@Dan, yeah, you're right, we're obviously getting closer.
Surely there must be better ways to employ labor than to create such unnecessary things with it. Not that I expect the creation of pumpkin-carving knives to be a major industry anywhere, but still, it does smack of the end of civilization, or anyway of what is called civilization.
On the other hand, Alex, I think it is fun. I've got a good Swiss army knife, multi-purpose - tough, too, will probably outlast the end of civilization as we know it.
Perhaps, but I don't think many people in Yunnan who use wood for fuel for cooking - but that would be year round - heat their homes with it, or with anything, regularly, except perhaps in particularly high areas, and note that many such areas don't have many trees - anyway, I doubt if this has much effect on Kunming.
Just a guess, would like to know more.
Point take does make sense. Though I guess there might also be something about windy days, hi/lo barometric pressures, etc.
And then to some extent I'm willing to risk a balance of scrubbed air vs. sunshine & accompanying mile-high radiant heat
Money means power, and wealth is a form of power over others. What's the justification of awarding it to somebody on the basis of having picked one number rather than another?
Sad to see China follow most of the rest of the blooming corporate capitalist consumer economies in making the private automobile the symbol of middle-class 'arrival'. Such great machines have been produced! and what a collective disaster! GROWTH, regardless of where the money goes after it is concentrated, or whose hands it is concentrated in, or what the results will be! But nations and corporation must compete, that is the universal rule of life...as long as we remain passive and accept our distractions.
Vampire octopus.
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Man misses 1 billion yuan jackpot by single number
发布者Money means power, and wealth is a form of power over others. What's the justification of awarding it to somebody on the basis of having picked one number rather than another?
Over the mountain: From the Salween to the Mekong
发布者Beautiful photos! Must have been a wonderful trip.
On APEC sidelines, China and India try to make nice
发布者Fighting over borders set by a European imperialist power, in their own interest, shows you something about the nature of modern nationalism.
Kunming Auto Show rakes in 1.5 billion yuan
发布者Sad to see China follow most of the rest of the blooming corporate capitalist consumer economies in making the private automobile the symbol of middle-class 'arrival'. Such great machines have been produced! and what a collective disaster! GROWTH, regardless of where the money goes after it is concentrated, or whose hands it is concentrated in, or what the results will be! But nations and corporation must compete, that is the universal rule of life...as long as we remain passive and accept our distractions.
Vampire octopus.
Kunming initiative targets homeless children
发布者Depends on where these folks are transferred to, and under what conditions.