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#708 - 05/29/01 01:10 AM America Online in China? what?
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From the MacMinute front page:<br>Schmoozing the Reds: AOL's secret China plans revealed<br><br><br>What do you think about this?<br><br>I think it's insane that anyone is trying to do business with China... I mean come on, isn't China the last bastion of Communism? Don't they treat their employees (peasants) like they are part of the trash? Doesn't America still have some trade sanctions with them? if not, why not?<br><br>Sorry... I'm the kind of guy that checks the labels when I'm buying cheap stuff at Walmart for "made in China" and puts those things back... I just can't fathom the idea of China getting any further ahead when they are so "unfriendly" to us.... and why does AOL need to make a dime off of them?<br><br>Or, is this part of the Americanization of China, through covert means? Will this help bring down the Red Curtain?<br><br>Your thoughts?<br><br>***<br>"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." -John Adams
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#709 - 05/29/01 04:07 AM Re: America Online in China? what? [Re: johnengler]
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Politics aside, I think maybe China is the only place where people who get AOL accounts will think they have a good deal <br><br>And that's true too/--Shakespeare, King Lear
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#710 - 05/29/01 04:10 AM Re: America Online in China? what? [Re: yoyo52]
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read what the Register has to say: <br><br>Schmoozing the Reds: AOL's secret China plans revealed<br><br><br>~~~<br>"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions..." Jefferson

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#711 - 05/29/01 12:24 PM Re: America Online in China? what? [Re: johnengler]
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Well, I read sometime back that AOL is coming to India with 500$ million investment. Wonder if they will be any good. <br><br>Vijay<br><br>

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#712 - 05/29/01 12:43 PM Re: America Online in China? what?
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Vijay,<br><br>I can understand someone wanting to expand into India. India is a great country, with a good government, great people, and a good tech field... <br><br>but I just can't fathom the thought of anyone trying to help China....<br><br>maybe I'm just too strongly opinionated on this to see the facts for what they are...<br><br>***<br>"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." <br> -- Ecclesiastes 10:2
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#713 - 05/29/01 05:53 PM Re: America Online in China? what? [Re: johnengler]
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(i posted that URL earlier before i'd glanced at the macminute page or even read John's first post)<br><br>i'd like to know why the Pentagon has contracts with China to produce articles of clothing for our armed services. the Pentagon may well have contracts with China to produce other items of a non-armament nature, like messkits, for all i know...<br><br>~~~<br>"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry." --Thomas Jefferson

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#714 - 05/29/01 09:44 PM Re: America Online in China? what? [Re: johnengler]
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John,<br><br>I was just posting about what I read some time back. Not retorting back to your previous comments. Just wondering if they will be any good. Seeing as they aren't right now, I don't think so to.<br><br>Vijay<br><br>

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#715 - 05/31/01 03:44 AM Re: America Online in China? what?
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Actually it's a secret plot to takeover China...Steve Case is gonna be the emporer over there!<br><br>AOL should fit nicely over there!<br><br>Vijay, get India to block AOL from invading! Run!!<br><br>(can you tell that I do NOT like AOL? )<br><br>
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#716 - 05/31/01 04:00 AM Re: America Online in China? what? [Re: OSXaddict]
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i'll say it a million times: "friends DON'T let friends use AOL"<br><br>~~~<br>"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry." --Thomas Jefferson

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#717 - 05/31/01 04:02 AM Re: America Online in China? what?
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Here they call it "AOL Australia"... hmm... America On-Line Australia... are we the 51st state?!?! And yeah, I'm praying nobody uses it here either.<br><br>

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