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From: karkam@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kar Kam)
Subject: Re: Ugliest Mascot of all time
Keywords: Cardinals
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:14:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.184908.23213@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> yyeung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Yat-Chi Yeung) writes:
>
>For those of you not familiar with it, stanford's mascot is a tree. Yup,
>a tree.   :-)
>Well, I personally think the cardinal is the most UGLY mascot on the land.
>What's the point of having such an UGLY tree running around the sideline?
>
>I don't think this is the right news group, but it's that stanford guy that
>started it, so...
>
>Go Bears!!
>
>>
>>DKam
>>
>
>-- 
>    Yat-Chi Yeung             
>    yyeung@cory.berkeley.edu

Yeah, you r darn right.  I m sorry I put the message up to SCHK, which s
not quite relevant.  But anyway, if you enjoy trash talk on college football,
go for rec.sport.football.college..... See ya there.

DKam

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: wing@pegasus.com (Wing Ng)
Subject: PRC offers to give HK more land, and an airport
Organization: OSU Physics Dept.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:21:35 GMT

>  231*17NOV92.CHINA: OFFER TO LEASE NEW SHENZHEN AIRPORT.
>             [SCMP] (59)
>
> By FANNY WONG, DOREEN CHEUNG and CONNIE LAW.
>
> CHINA is prepared to take a more aggressive stand in the row over
> the   construction  of the Chek Lap Kok airport by  offering  the
> radical  suggestion   that  it leases Shenzhen's new  airport  to
> Hongkong.
>
> With  hopes  fading for an early agreement on financing  the  new
> airport  projects,  Beijing considers the option of annexing  the
                                                      ^^^^^^^^
> Huangtian  airport  site,  12  kilometres west of  Shenzhen  city
> centre,  to the Hongkong Special Administrative Region as a  more
> attractive alternative.
>
> The  Prime  Minister,  Mr  Li Peng,  is said to  have  given  his
> personal  backing to  the plan,  which Hongkong aviation  sources
> claim is impractical.
 
ANNEXING ?
 
[...]
 
> According to Mr Mar,  the official said CHINA was also willing to
> let  the   airport  be administered by an  airport  authority  in
> Hongkong.
>
> To  make the Huangtian plan work,  an enclosed highway  would  be
> built to serve as the main link between Hongkong and the airport,
> which  is 30 kilometres from the Hongkong border but is two hours
> away  by  road at present or one hour by  ferry.  Air  passengers
> could  go  through customs and immigration  checks  at  Huangtian
> instead of Hongkong.
>
> The  proposed highway would be restricted,  and mainlanders would
> be strictly  forbidden to enter the Hongkong "territory".
>
> To overcome the problem of landing rights,  Beijing would include
> the  Huangtian   site in the Hongkong SAR when it  draws  up  the
> post-1997 boundary.
 
[...]
 
PRC thus offered to give Hong Kong more land.
 
Wing
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From: glo@dvlseq.us.oracle.com (George Lo)
Subject: Re: about uuencode
Organization: Oracle World HQ, Redwood Shores, California
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:39:11 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Nov19.045912.9296@cs.brown.edu> cs169044@cs.brown.edu (Xiaohai Gao) writes:
>
>  
>
>Hi there:
>	I just installed  'uuencode.c' via ahkcus FTP server. I compiled it successfully and
>got the executable. But after I type "uuencode <a gb file>",  it just said "begin 666 new.gb" 
>and never stop encoding the file. Is here anyone have the same problem as I had? By the way, 
>I did all the encoding stuff above by using "cxterm" , not the regular X-terminal. 
>
I remember uuencode and uudecode were available last time when I
used it at Brown.
And cxterm and xterm has no difference for running a program.

Xref: sparky soc.culture.hongkong:14781 soc.culture.china:30990 soc.culture.taiwan:15520
From: doggie@cats.ucsc.edu (Anne-Gigi Ann Chi Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: test
Date: 20 Nov 92 08:35:10 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


this is just a test... ignore it.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: LEE@KUB.NL (W. Lee)
Subject: Re: What do you think of Chris Patten
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:11:29 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1992Nov19.172153@disun14.epfl.ch> fung@disun14.epfl.ch writes:

> Hi, to those of you bored by the VChow, KCR discussions, here is something new
> to debate about : Chris Patten
> 
> Since his proposal to increase the number of directly elected legislative council
> members, there has been a lot of reaction from all sides. In HK, people hold
> basically one of the two views:
> 
> To many he is the hope to more democracy, the governor who listens to the people
> and the first (as well as the last!) to stand up to Peking. 
> 
> To others (including many businessmen who value their business over democracy)
> Patten is just another (clever) manipulator taking the opportunity to advance
> his own career. Afterall, he doesn't have to stay in HK after '97. The six
> million HK Chinese have no choice however.
> 
> Patten, the good or the bad guy? What do you think?
> 
> 
> Yee Kay Fung
> Greetings from Switzerland

I think he's a good guy, cause he's (I think) the first governor who dares to
stand up to Peking. It's about time that China is being taught a lesson.
Personally I'm strongly against China taking HK over in 1997. I still don't 
understand why GB is giving up HK island, wasn't it British property ?

I really fear for the future of HK after 1997, cause I don't think the Chinese
gouvernment should be trust about the 50 years non changes policy. The chinese
gouvernment is just a bush of old men who just think of their own privileges 
and career, and don't care about the well being of their "subjects".

I know my opinion isn't worth anything, since I'm not staying in HK and won't
have to stay in HK after 1997, so most of the troubles in the future won't 
hurt me. But it's just my opinion that Patten is a good guy, who's the hope
for more democracy in HK, and maybe a better future in HK.

Bis spater.


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From: lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin)
Subject: Re: about Bruce Lee's movie...
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:51:32 GMT

In article <1e6e61INNrsq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> be549@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robin Coose) writes:
>
>Hi, I just had a argument with my friends.  They said that 
>according to Bruce Lee's wife, Bruce Lee had only made 5 Kung-Fu
>movie in his life.  I am not sure the exact number, but in my
>impression when I was young, I had watched DEFINITELY more than
>5 movie made by Bruce Lee.
>Is there any Bruce Lee-fan there could give me the names of movies
>that you can remember?  Either in English or Chinese, doesn't
>matter.  You could post in thise SIG or mail me at:
>  be549@cleveland.freenet.edu
>
>I appreciate your time.
>

Seems that your friends are right.  I can only count five as well.

Goes like (in poor Cantonese pinyin and poor literal English tranlation):

Tong Shan Dai Hing (Chinese Big Brother)
Ching Wu Moon      (Excellent Martial School)
Mang Lung Kuo Kwon (Strong Dragon Across the River)
Lung Chung Fu Dou  (Dragon and Tiger, Compete and Fight)
See Moon Yau Hay   (Game of Death)

>Rob
>
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From: Raju.Daryanani@p309.f1.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Raju Daryanani)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: HK ID Card question
Date: 21 Nov 1992 11:39:35 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


In a msg on <Nov 19 20:51>, Mirin Lew of 6:700/1.300 writes:

 ML> I have a related question.  If someone was a resident of HK and 
 ML> is now a US citizen, and he returns to HK, can he apply for 
 ML> an ID card without affecting his US citizenship?  Is having a 
 ML> HK ID card equivalent to applying for a BNO from the point of 
 ML> view of the US government? [stuff deleted]

An ID card is required if you intend to stay in HK for more than 3 months,
and is not equivalent to applying for citizenship, it's an application for
residency.  All foreign citizens who are residents of HK (including myself) have
to have an ID card if they live here permanently, but to apply for a BNO you
must have lived here for over 7 years and have to make an application for
nationalisation (like anyone with another passport is going to :-).

Raju 
 * Origin: Raju's Point (6:700/1.309)
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From: laub@Software.Mitel.COM (Boniface Lau)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: musings on relationships (was: Re: Crossing the Line )
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:16:43 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
In-reply-to: wcheung@shearson.com's message of 19 Nov 92 22:00:53 GMT

>>>>> On 19 Nov 92 22:00:53 GMT, wcheung@shearson.com (Wansan Cheung) said:

[...]
Wansan> from my experiences, (as pitiful as it may be) females seem to have a different 
Wansan> preception on social interactions than guys. just to plays devil's
Wansan> advocate for a moment, the way females (damn! what is a good word to use
Wansan> without sounding so cold but at the same time non-derogatory?)

Call them Women! In the business world, the word to avoid is "Girl".

Wansan> i think guys to this day have not figured out what females are
Wansan> looking for. so, ladies care to shed some light on the matter
Wansan> ?

Ha, ha, ha.... pardon me, your question is so funny.  It is like
asking someone to say what Men are looking for. Sorry, Wansan, life
does not come with an instruction manual!


---
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Mitel Corp., 350 Legget Drive, Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2K 1X3

The more you think, the more time you have.
From: mok@pa.dec.com (Charles Mok)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Support for more democracy in Hong Kong
Date: 19 Nov 92 22:26:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <11103@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
> Our slogan is:
> 
> "Support democracy in HK, visit HK but don't go to China !"  

I disagree.  I think they should all go to China, be as capitalistic as possible.  Do more business with them if you can.  It all goes back to the premise of whether one thinks staying away from China or isolating her would help the democratization and liberalization of China, or hurt it.  I happen to believe that isolation will hurt the opening up of China, both economically and politically.  

Furthermore, such moves will only further hurt Hong Kong.  You cannot imagine how DEPENDENT HK's prosperity and economy is on China these days.  

Charles


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:22:41 -0500 
From: Kuo Chiang <blurp+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Looking for chinese wp

I'm looking for a public domain chinese word processor software for the
Macintosh. Does anybody out there know any anonymous ftp sites that has
it? If possible, please tell me the filename also.
Thank you in advance.



Kuo Chiang, Chiang
kc3s@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: umhuang4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Hui Huang)
Subject: Re: One Joke A Day, No More Girls Say No Way
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:27:57 GMT


>>In article <1drqfqINNn6k@transfer.stratus.com>, cheung@strider.hw.stratus.com writes:
>>> Q:  What is the square root of 69?
>>> 
>>> A:  Eight something.    
>>>     (His last mathematics joke worked so well he has to try another
>>>     one.  Heard originally from his salty wet math professor.)
>>
>>I don't get this one, please explain... yes, I want to laugh, too. :)
>>

Check this out in alt.sex.faq in the newsgroup news.answers or in some
reasonable dictionaries. Have fun... (ha, I like this joke!)

-- 
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			Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
                        Phone: (204) 275-5278
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: ctyau@cucs11.cs.cuhk.hk (YAU Chor-tung)
Subject: Re: Commerical by KCR
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:21:02 GMT

chiu@pyramid.unr.edu (Edward S.N.Chiu) writes:


>Also, I don't think KCR wants to 'advertise' itself by spreading this
>rumor. It is very foolish to do this in Chinese community. More, KCR
>doesn't need to arouse attention in this way. Everybody knows KCR. The
>purpose of KCR to make commericals is to keep a good relationships
>with the customers and ask for more passengers. Do you want to take a
>train with scary atmosphere? 

Moreover, the 100% share-holder of the KCR is the HONG KONG GOVERNMENT!

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: wcheung@shearson.com (Wansan Cheung)
Subject: Re: CD's .vs. LP's (Re: Neighbor's loud stereo
Reply-To: wcheung@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:32:54 GMT

lp are better than cds. (NOT!) 
lets put it this way, lp are analog by nature and thus tend to be a continuous
image of the recorded sound. cds on the other hand are digital which means
the signal is sampled at regular intervals. this is like taking a snapshot
regularly instead of recording continuously. at first glance, one might think
that because lps are analog and contains no discontinuities, they are better.
this is not quite true. with the high sampling rate (how many times a second a
snapshot is taken of the signal. 44100 times a second) it is extremely difficult
for humans to distinguish the discontinuities between each "snapshot". since the
human brain only works so fast, the "snapshots" sort of "blurs" together to give
the illusion of continuity. [ i could talk about the other fun stuff like aliasing,
nyquist thereom and other geeky sounding electrical engineering mumble jumbo but 
that's way beyond the scope of this post. :) ]
however, there are other issues involved that makes cds better. briefly going down
the list:
reproducibility. since information is in digital format, you're guaranteed (to the 
best of your DAC's ability) exact information every single time.

durability. nothing comes into physical contact with the media which means that the
disc will not get worn with extended use unlike lps.

capacity. notice the size of cd vs lp. consider 1 side as opposed to 2.

convenience. i don't know about you, but i have yet to see a portable battery 
powered lp player. [ luggable yes but not portable ] :)

there are people who might be able to tell the difference between lp and cd
[blind taste: which is the cd, a or b ? :)] but those are few and far in between.

personally i like cds. i have over 300 of the suckers and laser discs, did i 
mention laser discs ? :~.) <-[cindy crawford smiley]
---
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-dave

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From: cfwong@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Downtown boy)
Subject: Re: The whole story about the commercial by KCR
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:49:33 EST

In article <15613@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> hck@crosfield.co.uk (chuck kay hon) writes:
>
>Another piece of information, some people( one of them is called
>Li Kui Ming, Li is his surname ) said they actually could see more 
>and more ghosts going to HK from mainland China, the reason was that the 
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    I cannot but cracked up reading this. Do they go to HK with a purpose?
    Travelling, getting a job, settling down or what? This is getting
    funnier than ever.

>Chines Government didn't allow people to carry out any funeral services to
>the death, so the death couldn't sleep well ( if you believe in Bible) or 
>the death refused to leave this world ( if you believe in Buddisim ), that's
>why they become a ghost and hanging around.  Their suggestion is no matter 
>what religion the death committed, his/her relatives should do proper 
>funeral services to them so as to let them sleep peacefully or migrate to
>next phase of life.  Another suggestion from them is that if you can behave
>yourself or you commit to one of the religions, you won't have much trouble 
>with these ghosts.
>
>
>Eric.
>-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: 91066702@cphkvx.cphk.hk
Subject: Chart 11-22 (English)
Organization: OSU Physics Dept.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:10:50 GMT

Hi there,

Here comes this week's single chart again.

=============================================================================

Commercial Radio Chik Chak Single Chart
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

New Songs this week
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

29.Vivian Chow Wai-man     Lonely heartbreak [gu1 dan1 de xin1 tong4]
                           {gu: da:n dik sum tong} (melody: Never been to me)

22.Sandra Ng Kwan-yu &
   Cheng Yee-kin           Because of you [zhi3 yin1 ni3 xin1 zui4]
                           {dzi yun nei sum dzui}

16.Hwang Pin-yuan          Even though one day we seperate
   (Taiwan singer)         [zhong4 ran2 you3 yi4 tian1 wo3 men fen1 li2]
   (Mandarin song, old)    {dzong yin yao yutt tin ngor mu:n fun lei}

15.Taichi                  Love you forever [yong3 yuan3 ai4 ni3]
                           {wing yuen oi nei}

14.Veronica Yip Yuk-hing   Silly teardrops [sha3 yan3 lei4] {sor ngan lui}
                           (melody from The Beautiful South, name forgotten)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Top Ten
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

10.Julian Cheung Chi-lam   Please make me happy [dou4 wo3 kai1 xin1 ba]
                           {dao ngor hoi sum ba}

 9.Lee Kwok-cheung         All for you [quan2 wei4 le ni3] {tsuen wai liu nei}

 8.Lam Fan                 Still like me [reng2 ran2 xi3 huan1 wo3]
                           {ying yin hei fu:n ngor}
                           (Oringinal song: Annie Leung An-ling's Zhen1 de ai4
                           wo3 ma)

 7.Chris Wong Hoi-kun      Not daring to love [bu4 gan3 qu4 ai4]
                           {butt gum hui oi}

 6.Aaron Kwok Fu-shing     Loving you [ai4 ni3] {oi nei}

 5.George Lam Chi-cheung   Friendship stays forever [You3 ai4 chang2 cun2]
                           {yao oi tseung tsuen}

 4.Andy Lau Tak-wah        Pretending [jia3 zhuang1] {ga: dzong}

 3.Leon Lai Ming           I love Iciban [wo3 ai4 ichiban] {ngor oi Ichiban}

 2.Grasshopper             Goodbye rainy days [zai4 jian4 rainy days]
                           {dzoi gi:n raniny days} (Old melody, I like Chopin)

 1.Jacky Cheung Hok-yau    The spark of love [ai4 huo3 hua1] {oi for far}

==============================================================================

Hope you all enjoy this week's chart! See you next week!

-= Aulina Chan Sau Chun =- 91066702@cphkvx.bitnet
City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Higher Diploma in Translation and Interpretation (Year 2)
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From: 6500egg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Ekman Yu-Hang Tsang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Is is right to eat dogs?
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:26:30 GMT

In article <1dtumsINNi0e@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> tlm@deutsch.doc.ic.ac.uk (Te Lung Man) writes:


>Recently, as we all know, Chris Patten lost his pet dog. This story was
>reported widely (and wildly) in British tabloid newspapers.
>There was suggestion that the dog was stolen by Chinese officials
>in Beijing and pressented on Mr Deng's lunch menu!!
>Or even on Mr Patten's lunch menu!! Poor Patten may have lost a few pounds
>in weight over the past few days.
>Why is this kind of story so palatable to the media ?
>The simple reason is that the Chinese are known to have a tradition for dog
>eating. It is unthinkable to the British (and others) how the Chinese could
>commit such a horrible deed to animals as loving as the dogs. In other words,
>it is uncivilised and wrong to eat dogs. This assumption is not really correct
>because if pigs had been considered as pets rather than dogs, then pork chop
>would have been banned already.
>Fortunately, the rumours have now been dispelled because the lost dog is
>found in Hong Kong, obviously still alive and well.
>But the question still remains. Is it right to eat dog?

Good question!!!
Our moral standards are mainly based on our cultures and past
experiences (with minor modifications).  So when a new concept comes along,
our first reaction is to reject it.  This is well reflected in the 'dog
eating' incident.

Personally I have never done it, nor do I want to.  But it is not to say
that it is 'wrong' to eat dogs.  "Wrong" is only wrong in the eyes of the
foreigners.  To be fair to cows, pigs, chickens, and all the weird stuffs
that we allow ourselves to enjoy at the dinner tables, I have to say it
is alright to eat dogs, and cats, and birds...  Conversely, if you don't
think eating dogs are right, then you should also think that eating cows
and pigs are wrong as well.  This is because these are all classified in
our human systems as animals.  In another word, you should become a
vegetarian.  (Even that is not fair to the plants, since they are living
organisms as well; only they can't move to defend themselves)

I know this might offend some people, but please think about it.  And if
you still think that my thinking is wrong, I welcome your comments.
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