According to Wikipedia, Melamine by itself is nontoxic in low doses. The milk packagers probably assumed it would be safe. The fatal interaction with cyanuric acid was detected only last year, when pets started dying from kidney stones.
It would have been silly to ban melamine merely because it might have been poisonous at high dosage. Lots of useful and commonly ingested substances are similarly safe when the concentration is low but become fatal when the concentration increases. Oxygen, for example: a partial pressure of 1 bar of pure O2 would kill you. Feel free to ban oxygen from your intake.
Of course, China is still a third world country in many important ways, and will be in no position to challenge the U.S. for decades if ever. Most Americans know this thoroughly.
So when they lash out in fear, that fear is not really of China. No, their fright comes from what they have been doing to themselves, especially over the last eight years. They realize that their problems have been self-inflicted, and are terrified of what their failing political system will inflict on them next. They desperately need to take some revenge on their elites, but these people have been very good at hiding, at looting the country from the shadows. So the angry Americans need a scapegoat, and China is it (as Japan was twenty years ago).
The sad thing is that Americans have no idea how quickly they are ruining their reputation in China. They won't be called Mei Guo (beautiful country) for much longer.
Because they are fascists. Fascism is an anathema to democracy and freedom.
All fascist governments to date have had personality cults (e.g. Mussolini and Hitler). China had such a cult (nearly deifying Mao), but that was when the country was Communist. Where is the personality cult now?
In addition, "Fascism is marriage of government and corporations", according to Mussolini, the first fascist. This is not true of China, not yet. In fact, the U.S. is much closer to fascism by this definition.
So by at least two indications, China is not fascist -- not yet.
Plus it also means their rockets can send huge payloads to literally *any* place on Earth. Example payloads: nukes.
Sorry, you are wrong. China has already been able to send ICBMs anywhere on Earth for decades: it's actually much easier to do this than to launch a satellite into orbit. And China has been able to do the latter for almost 40 years.
The manned Shenzhou vehicles represent a quantum jump in China's space capability, but this has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
Campaign contributions as an indicator of partisanship are meaningless, as most influential people donate to both parties. For example, Kerry Killinger, CEO of Washington Mutual for 18 years until he was fired recently, donated to both George Bush (R, of course) and Chris Dodd (D). You can probably dig up similarly mixed largesse by nearly everybody on your list. So try again. Prove to me that the yacht clubs are mainly populated by Democrats.
[Republicans] expect to have to earn everything they get.
Considering that the titans of high finance are about to get $700 billion from the public wallet, I think the operative word for Republicans is not "earn" but "steal".
We also don't know what salty clouds will do to the world. All the clouds at the moment have only fresh water. What would happen if the clouds (and rain) became salty? Will all the world's farmland be poisoned slowly?
The flares aren't small... that's why I used the phrase cubic miles of the stuff. They're huge.
You didn't mention any time scale: a cubic mile flared off each year? each decade?
But even if it's a cubic mile per year, that is only 1/121 of Europe's annual natural gas consumption of 505 billion cubic meters. Pretty trivial.
And I rather doubt that the Russians are wasting a cubic mile per year: at the current price of $7.30 per 1000 cubic feet, that cubic mile is worth a billion dollars.
Do you have a number for Russia's actual flare-off rate? I want to know volume and time.
Russia doesn't store the natural gas they get from their domestic oil wells. No sir. They flare it off. That's right, they just burn it... cubic miles of the stuff.
How much are the Russians flaring off? It can't be too much, since they make major coin selling the natural gas to Europe.
If the flare-off is small, the CO2 burden from it is trivial. The Russians would be justified in blaming the U.S. for emitting several times more greenhouse gas, overall, than they do.
What's especially interesting is that Godson-3 achieves 2.5 watts per core at 1.2 GHz even while executing instructions out-of-order. The Intel Atom is an in-order architecture, so it's more like a P5 than a P6. The 1.2 GHz Godson-3 should be much faster than a 1.6 GHz Atom.
I understand the Godson-3 is a 64-bit machine but I'm not sure about that. The Atom is of course only 32-bits.
The context was Bush's statement of August 9, 2008. Not the later "clarifications". Anyone who can read will say that I quoted honestly, perfectly in context.
Your other point was a deliberate red herring, which I had the right to ignore. But I'll address it anyway.
The world laughed at Bush's initial statement:
Georgia is a sovereign nation and its territorial integrity must be respected.")
Notice that Bush did not say or imply anything about the legality of invading democracies versus dictatorships. He added the qualifier days later, in a typical Bushian revision of history, after the world ridiculed him for his hypocrisy.
Well, you did take that out of context, you admiited as much when you resorted to paraphrasing,
You have just proven that you did not read the transcript. Here, I will link to it again. Anyone who has read it will agree that I did not take Bush's words out of context.
Godson-3 / Dragon-3 chip will have 4 cores at 5W/core (allegedly)
2.5 watts per core: 10 watts total for a 4-core chip. However, I don't know if that 10 watts is the idle power dissipation, or what the chip eats at full load.
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It would have been silly to ban melamine merely because it might have been poisonous at high dosage. Lots of useful and commonly ingested substances are similarly safe when the concentration is low but become fatal when the concentration increases. Oxygen, for example: a partial pressure of 1 bar of pure O2 would kill you. Feel free to ban oxygen from your intake.
One percent of which market?
Because Americans are scared. So they lash out.
Of course, China is still a third world country in many important ways, and will be in no position to challenge the U.S. for decades if ever. Most Americans know this thoroughly.
So when they lash out in fear, that fear is not really of China. No, their fright comes from what they have been doing to themselves, especially over the last eight years. They realize that their problems have been self-inflicted, and are terrified of what their failing political system will inflict on them next. They desperately need to take some revenge on their elites, but these people have been very good at hiding, at looting the country from the shadows. So the angry Americans need a scapegoat, and China is it (as Japan was twenty years ago).
The sad thing is that Americans have no idea how quickly they are ruining their reputation in China. They won't be called Mei Guo (beautiful country) for much longer.
All fascist governments to date have had personality cults (e.g. Mussolini and Hitler). China had such a cult (nearly deifying Mao), but that was when the country was Communist. Where is the personality cult now?
In addition, "Fascism is marriage of government and corporations", according to Mussolini, the first fascist. This is not true of China, not yet. In fact, the U.S. is much closer to fascism by this definition.
So by at least two indications, China is not fascist -- not yet.
Sorry, you are wrong. China has already been able to send ICBMs anywhere on Earth for decades: it's actually much easier to do this than to launch a satellite into orbit. And China has been able to do the latter for almost 40 years.
The manned Shenzhou vehicles represent a quantum jump in China's space capability, but this has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
Dept. of Defense would have to be included in the conspiracy too, since they have *much* more money and assets in space than NASA.
Campaign contributions as an indicator of partisanship are meaningless, as most influential people donate to both parties. For example, Kerry Killinger, CEO of Washington Mutual for 18 years until he was fired recently, donated to both George Bush (R, of course) and Chris Dodd (D). You can probably dig up similarly mixed largesse by nearly everybody on your list. So try again. Prove to me that the yacht clubs are mainly populated by Democrats.
Ha ha ha. The board of directories and most of the top executives of AIG and Washington Mutual were Democrats? Prove it.
Considering that the titans of high finance are about to get $700 billion from the public wallet, I think the operative word for Republicans is not "earn" but "steal".
Have you read "The Blind Watchmaker"? If so, can you tell me what its major thesis is?
A connectivity outage that lasts a whole working day? Yeah, right.
We also don't know what salty clouds will do to the world. All the clouds at the moment have only fresh water. What would happen if the clouds (and rain) became salty? Will all the world's farmland be poisoned slowly?
You didn't mention any time scale: a cubic mile flared off each year? each decade?
But even if it's a cubic mile per year, that is only 1/121 of Europe's annual natural gas consumption of 505 billion cubic meters. Pretty trivial.
And I rather doubt that the Russians are wasting a cubic mile per year: at the current price of $7.30 per 1000 cubic feet, that cubic mile is worth a billion dollars.
Do you have a number for Russia's actual flare-off rate? I want to know volume and time.
How much are the Russians flaring off? It can't be too much, since they make major coin selling the natural gas to Europe.
If the flare-off is small, the CO2 burden from it is trivial. The Russians would be justified in blaming the U.S. for emitting several times more greenhouse gas, overall, than they do.
If cheapo MIPS machines prove popular, you can bet the situation will improve in a hurry.
If I ever got within ten feet of Sarah Barracuda for the first time, I wouldn't need a restraining order, I'd need a disinfectant.
No way will I touch Sarah Barracuda.
You're never going to admit you were totally wrong, so this is my last word. Good bye.
I understand the Godson-3 is a 64-bit machine but I'm not sure about that. The Atom is of course only 32-bits.
That is one of the warts in the MIPS architecture, but it's a minor one.
I don't want hi and lo either.
Matter of taste. I don't mind them.
Your other point was a deliberate red herring, which I had the right to ignore. But I'll address it anyway.
The world laughed at Bush's initial statement:
Notice that Bush did not say or imply anything about the legality of invading democracies versus dictatorships. He added the qualifier days later, in a typical Bushian revision of history, after the world ridiculed him for his hypocrisy.
You have just proven that you did not read the transcript. Here, I will link to it again. Anyone who has read it will agree that I did not take Bush's words out of context.
I'll let you figure it out. Hint: since the context was the Kyoto treaty, we were obviously talking about global climate change.
2.5 watts per core: 10 watts total for a 4-core chip. However, I don't know if that 10 watts is the idle power dissipation, or what the chip eats at full load.
Since the Arpanet/Internet was born?