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Helping Other Big Brothers Go High Tech
Dino writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting article about the export of high-tech equipment to China's security forces, and the dilemma that it creates. On the one hand, there is the desire to increase exports to a country with which there is a trade imbalance. On the other hand, we face a situation in which the technology can be used to track dissidents and unauthorized religions. Restrictions have been enacted since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre to prevent exports intended to the Chinese security forces. However, the restrictions have been applied narrowly, and effectively prevent only low-tech exports such as handcuffs, helmets, fingerprint powder, and tear gas, while DB software, two-way radios, DNA analysis gear, and video probes, are allowed."
true vlad story: one time he farted so hard that he destroyed the chair he was sitting in. it was just a wooden chair anyway so it was already creaking under his unimaginable girth, but after the fart he literally reduced it to sawdust and matchsticks. he was just sitting there and then all of a sudden BBBRRRAAAAAAAAAPPPPP and the chair was gone and lockwood hit the floor. then he ended up falling through the floor and the four stories below that until he finally came to rest in the basement, it what happen when you weight 500 pounds. more vlad stories here