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  1. #1 Sometimes it's just too much 
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    Good morning world, how are you today? I wouldn't know because I can't access anything that ends in google.com

    So your words at gmail do not come through.... mail.google.com
    Your pictures at picasa have vanished.... picasa.google.com
    The news does not show.... news.google.com
    I can't search to find a reason or solution.... www.google.com
    I would try to find a way out, but there's no maps.google.com
    and YouTube, well that's been gone for months.

    I think it would be fun if all the countries of the world banned Chinese imports for a couple weeks... randomly... without explanation... with no means of correcting the ban...

    I don't know who's worse at this point... the western powers that cower in fear of loosing a few bucks in China, or the Chinese government that embarrases itself by insinuating it's people are too weak to handle the inconvenient truths of the internet.

    A pretty sad lot the whole bunch of us.

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    That seemed to be only last night. Now seems ok.I could not really believe it, so i thought i go to sleep and check what other people say.
    So what if there is no Google ? Suddenly, finish !!
    I think a lot of people would loose their job. Because then you really have to start thinking for yourself, instead of "research"

    I am trying not to complain about China because i plan to live here for some time .. I am trying, trying very hard to think like a Chinese. I have seldom seen any Chinese complain!

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    The weather is 38-40 centigrade here, but the government says the temperature is 30-32. If you can disprove the government with a 5 RMB exterior thermometer from Walmart...OMG.

    The government should go and force thermometer companies that make these evil exterior thermometers that are destabilizing China to recalibrate to make their readings more acceptable....................

    I still have no google except for google.cn
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    slabo, you only see laowais complaining because we actually have a use for google and all its tools. chinese don't complain because they don't give a flying f*ck about google!

    in a broader sense, it's the same thing with freedom. sort of...
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    China is definitely one of those places that has more going on that what is immediately evident. I think it was a kind of testing or poking to see what people's reactions would be.

    Either that or Google really is the mastermind behind a secret porn distribution empire.


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    I'm using hotspot shield (which is available from anchorfree.com) and Firefox. Hotspot will give you popups but Firefox mostly keeps things under control. Lets me use Google, Youtube, and Hotmail without fail.
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    Try running firefox with foxxy proxxy add-on. That should get everything working once you everything configurated.
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    Thanks for the computer tips guys, I gave up on general proxy surfing years ago, it's really slow and the free proxies are too unreliable. Instead, I prefer a direct SSH connection to an outside server running my own proxy (squid). If you custom configure your SSH connection to run on port 80 instead of 22, the speed is a lot faster. You can usually get a shell account on a nix server for peanuts, much better than any kind of proxy or plug in. If you really understand SSH and port forwarding, you can run all kinds of encrypted traffic for any kind of service you need (like BitTorrent).

    I use two browsers, Safari runs in normal mode and Firefox runs in encrypted tunnel mode. If I come across a sight in Safari that won't open, I just drag it into Firefox and it comes up through the proxy. The sad part about this is how much more often I have to use the tunnel now. About thirty percent of the sites I visit require the proxy because people use YouTube and other content hosts that are often blocked in China.

    Just another day in China.

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    What is reassuring is that the desire for truth and information will always flood all the green dams and extinguish all the great firewalls of these idiots (leaders) from all over the World who think they know better than the People they are supposed to serve.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slabo View Post
    I am trying, trying very hard to think like a Chinese.
    Can you acquire Narcolepsy ?
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