Forums > Food & Drink > McDonald's @Kate: you can argue about too expensive and unhealthy - the rest I'll leave to the foodies. mmkunming talks about objective standards of goodness in food - maybe there are some, but I don't know what they are, I'll leave it up to him. Anyway, if it's not science, it's still art, and one can argue about art, though I don't pretend to know of objective standards, although I'm not saying there aren't any. I do know that the more you pay attention to art and the more experience of it that you have, you begin to develop a few standards of your own - first glance/taste etc. is usually pretty crude, and some tastes can & are developed, to the benefit of the person who takes the trouble to have the experiences.
Forums > Food & Drink > McDonald's @Kate, I disagree - you can argue about anything.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Living in Dianchi Road or KIA/Guandu neighborhoods Probably a mistake to call them all missionaries - they include KIA teachers, who are all or virtually all Protestants, but I'm not sure that makes them all missionaries. KIA education is definitely Protestant-oriented, though I'm not sure that does it either.
Was blobbles who referenced Wenlinjie.
Forums > Food & Drink > McDonald's Dicos, KFC - is there a real difference? Been to Dicos many times (used to be one near my flat), but never to a KFC in Kunming, as far as I can remember.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Living in Dianchi Road or KIA/Guandu neighborhoods @Alex, NingSi didn't reference Wenlinjie, are you interpreting 'city center' as 'Wenlinjie'?
Gulls arrival in Kunming warrants special treatment
发布者So now add birds to the long list of things that we shouldn't have any contact with.
Man misses 1 billion yuan jackpot by single number
发布者@Dazzer: But I am interested in answers, and what they indicate (e.g., when few people acquire enormous amounts of wealth, influence, power and publicity and then give some of it to causes that THEY choose, what does this indicate? And what does it indicate to recognize that they can choose NOT to do so and be protected by the law?).
Man misses 1 billion yuan jackpot by single number
发布者@HFCampo: in your history research you might notice a number of changes in the world over the past 2000 or 200 years, or perhaps over the past 2 minutes, and that even history written by 'the rich' makes a note of these changes.
@Dazzer: the system that put all that wealth in the hands of the people you mention is the same system that created the problems these people now have been empowered to decide to influence, as THEY choose, in one way or another. I didn't choose to give them this power to decide where money should go, did you?
Man misses 1 billion yuan jackpot by single number
发布者It's not that the poor play the lottery because they're greedy, it's that greed is the basis of the whole system of exploitation/'suck-cess' and control of production/distribution that assures there will be few rich/powerful and many poor/weak. So the poor pay for gym equipment in parks for the elderly, who are not too well-off either.
@HFCampo: what makes you think the world doesn't change? When did history stop?
Man misses 1 billion yuan jackpot by single number
发布者@Dazzer, I agree that lotteries are sort of a fun game for many. However, they have been labelled as a tax on the poor.