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   Language Barrier

   

   dorpus, May 2nd, 2005 @ 2:45pm

   
   

   Firewall or not, there remains a vast obstacle known as the language barrier. News in different languages give completely different accounts of the same world events -- we still live in a scary world of disinformation, including English. I've deduced that English language news often does not tell the whole story, because there are facts that English-speaking audiences don't like to hear.
   

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   Re: Language Barrier

   

   VonSkippy, May 2nd, 2005 @ 7:10pm

   
   

   Dorpus: List references or examples (tabloids and basement run internet servers don't count) that support your "theory" or crawl back under your tin-foil hat.
   

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   Mesh Routing + WiMAX + pringles can + border house

   

   Anonymous Coward, May 2nd, 2005 @ 7:36pm

   
   

   I fear the same kind of censorship from my own government, especially since it's regularly browbeatn by the giant next door in the Land of the Free Biggy-sizing.
   
   However, I am marginally confident that hackers and gadgets will do wonders to limit the effectiveness of this kind of law, or, like the war on drugs, bankrupt their governments from enforcement.
   
   I'm wondering what the range of a decent WiMax unit would be, and it that range can be extended in a point-to-point manner. With mesh routing, can we then work around any firewalls our governments set up? How to get inter-continental is a bigger question, but I'm not entirely unconvinced we can't figure it out.
   
   Yeah, because we're smart guys, and we'd be awfully motivated. that's the mother of invention right there, I think.

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   Re: Language Barrier

   

   blorpus, May 2nd, 2005 @ 8:27pm

   
   

   VonSkippy: I gather Dorpus is extrapolating to terrestrial languages from Dorpish, which does not appear to have the concept of linear reasoning. I base this on the number of off-topic postings here from various inhabitants of the Dorpoid galaxy.

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   Re: Language Barrier

   

   dorpus, May 3rd, 2005 @ 6:34am

   
   

   There are hundreds of examples every day, but if I post them on here, then people will get upset that I'm "posting off topic trolls", so I won't do that. :-P
   
   

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   Re: Language Barrier

   

   Ann, May 3rd, 2005 @ 9:20am

   
   

   It's not just different languages - CNN's coverage of the same story is very different, based on US vs. non-US audience. News outlets selectively report only certain details, both to fit their own biases and to attract a particular audience.

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   Wait a second...

   

   Trent, May 5th, 2005 @ 1:31am

   
   

   Hey, i live in China, but we sometimes get the news faster than the US. For example, the abuse cases in Iraq were all over the news here long before the stories were picked up in the US. China is not nearly as closed as people think.

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   Re: Language Barrier

   

   Ally, May 8th, 2005 @ 12:40am

   
   

   I agree with Ann.

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