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Red Chief wrote:Deal. The winter will be very long but pay attention that we have an enormous import duty for vodka. Our genuine product with a price tag 3 euro per liter cannot compete with cheap Western immitation.

RobbyG wrote:Do I need a gun?

Red Chief wrote:

RobbyG wrote:Do I need a gun?

Sure. To intimidate brown bears on the Red Square. They like genuine vodka too. Why are you asking?

You don't watch Fox News regularly. Right?

Red Chief wrote:If I were you I would rather surrender.

Red Chief wrote:Where are you going to swim? Just name of the person.

Red Chief wrote:Keep dreaming.

WhiteJade wrote:No background check on the reporter; Some figures are provided with no sources, but for those who might be interested, this is something readable:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas ... genumber=1

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas ... genumber=2

Two of Google Inc.'s partners in China have reportedly announced they will stop working with the search company in light of its decision to stop censoring content there.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Tianya, which runs online forums has plans to continue operating without Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).

The Financial Times reported that China Unicom has also said it will take Google search off of its new handsets that were developed with the Mountain View company.

"Though Google left, we still need to continue offering our services to our customers and meet our clients' requests," the Journal quoted Tianya CEO Xing Ming as saying. "There were many fields we were planning to cooperate on, such as online video, and though we just got a license to provide online video, Google has left. So we will run the video business by ourselves."

Tianya has reportedly also taken full control of Tianya Laiba, a social-networking service, and Tianya Wenda, a question-and-answer service.

The Financial Times quoted Unicomm's President Lu Yimin as saying, "We are willing to work with any company that abides by Chinese law . . . we don’t have any co-operation with Google currently."

Google this week stopped censoring its Web sites in China and began re-directing users to a Chinese language Web site in Hong Kong, where free speech rights are more tolerated.

That action came after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said in January that a cyberattack originating from China targeted human rights activists and broke into more than 20 companies' systems.

The announcement triggered an international debate over Internet censorship and espionage. China has strongly denied any involvement.

BEIJING—Google Inc.'s search sites suddenly stopped working in China on Tuesday, fueling speculation that the government had blocked the sites in what would represent a sharp escalation of its battle with the U.S. Internet giant a week after it stopped obeying censorship rules.

Users in China are reporting no access to Google searches. Although the Chinese government has not taken responsibility for the actions, they may be behind it, Aaron Back reports from Beijing.

Users in cities across China starting late Tuesday afternoon reported that all searches—even of terms as mundane as "happy"—on Google's Hong Kong site produced an error message saying the results page couldn't be opened. Google stopped operating its self-censored Chinese search site on March 22 and began routing Chinese users to the Hong Kong site, which Google doesn't censor. Searches by Chinese users on Google's main global site, Google.com, also returned error messages Tuesday.

Users in some cities said they couldn't access Google.cn, the mainland Chinese Web address Google has long used, which since last week has automatically sent users to the Hong Kong site. Google's music search service also appeared to be inaccessible.

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