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Scandalian Airlines · **Reply #45 on:** October 17, 2007, 03:48:02 pm

Quote from: "dktc"

The limitation of child labor is another factor to consider as well. (But then, we are not getting paid... so :? )

Actually not as it would not be considered child labour. Child labour is when a child is working in a sweat shop making footballs, carpets or whatever, and are denied the chance of an education. Also work that put's the kid in danger, like construction, operating machinery or vehicles is forbidden, but there is no problem doing ordinary gardening work, administrative work or such.
Any labour performed by a child that is done voluntarely, and does not put the child to danger, with a decent salary is legal. Think paper boys, pop artists, actors etc...
Therefore, legally, hiring a person below 18 is OK from that point, and with the parents written permission there would be no problem at all, and parents are allowed to sign contracts on behalf of their children.
As I have understood though it's more about being sure there is a certain level of maturity in the business, and Daniel shows maturity (most of the time

)

dktc · **Reply #46 on:** October 17, 2007, 03:59:08 pm

I didn't say it was illegal... just that hours of work is restraint and there is paperwork involved to establish AM is not a sweatshop, I think.

StephenM · **Reply #47 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:18:33 pm

Quote from: "Jps"

Just wondering.. why Chinese? Why not French? Why not Portuguese? Why not Dutch!?!

The Markets as they are in order of visits per month:

No.1 US (English & Spanish)
No.2 HongKong (English & Chinese [Insertwhatevervariationofchineseyoulikehere])
No.3 Brasil (Portuguese)

Spanish is the next language for support. After that we'll look at German or something along that line.

Jps · **Reply #48 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:19:52 pm

I see...

So is the chinese simplified or traditional?

StephenM · **Reply #49 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:22:05 pm

Quote from: "Jps"

I see...

So is the chinese simplified or traditional?

I speak Irish English and French. I haven't a clue, thats why I got Daniel to draft that release.

dktc · **Reply #50 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:23:04 pm

Quote from: "Jps"

I see...

So is the chinese simplified or traditional?

Traditional

Jps · **Reply #51 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:24:13 pm

Quote from: "dktc"

Quote from: "Jps"
I see...

So is the chinese simplified or traditional?

Traditional

Simplified is so much easier and more people use it..!

dktc · **Reply #52 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:26:50 pm

Quote from: "Jps"

Simplified is so much easier and more people use it..!

Simplified is not technically Chinese

Seriously though, the people who use it live in a under-develop market for AM. We do have plans in rolling that out, but because of the average English level in the Mainland China, we would need to make the game Chinese first. And also because of the potentially large number of players, we are waiting for multi-world to be set up before we go there.

Jps · **Reply #53 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:29:28 pm

Ok.. ill be on the world that the brokers are on

gizgiz · **Reply #54 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:43:23 pm

Quote from: "dktc"

Quote from: "Jps"
Simplified is so much easier and more people use it..!

Simplified is not technically Chinese

^^ Gets arrest by Hu.

Simplified is technically not a traditional form of written Chinese. It was believed that Chinese was too hard for many people, especially words with 64 strokes or more, so they decided to shorten it for "lazy people". Whereas traditional Chinese came about from pictures, like heiroglyphs, simplified came out really when certain powerful men in China said, ok, this word is now officially written in Chinese like this lazy ass character. Thus, simplified was born.

TO make things clear AGAIN:
* Mainland China, and most of the Western world uses SIMPLIFIED Chinese.
* Taiwan, HK, Macau, Singapore (I believe) use TRADITIONAL Chinese.

Most Chinese readers can read one fluently and the other, well, not too badly.

dktc · **Reply #55 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:52:52 pm

Quote from: "gizgiz"

^^ Gets arrest by Hu.

Simplified is technically not a traditional form of written Chinese. It was believed that Chinese was too hard for many people, especially words with 64 strokes or more, so they decided to shorten it for "lazy people". Whereas traditional Chinese came about from pictures, like heiroglyphs, simplified came out really when certain powerful men in China said, ok, this word is now officially written in Chinese like this lazy ass character. Thus, simplified was born.

TO make things clear AGAIN:
* Mainland China, and most of the Western world uses SIMPLIFIED Chinese.
* Taiwan, HK, Macau, Singapore (I believe) use TRADITIONAL Chinese.

Most Chinese readers can read one fluently and the other, well, not too badly.

The "shorten for lazy people" version is just a politically correct version, but not the truth. The truth was due to the background of the communist party. They believed that knowledge is not important, and they themselves were not well educated. To make things easier, they change the harder words into simplified character. (ok... this is a shortened version of the truth, but at least it is the historical truth based on the hitorical background of modern China).

gizgiz · **Reply #56 on:** October 17, 2007, 04:59:29 pm

Quote from: "dktc"

The "shorten for lazy people" version is just a politically correct version, but not the truth. The truth was due to the background of the communist party. They believed that knowledge is not important, and they themselves were not well educated. To make things easier, they change the harder words into simplified character. (ok... this is a shortened version of the truth, but at least it is the historical truth based on the hitorical background of modern China).

^^ Gets abducted by Wen.

True, but politically very disturbing. I wouldn't want to be reading this page in China. It so bans ICP rules XD

pTr · **Reply #57 on:** October 17, 2007, 08:48:38 pm

Well.. I don't know about the other parts of China, but as a Taiwanese living in Shanghai for the past 10 years... I can take responsibility when I say this, most of the younger Shanghainese people are pretty comfortable with traditional Chinese, but yet, most of the people in Taiwan dun have a clue about simplified Chinese..

Iguana · **Reply #58 on:** October 18, 2007, 01:06:25 am

well, fourth try,
it would interest me
very much
what is the difference
between irish and english
?="

Air Elbonia · **Reply #59 on:** October 18, 2007, 01:19:23 am

Quote from: "Iguana"

well, fourth try,
it would interest me
very much
what is the difference
between irish and english
?="

Irish tends to be Gaelic (or a variant thereof), at least from my conversations with Stephen. Irish could also be English, with Irish accents and word variations. English tends to fall into actual English, Canadian, American or Australian (or, a few other breakdowns therein like "Southern US").