Since the battery has to be changed by the manufacturers (or by their appointed service agents) I presume that the information and settings would be backed up and restored once the new battery is in place.

It took me quite a while to open them, as well.

Maybe you should think about reducing their size, Tooms1, so that dial-up users will at least have a sporting chance of seeing them. 🙂

Why would EZY buy the A380?

Damned if I know, but it looks very much as though BA are going to!

its just that your questions are too simple and your ‘jabs’ are a little off the mark.

Right…right…whatever you say, plawolf. Mind you, you could try answering one of them instead of emabarking on a critique of the questions themselves as a diversionary tactic.

BTW – what’s Mandarin for “smug git”? 😎

‘suspision’ is based largely on a misunderstanding of what all the big names truely represent.

Actually, the MA in Politics and Modern History helped a little bit as well.

But thank you for explaining what all those big, hard, words mean to this unfortunate gweilu nevertheless.

The PRC is ruled by an undemocratic and repressive regime – you can play semantics and twist words until Hell freezes over, but that fact remains.

all of these parties are independent, they dont take orders from the CCP. they are merely regulated by the chinese government

Right – they’re not controlled, merely regulated. Care to explain the difference between the CCP and the Chinese government?

the same as all political parties all around the world are regulated by their different governments

Nonsense – this simply is not the case! Clearly your knowledge of how democracy works in the world at large is imperfect.

these parties are all fully independent. it just that since there are no general elections in china, these parties will not get any sort of real power in the forseeable future, so their existance is irrelevent.

So, you admit that the PRC is an undemocratic one-party state, then?

i have no problem with people finding and pointing out real faults within the chinese government or any aspect of china. what i cant stand is people criticies china because they ‘think’ that so and so is the case, when it isnt in reality.

OK – you still haven’t named a single independant (IE – NOT AN AFFILIATE OF THE CCP) political party that is allowed to operate within the PRC. This, of course, is because no such thing exists.
If I’m wrong, prove it. Not by making lofty and airy assertions, or by posting more photographs of half-naked men, but by simply naming just one such party.

Just one……

regardless, there are many different politcial parties even with the PRC itself. however the form of government of the PRC means they arent much of an ‘opposition’.

Great!!

Humour an ignorant laowai and name one, then.

empty name calling is the sign of a person who has nothing to back up his claims

Belittling those who disagree with your world-view is the sign of an insecure person. 😎

Your move…………. 😀