![]() LibreOffice can't replace office but offers a tremendous bang for the buck and then some and it can do something I find very handy. It can open Appleworks word processing files. ![]() Boo hiss to Apple for making such a pain to open Appleworks files! Even Pages has issues opening old Appleworks files and believe you me, I still have a ton of them! On the list because it's free, offers a tremendous amount of features and is a godsend for people with Appleworks documents. Nothing can replace MS Office for word processing, number crunching, presentations and easy compatibility with Windows. No doubt other apps such as Pages, Numbers, LibreOffice, Keynote and such are handy and let you access files produced by Microsoft apps. Nonetheless, the real thing offers solid features and the most transparent compatibility. It takes email from Apple Mail and converts it into PDF format and stores it in a folder hierarchy. God knows, especially now, she could use a little ruthlessness. You don’t survive in this life by making friends or trusting your enemies, and Kaz has a knack for not doing either. Nina is “Heartrender.” Inej is “Wraith.” Jesper is “Sharpshooter,” and Wylan is “Runaway.” As for Kaz, their mysterious, mercurial man-in-charge who was teaching himself C#, Java, and VBScript at twelve, running Nazi-doxxing ops with Anonymous and Bellingcat at sixteen, and establishing himself as the head of his own feared gang of cyber-criminals at eighteen, he’s “Dirtyhands” or sometimes simply “The Bastard.” The epithet is apt. It took a long time for them to reveal real names for the first few years, they communicated only under pseudonyms. There are five of them: Nina herself, Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, and the boss, Kaz Brekker. The Crows have gotten very good at not putting all their eggs in one basket, but when you run a successful grey-hat hacktivist collective that has made a specialty out of pissing off powerful people (including in this very country), it’s a necessary fact of life. Nina boots up the secured OS, opens Tor, and navigates to a secured messaging site, accessed via a one-time key that will deactivate when used (another one of Jesper’s inventions) and randomly generate a new encryption code that she has to access elsewhere. So, when the article from People’s Daily came out within the first few days of the series’s broadcast, it could describe the relationship between LWJ and WWX a simple friendship without irony. As far as I can tell, The Untamed didn’t generate a lot of noise before its airing, and the production team never tried to sell the drama as a thinly veiled BL - in fact, it did the opposite, intentionally or not the rumour that Wen Qing would be paired with WWX (which, according to the unofficial BTS, seemed to be a backup plan) enraged the book fans, but also provided an impression that the BL element could be completely eliminated from the product. However, plausible denial from the production team isn’t the same as perception from the audience, and the temporary ban on The Guardian 鎮魂 (2018), which many would call the predecessor of The Untamed as the first popular adapted BL series, seems to suggest that the censorship board would still move to remove the drama from the shelves if the audience decides that the central relationship is queer. It seems to approve of the TV series but isn’t happy with the source material, which seems to support the hypothesis that as long as the romance in the original work is modified into “socialist brotherhood” (what fans of these dramas calls the modified relationship), the government is okay with these adapted BL series. The messages from the state have therefore been mixed and inconsistent. The internet shop owner who sold the books got ten month sentence. In 天一’s case, the author and the owner of the printing shop both got a 10-year sentence. 深海先生 was considered to be the first BL author imprisoned for her work (she got a 4 year sentence). Some are charged for selling pornography, some also for “illegal business operations”. Since 2017, there have been, for example, Tian Yi 天一 and Shen Hai Xian Cheng 深海先生. MXTX isn’t the first BL author to get jail time. Some says it is a cover for her selling pornographic material. ![]() This has been a common practice among IP writers all publishing houses in China are licensed through the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and have the rights to screen / censor / ban and so, to bypass publishing houses is to bypass the censorship apparatus. What does it mean by “Illegal business”? Some says it means publishing their works without going through publishing houses. ![]()
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