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Not only do we excel at engineering, we also excel at compassion. Below is a tally of the latest contributions to the relief effort in Southern Asia.

1. USA $350 million + several hundred million dollars of indirect aid (e.g. naval armada arriving near Sri Lanka to do search and rescue)
2. Japan $500 million
3. Australia $810 million
4. China (including Taiwan province and Hong Kong) $8 million

The compassion of Westerners can objectively be said to be greater than the compassion of Chinese by, at least, 2 orders of magnitude.

Perhaps, our compassionate and supportive society creates the right environment for people who perform poorly on written tests but who excel at engineering creativity. It makes you wonder, don't it?

Not only do we excel at engineering, we also excel at compassion. Below is a tally of the latest contributions to the relief effort in Southern Asia.

1. USA $350 million + several hundred million dollars of indirect aid (e.g. naval armada arriving near Sri Lanka to do search and rescue)
2. Japan $500 million
3. Australia $810 million
4. China (including Taiwan province and Hong Kong) $8 million

The compassion of Westerners can objectively be said to be greater than the compassion of Chinese by, at least, 2 orders of magnitude.

Perhaps, our compassionate and supportive society creates the right environment for people who perform poorly on written tests but who excel at engineering creativity. It makes you wonder, don't it?

Various organizations like PushBack.com have called on a nationwide boycott of Chinese products. So, too, have the Western network of Tibetan organizations.

As well, Americans in particular are outstanding on the social sciences, compassion, and good citizenry. Chinese society does much less well, especially on compassion metrics.

The problem is not Chinese laws. The problem is Chinese culture. A Chinese does not care about privacy for anyone except himself.

Notice the lack of Chinese immigrants in the membership of the American Civil Liberties Union or Amnesty International. You tell me what is "going down" here.

In this crisis, here is the tally of nations who have contributed money.

1. USA: $350 million plus additional millions in indirect aid

2. Japan: $500 million

3. China (including Taiwan province and Hong Kong): $7 million

The compassion of the West is at least 2 orders of magnitude greater than the compassion of the Chinese.

Faced with a Thai child whose parents were killed by the tsunami, Americans would immediately adopt the child. The Chinese would put bullet in the kid's head; "Better to reduce the surplus population," sayeth the Chinese.

The Chinese sweep through the Ukraine, raping and killing children in much the same fashion that the Chinese conduct themselves today in Tibet. The invasion of Ukraine is quick because the Ukrainians are fooled into thinking that the weapons are NATO.

Then, once the invasion of the country is complete, the Chinese peel off the NATO colors and paint their equipment blood red, restoring them to their original fascist colors.

Actually, what would help even more is to stop piracy in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong). Without piracy, the average cost of Windows XP in China would rise from 10 American cents to about $200. Then, there would be huge market demand for using Linux since it would be free and would not be competing with a "free" (i.e. pirated) version of Windows.

Then, the huge market in China would drive the development of games on Linux.

Of course, all this talk is sheer fancy since we can never stop piracy in China. Stealing and brutalizing are integral parts of Chinese culture, celebrated and encouraged by most Chinese.

Why? The Chinese would then be able to develop methods of defeating our proposed anti-missile shield that we are developing with Japan, Australia, Canada, and England.

Has anyone ever wondered by Atheros Communication went public while it was still losing money? Chinese competition is the answer.

There is nothing unique about Earthlink providing the same service. Indeed, Micro$oft has an advantage because its engineers wrote most of the applications running on the customer's computer, so the customer is more likely to buy system administration from Micro$oft instead of an ISP.

Also, customers would be wary of buying system administration from an anonymous company. It could be a Chinese company pretending to be an American one and would plant malware, trojan horses, and other crap on the customer's computer.

Customers would prefer Micro$oft because it is a known name.

The work or virus would re-program the computer at missile command in Beijing. Imagine the "fun" when a Chinese ICBM automatically launches and lands directly in Canton.

Dr. Michael Savage noted on his New Year's Eve radio program that some religious clerics believe that the tsunami was God's vengeance against the prostitutes of Thailand and the Muslims of the affected areas. The southern tip of Thailand is a brothel of pedophilia, and you already know about the Islamic fascists. Dr. Savage asked, "Did God kill the Muslims to avenge 9/11?"

On a more serious note, Japan has just pledged $500 million for aid to Southern Asia. The USA has pledged $350 million plus hundreds of millions in indirect aid (e.g. sending a naval task force to do search and rescue).

China? The Chinese donated roughly $0.00.

The 129 votes is within the noise of human error. Do yet another recount, and the votes may shift in favor of the other candidate.

Personally, I support the candidate who has the guts to stand up to the Taiwanese community and to deal sternly with China.

As well, what is the purpose of just protecting the seas when our border with Mexico is completely unsecure? The Chinese have troops on the Mexican side of the border. Further Islamic thugs have made trips back and forth across that border.

LaRaza be damned. We should pull out troops out of South Korea and put them on the US-Mexican border.

As well, what is the purpose of just protecting the seas when our border with Mexico is completely unsecure? The Chinese have troops on the Mexican side of the border. Further Islamic thugs have made trips back and forth across that border.

LaRaza be damned. We should pull out troops out of South Korea and put them on the US-Mexican border.

In particular distributed computing has particular use in doing wargame simulations. The Pentagon has been doing its simulations on distributed systems for, at least, a decade.

This army of robots would be a nightmare for the military forces of Japan and the USA.

Note that the sex ratio at birth (SRB) in China is 1.20. The SRB in Korea and India is also 1.20.

The normal SRB is 1.05. Vietnam, the USA, and Japan have an SRB of 1.05.

Sometimes, the most important discoveries are made in the social sciences although geeks generally do not consider the social sciences to be "real" sciences.

This kind of benevolence in the West is common. Below is a list of countries who have pledged money to help the tsunami's victims in Southern Asia.

1. USA $40 million
2. Japan $30 million
3. Australia $7 million
4. China $0.00

'Nuff said.

If I were a gambling person, I'd bet that FireFox will grow to 25% of the market by 2005 December. The reason is that folks, like those in China, with the kind of malignant, destructive thinking that produces viruses and malware really enjoy the havoc that they are doing. These folks will only do more and more in a way that is similar to a drug addict.

The sex ratio at birth (SRB) of males to females in China is a shocking 1.20. The normal SRB is 1.05.

The SRB for Taiwan province is 1.10. The SRB for Korea is 1.20. The SRB for Indian is 1.20.

Both Japan and the USA have an SRB of 1.05.

However, without Russian re-entry vehicles, there would be no one in our ISS. So, I suppose that paying Russia is, after all, better than paying the Chinese. The Chinese would demand a king's ransom: i.e. access to critical space technologies that would allow the Chinese to accelerate their program to militarize space by installing a particle-beam weapon in low earth orbit.

What is vital is that we in the West ban any Taiwanese from working on electronics technologies of such importance. The Taiwanese have a history of spying for Beijing.

What is vital is that we in the West ban any Taiwanese from working on electronics technologies of such importance. The Taiwanese have a history of spying for Beijing.

Many Taiwanese in the USA spy on behalf of Beijing. Only by snooping on their communication can we protect national security assets of this country.

Many Taiwanese in the USA spy on behalf of Beijing. Only by snooping on their communication can we protect national security assets of this country.

When the Chinese talk about "remembering World War II" and using that memory to condemn Japan, the Chinese are talking about bigotry. In China, teaching bigotry to children and passing bigotry from one generation to the next is popular and encouraged.

We in the West believe that teaching bigotry is wrong. Western culture is very different from Chinese culture.

By the way, Tokyo has pledged $30 million in relief aid to Southern Asia to assist the victims of the tsunami. Beijing pledged almost nothing. Washington pledged $35 million. Australia pledged $7 million. As always, Chinese culture is very different from Western culture.

I personally favor treating the Chinese in the same way that they treat non-Chinese. We Westerns should use our "memory" of the Korean War, in which millions of Chinese killed Americans defending freedom in South Korea, to condemn the Chinese and to deport the Chinese immigrants without American citizenship back to the Chinese motherland.

Apparently, the latest Japanese assessment that China is a hostile foreign power has pervaded the government of Japan, and Tokyo will not be cooperating with Beijing for the intermediate future.

For those who are not aware, the Japanese government recently issued a defense whitepaper identifying Beijing as a hostile military threat. Unlike the Taiwanese, the Japanese do not wish to hand critical space/aeronautical technologies over to the butchers in Beijing.

How can you defend yourself? Go to CNET and download the most popular anti-spyware product produced by a commercial company. Also, buy a commercial anti-virus product: e.g. McAfee. Never respond to e-mail that requests personal information; reputable companies never ask for personal details by e-mail.

The end result is that if the American company sells, in China, products invented by American engineers, then said American company must pay royalties to the Chinese thief ... er ... company. The American company and its employees will not see a dime resulting from their hardwork.

Fair? No. Chinese? Yes.

What demands the 1 gigabit-per-second is real-time videos. Yet, the basic cable television already fulfills such a need.

Most Americans are social creatures. We enjoy watching videos with other people, not alone. Hence, the VHS player never did vanquish the movie theaters. Tickets for the theaters are as expensive as ever, and still the "gang" meets Friday night for a trip to the theater.

So, using the Internet to watch movies by yourself is really a solution to a problem that does not exist. A few geeks may want the gigabit-per-second feed for their pornography, but otherwise, there is little demand for such speeds.

So, what is the utility of the Internet? The utility is information. At the tip of your fingers, you can access the best, most accurate information in the world. Consider Fox News, CNN, "Washington Post", "Wall Street Journal", etc. Of course, search engines like Yahoo! Search enable you to find the information you need to understand, say, the pancreatic cancer that afflicts a member of your family.

Getting this information is sufficiently easy and comfortable at 384K Baud.

By the same token, high-speed Internet has not reached a plateau in, say, China or Korea. The Chinese are anti-social people and are prone to brutality. So, watching videos alone is considered "fun". Chinese culture is vastly different from Western culture.

What demands the 1 gigabit-per-second is real-time videos. Yet, the basic cable television already fulfills such a need.

Most Americans are social creatures. We enjoy watching videos with other people, not alone. Hence, the VHS player never did vanquish the movie theaters. Tickets for the theaters are as expensive as ever, and still the "gang" meets Friday night for a trip to the theater.

So, using the Internet to watch movies by yourself is really a solution to a problem that does not exist. A few geeks may want the gigabit-per-second feed for their pornography, but otherwise, there is little demand for such an speeds.

So, what is the utility of the Internet? The utility is information. At the tip of your fingers, you can access the best, most accurate information in the world. Consider Fox News, CNN, "Washington Post", "Wall Street Journal", etc. Of course, search engines like Yahoo! Search enable you to find the information you need to understand, say, the pancreatic cancer that afflicts a member of your family.

Getting this information is sufficiently easy and comfortable at 384K Baud.

By the same token, high-speed Internet has not reached a plateau in, say, China or Korea. The Chinese are anti-social people and are prone to brutality. So, watching videos alone is considered "fun". Chinese culture is vastly different from Western culture.

With a nation of approximately 1.3 billion inhabitants, the only way that a government wich blatant disregard for human life and decency can actually THRIVE is because all the Chinese hold attitudes like yours -- either through ignorance or stupidity.

Ask the family of Zhou Jiaxiong if Beijing's torture tactics are "subjective". Accuse me of hate and stupidity while Chinese subhumans are ripping off the genitals of their peers because they are suspected of having impregnated their wife a second time.

I only encourage embargoes against nations who engage, as a rule, in anti-democratic inhumane torturous methods, not only against their inhabitants, unfortunately, who sit idly by, but those of other regions as well.

The article is nothing more than Beijing, via one of its puppet newspapers, bragging about its latest creation (likely the result of one or more Taiwanese attending US universities spying for Beijing). The network, if it even exists, offers nothing to the outside world as it only connects Chinese universities.

World news is important. Maybe we can find something more interesting to post, though, such as accounts of torture in Tibet, which might provide a more accurate picture of what China is all about.

What's the point in reporting on China rolling out a new network? Regardless of the technological modifications, all content will be strictly monitored and anybody who uses it for methods that Beijing/Taipei doesn't like will be summarily arrested, "tried", and likely executed.

Instead of praising these thugs we should be clamoring for an embargo and boycotting US businesses which employ Chinese scum.

These hybrid cars and H cars will help to reduce Western demand for oil and will help to reduce the air pollution in the West. Air pollution is good news for China and will shorten the lifespan of the average Chinese.

Sure. Micro$oft does help the American economy and has aggressively stood up to Chinese thugs in Beijing when they demanded that Micro$oft censor links, on its search engine, to Tibet and human rights. I thank Micro$oft for its distinctly American approach to bashing Chinese thugs, but ... Micro$oft products just do not have the same value that they once had in the distant past, when OSS was not available.

IBM has a subsidiary in China and cannot possibly vet all the Chinese working there. As well, IBM has an affiliate in Taiwan. Of the two groups (i.e. mainland Chinese and Taiwanese), the Taiwanese pose the greater security risk.

The technologies that IBM has developed could be used by the Chinese military. Some Taiwanese, at the request of Beijing, might just xerox the blueprints for this technology and hand it to Chinese intelligence services. One use of high density storage is to store all the intelligence collected by Taiwanese spies on behalf of Beijing.

To IBM, I say, "Tread carefully. Guard your technology. The Chinese wall between IBM-USA and IBM-Taiwan is no protection. Tear it down and sell the Taiwan subsidiary to Acer."

We know, based on documents provided by the U.S. Labor Department, that Google hires many Chinese H-1Bs. In fact, 30% of Google's workforce is H-1Bs, of whom many hail from China.

There may be a correlation between the Chinese workforce at Google and the fact that Google has stagnated. Note that the company was originally started by 2 Americans; at the early stages, Google had few Chinese H-1Bs and was quite innovative.

By contrast, Microsoft does not acquiesce to Beijing and has never removed "offending" links at the request of Chinese thugs. Microsoft also limits the number of H-1Bs that it will hire. I should know. I directly asked Microsoft's representative at a local job fair about favoritism towards Chinese and Indians, and the representative proudly said that the company prefers Americans.

By contrast, Microsoft does not acquiesce to Beijing and has never removed "offending" links at the request of Chinese thugs. Microsoft also limits the number of H-1Bs that it will hire. I should know. I directly asked Microsoft's representative at a local job fair about favoritism towards Chinese and Indians, and the representative proudly said that the company prefers Americans.

Just a few days ago, Putin himself agreed to accept a pro-West president of the Ukraine, taking most of the West off guard.

Unlike China, Russia is destined to be a great ally of America.

The RSA will help to protect Western bank/brokerage accounts from Chinese theft. That the majority of stolen credit card numbers end up in the hands of Chinese gangs, aided and abetted by Beijing, in Southeast Asia should surprise no one.

The second solution is to load a hydrogen bomb onto a Delta 4 rocket and to send the contraption to the asteroid. Within a mile from impact, explode the hydrogen bomb. The explosion will nudge the asteroid slightly and send it in a direction that avoids earth.

The catch here is that if we utilize a hydrogren bomb in this way, we must quickly replace it. The Chinese military is eagerly looking for any weakness in our conventional or nuclear arsenal and would use such a weakness to exploit us.

Such is the nature of the evil mind.

This battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray has no meaning for Westerners. In China, they will derive no money from the technologies that they have patented for both formats. The situation is a "lose-lose" for the West.

Such is the nature of the evil mind.

This battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray has no meaning for Westerners. In China, they will derive no money from the technologies that they have patented for both formats. The situation is a "lose-lose" for the West.

Note that the Personal Computer was invented in the USA.

In other words, the USA has more computers than China. Once China reaches a higher level of prosperity, with the same number of computer desktops possessed by the USA, then China will easily exceed the spam level generated by the USA.