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The penalty for noncompliance is weak. If a country does not meet its promised emission goal by 2012, it will have to make both the promised cuts and 30 percent more in a second period starting 2013. They rejected the idea of a financial penalty. If a country can't meet its original goal, why should we expect to meet that goal PLUS 30%?? And the penalty if they fail AGAIN? Nothing, as far as I can tell. The Kyoto Treaty is just a lot of hot air, so to speak.

"Backgrounder: Kyoto Protocol"

Ever since Deng Xiaoping became leader, one of the messages the Chinese government give to their people is "enrich yourself".

There is a small (in proportion) but growing middle-class in China. If you travelled to Beijing today you would recognize the prototype of the yuppie in the streets almost indistinguishable from the ones in Tokyo or NYC. These guys have money, nice cars, cell phones, sattelite TV and broadband at home, etc.

Today Chinese tourists in Europe make up the second largest contingent after the Japanese. They don't stay for long but they spend *more*. Read more about it there
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I don't think China is opposed to consumerism, but the Chinese government or some part of it would probably want some kind of control over it.

This decision smacks of obvious over-reaction by some conservative factions in power. It may not have much actual effect. P2P is alive in China as well. If anything it will encourage piracy.

In the past, a lot of "no-name" DVD players were manufactured by chinese companies that just flat out ignored the patents held by the DVD consortium.

By going to court over the issue, these companies are tacitly accepting the western-style patent regime that the USA is trying to force on the rest of the world.

This new acceptance is probably part of the fallout of the Secretary of Commerce, Donald Evans's recent trip to Beijing. As was the recent arrest of bittorrent user in HK.

Might be more accurate to say "an" online news site. There is of course People's Daily, Xinhua Net, etc. etc. etc.

Seeing China as this huge, backward giant with one, monolithic information source is so 1978. I mean, really, this story alone surely debunks that simplistic, wrongheaded, sadly common view...

As far as I know, porn is delivered also outside the internet, for instance in form of magazines. And no, you don't have to be literate to read those magazines... in fact, pregnant women are standing all over the country side selling those lewd magazines and video tapes. Pregnant women, because they can by law not be detained for this minor crime.

Regarding netizens and their porn usage:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/10/conte nt_1461373.htm

A couple days ago I was looking at an article about the Miss World contest (I watch it for the articles!). I was mildly surprised to read that although it was held in China, women from Taiwan and Hong Kong were allowed to compete as contestants from other countries. The Xinhua article I link to above mentions this explicitly in the first caption on the page. Perhaps this event is not widely publicized inside China and so is not considered a problem?

Here are the Accoona results for "Soccer Manager 2005". It seems like a very generic name, so I don't know if it's the same as "Worldwide Soccer Manager". Xinhua is running an article with screenshots. It's quite likely this might be the title by Sports Interactive (or a bootleg of it), but unfortunately you need to be a member of their forums before you can search any information on their message board.

No, I think this is. Note how it effectively digs out that juicy "meta data". You might think that a search based on mucus is funny, but it'snot.

This guy. *snigger*

Boy, they could have picked a better photo.

The word "taikonauts" is invented by western media. If you check the Chinese media websites, they use "astronauts" for the English term.

Example: Xinhua news international (this is their government news agency so you can't get much more "official" than this)
What the official Chinese media call their astronauts

Funny, I just read an article saying that MM's movie is going to be aired on satellite television tonight. Coincidence?

Watch out for Spitzre's wrist! oh nos

Notice that it took that website 2 days after the "landing" to acknowledge that the thing hit a house. This is the news from 2 days ago from that same site:

Beijing, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- China has successfully retrieved its 20th recoverable satellite for scientific and technological experiments. The satellite's information capsule returned to earth Friday.

Link here.

No, of course they didn't plan on landing it on this guy's roof. Check out the picture -- they were obviously aiming for the courtyard, and, if you ask me, they did a really good job of getting pretty close.

Here's a picture.

This is a clear example of getting taxpayers to fund the RIAA's private war, Schultz said. (Wired)

Operation Digital Gridlock has resulted in the seizure of more than 40 terabytes of intellectual property being exchanged illegally over peer-to-peer networks since the effort began in August. (Information Week)

Intellectual property industries account for 6 per cent of the US gross domestic product, employ more than five million people, and contribute US$626 billion to the US economy, Mr Ashcroft said. (SMH)

Such theft costs American companies $250 billion per year, the report estimated. Sales of copyrighted materials alone accounted for 6 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product in 2002. Companies that produce films, music, books, software and other copyrighted material employed 4 percent of the nation's work force in 2002, the report said. (The Mercury Times)

Specifically, the report asks Congress to introduce legislation that would permit wiretaps to be used in investigating serious intellectual property offences and that would create a new crime of the importation of pirated products. (SMH)

The report also endorsed the rights of companies to compel Internet service providers to turn over the names of people who have traded copyright-protected items online. That power is included in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but has been challenged by companies that want to protect the identity of their subscribers. (Boston.com)

US Attorney Debra Yang said that intellectual property is lifeblood of south California region. This is an issue that has been of utter and utmost importance to our community here in Los Angeles, she said. (China View)

The task force proposed a dozen changes to rules governing criminal enforcement of intellectual property law and also called for the opening of five new anti-piracy offices across the United States. (news.com.au)

Dan Glickman, the new president of the Hollywood studios' influential lobbying body, the Motion Picture Association of America, applauded the aggressive initiatives aimed at protecting his industry. Piracy of intellectual property is a massive, global problem with far-reaching implications on the US economy, he said. In addition to hard goods piracy, which is rampant throughout the world, peer-to-peer networks that facilitate illegal file sharing are some of the most dangerous threats to copyright ownership today, he said. (news.com.au)

Ashcroft declined to comment on the Supreme Court's action, saying that his department might have to be involved in future, similar cases. But he defended the task force's recommendations. We believe people in the private sector have a responsibility to address these threats in the civil dimension as the law allows them and we have a responsibility to address these matters criminally, Ashcroft told The Associated Press in an interview. (The Mercury Times/AP)

The report also suggested expanding educational efforts in schools to prevent illegal file sharing. It also included principles to be adopted when evaluating pen

The chief US weapons inspector in Iraq said Wednesday that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003.

Where is everyone that just days ago was saying, "Iraq did have WMD!"? Do you yet admit that you were fooled by government propaganda?

Yeah, this is all old news now (from yesterday, omg), but you have to love this headline:

IBM creates fastest super model in the world

It's funny how World Service is changing people's lives. I've found more and more these days one of my primary news sources is out of Bejing. My guess is that's because they are putting out new releases right about when I look for news, so Google news tends to stick them toward the top of the stack.

Its just regional variations. In the Middle East you get links to Al Jazeera, you'll never see that searching on gnews from the USA.

Not true.

I live in the USA and many times I get stories from Al Jazeera in my Google news searches.

Now that you bring it up, I also get a lot of Chinese (Xinhua for example) results from time to time as well.

Sure, it's horrifying to see that someone could cheat, and most likely someone will try, but the polls have both parties monitoring, counting, and watching the process. Announcing the fact that the machines aren't fool proof or perfect is a wonderful thing for the process - aka more eyes will be watching and helping protect our election process.

These problems will be fixed, but there will always be voter fraud (ie dual voting - The paper found that 68 percent of the dual registrations are Democrats, 12 percent are Republicans, and 16 did not claim a party).

Anyway, even French President Jacques Chirac, along with the Mayor of Paris and other French officials, admit anti-Semitism is an increasing problem (after denying it for 1-2 years). Here are links from a variety of news sources. And note in the following links that all the suspects aren't necessarily North African Muslims but also Neo-Nazis from areas near the German border.

• Neo-Nazis set fire to Jewish center
• Israeli urges the French to fight anti-Semitism
• French government vows to fight against racism
• Mayor of Paris announces concrete measures against anti-Semitism
• France cautious on Jewish centre attack claim

Anyway, even French President Jacques Chirac, along with the Mayor of Paris and other French officials, admit anti-Semitism is an increasing problem (after denying it for 1-2 years). Here are links from a variety of news sources. And note in the following links that all the suspects aren't necessarily North African Muslims but also Neo-Nazis from areas near the German border.

• Neo-Nazis set fire to Jewish center
• Israeli urges the French to fight anti-Semitism
• French government vows to fight against racism
• Mayor of Paris announces concrete measures against anti-Semitism
• France cautious on Jewish centre attack claim

You lower total transmission loss (basically 0 though superconductor), and increas maximum power transmission per cable.

That's never stopped them before

China announced they were going to put a man in space and on the moon. Suddenly the US announced they were going to the moon and to Mars.

Actually, the Chinese government hasn't said they are planning to send humans to the Moon. Indeed, in recent weeks they have made it clear that they have no plans for human lunar missions for the foreseeable future.

It's not hard to connect the dots when there are only two.

I believe the aphorism you are looking for is, "If you want to draw a straight line, plot only two points."

The visa debacle.

Dumbasses.

Slightly off topic, but does anyone else find it incredibly disturbing that Xinhua and Voice of America are the top article on Google News so often? I accidentally clicked on a Xinhua story the other day and it's very disorienting to be reading about prisoner abuse and see "Mao Zedong, a forever warm memory" in a sidebar.

Another gem from the site:
Famous Cross-talker dies of traffic accident

Just today, the U.N. released a report stating that "dead zones" (oxygen-starved areas) in the world's oceans had doubled since 1990, with some as large as 70,000 square kilometers:

The main cause is excess nitrogen run-off from farm fertilizers, sewage and industrial pollutants. The nitrogen triggers blooms of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton. As the algae die and rot, they consume oxygen, thereby suffocating everything from clams and lobsters to oysters and fish.

"Human kind is engaged in a gigantic, global, experiment as a result of inefficient and often overuse of fertilizers, the discharge of untreated sewage and the ever rising emissions from vehicles and factories," UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer said in a statement. "Unless urgent action is taken to tackle the sources of the problem, it is likely to escalate rapidly."

I'm not sure the elaborate glyphs are what make Chinese more complicated, but rather the vertical orientation.

Chinese script is written left to right, just like English. Go to some popular Chinese Websites if you don't believe me.

Traditional / Classical Chinese was written top to bottom, but the script that everyone uses in their daily lives is left to right.

Sars can be seen in just about any supermarket in the country now... See for example,
this.

"The robot named BHR-1 passed appraisal on Saturday as a major project for the Beijing University of Science and Engineering under China's High and New Technology Research and Development Program, the official Xinhua news agency said."

I think this is the original story that was cut and pasted. I Haven't been able to find anything else on it. I can't even find a home page for the school in question, only obscure references in other not very informative articles. such as... this

I'd love to see a more technical description of how it balances itself without an equilibrium and thousands of years of evolution.

-niles

the first human clone has probably already been walking around for a while

And you base this on what? Your abundant lack of knowledge about cloning technology and basic biology?

The first adult mammal cloned was Dolly the sheep. She has some rather serious defects as a result of that cloning, such as rapid aging. It took 277 attempts to produce a viable clone.

A cow was cloned in 1998 without the aging problems, and it took a "mere" 104 attempts.

China cloned their first cow in October of this year. Brazil attempted to clone a cow and wound up with a bull instead.

Cloning isn't easy. It's not like you can just go to the corner drug store and buy a clone'o'matic. It requires a great deal of lab resources, time, and lots of money.

And while you may very well find scientists who would try to clone a human, you also have to find 50-100 women willing to be implanted with a cloned embryo, given that 90%+ of them will miscarry (the human body is pretty good at detecting and aborting non-viable fetuses -- and I apologize right now to anyone who has had to deal with a miscarraige in their family, I know they are deeply traumatizing). This immediately increases the number of potential leaks.

Right now is about the earliest it would have been possible to clone a human... after all, no matter what you try to do, it's going to take 9 months from implantation until birth.

It has nothing to do with fear, at least not for me. I think the ethics are questionable at best, primarily due to the large number of failures in current cloning methods. For the record, I'm pro-choice, but that doesn't mean that I would want dozens of women subjected to the trauma of a miscarraige (or worse), or that I think playing with human life this way is a good thing.

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Xinhua News Service has the official ChiCom party line on this incident and assorted other things. The site reads like an American parody of Communist "journalism". Funny as hell, in a pathetic sort of way, particularly their descriptions of the acrobatic moves our big, slow, prop-driven aircraft can do. Of course, they don't *mention* that they're big, slow, prop-driven aircraft...

Netcraft says they're running Netscape-Enterprise 4.1 on Solaris, alternating with Apache/1.3.6 on Solaris. So much for Red Flag Linux.

Anyhow, if you want to know what the Chinese people are being fed, there y'go.

• "AppearingonCBStelevision's"Facethe Nation"programSunday, Powellsaid:"Wedoacknowledgethatwe violatedtheir(China's) airspace,...Andweregretthat.Wehave expressedsorrowforit. Andwe'resorrythatthathappened."

• What we have done and what President Bush has done and what I have done and what Ambassador Prueher is talking to them about is to make sure that they understand we do regret the loss of their pilot and plane. We do acknowledge that we violated their air space, but look at the emergency circumstances that the pilot was facing. And we regret that, and we've expressed sorrow for it, and we're sorry that that happened. But that can't be seen as an apology accepting responsibility.

You can see what the state-run media is putting out from their Xinhua state-run news agency. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm