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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics It's good to see a change in the title of this thread.
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics "1. Transformation of the whole of Tibet into a zone of peace; 2. Abandonment of China's population transfer policy which threatens the very existence of the Tibetan's as a people; 3. Respect for the Tibetan people's fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms...
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics 1) This statement sounds as fair as any political propaganda. 2) http://www.tibet.com/proposal/5point.html This is Dalai Lama's "Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet". (not a Chinese source in case you say it is state-controled or edited) Don't be distracted with the...
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics It's not all about the size of the land, it also involves military considerations. Puting armies here can have a real deterrence to the Indian subcontinent.
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics I felt people think in very different logic, but just as Dongle points out, the tibet is China's CORE INTEREST. Do you know what Dalai Lama is asking for? He is asking for 2/5 of China's land (which is much larger than Tibet itself), all non-Tibetan people out of...
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    Does God exist?

    Actually, I have installed Fallout 2, Planescape and Baldur's Gate I and played them for a while. For Fallout 2 and Planescape, the old-fashioned graphics and the gameplay experiences stop me from continuing. For Baldur's Gate I, I think it is confined to some relatively "minor" creatures...
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    Does God exist?

    I would say Baldur's Gate II (with its expansion and several modifications) is the best America-styled RPG I have ever encountered.
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    Does God exist?

    Maybe God does exist, so do other deities. The amount and purity of people's faith is the source of deities' power and holiness? Got the idea from Drangon & Dungeons. I think monotheism is good for building up "absolute" values, it has positive as well as negative aspects.
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics I think you don't need to worry about that. At least Chinese government will try its best to ensure the security of foreign athletes. It's something about Chinese people's "face".
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Nice One Mr. Rudd. The basic existence of some human beings is, actually.
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    The Beijing Olympics

    Re: Boycott of Olympics If you think you could ever "enlighten" "brainwashed" Chinese in this way, it would be ridiculous.
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    Traditional of Simplified characters, and why?

    A point is simplified chinese speakers could read and understand traditional characters without any problem whereas traditional chinese speakers can hardly understand simplified letters.
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