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China Systematically Developing New Technologies
newsblaze writes "China, having recognized there are major gaps in its science and technology arsenal, released their Technology Development Plans. The plans cover five main areas — geology, mechanical engineering, metallurgical engineering and aeronautical engineering. Three areas are prioritized in space technology and six major goals are announced.
All this comes after having first set out their 100 Year Vision of Greatness.
They appear to be giving themselves a breathing space, telling the world they are interested in cooperation and also giving themselves a major target, in much the same way as John F Kennedy did for the USA."
Bill O'Reilly is just a big blabbering piece of protoplasm.
need to tell you a little about how I am fed up to the back teeth with Bill O'Reilly's gormless flimflams. And so I shall. Let's review the errors in O'Reilly's statements in order. First, O'Reilly's revenge fantasies are worse than the Black Death of olden times. Have you ever stopped to consider the enormous havoc and ruin that has been wrought in this world by O'Reilly and his cat's-paws? I have. That's why I say that he just reported that his way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't. Do you think that that's merely sloppy reporting on O'Reilly's part? I don't. I, for one, think that it's a deliberate attempt to invent a new moral system that legitimizes his desire to insult the intelligence, interests, and life plans of whole groups of people.
Not to belabor the point, but the central paradox of O'Reilly's tirades, the twist that makes O'Reilly's ramblings so irresistible to insufferable so-called experts, is that these people truly believe that violence and prejudice are funny. If Fate desired that O'Reilly make a correct application of what he had read about fogyism, it would have to indicate title and page number, since the diabolic, duplicitous quiddler would otherwise never in all his life find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, I have a New Year's resolution for O'Reilly: He should pick up a book before he jumps to the self-deceiving conclusion that the worst classes of cynical, sleazy vagrants there are make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers.
Sooner or later, O'Reilly might be diagnosed with a special type of mental illness that is not yet recognized. But for now, be aware that the last time I told his flunkies that I want to defy him, they declared in response, "But you and I are inferior to addlepated maniacs." Of course, they didn't use exactly those words, but that's exactly what they meant. This probably does not affect your daily life, but it is a fact. No one has a higher opinion of him than I, and I think he's an imperious fastidious-type. Tell me something: Is there anything that O'Reilly can't make his disciples believe? On the surface, it would seem to have something to do with the way that there is a cost, a cost too high to calculate, for messing with the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people. But upon further investigation, one will find that his causeries are not witty satire, as O'Reilly would have you believe. They're simply the immature ramblings of someone who has no idea or appreciation of what he's mocking. For better or for worse, his jibes are like an enormous pharisaism-spewing machine. We must begin dismantling that structure. We must put a monkey wrench in its gears. And we must initiate meaningful change, because O'Reilly decries or dismisses capitalism, technology, industrialization, and systems of government borne of Enlightenment ideas about the dignity and freedom of human beings. These are the things that he fears, because they are wedded to individual initiative and responsibility.
Impulsive vigilantism is the shadow cast on society by O'Reilly's canards, and as long as this is so, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance. O'Reilly believes that his attitudes are good for the environment, human rights, and baby seals. That's just wrong. He further believes that at birth, every living being is assigned a celestial serial number or frequency power spectrum. Wrong again! Fortunately, if you ever get into an argument with some of his advocates about whether or not ruthless cockalorums like O'Reilly tend to conveniently ignore the key issues of this or any other situation, I have an excellent sockdolager for you. Simply inform the other party that O'Reilly spouts the same bile in everything he writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue he's excited about this week is prætorianism, which says to me that if O'Reilly believes that his opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a
Look closely at Vietnam. Though it is still an authoritarian society, the Vietnamese have made significant strides towards democracy and human rights. We rarely hear of pompous national goals like "First Vietnamese in Space" from Hanoi. The Vietnamese focus on things that matter: economy and social liberalization (e.g., human rights). In fact, "The Economist" reports that the strongest voices of support for democracy is coming from the membership of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
The Chinese focus on pompous national goals (e.g., space weapons and the like), but the Vietnamese focus on the things that matter to the common people. Note that the Vietnamese are specifically not developing nuclear weapons while Beijing is spending huge sums on aggressively developing nuclear-tipped missiles.
With the new national technology program, the Chinese may create the most advanced robot in the world, but their society will be socially impoverished. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese create a liberal democracy.
15 years from now, in which society -- China or Vietnam -- would you prefer to live? Another bowl of Pho please!