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It's not out of the question that China is supporting Communist rebels in Latin America to mess with the US and out of a nostalgia for the good old days when Mao was murdering millions.

E.g. they do/did in the Philippines

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/9...

China, long suspected of aiding Philippine communist rebels, is now a capitalist country from which the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), or its armed wing, New People's Army (NPA), could no longer expect support, a spokesperson for President Duterte said.

"You've been left behind. China has left you behind," said former human rights lawyer Harry Roque, now Malacañang spokesperson.

The rebellion being waged by CPP and NPA, Roque said, "has gone on for so long that China has become the best in capitalism" but Philippine communist rebels "are still Maoists."

"What is that?" Roque said. "Move on," he said, addressing himself to communist rebel leaders.

Roque said Chinese communists, who had preached the principles of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, were now "billionaires" who have turned their backs on communism after economic reforms in the 1980s led to "socialism with Chinese characteristics."

Roque said local communist leaders were still stuck to Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principles. Communist rebels were adhering to a guerrilla strategy attributed to Mao of surrounding the capital from the countryside.

Now that China is a capitalist country, Roque said local rebels would no longer have a patron to turn to. "Who will you report to?" Roque said.

There are still some Maoist true believers in China

https://www.wikileaks.org/plus...

4. (S) Turning to the Six Party Talks, Chun said it was "a
very bad thing" that Wu Dawei had retained his position as
chief of the PRC's delegation. It had been the ROK's
expectation that Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, who was
hastily transferred from Tokyo back to Beijing, would be
taking over from Wu. Chun said it appeared that the DPRK
"must have lobbied extremely hard" for the now-retired Wu to
stay on as China's 6PT chief. The VFM complained that Wu is
the PRC's "most incompetent official," an arrogant,
Marx-spouting former Red Guard who "knows nothing about North
Korea, nothing about nonproliferation and is hard to
communicate with because he doesn't speak English." Wu was
also a hardline nationalist, loudly proclaiming -- to anyone
willing to listen -- that the PRC's economic rise represented
a "return to normalcy" with China as a great world power.

Last November back in Korea, Starcraft competitor Nada married his long time gf in the middle of a tournament.

http://esports.inquirer.net/12242/blizzard-sponsored-a-pro-players-wedding-in-true-starcraft-fashion

China is in complete violation of international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which China itself signed and had agreed to and ">ratified in 1996.

That's nice and all, but unless somebody actually does something about it, all those laws don't matter a hill of beans.

Russia is being embargoed half-heartedly by half the world and I'd be shocked if they ever gave up Crimea. Nobody cares enough about some artificial islands to go to war over them, and next thing you know they'll be setting up oil rigs. Unless everybody agrees to sanction China in a way that costs more than all that oil is worth, China will get what it wants. The problem is that sanctions cut both ways, and politicians get far more money if they keep trade going than if they shut it down.

Bullshit.

China is in complete violation of international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which China itself signed and had agreed to and ">ratified in 1996.

China has been building structures, hunting and mass poaching endangered species and destroying coral reefs within the maritime exclusive economic zones of The Philippines and Vietnam (200 nautical miles or 370km from the coastline of those countries) while at the same time, forming naval blockades and harassing fishermen from Vietnam and the Philippines in their own waters. Recently a Chinese fishing vessel was caught with the poaching and mass slaughter of over 500 endangered and protected sea turtles within Philippine waters. Pics of the slaughter.

This article is a must-read on the behavior of the 800lb gorilla China and its bullying tactics: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch and follow-up article: China and the Mosquitoes.

Another must read is the NY Times article A Game of Shark And Minnow about the ragtag crew of Philippine marines stationed on a grounded derelict ship in the area as an outpost. That NY Times article has a very good diagram on the 200NM exclusive economic zones and China's ridiculous "nine-dash line" tongue-shaped delineation which claims the entirety of the area hundreds of miles away from their nearest legal territory, Hainan Island. The basis of China's 9-dash line claims? Fabricated bullshit. Pre-19th century maps show this. Even China's own historical maps contradict their absurd claims. Bullying, intimidation, violation, invasion and annexation of territories of smaller, weaker states. It's that simple. See also: Tibet.

Bullshit.

China is in complete violation of international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which China itself signed and had agreed to and ">ratified in 1996.

China has been building structures, hunting and mass poaching endangered species and destroying coral reefs within the maritime exclusive economic zones of The Philippines and Vietnam (200 nautical miles or 370km from the coastline of those countries) while at the same time, forming naval blockades and harassing fishermen from Vietnam and the Philippines in their own waters. Recently a Chinese fishing vessel was caught with the poaching and mass slaughter of over 500 endangered and protected sea turtles within Philippine waters. Pics of the slaughter.

This article is a must-read on the behavior of the 800lb gorilla China and its bullying tactics: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch and follow-up article: China and the Mosquitoes.

Another must read is the NY Times article A Game of Shark And Minnow about the ragtag crew of Philippine marines stationed on a grounded derelict ship in the area as an outpost. That NY Times article has a very good diagram on the 200NM exclusive economic zones and China's ridiculous "nine-dash line" tongue-shaped delineation which claims the entirety of the area hundreds of miles away from their nearest legal territory, Hainan Island. The basis of China's 9-dash line claims? Fabricated bullshit. Pre-19th century maps show this. Even China's own historical maps contradict their absurd claims. Bullying, intimidation, violation, invasion and annexation of territories of smaller, weaker states. It's that simple. See also: Tibet.

Bullshit.

China is in complete violation of international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which China itself signed and had agreed to and ">ratified in 1996.

China has been building structures, hunting and mass poaching endangered species and destroying coral reefs within the maritime exclusive economic zones of The Philippines and Vietnam (200 nautical miles or 370km from the coastline of those countries) while at the same time, forming naval blockades and harassing fishermen from Vietnam and the Philippines in their own waters. Recently a Chinese fishing vessel was caught with the poaching and mass slaughter of over 500 endangered and protected sea turtles within Philippine waters. Pics of the slaughter.

This article is a must-read on the behavior of the 800lb gorilla China and its bullying tactics: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch and follow-up article: China and the Mosquitoes.

Another must read is the NY Times article A Game of Shark And Minnow about the ragtag crew of Philippine marines stationed on a grounded derelict ship in the area as an outpost. That NY Times article has a very good diagram on the 200NM exclusive economic zones and China's ridiculous "nine-dash line" tongue-shaped delineation which claims the entirety of the area hundreds of miles away from their nearest legal territory, Hainan Island. The basis of China's 9-dash line claims? Fabricated bullshit. Pre-19th century maps show this. Even China's own historical maps contradict their absurd claims. Bullying, intimidation, violation, invasion and annexation of territories of smaller, weaker states. It's that simple. See also: Tibet.

hmm... China deregulates renminbi. Central bank moves to renminbi as its currency. US has to buy renminbi in order to pay its INTEREST on its debts, and printing money deflates the value of the dollar and causes massive inflation and possibly a currency collapse. The only good I see is most of the country's debt is to itself, thus giving citizens and companies that own the debt more money.

Fairy tale? maybe you weren't paying attention...

Still think China can't crash the US economy? Well they may not have to... in May, a secret meeting was held in Europe to create a new reserve currency as well, based on several countries' currencies (google it and you can find some details).

IMO, the dagger is already in our gut, we just don't know we're dead yet.

From TFA: "Philippine Daily Inquirer"
"The Inquirer is withholding the identities of the parties involved so as not to intrude on their privacy."

Where the hell is THEIR original citation? Usually various international case information is picked up by various law services (far as I know). Searching for most of the relevant terms of this article (like the presiding judge) in combination with other relevant terms of the article, only produce this, and things linking to it (mostly in the Philippines, of course).

Given the lack of reference here, there also appears to be no actual evidence that the OSG was citing wikipedia, aside from the ex-wife's brief.

But, given that I'm not a lawyer...I just prefer Associated Press, or failing that, a meaningful chain to follow in national/international news reports.

Here, we have absolutely nothing to go on, but a single foreign newspaper publishing something on their website. I'm sure anyone who COULD figure out where the hell this came from would get free mod points, but...it looks half-baked to me.

Nevermind elsewhere on the site, stories written by "DJ Yap" (I'm sorry, but even if someone's name was changed, newspapers would hire them and publish it why?): http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20100830-289493/House-painter-gets-14-years-for-drug-possession

More importantly, the breaking news ticker at the top filled me in that MILF not naming peace panel until gov’t team is complete. It's good to know they've started involving MILFs in the peace process, I just wish the government would finish completing the team so they can get to work.

gold is a pretty useless metal outside of the electronics industry.

Hmm, some men would disagree. :P

Actually, if that were to happen -- and it won't:

Says who? MS has done precisely that in the past. Why are you choosing to ignore this fact? Microsoft executives have announced explicit intentions on this matter.

Microsoft sues => Linux distros must stop using the .NET framework => Tomboy gets ported to unmanaged C++ via an automated tool => Tomboy keeps on working.

Wouldn’t such tool have to automatically change all uses of a patented API in a binary program? How will it work?

C# is as open as it gets. It's developed through the ECMA (which is so "open" that it maintains the standards for Javascript), it has a full GPL reference implementation, its relevant standards are fully published in all details and are globally available free of charge.

Your point was: Java is not open. I said it is. I never said C# isn’t.
Anyway, since you mentioned it, where can I download the GPL reference implementation of C#?
And how can I follow the ECMA meetings that are shaping the future of C#? I suppose it’s not that a Microsoft internal team develops it behind closed doors and simply submits the finished product to ECMA for standardization.
Because this would mean that for every new C# revision, all non-Microsoft implementations will lag behind before implementing the new features.
Which is precisely what has been happening with Mono in the past five years.

Microsoft and the free software community have conflicting interests.

Not really, Microsoft and the free software community worked together succesfully a number of times. F/OSS zealots have a thing with Microsoft,

Sorry but in this thread, it is only you who have a thing with someone. You just started calling zealots those who do not agree with you, and expose their argumentation with valid arguments instead of insulting.
Although I am indeed a zealot, sometimes I base my opinion on facts, and I’d like to share some interesting ones with you.
- What Microsoft executives think about free software and patents:

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches
-- S. Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

We spend a lot of money - the rest of the commercial industry spends a lot of money - on R&D. We spend a lot of money also licenses patents, when people come and say 'Hey this commercial piece of software violates our patent, our intellectual property,' we'll either get a court judgment or pay a big check. I think it is important that the open source products also have an obligation to participate in the same way.
-- S. Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

- Samples of past interactions between MS and free software:
Microsoft vs. tomtom
Halloween documents
Patenting other peoples’ideas

but whatever you can say about Microsoft, you can say about IBM or Sun -- who I am sure they hold countless Java patents.

Thats perfectly true! In fact, before this, RMS has vocally spoken against Java *for the exact same reasons* he is now warning against Mono.
After Java was licensed under the GPL v2, he stopped deprecating Java. That’s because even if Sun held patents about Java, the fact that they released it under the GPL means that they’ve granted perpetual free use of the relative technologies for everyone (don’t take my word - read the GPL).

Besides this, if C# (or the BCL) were really dangerous, then why is th

Hmm, why does this ring a bell?

Sourceforge ... check.
Windows-only 'open source' application ... check.
Lots of publicity ... check.

Hmm.
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/community.mspx

"SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development Web site, providing more than 160,000 projects and over 1,700,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. With over 70,000 of those projects based on Microsoft technology, SourceForge.net and Microsoft have worked together to provide the tools, programs and resources to help developers be more successful. Learn more..."

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080624-144528/Microsoft-to-developers-Open-source-is-a-choice

"Dela Cruz noted that within the SourceForge developer community, there are more than 77,000 listed applications that support Windows, more than half the same number of apps that work on Windows alone."

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/choice.mspx

"By embracing diverse application development and business models, Microsoft provides a world of choice in which individuals and organizations can pursue their goals based on what uniquely inspires them. Whether you are a developer who wants to learn new skills, connect with the community, or build a business-or a systems administrator dealing with complex interoperability and business demands-Microsoft participates in an ecosystem that offers you the tools, resources, and programs to help you succeed."

Coincidence? Probably.

Ahh, it's all about choice now. Choice of where you want to run your applications, so long as it runs on windows anyway.

I'm sure we'll be seeing more of that word over the next 6 months, and plenty of times on the front page of slashdot and sourceforge to boot.

No doubt an editorial oversight, I'm sure they'll get around to it. I've seen it used often enough in WoW and its forums that I'm not surprised. As was explained to me long ago (with regards to how it was now optional to put a comma after "and" in a list), today's slang and grammatical errors can become tomorrow's official usage if done long enough by enough people.

They are constantly expanding Philippine English with words of the year http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=82266
that are quite useful in conversation. "Miskol me so I've got your number", "It's quiet, is the baby sleeping? Yes, he went lobat about an hour ago".

In my country (I live in the Philippines) a sent SMS costs roughly PhP1.00 per message sent or US$0.02 (US$0.0228885 if you want to be exact using PhP43.69 to a US$1.00). At that price it is very rare for someone to make voice calls, which normally costs PhP8.00/US$0.18 to another mobile within the same cellular network. If you're curious on how much the pre-paid cellular rates are in the Philippines you might want to check out the website of the country's two predominant players, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications.

The only time I would think someone would make a voice call here would be when a message cannot wait. This is due to the fact that a country with a landmass of a small US State can generate more SMS traffic than the whole continent of Europe. With that in mind it normally takes a few minutes to hours before a sent message is received.

Adding to the features zyzko mentioned earlier mobiles here allow IRC-like and IM-like functions, which gives users of certain networks the ability to chat with people of similar interests based on one's ASL (Age/Sex/Location) or communicate with people on your ICQ contact list using your UIN.

Personally one feature I would love to see in the future is updates whether there are classes or not. Take for instance my case, my school is located along the University Belt in Metro Manila, which is regularly flooded whenever there is a typhoon. By the very nature of my school they do not cancel classes until the last possible moment, which is normally after lunch, and when they do they do not have the courtesy of announcing it over the school's loud speakers. This is a real pain when you find out a few hours later and you have to walk through 1 to 3 feet of flood water just to ride on a bus that's stranded due to the floods and not mentioning the horrors of 4-5 hour traffic jams.

As reported by the New York Times, there has been a lot of controversy over SMS from the Department of Education banning them during tests, vehicular accidents, stalkers, anonymity and malicious jokes. What the Times did not report is that SMS issued a libel case against three comedians and a manager of a basketball player, caused the unintentional closure of a national bank, a political movement known as the 'Silent Protest' was spread via SMS and that drug traffickers use it to coordinate their activities. Even the Japanese had a similar problem when kidnappers used pre-paid mobile phones to hide there identities from law enforcers.

If you want more information concerning GSM phones in the Philippines you can check it out here.



The Graph: Substance that makes techies tick

http://www.gra.ph/

In my country (I live in the Philippines) a sent SMS costs roughly PhP1.00 per message sent or US$0.02 (US$0.0228885 if you want to be exact using PhP43.69 to a US$1.00). At that price it is very rare for someone to make voice calls, which normally costs PhP8.00/US$0.18 to another mobile within the same cellular network. If you're curious on how much the pre-paid cellular rates are in the Philippines you might want to check out the website of the country's two predominant players, Globe Telecom and Smart Communications.

The only time I would think someone would make a voice call here would be when a message cannot wait. This is due to the fact that a country with a landmass of a small US State can generate more SMS traffic than the whole continent of Europe. With that in mind it normally takes a few minutes to hours before a sent message is received.

Adding to the features zyzko mentioned earlier mobiles here allow IRC-like and IM-like functions, which gives users of certain networks the ability to chat with people of similar interests based on one's ASL (Age/Sex/Location) or communicate with people on your ICQ contact list using your UIN.

Personally one feature I would love to see in the future is updates whether there are classes or not. Take for instance my case, my school is located along the University Belt in Metro Manila, which is regularly flooded whenever there is a typhoon. By the very nature of my school they do not cancel classes until the last possible moment, which is normally after lunch, and when they do they do not have the courtesy of announcing it over the school's loud speakers. This is a real pain when you find out a few hours later and you have to walk through 1 to 3 feet of flood water just to ride on a bus that's stranded due to the floods and not mentioning the horrors of 4-5 hour traffic jams.

As reported by the New York Times, there has been a lot of controversy over SMS from the Department of Education banning them during tests, vehicular accidents, stalkers, anonymity and malicious jokes. What the Times did not report is that SMS issued a libel case against three comedians and a manager of a basketball player, caused the unintentional closure of a national bank, a political movement known as the 'Silent Protest' was spread via SMS and that drug traffickers use it to coordinate their activities. Even the Japanese had a similar problem when kidnappers used pre-paid mobile phones to hide there identities from law enforcers.

If you want more information concerning GSM phones in the Philippines you can check it out here.



The Graph: Substance that makes techies tick

http://www.gra.ph/