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[TerraN_EmpirE]

Someone has a sense of Humor....

This New University Building Looks Like A Giant Toilet


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In February of this year, the Chinese government called for a ban on the construction of “weird buildings”. The decision came after people complained that the new design for Beijing airport looked like a giant vulva and that the People’s Daily Headquarters looked like a huge penis. But for reasons unknown, structures resembling huge toilets appear to be exempt from this rule, because a university building shaped like a giant crapper has just been built in Henan.

Given that it’s the North China of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, it’s quite possible that the building was deliberately designed this way. Then again, it’s also entirely possible that somebody simply screwed up big-time and made an enormous toilet instead of a respectable-looking educational facility. Whatever the truth of the matter, it’s still pretty funny.

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Also not the First but certainly the largest

No Word on when the AC the looks like I giant Roll of TP is installed.

 

[solarz]

In his intelligent Facebook post, Nick Booker-Soni,
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Worried about jobs? India’s economy is growing 4x faster than Europe’s and will overtake the entire EU’s sometime in the 2030s - becoming twice the size of the EU economy by 2050.

Contradictory paragraphs.

 

[solarz]

Someone has a sense of Humor....

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Also not the First but certainly the largest

No Word on when the AC the looks like I giant Roll of TP is installed.

It's easy to find resemblances in just about anything if you really want to.

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Honestly it's just taking basic geometric shapes and applying some dirty imagination to it.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

I am not so sure in this case there Sol. I mean they even put a second Blue colored roof up... and take a look at the flat structure on the building look at the roof line. Its open like a tank.

 

[solarz]

I am not so sure in this case there Sol. I mean they even put a second Blue colored roof up... and take a look at the flat structure on the building look at the roof line. Its open like a tank.

Yeah, but the blue roof is square, and most toilets have a cover and don't have a blue bowl.

It's like seeing things in clouds. If someone doesn't point it out, you might never see the resemblance, but when they do, you can't stop thinking about the resemblance.

It's even easier to do with a photo, as you can manipulate the angle to emphasize what you want others to see. For example, in the 3rd photo, we see that the connection between the round building and the rectangular building only exists on one side, so seen from the other side or from the top, it wouldn't look like a toilet at all.

 

[Equation]

Someone has a sense of Humor....

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Also not the First but certainly the largest

No Word on when the AC the looks like I giant Roll of TP is installed.

P-f-f-f-f.. Ohio State University football stadium looks more like a toilet than that building.

 

[Blackstone]

There's something fundamentally loathsome and repulsive about governments outlawing independent news sources.

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China’s top internet regulator ordered major online companies including Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to stop original news reporting, the latest effort by the government to tighten its grip over the country’s web and information industries.

The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a

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that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.

The agency instructed the operators of mobile and online news services to dismantle “current-affairs news” operations on Friday, after earlier calling a halt to such activity at Tencent, according to people familiar with the situation. Like its peers, Asia’s largest internet company had developed a news operation and grown its team. Henceforth, they and other services can only carry reports provided by government-controlled print or online media, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue is politically sensitive.

The sweeping ban gives authorities near-absolute control over online news and political discourse, in keeping with a broader crackdown on information increasingly distributed over the web and mobile devices. President Xi Jinping has stressed that Chinese media must serve the interests of the ruling Communist Party.

The party has long been sensitive to the potential for negative reporting to stir up unrest, the greatest threat to its decades-old hold on power. Regulations forbidding enterprise reporting have been in place for years without consistent enforcement, but the latest ordinance suggests “they really mean business,” said Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Center for China Studies.

Xi’s ‘Crusade’
Xi is cementing his power base and silencing dissenters ahead of a twice-a-decade reshuffle at next year’s party congress. Lam said that he "is really tightening up his crusade to silence opponents in the media."

The regulator will slap financial penalties on sites found in violation of the regulations, the Paper cited the official as saying. A representative of Sohu declined to comment on the report. Tencent, Sina and NetEase didn’t respond to messages and phone calls seeking comment. The cyberspace administration has yet to respond to a faxed request for comment.

The government is now considering ways to exert a more direct form of influence over the country’s online media institutions. In recent months, Chinese authorities have held discussions with internet providers on a pilot project intended to pave the way for the government to start taking board seats and stakes of at least 1 percent in those companies. In return, they would get a license to provide news on a daily basis.

China’s online giants serve content, games and news to hundreds of millions of people across the country -- Tencent’s QQ and WeChat alone host more than a billion users, combined. Online news services however have always operated in a regulatory gray area. They’re not authorized to provide original content and technically aren’t allowed to hire reporters or editors. Still, outlets have recently published investigative stories on official corruption cases, and covered sensitive social issues from demonstrations to human rights. For instance, NetEase ran a feature in April after the party announced an investigation into a senior Hebei provincial official, Zhang Yue. The story was later removed from the internet.
For a Bloomberg Intelligence analysis of the latest media crackdown, click here.

“Current-affairs news” is a broad term in China and encompasses all news and commentary related to politics, economics, military, foreign affairs and social issues, according to the draft version of China’s online information law. The amended draft of the regulation is currently seeking public feedback on the CAC’s official website.

The change in the guidelines on original reporting also comes weeks after China replaced its chief internet regulator. Xu Lin, a former Shanghai propaganda chief who worked briefly with Xi during his half-year stint as Shanghai party boss in 2007, succeeded Lu Wei in June as head of the cyberspace administration.

The regulator has since tightened its grip on online news reports, such as by

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news or social network websites against publishing news without proper verification. In another sign that the government is exerting influence over information, the publishers of a private purchasing managers

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suspended that popular gauge without explanation.

 

[plawolf]

Yes, how dare governments try to regulate the news industry. Only shadowy shell corporations and billionaire tycoons could possibly be trusted to wield that kind of power responsibly.

 

[N00813]

Possibly a reaction to the Zhao Wei incidents, where Weibo was censoring posts critical of her movie (Zhao 'coincidentally' was a big shareholder in Alibaba, who also owned stock in Sina Weibo I think).

Other than that, I don't see any sudden impetus for this crackdown. This is likely the seed for news media regulation, since laws tend to have been on the drawing board for years.

 

[Miragedriver]

Nikola Tesla said that "The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater more important, than any other recorded in the history of the human race"

If our eyes worked at a different wavelength we would be able to see that electric charge is an innate property of matter. We would see that everything is radiating light wave of electromagnetic radiation continuously. Objects interact with the particle wave duality of light continuously forming new electromagnetic waves.

In a new theory this universal and continuous process forms the time continuum or Arrow of time itself. Therefore the uncertainty and probability of everyday life is the same uncertainty we have in quantum physics.

The atoms bound together and then collapse the particle wave duality of light in unison forming the uncertainty of their own potential future position and momentum relative to their energy or mass. We see and feel this as the forward passage of time.

We have an Arrow of time, but we also have Proper Time. The rate that time flows relative to the energy or mass of an object. Time will run slower around an object of great mass forming time dilation and the geometry of Einstein's curvature of spacetime.

We all form our own future spacetime relative to our energy or mass that will have a potential probability of our future position and momentum.

Therefore Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of quantum physics is the same uncertainty that we have in our everyday life.