After this week’s earthquake off the coast of Taiwan, bloggers and the media reported on the internet outages/slowdowns between the PRC and the rest of the world. The funniest take on the subject has to be from Ryan’s (”The Humanaught”) Life in Suzhou Blog:
Apparently, and this is from the not-too-creditable “customer service” representative at CT, all of China’s access to the Internet at large runs through Taiwan… man was that some shitty planning - and a helluva chip the ROC can play should things get nasty between the two siblings.
PRC: “Um, we’d really like you to come back and be a part of your motherland.”
ROC: “But we believe in a multi-party system and don’t like to spit.”
PRC: “Fine, have it your way. We’re going to attack you tomorrow.”
ROC: “If you do, you’ll only be able to access Mainland-produced porn.”
PRC: “Please disregard, have a nice day.”
Funny stuff out of Jiangsu province.
3 responses so far ↓
1 舒 杰 瑞 // Dec 29, 2006 at 12:20 am
Crazy stuff. I was actually in Taipei at the time. Awesome place if you haven’t been. Didn’t feel any tremors but couldn’t connect to the internet upon my return to HK, and found all the office computers had been knocked out for a couple of days.
新年快乐!
2 露露 // Dec 30, 2006 at 10:16 am
I was driving home from work, thought that was just gusts of wind.
I am surprised that you have not adapted to the modern version of Han-tse (Chinese characters).
3 花崗齋之愚公 // Dec 30, 2006 at 12:40 pm
露露,
We try to stay “old school” here at The Studio…thanks for stopping by.
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