But oh so funny. He manages to save his umbrella - always important. The photographer was criticised in the Beijing Youth Daily for lying in wait to take the photographs rather than warn bike-riders of impending danger.
China is relatively new to the unrestrained nature of American capitalism, and cultural mores is one of the first things to get trampled on in exchange for the mighty dollar. Possibly because money means survival. Without it we don't have food, shelter or clothes. This pushes our desperate desire for survival, which often transcends morals, ethics and cultural norms, into the public sphere.
I am not sufficiently knowledgeable of Chinese culture to make a judgement that in this case capitalism trumped Chinese social norms. It may be as simple as the Beijing Youth Daily using an issue to be outraged about in order to increase their public profile and circulation. Derryn Hinch, Bill O'Reilly and numerous others have peddled their outrage on a switch for their own fiscal enrichment.
Adam has also suggested that;
Everyone in the world lives in the 21st century - just in different parts of the consumer spectrum, with different shipping costs.
If the photographer hadn't of taken those photos, then maybe someone else with a video or phone camera would have. Where once it took Graham Kennedy or Doug Mulray to bring us the crashes, bangs and sometimes "naughty" videos to our eyes - now it is on google video - 24/7 and often with the willing performance of the crashee. I don't think culture, or capitalism stand a chance in the face of ubiquitous recording technology.
Guy: Accidents happen: Fascinating that something as mundane as falling off your bike can get your moment of embarrassment sent out like magic over the world...
cam: Embarrassment?: More like triumph, he *saved* the umbrella despite a faceplant.
It amazes me the blatently dangerous and dumb videos that make it to the internet. I cannot get over that people want themselves to be videoed while performing a stunt that is guaranteed to remove a testicle.
There is a willingness to perform for the purpose of being recorded in modern society. But not if government does the recording. I suspect it is the distribution that is the issue. Government records in secret and keeps it to itself. Performance is by its nature in the public sphere, which the internet and google videos is enabling - and enhancing.
There is also the other issue with government. Who is watching the watchers? With a skateboard stunt gone wrong we know who is watching, we can here their laughter behind the camera when their mate turns a meatball into a plate infront of them.
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A quick visual introduction to scrum and burn down charts.
Most software shops have some variation of these methodologies in place. It is rare that a surviving shop does not, as many of these mechanisms are the bare minimum of project and quality management. Once these become formalized they require discipline to adhere to exactly, whether crystal, scrum, SDLC, etc; and that usually requires coercion of process by the project manager which removes the self-organization aspects to a degree.
Via Werner Vogels, removing the database as the scaling point of failure.
Storing data pre-configured for its use is an old trick as well to take load of the front-end. I do the same thing with this site, the articles are stored in a raw state and as HTML/XML.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for Phoenix, Scottsdale and Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in Tom's Thumb and Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Alternate Australian Constitutions
Between 2004 and 2009 this site, southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
Archives For South Sea Republic
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
