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Spontaneous Mishaps and Hijinks
is it? I want russia rich list.
Secret wealth of Chinese leaders revealed
- Thread starter Scientific Playa
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ill
Superstar
Are there any concrete $$ numbers for how much wealth they actually have or is it just an uproar over them hiding assets?
I mean after a person gets a few billion, what does that do, is their any true purpose?
Tommy Knocks
retired
I predict one in the U.S before China.I said it onyears ago and eventually it will come to fruition... there will be a revolution in China. I don't know when, but unless China fully transitions to some form of democracy and completely embraces capitalism, where people think wealth concentrated at the top is good in a game of winners and losers, the Commies will be in deep shyt one day and I CAN'T WAIT.
I used to walk in front of those piece of shyt red banners in China that touted the virtues of socialist economic harmony at construction sites where migrant workers slaved away on dangerous jobs for almost nothing, while people drove by in their BMW's.
OWS should have kicked one off, but it can't only be liberals out there. after the bullshyt bailouts, wallstreet corruption, NSA, and free media, you'd think we'd already have one.
Hell the Iraqi war should have caused one....
hmm come to think of it, maybe the chinese do have more heart and will kick one off first.
Chinese Internet Goes Down after Release of Details of Corruption of Government Leaders
January 24, 2014
Source: All Gov.
In what’s been described as the biggest online outage in history, China’s Internet went completely down Tuesday afternoon. Theories have abounded since as to what caused it, and whether the crash was intentional on the part of the Chinese government to block citizens from seeing a controversial news story on the nation’s leadership and their offshore bank accounts.
The historic outage, which affected about 500 million Chinese, began at 3:30 pm local time on January 21, according to GreatFire.org, a group that monitors China’s efforts to censor Internet information.
The online blackout lasted only about an hour. But the timing of the event coincided with a story published that same day at 4 pm (China time) by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
That story reported on dozens of political leaders and wealthy individuals who have maintained tax havens outside China, a possible indication of corruption.
“Internet censors prevented readers in China from seeing investigative stories by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and several of its publishing partners, including Spain’s El País, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and the U.K. and U.S. editions of The Guardian,” ICIJ reported the next day.
Other sources reported the outage lasted much longer.
Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times wrote that many users couldn’t access the Internet for up to eight hours.
The Times account focused on the Great Firewall, a nickname for the army of censors and technology employed by Beijing to control what Chinese see online.
Perlroth said the censorship system “mistakenly” redirected the country’s traffic to several websites “normally blocked inside China, some connected to a company based in the Wyoming building.”
That company, Sophidea, is based in Cheyenne, Wyoming (“at least on paper”). Perlroth said she couldn’t corroborate whether Sophidea’s servers were actually in Wyoming.
It is speculated that a little brick residential house in Cheyenne could be the site of that company. The former tenant, Wyoming Corporate Services, had about 2,000 businesses registered to the location, and they included some curious customers. Among them was a government contractor who sold counterfeit truck parts to the Pentagon, a jailed former Ukraine prime minister, and someone who masterminded the evasion of gambling restrictions for online poker players.
Wyoming Corporate Services, which is now located 10 blocks away from its original site, claims that Sophidea is currently one of the firm’s 8,000 registered businesses. Its operations reportedly involve the rerouting of Internet traffic for the purpose of shielding an individual’s true location.
If much of China’s Internet traffic was redirected to Sophidea’s servers, they would have crashed instantly from overload. But that would only account for some of the Asian giant’s online population that found itself stranded.
The Times story also reported “a separate wave of Chinese Internet traffic Tuesday was simultaneously redirected to Internet addresses owned by Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a company that helps people evade China’s Great Firewall, and is typically blocked in China.” DIT’s clients include Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, and Human Rights in China.
For that one day, the event had global ramifications, according to Compuware APM’s Heiko Specht. “When you consider the population affected, this was one of the biggest outages we've ever seen, with one seventh of global Internet users impacted,” he said in an email to eWEEK. “However, the impact wasn't just on Chinese internet users; companies around the world could have lost potentially $200 million in online sales during the eight hour period.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff, Danny Biederman
To Learn More:
Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall (by Nicole Perlroth, New York Times)
January 24, 2014
Source: All Gov.
In what’s been described as the biggest online outage in history, China’s Internet went completely down Tuesday afternoon. Theories have abounded since as to what caused it, and whether the crash was intentional on the part of the Chinese government to block citizens from seeing a controversial news story on the nation’s leadership and their offshore bank accounts.
The historic outage, which affected about 500 million Chinese, began at 3:30 pm local time on January 21, according to GreatFire.org, a group that monitors China’s efforts to censor Internet information.
The online blackout lasted only about an hour. But the timing of the event coincided with a story published that same day at 4 pm (China time) by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
That story reported on dozens of political leaders and wealthy individuals who have maintained tax havens outside China, a possible indication of corruption.
“Internet censors prevented readers in China from seeing investigative stories by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and several of its publishing partners, including Spain’s El País, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and the U.K. and U.S. editions of The Guardian,” ICIJ reported the next day.
Other sources reported the outage lasted much longer.
Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times wrote that many users couldn’t access the Internet for up to eight hours.
The Times account focused on the Great Firewall, a nickname for the army of censors and technology employed by Beijing to control what Chinese see online.
Perlroth said the censorship system “mistakenly” redirected the country’s traffic to several websites “normally blocked inside China, some connected to a company based in the Wyoming building.”
That company, Sophidea, is based in Cheyenne, Wyoming (“at least on paper”). Perlroth said she couldn’t corroborate whether Sophidea’s servers were actually in Wyoming.
It is speculated that a little brick residential house in Cheyenne could be the site of that company. The former tenant, Wyoming Corporate Services, had about 2,000 businesses registered to the location, and they included some curious customers. Among them was a government contractor who sold counterfeit truck parts to the Pentagon, a jailed former Ukraine prime minister, and someone who masterminded the evasion of gambling restrictions for online poker players.
Wyoming Corporate Services, which is now located 10 blocks away from its original site, claims that Sophidea is currently one of the firm’s 8,000 registered businesses. Its operations reportedly involve the rerouting of Internet traffic for the purpose of shielding an individual’s true location.
If much of China’s Internet traffic was redirected to Sophidea’s servers, they would have crashed instantly from overload. But that would only account for some of the Asian giant’s online population that found itself stranded.
The Times story also reported “a separate wave of Chinese Internet traffic Tuesday was simultaneously redirected to Internet addresses owned by Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a company that helps people evade China’s Great Firewall, and is typically blocked in China.” DIT’s clients include Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, and Human Rights in China.
For that one day, the event had global ramifications, according to Compuware APM’s Heiko Specht. “When you consider the population affected, this was one of the biggest outages we've ever seen, with one seventh of global Internet users impacted,” he said in an email to eWEEK. “However, the impact wasn't just on Chinese internet users; companies around the world could have lost potentially $200 million in online sales during the eight hour period.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff, Danny Biederman
To Learn More:
Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall (by Nicole Perlroth, New York Times)
nah
it should happen in both countries but americas qual of life>>>.china. i mean for fukks sake can you even use google in china
a billion people?the statement "thered be a rev in china before they go to war w the US" is accurate
Tommy Knocks
retired
yea they can but baidu is their version and google isn't a necessity. google is as important to them as baidu is to you.nah
it should happen in both countries but americas qual of life>>>.china. i mean for fukks sake can you even use google in china
the statement "thered be a rev in china before they go to war w the US" is accurate
sure quality of life, but I think americans have much more to lose. That's the problem is americans are fukking too comfortable and lazy and thus our liberties are being stripped effortlessly. the fact that they'd have a rev first is disgusting in itself. we are an actual democracy where our govt is supposed to work for us, and if we dont like them, should be removed instantly. but thats not how we see it despite the way the forefathers envisioned it.our core value and foundation were built on revolution and revolutionary vision, yet we expect a communist country to rev before us.
