This is what "private sector" Legend/Lenova is doing in its spare time. Profitablity in the commercial sector subsidizes its R&D and production for Chinese military.
"At the same time, PLA modernization got a boost from the rapidly growing free-market economy and increasingly competitive industries. Huge, newly equipped shipyards are churning out so many destroyers, frigates and landing vessels -- as well as 10% of the world's commercial shipping vessels -- that the head of China's leading shipbuilder says he tells managers not to seek out military contracts. "We just can't manage it all," says Chen Xiaojin, president of China State Shipbuilding Corp., a state-owned company.
Legend, a computer maker spun off from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1984 -- and now named Lenovo Group Ltd. -- last year unveiled a new supercomputer, DeepComp 6800, for military use, according to a person familiar with the arrangement. A senior executive at leading software maker Neusoft Group Ltd. says it is working with the PLA on a satellite-based navigation system -- the kind the U.S. military uses to track special forces and steer missiles. The PLA is also canvassing leading Chinese mobile-phone makers about building specialized handsets, according to two industry consultants.
Huawei, the maker of communications equipment, is a private company with an overtly militaristic feel. Its founder and current general manager, Ren Zhengfei, spent 10 years in the army. New Huawei employees, mostly recent university graduates, are sent to a month- long boot camp and PLA songs such as "Unity is Strength" are commonly sung at company gatherings."
I've had my.2 second thought about this. But there's one problem - in W's second term, we don't know how many people are going to die as a result of his policies. I'm not comfortable laying down to watch X,000 or XX,000 young American soldiers, or XX,000 or XXX,000 Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians, Phillipinos, Thais or whomever get killed because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. There is a need for a war against terrorists, sure. W's plan is not that type of war. His war is a crusader's war and that cannot be swallowed whole and without resistance. Organize to defend our rights or literally die.
I just so happened to have spent a night in Kilkee, Ireland in late September on the night that "Retired Chcago cariologist Nenad Belic, 62, was trying to become the thir person to row a boat from Cape Cod to Europe when he ran into trouble in a storm."
I don't know if GPS would have helped or not, I can attest to the storm that night. But more than a month later only boat turned up.
The sheep want to have one-stop shopping for everthing, regardless of the conflicts it raises in source of news, choice of content, etc.
But I don't think that this is going to wake people up either. (On second thought, I'm sure it won't.) Has anyone noticed they're getting calls from their banks to sign up for credit cards, buy certificates of deposit, open trading account, purchase insurance ALL from the same conglomerate?
The next 2 announcements from AOL/TWX will be a) massive layoffs and b) stock option bonus for top leadership.
The coroprations give the $ to the government to make the rules; and for the most part *we* don't figure in those rules.
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This is what "private sector" Legend/Lenova is doing in its spare time. Profitablity in the commercial sector subsidizes its R&D and production for Chinese military.
Wall Street Journal from this summer
"At the same time, PLA modernization got a boost from the rapidly growing free-market economy and increasingly competitive industries. Huge, newly equipped shipyards are churning out so many destroyers, frigates and landing vessels -- as well as 10% of the world's commercial shipping vessels -- that the head of China's leading shipbuilder says he tells managers not to seek out military contracts. "We just can't manage it all," says Chen Xiaojin, president of China State Shipbuilding Corp., a state-owned company.
Legend, a computer maker spun off from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1984 -- and now named Lenovo Group Ltd. -- last year unveiled a new supercomputer, DeepComp 6800, for military use, according to a person familiar with the arrangement. A senior executive at leading software maker Neusoft Group Ltd. says it is working with the PLA on a satellite-based navigation system -- the kind the U.S. military uses to track special forces and steer missiles. The PLA is also canvassing leading Chinese mobile-phone makers about building specialized handsets, according to two industry consultants.
Huawei, the maker of communications equipment, is a private company with an overtly militaristic feel. Its founder and current general manager, Ren Zhengfei, spent 10 years in the army. New Huawei employees, mostly recent university graduates, are sent to a month- long boot camp and PLA songs such as "Unity is Strength" are commonly sung at company gatherings."
I've had my .2 second thought about this. But there's one problem - in W's second term, we don't know how many people are going to die as a result of his policies. I'm not comfortable laying down to watch X,000 or XX,000 young American soldiers, or XX,000 or XXX,000 Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians, Phillipinos, Thais or whomever get killed because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
There is a need for a war against terrorists, sure. W's plan is not that type of war. His war is a crusader's war and that cannot be swallowed whole and without resistance.
Organize to defend our rights or literally die.
I just so happened to have spent a night in Kilkee, Ireland in late September on the night that "Retired Chcago cariologist Nenad Belic, 62, was trying to become the thir person to row a boat from Cape Cod to Europe when he ran into trouble in a storm."
I don't know if GPS would have helped or not, I can attest to the storm that night. But more than a month later only boat turned up.
The sheep want to have one-stop shopping for everthing, regardless of the conflicts it raises in source of news, choice of content, etc. But I don't think that this is going to wake people up either. (On second thought, I'm sure it won't.) Has anyone noticed they're getting calls from their banks to sign up for credit cards, buy certificates of deposit, open trading account, purchase insurance ALL from the same conglomerate? The next 2 announcements from AOL/TWX will be a) massive layoffs and b) stock option bonus for top leadership. The coroprations give the $ to the government to make the rules; and for the most part *we* don't figure in those rules.