I don't believe that was ever officially considered an option by the US Government.
But your previous statement implied that. Since you are not ignorant, you should know the US position at that time. Or do you just speak without knowing the facts?
Fearing a loss of Taiwan to mainland China, the US government would also not want to hand them over to Taiwan, hence the passage of the islands to the Japanese.
If they belonged to Japan all along, why would the US consider returning them to Taiwan?
but as a general rule of thumb any country claiming sovereignty over any piece of the world (up to and including their own countries in some cases) risks attracting the nose of the USA.
Paracel islands which in theory, belong to Vietnam
In theory, they belong to the Earth. Everyone is arrogant in claiming land. What you said about China is the same as what Japan has been doing to China, and what Russia has been doing to Japan. But this time China found a way to challenge Japan because Japan positioned itself as "there is no territorial disputes between the countries".
But Americans also seem to say there is no shortcut to greatness, meaning they don't really believe China will become a real superpower any time soon. And isn't Japan the one who gets a free skate, because, well, it's living under the thumb of USA.
I don't understand why they wrote these to call out the government. As I said in other threads, the Chinese government has actually considered introducing more liberal values but this kind of dramatic moves actually makes it look like they might be doing it because they were told to do so.
Sure, a few late nights will let you pick up the syntax, but the real value of a platform, whether it's JEE,.NET or iOS development, are the libraries and everything that goes beyond the bare syntax.
I am a Windows developer who knows win32 and.NET very well and I am recently working on cocoa (the GUI framework on OSX and iOS). I can tell you cocoa is something between win32 and.NET, closer to the.NET side. If you understand a GUI framework on a abstract level, you'll quickly go from one platform to another within days, or hours if you find someone to tell you the most important stuff, like NSView is the base widget in cocoa terms. The problem I have is with Xcode, which opens way too many windows in the workflow, and it feels like a file manager on steroids, not really an IDE.
Passing around a petition saying "I support breaking up the United States"
No, he appeared to the organizer and it seems from Wikipedia they were also writing Charters and compared themselves to other movements in Chinese history.
I think I know the difference you are talking about, but I also know the political reality of China, especially from a historical perspective. China didn't have a good model of its own, that why it adopted communism. And that didn't work out well. So it quickly switch to capitalism. Do you know who seemed to admire the founding fathers of the USA the most just before the breakout of the Chinese civil war in the 1940s? Judging from the writings of that time, it appears to be the communist leader Mao Zedong, who seemed understand democracy better than anybody else. At the time, he was the dissenter and he knew how to play the game.
Now the communists are in power and they are extremely wary about anybody else play the same game against them. The communist party itself actually wanted to introduce more liberal values, but they are afraid of their opponents taking advantage of it and losing their power.
So the basic problem in China is how to be more transparent. And dramatic moves would actually make things worse. I am actually quite suspicious of western media in this matter because they always portray Chinese officials as whimsical as putting people to jail for no reason at all. This actually makes reform harder. Maybe that's the goal.
I think would rather live under the thumb of the US government than the PRC.
From my point of view, maybe it's because I'm from a country friendly towards the US, US in general have been relatively benevolent "rulers" in comparison to what China could be capable of.
That's because you are currently under the spell of the US. If you are instead under the spell of China, believe me, China can appear much more of a benevolent ruler. Actually the Chinese government (and past dynasties) is the expert at creating a big happy family in which you would totally forget what individualism is (assuming you knew it in the first place).
I found that info in Chinese. He wanted to create some kind of federation between mainland China and Taiwan. This view is actually quite popular among some circles but the people in power definitely would want none of that. And personally I do think a revolution might make thing worse and reform is preferred.
As to a fair punishment, I'd think people should have freedom of speech without punishment. But I am not an expert in law. I do remember in the movie Red, someone was asking something like "Are you agree with overthrowing the United States government". So it'd be interesting to know the limit of free speech in extreme cases.
China does atrocities from within their borders and doesn't maintain an illusion of freedom.
It depends on what kind of atrocities and freedom. If you are talking about violent crimes, living in China is generally much safer than in US. And Chinese law is sometimes intentionally ambiguous and if you are clever enough you'll have more freedom than you want.
The actual significant difference between China and the US, is Chinese officials are not elected. So the whole political games change.
And, keep in mind, China does that if you are nothing more than a political opponent, dissenter, or critic. Your fair trial consists of, "You are guilty."
You have exactly the same mentality as the western media, that is to over simplifiy things in China and portray them in a stereotype as irrational lunatic. Believe it or not, some people do the same to the west.
Take the latest political opponent, Liu Xiaobo, as an example. From western media it looked like he was sent to jail for nothing serious. It turned out he was circulating a letter for signatures, calling for the establishment of a new country with a new name. That is a crime by Chinese law. Now I am not defending Chinese law here but I just wanted to point out things are more complicated than you think, including the "cheap crap" you love to hate.
Cold calling competitors is exactly what Google had an agreement with these companies NOT to do
They do that to companies not in agreement. If you read glassdoor.com, you'll see a lot people got an interview by linkedin. Personally I got one too even though my profile specified not to contact me for jobs.
Next time try listening a little before opening your mouth.
I certainly hope to see less of such pointless attacks on Slashdot.
I'll stick with the advanced page for a while as the suggestions here are what you have typed before, not what are fetched from google. It reminds me of some old time and I kinda like it for now.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't believe that was ever officially considered an option by the US Government.
But your previous statement implied that. Since you are not ignorant, you should know the US position at that time. Or do you just speak without knowing the facts?
Fearing a loss of Taiwan to mainland China, the US government would also not want to hand them over to Taiwan, hence the passage of the islands to the Japanese.
If they belonged to Japan all along, why would the US consider returning them to Taiwan?
Any other reason is a bold faced lie.
Did the CIA pay you to post that?
What the GP said is quite insightful to those who are aware of everyone's bias. FTFY
FTFY
lol. Your environmental awareness is better than mine.
but as a general rule of thumb any country claiming sovereignty over any piece of the world (up to and including their own countries in some cases) risks attracting the nose of the USA.
FTFY
What the GP said is quite insightful, except to those who don't see their own bias.
Paracel islands which in theory, belong to Vietnam
In theory, they belong to the Earth. Everyone is arrogant in claiming land. What you said about China is the same as what Japan has been doing to China, and what Russia has been doing to Japan. But this time China found a way to challenge Japan because Japan positioned itself as "there is no territorial disputes between the countries".
But Americans also seem to say there is no shortcut to greatness, meaning they don't really believe China will become a real superpower any time soon. And isn't Japan the one who gets a free skate, because, well, it's living under the thumb of USA.
...'cause iContact belongs to Steve Jobs.
Maybe not, 'cause they'd have to also sue Microsoft for Notepad and WordPad.
If you mean the Charter 08 [wikipedia.org]
I don't understand why they wrote these to call out the government. As I said in other threads, the Chinese government has actually considered introducing more liberal values but this kind of dramatic moves actually makes it look like they might be doing it because they were told to do so.
And guess what forced Japan to release the the captain? Obama told Japan to stop playing game, not China.
I think it was because China detained four Japanese. In the 1930s, that's give Japan the excuse to invade China. Not any more.
That's supposed to be in the movies. Is this the nitpicking day on Slashdot or what?
Sure, a few late nights will let you pick up the syntax, but the real value of a platform, whether it's JEE, .NET or iOS development, are the libraries and everything that goes beyond the bare syntax.
I am a Windows developer who knows win32 and .NET very well and I am recently working on cocoa (the GUI framework on OSX and iOS). I can tell you cocoa is something between win32 and .NET, closer to the .NET side. If you understand a GUI framework on a abstract level, you'll quickly go from one platform to another within days, or hours if you find someone to tell you the most important stuff, like NSView is the base widget in cocoa terms. The problem I have is with Xcode, which opens way too many windows in the workflow, and it feels like a file manager on steroids, not really an IDE.
Passing around a petition saying "I support breaking up the United States"
No, he appeared to the organizer and it seems from Wikipedia they were also writing Charters and compared themselves to other movements in Chinese history.
I think I know the difference you are talking about, but I also know the political reality of China, especially from a historical perspective. China didn't have a good model of its own, that why it adopted communism. And that didn't work out well. So it quickly switch to capitalism. Do you know who seemed to admire the founding fathers of the USA the most just before the breakout of the Chinese civil war in the 1940s? Judging from the writings of that time, it appears to be the communist leader Mao Zedong, who seemed understand democracy better than anybody else. At the time, he was the dissenter and he knew how to play the game.
Now the communists are in power and they are extremely wary about anybody else play the same game against them. The communist party itself actually wanted to introduce more liberal values, but they are afraid of their opponents taking advantage of it and losing their power.
So the basic problem in China is how to be more transparent. And dramatic moves would actually make things worse. I am actually quite suspicious of western media in this matter because they always portray Chinese officials as whimsical as putting people to jail for no reason at all. This actually makes reform harder. Maybe that's the goal.
I think would rather live under the thumb of the US government than the PRC. From my point of view, maybe it's because I'm from a country friendly towards the US, US in general have been relatively benevolent "rulers" in comparison to what China could be capable of.
That's because you are currently under the spell of the US. If you are instead under the spell of China, believe me, China can appear much more of a benevolent ruler. Actually the Chinese government (and past dynasties) is the expert at creating a big happy family in which you would totally forget what individualism is (assuming you knew it in the first place).
I found that info in Chinese. He wanted to create some kind of federation between mainland China and Taiwan. This view is actually quite popular among some circles but the people in power definitely would want none of that. And personally I do think a revolution might make thing worse and reform is preferred.
As to a fair punishment, I'd think people should have freedom of speech without punishment. But I am not an expert in law. I do remember in the movie Red, someone was asking something like "Are you agree with overthrowing the United States government". So it'd be interesting to know the limit of free speech in extreme cases.
Sure. I said GP talked like something, but I didn't say what you said I did. Is that clear enough for you?
China does atrocities from within their borders and doesn't maintain an illusion of freedom.
It depends on what kind of atrocities and freedom. If you are talking about violent crimes, living in China is generally much safer than in US. And Chinese law is sometimes intentionally ambiguous and if you are clever enough you'll have more freedom than you want.
The actual significant difference between China and the US, is Chinese officials are not elected. So the whole political games change.
And, keep in mind, China does that if you are nothing more than a political opponent, dissenter, or critic. Your fair trial consists of, "You are guilty."
You have exactly the same mentality as the western media, that is to over simplifiy things in China and portray them in a stereotype as irrational lunatic. Believe it or not, some people do the same to the west.
Take the latest political opponent, Liu Xiaobo, as an example. From western media it looked like he was sent to jail for nothing serious. It turned out he was circulating a letter for signatures, calling for the establishment of a new country with a new name. That is a crime by Chinese law. Now I am not defending Chinese law here but I just wanted to point out things are more complicated than you think, including the "cheap crap" you love to hate.
And you talk just like the stupid people in the movies: We are good and they are evil.
The government could be a victim. Depressed wages bring less tax.
Cold calling competitors is exactly what Google had an agreement with these companies NOT to do
They do that to companies not in agreement. If you read glassdoor.com, you'll see a lot people got an interview by linkedin. Personally I got one too even though my profile specified not to contact me for jobs.
Next time try listening a little before opening your mouth.
I certainly hope to see less of such pointless attacks on Slashdot.
I'll stick with the advanced page for a while as the suggestions here are what you have typed before, not what are fetched from google. It reminds me of some old time and I kinda like it for now.
... and I've switched to the advanced search page.