Foo - Awwwwww... :(

Nashbar doesn't ship to China! My beautiful order -- gone! :cry:

Anyone know of a good online store (or store with an online presence) that ships here for sure?

Friends United? Other then having a friend ship it I do not have any further informative contributions to contribute to this query.

Hahah i made a funny "friend ship". I may be watching just a tad too much Family Guy

Yeah, I guess there's always the friend route. Actually, I don't know why I didn't think of that. Doh!

Friend ship. Heheheh :p

Just so long as he dosen't try to pay me with a $500,000 money order and ask for change. :)

Say, Stacey-- I've got this bank account in Nigeria that I want to sign over to you...

Sure! :D

Do you ever have any problem getting BikeForums in China? Internet censorship?

Jeez, half of Nashbar's stuff comes from China. Just go down to the factory where it's made and get one that fell off the back of the truck.

Jeez, half of Nashbar's stuff comes from China. Just go down to the factory where it's made and get one that fell off the back of the truck.
:roflmao:

Jyo -- alas, I was buying a Brooks saddle, probably the one thing on Nashbar that isn't made in China...

Velo Vol: Internet censorship, yes -- can't get BBC News, Wikipedia, Voice of America, pretty much anything dealing with a certain religious group (FLG), Technorati, Blogspot (though in the past few weeks it's been OK), and occasionally Google. Looking for pictures of the 1989 Tiananmen Square (cough) events can also make your connection do funny things -- Google Images or Google News will sometimes just stop working for a few minutes. Beyond those, random sites will just be inaccessible from anywhere in China for a few weeks. But so far, the Chinese government hasn't turned its attention towards BF ;)

But so far, the Chinese government hasn't turned its attention towards BF ;)Let the BF revolution begin!

It must be weird having access to sites turned off and on like that. And even weirder being a person who has to justify the decision as to why things should or shouldn't be available. Assuming they even try to make that a "rational" process.

It's mostly automated, and the technology behind it is apparently amazing. As for who decides, why yes he does :D: China's Hu vows to 'purify' Internet (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-24T171156Z_01_PEK95705_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-INTERNET-HU.xml)


Edit: I assume they haven't found P&R yet ;)

Could you imagine the disruption that would be caused if somebody found some other spectrum to braodcast and receive information on. Something like Muons that could go right through the planet. Could literally change the face of the world as we know it in regardds to telcos controlling all forms of communication and stomping out any competition. And likewise all bodies of censorship.

Or I can just use Tor (http://tor.eff.org/). Gets around anything the Chinese government throws at me, but it also succeeded in making my Canadian bank think I was hacking into my own account (it leaves suspicious-looking entries on site logs), and shut it down :(

Generally, I'm against censorhip. But if the government's purification efforts prohibited you from being able to see certain underwear pictures posted on this forum, they actually did you a favor.

Alas, that was burned into my retinas, just like it was for you people in the free world :cry:


Edit: Hmmm. Used the word "alas" twice in one thread. Time for bed.

It's mostly automated, and the technology behind it is apparently amazing. As for who decides, why yes he does :D: China's Hu vows to 'purify' Internet (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-24T171156Z_01_PEK95705_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-INTERNET-HU.xml)


Edit: I assume they haven't found P&R yet ;)
I imagine if they did the machine the filtering algorithm is on will just burst into flame anyway!;) :D