rveeblefetzer

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by rveeblefetzer 9y ago
A friend got slapped with a fine over this. He's a foreign resident, and he changed hotels while on a trip. That information is bundled up and sent to the authorities, and they cross-checked him with the address he put on his travel fo
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
here's a Reddit account on finding fake rice: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/4u06wk/i_bought_fake... it's black rice, which if you've never had it, you might've seen it in a
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
When his fixer Dith Pran died, the NPPA magazine News Photographer talked about Schanberg's reporting and how it placed you on the bridge when the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh -- and how today, the first graf is the news and the seco
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
The general complaint is that Cambodia is under Vietnamese influence, mostly stemming from its backing of and leading the defectors who overthrew the Khmer Rouge. People today complain that the top govt officials are still Vietnamese, wheth
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
I was once talking to Dougald O'Reilly, an archaeologist from Australian National University who's done a lot of research at Angkor Wat. He was talking about having just published a paper about a dig and centuries-old skulls they&
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
>> I wonder if it will accelerate the pace of restoration of temples in the area. Likely not; current restoration projects are a shitshow, with an utter lack of coordination and even communication between the various country teams in
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
Can't wait to get details of this game here in Shanghai via VPN
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Authenticating sneakers by blockchain(fastcodesign.com)
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
Missed opportunity: the photo editor could've folded out the newspapers and shown ads below the fold. Would've looked great paired with the headline
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
You could search PGP keyservers for email addresses/domains of the local media where that retirement fund is located and take it from there, using your own judgment about the reporter and outlet, and how much you'd want to mask th
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
The Blackberry alternative that was suggested to Obama was the Sectera Edge by General Dynamics, which made the F-16 before it was sold to Lockheed http://www.networkworld.com/article/2234082/what-obama-won-t...
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Emails behind Mt. Gox implosion(thedailybeast.com)
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China proposes 'underwater great wall'(janes.com)
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
Per-word rates are the most common in English; in German language, it's per character. Sometimes news outlets will establish a relationship with a freelancer that use dto be called a dedicated stringer, and some of those contracts woul
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
In the US news business, $100k/month is strictly the domain of TV on-screen personality presenters; i.e., not the reporters, but network affiliate anchors who are referred to in-house as 'the talent'. Absurd sums of money whe
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
The phrase you would be looking to use in your pitch to the editor would be to offer it 'on spec'. Some publications mandate that the first piece they get from new freelancers will be submitted on spec. But when you're making
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
Just to be sure, I'm more used to seeing 50% kill fees, at least from Asia and West Africa (for Western or Western-run publications). 50% is customary, and with established clients, unsaid until the time comes
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
I'm a journalist; lots of my colleagues were floored watching the doc about the NYT, "Page One," when David Carr tells his editor, "I'm doing two more weeks of reporting on this, then it might take a week to write i
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by rveeblefetzer 10y ago
Gmail's conversation threading, or the Thunderbird Conversations addon, are the only thing I wish for with Mutt. I once asked on the mutt mailing list about this, but the solutions were pretty ugly, mostly involving all sent mail copie
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by rveeblefetzer 11y ago
have you tried a Chinatown gift shop? The kind of place that sells baoding balls, incense and kitschy porcelain?