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The Three Gorges might burst this year. Hundreds of millions are in danger, and this will cripple the Chinese economy. CCP: The dam is structurally sound. Those fractures are actually part of the architectural design. The heavy rainfall this year will have no consequences. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951673 没办法
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Dont Touch ME posted:The Three Gorges might burst this year. Hundreds of millions are in danger, and this will cripple the Chinese economy. Look, no-one is speaking out about it so it's fine! https://twitter.com/AntoineVedeilhe/status/1275349606444875777?s=19
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lol that they included distance to Shanghai in that post for some reason. Fun fact: geological maps are state secrets in China. I tried to get one for my geology class and was not able to, and was informed if I got one from the internet and used it I would be breaking the law and imprisoned/deported.
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I vaguely remembered South Korea having some fruity laws about maps and while I couldn't find that, while looking I did find this gem: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200623000765 Full-time employees of Incheon Airport super butthurt that the airport is bringing its outsourced employees (i.e. the ones who do the poo poo jobs for the least pay) in-house and making them permanent employees. "But they don't have to sit exams or craft the perfect resume!" 
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Jun 23, 2020 21:03
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GotLag posted:I vaguely remembered South Korea having some fruity laws about maps and while I couldn't find that Yeah, you're not allowed to have accurate maps in South Korea unless they're stored locally and subject to censorship for defense reasons. That's why Google maps in Korea kind of sucks rear end. China also has inaccurate maps for defense purposes and does a thing with GPS that offsets everything and makes it give wrong locations.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah, you're not allowed to have accurate maps in South Korea unless they're stored locally and subject to censorship for defense reasons. That's why Google maps in Korea kind of sucks rear end. Yeah, once GPS really took off any anyone could use it they didn't want the North Koreans to be able to just plug numbers into their artillery and rocket charts that they could pull from Google Maps and would give them a much better idea of where they were firing. They also don't want the North to be able to see and know exactly where their tank obstacles and "kill zones" are, and how to avoid them. I believe one of the things that the South does in case of an invasion was to remove key road signs and markers and to even switch some so that they can more easily lead North Korean columns into their bottlenecks for easier arty plastering.
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Grand Fromage posted:Fun fact: geological maps are state secrets in China. I tried to get one for my geology class and was not able to, and was informed if I got one from the internet and used it I would be breaking the law and imprisoned/deported. So... how did you do research in that class then? What is the point if you can't even use geological data in a geology class?
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Grand Fromage posted:China also has inaccurate maps for defense purposes and does a thing with GPS that offsets everything and makes it give wrong locations. Lol, that's amazing. Chinathread: chabuduo for defense purposes
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:So... how did you do research in that class then? What is the point if you can't even use geological data in a geology class? I taught geology. I just cut out the unit where we were going to learn about local Sichuan geology since I couldn't use Chinese geological maps. Another fun fact, since you aren't allowed to have that data you can't, say, know where the thousands of faults in that very seismically active region are so you can avoid building on top of them.
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sticksy posted:Lol, that's amazing. Strategic Chabuduo
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Grand Fromage posted:I taught geology. I just cut out the unit where we were going to learn about local Sichuan geology since I couldn't use Chinese geological maps. My FIL apparently is retired from the earthquake authority. He went to work for an hour or two to shoot the poo poo, and then went home every day. I thought it was because his city wasn't at risk for so there was nothing to do, but if they don't have any maps to check anyway, that's even better (also No Why).
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Blistex posted:Yeah, once GPS really took off any anyone could use it they didn't want the North Koreans to be able to just plug numbers into their artillery and rocket charts that they could pull from Google Maps and would give them a much better idea of where they were firing. They also don't want the North to be able to see and know exactly where their tank obstacles and "kill zones" are, and how to avoid them. I believe one of the things that the South does in case of an invasion was to remove key road signs and markers and to even switch some so that they can more easily lead North Korean columns into their bottlenecks for easier arty plastering. Messing with road signs is standard stuff. UK did it during WW2 as the locals obviously weren't affected. One of the big things like Gulf war was the US had a massive advantage of being able to navigate where ever they wanted quickly, bypassing all expected approaches, surround any unit. Switzerland and Taiwan have road tunnels that can be quickly rigged to pancake invaders. Blocks of reinforced concrete so chunky its effectively invulnerable. The whole GPS offset thing and no maps is dumb AF only the most paranoid countries would think it would help. Any state adversary would overcome that like it was nothing. Also trigonometry. All it does is screw over the locals. You can buy commercial satellite coverage. If North Korea can't range static targets they got bigger problems. It isn't the 1930's anymore. Another dumb China thing is all its airspace is military. Practically every other country has open skies to civilian traffic as long as you don't bust airspace like controlled airports, firing ranges, Area 51 etc. Most zones don't have infinite height either.
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they do, uh, have bigger problems
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Mekongs hosed, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia are a screwed
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Kharnifex posted:Mekongs hosed, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia are a screwed Huh? Can you explain more?
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Jun 24, 2020 05:34
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3gorge drat stuff i would guess
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ded posted:3gorge drat stuff i would guess that's a different river, the yangtze (zhang jiang)
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sticksy posted:Lol, that's amazing. "You invaded our country, hoping to overcome our defensive measures! You have been foiled, we have none!"
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Dont Touch ME posted:The Three Gorges might burst this year. Hundreds of millions are in danger, and this will cripple the Chinese economy. communism: still killing more people than unfettered capitalism!
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Dont Touch ME posted:The Three Gorges might burst this year. Hundreds of millions are in danger, and this will cripple the Chinese economy. I remember this from last year when the warping in the images was obviously caused by google's lovely map tile stitching algorithm https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3740835
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Dont Touch ME posted:The Three Gorges might burst this year. Hundreds of millions are in danger, and this will cripple the Chinese economy. That would fit flawlessly into 2020
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Seems like 5,000 years of posting history is at an end and Lowtax is going to lose the mandate of heaven. Thanks guys for all the great posts, stories, information and so on. Ooohboy, post the suit, it is time.
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I really not looking forward to the exodus. Moving out of neogaf was a mess. Resetera turned out to be a very inferior replacement of gaf.
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annex gbs from sa independence now
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post the suit. i have waited long
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Dammit this is the one place on the internet where talking about China isn't always an infuriating slog
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if this place collapses at least C-SPAM will go with it
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i eegret to tell you that cspam has many offsites
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i eegret to tell you that cspam has many offsites gently caress
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we should get a struggle session together for lowtax
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in true revolutionary fashion people are already using the chaos to take aim at their posting enemies
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Post the loving suit before this website goes straight to hell
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TTerrible posted:Post the loving suit before this website goes straight to hell
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Welp, it's been fun reading all the insane stories shared, both anecdotes and those in the news. Not sure what I'm gonna read while idling at work now, assuming the worst.  I'll never look at peanut brittle the same way.
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with no why.
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TTerrible posted:Post the loving suit before this website goes straight to hell
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we'll never see the 10 piece suit...
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TTerrible posted:Post the loving suit before this website goes straight to hell 
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Discord was partly funded by Tencent capital Goon refugees are now fleeing to Discord gently caress, China wins again
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