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16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Nitpicking Media's Cov... · 0 replies · +1 points

@FOARP,

I just want to point it out that there is a disconnect if you do literal translation from Chinese to English or vice versa. Language is a living thing. Phrases such as \"paper tiger\" and \"running dogs\" would not carry their current meanings without Mao using them. I assume that the term \"goose step\" does not make sense to a native English speaker who has never heard of it, either.

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Nitpicking Media's Cov... · 0 replies · +1 points

In translation

正步 standard step

鹅步 goose step

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Sustaining Fools Mountain · 0 replies · +1 points

@uln,

Thanks for your kind help! Since blog4china is a mirrored domain, it is different from just a redirect. Do you know how GFW detect that? Could it be a content filter?

We had an internal discussion on running ads on the site. The reason we don\'t want to do it is that 1) it encroaches front page real estate and distracts readers. 2) As you said, the income from ads will cover hosting fees but not enough for anything else.

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Buffett praise for Chi... · 0 replies · +1 points

@Tony,

I did not see any pictures associated with the post. Here is a link to the WSJ article which includes the video and a slide show.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12537407178283532...

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Sound Unlimited! · 0 replies · +1 points

Sweet Home Beijing

How an expat guitarist formed a band and toured China playing bilingual blues

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203...

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Letter:Why is western ... · 0 replies · +1 points

@Steve,

Yes, PBS is quite independent, but not always, at least in the Children\'s program department. ;)

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2040

PBS has pulled an episode of the children\'s show Postcards From Buster that includes children with lesbian mothers. The episode was yanked the same day that PBS received a letter from new Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings condemning the episode and asking PBS to \"strongly consider\" returning the federal money that went toward its production.

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Sustaining Fools Mountain · 0 replies · +1 points

@DeWang,

Thanks for putting this up.

@justkeeper,

I think that our ultimate goal is to go beyond just \"sustain\", but to grow and develop. The web hosting part costs a few hundred a year,and we have no problem paying for it even without outside help. On the other hand, to produce high quality content requires significant time commitment. And I have heard more than once from our volunteers that time spent for FM affected their real job performance. Recently a reader suggested that we should improve our translation quality and consider hiring a professional translator or a copy editor. It would be a great way to relieve/distribute burden among our editors, but we can not do it without financial wherewithal. For me personally, I spend several hours a day to maintain/upgrade/test/backup/provide tech support, and I have a dream that one day the task can be delegated to a real web professional. :)

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Chen Shui Bian Gets Life · 0 replies · +1 points

Chen Shui-bian to sue Obama and Gates in US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/natio...

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Censored again - proba... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just to make it clear, our internal consensus is to not delete off-topic comments but merely collapsing them. With that said, I don\'t want to deprive individual authors the leeway to moderate their own threads, although moderators should be aware that damage and distraction caused by deletion are often greater than those deleted comments.

16 years ago @ Fools Mountain: Bloggi... - Translation:Can you pr... · 0 replies · +1 points

@ Neon Rabbit #43

According to the author, the US does not meet the criteria as it only allowed blacks to effectively vote from 1965 on.

@Steve #56

Olympic protest grannies escape punishment as order revoked

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPX3_HIMhC4rK...

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