Ahaha, i can't help but post this video

Apple fans at their finest!

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werepeLeri: Whats the big deal with Google maps? People have been building maps before Google came. Navteq, Tele Atlas, MapQuest and many more have given us navigable maps even before Google came online. So, again, whats the big deal with google maps?

Did you bother to read the article at all?
If you had, you wouldn't have written what you wrote above!
You can't compare all those you mentioned to google maps in accuracy especially as it pertains to the streets around the world!

The problem with Nigerians is the kind of maps we have here is still rudimentary at best, but in other part of the world, their lives depend on it, after phone calls, sms and social media, the next most used app is MAPS!
And that's why there is a huge outcry when Apple removed google maps from ios6!

[size=13pt]How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything[/size]

An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.



Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the data that you're drawing from when you ask Google to navigate you from point A to point B -- and last week, Google showed me the internal map and demonstrated how it was built. It's the first time the company has let anyone watch how the project it calls GT, or "Ground Truth," actually works.

Google opened up at a key moment in its evolution. The company began as an online search company that made money almost exclusively from selling ads based on what you were querying for. But then the mobile world exploded. Where you're searching from has become almost as important as what you're searching for. Google responded by creating an operating system, brand, and ecosystem in Android that has become the only significant rival to Apple's iOS.

And for good reason. If Google's mission is to organize all the world's information, the most important challenge -- far larger than indexing the web -- is to take the world's physical information and make it accessible and useful.

"If you look at the offline world, the real world in which we live, that information is not entirely online," Manik Gupta, the senior product manager for Google Maps, told me. "Increasingly as we go about our lives, we are trying to bridge that gap between what we see in the real world and [the online world], and Maps really plays that part."

This is not just a theoretical concern. Mapping systems matter on phones precisely because they are the interface between the offline and online worlds. If you're at all like me, you use mapping more than any other application except for the communications suite (phone, email, social networks, and text messaging).

Google is locked in a battle with the world's largest company, Apple, about who will control the future of mobile phones. Whereas Apple's strengths are in product design, supply chain management, and retail marketing, Google's most obvious realm of competitive advantage is in information. Geo data -- and the apps built to use it -- are where Google can win just by being Google. That didn't matter on previous generations of iPhones because they used Google Maps, but now Apple's created its own service. How the two operating systems incorporate geo data and present it to users could become a key battleground in the phone wars.

The office where Google has been building the best representation of the world is not a remarkable place. It has all the free food, ping pong, and Google Maps-inspired Christoph Niemann cartoons that you'd expect, but it's still a low-slung office building just off the 101 in Mountain View in the burbs.

I was slated to meet with Gupta and the engineering ringleader on his team, former NASA engineer Michael Weiss-Malik, who'd spent his 20 percent time working on Google Mars, and Nick Volmar, an "operator" who actually massages map data.

"So you want to make a map," Weiss-Malik tells me as we sit down in front of a massive monitor. "There are a couple of steps. You acquire data through partners. You do a bunch of engineering on that data to get it into the right format and conflate it with other sources of data, and then you do a bunch of operations, which is what this tool is about, to hand massage the data. And out the other end pops something that is higher quality than the sum of its parts."

This is what they started out with, the TIGER data from the US Census Bureau (though the base layer could and does come from a variety of sources in different countries).



On first inspection, this data looks great. The roads look like they are all there and you've got the freeways differentiated. This is a good map to the untrained eye. But let's look closer. There are issues where the digital data does not match the physical world. I've circled a few obvious ones below.



And that's just from comparing the map to the satellite imagery. But there are also a variety of other tools at Google's disposal. One is bringing in data from other sources, say the US Geological Survey. But Google's Ground Truthers can also bring another exclusive asset to bear on the maps problem: the Street View cars' tracks and imagery. In keeping with Google's more-data-is-better-data mantra, the maps team, largely driven by Street View, is publishing more imagery data every two weeks than Google possessed total in 2006.*

Let's step back a tiny bit to recall with wonderment the idea that a single company decided to drive cars with custom cameras over every road they could access. Google is up to five million miles driven now. Each drive generates two kinds of really useful data for mapping. One is the actual tracks the cars have taken; these are proof-positive that certain routes can be taken. The other are all the photos. And what's significant about the photographs in Street View is that Google can run algorithms that extract the traffic signs and can even paste them onto the deep map within their Atlas tool. So, for a particularly complicated intersection like this one in downtown San Francisco, that could look like this:



Google Street View wasn't built to create maps like this, but the geo team quickly realized that computer vision could get them incredible data for ground truthing their maps. Not to detour too much, but what you see above is just the beginning of how Google is going to use Street View imagery. Think of them as the early web crawlers (remember those?) going out in the world, looking for the words on pages. That's what Street View is doing. One of its first uses is finding street signs (and addresses) so that Google's maps can better understand the logic of human transportation systems. But as computer vision and OCR improve, any word that is visible from a road will become a part of Google's index of the physical world.

Later in the day, Google Maps VP Brian McClendon put it like this: "We can actually organize the world's physical written information if we can OCR it and place it," McClendon said. "We use that to create our maps right now by extracting street names and addresses, but there is a lot more there."


More like what? "We already have what we call 'view codes' for 6 million businesses and 20 million addresses, where we know exactly what we're looking at," McClendon continued. "We're able to use logo matching and find out where are the Kentucky Fried Chicken signs ... We're able to identify and make a semantic understanding of all the pixels we've acquired. That's fundamental to what we do."

For now, though, computer vision transforming Street View images directly into geo-understanding remains in the future. The best way to figure out if you can make a left turn at a particular intersection is still to have a person look at a sign -- whether that's a human driving or a human looking at an image generated by a Street View car.

There is an analogy to be made to one of Google's other impressive projects: Google Translate. What looks like machine intelligence is actually only a recombination of human intelligence. Translate relies on massive bodies of text that have been translated into different languages by humans; it then is able to extract words and phrases that match up. The algorithms are not actually that complex, but they work because of the massive amounts of data (i.e. human intelligence) that go into the task on the front end.

Google Maps has executed a similar operation. Humans are coding every bit of the logic of the road onto a representation of the world so that computers can simply duplicate (infinitely, instantly) the judgments that a person already made.

This reality is incarnated in Nick Volmar, the operator who has been showing off Atlas while Weiss-Malik and Gupta explain it. He probably uses twenty-five keyboard shortcuts switching between types of data on the map and he shows the kind of twitchy speed that I associate with long-time designers working with Adobe products or professional Starcraft players. Volmar has clearly spent thousands of hours working with this data. Weiss-Malik told me that it takes hundreds of operators to map a country. (Rumor has it many of these people work in the Bangalore office, out of which Gupta was promoted.)

The sheer amount of human effort that goes into Google's maps is just mind-boggling. Every road that you see slightly askew in the top image has been hand-massaged by a human. The most telling moment for me came when we looked at couple of the several thousand user reports of problems with Google Maps that come in every day. The Geo team tries to address the majority of fixable problems within minutes. One complaint reported that Google did not show a new roundabout that had been built in a rural part of the country. The satellite imagery did not show the change, but a Street View car had recently driven down the street and its tracks showed the new road perfectly.

Volmar began to fix the map, quickly drawing the new road and connecting it to the existing infrastructure. In his haste (and perhaps with the added pressure of three people watching his every move), he did not draw a perfect circle of points. Weiss-Malik and I detoured into another conversation for a couple of minutes. By the time I looked back at the screen, Volmar had redrawn the circle with perfect precision and upgraded a few other things while he was at it. The actions were impressively automatic. This is an operation that promotes perfectionism.

And that's how you get your maps to look this this:



Some details are worth pointing out. In the top at the center, trails have been mapped out and coded as places for walking. All the parking lots have been mapped out. All the little roads, say, to the left of the small dirt patch on the right, have also been coded. Several of the actual buildings have been outlined. Down at the bottom left, a road has been marked as a no-go. At each and every intersection, there are arrows that delineate precisely where cars can and cannot turn.

Now imagine doing this for every tile on Google's map in the United States and 30 other countries over the last four years. Every roundabout perfectly circular, every intersection with the correct logic. Every new development. Every one-way street. This is a task of a nearly unimaginable scale. This is not something you can put together with a few dozen smart engineers.

I came away convinced that the geographic data Google has assembled is not likely to be matched by any other company. The secret to this success isn't, as you might expect, Google's facility with data, but rather its willingness to commit humans to combining and cleaning data about the physical world. Google's map offerings build in the human intelligence on the front end, and that's what allows its computers to tell you the best route from San Francisco to Boston.

***

It's probably better not to think of Google Maps as a thing like a paper map. Geographic information systems represent a jump from paper maps like the abacus to the computer. "I honestly think we're seeing a more profound change, for map-making, than the switch from manuscript to print in the Renaissance," University of London cartographic historian Jerry Brotton told the Sydney Morning Herald. "That was huge. But this is bigger."

The maps we used to keep folded in our glove compartments were a collection of lines and shapes that we overlaid with human intelligence. Now, as we've seen, a map is a collection of lines and shapes with Nick Volmar's (and hundreds of others') intelligence encoded within.

It's common when we discuss the future of maps to reference the Borgesian dream of a 1:1 map of the entire world. It seems like a ridiculous notion that we would need a complete representation of the world when we already have the world itself. But to take scholar Nathan Jurgenson's conception of augmented reality seriously, we would have to believe that every physical space is, in his words, "interpenetrated" with information. All physical spaces already are also informational spaces. We humans all hold a Borgesian map in our heads of the places we know and we use it to navigate and compute physical space. Google's strategy is to bring all our mental maps together and process them into accessible, useful forms.

Their MapMaker product makes that ambition clear. Project managed by Gupta during his time in India, it's the "bottom up" version of Ground Truth. It's a publicly accessible way to edit Google Maps by adding landmarks and data about your piece of the world. It's a way of sucking data out of human brains and onto the Internet. And it's a lot like Google's open competitor, Open Street Map, which has proven that it, too, can harness the crowd's intelligence.

As we slip and slide into a world where our augmented reality is increasingly visible to us off and online, Google's geographic data may become its most valuable asset. Not solely because of this data alone, but because location data makes everything else Google does and knows more valuable.

Or as my friend and sci-fi novelist Robin Sloan put it to me, "I maintain that this is Google's core asset. In 50 years, Google will be the self-driving car company (powered by this deep map of the world) and, oh, P.S. they still have a search engine somewhere."
Of course, they will always need one more piece of geographic information to make all this effort worthwhile: You. Where you are, that is. Your location is the current that makes Google's giant geodata machine run. They've built this whole playground as an elaborate lure for you. As good and smart and useful as it is, good luck resisting taking the bait.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-well-everything/261913/

Apple's view of Colchester (left) is shrouded in cloud, while Google (right) has a clear view. The two firms are set to go head to head on the iPhone if Apple approves Google's plans for a maps app.


Albert Bridge in Apple's 3D map (left) is distorted, while Google (right) shows a more realistic version


Yes, it should be easy for Apple (AAPL) to one day match Google’s (GOOG) prowess for creating a top-notch maps application: All it has to do is hire another 7,000 people. Business Insider reports that Google has roughly 7,100 people who are working on its maps application, including 1,100 full-time employees and 6,000 contractors who combine to work as “street view drivers, people flying planes, people drawing maps, people correcting listings, and people building new products.” As BI notes, Apple has only 13,000 non-retail employees in total, so it’s really not fair to compare its maps application with an app that’s designed and maintained by a small army.


The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol as it appears in Apple's maps. The firm has come under fire for some of its 3D photography which has distorted buildings, and is set to face fresh competition from Google's map app.





http://news.yahoo.com/google-whopping-7-100-people-working-maps-alone-000541085.html

@ Texazzpete

If iPhone 5 processor didn't do better than what is already in the market
The ghost of Steve Job will surely pursue Tim cook in the dream.

But as for other features of I5, many phones in the market has been enjoying them for quite awhile, while fanboys are rejoicing as if they were invented by apple!

Gbyte:

What's the best way of extorting people of their hard earned money if not by making more than one series of a phone in a year, if Samsung wants to make a good phone and let it compete, why can't they just take all the time they need and make it once? Why come out with S3 and S4 the same year? That's what my Apple won't do, you'd enjoy your phone for at least one year before thinking of changing it, and for that period of one year the old phone would still be nice, everything intact that you can sell back and you'd be happy at the price you sell it. As a matter of fact, I trade in my phones, once iPhone 5 gets to Naija now, all I need donors take it in to any reseller and get the iPhone 5 with additional money.

And for all4naija, would you just stop crying about iPhone looking the same way, that's what they call signature, you don't need anyone to tell you this is an iPhone before you know it, even when you are blindfolded, all you need do is touch the phone to know its name.
Changing the shape of the phone is like a woman that gives a married woman that sleeps with more than a man, she's either confuse, loose or promiscuous. My Iphone is neither of the three but your sammy is infant Ashawo

Spoken like a true Apple mas.turbator!
I'm sorry to say "what you wrote up there is ridiculous not to say the least!"
For you information, Samsung made the most powerful phone in the last 6 months
And who is complaining that Samsung makes S3 and S4 in a year? You?
And who again told you Sammy is not competing ?
If they are not competing, why is Apple running around in a circle, suing all over the place, trying to get injunction against their sales?
Smh

That was a trip wire naa
U try!

of course what did you expect?
Apple had about 6 months to overpower the most powerful phone and they came out doing that (only in speed anyway)!
Samsung is also taking her lessons, come November when S4 comes out, their new Hussain Bolt will again leave Iphone 5 in the dust!
It will always get better and the consumers reap the benefit of smaller and more powerful phones!

A toast to the new King (even if its only for 2months)

(On a lighter note, my wife has caught the Iphone 5 bug too and i can't change her mind, she is getting one!)

And make una no forget o!
Galaxy S4 is coming out in November!
and where is my next love (Lumia 920) in all these benchmarking battle naa
Would really love to see its own result!

Ahahaa
Na wa o!
Apple pipuls
Thou must justify thy rabid love for thy idol
Fact is this iPhone 5 released almost 6 months later, is still struggling with Galaxy S3 for benchmark topdog!
Anyways sha,
I have benchmark results here too

No worries, iPhone 6 is right around the corner!

Honestly, the Lumia 920 and these Htc are really beautiful, though the HTC's gaudy colors make it look girlish
Windows Phone is finally coming of age!
2013 is really going to be very interesting, especially with Firefox OS joining the fray!

Sisi_Kill:
INT.APPLE HEADQUARTERS - DAY
HEAD OF ADVERTISING DEPT - Okay guys we need to come up with a great concept. Have you seen the new Samsung ad? We need to top that, I mean I want something great, something that will blow them out the waters. So any ideas?

CRICKET SOUNDS FILLS ROOMS.

TEN HOURS LATER
INT. APPLE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT
HEAD OF ADVERTISING - (yawning) Okay guys, we have some of the best minds advertising in this room. Don't tell me we have run out of ideas? Come on people...hit me with your best shot.

CRICKET SOUNDS FILLS ROOM.

Ahahah
You will be very much surprised!
Apple has a way of making mundane things, awesome for their human drones

This is my best part, just love the way the dude demonstrated the awesomeness of the new earbud
Like an A-bomb exploding in your head

texazzpete:

You mean like Samsung showing off S-Voice that's a clone of Siri....that had been available for half a year on iOS? Or Every Android fan going crazy for Jellybean's 60fps smoothness that iOS has had for years?
Or Samsung showing off the Galaxy Note and SGS III's 'retina' pixel density that had been available on the iPhone 4 since 2010?

Everyone is still playing catch up with everyone else

Ahahah
Let Apple come out with their own rebuttal video naa

ITbomb: By Ebele Orakpo
So, after 33 years of
intense research, he came up with a new branch of physics known as
Emagnetodynamics, the branch of physics that
studies the conversion of the energy of static
magnetic fields into work. Before now, “the
conventional electric motor was built on the
principle/law of Michael Faraday which states that Force is exerted on a current-carrying
conductor in a magnetic field.” The two laws of Emagnetodynamics state as
follows: Force is exerted on a composite
magnetic pole in the vicinity of an array of like
poles; and this force is in the direction of the
composite polarity similar to the array. Based on these two laws, he invented the
Izuogu machine, also called [size=13pt]the self-sustaining
Emagnetodynamics machine, a kind of electric
motor that draws atomic energy from the nuclei
of permanent magnets and therefore requires
no input power to operate[/size] . According to
Izuogu, there are
two versions of
the Emagnetodynamics machine – the non-self-
sustaining and the self-sustaining machine
which can run for upwards of 30 to 40 years.
He added that soft iron machine or the hard
iron machine could be built from each of them. He noted that the machines named M-1000 and
M-6000, respectively, could drive 100 KVA and
5 Mega watt electric power generators with no
noise, no pollution, and zero energy input. “The M-60 prototype machine has been built
and demonstrated, while the M-1000 and
M-6000 have been designed waiting to be
built,” he said. Scientists have experimented with nuclear
reactors in their bid to seek energy source that
is clean, cheap and environment-friendly.
However, this could not work as the dangers
inherent in that are enormous. For instance, reports say that more than 20,000
people developed thyroid cancer and had to
have their thyroids removed as a result of April
26, 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Till date, there is
about 1,660 square-mile Exclusion Zone
around the site of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 years after the accident. Unlike nuclear reactors, the Izuogu machine
draws atomic energy without the dangers and
complications of nuclear reactors. Izuogu said
that besides generating electricity, the machine
can also power big luxury buses and trams

Another perpetual motion device, eh?

The best part about these ads is they're accurate. Everyone is getting excited for features that have been on the market for a year

The thing that amazes me the most about Samsung's Galaxy S3 ads is that they have somehow managed to come off as more smug than Apple.


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Samsung’s latest commercial for its flagship Samsung Galaxy S III phone has been released taking a scything swipe at potential iPhone 5 customers claiming many have moved on to the Korean manufacturer’s Android powered smartphone.

“The next big thing is already here” claims Samsung as the advert shows iPhone die hard fans queuing up outside Apple stores in anticipation of the iPhone 5, arriving on 21 September.



With sound bites such as “the headset jacks is going to be on the bottom” and “this year we’re finally getting what we didn’t get last year, a big screen,” Samsung’s less than subtle message is clear – too little, too late.

A group of former Apple fanboys then walk past the crowds sporting their Samsung Galaxy S III’s to which the watching crowds curiously look on at the Android smatphone’s features such as ShareShot and the bigger screen.



Whether you’re a Samsung Galaxy S III convert or are itching to get your hands on the new iPhone 5, it’s an amusing take on the rivalry between the two companies that has had a more sour taste in recent months following a prolonged court battle between the two.

pakistan ke?
Dem no dey fear Taliban?

Just loves these comments!

I said at the time - don't be surprised if you don't like what replaces the dictators - and so it has come to pass. The only people who are surprised are the western politicians that encouraged it - makes you wonder as to their intelligence.
If you are from the middle east, then you already know that there is no such thing as democracy or freedom. You only have the right to riot against the West.

[size=13pt]Why the Arab Spring has failed: Watchdog claims people have no more freedom than under the tyrants they deposed[/size]

Freedoms gained during the Arab Spring uprisings are being whittled away and fledgling democracies are now under threat, claims a U.S. watchdog.

The Crossroads Report published by Freedom House today, concludes that levels of democratic governance declined throughout the world last year.

It found that gains made in the Middle East and North Africa after the uprising in Libya triggered a wave of protests across the region have notably declined.


Improvements made after Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, pictured here following his capture, was ousted have not lasted according to a new report

Only Tunisia has shown an improvement in its overall governance score amongst the Middle East-North African countries surveyed.

Bahrain, one of the most stable states in the region, slipped backward, while Egypt showed only a minor improvement.

Worldwide, declines in the quality of governance far exceeded improvements.

The organisation judged levels of democracies by looking at government accountability and the rule of law in civil and criminal matters.

The deterioration raises an alarm for pro-democracy advocates who had hoped the overthrow of brutal authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt would lead to lasting democracy.

Vanessa Tucker, project director, said: 'It is unclear whether the popular dismissal of the old models of authoritarianism will translate into enduring public support for novice representative government and contentious institutional reforms.


Tunisia has improved its democratic governance since President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown


'There are limits to citizens' patience with respect to political instability, economic disruption and physical insecurity, and the desire to return to a less chaotic environment may allow the leaders to slip back into the familiar habits of authoritarian rule.'

Democratic states place significant value on the findings of the report, using the results to help them decide if a developing can country would use foreign assistance effectively.

The report covers the period from April 2009 to December 2011.

Four criteria were used to assess 72 countries in the survey - accountability and public voice; civil liberties; rule of law; and anti-corruption and transparency.

Figures for half of the countries were updated each year, while Egypt and Tunisia were surveyed for the past two years.

Freedom House says a country score of five out of a total of seven is the minimum standard for effective democratic governance, which it views as essential to an open, just and prosperous society.

In the latest report, Tunisia improved in all categories led by a sharp rise in accountability and public voice, pushing its overall country ranking to 4.11 from around 2.36 before the ouster of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.

One area of concern the report highlighted was women's rights in Tunisia where it said Islamist political parties have stoked fears that existing rights would be retracted.


Dictator Colonel Gadaffi who was overthrown on August 23 last year. There are concerns that countries such as Libya may return to authoritarian rule

While it uses monitors and experts on the ground and an advisory board, such rankings can be controversial accused of imposing subjective and Western viewpoints.

Levels of accountability and public voice rose in Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted, but other areas did not show improvements leading to only a small rise in the country's score to 2.25 from 1.98. That despite open elections.

Restrictions on the media, hostility to non-governmental organizations and efforts to restrain women's political activity through 'virginity checks' by the military were cited as areas of concern.

Bahrain, saw its measures decline across the board pulling its country average down to 2.03, the level of pre-uprising Syria, from a recent peak of 3.27 in 2004.



Elsewhere, in South America increases in violence and organised crime reduced scores in the countries surveyed.

The trend included high rates of violence against journalists in Mexico and Honduras, and growing interference by organized crime in the electoral process in Guatemala and Mexico.

Asia suffered major setbacks in the face of power grabs by the executive branch and ruling parties, particularly in Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Freedom of expression was also constricted as the Indonesian and Cambodian governments and others cracked down on the media.

South Africa, suffered score declines from the increasing dominance of the ruling African National Congress and the government's efforts to limit media freedom.

Electoral abuses in Malawi and Uganda, in addition to growing corruption in Tanzania, were also responsible for significant score drops in African countries assessed in the latest report.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205052/Why-Arab-Spring-failed-Watchdog-claims-people-freedom-tyrants-deposed.html#ixzz26vFvre6O

Can i unsee this video?
Rick Ross! give me back my 6:17mins!

(The Nigerians that helped him to shoot this video, must be shot!)

The island has, for a long time, been de facto Japan's territory. Although the ownership has been controversial historically, only recently has this become an issue, and that is namely after Japan purchased the territory from residents of the island. Prior to Japan's purchase, I think China was intentionally letting some of the publicity about Japan's claim to the islands slip in order to distract the people from the real issue in the country, which is the rampant corruption of the government and the imminent change in power. (President Hu is expected to step down soon). In a rapidly modernizing world in which China is slowly losing their control on information in and out of the country, a move like this is necessary to keep the people distracted from the actions of the government and to use Chauvinistic tactics in order to maintain power.

Thus, I also consider Japan's move of purchasing the land as a political one, designed to incite further outrage in the Chinese people, creating sufficient disorder in order to weaken the country during a time of political instability, while the change of power happens.

While I am definitely against the communist and practically totalitarian regime in China, I view the unnecessary purchase of the islands as a deliberate attempt by the Japanese to destabilize China.

It is clear that there is a long-standing hatred for the Japanese on the part of the Chinese (though the Koreans hate the Japanese too, and all of Asia is like one big hate-fest), but I don't consider this part of a plot to vilify the Japanese. I am sorry that China is certainly overreacting, but I must admit that I am not surprised at the outcome or the actions of either country.

Demonstrations in Changsha, Hunan



A store display in Nanjing bears the sign THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA!.



A banner on a store called pattad reads: "pattad firmly defends China's right to the Diaoyu Islands. / We will give a 15% discount to customers who yell THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA! in the store / We will give a 20% discount to customers who yell JAPAN ALSO BELONGS TO CHINA!"



Chinese protestors congregate outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing.



At an auto show, a Chinese brand car is draped in a PRC flag that reads PATRIOTIC SPENDING / BUY CHINESE GOODS.



A sushi restaurant in Suzhou is demolished by protestors.



Rioters in Qingdao demolish shops.



"JAPANESE GUESTS ARE NOT CURRENTLY BEING ACCOMMODATED BY OUR HOTEL"



Rioters smash cars, burn buildings



A man in Xi'an holds a sign that reads CAR SMASHINGS AHEAD, JAPANESE CAR OWNERS SHOULD TURN BACK NOW



Protestors rally outside a Heiwado shop in Changsha, Hunan.



Demonstrations



A pig wears a headband that resembles the Japanese flag



Rioters loot a Rolex store



Demonstrations in this location turn violent



A hair salon named "Korean-style Haircuts" hangs a banner that says JAPANESE AND DOGS NOT ALLOWED INSIDE



Employees at a dealership hold up a sign that says WE WILL KILL EVERY JAPANESE PERSON EVEN IF IT MEANS DEATHS FOR OUR OWN; EVEN POVERTY WILL NOT DETER US FROM RECLAIMING THE DIAOYU ISLANDS



A woman tries to stop rioters from demolishing her Japanese brand car



A woman discovers her Japanese brand car has been demolished




A Honda owner drove his car to the nearest Honda dealership and set it on fire; banners in the back read DEFEAT THE JAPANESE DEMONS




A Toyota dealership in Shanghai is set on fire




The owner of a Japanese vehicle has covered his car in the following messages: BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS, WRECK THE JAPANESE ECONOMY / I BOUGHT THIS CAR BEFORE JAPAN bleeped THINGS UP / FROM NOW ON, I WILL BOYCOTT ALL JAPANESE PRODUCTS




Demonstrations in Yunnan

Muslims can't just stand by and watch their prophet being mocked.

Just as they can't just stand by and watch their daughters dressing like a westerner or dating a non-Muslim.

Muslims can't just stand by and watch their son or daughter or an absolute stranger who is gay.

They resort to violence.

All religions have intolerance at their core.
But Islam wins the "hysterical mob incited to violence award" and the "prepared to kill strangers for God" award every time.

mathskill: Who is talking about the green revolution you slowpoke.If you've not heared about Jundallah then you still have a lot of catching up to do in international politics.Jundallah is the iranian insurgent organization america is supporting in both financial and training matters.
As for the mujaheddin,why shouldnt i go there.I gave them as an example of real support america lends to oppositions and you say i shouldnt go there shifting the issue under the carpet cause you dont have anything to say.What if they are americas nemesis,does that remove the fact that they were once americas allies?
As for your opinion about china and russias stand on the syrian crises only proves the degree to which you are ignorant.Let me educate you a bit.The conflict in syria is a three tier multilayered conflict.The first is local between sunni and alawite(mind you alawite are offshoot of the shite) by extention this leads us to the regional tier between Iran(shiites),Syrian government(alawite)and hezbollah(shiite) on one side and Turkey,Qatar,Saudi Arabia and FSA on the other side.On the international scene it is AMERICA,the west,Turkey and the rest on on side while China,russia,iran and the rest on the other.china has the question of Tibet and Taiwan,both potential breakaway territories and desperate for anyone not to meddle in thier affiars given that they to wont interfere in the internal affairs of others hence thier policy on syria.As for russia the syrian port of Tartus is the only port they have outside of russia and thhey want to keep it that and they've forgoten the wayo the U.S and west did them in libya.So my brother it is not as you suggest.

I decided i wasn't going to reply the rubbish you wrote up there, but on second thoughts, there are people that comes here for information and the sh.it you wrote may confuse them the more!
When did Jundallah becomes an opposition group to Iranian government you blockhead?
Only in your village! mumu!
Jundallah is a terrorist organization!
Whose funding comes from kidnapping and trade in opium just like other terrorist organization like Taliban and Al-queda!
I'm sure you got your info that US is funding them from Press-tv who will pin anything on the great Satan and the Jews?
And don't dare tell me their executed leader confessed, anyone can say anything to save their lives!
The only opposition to the Iranian government is Mousavi, the leader of the green movement and he's presently under House arrest!
So, stop dancing about quoting Wikipedia, as if that will make you sound smart, iddiot!
As per the Syrian trouble!
Everyone but a fool knows that its basically a proxy war!
And the next time, you are responding, respond to facts and the issue under discussion, stop pulling out other distracting issues.
Remember the issue is that you are backing Obama's foreign policy and stop dancing about like a drunken iddiot round the village square!

mathskill: Seems you are dumber than i initialy placed.Must i spell everything before you understand my point.Obviousely you can read and write but have difficulty in comprehending.The support america is giving the iranian opposition is what is meant by real support.The one the americans gave the mujahideen to fight the soviets is another example of what we call support.Not the half hearted,grudgingly given words they uttered on cnn oceans away.You deceitly highlighted my words.Why didnt you highlight the point i made that it took them 30 years to figure out to ditch Mubarak.The point at which you give an ill man medicine is when he's on his sickbed not when he is better.You right nothwithstanding when america gave thier support after people had finished fighting and killed in Tahrir square.
If the protests in bahrain and saudi arabia had gained momentum,be rest assured america for their interest and influence not to wane would have supported them.

Arguing with a mentally deficit humanoid is abhorrent to me!
I've warned you to stop dancing around like an headless chicken, stop quoting half truths!
What support did the Americans gave the Iranian opposition? Where are the architects of the green revolution now?
When was the last time Any American leader mentioned the leaders who are presently under house arrest?
Stop talking what you don't know, the green revolution ended, when they were all brutally suppressed in 2009!
Of course all the world leaders, called on the Iranian leader to stop the crack down and the most vocal was Obama.
So, pray tell? Did he send weapons to the green opposition rioters or what support are you talking.
Keep your mouth shut, people will respect you more, you don't have to open your trap to dispel the illusion of your intelligence.
And about the support of the mujaheddin? Don't you even go there!
Is that not the American number one nemesis now?

China and Russia are two world powers, they understand all these things better!
They are solidly behind Assad now because they understood, no one can guarantee the outcome of all these revolutions!
Left to the Americans alone, they would've replayed the Libyan strategy in Syria!

The protesters had a single demand: the US administration should not allow such films against the Prophet under the pretext of freedom of speech.

“We stand for universal values, including the rights of the … people to freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and the freedom to access information.”

–President Barack Obama, during the Egyptian mass uprising against a detested dictator.

“The United States is … to construct an architecture of values that spans the globe and includes every man, woman and child. An architecture that can not only counter repression and resist pressure on human rights, but also extend those fundamental freedoms to places where they have been too long denied.”

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a foreign policy speech in September.



Now they have freedom,
Of course, they must test their freedom on THE GREAT SATAN!

"O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust." Qur’an 5:51

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." Qur’an 9:29

"Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures." Qur’an 98:6

Take a wild guess who the "People of the Book" are to these pieces of shit? When they see Germany, or Britain, or America, they think white people. When they think white people, they think Christians and Jews. They think "the worst of creatures" who must "feel themselves subdued."

[size=13pt]No matter how much Obama panders to them!
They will continue to be a pain in his a*ss[/size]

Why don't you get your head out of a*ss, and stop rounding around like an headless chicken!

mathskill: So America just wokeup over night to support the egyptian people after 30 year's of proping the mubarak regime by recognizing his authocratic rule gained through a sham democratic process by muscling out the opposition by intimidation and rigging elections.The arab spring quickly caught up in egypt from neighbouring tunisia,egyptians overcame fear,faced death and ultimately triumphed.During all the killings in Tahrir square and attempt by mubarak to cling to power,[size=13pt]it took america two months before they told mubarak it was time to go[/size].Americas sideing the egyptian people wasnt based on interest and that inerest is not to loose egypt the way that happened in iran.Interest again is what underlines the American foreign policy.[size=13pt]They dont like Ghadafi and thats why they intervened in Libya not because they have the interest of the Libyan people at heart.Just to give you a few other examples of how thier interest drives thier policy and decision making is the case of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were they operate absolute monarchies.[/size]

From the highlighted above (this is your own words o) was America not in support of the two uprising you mentioned
Whether it was after two months or one year, notwithstanding?
You wrote, America removed Ghaddaffi because they don't like him?
So if you know these little, stop confusing yourself, everyone has a choice and the choice you make comes with its own repercussion! What we are seeing now is just a taste of what to come!

Protests also broke out in Bahrain and saudi arabia for the opening of the political scene and ultimate democratization but the only word from washington is mute

obama had no chice but support the popular wish of the arab people after they drove americas puppets out of power.This he did grudginly lest america be on the wrong side of history as happened in iran when lost a whole generation because they didnt side the people in overthrowing the shah.

These are your two statements and i'm sure you can see the faults in them!
Why didn't America side with the people of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in order not to be on the wrong side of history?

989900: Atheists and Agnostics having a laugh

You are forgetting?

sweetcheecks:

Actually tgey did have a choice ( not supporting mathskill, i dont understabd what he saying, am just answering you) Any decicion one take is a choice!!!

That was meant to be a sarcasm!
Was referring to the guy saying Obama had no choice supporting the Arab's spring!