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thats it!

now they have crossed the line.

Frak China!

Those bastards.

Don't mess with Apple.

I hope this undermines the perception of China's "ruling party" among Chinese young people!!
Go Apple!

Aug 20, 08 - 01:05 pm Comment from: Jubei

Thats just bad karma man.

I thought they were blocked from listening to the fabulous musical remake, Hello Dalai Lama!

Someone's not going to get any Gunga galunga.

Aug 20, 08 - 01:17 pm Comment from: Macromancer

The Chinese government must collectively have the smallest weiners in the universe.

Aug 20, 08 - 01:21 pm Comment from: CYxodus

Are we to be surprised that a communist state would do this? I was surprised that they didn't try to block, detain or shoot the athletes.

Aug 20, 08 - 01:22 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

Great golfer the Lama...

You can't imaging how many things dasapear in US archieves! CIA is hard at work too for political sensure...
You'll have to believe the lies that are available...

Apple will remove the music, I am almost certain. If they do not, then how will they be able to sell iPhones in China?

Aug 20, 08 - 01:35 pm Comment from: critic

It really amazes me how the Chinese leadership does not realize how stupid things like this make them look. They also CLEARLY do not understand how western media works. If it wasn't banned, nobody would even know this album exists. The Chinese, by causing the media to report on this, has guaranteed that 100x more people will now check out this album than ever would have otherwise.

Aug 20, 08 - 01:50 pm Comment from: cptnkirk

I just bought it on iTunes. Good stuff! Support the cause!

Aug 20, 08 - 01:52 pm Comment from: wyorancher

Hey Almux - saying "but, but, but the US or Bush or whoever" is not a valid argument. China is a step above North Korea - full of lies, and ruled with an iron hand. Wish Apple built their stuff elsewhere.
Asshats!

Aug 20, 08 - 01:54 pm Comment from: Webbyswim

almux, du yew noe hou 2 spel?

like people in china would pay money to buy anything from itune stores anyway. apple won't lose much over it.

Aug 20, 08 - 02:08 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

That's a heartening story.

AND to think that China OWNS us!

Aug 20, 08 - 02:20 pm Comment from: shen

"That's a heartening story.

AND to think that China OWNS us!"

not wholly, just a majority.

thank god for a republican economy! errr, wait.....

Give me a f*cking break here..... this is just retarded.


COMMUNISM FOR EVERYBODY!!!

Great choice. Apple should totally lose China market because their involvement in politics.

Aug 20, 08 - 03:03 pm Comment from: Phytonix

@Jake
Wishful thinking. Everything the west has been trying to do to China, including totally biased and single-minded "report" on Tibet have completely alienated the young generation of China. Many young Chinese registered an account on iTunes just to low rank that album.

Aug 20, 08 - 03:22 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Screw China

Is the Olympics need to watch out for

The sole purpose of IOC/USOC/etc ?

All one big game for benefit of International Corporation$ like GE-NBC/Coke/et al ... and probably includes Engulf and Devour

Promoting International Goodwill and Sportsmanship ?

Yea, right

Long as they make a dollar in the process - a LOT of dollars/yen/euros

Please, running around with sticks and ribbon streamers is a 'sport' ?

Why don't they tie in with Trump and do Miss Universe as an Olympic Event ?

Or maybe the High School Cheerleader pep rally contests ?

Or Survivor/Big Brother ? Oh, nope, that's CBS




Yea Yea, I know - some serious ranting from me on this

But, I gave up watching/caring about the Olympics once I became an Adult and realized the politics in play with judges who decide the 'winner' - THAT is the 'game'


Surprised - somewhat - more haven't figured this out too


Oh well - can say same about Windows



So, someone make some songs/music about how the Olympics is rigged and a joke - now THAT would be priceless




Thanks, BC

Aug 20, 08 - 03:26 pm Comment from: Predrag

Let's just get something clear here: the authorities have blocked access to the US iTunes store. If you wanted to access your Chinese (or French, or German) iTunes store from China, you wouldn't be blocked.

As pointless as this exercise is, it is also rather meaningless for anyone (except the Tibetans, of course).

Aug 20, 08 - 03:30 pm Comment from: Predrag

And to add to BC Kelly's rant, we all know why that swimmer guy Phelps was given the win in the race that was quite obviously won by Milorad Čavić - his big Omega sponsor, a.k.a. the official timekeeper of the Olympics. These are enormously big bucks on the line here, and Omega rakes it in big time if Phelps character gets an extra gold.

But that's now all history - even Čavić himself seems to be quite happy with silver. Still... way too big bucks...

Aug 20, 08 - 03:40 pm Comment from: Macromancer

"Great choice. Apple should totally lose China market because their involvement in politics."

Google did something similar.

Aug 20, 08 - 04:05 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Predrag

Yes, wasn't that "win" by 00:001 of a second ?


Believe is some type of pressure device that trips the timer

(If it is THAT accurate then maybe NASA should contract with them for rocket launches to other Galaxies)

Was the 'winner' announced immediately ?

If not, then why not ?

What kind of 'lag' would there be in a system that accurate ?

Makes me think of Olympics in old days when bunch of guys with stop watches had to determine the time/winner by eye - think those results, on occassion, became a group decision following formation of a Committee after they conducted a survey.

If the machines now are precise enough to measure 1/100th of a second as a finger/hand in the water touches a spot, then should be able to have instant result, since we're not talking about something like taking pictures of horses crossing an imaginary line from 100 feet away.

AND, think GE/NBC/KBR/Haliburton/whoever is using HiDef TV

Did they show the freeze-frame-instant-replay-photo-finish ?

Or are we just expected to take their word for it ?




Just curious



BC

@Predrag - next conspiracy theory you'll bring up would be that the Olympic judging are all done on Lenovo laptops, and since Lenovo is built in China, and running insecured Windows, perhaps the judging for the Chinese athletes have a Diebol-isk advantage? Who knows, right?

In this case I didn't know about the album, but now I will get it, so the censorship only served the counter effect.

@Predrag -- Omega is a Swiss company. If can trust anyone, it's Swiss timing engineers. Those guys are so neutral it's ridiculous.

"possibly" listening to

That's some good paranoia, China! I sympathize with your citizens.

Aug 20, 08 - 04:48 pm Comment from: Spark

@BC Kelly
On subsequent evenings stop action photos from inside the pool showed that Phelps did indeed touch the wall first. It was his very quick half stroke at the end while Cavic was gliding that allowed Phelps to touch first. The angled views from above the pool looked different, but the photos from the pool, directly under the swimmers showed a more accurate result. Phelps won by a finger nail.

Aug 20, 08 - 04:52 pm Comment from: Predrag

You should see the volume of conspiracy articles/sites/blogs regarding that Phelps / Čavić dispute! Back in Serbia, they are looking at it with some bewilderment, as everyone is just thrilled they have a medal (silver, no less).

Elsewhere, though, (in US, mainly), stories are spun, pictures are compared (and enhanced, for greater clarity), experts testify looking at the angle of the camera, compared to the angle of the swimmers, the speed of their stroke, etc. I'm sure the games will be long forgotten and this theory will continue to be discussed all over the blogosphere. Throw in one of the biggest makers of timepieces in the world (Omega), and you have the 'big money' element nicely woven into it.

For your entertainment, check this guy out: http://100thofasecond.com/

"Frak China!

Those bastards.

Don't mess with Apple."

DON'T MESS WITH CHINA!

I bet you Apple dont wanna lose its chinese market. PLUS, how many Apple products are being manufactured there?
PLUS, even US wont mess with China at its current state!

I thought they were blocked from listening to the fabulous musical remake, Hello Dalai Lama!
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You so welly funny!
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Of course the party couldn't stand for 40 people out of 1.3 billion to download that, all commie parties are like that, or like how a certain US party treats smokers

I was surprised that they didn't try to block, detain or shoot the athletes.

Agreed. The athletes got off very easy.

It wasn't that long ago where protesting in China would get you ran under tank treads....

AND to think that China OWNS us!

Can we really blame China for that?

First American companies "outsourced" to China in the sole name of making more money.

Then America's runaway government started borrowing from China, HEAVILY, in the name of not having the guts to face the inevitable.

China's billions (trillions??) in trade-deficit funded Treasuries have got to be pulling in some nice interest returns.

Aug 20, 08 - 07:20 pm Comment from: Road Warrior

Note to Macromancer: The Chinese also collectively have the tightest pussies. A nice welcome relief. You would not believe how many people get confused when they find out that the Grand Canyon actually refers to a geographical location.

This is truly a major breakthrough and shows just how much the Chinese have moved forward only to have them kicked by the evil AENUS alliance of terror.

-Did the Chinese shoot a bunch of people in Tianamen square over this? Nope.

-Did they cut off the ears of the people who listened to it? Nope.

-Did they expel the athletes involved in the protest? Nope.

These "Art of Piece of S**t" morons obviously have no clue to even bother reading and listening to what the Dali Lama said (about endorsing the games, going there, showing support and enjoying the competition...oh and playing sports). Instead these buffons seek to distract and disrupt from the spirit of the Olympic Games and the Dali Lama's wishes by running this protest.

The Olympic athletes that participated in this protest are about as worthy as the ones who take performance enhancing drugs, and from the article the backlash towards Apple is not surprising (they should have delayed it).

Typical AENUS behaviour if you ask me. Maybe some Chinese should do some Tai Chi during the last inning of the World Series baseball game as a political protest but I don't think they would stoop that low.

Nuke em from orbit I say. To be sure.

Aug 20, 08 - 07:53 pm Comment from: paythefan.com

Phelps was awesome this year.

Aug 20, 08 - 07:56 pm Comment from: paythefan.com

fantasy football is fun, maybe the chinese can play that.




check out PaytheFan.com see Terry Bradshaw

Aug 20, 08 - 10:17 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Spark and Predrag

Thanks for the input/info/link


Like said, don't watch Oly's and only heard about the 1/100th sec finish

Do understand concept of photo angle distortion, which can be amplified underwater, especially when viewed from above water going INTO the water (bent straw sort of thing)

AND - is 2 dimensional

So, be very careful watching Football, or any sport, if replays are seen only from one angle - is not the 'true' picture, and will have to extrapolate to get it. Unless have one of those computer 3-D type TV pics and rotate. But believe all of those are 'stills' (still?)


Does appear this 'controversy' may not go away, good, keep the bastards honest.



However, the one that seems to really have a lot of folks in a snit:

The gymnastic 'tie' that was decided by some method apparently invented after the tie happened

Sounds like what my Big Brothers always did to me when we were kids

Made up the rules as we went along



Oh well - as Refs often say in Futball:

Play On



BC

Aug 21, 08 - 01:56 am Comment from: MacSmiley

"That's a heartening story.

AND to think that China OWNS us!"

Don't worry. It won't be long before Buy'N'Large owns the whole kit and kaboodle anyway!!

Close your eyes and be free with your patriotic act (oh sorry: patryotik akt)...

@MacSmiley
Have China to ask back repay of their US Treasury Bonds... and it will be all over!

@Webbyswim
Do you speek and write ANY other language than US english?

At least, in China, people try to evolve...

Just the direction the US is heading in.
In a couple of years you won't be able to listen to any music you want because it will be deemed terrorist supporting because it doesn't bash iran.

How can you people tollerate that the government demands people to register several days ahead on the internet that they are coming to the US or they won't be let in? The land of the free? Not so much. The government owns your ass!

@Emil
You have to register on the Internet before you can enter the United States now? Are you serious? Sheesh, I heard things had gotten bad there but not that bad. Oh well, still not too surprising.

The phelps race was broadcast live and the results were released instantaneously. There was no delay. If you saw the pictures from underwater in HD you would see phelps' fingers bent back as he touched the wall while the other guys were straight with a small gap about the size of a pencil eraser. The only controversy is from people who didn't see it, don't understand timing, or gain from a perceived controversy(ie the media).

Go China!!

Those people really know how a government should be run!

Barak Hussen Obamyma will teach you americans soon enough the same lessons

"The government owns your ass!"

Soon to own your ass as well sucker.

We don't have the largest kick-ass military for nothing

@Emil

You don't mention what "free" country you live in. Dare to name your country so we can compare freedoms?

waiting...

no, I didn't think so

Flavour of the month... Chinese. What's for next month? Iraq? Point is, are you really that much better than your neighbour?

Answer: No, just different and misunderstood. The root of all fear.

@land of the free
Point is not to compare the way our governements are conditionned by the masters of war and $... but to admit that our so called "freedom" is just a product our governements are conditioning us for.
But to understand that, we have to get some auto-criticism teached in the schools from the very begening...

And please, don't give me of that stupid: "you damn communist", just because i'm trying to think different!