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Remember the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia? 2 people died. The Chinese at American universities staged their, first ever, clamorous demonstrations against the USA.

As for the rape of Tibet, the Chinese are stone cold silent. There is not even a peep out of them. Indeed, even the Chinese in Taiwan province support integrating Tibet into "One China".

Getting back to the censorship issue, Google generally acquiesces to the policies of Beijing. The majority of Google's employees are former or current H-1B employees. Many of them are Chinese and, hence, support the policies of Beijing.

Google management caring about human rights? Yeah. Right. The management does not even care about the plight of unemployed Americans and hired H-1Bs, left and right, when American engineers were unemployed during the 2001-2003 recession in Silicon Valley. The only ethics that Google understands is the kind spelled with a dollar sign: ethic$.

Look at what happened to "Star Wars I". It debuted in mainland China before the film was released in the West for general distribution at your local theater.

The database should be maintained by the Office of Homeland Security.

Worse, the Chinese (as documented by various industry groups and the U.S. Commerce department) will block any patent applications by Fia in China. Then, Chinese companies (with implicit approval from Beijing) will submit applications, to the Chinese government, for a patent on the very technology that Fia had hoped to patent. When Fia sells its genuine systems in China, Fia must then pay the Chinese companies for "violating" their patents.

Does anyone think that the Chinese behavior stinks?

Worse, the Chinese (as documented by various industry groups and the U.S. Commerce department) will block any patent applications by Fia in China. Then, Chinese companies (with implicit approval from Beijing) will submit applications, to the Chinese government, for a patent on the very technology that Fia had hoped to patent. When Fia sells its genuine systems in China, Fia must then pay the Chinese companies for "violating" their patents.

Does anyone think that the Chinese behavior stinks?

More than 50% of Intel's workforce in the USA (not China) is current or former H-1Bs. Intel claimed that it absolutely needs Chinese workers in order to build a competitive product: e.g. Itanium. Then, IBM proved Intel wrong by producing the Power5, which is mostly built by American engineers.

Further, Intel has a brutal job evaluation policy: strict bell curve. If an employee falls in the bottom 25% more than once, then the manager shows her the door. Exceptions are made when there is a labor shortage, but officially, the 25% rule is strictly enforced.

I, for one, am glad that Intel is losing. I hope that IBM beats the pants off of it.

The speaker was, for the first time in his pathetic life, speechless. No one had ever challenged him on the issue of Tibet.

Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China" [geocities.com].

Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China".

Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China".

Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China".

The evil mind is capable of almost anything.

The window manager appears to default to English. Is there a version with the Tibetan language? Thanks.

The window manage appears to default to English. Is there a version with the Tibetan language? Thanks.

The unions force Verizon to treat its workers far better than the Chinese treat the Tibetans.

Verizon is a good company that keeps jobs in the USA and does not send them to places like China. Definitely, go with Verizon.

Woah, woah, woah, woah!

Okay, I didn't support the war on Iraq for many reasons, but to claim that Saddam's not a bad guy is just simply ludicrous revisionist history.
Put down the agitprop and step away from the soapbox.

Saddam Hussein's Baathist Party has done several horrible things that have been well-documented. His regime has a history of torture, oppression, and genocide. The Kurds, the Marsh Arabs, and the Shiites have all suffered greatly at his regime's hands for helping us in the Gulf War and for standing up for their own rights. My mother works with an Iraqi Kurd who fled with her husband to America after her husbands brothers were tortured and killed and had their bodies returned to them in mutilated condition because the two of them were reporters trying to expose the abuses of the regime to the international community. Whole towns of Kurds were killed with chemical weapons for their aid of the UN forces in the Gulf War.

Then you have the draining of Iraq's wetlands as punishment to the Marsh Arabs. An entire ecosystem and economic infrastructure has been utterly destroyed, leaving many of the Marsh Arabs without a means of sustenance and without a home. This is in addition to the usual panorama of torture, kidnapping, and execution that faced many dissidents in Iraq.

Oh, and in case all of this doesn't convince you, how about the senseless, retaliatory destruction of the economic lifeblood of Kuwait that poisoned thousands? You know, the blackening of the skies which was visible from space? Then, there's the man's sweetheart sons who reveal how good of a man he was as a father. How about the horrible life story of a man who was forced to act as a body double for Uday?

I don't think that all necessarily justified us getting involved when we have made a policy of ignoring or supporting many other brutal regimes -- especially when close friends of certain of our administration stand to profit mightily -- but saying that there's no evidence that Saddam's a bad guy is farsical. As to his popularity, Saddam didn't just get 90%+ of the vote. He got 100% of the vote on a ballot where he was the ONLY candidate listed. No candidate gets that kind of support in any healthy democracy, and we are right to question anyone who does.

I concur. However, if you're less interested in outright brutality and disfigurement it's an interesting development. Since electricity has become so ubiquitous, cheap and effective electro-convulsive torture methods have flourished. But it's crude. This would be a sophisticated means of producing a very pronounced disorientation that affects the body and mind. Using drugs can be dangerous and there's so much miscibility with allergies and side-effects, and of course what happens when the staff starts enjoying the good-stuff too?

If a government wanted to still look good in the eyes of the world while perfoming interrogations, this would be a nice way to do it. Much better than a talk-man , or being shaken until you go into a coma and die.

That's not the way I remember it (I was ~15 at the time). He dropped mustard and nerve gas on a Kurdish village because he suspected they were aiding the Iranians in the Iran-Iraq war.

Here is a page from Google:
http://www.phrusa.org/research/chemical_weapons/ch emiraqgas2.html

though accidents will happen

http://www.phrusa.org/research/chemical_weapons/

The USA killed ~7000 innocent Somalian civilians in -93 while failing to kill one single warlord.

Stop showing your ignorance. You may not have liked the Somalian mission, but lets be honest about what the mission was. Killing Somalian warlords was *not* the mission.

Originally the mission was humanitarian, under Bush the elder- "open supply routes, get food moving, prepare the way for a UN peacekeeping force."
Under Clinton, in part due to the deliberate killing of 24 UN peacekeepers, the mission changed somewhat to capturing (that's right, *capturing*, not killing) one warlord, Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as well as commanders under him. If you find the deaths of 7,000 civilians deeply troubling, as I do, you might try reading BlackHawk Down to get some perspective on how such things occur.

You might pause to consider how (and if, of course) the USA should use its power when attempting to prevent a million starving people from dying due to the fact that food supplies can't get into a country during yet another civil war. Keep in perspective that while the US did sacrifice 34 of its own lives (and a billion or so in cash) and 7000 Somalis died, we were trying to prevent the starvation deaths which had already killed 300,000 Somalis, with the International Red Cross warning at the time of a potential 1.5 million deaths without greater food distribution. (I don't hear you trying to hold any warlords responsible for those 300,000 deaths now, do I? Why didn't the person who handed you that one-liner set of facts bother to mention them?)

Being concerned about the safety of food distribution (having watched rival Somali clans attempt to use food as a weapon by stealing, hoarding, and denying it to particular people), the UN first sent 50 unarmed monitors, then 500 security guards, then 5000, then ultimately 25000 US troops to insure that food aid could get through without being intercepted by warring local warlords. Yeah, USA- those bastards!

After it was clear to the US that its presence wasn't being effective (and the conflict was getting personal), it left, arranged for 25,000 UN troops from scattered countries to replace it, and after 8 more years, the UN has finally helped install Somalia's first government in a decade, the Transitional National Government (interview here). Meanwhile US food aid continues to stream into the country. Man, the USA really sucks, doesn't it!

--LP

Unfortunately, it seems that country is moving much closer to the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth of God, and to no good end. Religion is largely responsible for much of the suffering in this world, including overpopulation.

When religion stops becoming an inner journey, and falls into the realms of social policy, then we get such treasures as the Taliban, Jerry Falwell, Iranian Ayatolas, etc.

blessings,