It seems to me that you concentrate too much on your technical skills.
It's time to work on yourself, and on your interaction with the outside world. Stop trying to change people, but try to change yourself !
Why don't you read some books on human interactions and start a psychoanalysis ? I recommend you the excellent book: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Also, you may have problems with authority at work (probably a pattern in your life). Working on that will ease your pain and you'll probably find your place in life (whatever that means).
1) the COS lawyer in the US knew that the law was wrecked in July 2009 IIRC, much before everybody knew. 2) there have been a lot of rumors of infiltration of the french government by the COS, since more than ten years, with files and proofs against the COS mysteriously disappearing.
In France, there is a nice term used in several occasions: Solidarité (solidarity). But now, it's just used for personal interests, like when the milk farmers get 200 million euros for protecting their dying business. And meanwhile, Sarkozy dreams about killing the Securité Sociale (which would reduce a lot the charges on the salaries), while Obama tries to install it in the US.
I forgot to add that Jean Sarkozy is 23, and has no diploma, which seems a sine qua non condition in France to get a job.
In France, there has been an incredible 'mistake', where a law was about to be passed allowing to ban the Scientology. However, it appears that there have been an error, where all the text expressing the ban of dangerous cults disappeared !
There is a huge debate in France because of this incredible mistake, and a lot of high public officials pretend that this is a computer error (eventually, it was the fact of a human editor).
It has been widely published that the french president Sarkozy welcomed Tom Cruise as a president, and Sarkozy has his own personal guru, who sends him positive waves every day (yes, this has been published too !). Also, Sarkozy use the Scientology methods, especially in a current lawsuit, involving a previous Prime Minister: Dominique de Villepin. The idea is to never try to defend, but to concentrate on harassing.
So now, we are in a sad state in France, where the Scientology has been condamned to a symbolic fine, and with a lot of indices that Sarkozy is involved with Scientology. And the worst thing is that the opposition does not seem eager to attack Sarkozy on this subject.
As usual, the political omerta will cover all these dirty schemes, and the large audience will remain unaware of the real stakes.
BTW, in the last month, in France we had: 1) an ex-prime minister attacked by Sarkozy in the Clearstream affair, but I'm pretty sure he is innocent because it was the president Chirac who tried to trap Sarkozy 2) our minister of Culture who wrote in a book that he is a pedophile (and he just adopted a 18 years guy, as a way to provide inheritance in same sex couples). Funnily, he tried to protest against Polanski's arrest. 3) Jean, the son of Sarkozy, was about to be elected as the director of the EPAD, which is the organism that decides where to install buildings in the new french eldorado (La Défense)
To reduce wear levelling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling , the firmware remaps all the sectors with its own algorithm. Logically, the sectors may appear consecutive, but physically, they are probably not.
Suppose that you have a log file, where a new line is appended every second. The SSD will probably change its place at every write, to avoid rewriting at the same place, and this will be transparent for the OS.
So there is no 'contiguous' block, and defragmentation is simply useless.
the fact that a.Net application on Windows Server 2003/SQL Server 2000 could handle the LSE at all isn't a total loss for MS.
No, the.Net application was not able to handle the load. And if you read the article, the current amount of load has doubled since last year, so the problem might appear more frequently.
Seriously,.Net 1.0 came out in 2002. In five/six years, the VM held up to a pretty high standard.
A technology becomes mature after 10 years, not 6 ! And who said that they used.Net 1.0 ? I know companies that used.Net 2.0 as soon as it was out, just because developers said that 2.0 would solve their problems. I still don't understand why Microsoft tried to push.Net, when they could write the whole thing using C++. Using Sql Server 2000 was itself a victory, but now, it's a complete defeat, and it will be difficult to promote such technologies on very large projects.
I'm sure they learned a lot in this failure.
Yes, and the lesson is pretty clear: NEVER USE.NET ON REAL TIME APPLICATIONS !
Nobody published what was the problem. Was it a problem with IIS, because there were too many connections ? Was it a problem with SQL Server 2000 unable to handle the load ? Perhaps some bug with non commited transactions or a request taking too much time blocking the other ones ? Or was it a problem with.Net itself ? Garbage collection can happen at any time, and it's difficult to predict how much time it will take, or if it's a Web application,.Net dies silently when all the memory is used. Or did they have a virus that saturated their server ?
I'm sorry, but there are too much risks where you have no control when using closed source in such environment.
Sure, the damn thing melted down for a day
It may sound benign, but this is absolutely not tolerable. When you handle billions of real money every day, you cannot allow to have the slightest problem.
The result is that all the traders have now totally lost their faith in Microsoft's technology, which is the worst PR MS could ever dream, and a lot of people were sacked in the process.
The prior system had 6 years of 0-nines uptime. No failures in six years. Windows and.Net couldn't squeek through three years without a catastrophic failure that shut down the entire system for nearly an entire trading day - and it failed when it mattered most.
In June last year the LSE switched from its 10-year-old Sets system in favour of a new platform called TradElect, which runs on Microsoft software. TradElect was hailed as a huge advance in an increasingly competitive market, primarily by reducing the time taken to complete a trade from 140 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds.
It started in June 2008, and failed in September 2009. So the uptime was 15 months.
No, piracy is widespread because it's easier to download than going to a shop to buy a real product.
As long as the pirated product is equivalent to a real product (and in some cases, it's worse due to the protection), I don't see why I should buy a product, except encouraging its creators.
Politicians don't have the fucking stones to put forward this kind of legislation.
No, the politicians know very well from where the money comes. They are elected by people, but they can punish them as long as they can get a few bucks for themselves. Politicians have renounced to care for their voters, and this is especially true for the french president.
I'm a french guy, and I can only notice that Sarkozy just runs for himself, as most of the french society now.
He dreams about the 'american model', where only money matters, where there is no social insurance and where the employees can be fired without notice.
every two weeks, we pick a new pair of people to deal with the shit random work that distracts the hell out of us (used to be worse - spread the shit around and bother anyone you can find whenever something bad happened. Spent over half our time on this crap)
I'm the lead on the project, so when I'm also the shit worker, I get two jobs, because people still ask for guidance and i have design docs that need done.
Bugs to fix are unavoidable. We use a table where we place post-its. Every post-it is a task, and a task is either a bug or a new feature.
When you have some random work, it would be better to have one people assigned to creating a task. Place the tasks by order of priority from the top to the bottom on your table.
What has been successful is to use the standup meeting to include people that are not working directly on the project, so that they realize what we are doing and so they could ask for help. Everybody speaks in less than one minute, and we are able to solve problems before they become too big (we have 10 people, so a meeting takes from 10 to 15 minutes, before going to lunch).
However, it seems that you have several roles, since you cannot both code and write docs. In theory, Agile should remove the use of writing documentations, because the tests represent the user stories. At my job, we have a lot of heavy functional tests describing real-life scenarios. Maybe you don't have such tests...
For the documentation, we have dedicated people, who decide which functionalities are to be added in the product. So may be you should stop working on the project, and instead spend your time on planning the new functionalities (planning means asking for card notes, and prioritizing new functionalities).
We also have a low velocity because we work on prototypes, which are not counted in it.
For us, a task noted 1 means that it's easy to do. It may require several days to finish, but it's counted as 1 point in the iteration (we have 3 weeks iterations, and did some successful tests with 2 weeks iterations).
Our prototypes are not meant to be finished, so they don't have a note, and thus, at the end of the iteration, we have a nice score of 0 for them.
Like pair programming is essential for Scrum - it is essential for writing good test before the code, live crosschecking of the code
snip
No, I understand the whole method.
Basically, you are telling me that it works fine if you are in an ideal environment, which never happens in reality.
Of course, if I don't think that I'm able to code something, I ask for help, but I don't see why the Scrumm process is so much complicated.
Basically, what you are saying is that if you have a good team that wants to play the Agile game, everything will be fine. Frankly, when you have a team that really wants to finish a product (I mean: very motivated), you don't have to use all the Scrumm machinery.
But I agree that there are some good tricks in Agile, and if I work in a non agile team, I'll probably push to include some of the agile processes.
At my job, there is a guy that reads every book about agility, but this doesn't change the fact that we are f**king slow because of HIM.
In theory, agile methodology will make our work so enjoyable that every coder will be happy to work. Doesn't that sound like the communist utopia for you ?
Frankly, it all depends on the people that take the decisions. If you have a dickhead in your team, you are doomed.
I think agile methods will continue to evolve and become simpler.
What prevents agile methodology to definitely fail now is that people interested in this method are people who are willing to change. Once agility will be common, we'll have psychorigid people applying this method, and all the problems I've explained in my posts here will surface.
Of course, when a task is too large, we break it in smaller tasks. However, we don't count in days of work, because it's always wrong. Instead, we rate every task with a difficulty score, a la Fibonacci (1,2,3,5,8,13,etc...) We found that it's impossible to finish a 13 in 3 weeks, so now, all the tasks are below 13. But even a 8 could require weeks of work. As I posted in another thread, it's because we use a large legacy based code, with no unit tests. Also, our code is a mix of VB.NET, XSL, Javascript, etc... A small task could require to change a lot of files.
Adding Agility in an existing project takes a lot of efforts. And starting a project with agile methodology requires that you have an experienced team knowing how to work with it (otherwise you'll encounter all kinds of problems). Since it's my first project (with more than one year of using strict Agile), I doubt our current agile process is efficient.
It may also be due our architect, who concentrates too much on quality instead of progressing (did you ever rewrite code 3 times, even though the first one worked ?).
I guess you should take whatever works with your team, instead of trying to force the theoretical methods. I have read about Lean Software (where you put the minimal effort to get the maximal result, and identify bottlenecks), and it seems more suited than our current agile process.
Not to mention that improved code quality means less time spent fixing things in the future, either because bugs were avoided, or because the code is easier to maintain.
In theory, yes. But in practice, no.
We started with a lot of legacy code, and parts of this code are refactored from time to time. However, the base code had no unit test at all, and it's impossible to write tests afterwards.
Anyway, we have now a lot of functional tests, so we are able to find issues immediately. The only downside is that these automated tests take 4 hours.
You are so right ! In my company, we use Agile since a few years.
If you try to apply the rules exactly, it's doomed to fail. We only apply a small subset of the rules, and only very few of them seem to work:
- pair committing (pair programming doesn't work with experienced developers)
- stand-up meeting (10 daily minutes to explain what we need, what we will do and what has been done)
- project planning (we give a note to all the tasks the product management assigns us)
- assigning tasks (before, we were assigned impossible tasks to code in the given amount of time. Agile helped us reduces the amount of stress).
What doesn't work:
- our velocity is almost zero: mostly because pair-programming is MUCH slower than one man coding
- the bad focus: if you focus on the code quality or on Agile methods, you lose the goal which is to code faster. We have such a focus on code quality that any simple task requires days to code. It's ridiculous.
- all the theoretical methods: if you try to apply every new method, you'll spend your time on trying them, instead of doing real work.
From my experience, Agile methods only reduce the amount of stress, since we only work on the most important features, due to the fact that the coding is super slow. Otherwise, I don't think these methods work.
Why are trying so hard to criticize Falun Gong ? The Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_gong clearly exposes China's techniques to demonize Falun Gong (calling it a cult).
They don't have a god, so I don't see why it should be called cult.
Frankly, I don't give a shit about their sect. It's all pure rhetorical bullshit.
But more importantly, do you think their members deserve death ? If you think so, you have a real problem, because you are completely endoctrined by the national propaganda.
Following your point of view, I'm pretty sure that Tibetans also deserve death.
Finally, I'd like to add another point: when a country has real (and unsolvable) problems piling up, they try to find scapegoats. In Germany in the 30s, they used the Jews as scapegoats.
Now, China is just attacking everybody that refuse their model, starting by the people in their own country, and slowly attacking people in their neighbourhood. Since China concentrates so much power (and money !) now, I hope they won't try to dominate the whole world, like the Germans in their time.
Slashdot Mirror
Not a very good idea:
in french, 'gogues' means 'toilets' in slang.
http://dictionnaire.sensagent.com/gogues/fr-fr/
If we continue Cenzic's approach, we can prove that IE6 is the most secure browser, since there are no more patches for it.
Archive.org has the whole history of the site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.x.com
Before 2000, it was owned by Rob Walker, then purchased by a company named x.com, which became Paypal:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000520015239/http://www.x.com/
It seems to me that you concentrate too much on your technical skills.
It's time to work on yourself, and on your interaction with the outside world.
Stop trying to change people, but try to change yourself !
Why don't you read some books on human interactions and start a psychoanalysis ?
I recommend you the excellent book: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Also, you may have problems with authority at work (probably a pattern in your life).
Working on that will ease your pain and you'll probably find your place in life (whatever that means).
Two more points:
1) the COS lawyer in the US knew that the law was wrecked in July 2009 IIRC, much before everybody knew.
2) there have been a lot of rumors of infiltration of the french government by the COS, since more than ten years, with files and proofs against the COS mysteriously disappearing.
I guess we can call that a conspiration.
Yes, you are right.
He said that he enjoyed going into a brothel and select a 'gosse', which is probably a lot younger than you may think.
And yes, you can also check that he adopted two guys, although he's openly homosexual (yes, being a VIP allows to bypass some laws).
I'm just pissed by the fact that no journalist has the courage to say these things (and whose who have are fired like PPDA http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPDA or Genestar http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Genestar ).
In France, there is a nice term used in several occasions: Solidarité (solidarity).
But now, it's just used for personal interests, like when the milk farmers get 200 million euros for protecting their dying business.
And meanwhile, Sarkozy dreams about killing the Securité Sociale (which would reduce a lot the charges on the salaries), while Obama tries to install it in the US.
I forgot to add that Jean Sarkozy is 23, and has no diploma, which seems a sine qua non condition in France to get a job.
You guys completely miss the point.
In France, there has been an incredible 'mistake', where a law was about to be passed allowing to ban the Scientology.
However, it appears that there have been an error, where all the text expressing the ban of dangerous cults disappeared !
There is a huge debate in France because of this incredible mistake, and a lot of high public officials pretend that this is a computer error (eventually, it was the fact of a human editor).
It has been widely published that the french president Sarkozy welcomed Tom Cruise as a president, and Sarkozy has his own personal guru, who sends him positive waves every day (yes, this has been published too !).
Also, Sarkozy use the Scientology methods, especially in a current lawsuit, involving a previous Prime Minister: Dominique de Villepin.
The idea is to never try to defend, but to concentrate on harassing.
So now, we are in a sad state in France, where the Scientology has been condamned to a symbolic fine, and with a lot of indices that Sarkozy is involved with Scientology.
And the worst thing is that the opposition does not seem eager to attack Sarkozy on this subject.
As usual, the political omerta will cover all these dirty schemes, and the large audience will remain unaware of the real stakes.
BTW, in the last month, in France we had:
1) an ex-prime minister attacked by Sarkozy in the Clearstream affair, but I'm pretty sure he is innocent because it was the president Chirac who tried to trap Sarkozy
2) our minister of Culture who wrote in a book that he is a pedophile (and he just adopted a 18 years guy, as a way to provide inheritance in same sex couples). Funnily, he tried to protest against Polanski's arrest.
3) Jean, the son of Sarkozy, was about to be elected as the director of the EPAD, which is the organism that decides where to install buildings in the new french eldorado (La Défense)
I'm stopping here, I'm just too upset...
Uh ? Did you read what a SSD does ?
To reduce wear levelling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling , the firmware remaps all the sectors with its own algorithm.
Logically, the sectors may appear consecutive, but physically, they are probably not.
Suppose that you have a log file, where a new line is appended every second.
The SSD will probably change its place at every write, to avoid rewriting at the same place, and this will be transparent for the OS.
So there is no 'contiguous' block, and defragmentation is simply useless.
In fact, the proofread is done by the Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net/c/
BTW, I'd like to know what is done from all the human OCR from the Recaptcha project: http://recaptcha.net/
Any link to the digitized books ?
I hope she won't get photoshopped, like the other models.
the fact that a .Net application on Windows Server 2003/SQL Server 2000 could handle the LSE at all isn't a total loss for MS.
No, the .Net application was not able to handle the load.
And if you read the article, the current amount of load has doubled since last year, so the problem might appear more frequently.
Seriously, .Net 1.0 came out in 2002. In five/six years, the VM held up to a pretty high standard.
A technology becomes mature after 10 years, not 6 ! .Net 1.0 ? I know companies that used .Net 2.0 as soon as it was out, just because developers said that 2.0 would solve their problems. .Net, when they could write the whole thing using C++. Using Sql Server 2000 was itself a victory, but now, it's a complete defeat, and it will be difficult to promote such technologies on very large projects.
And who said that they used
I still don't understand why Microsoft tried to push
I'm sure they learned a lot in this failure.
Yes, and the lesson is pretty clear: NEVER USE .NET ON REAL TIME APPLICATIONS !
Nobody published what was the problem. .Net itself ? Garbage collection can happen at any time, and it's difficult to predict how much time it will take, or if it's a Web application, .Net dies silently when all the memory is used.
Was it a problem with IIS, because there were too many connections ?
Was it a problem with SQL Server 2000 unable to handle the load ? Perhaps some bug with non commited transactions or a request taking too much time blocking the other ones ?
Or was it a problem with
Or did they have a virus that saturated their server ?
I'm sorry, but there are too much risks where you have no control when using closed source in such environment.
Sure, the damn thing melted down for a day
It may sound benign, but this is absolutely not tolerable.
When you handle billions of real money every day, you cannot allow to have the slightest problem.
The result is that all the traders have now totally lost their faith in Microsoft's technology, which is the worst PR MS could ever dream, and a lot of people were sacked in the process.
The prior system had 6 years of 0-nines uptime. No failures in six years. Windows and .Net couldn't squeek through three years without a catastrophic failure that shut down the entire system for nearly an entire trading day - and it failed when it mattered most.
No, according to:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/09/londonstockexchangegroup.stockmarkets
In June last year the LSE switched from its 10-year-old Sets system in favour of a new platform called TradElect, which runs on Microsoft software. TradElect was hailed as a huge advance in an increasingly competitive market, primarily by reducing the time taken to complete a trade from 140 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds.
It started in June 2008, and failed in September 2009.
So the uptime was 15 months.
So how exactly are they "forcing" this one me?
In that case, explain me why when I update Safari with the latest version on Windows, and I uncheck the Bonjour checkbox, it installs Bonjour anyway ?
Its no wonder why Americans are the fattest people in the world.
That, and the fact that americans consume too much sugar, and especially high-fructose corn syrup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
In Europe, producing high-fructose corn syrup is more expensive than the other sugars.
I read "Obama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed".
No, piracy is widespread because it's easier to download than going to a shop to buy a real product.
As long as the pirated product is equivalent to a real product (and in some cases, it's worse due to the protection), I don't see why I should buy a product, except encouraging its creators.
Politicians don't have the fucking stones to put forward this kind of legislation.
No, the politicians know very well from where the money comes.
They are elected by people, but they can punish them as long as they can get a few bucks for themselves.
Politicians have renounced to care for their voters, and this is especially true for the french president.
I'm a french guy, and I can only notice that Sarkozy just runs for himself, as most of the french society now.
He dreams about the 'american model', where only money matters, where there is no social insurance and where the employees can be fired without notice.
Bugs to fix are unavoidable.
We use a table where we place post-its.
Every post-it is a task, and a task is either a bug or a new feature.
When you have some random work, it would be better to have one people assigned to creating a task.
Place the tasks by order of priority from the top to the bottom on your table.
What has been successful is to use the standup meeting to include people that are not working directly on the project, so that they realize what we are doing and so they could ask for help.
Everybody speaks in less than one minute, and we are able to solve problems before they become too big (we have 10 people, so a meeting takes from 10 to 15 minutes, before going to lunch).
However, it seems that you have several roles, since you cannot both code and write docs.
In theory, Agile should remove the use of writing documentations, because the tests represent the user stories.
At my job, we have a lot of heavy functional tests describing real-life scenarios.
Maybe you don't have such tests...
For the documentation, we have dedicated people, who decide which functionalities are to be added in the product.
So may be you should stop working on the project, and instead spend your time on planning the new functionalities (planning means asking for card notes, and prioritizing new functionalities).
No, you can enter freely, but getting out costs $300.
We are also doing retrospectives.
Some things work fine, some don't.
We also have a low velocity because we work on prototypes, which are not counted in it.
For us, a task noted 1 means that it's easy to do.
It may require several days to finish, but it's counted as 1 point in the iteration (we have 3 weeks iterations, and did some successful tests with 2 weeks iterations).
Our prototypes are not meant to be finished, so they don't have a note, and thus, at the end of the iteration, we have a nice score of 0 for them.
Like pair programming is essential for Scrum - it is essential for writing good test before the code, live crosschecking of the code
snip
No, I understand the whole method.
Basically, you are telling me that it works fine if you are in an ideal environment, which never happens in reality.
Of course, if I don't think that I'm able to code something, I ask for help, but I don't see why the Scrumm process is so much complicated.
Basically, what you are saying is that if you have a good team that wants to play the Agile game, everything will be fine.
Frankly, when you have a team that really wants to finish a product (I mean: very motivated), you don't have to use all the Scrumm machinery.
But I agree that there are some good tricks in Agile, and if I work in a non agile team, I'll probably push to include some of the agile processes.
At my job, there is a guy that reads every book about agility, but this doesn't change the fact that we are f**king slow because of HIM.
In theory, agile methodology will make our work so enjoyable that every coder will be happy to work. Doesn't that sound like the communist utopia for you ?
Frankly, it all depends on the people that take the decisions.
If you have a dickhead in your team, you are doomed.
I think agile methods will continue to evolve and become simpler.
What prevents agile methodology to definitely fail now is that people interested in this method are people who are willing to change.
Once agility will be common, we'll have psychorigid people applying this method, and all the problems I've explained in my posts here will surface.
Yes, it's one of the goals.
Of course, when a task is too large, we break it in smaller tasks.
However, we don't count in days of work, because it's always wrong.
Instead, we rate every task with a difficulty score, a la Fibonacci (1,2,3,5,8,13,etc...)
We found that it's impossible to finish a 13 in 3 weeks, so now, all the tasks are below 13.
But even a 8 could require weeks of work.
As I posted in another thread, it's because we use a large legacy based code, with no unit tests.
Also, our code is a mix of VB.NET, XSL, Javascript, etc...
A small task could require to change a lot of files.
Adding Agility in an existing project takes a lot of efforts.
And starting a project with agile methodology requires that you have an experienced team knowing how to work with it (otherwise you'll encounter all kinds of problems).
Since it's my first project (with more than one year of using strict Agile), I doubt our current agile process is efficient.
It may also be due our architect, who concentrates too much on quality instead of progressing (did you ever rewrite code 3 times, even though the first one worked ?).
I guess you should take whatever works with your team, instead of trying to force the theoretical methods.
I have read about Lean Software (where you put the minimal effort to get the maximal result, and identify bottlenecks), and it seems more suited than our current agile process.
Not to mention that improved code quality means less time spent fixing things in the future, either because bugs were avoided, or because the code is easier to maintain.
In theory, yes.
But in practice, no.
We started with a lot of legacy code, and parts of this code are refactored from time to time.
However, the base code had no unit test at all, and it's impossible to write tests afterwards.
Anyway, we have now a lot of functional tests, so we are able to find issues immediately.
The only downside is that these automated tests take 4 hours.
You are so right ! In my company, we use Agile since a few years.
If you try to apply the rules exactly, it's doomed to fail.
We only apply a small subset of the rules, and only very few of them seem to work:
- pair committing (pair programming doesn't work with experienced developers)
- stand-up meeting (10 daily minutes to explain what we need, what we will do and what has been done)
- project planning (we give a note to all the tasks the product management assigns us)
- assigning tasks (before, we were assigned impossible tasks to code in the given amount of time. Agile helped us reduces the amount of stress).
What doesn't work:
- our velocity is almost zero: mostly because pair-programming is MUCH slower than one man coding
- the bad focus: if you focus on the code quality or on Agile methods, you lose the goal which is to code faster. We have such a focus on code quality that any simple task requires days to code. It's ridiculous.
- all the theoretical methods: if you try to apply every new method, you'll spend your time on trying them, instead of doing real work.
From my experience, Agile methods only reduce the amount of stress, since we only work on the most important features, due to the fact that the coding is super slow.
Otherwise, I don't think these methods work.
Was it really necessary to link to the iPop advertisements 3 times?
Isn't that the sound of an iPhone when it explodes ?
Ok, it seems that you are chinese.
Why are trying so hard to criticize Falun Gong ?
The Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_gong
clearly exposes China's techniques to demonize Falun Gong (calling it a cult).
They don't have a god, so I don't see why it should be called cult.
Frankly, I don't give a shit about their sect. It's all pure rhetorical bullshit.
But more importantly, do you think their members deserve death ?
If you think so, you have a real problem, because you are completely endoctrined by the national propaganda.
Following your point of view, I'm pretty sure that Tibetans also deserve death.
Finally, I'd like to add another point:
when a country has real (and unsolvable) problems piling up, they try to find scapegoats.
In Germany in the 30s, they used the Jews as scapegoats.
Now, China is just attacking everybody that refuse their model, starting by the people in their own country, and slowly attacking people in their neighbourhood.
Since China concentrates so much power (and money !) now, I hope they won't try to dominate the whole world, like the Germans in their time.