How do you get BBC World ?
They’re just protecting the local industry by not allowing imports.
You can get BBC world? I just lost StarWorld down here. That was at least 53.2% of my English viewing. Thanks a lot for Hakka TV.
I wouldn’t really call it “soft porn”. It’s just tattooed bikini-clad girls climbing up metal poles. And actually they’re not really wearing bikinis. They’re really wearing heavily-padded colored bras and panties.
But there’s also a show from 12 midnight to 1 am which is a little better. It’s on the channel called “Peng2 Lai2 Xian1 Shan1”. If you can’t read Chinese characters, the logo is the ancient character for “mountain”, colored reddish-orange so it looks like three flames. It shows girls walking on beaches and in secluded mountainous areas in various stages of undress, but it never really shows you the parts of their bodies that you really want to see, so it’s almost as disappointing as watching the girls climb up the metal poles.
Pretty boring stuff, really. If you really want to see porn, buy VCD’s.
Here’s a contrary opinion: I think it’s a good regulation and one that, unlike so many others, has a strong chance of making a difference – a small difference, but still a change for the better.
Dripping air conditioners is a problem – or at least a nuisance. (I’ve had my own woes with dripping water, so I know how annoying it can be.) The fact that Taipei might have other problems doesn’t negate this.
The regulation comes with a fine as a disincentive for offenders (standard) and a snitch clause to encourage informers (morally ambiguous, but effective). And “The drip” isn’t like traffic offenses. Once the problem with an individual air conditioner is fixed, it’s fixed and isn’t likely to return.
It’s only ridiculous if the city government trumpets the law as some grand step on the way to internationalization or some other such lofty and nebulous goal.