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From: vil@genrad.com (Vaiioc Isana Lei)
Subject: Re: MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER!!!!
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:08:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.123409.2779@nic.csu.net> kenwong@futon.SFSU.EDU (Kenneth Wong) writes:
>In article <BvEHCH.828@nic.umass.edu> s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Absolutely Chinese) writes:
>>hear my story:

  (stuff deleted)

>>i told her that i loved her and since then, she never talked to me again.

  (stuff deleted)

>>- Peter, forever in love with that malaysian chinese girl
>
>Hi Peter,
>How old is the gril? May be she is too young, or may be she has a boy friend,
>or she married. I know some gril wants be your 'friends' but not your gril
>friend I don't know why, I think depends on the person, Grils can answer this
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>question, :)))

  (stuff deleted)

Kenneth,

	Well, could you really classify all girls/women that you know as in
one of the following three groups?
1. relative (e.g. mother, sister ...)
2. not your friend at all (not your friend of any kind, close or distant)
3. your girlfriend(s) or wife

	If you have problem assigning any of them to one of the above three
groups, you shouldn't be asking the question 'I know some gril wants be your
'friends' but not your gril friend I don't know why'.

	In case you still don't get the answer, my guess is that someone
(male or female) would consider acquainting with members of the opposite sex
that they don't particularly detest and calling them 'friends', and yet these
people might not have enough 'special' feelings to these 'friends' as to 
consider them boyfriend/girlfriend.

isana
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: dteng@cmcvx1.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Exotic Cars
Organization: Claremont McKenna College
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:44:21 PST

In article <13OCT199216442204@rosie.uh.edu>, cosc180f@rosie.uh.edu (92F06810) writes:
> In article <9228600.26797@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, swl@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Samuel Wai Kay LEUNG) writes...
>>cosc180f@rosie.uh.edu (92F06810) writes:
>>What do you post this news for???  Are you going to "SHINE" your CRX, mate???
>> 
>> 
>>Samuel
>> 
> 
> Dear Samuel, 
> 	Thank you for asking me the question.  I am going to give you very
> complete answers.  First of all, the only reason why I post it is to augment  
> your ability in rhetorical analysis to an article.  If you understood English, 
> please read the first sentence.  It says "let's start a topic about exotic  
> cars."  This sentence doesn't mean it is a piece of "news", as you mention! 
> It is simply a request! 
> 	To your second question, I don't mean to "brag", the word you really 
> wanted to use, about my car.  If you had a Ferrari, why would you protest 
> a person "shining" a car like CRX HF.  Hence, I infer that you are either an 
> owner of a piece of junk, OR you are a narrow-minded nitwit! 
> 
> 
> Remark:If you think I am rude, read yours first and up yours! 
> 
> 
> 	Tony Chan cosc180f@jetson.uh.edu 
 I just wanna give Tony a big high five!! In case you don't understand what a
"high-five" is, Samuel, it is just a action which two people hit each other's
hand. We do this in occasions when we think a certain individual has done a
good job on something, in this case, i gave Tony a hi-5 'cos I think he did a
good job writing that 'message' to you! So there!!
'nuff said, BusterR
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: siu@athena.mit.edu (Olivia I Siu)
Subject: Genetics/PMS/Midlife crisis
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:44:50 GMT


In article  <1992Oct6.193943.20254@cmcl2.nyu.edu>,  memco@cns.nyu.edu
writes:

--------
>	But now we know that it is either some intrinsic flaw in
>Chinese culture or women as a whole have some great genetic malfunction,
>some mangling of the DNA (maybe that part that causes that monthly mess),
>that causes them to reject crys of true love just because .... they
>don't know the guy or they aren't interested or they don't find him
>attractive or interesting or they're scared of him.

>	Now that the problems have been identified, we can get the
>greatest geneticists and social anthropologists (male, obviously)
>to work rectifiying this intolerable situation. I mean if women
>are allowed to freely assert who they do or don't like and to
>reject people for whatever reason they want, well... they might
>start believing they were equally human or  something.
---------------
-----------------

I think this is one of the society taboos that should be completely 
overthrown.  Blaming one's acts on the HORMONES, or the GENETICS
of human, is a disgraceful excuse in explaining one's faults.
One has to be responsible for one's acts no matter what state one
is in, even if it's caused by physical and genetic constraints.

Let me make an illustration.  A professor of mine once told us about
a seminar she attended.  In the lecture, a male director lectured about
how women should not be placed in some decision making post of a company, 
his reason being that the hormonal cycle of women causes them to act 
irrationally at times and make bad or wrong decisions.  So, this guy 
was saying that women can't make rational decisions during what
is now termed at PMS.  A female geneticist stood up and demonstrated that
men also have hormonal cycles, which occurs every four days throughout
the men's lives.  So, corresponding to the director's suggestions that
women were not qualified on particular positions in a company due to
their PMS, the geneticist asked if men should be completely eradicated
from the world of business because of their 4-day cycles!!! 
The director was speechless.

"Mid-life crisis" is also part of the idea that a man around their 40s
or 50s can throw away his responsibilities to his family, and
find a young girl to "release his frustrations of life" and "find himself".
Such an inexcusable act is already disgraceful; imagine such an act to be
defended by an absurd excuse from respectable, educated people?!?!?!!?!?
In the same way, neither should women be blamed for their emotions due
to the so called PMS, nor should women use it as an excuse to have
bad temper.

My conclusion is a human being is intelligent enough to be responsible
for his/her own acts, without finding some "term" as an excuse to 
justify their irresponsible acts.  Such reasoning is illogical.

Olivia
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: Re: Help! 3 lonely heart Dr(s)
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI 
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:50:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.160943.13450@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung) writes:
>cfs2b@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Chun Fai Szeto) writes:
>> 	To all known to be Dr. in 3 lonely heart club, I need your 
>> analysis on the case regarding to one of my best friend:
>
>Seems to me what your friend (and a lot of other like souls) need
>is not these Drs in the 2LHC, (remember, they are boys and might
>have the same problems themselves, sorry Drs.) but a XX FuYan mailbox.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Any ladies voluteered?

	Hahaha...someone has finally said it... 
	The Docs aren't professional as you should see, and hey, don't you
	know that even the *genuine* 3LHC blokes are still single...
	And it just came across my mind that the *genuine* blokes were 
	only calling themselves "Box See"(Ph. D.), not really "Yee Sung"
	(doctor or quack if they really are)!   

---Goo on you,
	Bill
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: cheung@strider.hw.stratus.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Music
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:41:51 GMT
Organization: Cheung's Funky Shop


		Funky Cheung's Critique on Music

Classical Music:	Make you feel like a king while living next
			to a dump.

Heavy Metal:		You need to be either a sadist or masochist in
			order to enjoy that music to the fullest.

Soft Rock:		Rock without the edge, music without the spirit.

Chinese Pop Music:	Wrong type of sex education to the young, right
			type of reflection for the old who never grow.

Jazz Music:		Smells like opium, feels like message, and tastes 
			like spring medicine.
			

Funky Cheung has a wicked thought on every topic.

Cheung's Funky Shop, Inc.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: akwy@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Alan Kin Wah YIM)
Subject: HKPA.POPSTARS- New picture postings
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 06:41:02 GMT

HONG KONG PICTURES ARCHIVE - POPSTAR COLLECTION (HKPA.POPSTARS)
===============================================================
NEW PICTURE POSTING
===================
 
WARNING: In order to protect the pictures and the contributors,
         all HKPA pictures are not allowed to be sold.

New pictures are posted to the following newsgroups:

alt.binaries.pictures
alt.binaries.pictures.misc

They will be available in ftp sites soon.

filename   : dwan01.gif 
description: Half portrait of Deric Wan Siu-Lun in blue shirt
	     & tie, carrying a briefcase on his back
category   : Hong Kong actor and singer
image      : 569x466x256 color
filesize   : 195619 bytes
contributor: Chi-Yin Robert Chong

filename   : rkwan03.gif
description: Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam in yellow dress
category   : Hong Kong actress
image      : 510x738x256 color
filesize   : 245837 bytes
Contributor: Chi-Yin Robert Chong

Special thanks to Chi-Yin Robert Chong for the contributions.

Contributions are welcome. Please read README.DONORS in directory
/pub/hongkong/hkpa/popstars		of ftp site: asia.lcs.mit.edu OR
/pub/pics/gif/pics/tv+film/HKstar	of ftp site: nic.funet.fi
for contribution rules, how to uuencode and contribute pictures.
However, the easiest method is to uuencode the picture file and mail it to
Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>. Contributors must not upload the files to ftp 
sites themselves. All types of picture file format are welcome. We will convert
them to GIF format.

The list of frequently asked questions for HKPA is now available in the
following places:
Newsgroups:	soc.culture.hongkong, news.answers
Ftp site:	asia.lcs.mit.edu, path name is /pub/hongkong/hkpa/FAQ

Thank you for supporting HKPA.POPSTARS. Please keep it alive.

Enjoy!
Alan of HKPA.POPSTARS.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Chris Lo)
Subject: Re: Software Piracy in HK
Reply-To: h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
Organization: University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:57:29 GMT

s907459@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Ka Wo Anthony Liu) writes:
: It is not only an issue in HK, but also the entire South Eastern Asia.
: I will not say whether it is good or bad, in fact, there are influences
: to many surfaces of the society.  While software companies are losing
: money, people who pirate software make a fortune out of it. In return they
: found another way of boosting the economy.
: 
: However, are we going to stay this way forever? How many legitimate copies
: out there (and not being pirated)? Most software dealers in HK make money 
: from selling legitimate copies AND illegal copies.  The attitude of a 
: general user would be "What's wrong with it. Everyone do that.".
: 

	From what I see and know, pirate software stays in single users
	but not companies (at least well-established).

	But I really cannot say whether this is MUCH serious in SE Asia,
	e.g. private member-only-BBS in U.S., Australia, and probably many
	other parts in the world have these kind of illegal activities
	undertaking.

	In H.K., it is true that the copyright law is not complete AND
	not fully implemented. But the vendors here so provided the
	services also suck. (Well, I DON'T mean it's the reason for
	pirating.)

: This is real bad.  Ok, Pricing is another issue but it is not an excuse
: especially for companies.  Now some of the software vendors publish their
: products on CDROM.  I think it is quite a good idea to stop piracy since
: you can't copy the whole lot from the CDROM to your harddisk or else you'll
: run out of space very quickly.  
: 

	As a businesss point of view, I guess most companies, like
	CorelDRAW!, still have to release floppy version to keep
	all their mid-level users.
	
: Can you counterfeit a CDROM?
: Anyone from HK have a say?
: 

	Actually, we have some conscious users here to refuse anything
	illegal. But never enough if Golden Aracde is here...

: Thanks
: Anthony Liu.

--
Chris Lo
University of Hong Kong
H8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung)
Subject: Re: Wang Tsu Hsien (Wong Cho Yin)
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:56:41 GMT

kwan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan) writes:
> Wong Cho Yin can't get above 90/100.

Nonsense.

> Scores are totally subjective, and just for fun!  I have never seen any
> living thing deserving more than 97/100. :)

Well, the problem is not subjective. The problem is that you forget this
is a time-varying property! i.e., even average-looking women can look 
beautiful at certain moment and probably only at certain angle. (The converse
is also true but let's forget about that.) So, what that means basically is 
that there is a need to train ourselves to develop a keen sense to capture
those beautiful moments, ...

Steven
------
328. Seek opportunity, not security. ...
        - Life's Little Instruction Book by H. J. Brown, Jr.
From: jt2o+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Teng)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Wang Tsu Hsien (Wong Cho Yin)
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:27:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.kerS97u00iUyQ5zZEX
	<s907459.719032165@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

You people are all B-L-I-N-D.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: ins882e@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Boon Chew Tay)
Subject: Re: New Topic: Chinese Christians
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:48:41 GMT

From Boon Chew Tay.........

(i) just testing........
(ii) testing ...1....2......3..............

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: eln235s@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr H Hui)
Subject: Re: HK political groups
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 01:40:27 GMT

vchan@haas.berkeley.edu (Vincent Chan) writes:

>     YES ! There is tradeoff between prosperity and democracy
>     in Hongkong.
I don't agree. However, there is strong correlation between political
oppression and lacking in economic development.

>     So, my questions are 1) Do Hong Kong really need greater
>     democracy at this time ? 2) Are the people in HK mature 
>     enough to accept full democracy ?

1) This question is equivalent to whether Chinese people should rule
   China. Suppose the answer is 'yes', then being democratic is one way
   to garantee the government is operating in the wish of people.

2) Here, I have a question to your question. What is "full democracy"?
Is there anything called "partial democracy"/"semi-democracy"? I would
sees democracy is the general principle. Whether we have election with
regional division or professional division is another matter. 

In your question, are you supposing that the Communists are more mature in
handling HK (local) matter? If the answer is not, I don't see why we are
not mature enough in taking up democracy.

In fact, in terms of education, accessibility to media, HK is not weak
in pursueing on the road of democracy.
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------
Humphrey Hui                      :  Have you taken a risk lately?
HHUI@basil.eng.monash.edu.au      :  Life is boring without risk!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: cfwong@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Nelson Wong)
Subject: Re: ABC's coverage on Patten (Re: Patten's speech)
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 17:24:53 EDT

In article <eln235s.718780666@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> eln235s@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr H Hui) writes:
>
>>Martin Lee's comment: disappointment that Legco members cannot be Exco
>>members is a step backward for democracy.
>Thus, is it that no one from the democratic party be appointed Exco
>member?
>
  Right. None from the United Democrats (or Kai Luen ?).
>
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>Humphrey Hui                      :  Have you taken a risk lately?
>HHUI@basil.eng.monash.edu.au      :  Life is boring without risk!

 
 Nelson Wong
From: s907459@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Ka Wo Anthony Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Software Piracy in HK
Summary: Software Privacy in HK, How many legitimate copies out there?
Keywords: Software Privacy, CDROM, Economy
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:19:12 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

It is not only an issue in HK, but also the entire South Eastern Asia.
I will not say whether it is good or bad, in fact, there are influences
to many surfaces of the society.  While software companies are losing
money, people who pirate software make a fortune out of it. In return they
found another way of boosting the economy.

However, are we going to stay this way forever? How many legitimate copies
out there (and not being pirated)? Most software dealers in HK make money 
from selling legitimate copies AND illegal copies.  The attitude of a 
general user would be "What's wrong with it. Everyone do that.".

This is real bad.  Ok, Pricing is another issue but it is not an excuse
especially for companies.  Now some of the software vendors publish their
products on CDROM.  I think it is quite a good idea to stop piracy since
you can't copy the whole lot from the CDROM to your harddisk or else you'll
run out of space very quickly.  

Can you counterfeit a CDROM?
Anyone from HK have a say?

Thanks
Anthony Liu.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: william@acci.com.au (Baby Elvis)
Subject: Re: Help! 3 lhDr(s) (Dr. Dog's View)
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:13:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.123523.29104@uxmail.ust.hk>, bi_kin@uxmail.ust.hk (HoiFung JACK @>-`) writes:
|> In article <9228618.27440@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo) writes:
|> >
|> >	Yes yes yes, hey, here I am, this's Dr Lo whom you might've known
|> >	already... Call me Bill or William or Billy or Elvie(preferred) or
|> >	whatever whatever...
|> > 
|> hmm...you seem not belong to the 7 LHs in ILHC....?!

	** Well... Err...err... I don't think so...
	   So, I've quitted...

|> >
|> >Thanks for Dr Dog's dog view.
|> >   
|> >And please go get some better food to eat... Recommended: POLO(Cantonese)
|> >or PAL(tm)!
|> hahahahaha....u know, i have a twin brother who studies in CUHK, his name is
|> "Pal", u ask me to eat him? :|

	**  Yep! Please do so! 

|> >Your wires are twisted a bit("Chi Sin") I'm afraid, so go see the doctor, too,
|> >won't you? Hmhmhmhm :-D
|> oOOhhhh...!!!!!  Wwahhhh...i can go to see "doctor"- Miss HK doctor in HKUST!
|> thanks for your reminder!  yeahhhh!!! go now...fly...fly ....flyyyyyy!!!!
					 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	**  Hang on!
	    I only know that pigs could fly(:-D), but dogs....?? 

---Cheers,
	Bill
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Absolutely Chinese)
Subject: Re: Steve Wu's comment about Vaxen
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:33:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.194426.8492@mprgate.mpr.ca> vli@mpr.ca (Vincent Li) writes:
>In article <stevew.718141138@helios> stevew@helios.unl.edu (Steve Wu) writes:
>>  Are you saying vms is good for computer-idiot? You may be right,
>>Since I have seen computer-idiots use CMS and they are satisfied with
>>it. However, the running/maintaining/upgrading cost on these things
>>are very very very very high. On the other hand, with GUI and X, I
>>guess unix based machines would fit for non-technical users.
>>
>A system, however powerful, which could not be learned by the average joe,
>is USELESS!! This is something they never seem to teach in school. It's the
>user who drives your software. It doesn't matter if your customer is an
>idiot if that's the idiot who puts the roof above your head! A good 
>application is one that's intuitive to use (ie. a well designed GUI). This 
>includes software design tools, such as debuggers.

but average joe only wants a Cray running DOS. :) or a Nintendo capable of
doing some word processing.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: wskan@vela.acs.oakland.edu (KAN WA S)
Subject: Help on using Eten 3
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:08:25 GMT

hello everybody

This might be a dump question, but i went over to hongkong over this
summer and got eten 3, and i forgot to bring the document of it.  And i
tried to press every single possible combination of the keys like <Ctrl>
<Alt> and <F*>, and i still haven't find the ones for switching the input
method, can anybody please tell me how to switch between input methods?

Thanks in advance to all who help me.

ps. posting in the news or via email is fine for me =)

Fran <wskan@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
From: s907459@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Ka Wo Anthony Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Hard-disk prices in HK
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:25:14 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

funnyfin@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu writes:


>Can anyone tell me what's the prices of Hard Drives in HK ?
> 
>I would like to know about the 80MB, 100MB and 120MB IDE ones. If you know
>exactly which model costs how much, please specify. Also do you know which
>manufacturer is better? 

Planning to buy one and bring back to the States? Do they tax you for that?
I recommend Quantum. Apple specify Quantum drives on all their Macintosh
and Quadra series. Fast and reliable.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: dteng@cmcvx1.claremont.edu
Subject: Wanted:Comments on New CD
Organization: Claremont McKenna College
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:52:02 PST

Hello,
	Could someone please tell me how the new Sandy Lam's album sounds and
what about Hacken Lee's new one? Thanx
						BusterR