The loss of companies and personal I have had dealing with in china tells some very big stories.

Living there for three years does not match up to having dealing with that country for 25 years. I have seen longer term views. Three years you have a very narrow view of the long term there.

Australian outback quite a lot do I get away from it.

Chris Weig exactly why do I need substantial amount of time in china to know. Cases of people going before firing squad because they bribed and official you see there bank records they had done that many times before to the same official. Just happened todo it at a time when enforcement against bribing was on. Bad luck to them. The Official does not go before firing squad and gets to keep the money.

Chris Weig this is not a one off case. China is very rule less. With savage enforcement. Its really simple for a person to start believing they can get away with anything in china. You know a dead man walking in china when you hear them talking like Yonah.

High profile cases. Lot of the ones I know that went to firing squad were not High profile and its not lacking the money to pay the bribe. There are just times when paying a bribe in china equals death.

Yonah is just in a period between corruption crack down. Its very much a cycle.

Ahem, he lives there. When have you ever been away from the Australian outback? You’re telling us that of these 25 years you spent a substantial amount of time in China?

I have just seen a few of the people I deal with in china put to firing squad. As per this is an example to others. For items other people communally get away with in china.

Yonah reality I have very good idea of how China enforcement works. You might get away with something for 10 years and then someone gets into a location with a bee in bonnet over it and decides to make it a firing squad offence. After many people are killed they get the idea that its a little over the top drop the firing squad and basically go back to not enforcing it again. Lost a few of my contacts over there that way.

China law is very much do you fell lucky. This cycle in China law enforcement repeats over and over again. It is basically loto the except when your number comes up you are either spending time in jail or dieing.

Yonah I have over 25 year of dealing with china. You have only been there 3 years. That is not enough time to see the bad sides of china law enforcement fully.

Its like the Internet cafe one(2008). Someone go a bee in bonnet and started forcing cafes to run red flag Linux.

Yonah 3 years ago if you time is correct you most likely missed the Internet Cafe enforcement. Less than 6 months latter they have given up on that idea.

Part of being in china is being aware that you can break the law you most likely will get away with it. Most of the time if you get caught its off with a warning. Now if someone has a bee in bonnet about that particular issue you are kinda in big trouble.

Its really how lucky do you fell over there. Yes if you read the The Art of War by Sun Tzu particularly chapter 6 kinda explains how the enforcement works over there. Many centires latter that book is so valid its not funny.

Operating in china and you want to remain safe it is dot every i cross every t. Because you never know what law next will end up enforced by firing squad.

In the newspaper headline, yes. In reality, not even close. High profile cases are either a way to gain face or simply a case where a bribe wasn’t paid for whatever reason.

“The question is do you fell lucky that you will not end up being used to be the one made example of by the sledge hammer.”

It’s not about luck, my factually challenged friend, and I wouldn’t even waste the keystrokes trying to explain the complexity of living in this culture to a person who is immersed in their own specially crafted reality where one is bestowed with superhuman Wi-Fi bending powers. However, if you finally provide the proof that KHTML source code was at any time used in Opera… well then I might be willing to scratch your itch in return.

Would this paragraph become meaningful, if you were to read it backwards?

I can merely detect a faint “Dirty Harry” reference. Well, Eastwood talking to an empty chair has about the same quality as the oiaohm discourses.

Really you should have been able to point the person talking about security to some recent videos. They are quite simple to find talking about what has to be changed to fix X11.

This is a really recent change.

Income MS expects is 12 billion total from China compare to 51 billion from the USA.

What is the difference why MS yield is so low.

Either the reports are wrong or they are going else where other than Microsoft for OS or Office suite.

That report raises more questions than it answers for Microsoft long term future.