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Hell, we've got footage of a pipe under the sea pumping out gallons of oil, but you think they're doing something else that's not only worse, but also visible only up close?

As one example, there have been numerous stories of additional large oil/gas plumes forming underwater near the ruptured well. However, it seems that getting near enough to these plumes to figure out what's going on will be difficult when there is an Exclusion Zone set up for a large distance around them.

The cynic in me notes that proper estimates of the leakage into these plumes could increase the official tally of the amount of oil/gas escaping into the Gulf and thereby increase BP's financial liability.

Hell, we've got footage of a pipe under the sea pumping out gallons of oil, but you think they're doing something else that's not only worse, but also visible only up close?

As one example, there have been numerous stories of additional large oil/gas plumes forming underwater near the ruptured well. However, it seems that getting near enough to these plumes to figure out what's going on will be difficult when there is an Exclusion Zone set up for a large distance around them.

The cynic in me notes that proper estimates of the leakage into these plumes could increase the official tally of the amount of oil/gas escaping into the Gulf and thereby increase BP's financial liability.

I still remember learning that rooves is the plural of roof. It is quite correct - in English, that is, as opposed to American. The latter has over the past century or so made up their own spelling and called it English. See http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_plural_form_of_roof_-_roofs_or_rooves and http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081014042809AArplwb I was taught English in Northern Ireland, not Australia.

Yes, especially now that state workers are now having all of their pay above the minimum wage deferred indefinitely. How's it feel to be a minimum wage worker in a state with one of the highest costs of living? This is after they've been put on mandatory furlough for a few days each month, giving them a ~10% cut in pay.

Seriously, California is fucked unless they make the budget take priority over shit like this.

For those who are unfamiliar with the style of California, ever since proposition 65, signs have been popping up everywhere warning about cancer (as this entity so eloquently points out). I'm not sure if the warning labels have achieved anything, but there have been allegations of abuse.

One is for personal entertainment and the other is for providing a performance tool.

Except that the sheet music you buy does not allow you to perform the piece in public - you also need to purchase the right to perform it as well. So the only legal use purchasing the sheet music gives is personal entertainment as well.

Seriously, By what measure?

Car Sales?
http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/c4c-chart.jpg

Domestic Production? (This is kind of a strawman as most of the cars on the list are made in the US factories by foreign owned entities, but most GE cars and some of Fords are manufactured in Canada.)
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1036/top-cash-for-clunkers-trade-ins-and-new-cars/

You are obviously a card-carrying union shill. Unions have outlived their usefullness. We have realized the errors of ways and now have LAWS which prohibit child labor, unsafe working conditions, etc. That shit just wont happen anymore. If you are a union member you are obviously paid more than your education, experience and aptitude should dictate. Unions have inflated wages to an unsustainable level.
Take for example the UAW http://www.uaw.org/node/287 and here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070924073107AAuGk8O. Average straight wage of a UAW assembler is $27.81 per hour. $54,000 a year to assemble cars? And that doesn't include overtime. That's bullshit. How about $103,000 a year to operate a forklift? Probably with only a high school diploma. WTF?

No wonder you blow a wad in your jeans over unions. You are scared shitless of getting paid what your labor is actually worth.

This is about paying reasonable wages for your labor. Including keeping wages high enough to earn a decent living, and low enough that Im not getting poked in the ass when I buy a car.

I'm certainly not Ebenzeezer but thanks for trying.

And they have no excuse considering stuff like http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/history/ exists!

You have to buy from the official store. I know on itunes for iphone apps you have to back it up yourself since they won't let you download it again if you lose it.

That is completely untrue. Your iTunes apps are saved to your account, so if you accidentally or intentionally delete something, you can download it again.

I don't know how Xbox handles that sort of thing.

The exact same way. All purchases are tied to your account. Sure, if the servers go down then you're boned, but then you could have just backed up your data in the first place.

[A]nd they sure as hell won't let you hook up an external drive via usb

You can set up 16 Gb partitions for use with USB media to back up all of your game content and saves, minus disk images of physical disks (downloads work fine) and user data, which cannot be duplicated but can be recovered from their server. Is it DRM? Yeah, and it's restrictive. Is it screwing you six ways from Sunday? Not really. You're losing the sell-back option, but it was only a matter of time before publishers started going after the used game market anyway.

You have to buy from the official store. I know on itunes for iphone apps you have to back it up yourself since they won't let you download it again if you lose it.

That is completely untrue. Your iTunes apps are saved to your account, so if you accidentally or intentionally delete something, you can download it again.

I don't know how Xbox handles that sort of thing.

The exact same way. All purchases are tied to your account. Sure, if the servers go down then you're boned, but then you could have just backed up your data in the first place.

[A]nd they sure as hell won't let you hook up an external drive via usb

You can set up 16 Gb partitions for use with USB media to back up all of your game content and saves, minus disk images of physical disks (downloads work fine) and user data, which cannot be duplicated but can be recovered from their server. Is it DRM? Yeah, and it's restrictive. Is it screwing you six ways from Sunday? Not really. You're losing the sell-back option, but it was only a matter of time before publishers started going after the used game market anyway.

Could this idea really work? For a quick heuristic analysis, answer one question:

How would things change if EVERY product we use were manufactured in the USA at existing labor rates?

If you still need help - Answer.

Sure it's a bit down - but considering the economy, it's not so much a "FALL" as a need to spend a few bucks on marketing.

Remember, the *vast majority* don't read computer news. Mom and Pop will still buy Dells for their sons and daughters when they go off to uni. CTOs of fortune 500's will still buy DELL because of their price for volume... a few broken bits here and there won't matter because, as opposed to you and me, fortune 500's actually get pretty good service.

Don't kid yourself. Dell will be fine.

I just think someone who seems fond of the straw man (as Mr. Beck is) would be more at home in the Yahoo Answers Religion & Spirituality section. They eat that stuff up....

You can read my submissions supporting Groklaw in the past (I have, what? Maybe 10 accepted SCO stories with Groklaw as a source? I don't remember any more.). I have trumpeted her site quite loudly for several years and cheered SCO's slow demise. I hope you're not going to lump me in with shills & astro-turfers. I honestly question how many of those there are, because PJ lumps *anyone* who disagrees with her in with them, or so it seems. I've also fought against Microsoft on OOXML and the rest and supported IBM's Rob Weir when discussing how much OOXML sucks ass (seriously, he's a good guy, his blog also has some information on wine making, if you're into that). If I'm some kind of shill who hates Groklaw or IBM for no reason, well, I must have been replaced by a doppleganger recently. Here are a few links that go allllll the way back to 2004, when hardly anybody knew who the hell Groklaw was and show me agreeing with and promoting the site. I've read her site daily since the RU days and remember when she had a hard time surviving a Slashdotting, before she moved to iBiblio. I think I contributed one or two of those early, hard-to-survive Slashdottings, for that matter.

That support is in the past, I'm afraid. PJ is a huge jerk, mostly in private, and you'll probably only see that if you disagree with her. I can give you her real email (it's close to the public email, pj@groklaw.net, which has more filtering), if you want me to prove that I've been in contact. I don't think it's a big deal to put that out here because she's more than capable of switching it if the spammers get hold of it.

She's had way more than three fallings-out, incidentally. But most of the people feel like they're the only ones. AllParadox is a good example because he wrote stories for Groklaw once upon a time. It's not like he's some nobody who lurked for a little while. It's more like almost anyone who worked with her closely got driven out. Except for Mathfox, I guess.

There are quite a few people she's parted ways with. Heck, ESR may be next on that list for saying that she "jumped the shark" when she attacked his friend, Jay Maynard (who got booted from Groklaw, even though he has nothing to do with TurboHercules the company; even if he's a friend of some of the founders thereof). His crime? Saying he felt threatened when IBM called the QPL-licensed Hercules emulator an "infringing platform." He's not Darl McBride. He's not a party to the EU complaint. He's a guy who dresses up in a Tron outfit and writes an emulator, for crying out loud. We're not talking "conspirator" here. But PJ sees "conspiracy" everywhere these days. I can't blame her, after SCO, but I won't agree, either.

You can read AllParadox's account of his departure here, incidentally.

Sadly, now, apparently, anyone who refers to "AllParadox" risks having their post deleted. If past complaints by former Groklaw regulars are any guide, anyone who naively trys to re-post a deleted post, or innocently inquires of PJ about the problem, also risks having their Groklaw account deleted.

Maybe you shouldn't trust PJ so much. She censors Groklaw so that people can't hold an honest debate there. How, you ask? By vanishing and silently editing people's posts.

By "vanishing" I mean that your post will *appear* to exist when you visit Groklaw. But nobody else will see it. I have verified this via proxies. Oh, and you might say "she only does that to trolls!" Not true. She does it to people she disagrees with. Marbux, AllParadox and one former Groklaw moderator have all parted ways due to this issue. Incidentally, I have logs and screenshots documenting this. I sent them to Florian, incidentally, because I find PJ's actions dishonest.

If she's only had a falling out with 3 people in 7 years, that's not that bad.

This is an old story, from since 2004:
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_S/threadview?m=te&bn=2942&tid=181845&mid=-1&tof=-1&rt=2&frt=2&off=1

The "I've verified this via proxies" is really a non-issue - other people have since pointed out that other content management systems have similar capabilities. I'll be writing a HOW-TO so that anyone can implement it, because it's a good "circuit breaker" or "fire break" for some use cases. Let everyone take a breather and reflect a bit ...

That being said, I'm willing to look at the evidence - but it has to be in context.

Silently editing posts should be more obvious, but it's still quite insidious. One of her supporters wrote something potentially libelous. She deleted the libelous part and *vanished* the reply pointing that out... Quite a bit of whitewash for a supposedly open site, no? Oh, and if your account is deleted, your name is stripped from all your comments. So you don't get attribution any more (ever wonder why some people sign their posts? yeah...)

You said it yourself - "potentially libelous". It's the same here on slashdot - for example: if you make a death threat to the president, it WILL be removed (it's been done in the past) and any post pointing that out will also be removed. slashdot has no choice - there's a specific law just for dealing with death threats to the president.

Normal practice on any of the many forums I have administered (as well as many others I have used), is for the mods to write [EDITED] or [SCRUBBED] or something of the sort to indicate the removal of such things. Not to whitewash the lot of it.

Maybe you should get better forum software :-) Okay, that was a bit of a joke ... but seriously, sometimes it's better for EVERYONE if the post is totally removed. For example, what do you think would happen if, instead of removing 10 of your posts, someone were to write "This post has been deleted because it conflicts with the site's policies"? People seeing that would think "troll" or "spammer". At that point, you'd probably wish they had just silently deleted them.

All I'm saying is that there's no ideal solution.

True, it's her site and her rules. She even reserves the right to do that (even while claiming that posters own their own posts). And claims to have found a lawyer telling her it's legally okay. I can accept all of that as true. But it's pretty damned insidious.

No need for a lawyer to tell her it's okay - it is. You might own your post, but you don't have a contractual or other right to require that someone else provide a platform for you to disseminate it. To the contrary. the only right you have is to use your own resources to get your message out.

Now, if you had signed a contract that said "posts written by $X will be hosted on site $Y for a period of $Z time in return for the following consid

Always good to ask for the law in use. Canada updated some laws just for the g20.
The Ontario Public Works Protection Act http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100625/national/g8_g20_civil_liberties
Using a camera on pubic property is not a conscious provocation.

So basically it's like what Google did with Buzz and Gmail contacts. You didn't learn from others' mistakes on this one did you Microsoft?

Yahoo has a Buzz competitor too. Windows Live/Hotmail, Google and Yahoo! Pulse's biggest downside is that none of them force people to use their real full names, so you can't expand your network with long-lost acquaintances.

The new players still protect our privacy, but hinder people's being found: obfuscated URLs, hiding your name, sex location and relative age; not being indexed at the very top of Google's searches have killed their shine in light of the big social networks.

For 3 years I slowly noticed Google, MS Live and Yahoo integrating chat, social information, avatars, new blogs, photo albums, status update broadcasts and crap mindful of dating sites. None of that has forced my friends, already deep in FB, to UPDATE their pre-Facebook site profiles using the new tools in their hands.

(*) Funny that Facebook, in spite of all its privacy controversy, is so correct about e-mail address disclosure. I applaud their hiding your valuable e-mail address from the friend request process. Thus, people who are out of touch with you can attempt to contact you --and if things go wrong, you can unfriend them without worrying that in the process of finding you they would learn handles allowing them to bug you over Gmail / Hotmail and Yahoo chat until you personally accept them at a more serious level.

"We realise the iPhone market is massive and we want iPr0n portable"

Spot on. Start-ups are already advertising for girls for iPhone 4 FaceTime video sex chat services. From a Craigslist ad:

iPhone 4 FaceTime Video Sex Line Chat - free iPhone 4 (NYC/LI) Date: 2010-06-27, 12:06PM EDT Reply to: job-dqsyj-1813619670@craigslist.org

Starting an online interactive pornography firm where woman will use the iphone 4 to video chat with potential customers on a pay as you go basis. Hours are flexible, pay will increase as the business builds. Woman will receive a free iphone 4 to use as personal time when not working. Woman will talk to potential clients and chat with them and perform various acts as desired by clients. All information will be confidential.

It's not about downloading -- it's about browsing. The question is not about "how many bits can one shove through this pipe," but instead "what is a quantitative measurement of the actual speed one can expect when going clicky-clicky on links on web sites."

So instead of maximum aggregate speed (which is easy to determine with speedtest.net and the like) this "Surfspeed" figure includes latencies for things like DNS. Round-trip times. Route lookups. Geographic caching (Akamai). The time it takes for the geolocation service to figure out where you are. Hops to the host(s) in question. Congestion of those hops. How long it takes for the fucking ad servers to wake up and start spitting out ads.

Should any of that matter? Of course not. But over here in the really real world, things aren't perfect, and it all makes a difference.

Get it? It's not at all intended to be an idealized measurement of maximum throughput.

To use a car analogy: Given a selection of different vehicles of different performance characteristics, how long does it get a bushel full of DVD-R from point New Jersey to San Francisco, including refueling, maintenance, personal needs (more comfortable cars == less stopping), road conditions, weather, traffic, and dodging kids on bikes?

It's easy to come up with an idealized route and ETA. But it it's much harder to include some real data.

And all of that theory is meaningless compared to actually measuring how long it takes a given vehicle to do that job, which is what this Surfspeed measurement tool proclaims to do.

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll get health "care" and financial "reform" right...

You seem to be suffering from the delusion that government is about running things efficiently. It's not. It's about keeping people employed. As stupid and lazy as they may be, the most important thing is to keep them employed...

P.S. - Here's a picture of the Progressive messiah with a fucking fly on his face: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100622/480/urn_publicid_ap_org66491abceb6647608552782eda77ca57/

FEMA can, and many parts of it can be (illegally, IMHO) by executive order.

FEMA can, and many parts of it can be (illegally, IMHO) by executive order.

in North Korea there is no restrictions to what you can see or read except that government protects the people from having to see any lies

So True! Except some days the communist nation exerts strict control over the media.

There are a lot of apple fans out there. I'm not one of them, but I have to have something to read. If I see an article that doesn't interest me, I simply don't click (unless I'm jonesing for something... ANYTHING to read).

That said, I wonder why nobody has posted the story about using stem cells to cure blindness caused by chemical burns?

Maybe I should submit it...

Why if Bill Gates said, "Jump" Microsoft would ask, "how high?": 1) He's an original Founder. 2) He owns more stock in the company than any other entity by FAR (the next closest, Capital Research Global Investors, owns around half of what he does). 3) He's the Chairman of the Board. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=msft http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/bod/bod.aspx

mostly because of Microsofts outside investments that are not doing so well, the value of assets they posses have been decreasing more often than not over the past 5 years.
for example the last 3 years, they actually took on debt recently, and any growth in capital is more than offset by those debts:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MSFT+Balance+Sheet&annual (look at the bottom line)

you expect slower growth when the company in question already dominates the market.

Investors are counting on more than PC's with microsoft, it is expected that management will invest wisely, and use the brand name to get a good return on assets. If a company is not growing anymore, then they better return all of their profit as a dividend. As an investor, if I am not seeing a plan for a positive return on capitol, then I won't invest.
So because microsoft does not appear to be maintaining the brand image, and not investing wisely, their value (represented by their stock price) has dropped drastically. Basically the new management is not worth as much as the old management, and thus the company is not worth it either.

While you are technically correct, the press recognized that BP had little choice and reported that Congress ordered them to. Congress did loudly order it, ever though they had no legal muscle behind it. Doesn't that seem abusive?

Yes it was abusive but BPS didn't have it due process violated. As TFA says, "Judge lifts offshore drilling ban as `overbearing'", shows courts can and do overrule congress and presidents.

I just object to the bullying and discarding of proper procedures. We have a court system for these kinds of things.

And BP did not use the court system when it could have. Let's copy that again, "Judge lifts offshore drilling ban as `overbearing'"

Falcon

...receive your private data from Google.

Umm.... I don't know, lets look at Apple Stock vs. MS stock over the last 5 years: Almost ZERO compared to 600% growth.

Owing more on your house than it's worth has a negative impact on your credit rating, whether you're current on your payments or not. So any employer who does what you say ("checks credit ratings") will view you negatively.

Rental prices are down compared to last year. Also, it's been 2 years now that landlords have taken tenants who have gone through the foreclosure route. You've been living in la-la land if you haven't noticed it. Landlords are settling for a lot less than they used to.

As for the rest, it's all been in the news for the last year. Just look for it. Or don't you know how to search?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mortgage-Defaults-May-Be-cnbc-1964280202.html?x=0
Mortgage Defaults May Be Driving Consumer Spending

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/business/01nopay.html
Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting

You haven't tried to get a job in finance or with the government, have you? Money problems are a HUGE red flag to US employers, especially in industries where financial responsibility is part of the organization's reputation.

The person who walks away, does a short soale, forecloses, whatever - is less of a risk. They've taken their medicine, whether it was a short sale, foreclosure, deed in lieu, or a bankruptcy. They won't be tempted to take a bribe to hold onto their underwater house. Your thinking is naive.

Why would I want to bite you? You've shown you're stupid, and it might be contagious. http://www.mybudget360.com/mortgages-non-payment-10-billion-dollars-month-free-thanks-bailouts/
$10 Billion a Month Freed up Each Month from People not paying their Mortgage. $1.9 Billion of That is in California so People can continue Leasing their SUV Mercedes and Getting Tans. Thanks Bailouts!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-22/honey-i-lost-the-house-now-it-s-time-to-party-caroline-baum.html
Honey, I Lost the House. Let's Party

You'd think those guys would seize any opportunity to stay relevant. It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot, another to do it when you're inches from death.

AOL has seen $3 billion in revenues this past year and a gross profit of $1.36 billion. Total cash on hand $262 million. Total debt $60 million. AOL Key Statistics

As for SHOUTcast, it offers 40,000 stations and draws about a half million listeners. SHOUTcast It is well represented on streaming media devices like Boxee, ViewSonic's NextTV, etc.

Close. Actually, in Utah, only one has a blank, all the others have real bullets. See, e.g., http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100618/ap_on_re_us/us_utah_firing_squad

No I didn't. I pointed out how both parties use filibusters but you only want Democrats to use them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You however only fault Republicans as if only Democrats can use them. As for my use of the citation, I used it because it was the second result for filibusters democrats republicans, the first being wiki. Another result says how Democrats used filibusters to block 10 Bush judicial nominees from a yes-or-no vote in 2003. Why is it alright for Democrats to use filibusters to block yes-or-no votes but not Republicans use of it for health insurance reform? You say how the article I first posted agreed that more people agreed when Democrats used filibusters than when Republicans do, but you neglected the health bill. A majority of people opposed the bill but Nancy Pelosi decided to ram it down people's throats anyway. She didn't care what voters wanted, and I hope she loses here seat because of it. Along with other Democrats.

Falcon

They haven't been doing great (unlike, say, Apple), but at the same time it's not like they're particularly hurting.

the american society is in serious breakdown. Unfortunately, it will drag down most of western society. The Americans are so self centred and introverted, they will commit patricide for purely save face.

Son kills father who translated for US in Iraq http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100619/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

First of all smart phones (as we in the US know them) are almost non-existant in Japan. Secondly, gaming on smart phones is not very enjoyable or easy unless you have tiny fingers. Handheld gaming devices are designed to be more comfortable to hold in a gaming position.

I've heard variants on this argument for years ("Japanese phones are so much more advanced than what we have here!"), and having been to Japan on a number of occasions, I just never saw it. Other than streaming TV shows onto surprisingly bulky phones, I just didn't see anything particularly advanced or interesting.

Now that the iPhone is the best selling cell phone in Japan (not just smart phone, best selling cell phone), perhaps it's time to put these arguments aside. Hell, people are lining up to get on waiting lists for the new iPhone. Granted, people in Japan seem to love lining up for almost anything, but it's still significant.

The iPhone has done extremely well. Even in Japan. Perhaps that's why Nintendo sees Apple as a threat.

What makes it interesting is indeed only that it's made by apple. However, if you have a look at these market cap numbers, you may see why this could have some significant implications:
Apple
Intel

What makes it interesting is indeed only that it's made by apple. However, if you have a look at these market cap numbers, you may see why this could have some significant implications:
Apple
Intel

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Actually, a human adult generally experiences about 10,000 oxidative lesions to their DNA per cell per day* due to free radicals randomly interacting chemically with our DNA . So using the estimate of 50 trillion cells in the human body, with no particular radiation exposure, we're talking about 500 quadrillion "breakdowns" in a typical person's DNA each day.

So eat your anti-oxidants.

*Ames, B. N., Shigenaga, M. K. and Hagen, T. M. (1993) Oxidants, Antioxidants, and the Degenerative Diseases of Aging. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 7915-7922

Well, at the dollar's current valuation, that doesn't surprise me.

The dollar's current valuation? Compared to what, the krona? Euros? Pounds sterling? Canadian dollars? Yen?

Maybe it should surprise you..... I mean, if you're in Australia you have an excuse...

Well, at the dollar's current valuation, that doesn't surprise me.

The dollar's current valuation? Compared to what, the krona? Euros? Pounds sterling? Canadian dollars? Yen?

Maybe it should surprise you..... I mean, if you're in Australia you have an excuse...

Well, at the dollar's current valuation, that doesn't surprise me.

The dollar's current valuation? Compared to what, the krona? Euros? Pounds sterling? Canadian dollars? Yen?

Maybe it should surprise you..... I mean, if you're in Australia you have an excuse...

Well, at the dollar's current valuation, that doesn't surprise me.

The dollar's current valuation? Compared to what, the krona? Euros? Pounds sterling? Canadian dollars? Yen?

Maybe it should surprise you..... I mean, if you're in Australia you have an excuse...

Well, at the dollar's current valuation, that doesn't surprise me.

The dollar's current valuation? Compared to what, the krona? Euros? Pounds sterling? Canadian dollars? Yen?

Maybe it should surprise you..... I mean, if you're in Australia you have an excuse...

Violent football hooliganism is primarily an English rather than specifically a German tradition.

O Rly?

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/117669.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,646723,00.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-serbia-fanviolence

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=406446&cc=5739

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1565414,00.html

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL1369951620070313

http://sfcu.com.au/smf111/index.php?topic=5427.175;wap2

Cut the "holier than thou" bullshit.

Maybe there were a lot of Hispanics in those precincts and they were simply doing what a federal judge allowed Hispanics in Port Chester, NY to do. That is, they get to cast multiple votes...six times each..., just because they're Hispanic. That's right, not "One man, one vote", but rather "Un hombre, seis votos".

Mods: Before you mod me, you must read the Yahoo News article first. This is truly a major-league WTF moment in this nation's history.

yeah, apparently the Chinese learned that Mao's purges of intellectuals were counterproductive. And because they make the government look bad it's really hard to find information on their history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Persecution

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090420120327AA9Yzfe

Oh, and don't forget Tienanmen Square in 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

So, uh, basically no reason. no reason at all. China is clearly a haven for persecuted scientists.

Don't they ban fully automatic rifles for civilian use in the USA?

No. They require you to get a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms [].