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China's President Hu Talks IT Warfare
narramissic writes "In his keynote speech at the Communist Party Congress in October China's president Hu Jintao was specific in his references to one area of IT: defense. 'We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities.'"
Yup, I speak fluent Mandarin. Without more context, it's hard to say, but if your colleagues say it a lot, it's probably "nei-ge" (nei=that; ge=[measure word]), as in "Nei-ge CPU won't fit in nei-ge (or na-ge) motherboard." "Nei" is actually itself a kind of contraction of "na" (that) and "yi" (one).
No, he's pretty much hit the nail on the head. The Chinese engineers I've worked with are helpless. They have this culture where it's expected that you can refuse to work unless the bosses have provided you with a step-by-step plan. Unless they're copying something, of course - then they're fast as lightning (because someone has provided them with a model). It sounds like a stereotype but it's absolutely true.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
No, I don't think I'll give you a break here. First, we can eliminate the largest category of disaffected, people shall be second-guessing the 2000 elections forever, but they won't be able to come up with a coherent explanation for why, after the fact, they could have done better. The margin of error in such a close contest is greater than the vote difference. And no matter how you spin it, there is no legal way to determine the victor in such situations. The second largest group, latino and black soldiers in military, serve by choice. Children can have access to medicaid in the circumstances you describe.
Most of the poor mexicans tortured by redneck police, are tortured by Mexican redneck police in Mexico. I don't know which way they'd swing. And while phone tapping and the unconstritutional trials in Guantanamo are obscene, that doesn't leave a lot of people to agree with you.