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Although I have not been able to get any official comment from the Chinese police, after looking at this photographic evidence collected after a seconds-long investigation, there can be no doubt that new recruits in the Chinese police force are humiliated and hazed, to break down their spirit before training.

虽然我没能找到任何官方对中国警察的评价，可是在看过这张照片的下一秒钟，便可知道中国警察新兵部队的新兵在他们培训崩溃前，所受的羞辱和欺负了。

How else could you explain being forced to ride this bike around town?

不然你还能怎么解释，被迫在街上骑这样的自行车？

The golden rule of life: If a bicycle has a foot-stand, you can not catch criminals with it.

生存的黄金法则：如果一辆自行车有撑脚架，你一定没法靠它抓到罪犯。

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Name.com has a feature where you can search for domain names by keyword, and then see how many Google searches there are for that particular term. I was checking out Facebook related websites when I found out a shocking fact….

Name.com有一项功能，就是你可以按关键字搜索域名，然后看看有多少谷歌搜索结果是有这些关键字的。在我查看跟Facebook相关的网站的时候，找到了一个令人震惊的事实…

…Facebook is Norwegian! This ‘beta’ needs some more work…

…Facebook是挪威的！这个‘测试版’的需要再加工一下…

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It almost seems inevitable at this point – Google will be pulling out of China. It is unclear about what exactly will still be available to the millions of people who use Google’s services every day here, but staff at Google.cn were rumoured to have spent yesterday watching Avatar and eating a farewell meal, before either joining the US office or finding new employment.

看来这已经成了不可避免的事实 – 谷歌将撤出中国了。目前还不清楚究竟在这里的数百万每天使用谷歌的人还能使用什么谷歌的服务，但Google.cn的员工有传言说，昨天在他们决定要么加入美国办事处或找新的工作之前，他们去看了阿凡达，吃了散伙饭了。

It’s true that Google wasn’t making huge amounts of money in China, and it’s true that they were not the number one search engine – but let’s be realistic: 2nd place in a market of a billion people is still pretty damn good. They will be missed by a lot of people…and yesterday mourners gathered to pay their respects at Google’s offices.

的确，谷歌在中国没怎么赚钱，也确实，他们不是头号搜索引擎 – 但是让我们面对现实：在一个10亿人口的市场第二名仍然相当好了。它仍然将被很多人怀念…昨天在谷歌中国办事处门口有很多人来表示哀悼了。

[Pics from http://ziboy.com and http://yy.766.com/yykd/bgqw/2010-01/13/571821.shtml]

It’s not goodbye – just au revoir!

这不是再见-只是‘下次再见’！

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