argh! said:
it was education- related, aimed at getting away from the traditional chinese 'memorize and copy' methods, but not too far away, because parents unfortunately expect some of that for their kids. i think it would be a pretty decent money maker, given a somewhat fair playing field, but that's not how things work there. unfortunately part of my role would have been to be the white monkey with a fancy sounding resume, which was a bit odious. ask your colleagues in beijing what a white monkey job is in china, if you don't know already. also, i didn't anticipate uncle xi was going to start marching time backwards towards the politics of mao, albeit with the heavy use of modern technology. i was a little slow on the uptake, first laughing off stuff like the public restroom facial recognition toilet paper dispensers as just a bad idea by some crony bureaucrat. that is morphing into stuff like cameras everywhere, 'social credit', etc... any more i just plan to visit, see my friends, and not talk politics.
and in a related note, your kraft comment struck me as a defense of him. i've got nothing against consensual adults trading sex for money, but those places are blatantly not that, so i have a hard time believing he didn't figure out those women weren't there voluntarily. so, when there is a defense of him without even an attempt at an asterix, i respond.
Interesting. I will have to check on the white monkey job.
What Kraft did is embarrassing for him, but not a big deal for me. Many of the people who went to the place were just getting a massage. Those people now have tapes of them getting undressed and dressed and getting a massage. Doesn't seem right to me.
The whole surveillance think stinks to me. I can't imagine it is legal, but don't know. Is the US getting more like China in that regard?
One guy identified and named publicly was misidentified. He's already brought a lawsuit. I hope the county and authorities get hammered.
"The prostitution case against Patriots owner Robert Kraft linked to a Florida sex-trafficking ring could be a long shot for prosecutors — partly because the women he was caught on video with are the 45-year-old spa manager and a 58-year-old licensed masseuse, according to legal experts.
But it appears Kraft was caught on camera getting services from two women who are not victims of human trafficking: the 45-year-old manager of the spa, Lei Wang, and 58-year-old spa employee Shen Mingbi, also believed to be an operator of the business — both licensed masseuses and Florida residents." http://www.rightmindsforum.com/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi/rightminds?cmd=get&cG=330333033313&zu=333033303331&v=2&gV=0&p=
That's not my idea of trafficking. Older Florida residents and licensed in Florida.
I don't blame Kraft or anyone for trafficking. They weren't involved. They didn't know. I can't imagine Kraft spend time figuring out how trafficking works. I sure don't. A Florida county sheriff was quoted as saying the women could have left anytime, by the way.
I don't blame people who smoke marijuana for causing the drug trade and smuggling either.