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One of the first articles about this fusion reactor test appeared here english.people.com.cn.
(They often copy from xinhua, maybe they are linked...)

It clearly says: During the experiment, deuterium and tritium atoms were forced together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius.
and : The first tests lasted nearly three seconds, and generated an electrical current of 200 kiloamperes, Wan Yuanxi, general manager of EAST, told Xinhua.

I would expect this website to rectify the story!

History suggests that crashing one airplane deliberately did not cause a panic and was pretty much ignored by the flying public. In light of later events it should be reexamined to see if there are ties between the copilot who crashed the plan and any terrorist groups.

You also may want to go to Google News and type in "Israeli cluster bombs" and see what you get.

I did, and the only references were from Iran, The Peoples Republic of China, Lebanon, and some obscure websites. And those reports were brief to say the least. Here's a link to the People's Daily Online . If you go to the homepage, you can help celebrate the 85th birthday of the Communist Party of China.

You also may want to go to Google News and type in "Israeli cluster bombs" and see what you get.

I did, and the only references were from Iran, The Peoples Republic of China, Lebanon, and some obscure websites. And those reports were brief to say the least. Here's a link to the People's Daily Online . If you go to the homepage, you can help celebrate the 85th birthday of the Communist Party of China.

Here is a better link from a Chinese news source Super-heated fusion experiment to reach 100 million degrees

Evidently this isn't just aiming to achieve "break-even" but an actual "fusion burn" lasting 1000 seconds or approximately 16 minutes. I can't help but wonder that if they reach this goal whether it will massively accelerate the arrival of commercial fusion energy. The difference between break-even and burn is that break-even merely releases more energy than input, whereas burn requires self sustained reaction without additional input of energy.

Many people think controlled fusion is "undoable" so such a demonstration would go a long way towards getting rid of the "30 years away and always will be" assumption.
We only have to wait until Mid-August to find out.

Not unlike the GRE Subject examination for Computer Science in the U.S.?
And by the way, it looks as though the cheating has been going on for a while now...

Gore needs to let understand we have plenty politico BS attached to this topic already.

There may perhaps be no 100% conclusive evidence that global warming is real, but there's enough evidence of the possibility of it. Why wait for it to be proven for certain? Like another poster wrote, we don't have a control group of 100's of other earth's to test our theories.

So yes, the data is all correlative, and yes, there's a chance global warming is a farce. But seriously, why chance it? The US has invaded Iraq on less conclusive evidence.

Fact: Polar Ice Caps are melting. New land - Hans Island is evidence of that.

Fact: Average temperatures are on the rise I even recall my childhood, growing up in the 1980's, that there was a lot more snow and ice in the winter time than we have today in Vancouver. You'd be blind not to notice these changes.

Given these two facts, which might not conclusively indicate we're harming our environment, should we not take measures to curb the damage we may be doing? It's not "the American Way" and the "God Given Right" to drive large SUV's, as Dubya would suggest. Seriously, the best way to curb greenhouse gasses - raise the national average vehicle fuel economy.

According to this article, Shenzhen has the highest per capita income of any city in China, at around $209 per month. The per capita monthly income for the 35 major cities in China is around $80. Note that is per capita income. Also note that this is referring to cities, not rural areas where the pay is sure to be lower.

In conclusion: you're wrong. The picture of average income you painted is woefully inaccurate.

I'm not saying that Apple isn't wrong here. I'm just saying that you are spreading misconceptions.

Taft

Shenzhen. Per-capita disposable income of Shenzhen's urban residents continued to climb in 2003, hitting 25,935.84 yuan, up 4 percent year on year, according to data from the Shenzhen Bureau of Statistics.

Note that your source only includes factory workers. If everybody in Shenzhen made $85 a month, a low cost of living might be an excuse. But they don't, so it isn't.

Apple's iPods are made in China by women who work 15 hours/day, make $50/month, and have to pay half of that right back to the company for housing and food.

Longhua's workers live in dormitories.... They earn £27 per month (ie about $50/month).

The workers are housed outside the plant, and earn £54 per month (ie about $100/month) - but they must pay for their accommodation and food

WIPO and the big dumb publishers who established it have oversimplified things for you and the dear submitter. They are the people who invented the meaningless term IP. If you follow the article links, you see that Hu himself acts like he's under the same 40,000 foot high cloud.

Mentioning DRM is also key. China is hinting at the other WIPO issues by targeting DRM evasion. Simply enforcing copyright will cost them a small fortune both in lost productivity and direct enforcement costs. DRM, on the other hand, is not a matter of copyright at all. It's an extra legal enforcement of copyright that relies on bogus and patents and trade secret laws often justified in the name of copyright and the starving artists the big publishers routinely abuse. Mentioning DRM promisses all of the diverse agenda the WIPO crowd would like to push. China is promissing to play ball with it's fellow pigopolists. Don't expect to see slave labor made ogg players anytime soon. With China playing ball with M$, the RIAA, MPAA etc, the fix is really in and only pigopolist approved hardware will be available. IP is an issue of control and that's something China understands very well.

We shall see if they really mean it.

included organizing a conspiracy against the China-developed WAPI, insulting China and other national bodies, and intimidation and threats.

"Insulting". You have to read the article to really get a sense of it. I don't know how much of it's a show and how much of it is really that they ... feel they've lost face. Ok. It's real. Face matters in Chinese culture, a lot, and this is a combination of homegrown startup tech and nascent national status. By our standards, they subordinate truth to status even in rational endeavors, that's as contemptible coming from them as it is from our own politicians, and you can just see the feedback loop closing. Pray for some genuine diplomats, everybody's going to need them.

I wouldn't know enough to tell without some serious books-hitting — and since it's secret tech nobody has the facts anyway — but imagine the possible irony here: what if WAPI really is better? That's just too delicious. The unfeeling consumer-of-good-stories in me almost hopes it's true.

Here's a more helpful link, that also a) isn't a verbatim AFP story with irritating advertising "links" and b) doesn't have a current forum thread on "The future and the ways of the "Jew"" (which is even more moronic than it sounds -- how dimwitted do you have to be to spell "rich" with a "t"?).

Yes, we agree on many points. And I'm glad we managed to keep this civil. The points we disagree on are rather big though:

I do not believe that the death of tens of thousands of civilians can be justified by claiming to be bringing democracy.

I do not believe that you can force democracy on a country. All you can achive that way is a pseudo colony with a pseudo democracy. The kind of situation leading to the current state of Africa.

I do not believe that Bush believed there were WMDs in Iraq, nor that Iraq was closely tied to Al Quaeda, nor that Iraq was any kind of threat to the US.
I do believe that the "intelligence failures" were 100% intentional.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-15936 07,00.html
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/sp ecial_packages/iraq/intelligence/11901380.htm
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/sp ecial_packages/iraq/intelligence/12995512.htm

I do not believe that Bush invaded Iraq for humanitarian reasons.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
This count is most likely closer to the truth:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11 674.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/05/12/wirq12.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2162249, 00.html
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1 186519,00.html
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArti cle.asp?articleID=8218

The list is endless but I'll stop here.

I believe that Bush does and will continue to do exactly whatever he feels will benefit him, with no concern what so ever for how many dies for his gain. Not that you actually need anything but his actions and his statements to prove this, but here are more links:
http://downingstreetmemo.com/archive/2004-10-31-Ho ustonChron-Herskowitz/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12 885.htm

I believe that Bush is now planning his next war of aggression.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20 060511&hn=33036
http://www.rense.com/general71/tdarg.htm
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/05/ us-feverishly-works-to-frame-iran_13.html
http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/839133.sh tml
http://english.people.com.cn/200605/13/eng20060513 _265252.html
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Condoleeza_Rice_ admits_she_responded_to_0509.html

Ah, but they do:

CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
CHAPTER II. THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS

Article 33. All persons holding the nationality of the People's Republic of China are citizens of the People's Republic of China. All citizens of the People's Republic of China are equal before the law. Every citizen enjoys the rights and at the same time must perform the duties prescribed by the Constitution and the law.

Article 34. All citizens of the People's Republic of China who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of nationality, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status, or length of residence, except persons deprived of political rights according to law.

Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.

Article 37. The freedom of person of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable. No citizen may be arrested except with the approval or by decision of a people's procuratorate or by decision of a people's court, and arrests must be made by a public security organ. Unlawful deprivation or restriction of citizens' freedom of person by detention or other means is prohibited; and unlawful search of the person of citizens is prohibited. Article 38. The personal dignity of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable. Insult, libel, false charge or frame-up directed against citizens by any means is prohibited.

Article 39. The home of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable. Unlawful search of, or intrusion into, a citizen's home is prohibited.

Article 40. The freedom and privacy of correspondence of citizens of the People's Republic of China are protected by law. No organization or individual may, on any ground, infringe upon the freedom and privacy of citizens' correspondence except in cases where, to meet the needs of state security or of investigation into criminal offences, public security or procuratorial organs are permitted to censor correspondence in accordance with procedures prescribed by law.

Article 41. Citizens of the People's Republic of China have the right to criticize and make suggestions to any state organ or functionary. Citizens have the right to make to relevant state organs complaints and charges against, or exposures of, violation of the law or dereliction of duty by any state organ or functionary; but fabrication or distortion of facts with the intention of libel or frame-up is prohibited. In case of complaints, charges or exposures made by citizens, the state organ concerned must deal with them in a responsible manner after ascertaining the facts. No one may suppress such complaints, charges and exposures, or retaliate against the citizens making them. Citizens who have suffered losses through infringement of their civil rights by any state organ or functionary have the right to compensation in accordance with the law.

And, in case there was any doubt,

AMENDMENT FOUR

...

Article 33 has a third paragraph added: "The State respects and preserves human rights."

...

Of course, there's Article 51.

1. Little Sister monitor the Net
2. Slashdot boys visit the Net
3. Boys meet the girls
4. ....
5. Profit!!!

I also visit Al Jazeera from time to time.

I get all my international new from The People's Daily. ;)

Well there is always Pravda if you don't mind the UFO stories.

How many billions in exports is the Wintel platform worth to China?

How much in foreign investment? Microsoft to invest heavily in China The People's Daily.

When President Hu Jintao vists the United States, it is Bill Gates who greets him, Bill Gates he wants to see. Guess who did not bone up on China Malayasia News Online.

The world is flat.

It was Lenin's birthday on Sunday. The most important Communist Party meeting in five years was under way. And the star of the show was the world's most famous capitalist, Bill Gates.

The Vietnamese President, Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister all excused themselves from the party meeting to have their pictures taken with Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, who has more star power in Vietnam than any of them.

Gates finds it's just capital in Vietnam

I personally don't hate China. You can't hate a nation (never mind what people said about the USSR during the 50's and 60's); each nation is made up of diverse groups and not all citizens of a nation think alike. Nowhere is that truer than here in the United States.

What I hate is the Chinese government clinging to outmoded ideals and forms of control that in the end create hardship and ruin for the great bulk of the Chinese people. They treat most of their citizens like cattle -- just one example is the Chinese mining industry. The divide between the rural poor and the urban rich is a greater gulf than we have here. There is still political injustice and opinions contrary to the party line are not tolerated. Despite economic reforms, China is still a totalitarian regime.

To my way of thinking, the Chinese people deserve the same rights and privileges that I enjoy, but to get them, they will have to make the changes necessary to bring true reform. All I and others can do is urge them on and hope.

It's the concern that China controls these machines through secret chips that they refuse to fully document. I have a bunch of clients in the banking industry and they have placed Lenovo and ThinkPads on the banned list because of this. Also, they are in the process of replacing most of the existing ThinkPads with other machines, because these may be tainted and they can't guarantee if these machines are not reporting back to China any proprietary secrets. They fear that the human rights hating Communist Chinese govt may have some kind of back hole into these machines that may at some point put the banks very survival in jeopardy.

OK, that's chopped way down to fit in the title, but Article 51 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China reads, in full:

"Article 51. The exercise by citizens of the People's Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society and of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens."

So no, it's not sensationalism.

Where's the humor? "Red" appears in all kinds of Chinese product names, including Red Flag Linux. China may have become a capitalistic superpower, but officially, they're still a Marxist state.

The Chinese people do have the right to privacy guaranteed under the Chinese Constitution. I direct your attention to Article 40. While you're there, you might check out articles 35, 36 and 41. (Most people aren't even aware that China has a Constitution.)

According to this news item from the PRC, the hourly wage for urban workers in 2000 was more like $0.42/hour.

Since income in general in China has been trending upwards since 2000, let's assume a modest 10% annual increase in income. Not too hard to imagine - the article showed a 13.1% increase from 1999 to 2000, and the Chinese economy has certainly been booming. If that assumption is correct, then your average urban worker in China is now earning around $0.75/hour. Pretty darn miserable, by western standards... not quite so bad if you're actually living in China, though. Having been there several times, it seems as if earning 50 yuan a day (or around 1200 yuan/month) would provide a much better standard of living than earning the same amount of money ($144/month) would in the US.

Creating their own Chinese-character TLDs for .cn and creating Chinese-character version of .mil.cn are fine, and creating Chinese-character versions of .com.cn etc. would be fine. Creating a Chinese-character version of .com is annoying, because it's in more direct conflict, and risks causing trouble to anybody with an internationalized DNS resolver.

In Chinese version, ICANN corrected the rumor. http://it.people.com.cn/GB/42891/42894/4148995.htm l. Everything is the same except new mil.cn domain.

has anyone heard Chinese criticising the US for their human rights record?

Farce, never!

Here

http://english.people.com.cn/constitution/constitu tion.html

Article 33. All persons holding the nationality of the People's Republic of China are citizens of the People's Republic of China. All citizens of the People's Republic of China are equal before the law. Every citizen enjoys the rights and at the same time must perform the duties prescribed by the Constitution and the law.

Article 34. All citizens of the People's Republic of China who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of nationality, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status, or length of residence, except persons deprived of political rights according to law.

Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.

Article 36. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion. The state protects normal religious activities. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the state. Religious bodies and religious affairs are not subject to any foreign domination.

Article 37. The freedom of person of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable. No citizen may be arrested except with the approval or by decision of a people's procuratorate or by decision of a people's court, and arrests must be made by a public security organ. Unlawful deprivation or restriction of citizens' freedom of person by detention or other means is prohibited; and unlawful search of the person of citizens is prohibited.

Here it is.

And storing electricity isnt that effective as using stored fossil fuels. Right now, there isnt THAT big focus because the end of carbon-based fuels isnt atleast near to 200 years, and the perception is: we could go slower (in research) till it is very much on our neck

If China stops pulls their money out of the US, interest rates go up. By historical standards, they're still too low. If mortgage rates go up, the speculators who have interest-only loans with adjustable rates have their payments go up. Many will default, resulting in foreclosure. The housing bubble finally pops. Baby boomers who expect to sell their houses at a profit lose their equity.

Also, the US stock market is overpriced by a factor of 2 or so, based on historic P/E ratios. There's too much money in stocks because debt yields are so low. If interest rates go up, money moves from stocks to bonds. The stock market collapses.

All this is well known. China is using it, too. The position of the Chinese government appears the People's Daily: The US must "break away from the "cultural superiority" theory, which stresses a certain set of values, because we have entered a new era featuring long-term coexistence and blending of various civilizations." That's clear enough, even though written in the rather oblique style of diplomacy.

That's why the US has to suck up to China.

This isn't simply a case of a company complying with local law. China's censorship of Zhao's blog is actually illegal under Chinese law. It violates article 35 of The Constitution of the People's Republic of China, which guarantees freedom of speech and article 41, which specifically protects the right to criticize the government. Furthermore, there is no evidence that Microsoft acted in response to the order of a court. What we're talking about here is compliance with an illegal request. There may be an argument that Microsoft could not afford to refuse to comply, but any moral argument that Microsoft has an obligation to obey local law is bogus.

"It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari," Microsoft said.

IE will not be a problem for Apple users because most of them have applied different browsers on their computers.

And with this change, every mac on the internet will become even more secure than their Windows based counterparts.

Let me guess, you're an American who thinks he's worldly, or you're a foreigner who hates America? Either way, you haven't a clue. People who have non-Roman alphabets, believe it or not, can identify the letters RSS. Just like they remember "DVD" or any of the other roman "symbols" they see during their day-to-day business.

And even if they have no clue what what an "R" or an "S" is, how the hell is it harder to remember that symbol than the meaningless "wireless connected" symbol?

It's all about branding. The "rock dropped in an orange juice pool" is just not a good icon, brand, or logo.

PS.. at least one country doesn't mind the word: http://rss.people.com.cn/

In fact, in comparison with other big nations, China's defense expenditure remains in a relative low level, Yang said, citing the statistics that China's military payout in 2004 totaled 25.579 billion US dollars. In contrast, "the US defense expenditure hit 455.9 billion US dollars at the same time, or 17.8 times more than that of China in total payout and 77 times more than that of China in term of per-capita defense expenditure," Yang added.

http://english.people.com.cn/200507/21/eng20050721 _197358.html

We're talking about the largest (both landmass and population) nation in the world here. Even if the Chinese estimate is off by a factor of 3, its still rather puny.

This is from an older (2000) comparison of Chinese and Taiwanese military power. Consider that in the global scheme of things, Taiwan is very close to China. This is a direct measurement of ability to project power.

Power projection is about remote deployment, and the ability to control events half way around the global. The U.S. maitains unprecedented ability to project power.

Gauging the military balance across the Strait of Taiwan is an inexact art, at best. Geography clearly favors Taiwan, separated from the mainland by 100 miles of water. The numbers appear to favor China, but much of its armament is old and the state of training of its forces uncertain. Secrecy on both sides further clouds the issue.

The Federation of American Scientists has done an intriguing comparison of the Allied forces required for the invasion of Normandy from Britain in 1944, the largest amphibious operation in history, and what would be available for China's

Microsoft Research opened in China in 1998.

In 2002, Microsoft was the first foreign company invited to join the China Software Industry Association. Microsoft Joins in China Software Industry Association

I don't know about America, but in Singapore the only real difference between CyberCrime and Drugs is that hackers and criminals are rewarded with $10,000 prizes while drug mules are hung.

Except that barely half of the population in China actually speaks Mandarin, and even then, most of those that speak it speak so so as a second language. The written language is much more pervasive. http://english.people.com.cn/200501/03/eng20050103 _169500.html The relevant sections: "Mandarin's status as China's standard language has been further enhanced as nearly 53 percent of the 1.3 billion Chinese in the country can communicate with others via Mandarin, said a national survey released here Sunday." And most still speak in their local dialect instead: "The survey also shows 86 percent of the population can speak regional Chinese dialects, and nearly 5 percent use the languages of China's 55 ethnic minority groups to communicate." Even then, the numbers might be higher than reality: I suspect it is easier to interview people in the cities than those in the countryside :)

Well, I am an Chinese. Few things to say here:
1) The censorship really exits in China.
2) The censorship is not techinically hard to be breakthrough.
3) The censorship is not efficiently enough to censor all things that suppose to be censored.
4) The censorship is loosening but will still be there in the near future.
5) The censorship is just a small piece compared with the control of media and lots of other things on the dark side of china.

So what should I do as an Chinese?
I will try to tell the truth to my compariot about the censorship and the way to break it.
I am not supposed to be exposed by westen media like bbc that maybe noticed by the censorship.

However not everyone tends to help others.
They just keep themself safe that is reasonable after things happened in 1989 Jun 4.

For those /., you can also experience the censorship in China.
i.e. The current headline of the people's paper (ccp's official paper) is now:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3887454.html
add some parameter to it you can still visit it, i.e.:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3613060.html ?x=abc
add some censored word in parameter then you will not be able to visit it, i.e.:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3887454.html ?x=%B7%BD%D6%DB%D7%D3
(%B7%BD%D6%DB%D7%D3 is some censored chinese word in hexadecimal coding)
and you will be not able to access the page in certain period of time.

It interesting that sites censored are mosty in chinese and sites like slashdot and bbc are not censored.

Finally thank you all care about the censorship in china.

For those chinese who are not censored or breakthrough, do something positive but not keep silence.
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

---by Martin Niemoeller on the New England Holocaust Memorial

Well, I am an Chinese. Few things to say here:
1) The censorship really exits in China.
2) The censorship is not techinically hard to be breakthrough.
3) The censorship is not efficiently enough to censor all things that suppose to be censored.
4) The censorship is loosening but will still be there in the near future.
5) The censorship is just a small piece compared with the control of media and lots of other things on the dark side of china.

So what should I do as an Chinese?
I will try to tell the truth to my compariot about the censorship and the way to break it.
I am not supposed to be exposed by westen media like bbc that maybe noticed by the censorship.

However not everyone tends to help others.
They just keep themself safe that is reasonable after things happened in 1989 Jun 4.

For those /., you can also experience the censorship in China.
i.e. The current headline of the people's paper (ccp's official paper) is now:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3887454.html
add some parameter to it you can still visit it, i.e.:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3613060.html ?x=abc
add some censored word in parameter then you will not be able to visit it, i.e.:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3887454.html ?x=%B7%BD%D6%DB%D7%D3
(%B7%BD%D6%DB%D7%D3 is some censored chinese word in hexadecimal coding)
and you will be not able to access the page in certain period of time.

It interesting that sites censored are mosty in chinese and sites like slashdot and bbc are not censored.

Finally thank you all care about the censorship in china.

For those chinese who are not censored or breakthrough, do something positive but not keep silence.
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

---by Martin Niemoeller on the New England Holocaust Memorial

Well, I am an Chinese. Few things to say here:
1) The censorship really exits in China.
2) The censorship is not techinically hard to be breakthrough.
3) The censorship is not efficiently enough to censor all things that suppose to be censored.
4) The censorship is loosening but will still be there in the near future.
5) The censorship is just a small piece compared with the control of media and lots of other things on the dark side of china.

So what should I do as an Chinese?
I will try to tell the truth to my compariot about the censorship and the way to break it.
I am not supposed to be exposed by westen media like bbc that maybe noticed by the censorship.

However not everyone tends to help others.
They just keep themself safe that is reasonable after things happened in 1989 Jun 4.

For those /., you can also experience the censorship in China.
i.e. The current headline of the people's paper (ccp's official paper) is now:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3887454.html
add some parameter to it you can still visit it, i.e.:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3613060.html ?x=abc
add some censored word in parameter then you will not be able to visit it, i.e.:
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3887454.html ?x=%B7%BD%D6%DB%D7%D3
(%B7%BD%D6%DB%D7%D3 is some censored chinese word in hexadecimal coding)
and you will be not able to access the page in certain period of time.

It interesting that sites censored are mosty in chinese and sites like slashdot and bbc are not censored.

Finally thank you all care about the censorship in china.

For those chinese who are not censored or breakthrough, do something positive but not keep silence.
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

---by Martin Niemoeller on the New England Holocaust Memorial

LOL was the article foreshadowing?
"Alarmed, Mr. Holmdahl soon led a team of engineers to China, where he found that certain test equipment was bogging down as production speeded up. Ten hard days of troubleshooting and writing new software ultimately fixed the problem..."

yeah.... my guess is "ten hard days of troubleshooting" is actually 1 hour of explaining "don't bother testing, it'll only effect a few units" and 9 days 23 hrs of Chinese prostitutes.

"The satellite is to be launched into lunar orbit for comprehensively probing into rich resources on the moon such as He3, Fe, Ti and water-ice, as well as its surface condition, landforms, geologic structure and physical fields through remote sensing. "

Later that article mentions the three step goals as:
"Another two deputy chief designers of Shenzhou III spacecraft revealed a three-step plan of China's first manned spaceflight:
[1] Take Chinese astronauts into space;
[2] create a space laboratory;
[3] and establish China's space station and establish a connection with international space stations. "

Looks like the Moon base and telescope were recent additions to the three step plan. In November 8, 2003 the Xinhua News Agency reported these four goals for Moon program:
" For the first goal, there will be three-dimensioned graphs of the lunar surface.
Basic structures and physiognomy units of the lunar surface will be defined precisely. Researches on the shape, size, distribution, and density will be made on the crates on the moon. These researches on the crates will produce data for identifying the age of the surface and early history of terrestrial planets and provide information needed to select the sites selecting for soft landing on the moon surface and for the lunar base.

The second goal is concentrating on the distribution and types of elements.
It will be focused on the content and distribution of 14 elements such as titanium and iron which can be exploited. A map of elements distribution around the moon will be sketched. Graphs for lunar rocks, mineral materials and geology will also be drawn respectively. The area rich in specific elements will be identified. And prospects of the development and exploitation of the mineral resources will be evaluated.

The third goal is to detect the depth of the lunar soil through microwave radiation.
In this way we can calculate the age of the lunar surface and distribution of the lunar soil on the lunar surface. This lays a foundation for the further estimates of the content, distribution, and quantity of helium-3 which is power generating fuel caused by nuclear fusion.

The fourth goal is focused on the space environment between the earth and the moon.
The average distance between the earth and the moon is 380 million km, which is in the earth's far magnetotail. Here the satellite probes solar energetic particles, plasma in solar wind, and the interaction between the solar wind and the moon and between the tail of the magnetic field of the earth and the moon. " Then of course we have to look at Chinanews 2005-11-01 article that sums up the most recent plans: "China will consider manned lunar landing after 2017". ...
" As for when the first Chinese astronaut will set foot on the moon, Ouyang said China will be capable of realizing manned lunar landing between 2020 and 2025. After that, China will also plan to build a base on the moon. "

Amongst the places i got that idea from is http://english.people.com.cn/200511/04/eng20051104 _219100.html "A basic idea in developing the chip is to slow down some data while waiting other data to catch up, so as to realize simultaneous processing."

Article 51. The exercise by citizens of the People's Republic of China of their freedoms and rights may not infringe upon the interests of the state, of society and of the collective, or upon the lawful freedoms and rights of other citizens.

He may have a valid point, however, about the government playing a large and not necessarily fair role. Capitalism to a large degree depends on even-handed enforcement of certain rules, such as prohibitions on outright fraud and sanctions for breaches of contract. In addition, the greater the government is directly involved as a buyer or seller and the more unified it is, the less you might trust its ability to objectively investigate possible malfeasances when you consider conflicts of interest and assorted entanglements.

Beijing tacitly acknowledges this through the occasional high-profile crackdown, and the occasional extreme severity such as sentencing a former governor to death.

http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2004/cpi2004.en.ht ml#cpi2004
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1471412.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200509/09/eng20050909 _207609.html
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/index.cfm? fa=eventDetail&id=284

It's a reasonable concern if you're thinking about a large capital investment that you can't simply take with you if local officials decide to squeeze you after you're committed -- perhaps demanding direct bribes, or using governmental powers against you if you don't throw business to somebody, or so forth. Granted, it's probably not nearly as foolhardy as trying to run a high-profile independent media network in Putin's Russia...

Lets put that in perspective.

America

China

These are both about a year ago. Which country has done better in the last year?

La Mian literally translates as pulled noodles. They're a specialty of northwestern China and incredible delicious, but to really appreciate them you have to see them made.

The noodle chef starts with a well worked ball of dough, rolls it into a rope like thing, takes one end in each hand, pulls it as wide as his armspan while swinging it up and down, doubles it over between his hands and repeats until it's been stretched thin enough. I realize my description doesn't do it justice, but to see it is to be amazed. It's usually served in a bowl of beef broth with meat, cilantro and onions, but you can get 'em fried too. There's nothing like handmade noodles.

Pictures:1 2 3(this one's not your ordinary la mian) 4 (the first frame gives a good feel for the process)