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Busy Bee posted:Do you guy's have any recommendations on a website that my friends in China can use to upload large sized files (50 - 100 mb)? Lots google around for 网盘, here's one http://www.91files.com/index.aspx
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| # ? Jul 3, 2011 13:01 |
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:China Southern is damned good as well. I thought China Southern is famous for crashing all the time. I flew them to Beijing last time and had a terrible time. Stuck on the tarmac for four hours with no service. Utter poo poo. I flew back on Hainan Airlines/Hong Kong Express and they were so much better. My first flight on an A380; nice plane.
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Bloodnose posted:I thought China Southern is famous for crashing all the time. I flew them to Beijing last time and had a terrible time. Stuck on the tarmac for four hours with no service. Utter poo poo. I flew back on Hainan Airlines/Hong Kong Express and they were so much better. My first flight on an A380; nice plane. Yep, my bad... it was hainan i was thinking of, not southern.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2011 13:30 |
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Yeah China Southern was the budget airline company and had a few crashes during early 2000s. I fly Air China from HKG ---> PEK --- > YVR and the onscreen entertainment was a bit lacking in controls. The planes were the older 767 or 777s. I'm really surprised how often people spit and litter in the Eastern Seaboard of US. New York, Boston, Philly, were filthy and almost like Hong Kong in terms of cleanliness. DC was cleaner but could also get kind of rough. I also bought my first can of FOUR LOKO, wish I can get that stuff in China
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| # ? Jul 3, 2011 13:33 |
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Code Share with China Eastern, don't ride internationally. I flew on the PVG-LAX route once with CE and they treat international flights like domestic flights. Delta's Pacific fleet has the updated 777s and is very nice, but the Detroit runs now have 747s with the one screen per cabin. Oh look, Glee's on again. I flew on a school trip out of Beijing last year on China Eastern, and one of the parents on board was a former flight attendant. We had just taken off and she looked spooked and muttered about something being wrong. That's when we saw the undercarriage of a passing plane just above us. I get nervous flying out of BJ.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2011 14:15 |
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caberham posted:Yeah China Southern was the budget airline company and had a few crashes during early 2000s. The last international flight I had with Air China was Beijing to Phnom Penh and it was incredibly enjoyable... well, about as enjoyable as economy can be. I tend to try and time my international flights with client projects whenever I can because first/business class is awesome, especially when you don't have to pay for it... Which elaborates on my hatred of China Eastern. Their lounges suck, their seats are broken half the time and their meals are rather blah.
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I didn't realize Air China could be cool. If I can spare the cash, I try to avoid all Chinese state airlines. But China [Cardinal Direction] all seem to be the worst.
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My wife works at a state-owned travel company. They have package tours to Phuket that nobody wants to buy. The parent state-owned company says they have to fill 20 seats on every trip, which is daily. If nobody buys a seat, the employees have to go on their own dime. This amounts to half her salary. Her boss (I assume) is some party-member walking pile of poo poo. Do we have any legal recourse? edit: so angry I forgot a sentence timtastic fucked around with this message at Jul 4, 2011 around 05:17 |
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timtastic posted:My wife works at a state-owned travel company. They have package tours to Phuket that nobody wants to buy. The parent state-owned company says they have to fill 20 seats on every trip, which is daily. If nobody buys a seat, the employees have to go on their own dime. This amounts to half her salary. Her boss (I assume) is some party-member walking pile of poo poo. Do we have any legal recourse? Take it up with the Ministry of Labor and if that fails, make noise about it to the media. Routing out corruption is currently a somewhat big deal. It's a SoE, so there are definite perks to it, if she gets sick of it she can refuse to pay for it and then sue for anything bad that comes from it. Are the trips being charged at cost, or is it full rate?
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:Take it up with the Ministry of Labor and if that fails, make noise about it to the media. Routing out corruption is currently a somewhat big deal. At cost I think, definitely not full rate. Not sure how it would matter though.
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timtastic posted:At cost I think, definitely not full rate. Not sure how it would matter though. Is she able to sell it off to someone else, or is she stuck with it in her name? Either way, she should refuse this crap and take it up with the Ministry of Labor along with coworkers. For free advice and help, start looking here: http://www.110.com/ Pro-PRC Laowai fucked around with this message at Jul 4, 2011 around 11:55 |
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I shipped around 60kg of stuff from Shenzhen to Beijing, as I am moving there in August. Used China Post regular service, and was really surprised how cheap it is. In total I paid around 320RMB, including them boxing and sealing everything up for me. (Now lets see if it acually makes it there in one piece)
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B-Rad posted:I shipped around 60kg of stuff from Shenzhen to Beijing, as I am moving there in August. Used China Post regular service, and was really surprised how cheap it is. In total I paid around 320RMB, including them boxing and sealing everything up for me. Do you mean they came to your house and packed the stuff for you? I recently used a private company just going from Ningbo to Shanghai. it was expensive, I packed myself, and the guy at the other end wouldn't help me carry the stuff upstairs (Shanghai summer heat!). At least nothing was broken. I'm in Shanghai by the way, lowly English teacher - hardly ever posted on SA (so far) and actually found this thread by accident via a Google search.
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Chindit posted:Do you mean they came to your house and packed the stuff for you? No I just took it to the post office in those big migrant worker bags and they boxed it all up and taped it for me. Really affordable.
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| # ? Jul 5, 2011 13:20 |
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Anyone do anything fun for 4th of July? I took advantage of the plentiful fireworks. The Qingdao #3 Beach was littered in cinders after the group of Americans left...
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| # ? Jul 6, 2011 00:58 |
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I got to pretend that HKSAR Establishment Day is American Independence Day. Although on the actual fourth I was taking a boat ride on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. That was fun.
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| # ? Jul 6, 2011 03:09 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Anyone do anything fun for 4th of July? I got to not even pretend to care or be bothered by any of that crap. It's nice.
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| # ? Jul 6, 2011 04:02 |
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Magna Kaser posted:Anyone do anything fun for 4th of July? I got to spend it in America and have a REAL BBQ with steaks and burgers and beers. But in a few weeks I'll be yearning to get back and enjoy some baozi and jidan guanbing. Didn't buy any fireworks though, I'm fireworked out and totally unimpressed by the <500g $100 fireworks here. Doesn't compare to the stuff I can get in China for under 100￥! chindit posted:
Welcome. You're a goon and you found the other goons in China. Don't worry, many of us are lowly English teachers as well. Feel free to pipe-up with questions or comments, we're mostly a friendly crowd. How long you been in country?
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SB35 posted:Welcome. You're a goon and you found the other goons in China. Don't worry, many of us are lowly English teachers as well. Feel free to pipe-up with questions or comments, we're mostly a friendly crowd. How long you been in country? Cheers! Been here over 5 years now - it was never meant to be that way, but after my first year I landed a fairly good job, as teaching jobs go, and the next thing I new I was a long-termer. Already got a bunch of useful stuff from this thread and the language thread (my Mandarin is very average but I refuse to give up now).
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Magna Kaser posted:Anyone do anything fun for 4th of July? This was my 4th: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/fRfrBf4Lqco/ http://img.dl.e.weliveinchina.com/_...-1000006007.jpg http://img.dl.e.weliveinchina.com/_...-1000006007.jpg
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Any of you guys burned some fireworks? Going to a fireworks store here in Indiana makes me remember hearing the cackling fire crackers in China. Wish I could get my hands on some baijiu though. I initially thought a Chinatown or asian grocery store would stock some but apparently nope. But I'm enjoying Miller High life~
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| # ? Jul 6, 2011 16:05 |
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caberham posted:I'm really surprised how often people spit and litter in the Eastern Seaboard of US. New York, Boston, Philly, were filthy and almost like Hong Kong in terms of cleanliness. DC was cleaner but could also get kind of rough. On the plus side, once East coasters go to China you're the only American that is not disgusted/offended every 5 seconds, haha. I shove through crowds with the best of them! Chinese airlines are no good? But I thought Air China was awesome  Their econ class had as much space as other airlines business class, and food even though it was a 2 hour flight. It sounds like Delta is the best bet this time.
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| # ? Jul 7, 2011 09:10 |
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So I'm entering china next week on a Z visa. Do I have to turn over my passport to the police to get the residence permit right away, or is it within 30 days? Will I be able to travel to another city for the weekend right after I enter and then come back and go through the residence permit stuff?
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| # ? Jul 9, 2011 03:58 |
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It says valid for 000 days, right? That's really 30 days. I think you're supposed to allow a week for processing but in my experience it takes 2-24 hours.
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The Radix posted:It says valid for 000 days, right? That's really 30 days. I think you're supposed to allow a week for processing but in my experience it takes 2-24 hours. Yeah, that's what it says. Does this mean I can enter the country, then hold onto it for a week before submitting it for processing?
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Yeah, you can. 000 days = 30 days. Zs used to actually say 030 days but they changed it a couple years back I guess because people were waiting 29 days to submit then getting knocked back on not having a medical or whatever and ultimately overstaying. But it's still valid for 30 days.
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Is there a Taiwan politics thread? Can there be one? If you all follow Taiwanese politics what source do you use? I know it's not for some half a year but I'm interested in this upcoming election and CCTV isn't exactly a great source, but neither are Wiki or the usual Western outlets I've checked either. I don't even know what is the most reputable Taiwanese newspaper. English or Chinese language are both fine!! I know basic information w/r/t the parties, history etc from courses I've taken before but particularly, I don't know much about Tsai. Should I even get interested in her or are her odds of winning basically none? I'm getting kinda into researching women in Chinese politics but mostly on the mainland. Cross-posted
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Im re-applying for a z visa while I'm home in Canada and am still baffled about the "medical examination" form. Which form do I use? Does it need an official looking stamp? Can I use my family doctor? Does it need my picture on the front? Where can I get the form? They are very vague about it at visa service.
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| # ? Jul 11, 2011 04:40 |
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B-Rad posted:Im re-applying for a z visa while I'm home in Canada and am still baffled about the "medical examination" form. Which form do I use? Does it need an official looking stamp? Can I use my family doctor? Does it need my picture on the front? Where can I get the form? They are very vague about it at visa service. Call the embassy or consulate. A lot of times you don't actually need that if you already have enough paperwork from your job.
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| # ? Jul 11, 2011 06:03 |
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I just got my z visa and didn't have to do any medical stuff
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| # ? Jul 11, 2011 06:32 |
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I didn't need it either last time I got one in HK but from reading other people's experience it sounds very much a ymmv thing, especially if you're doing it before departure.
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B-Rad posted:Im re-applying for a z visa while I'm home in Canada and am still baffled about the "medical examination" form. Which form do I use? Does it need an official looking stamp? Can I use my family doctor? Does it need my picture on the front? Where can I get the form? They are very vague about it at visa service. This came up before and I wasn't sure, but after finally going through the process here is what happens: 1.) You get a medical check and send it to your employer 2.) Your employer then takes it and applies for your foreign expert license (for teachers) or work permit for aliens (all other jobs) and letter of invitation 3.) After they send you the license and letter you take those along with a photo and a filled out Q1 visa application form and apply for your visa at a Chinese consulate If you already have a letter of invitation from your employer and a foreign expert license from a previous job or whatever you don't need a medical exam. The medical check is strictly for your employer to use to apply for the documents they need to send you.
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Ssh is encrypted and therefore unmonitorable by the authorities right? I've sshed into my school account and am tunneling my http over that connection, but for some reason I still can't access facebook and youtube? Also, just now I was using gmail, but all of a sudden gmail.com started redirecting to this chinese website. After I reset my ssh connection gmail started working again. What's going on?
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| # ? Jul 11, 2011 09:49 |
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My internet used to do that sometimes as well - do you use China Unicom? But I suspect it's actually some sort of insidious malware that you get from QQ or browsing Chinese websites because I broke my XP netbook six months ago and haven't had that happen once with my old macbook running OSX. I swear, QQ and 360 are the shadiest programs, but try buying a computer in China that doesn't come with them pre-installed.. One day I noticed that 360 was uploading something to someone at 80kB/s all the time and no matter how hard I tried it was simply not possible to uninstall the program completely, to the point where I couldn't get it to stop uploading (what? my hard drive?), only limit it to 1kB/s. Then I knocked it off the desk and killed it. Oh well. Be Depressive fucked around with this message at Jul 11, 2011 around 10:36 |
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chiyosdad posted:Ssh is encrypted and therefore unmonitorable by the authorities right? I've sshed into my school account and am tunneling my http over that connection, but for some reason I still can't access facebook and youtube? Also, just now I was using gmail, but all of a sudden gmail.com started redirecting to this chinese website. After I reset my ssh connection gmail started working again. What's going on? For what it is worth I am using StrongVPN and about 6pm Chinese time I was getting redirected to some Chinese site when trying to get to Google.com. I could access anything else (news.google.com, mail.google.com), I changed my DNS server to both googl's and StrongVPN's and cleared my DNS cache but it still comes up. I can reach google by the IP http://72.14.213.99/.. Strange. Aero737 fucked around with this message at Jul 11, 2011 around 11:18 |
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Be Depressive posted:I swear, QQ and 360 are the shadiest programs, but try buying a computer in China that doesn't come with them pre-installed.. One day I noticed that 360 was uploading something to someone at 80kB/s all the time and no matter how hard I tried it was simply not possible to uninstall the program completely, to the point where I couldn't get it to stop uploading (what? my hard drive?), only limit it to 1kB/s. Then I knocked it off the desk and killed it. Oh well. Is this just a developing country thing? Why do Chinese not seem to care about viruses at all? I've also heard from people I respect that a lot of western antivirus software like McAfee and Norton aren't prepared to battle Chinese viruses. That sounds iffy to me because the point of the Internet is sort of that it's worldwide, but maybe someone with more technical expertise can weigh in on that for me.
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| # ? Jul 11, 2011 11:39 |
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I also asked the linux thread in sh/sc and the answer was that you need to change the dns lookup to go through the proxy as well. The more you know!
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chiyosdad posted:Ssh is encrypted and therefore unmonitorable by the authorities right? I've sshed into my school account and am tunneling my http over that connection, but for some reason I still can't access facebook and youtube? Also, just now I was using gmail, but all of a sudden gmail.com started redirecting to this chinese website. After I reset my ssh connection gmail started working again. What's going on? Explained this endlessly, you need to use -D 1080
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Question for you Beijing goons. Today, I had to transfer to the Batong Line (八通线) of the Subway at Suhui Station (四惠站) which is the first line on the Batong line. There were people queued up, train pulled in (completely empty), however only half the people got onto the train. It was not just some bizzaro group of people as I noticed it happened at each queue to each door for every train car. Is there some rule I am not understanding about getting on the subway at the first stop of the line? Seemed nobody wanted to get on once the seats filled.. Maybe they would rather just stand around for 10 minutes and try and get a seat on the next train than stand on the train for 10 minutes and be done with it. I am used to being literally pressed into those cars by a platform of scrambling people.
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Aero737 posted:Question for you Beijing goons. Today, I had to transfer to the Batong Line (八通线) of the Subway at Suhui Station (四惠站) which is the first line on the Batong line. There were people queued up, train pulled in (completely empty), however only half the people got onto the train. It was not just some bizzaro group of people as I noticed it happened at each queue to each door for every train car. Is there some rule I am not understanding about getting on the subway at the first stop of the line? Seemed nobody wanted to get on once the seats filled.. Maybe they would rather just stand around for 10 minutes and try and get a seat on the next train than stand on the train for 10 minutes and be done with it. I am used to being literally pressed into those cars by a platform of scrambling people. Not a Beijing goon but, I would say you're right on with what I just bolded. Same thing happens on buses as well. If you're at the first station often times people are going to be taking the ride for a long journey and want to have a seat, so they'll wait. Go ahead and get on the train, chances are someone will get off rather quickly, it's just that you'll have to fight for the seat. Apparently they have time to kill and don't want to fight for a seat later.
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