by Beijing's acting mayor Mayor Cai Qi, the political crackdown on burning fossil fuels comes amid a flurry of concern over the country's choking air pollution.
[...] The new environmental police would among other things, crack down on open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and biomass burning — areas previously overlooked by authorities, Xinhua reported. "Open-air barbecues, garbage incineration, biomass burning, dust from roads -- these acts of non-compliance with regulations are actually the result of lax supervision and weak law enforcement," Cai said. He did not say when the program would begin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:22PM
Good! Let the Chinese spend their resources doing the research; the "West" can just copy their hard work.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:34PM
Copy ... then manufacture in China?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:05PM
> Good! Let the Chinese spend their resources doing the research; the "West" can just copy their hard work.
It took Japan decades to turn western research into market-leading production.
China still hasn't reached that point despite all their growth.
Expertise is something that takes at least a generation to develop. Knowledge isn't really in patents and scientific papers, its in the people who have spent their lives studying and developing their fields.
You can't copy people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @08:57PM
You can import talented people. Offer lots of money and pussy/dick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @10:00PM
You can't import an entire community.
Not everyone is a friendless hermit living in their mom's basement with no culture to be shocked out of.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday January 10 2017, @10:37PM
Yeah, but when whole communities are unable to eat, clothe themselves, or find any medical care?
There isn't jack shit in the U.S anymore, and there is zero hope of escaping brutal, brutal exploitation at the hands of the few growing ever richer. America is *ONLY* for the Owning Class and well paying jobs disappear faster each day while being replaced by much lower paying jobs in the service industry with no hope for advancement or escaping anything but the life of a slave.
For the time being, there are some very well trained and educated Americans looking for work after training their H1B replacements. Friends and families be damned, we all need to fucking eat. You bet your fucking ass rich countries could start importing Americans. Just pay a living wage and voila! Imported Americans Everywhere in those countries.
Friendless hermits in mom's basements? Those people are *SUBSIDIZED*. What happens when mom can no longer make it? When rents and mortgages go above 200% of the minimum (aka maximum) wage? What happens when social security is killed and the pension funds fail?
Make America Great Again has a fuck-ton of work in front of them when objectively America isn't in the top 10 for practically anything anymore. A lot of White Nationalists give shit while hootin' and hollerin' about how "great" their fucking country is while ignoring the stark reality that America hasn't been great for decades now.
Wake the fuck up. America is a third world country sliding deeper and farther into the shitter each day. Any work offer from an EU country is going to be categorically superior to one in the U.S, with categorically superior services offered to those citizens, and categorically superior education, medical, infrastructure, etc.
America is a shit heap. Which reminds me, I have meetings next week for several South American consulates to talk about asylum in their countries.
Fuck, even Cuba with a double embargo is objectively better than this fucking dumpster fire of a country.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @10:48PM
Just make sure to show off that wonderful glowing personality you've got on display to them and I'm sure you'll be a shoe-in. I'd be careful using the word asylum. You might want to actually look up the definition of that term. I don't think most countries will grant you asylum just for being butthurt about the last election.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday January 11 2017, @12:18AM
This has nothing to do with the last election per se, but does have quite a bit to do with the results and what they portend for our dark future. For that matter, I think I have a shot at political refugee when the Angry Orange Anus running/ruining everything is bringing Rudy's (burn in hell fucker) stop-and-frisk to the entire country. I will be dead the first time an officer tries that, so yeah, political refugee may be accurate. Are you *SURE* political refugee is inaccurate? The White Nationalists taking over government are only for *WHITE* people (stated, only believed by the idiots voting for them), not immigrants or those they deem undesirables for the plethora of reasons that they do. So, the truth is more like half the country has a decent shot at political refugee status somewhere else. Again, has nothing to do with WHO won an election, but WHAT platform is now getting underway, and HOW we are losing what did make America great in the past. Hard to say you don't deserve political refugee status when Palantir is building the systems to determine that you need to be in a politically motivated internment camp because you were the wrong flavor of brown.
Refugee would be more accurate, but still, political refugee isn't that far off the mark considering when my very field is becoming more illegal and unpatriotic by the day. That field being the one attempting to bring privacy and anonymity back to U.S citizens through "disruptive" technologies. It says volumes about us as a people when taking your privacy and anonymity back is a "disruptive" enterprise. Then we can get to the attacks against privacy and anonymity with the National Security Theater getting underway with at last 4 years of destroying Net Neutrality while removing zero knowledge services and endpoint-to-endpoint encryption as lawful and Constitutionally protected activities.
As for my personality, well what do you expect in a third world dumpster fire we call the United States now? I'm *happy* and wanting to move away from the country of my birth? Give me a fucking break. We all the right to be extremely and utterly pissed off, disillusioned, and disenfranchised with this shit heap of a country. I feel like I have more in common with the goals and ideas of CUBA! You know, actually taking care of their people! Fuck, Cuba feels more free and American than we are! What the fuck!
The truth is I could have asked for asylum *last* year with Obama still in charge. This country has made its way into darkness, at least as far as American labor is concerned, in the least 35 years. American Labor IS AMERICA, not the black soul'd mother fuckers in the Owning Class that have destroyed it. That was under BOTH Democratic and Republican control, btw. So how does our current situation really have anything to do with divisive politics? I've been saying we're a shit heap for quite some time now, and no matter how much you fuckers want to throw me into one political party or the next, the truth is that all politicians need to die as traitors. Not just one side. I've excoriated Obama as much as I have Trump, as much as I have Hillary.
If I don't get asylum, that is fine too. Nothing says I can't take a page from the Mexican playbook and be an illegal immigrant in a South American country. Much better than being a slave here, and the chances of surviving outside of America are becoming vastly better than surviving IN IT. I won't have medical either as an illegal immigrant, but hey, don't have it now right?
This new party of the White Nationalists is not a LEGITIMATE political party anyways, but a collection of the Owning Class manipulating the disenfranchised into a fear and hate induced frenzy, with the already hate-filled racists and bigots joining the band wagon. I used to refuse to believe racism really existed until nearly half the voters came out as White Nationalists. So what happens when your country is taken over by such disreputable filth? Ohhhhh, that's right. We're just butthurt. It's not a soul sick slide into watching your country set on fire while losing whatever integrity it had left, it's political butthurt instead.
Yeah, as if discussing internment camps for Americans is legitimate in any way, shape, or form. It's not butthurt, but realizing that America is now lost and you need to figure out how to survive its collapse.
Keep saying that all opposition is just political butthurt, and you do yourself a tremendous disservice. There are any number of reasons to claim political refugee status.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 11 2017, @01:43AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 10 2017, @06:12PM