On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:23:31PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:15:31PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > The "dissident test" does sound very silly the way it is described in > > the FAQ. Perhaps the FAQ should give a realistic example as well as > > the memorable but silly "dissident" example. > > What's silly or unrealistic about it? The totalitarian state in > question is the People's Republic of China. The original name of this > test is the "Chinese Dissident" test.
I find it gross that it was suddenly renamed, losing much of its meaning for false "political correctness". It'd be nice if the FAQ would correct this. -- Glenn Maynard