I'm not sure where you are located, but most expat communities of Chinese, due to their initial immigration from China from Canton province a hundred years ago as railway workers, in North America there is still plenty of people who write with traditional for Cantonese grammar.
In Hong Kong, 97% of the population speak and read Cantonese even today. Regardless of what the PRC has tried to do. Most of the traditional Chinese books from Hong Kong still use Cantonese grammar, only the simplified in Hong Kong uses Beijingese grammar. Many (err Most) Hong Kong newspapers are also still written in Traditional with Cantonese grammar. Heck even the Simpsons uses Cantonese Grammar in their subtitles when broadcasting in Hong Kong.
Less 2 percent of Hong Kongese speak Beijingese as their native language today.
The Korean war was started with the power vacuum of the area after Japan gave up the right to keep Korea as a occupied territory for 35 years.
Initially the US attempted to take control of Korea similarly to how they did of Japan at the end of the war. They appointed Rhee to take power, who then actively pushed a anti-left and anti-communist policy from 1945 on. Quickly, anyone who was anti-US and anti-dictatorship was automatically labelled a left sympathizer, and thousands died even before the Korean War started.
Suspected and Registered Communists and their families were executed, and eventually led to the open war by the "North" sure, but the war was brewing due to anti-left activities of a American backed dictatorship. Which split Korea after over a thousand years of being a united country.
While it is possible to write in Chinese characters using Cantonese, Minnan or Wu grammar, it's quite rare and considered strange or wrong, even in regions where those dialects are spoken.
Not really, while modern mainland books and magazines have standardized to Mandarin/Beijingese grammar, many publications worldwide and on the mainland, especially those still published in Traditional Chinese use Cantonese grammar as that is the dominate dialect that still holds onto the Traditional writing type.
Simplified Chinese, being the work of the PRC-CPC, is strictly written in Mandarin/Beijingese style grammar.
Pop is served in 11 oz cans (Europe's 330ml), 12 oz cans (NA - 355ml cans), 500ml bottles (Rest of the world) 20 oz bottles (591ml NA), 24 oz bottles (NA "club packs" of 710ml), 1 litre, and 2 litre bottles.
Too many but its mostly Imperial measures for pop today.
Microsoft couldn't even make a clean transition between 32 and 64 bit.
Difference is Apple could release 64-bit on their terms, Microsoft is at the whims of the hardware manufacturers.
Apple could put out the G5 series as they saw fit. Microsoft is expected to throw something together the moment the hardware becomes available.
Plus having used XP 64-bit since it was available. Most of the issues were with incompatible drivers. With Apple that is not a problem, their is only one or two of each piece of hardware that is your entire "options" so producing a dozen drivers verses having to produce hundreds by all the hardware manufacturers.
Not really, ITAR is AMERICAN law, here in Canada we don't have that kind of regulations, heck most of the world doesn't.
Within the United States is irrelevant, if you had off drawings of restricted firearms (of which the AR-15/M16 family is), to a non-national living in the United States, your violating ITAR regulations even though there is no cross boarder transfer. Plenty of people have been charged under ITAR for things like this especially relating to specialized electronics. So any VISA students who may come into contact with this project, or any downloads from a computer outside the United States is very much against ITAR even if the entire project is "in the United States" physically.
Perhaps you should understand what kind of laws are out there before you speak next time.
There are many regulations that limit the transfer of "technology" with regards to firearms, and putting something on the World Wide Web, makes it a instant ITAR issue.
The drawing of a 1/8" diameter pin that is 1/2" long if its listed to be used in a firearm, or the CAD model or CNC file being downloaded just once by someone outside of the United States, can lead to a $1,000,000 fine plus 10 years in jail. And each download by another international user is a separate offence.
Thank you very much but I am a Machinist and a Mechanical Designer. I know how they work quite well.
Transferring CNC G-Code files, or the CAD drawings themselves of firearm related items can, and is considered illegal without the proper authorizations.
Through international boarders the moment they upload the files for the 3D printer online and the first international person downloads it, they are in violation of ITAR regulations, transfer of firearm plans from inside the US to outside is illegal without export permits and the State Department doesn't take too kindly to that. That is a fine of up to $1,000,000 or up to ten years in prison, or both, for each violation. That is for EACH technology transfer, so not the one file, but each time a new international user downloads the file as a separate offence.
That is if regardless if BATF's 20% of the receiver question is put into force.
So no, this entire project is full of possibly very illegal goals/methods. I don't blame the Printer company when it comes to pulling the lease.
No the analogy is somewhat more correct. They are breaking the law when they are transferring a 3D file that does not require any abilities to finish the manufacturing of the receiver.
Selling a forging or casting of a receiver that needs to be machined to make it functional as part of a personal firearm is legal. There is legal requirements that the person who is building the personal firearm using a purchased forging/casting having to complete a significant amount of work before it being a legally manufactured personal firearm.
Transferring a forging or casting that is so well dimensioned and therefore in a condition where it can be used without modification in a firearm is illegal. As its a completed receiver regardless if its been machined or not.
It is like light weight kit planes for people to fly around without FAA breathing down there neck, sure all the material tends ot be cut to size etc, but things like the screw holes are left up to the pilot to do not the manufacturer so that the requirements of it being a personally built plane verses a manufactured plane are met.
Building personal firearms is LEGAL in the US and in Canada. Its transferring the product which is a grey zone towards black zone. Unless you have a actual license to manufacture firearms, and/or in the case of Canada properly have it tested in the hands of the RCMP, its illegal to transfer it to anyone else.
It can be argued, that since the law says anything but a complete receiver (the only part legally a firearm in North America, in some other places the barrel is the one that is regulated such as in Germany), is legal to transfer, such as a raw casting that has had some work (typically the ones a machinist would require special tools for), but is not at the firing state yet (aka a 80% receiver), is legal to transfer from one individual to another without it being considered a firearm.
At that point, when the receiver itself, can legally be considered completed, as there is no other work to be done by the party using the 3D printer file, then it can be considered that the technology transfer took place regardless if you still need a 3D printer to print the receiver. Making the whole operation illegal.
Plus, printing off the lower receiver of a AR and making it out of plastic is the easy part, its the upper receiver that would not like being made that way. And legally they could make as many upper receivers as they want to, its not a restricted part, as again only the receiver that has the magazine well attached to it, is illegally the firearm in North America.
This is the government assembling data that their citizens probably didn't want to submit.
No this is people sending a petition to a government ministry about something, then getting a response back about how good of a job the ministry is doing based on that petition's content.
It was wanted, they just didn't expect to actually get a response. There is a big difference.
They responded to the people who gave them their contact info during a petition for Gay rights. In the same government department.
They went, looked at the email, replied to everyone with the new pro-gay email that the government wanted to send out, and it was done.
There was no breach of privacy. There was no unauthorized transfer of personal information between government ministries (which requires written consent by the individual), and since that ministry already had the petition, they are legally free to use the data any way they wish.
Remember this is a private college in Ontario, and they tend to do things differently then every other school. There are plenty of textbooks worldwide that could be had for cheap, but instead they decide to print their own unique textbook, then complain about the costs of creating a full textbook because their enrollments are relatively low, and they will make a new textbook in a year or 2 anyways instead of actually using the textbook for a while to make the copyright costs negligible.
He is a idiot, the DF-21 missiles are MRBM's that have a maximum speed of Mach 1.2 not Mach 10. It also carries a 500kt nuclear war head, which means China would have to be willing to go to Nuclear war over the spat, which at that point, China has a lot better and newer missiles with longer range it could use.
Additionally, just as China's longest range Nuclear weapons can hit anywhere in the main land of the United States, the United States could do the same thing right back to China.
Additionally, unlike the United States, NATO and Russia, China has openly refused to be the first one to launch nuclear weapons, they are in a second strike role, which is why the Chinese favours mobile launchers which a first strike will not actually eliminate. The Soviet Union before their collapse also agreed to limit their use to second strike capabilities only.
So if China does use the DF-21 as a anti-aircraft carrier group weapon, more then likely, it wont matter to any of us at the time, as nuclear weapons will be heading in both directions any ways to hit targeted areas of high population instead of worrying about a little aircraft carrier group somewhere in the ocean.
THat's why you see that China has developed now 1) the world's largest attack submarine fleet (although all are Diesel-Electric, not nuclear, so individually not as good as the US or British subs
Diesel Electrics under water can be completely silent. Nuclear powered subs tend to make too much noise under water and make them a lot easier to track with passive sonar.
Even in NATO military exercises Diesel Electric submarines have done rather well "sinking" carriers in the middle of a Attack Group because they can go lay in wait without any noise emissions.
America, the EU, Russia and China could spend their money more wisely than on another "Stealth Aircraft". ---- They could spend that money on helping the world's poor get some food, healthcare, permanent shelter, et cetera.
Considering China went from having 90% below the poverty line 30 years ago, to a country with 90% of the country above the poverty line I think they can afford to spend as much money as they want on their military.
Actually, the summary has it the wrong way around - most analysts consider the J-20 to be the Chinese aircraft that will fulfill the same role as the F-35, while this new airframe will fulfill the same role as the F-22.
The J-20's larger weapon bays, and its overly powerful engines tend to make it more of a interceptor then a "fighter".
"A big part of (my culture) is Chinese tradition from my parents, from school, so that is who I am," said Ang Lee.
"I grew up in Taiwan, but you know where my ideas, my brushstrokes came from," he said.
Lee was born on the island 53 years ago, after his parents fled the 1949 communist victory in a civil war on the Chinese mainland.
Ang Lee got pissed off when they tried making him "Taiwanese" to boost Taiwan's cultural standing world wide. Hence the quote he stated after the Taiwanese Government did that.
But the main difference is that those US internships come with humane working conditions - FTA - 7 hours on a production line with no breaks.
Chinese labour law mandates 8 hours of work per day maximum, otherwise its over time like here. What most here in the West tend to forget China, like many other old world countries do not have the same concepts as we do. Yes from the start of work till the end its "12 hours" but its not quite that either...
In China you work 4 hours straight, then have a 2-4 hour lunch time for you to go home, cook a proper meal, take a nap etc, and then another 4 hours of work. None of this "Eat your lunch in a half hour and be thankful" attitude we have here.
Additional Interships for university are a legal requirement in China, the only legal compensation is your room and board during it. During the Cultural Revolution and the period just after it, many Chinese who are now the parents of the kids "forced" to work for 2-3 months at factories like Foxconn had to work for years in the farms in rural areas far away from home to be "sponsored" by the village they were working at's "Workers Unit" to be allowed to go to University.
So you have a choice, go to university for free at a State University, and put up with a couple of months of work, or not go to university, or go to a private university and pay your way through your degree, or worse, do exactly what you know your parents did to get into University. Guess which one of the four the average Chinese student prefers?
You do realize that life isn't only the present? But the past makes the present what it is?
Apple's "Think Different" advertising started when they still tried to compete with IBM and the ThinkPad line with their MacBook Pro.
The fact ThinkPads are now being built by Lenovo is irrelevant, the reasoning Apple went that way in marketing however is. And yes I'm typing this on a Lenovo ThinkPad, all my laptops have been ThinkPad's since the 600E series.
Mind you I do love the comment moderation on my post. Mention any history of Apple trying to break into a market and copy someone else and its automatically a -1 around here.
Ah because Apple laptops have always been second rate and Apple attempted to cash in on the Thinkpad brand and IBM's "THINK" slogan by using "Think Different" as a slogan.
Because even Apple cannot get past the fact Thinkpads and IBM are better then they'll ever be.
In China under the law students MUST complete these kinds of internships, only before they were required BEFORE being accepted to University, and they tended to send the kids thousands of kilometres away to rural farm lands to do the work.
Only if their local population they were working for thought they were good workers did you actually get approved to join university regardless of your scores on the entrance exams. Compared to past generations a summer of work in a air conditioned full service company like Foxxcon is a blessing.
all we've seen since then (except for OWS) is helpless whining and complaining
OWS regardless of what most whiners here think was helpless whining and complaining, complaining about things THEY are responsible for, such as picking lousy majors, and refusing to work because "I'm educated, 4 years of college means I can do anything I want and I deserve a 100K a year job regardless of what anyone else says" due to being spoiled brats being raised in middle class families and thinking they should be spoon fed with a sliver spoon and bowl anything they want.
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I'm not sure where you are located, but most expat communities of Chinese, due to their initial immigration from China from Canton province a hundred years ago as railway workers, in North America there is still plenty of people who write with traditional for Cantonese grammar.
In Hong Kong, 97% of the population speak and read Cantonese even today. Regardless of what the PRC has tried to do. Most of the traditional Chinese books from Hong Kong still use Cantonese grammar, only the simplified in Hong Kong uses Beijingese grammar. Many (err Most) Hong Kong newspapers are also still written in Traditional with Cantonese grammar. Heck even the Simpsons uses Cantonese Grammar in their subtitles when broadcasting in Hong Kong.
Less 2 percent of Hong Kongese speak Beijingese as their native language today.
The Korean war was started with the power vacuum of the area after Japan gave up the right to keep Korea as a occupied territory for 35 years.
Initially the US attempted to take control of Korea similarly to how they did of Japan at the end of the war. They appointed Rhee to take power, who then actively pushed a anti-left and anti-communist policy from 1945 on. Quickly, anyone who was anti-US and anti-dictatorship was automatically labelled a left sympathizer, and thousands died even before the Korean War started.
Suspected and Registered Communists and their families were executed, and eventually led to the open war by the "North" sure, but the war was brewing due to anti-left activities of a American backed dictatorship. Which split Korea after over a thousand years of being a united country.
While it is possible to write in Chinese characters using Cantonese, Minnan or Wu grammar, it's quite rare and considered strange or wrong, even in regions where those dialects are spoken.
Not really, while modern mainland books and magazines have standardized to Mandarin/Beijingese grammar, many publications worldwide and on the mainland, especially those still published in Traditional Chinese use Cantonese grammar as that is the dominate dialect that still holds onto the Traditional writing type.
Simplified Chinese, being the work of the PRC-CPC, is strictly written in Mandarin/Beijingese style grammar.
Pop is served in 11 oz cans (Europe's 330ml), 12 oz cans (NA - 355ml cans), 500ml bottles (Rest of the world) 20 oz bottles (591ml NA), 24 oz bottles (NA "club packs" of 710ml), 1 litre, and 2 litre bottles.
Too many but its mostly Imperial measures for pop today.
Microsoft couldn't even make a clean transition between 32 and 64 bit.
Difference is Apple could release 64-bit on their terms, Microsoft is at the whims of the hardware manufacturers.
Apple could put out the G5 series as they saw fit. Microsoft is expected to throw something together the moment the hardware becomes available.
Plus having used XP 64-bit since it was available. Most of the issues were with incompatible drivers. With Apple that is not a problem, their is only one or two of each piece of hardware that is your entire "options" so producing a dozen drivers verses having to produce hundreds by all the hardware manufacturers.
Pretty much but Slashdot sensationalism always wins out when writing summaries.
Not really, ITAR is AMERICAN law, here in Canada we don't have that kind of regulations, heck most of the world doesn't.
Within the United States is irrelevant, if you had off drawings of restricted firearms (of which the AR-15/M16 family is), to a non-national living in the United States, your violating ITAR regulations even though there is no cross boarder transfer. Plenty of people have been charged under ITAR for things like this especially relating to specialized electronics. So any VISA students who may come into contact with this project, or any downloads from a computer outside the United States is very much against ITAR even if the entire project is "in the United States" physically.
Perhaps you should understand what kind of laws are out there before you speak next time.
There are many regulations that limit the transfer of "technology" with regards to firearms, and putting something on the World Wide Web, makes it a instant ITAR issue.
The drawing of a 1/8" diameter pin that is 1/2" long if its listed to be used in a firearm, or the CAD model or CNC file being downloaded just once by someone outside of the United States, can lead to a $1,000,000 fine plus 10 years in jail. And each download by another international user is a separate offence.
Thank you very much but I am a Machinist and a Mechanical Designer. I know how they work quite well.
Transferring CNC G-Code files, or the CAD drawings themselves of firearm related items can, and is considered illegal without the proper authorizations.
Through international boarders the moment they upload the files for the 3D printer online and the first international person downloads it, they are in violation of ITAR regulations, transfer of firearm plans from inside the US to outside is illegal without export permits and the State Department doesn't take too kindly to that. That is a fine of up to $1,000,000 or up to ten years in prison, or both, for each violation. That is for EACH technology transfer, so not the one file, but each time a new international user downloads the file as a separate offence.
That is if regardless if BATF's 20% of the receiver question is put into force.
So no, this entire project is full of possibly very illegal goals/methods. I don't blame the Printer company when it comes to pulling the lease.
No the analogy is somewhat more correct. They are breaking the law when they are transferring a 3D file that does not require any abilities to finish the manufacturing of the receiver.
Selling a forging or casting of a receiver that needs to be machined to make it functional as part of a personal firearm is legal. There is legal requirements that the person who is building the personal firearm using a purchased forging/casting having to complete a significant amount of work before it being a legally manufactured personal firearm.
Transferring a forging or casting that is so well dimensioned and therefore in a condition where it can be used without modification in a firearm is illegal. As its a completed receiver regardless if its been machined or not.
It is like light weight kit planes for people to fly around without FAA breathing down there neck, sure all the material tends ot be cut to size etc, but things like the screw holes are left up to the pilot to do not the manufacturer so that the requirements of it being a personally built plane verses a manufactured plane are met.
Building personal firearms is LEGAL in the US and in Canada. Its transferring the product which is a grey zone towards black zone. Unless you have a actual license to manufacture firearms, and/or in the case of Canada properly have it tested in the hands of the RCMP, its illegal to transfer it to anyone else.
It can be argued, that since the law says anything but a complete receiver (the only part legally a firearm in North America, in some other places the barrel is the one that is regulated such as in Germany), is legal to transfer, such as a raw casting that has had some work (typically the ones a machinist would require special tools for), but is not at the firing state yet (aka a 80% receiver), is legal to transfer from one individual to another without it being considered a firearm.
At that point, when the receiver itself, can legally be considered completed, as there is no other work to be done by the party using the 3D printer file, then it can be considered that the technology transfer took place regardless if you still need a 3D printer to print the receiver. Making the whole operation illegal.
Plus, printing off the lower receiver of a AR and making it out of plastic is the easy part, its the upper receiver that would not like being made that way. And legally they could make as many upper receivers as they want to, its not a restricted part, as again only the receiver that has the magazine well attached to it, is illegally the firearm in North America.
This is the government assembling data that their citizens probably didn't want to submit.
No this is people sending a petition to a government ministry about something, then getting a response back about how good of a job the ministry is doing based on that petition's content.
It was wanted, they just didn't expect to actually get a response. There is a big difference.
They responded to the people who gave them their contact info during a petition for Gay rights. In the same government department.
They went, looked at the email, replied to everyone with the new pro-gay email that the government wanted to send out, and it was done.
There was no breach of privacy. There was no unauthorized transfer of personal information between government ministries (which requires written consent by the individual), and since that ministry already had the petition, they are legally free to use the data any way they wish.
Remember this is a private college in Ontario, and they tend to do things differently then every other school. There are plenty of textbooks worldwide that could be had for cheap, but instead they decide to print their own unique textbook, then complain about the costs of creating a full textbook because their enrollments are relatively low, and they will make a new textbook in a year or 2 anyways instead of actually using the textbook for a while to make the copyright costs negligible.
He is a idiot, the DF-21 missiles are MRBM's that have a maximum speed of Mach 1.2 not Mach 10. It also carries a 500kt nuclear war head, which means China would have to be willing to go to Nuclear war over the spat, which at that point, China has a lot better and newer missiles with longer range it could use.
Additionally, just as China's longest range Nuclear weapons can hit anywhere in the main land of the United States, the United States could do the same thing right back to China.
Additionally, unlike the United States, NATO and Russia, China has openly refused to be the first one to launch nuclear weapons, they are in a second strike role, which is why the Chinese favours mobile launchers which a first strike will not actually eliminate. The Soviet Union before their collapse also agreed to limit their use to second strike capabilities only.
So if China does use the DF-21 as a anti-aircraft carrier group weapon, more then likely, it wont matter to any of us at the time, as nuclear weapons will be heading in both directions any ways to hit targeted areas of high population instead of worrying about a little aircraft carrier group somewhere in the ocean.
THat's why you see that China has developed now 1) the world's largest attack submarine fleet (although all are Diesel-Electric, not nuclear, so individually not as good as the US or British subs
Diesel Electrics under water can be completely silent. Nuclear powered subs tend to make too much noise under water and make them a lot easier to track with passive sonar.
Even in NATO military exercises Diesel Electric submarines have done rather well "sinking" carriers in the middle of a Attack Group because they can go lay in wait without any noise emissions.
America, the EU, Russia and China could spend their money more wisely than on another "Stealth Aircraft". ---- They could spend that money on helping the world's poor get some food, healthcare, permanent shelter, et cetera.
Considering China went from having 90% below the poverty line 30 years ago, to a country with 90% of the country above the poverty line I think they can afford to spend as much money as they want on their military.
Actually, the summary has it the wrong way around - most analysts consider the J-20 to be the Chinese aircraft that will fulfill the same role as the F-35, while this new airframe will fulfill the same role as the F-22.
The J-20's larger weapon bays, and its overly powerful engines tend to make it more of a interceptor then a "fighter".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4_6P-lVwYk
"I am Chinese".
Regretfully Ang Lee does not agree with you.
"A big part of (my culture) is Chinese tradition from my parents, from school, so that is who I am," said Ang Lee.
"I grew up in Taiwan, but you know where my ideas, my brushstrokes came from," he said.
Lee was born on the island 53 years ago, after his parents fled the 1949 communist victory in a civil war on the Chinese mainland.
Ang Lee got pissed off when they tried making him "Taiwanese" to boost Taiwan's cultural standing world wide. Hence the quote he stated after the Taiwanese Government did that.
But the main difference is that those US internships come with humane working conditions - FTA - 7 hours on a production line with no breaks.
Chinese labour law mandates 8 hours of work per day maximum, otherwise its over time like here. What most here in the West tend to forget China, like many other old world countries do not have the same concepts as we do. Yes from the start of work till the end its "12 hours" but its not quite that either ...
In China you work 4 hours straight, then have a 2-4 hour lunch time for you to go home, cook a proper meal, take a nap etc, and then another 4 hours of work. None of this "Eat your lunch in a half hour and be thankful" attitude we have here.
Additional Interships for university are a legal requirement in China, the only legal compensation is your room and board during it. During the Cultural Revolution and the period just after it, many Chinese who are now the parents of the kids "forced" to work for 2-3 months at factories like Foxconn had to work for years in the farms in rural areas far away from home to be "sponsored" by the village they were working at's "Workers Unit" to be allowed to go to University.
So you have a choice, go to university for free at a State University, and put up with a couple of months of work, or not go to university, or go to a private university and pay your way through your degree, or worse, do exactly what you know your parents did to get into University. Guess which one of the four the average Chinese student prefers?
You do realize that life isn't only the present? But the past makes the present what it is?
Apple's "Think Different" advertising started when they still tried to compete with IBM and the ThinkPad line with their MacBook Pro.
The fact ThinkPads are now being built by Lenovo is irrelevant, the reasoning Apple went that way in marketing however is. And yes I'm typing this on a Lenovo ThinkPad, all my laptops have been ThinkPad's since the 600E series.
Mind you I do love the comment moderation on my post. Mention any history of Apple trying to break into a market and copy someone else and its automatically a -1 around here.
Think different. Think BETTER. Think Apple!
Ah because Apple laptops have always been second rate and Apple attempted to cash in on the Thinkpad brand and IBM's "THINK" slogan by using "Think Different" as a slogan.
Because even Apple cannot get past the fact Thinkpads and IBM are better then they'll ever be.
In China under the law students MUST complete these kinds of internships, only before they were required BEFORE being accepted to University, and they tended to send the kids thousands of kilometres away to rural farm lands to do the work.
Only if their local population they were working for thought they were good workers did you actually get approved to join university regardless of your scores on the entrance exams. Compared to past generations a summer of work in a air conditioned full service company like Foxxcon is a blessing.
all we've seen since then (except for OWS) is helpless whining and complaining
OWS regardless of what most whiners here think was helpless whining and complaining, complaining about things THEY are responsible for, such as picking lousy majors, and refusing to work because "I'm educated, 4 years of college means I can do anything I want and I deserve a 100K a year job regardless of what anyone else says" due to being spoiled brats being raised in middle class families and thinking they should be spoon fed with a sliver spoon and bowl anything they want.