The question is whether the civil unrest can be suppressed until after the games. three or more years ago i was calling 50:50. i see no reason to change even though i acknowledge a slight bias to yes. Volatility has risen so much that any bias is noise.
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FIRST they will have to have power failures to "delay" the broadcast of the opening ceremony.
I murst say: "BOYCOTT CHINA!!"
Billary has fond memories of freeing Tibet in 1996.
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems. There is no miracle in China, only an imbalance that is quickly going to correct itself. Hard work, education, rule of law, and freedom of actions and thought are still the keys to success. China's day of reckoning will be much more painful than ours. Even if we lose all of our paper money we will still have our human and physical capital. We all know China's long list of problems. In the end China may become a wonderful country but it is a long painful way off.
I, for one, welcome our future Chinese overlords.
Is there an Olympic competition for napping? I'm going for the gold!
Merkel is boycotting the opening ceremonies. I hope the other G7 leaders do the same.
I've predicted these Olympics will be a fustercluck of massive proportions. The Olympics is simply about image for the host country and massive graft for the IOC. I hope it fails spectacularly.
How can you have goodwill games when you have no goodwill and the air is so shitty that you can cut it with a knife?
Monroe/Nietzsche 2008!
Marilyn has fond memories of freeing Tibet and Burma in 1962!
Fuck the Olympics.
Rob, saw your comment on CR about robots. I have seen a presentation by a team working on a citrus picking robot. I think they may have been out of a small prestigious engineering school in the northeast. They said something about all students being accepted to the school not having to pay any tuition. Maybe you know of it?
Another thing I read about a plant breeder in Maryland working on strawberry varieties that push the fruit at one time to make mechanical harvesting easier.
Probably, it will all get lost in the shuffle.
They will pull it off.
1. they are one of the big 3 superpowers. The little nations will STFU because of China's influence. The big ones will do what President Bennett said in the movie Clear and Present Danger:
"You've got yourself a chip in the big game now. You're gonna tuck that away, you are going to save that for a time when your own ass is on the line and then you're gonna pull it out. And I'm going to cash it in for you. Right?"
2. About a month before the cerimony, Bejing will sweep the areas that have venues. The folks will win an all a 7 week all inclusive tour of Western China's mountain region whether or not they want to accept. If they can get the local ladies to narc on women knocked up 1 time too many, this will be child's play.
3. I had a conference call with Taipei last night. I asked if Taiwan was allowed at the Games. They replied OH SURE!. I think this is the olive branch to get western countries to back off. Ought to pay dividends in the US and Japan, less so in Oz, New Zealand and Europe.
The bigger issue is do they fail because of massively focused stupidity. They have been pushing six ways to Sunday on various projects and are not used to critique of their decisions. Most the locals are still uneducated sod. I could see them screwing the pooch and it would be an accident. Something like a bus driver runs over 100 fans and 3 marathoners when they do not give way like the locals do every day for the past 20 years. Or Bejing says they need more power for the stadium lights, so some clown opens the dam floodgates and drowns 5000 people down river.
If anyone going, the best counterfeit watches and handbags are on the back wall of the US Embassey. Don't forget to walk away after your first haggle, else they are insulted they are dealing with such a pussy. And stay away from the gold jewerly. The stuff can give you infections as it is not gold...
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Cooper Union fits your description. It's a little engineering and arts school in NYC. Every student gets a full tuition scholarship (there are some fees but they are fairly modest compared to other schools. They like Harvey Mudd in California and Rose Hulman in Indiana, don't have much of a graduate program so while classes are taught by professors (even intro to Chemistry), they aren't out building recognition (and grants) so they don't have the same name recognition outside of their alumni's fields.
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