Beijing Manufactures It's Own Scenery For The Olympics

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Wilsomatic, on 07/27/2008, -2/+41Putting a candle in a piece of ***** doesn't make it a cake.
OrrusTHX, on 07/27/2008, -1/+33also known as the birds nest
also known as the birds nest
also known as the birds nest
also known as the birds nest

did anyone read the captions? wtf
HappyScrappy, on 07/27/2008, -1/+13Untrue. It is against the law for any foreign company to own a factory in China. All these factories are at least 50.1% Chinese-owned and thus the decisions like this are Chinese-made.

The Chinese have no one to blame for their lack of pollution controls except themselves. It's pretty clear the government values the money brought in by these companies more than keeping their environment livable.
Wilsomatic, on 07/27/2008, -0/+11I've never used those amazing floating candles you are referring to...
_skin_, on 07/27/2008, -0/+10A better question would be, Who wrote the captions. WOW! "The stadium, also know as the birds nest." WTF? EVERY SINGLE PICTURE?... REALLY?!
karlw, on 07/26/2008, -0/+10There are 147 pictures, some duplicates, in this link. Pretty cool to click though.
LucasVB, on 07/27/2008, -3/+12This is ***** pathetic. Shame on you, China.

How on Earth did the IOC pick China for the Olympics?
DoctuhJason, on 07/27/2008, -0/+9I believe that the Beijing stadium might be known to some as the Bird's Nest.
inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+10Meanwhile, on the other side of the world...
inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+8"Beijing Olympics emblems are often used to hide unfinished construction projects."

Key words to read before jumping to any moronic conclusions.
weister42, on 07/27/2008, -0/+8A lot of birds are going to fly into those billboards...
fredJdukes, on 07/27/2008, -2/+10Yeah, the billboards are weird and interesting.
But the ***** SURFACE TO AIR MISSILES ARE A BIT MUCH DON'T YOU THINK?
HappyScrappy, on 07/27/2008, -0/+6I've been to China (Shanghai) and L.A. There's no comparison at all. I love Shanghai, but it's filthy.

I don't have a link here, but my understanding is that on an average day, the pollution level is between 3x and 5x the levels of a really bad day (spare the air day, only about 10 such a year) in L.A.
Khast, on 07/27/2008, -0/+6Images made in the USA?
cjstone, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000227.htm
chenyu768, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5cuz they deserved it
DickyT83, on 07/27/2008, -1/+6I see what you did there, China.
inactive, on 07/27/2008, -4/+9How did they get the Olympics again??
nicmakaveli, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5like the other countries before them, applying for it and being voted for.
sockpuppets, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5I'm totally taking my cardboard cutout girlfriend there.
Alphabet, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5because beijing's pollution index can exceed 500 while L.A. rarely passes the 100 mark.

By the way, anything after 200 is unhealthy. Anything after 300 is hazardous.
appleseed1234, on 07/27/2008, -1/+5Wouldn't be hard to realize this stuff if their politician's heads weren't so far up their asses.
ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -1/+5FAIL for not expecting moronic conclusions from digg users.
HappyScrappy, on 07/27/2008, -1/+5novemberwhiskey:
No one forced China to amass that electronics scrap. Someone saw a profit in it and it wasn't forbidden, so they did it.

Yes, China makes a lot of things for US companies. But it is China's decision not to correct the environmental problems, either through regulation (and enforcement, the thing they can't seem to manage) or by just flat out slowing growth.
angers, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4If you are actually trying to be funny with the whole character acting, then you failing miserably.
HappyScrappy, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
HappyScrappy, on 07/27/2008, -3/+7I would imagine the usual way - bribes.
Daniel591992, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3They should use some sort of food coloring for the air!
ToothyMcshark, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3Also, I've been told that the games start on August 8.
supermajic, on 07/27/2008, -2/+5Possessive form of 'it' has no apostrophe.
rz8472, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3They have to protect themselves from Buddhist monks on kites.
tenio, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3just don't breath or smell and it will almost be real!
feanix, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3Sigh.

China BUYS that waste from the "west" (we're not dropping it on the Chinese countryside with stealth bombers), processes it with cheap labour and probably sells it back to the west (or maybe they keep some for themselves, I don't know about that part).

I'm not saying the "west" is a pargon of virtue, but China's hardly a poor little victim of it's terrible capitilist neighbours.
Alphabet, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2I blame both dumbass. Maybe you haven't been on digg enough, but almost everyone here is always talking about how the bush administration is ***** up the environment and how he refuses to sign the kyoto treaty.

No one is talking about racism, only you are. No one hates the chinese people, they hate the chinese government. The same reason how the world hates the U.S. government but not the U.S. citizens. There's a huge difference between the two.

Also, ***** you for bringing racism into it too when it has nothing to do with racism. Think a bit before posting.
thegrantman, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2This begs for graffiti.
fredJdukes, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Are SAM emplacements that common where you're from?
ShrimpCrackers, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Its not serious if they aren't committed towards fulfilling the promises they had to make to win the bid in the first place. Human rights, civil liberties, and press freedom has gotten WORSE!

Also "coloring it up, cleaning the highways, doing what they gotta do". Its weird they're only doing it FOR the Olympics and not part of the norm.

Americans, Germans, South Korea, and many other didn't need to be trained to "wait in line" and "not to spit in public" and so forth. Why not hold these programs earlier?
enigmatics, on 07/27/2008, -2/+4Might want to try answers.yahoo.com, or better yet nvidia.com. But then again, if you're fishing for e-mail and contact info with the whole "letter of recommendation" thing you can suck a nut.
1337Guest, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2But it's still better than China.
ShrimpCrackers, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2....And of course the bribes. Don't let the previous bribing scandals cramp your style though.
bravecoward, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3I believe its sour grape...
kandahmews, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2174 YOU MEAN.

oops.

i mean birds nests.
feanix, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2I'm so goddamned tired of hearing that. Every goddamned time someone mentions the words "cake" or "lie" someone in-*****-stinctively regurgitates "cake is a lie".
Alphabet, on 07/27/2008, -0/+21) get a better design. It looks like your site was designed by a kid. Stop using tables.
2) minify your javascript/css code. Also, you have a lot of redundant javascript code littered throughout the page. You also don't use the entire scriptaculous library, so I have no idea why you're including them all.
3) For some reason, it takes a long time for a page to load. You might want to cache the results somewhere on your server so it doesn't have to recreate the page every time.
4) Don't say "please vote". Just "vote" is enough. The "please" makes it sound desperate.

I give the site a 4/10. The site offers nothing new or enticing. The site is doomed to fail. If you speak another language, your best bet would be to translate the entire site and launch it in a new country.
ShrimpCrackers, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2NovemberWhiskey, I think nearly everyone normal makes the distinction. I've only ever seen China Apologists claiming this or that is racism simply because many of them, themselves, have a difficulty distinguishing.

Its been dozens of times that I've been bitching about China's government or speaking out for Tibet and then someone comes and says "You're racist because Tibet has always been an ancient part of China".

Also, everyone tells that you didn't do research, and instead are toe-ing the "Party Line".
chenyu768, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2When did China become the new enemy???
HappyScrappy, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Actually, I tried to post this article too (mine was a dupe).

And I've been to China (Shanghai). And also Taipei. I yearn to go to Hong Kong, although I loved Shanghai so much, I kind of think Hong Kong can't match it.

Maybe if you stopped defending China unconditionally, you'd see it has some problems of its own to correct.
Alphabet, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2How is it not china's fault? Seriously, are you even reading your statements? "Hey guys, it's not L.A.'s fault, it's just the industrialization and all the cars. LOL!!" Spoilers: L.A. is still industrialized and their pollution index is much much less.

Europe tries to conserve the environment. They even pass laws to do so. China disregards this.

Now you're talking about the red scare? damn, ***** you for bringing in a pointless topic. That has nothing to do with it.
opticalnoise, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3This is common practice in china, to cover up construction sites with barriers showing what the finished project is supposed to look like... whats the big deal?
expert01, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2China Central Television Headquarters... CCTV Headquarters... coincidence?

Looks like they have come quite a ways; if they can just cut down the construction projects, enforce some environmental standards, and plant more trees, they might be able to turn everything around. Maybe seeing how well it works in Beijing will encourage them.
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