Instead of "A kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of chemical high explosive", it would have made more sense, and have been more accurate if instead it was said as "A kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT" which is what the comparison measures.
Specifics and straight facts makes something news and legitimate, generalizations and omissions make it a tabloid article and misleading.
CBS allows for a great number of years without issue ST:NV to continue, all they asked for, and then were forced to use their copyright of the script for is that ST:NV not use anything they already paid for the rights of. It might be a lousy script, it might not be worth anything at all, but CBS does have a right to deny the use of something they own.
Hell CBS could squash the entire series if they wanted to, but they do not. So whats the problem? Seems to me/. and the ST:NV people should learn that you cannot have your cake, and eat it too.
#1.2 million Tibetans died as a direct result of Chinese occupation of Tibet.
And another 75 million Chinese in general died between 1949 and 1989, what is your point? Communism under Mao sucked, not just for the Tibetans but everyone. The Chinese people and government today do not want to end up in a situation like they lived through under Mao.
Again, a full understanding of history perhaps would allow your judgement not to be clouded.
Also if your going to copy and past information off other websites, instead of being able to articulate your own opinion, perhaps you should consider at least formatting the text so its not so pain painstakingly obvious.
That seems more or less the official PRC version of Tibetan history. To start it's worth pointing out that Tibet has it's own language, culture and writing system and is ethnically separate from the Han people who make up the majority of the PRC.
That is perhaps because its the recorded history that predates the PRC for the most part, and you cannot really outright lie about it when its written the same way in textbooks all over the world.
Tibet had been an autonomous region, since the mid 19th century Qing influence was mainly symbolic and of little practical consequence. In 1904 the British invaded, in 1910 the Qing did, and in 1912 the Tibetans got rid of the Qing. In 1950 the PRC conquered Tibet.
You have one relatively large problem with your over all line of thinking, in 1912 when the "uprising" happened, there was no Qing Dynasty anymore. Instead no, all the Tibetans did is attack a garrison of Qing troops still in the region, while the commander's (Zhao Erfeng) own troops openly revolted against him as well as they were fans of the Xinhai revolution that had already ended the Dynasty. The Dynasty's asserting control over Tibet, after Tibet started to try and veto agreements between China and Britain about Tibet, started in 1905, not 1910.
Additionally Tibet, like many other regions of today's China have always been "autonomous" regions under Federal country of the current ruling system of government for all of China. Doesn't mean they were not Federally incorporated into China for 800 years, nor does it mean they were "free". Instead they were enjoying the benefits of a pre-US Civil War style of government. Where the states were semi-independent entities.
Facts, and dates, a tell tale sign someone didn't actually do any research before opening their mouth. Or in this case before typing something.
Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants and Jews, are welcomed to practice in China, as long as they denounce any connection with any external of China leadership. Such as Chinese Catholics do not hold the Vatican in any way, shape or form, as their "leadership". Officially there is about a third of the population who are religious. Some estimates put it greater then half of the population. There are some pretty big places of worship in China, that make some of our Western places of worship seem pale in comparison.
Well that your willing to keep the Religion Chinese in origin and that your not going to use it as a front for political protests and ideologies contrary to the Communist Party's rule. Which really is very simple to understand and stay on the good side of the government, at least for most of the religions currently practicing in China.
Says the anonymous coward. If you think its a fake name, perhaps you should Google it, I'm sure your brain will be able to put the pieces together and figure out who I really am. I do not "hide" myself well on the internet.
Interestingly, whenever someone asks Tibetans, most say they want him to return to Tibet.
And a great many Greeks in Canada and the United States would love to see the King put back into power over Greece. Exiles are typically not the best to use as a example of what should happen. As suggesting that the King be allowed to return in Greece would lead you to a rather unpleasant situation if you went to say Athens and stated that "fact".
You drank the pro-"free" Tibet koolaid, and beer bonged it down, like plenty of younger white people have over the last few decades. Doesn't make the last 800 or so years of recorded history in both the East but also the West become a lie, or irrelevant. It just becomes a inconvenient truth that you are denouncing without fully understanding history.
Again, please learn some Greek history to draw the parallels from, and learn to be a skeptic of your own beliefs, something which is a part of our culture for many thousands of years. And perhaps your eyes will open enough to realize that sometimes option A and option B are not the right choices, and instead a third unknown option would be much better for everyone.
you utterly fail to comprehend the Hellenic character and for that matter Tibetan history.
Hellenic history on the other hand would teach you that foreign meddling in a situation that has survived for hundreds of years is never acceptable. Perhaps you should read some Greek history first before you argue about your knowledge of Tibetan history.
The only Greeks today who still support any kind of monarchy, are relatively few, but it appears you are one of them. A great deal of Greek blood has been spilled in Greece and else where cause of foreign powers meddling into internal affairs to keep a Danish kingdom in power at all costs. Even igniting a Civil War by the British. I'm sorry, but replacing one "oppressor" with another one is never a victory, and that is what your asking for, and that is what Greece got after successfully liberating ourselves the country from the Turkish thanks to the Europeans. Similar in vain of what cause the issues between 1913 and 1951 in Tibet, British meddling in a attempt to take control for themselves, even if it means that Tibet would remain a slave owning country under the guise of a two bit religion.
Democracy, whether the Chinese are in power, or the Dalai Lama will never see Tibet. Perhaps you should open your eyes to this "peaceful" religion your supporting taking over their "home". Cause like every religion, there are some very dark dirty secrets that are in the background. A free Tibet, is a free from China Tibet, it is not a democratic Tibet, or is it a free for its people Tibet.
As a final note, LAOS can use a spokesman in this part of the world. Maybe you should apply?
So not only do you claim to know more then one Tibetan, you claim to know more then one, of the mere 9,000 of them in the United States, or even less in Canada. Who the majority have never lived in Tibet, instead being born and raised in Napal and India to hate the Chinese, as their families were expelled or were forced to leave before the Communists sealed the boarder. Which typically were landlords and Lama's who kept the rest of Tibet in a medieval state, where the vast majority were born into slavery as they knew they'd be prosecuted under the communists if they were captured.
Unless they or there families have been in the US since before around 2000, in which case, a great many of their parents/grandparents were trained by the CIA to fight a guerrilla war against Tibet, seeing as by the time the operations ceased a mere 500 or so Tibetans lived in the US.
Or accepted history, not only for the Chinese, but many written histories and reports over the centuries given by Europeans in China who saw the situation first hand, not only now, but also for the last few hundred years.
Who is a more reliable source? People who were raised to be polarized against someone, or written history of the last several centuries before politics got involved?
Parakalo gia na kleisei to stoma sou, eiste mallon amorfotos vlakas.
Tibet had accepted its place as part of China since before there was a Dalai Lama, the 13th century to be precise, 2 decades before the first Dalai Lama.
The little "take over" of Tibet by the PRC in the early 1950's was caused by British meddling in Tibet, first in 1913 with trying to push the new Republic of China to make Tibet a Autonomous region of China, as they tried to take parts of Southern Tibet and incorporate them into the British ruled India. When they attempted to merge 9,000 km squared worth of territory.
Then the British started to arm the Tibetans, and they launched attacks into the rest of China in the 1930s, where a Muslim Chinese Army and a Han Army crushed them.
When 1934 came around and the 13th Dalai Lama died, and the Tibetan government reaffirmed that Tibet was still a part of China as a autonomous region. To which Tibet is still classified today, along with 4 other provinces for 4 other minority groups. Most of which enjoy much greater freedoms then Tibet because they are not consistently starting problems for the central government. Two of which are Muslim autonomous regions, where in one was the power base of the Muslim war lord who helped crush the Tibetan attack into China mentioned above.
The Chinese Government in 1940 affirmed and allowed the 14th Dalai Lama selected to be named that and continue to be their spiritual leader. Something that is still kicking around in video tape form as it was filmed as a ceremony in Beijing.
Was not till 1947 that Tibet tried to act independently, at which point, the situation started to break down, and after the Communist take over of China, did they decide to re-exert their rule of Tibet, which again has been going on for over 800 years. Along with removing the power of the land lords and lama's in Tibet, as they did in the rest of China. As serfism is contrary communist teachings, and contrary to our own freedoms, as its a form of generational slavery to your landlord.
As a Greek, you should know, British meddling into countries affairs is never a good thing, lead us to one Civil War all about installing a Danish king back into power. Perhaps next time read some history and understand the situation in your own "native" land before opening your mouth about another country?
Bo Yibo, like 7 others were the "Eight Elders" who were the other 8 "giants" who brought communism to China beside Mao, of which, Deng Xiaoping who took power after Mao's death was purged not once but twice, in which one of his sons was beaten and then thrown out of a 4 story window becoming a paraplegic because the first hospital refused to give him any care to stabilize his condition. Of the remaining 6 members, 3 more were purged at one time or another under Mao. The common theme of all of their 5 purges is that they were never really touched, its their families who were made to pay the price of being counter-Mao.
Being purged, is a temporary thing more or less for most in China, just because you lost favor with one leader, or with the party as a whole, doesn't mean you cannot take power back for yourself.
Bo Xilai is left like most of China's leadership (or centralist due to the "white cat, yellow cat" ideas of their post-Mao leader), rather far left, a relic of his fathers time, wanting Mao style policies and practices reapplied today.
Back when being the poorest peasant meant you were qualified to lead the people around you, and the most effective and educated engineers, scientists and doctors was forced to go work on the farms for a "people's education". This is also known as the cultural revolution, which is something many do not want a repeat of. It was a complete disaster to Chinese history, industrial base and people.
or if they are more interested in consolidating power for friends in high places and ideological allies?
Bo was one of the "princelings" having a father who was a high ranking officer with Mao since the start of the Red Revolution in China. It has been a problem for many Chinese that people are attaining power through connections over their abilities. Deng Xiaoping got most of the current leadership involved long after they finished school in technical fields and proved their wroth as scientists, engineers and doctors. In Chinese news, there is a undertone of a fear of going back to the old ways of having a "privileged" class which doesn't actually run the country effectively. Pushing Bo out of office is a sign that generational power transfer will not be tolerated.
China is becoming more progressive, and while it won't become the United States, or the West, as a country they have a 5,000 year history to back their decisions on, and have another thousand years or so of watching Western culture evolve into the mess we are in today. Something tells me they will not take our form of "progress" but a different approach where the country's needs are more important then the "freedom" of voting which seems to have little effect in Western politics anyways.
Tiananmen Square was about the people openly protesting what they saw as a government that was leading down the path the dynasties did. Something they knew would not be good for themselves. By allowing Chinese access to the information, it stands to reason that the Chinese people, will actually turn around and support their government for it, and for the measures its been trying to take to prevent a economic slow down of the country, as what typically happens when a government gets old and complacent in any form of Government.
I bought a Archos 9, Win7, which came out pre-iPad, while its much more useful then the iPad and Playbook in my opinion after I playing around with all 3.
But I have to completely agree, for me, its not a Palm Pilot (which my smartphone nearly replaces, I do miss graffiti though), nor is it a "real" computer such as a laptop or desktop to use for more useful items.
The iPod Touch makes more sense then the iPad and many other tablets, atleast you can carry it around in your pocket. Otherwise I find I take the Thinkpad anywhere I go over the Archos. If I do get another tablet like device, it will be a convertible laptop which the performance spec's so I may use it for more then playing around on the internet and with some small silly software.
I got a small stash of floppy drives and every time I build a new desktop I always put one in. MAYBE in a high end technology only location does not having one not pose a problem.
For the rest of us, there is still plenty of machines out there that need support with one, and plenty of (especially industrial) machines that still come with a FDD as a standard I/O interface to do low level resetting and file transfers. Simply because a manufacturing location doesn't want to replace everything every few years cause "technology" either progressed away, or worse doesn't have the robustness to actually give you a decent ROI.
I'm sorry but rifle scopes with Camera's are nearly a decade old if not older, and yes for hunting purposes, rifle scopes in the half dozen thousand dollars for LE to train and then record in a shooting situation their marksman have been around for much longer.
This is hardly news. If anything its designed with a slight anti-hunting aspect to the way the blurb was written. To start a flame war perhaps?
Dealing with the Romans after they copied their entire culture and then molested it.
Dealing with the crusaders who pillaged and burned anything along their path to the ME.
Dealing with a Muslim occupation for 400 years without losing their identity.
Dealing with a foreign imposed Bavarian then Danish King they didn't ask for.
Dealing with a Civil War started by the British to force Greece to take back said Kingdom.
Dealing with a Euro Dollar that no one in Greece other then the pro-Euro government actually wanted.
Dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars of Bribes from German companies ThyssenKrupp and Siemens.
Just a short form of the history the last 2000 years, there is more if you look for it.
If having a single child is important for society, then maybe the first one should be free, and you only pay after that.
China already does that, if you want more then one kid, they tabulate the average income of your area for the year the extra baby is born, and the average cost of living again for the same year, and then you owe them the difference. And some regions are already allowing a "free" second child if both parents are only children, and historical minorities (aka ones who have lived in China's boarders for centuries) are allowed between 2 children (in urban settings) to 4 children (in rural farm land).
For every law there is always a exception in any country if you look for it.
PowerVR GPU's are integrated on a lot of ARM processors used by many mobile companies. Its not a secret, but only Apple related articles like to poke fun at it. PowerVR went from being a "brand name" to being the developer behind a lot of graphics on everything from PC's, to game consoles, to HDTV's, to cell phones etc.
For that matter Samsung had been integrating the both of them before the iPhone in any flavor came out. And continues to do so.
And Canada and the US sold hundreds of millions of bushels of grain to the USSR during the 1950's to 1980's, including the "height" of it with the Cuban Missile Crisis etc.
Don't let political posturing fool you, some decisions, such as helping your enemy feed its people is a better olive branch then any peace treaty or alliance.
Too many fair weather people. Snow related power outages which are common here, which tend to happen in the middle of winter, to which typically your furnace stops working because a lack of electricity even if its NG. Doesn't phase people, you know its there and you must live with it.
Some people just need to Harden the f**k up and accept life for what it is. But that would involve personal responsibility, which means, its unlikely to happen.
From the 5-6 computers there is a market for worldwide to 640k that should be enough for anyone.
To which both are misrepresented quotes with little basis in fact. But somehow have leached onto the average persons vocabulary when it comes to computers.
They still are a day old, frozen or not. Swill that used to be sold by the bag at donut shops pre-Tim Hortons for 25 cents a dozen to the homeless, by every other coffee shop. Now the average Canadian gladly pays quite a bit more for a dozen of these donuts.
It had nothing to do with PC's the original quote, seeing as IBM started to produce small PC's in 1975 which was years ahead of the competition (The IBM 5100), instead your misquote comes from Thomas Watson's so called quote in 1943 about electronic computers, and yet since 1973 people knew it was a misquote and outright wrong.
If your going to open your mouth (or in this case type) please read some history before you remove all doubt.
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Instead of "A kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of chemical high explosive", it would have made more sense, and have been more accurate if instead it was said as "A kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT" which is what the comparison measures.
Specifics and straight facts makes something news and legitimate, generalizations and omissions make it a tabloid article and misleading.
CBS allows for a great number of years without issue ST:NV to continue, all they asked for, and then were forced to use their copyright of the script for is that ST:NV not use anything they already paid for the rights of. It might be a lousy script, it might not be worth anything at all, but CBS does have a right to deny the use of something they own.
Hell CBS could squash the entire series if they wanted to, but they do not. So whats the problem? Seems to me
#1.2 million Tibetans died as a direct result of Chinese occupation of Tibet.
And another 75 million Chinese in general died between 1949 and 1989, what is your point? Communism under Mao sucked, not just for the Tibetans but everyone. The Chinese people and government today do not want to end up in a situation like they lived through under Mao.
Again, a full understanding of history perhaps would allow your judgement not to be clouded.
Also if your going to copy and past information off other websites, instead of being able to articulate your own opinion, perhaps you should consider at least formatting the text so its not so pain painstakingly obvious.
That seems more or less the official PRC version of Tibetan history. To start it's worth pointing out that Tibet has it's own language, culture and writing system and is ethnically separate from the Han people who make up the majority of the PRC.
That is perhaps because its the recorded history that predates the PRC for the most part, and you cannot really outright lie about it when its written the same way in textbooks all over the world.
Tibet had been an autonomous region, since the mid 19th century Qing influence was mainly symbolic and of little practical consequence. In 1904 the British invaded, in 1910 the Qing did, and in 1912 the Tibetans got rid of the Qing. In 1950 the PRC conquered Tibet.
You have one relatively large problem with your over all line of thinking, in 1912 when the "uprising" happened, there was no Qing Dynasty anymore. Instead no, all the Tibetans did is attack a garrison of Qing troops still in the region, while the commander's (Zhao Erfeng) own troops openly revolted against him as well as they were fans of the Xinhai revolution that had already ended the Dynasty. The Dynasty's asserting control over Tibet, after Tibet started to try and veto agreements between China and Britain about Tibet, started in 1905, not 1910.
Additionally Tibet, like many other regions of today's China have always been "autonomous" regions under Federal country of the current ruling system of government for all of China. Doesn't mean they were not Federally incorporated into China for 800 years, nor does it mean they were "free". Instead they were enjoying the benefits of a pre-US Civil War style of government. Where the states were semi-independent entities.
Facts, and dates, a tell tale sign someone didn't actually do any research before opening their mouth. Or in this case before typing something.
Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants and Jews, are welcomed to practice in China, as long as they denounce any connection with any external of China leadership. Such as Chinese Catholics do not hold the Vatican in any way, shape or form, as their "leadership". Officially there is about a third of the population who are religious. Some estimates put it greater then half of the population. There are some pretty big places of worship in China, that make some of our Western places of worship seem pale in comparison.
For example, the government commissioned a 105 meter tall statue of Guan Yin for Buddhists, that you can see here ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/HainanSanya2.jpg ) which is the 4th largest in the world built in 2005. The largest statue in the world being another CCP production at 128 meters and a cost of 18 million USD, was built in 2002 again for Buddhists ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Spring_Temple_Buddha_picturing_Vairocana%2C_in_Lushan_County%2C_Henan%2C_China.jpg.png )
Well that your willing to keep the Religion Chinese in origin and that your not going to use it as a front for political protests and ideologies contrary to the Communist Party's rule. Which really is very simple to understand and stay on the good side of the government, at least for most of the religions currently practicing in China.
nice fake name btw
Says the anonymous coward. If you think its a fake name, perhaps you should Google it, I'm sure your brain will be able to put the pieces together and figure out who I really am. I do not "hide" myself well on the internet.
Interestingly, whenever someone asks Tibetans, most say they want him to return to Tibet.
And a great many Greeks in Canada and the United States would love to see the King put back into power over Greece. Exiles are typically not the best to use as a example of what should happen. As suggesting that the King be allowed to return in Greece would lead you to a rather unpleasant situation if you went to say Athens and stated that "fact".
You drank the pro-"free" Tibet koolaid, and beer bonged it down, like plenty of younger white people have over the last few decades. Doesn't make the last 800 or so years of recorded history in both the East but also the West become a lie, or irrelevant. It just becomes a inconvenient truth that you are denouncing without fully understanding history.
Again, please learn some Greek history to draw the parallels from, and learn to be a skeptic of your own beliefs, something which is a part of our culture for many thousands of years. And perhaps your eyes will open enough to realize that sometimes option A and option B are not the right choices, and instead a third unknown option would be much better for everyone.
you utterly fail to comprehend the Hellenic character and for that matter Tibetan history.
Hellenic history on the other hand would teach you that foreign meddling in a situation that has survived for hundreds of years is never acceptable. Perhaps you should read some Greek history first before you argue about your knowledge of Tibetan history.
The only Greeks today who still support any kind of monarchy, are relatively few, but it appears you are one of them. A great deal of Greek blood has been spilled in Greece and else where cause of foreign powers meddling into internal affairs to keep a Danish kingdom in power at all costs. Even igniting a Civil War by the British. I'm sorry, but replacing one "oppressor" with another one is never a victory, and that is what your asking for, and that is what Greece got after successfully liberating ourselves the country from the Turkish thanks to the Europeans. Similar in vain of what cause the issues between 1913 and 1951 in Tibet, British meddling in a attempt to take control for themselves, even if it means that Tibet would remain a slave owning country under the guise of a two bit religion.
Democracy, whether the Chinese are in power, or the Dalai Lama will never see Tibet. Perhaps you should open your eyes to this "peaceful" religion your supporting taking over their "home". Cause like every religion, there are some very dark dirty secrets that are in the background. A free Tibet, is a free from China Tibet, it is not a democratic Tibet, or is it a free for its people Tibet.
As a final note, LAOS can use a spokesman in this part of the world. Maybe you should apply?
So not only do you claim to know more then one Tibetan, you claim to know more then one, of the mere 9,000 of them in the United States, or even less in Canada. Who the majority have never lived in Tibet, instead being born and raised in Napal and India to hate the Chinese, as their families were expelled or were forced to leave before the Communists sealed the boarder. Which typically were landlords and Lama's who kept the rest of Tibet in a medieval state, where the vast majority were born into slavery as they knew they'd be prosecuted under the communists if they were captured.
Unless they or there families have been in the US since before around 2000, in which case, a great many of their parents/grandparents were trained by the CIA to fight a guerrilla war against Tibet, seeing as by the time the operations ceased a mere 500 or so Tibetans lived in the US.
Or accepted history, not only for the Chinese, but many written histories and reports over the centuries given by Europeans in China who saw the situation first hand, not only now, but also for the last few hundred years.
Who is a more reliable source? People who were raised to be polarized against someone, or written history of the last several centuries before politics got involved?
Parakalo gia na kleisei to stoma sou, eiste mallon amorfotos vlakas.
Tibet had accepted its place as part of China since before there was a Dalai Lama, the 13th century to be precise, 2 decades before the first Dalai Lama.
The little "take over" of Tibet by the PRC in the early 1950's was caused by British meddling in Tibet, first in 1913 with trying to push the new Republic of China to make Tibet a Autonomous region of China, as they tried to take parts of Southern Tibet and incorporate them into the British ruled India. When they attempted to merge 9,000 km squared worth of territory.
Then the British started to arm the Tibetans, and they launched attacks into the rest of China in the 1930s, where a Muslim Chinese Army and a Han Army crushed them.
When 1934 came around and the 13th Dalai Lama died, and the Tibetan government reaffirmed that Tibet was still a part of China as a autonomous region. To which Tibet is still classified today, along with 4 other provinces for 4 other minority groups. Most of which enjoy much greater freedoms then Tibet because they are not consistently starting problems for the central government. Two of which are Muslim autonomous regions, where in one was the power base of the Muslim war lord who helped crush the Tibetan attack into China mentioned above.
The Chinese Government in 1940 affirmed and allowed the 14th Dalai Lama selected to be named that and continue to be their spiritual leader. Something that is still kicking around in video tape form as it was filmed as a ceremony in Beijing.
Was not till 1947 that Tibet tried to act independently, at which point, the situation started to break down, and after the Communist take over of China, did they decide to re-exert their rule of Tibet, which again has been going on for over 800 years. Along with removing the power of the land lords and lama's in Tibet, as they did in the rest of China. As serfism is contrary communist teachings, and contrary to our own freedoms, as its a form of generational slavery to your landlord.
As a Greek, you should know, British meddling into countries affairs is never a good thing, lead us to one Civil War all about installing a Danish king back into power. Perhaps next time read some history and understand the situation in your own "native" land before opening your mouth about another country?
Bo Yibo, like 7 others were the "Eight Elders" who were the other 8 "giants" who brought communism to China beside Mao, of which, Deng Xiaoping who took power after Mao's death was purged not once but twice, in which one of his sons was beaten and then thrown out of a 4 story window becoming a paraplegic because the first hospital refused to give him any care to stabilize his condition. Of the remaining 6 members, 3 more were purged at one time or another under Mao. The common theme of all of their 5 purges is that they were never really touched, its their families who were made to pay the price of being counter-Mao.
Being purged, is a temporary thing more or less for most in China, just because you lost favor with one leader, or with the party as a whole, doesn't mean you cannot take power back for yourself.
Bo Xilai is left like most of China's leadership (or centralist due to the "white cat, yellow cat" ideas of their post-Mao leader), rather far left, a relic of his fathers time, wanting Mao style policies and practices reapplied today.
Back when being the poorest peasant meant you were qualified to lead the people around you, and the most effective and educated engineers, scientists and doctors was forced to go work on the farms for a "people's education". This is also known as the cultural revolution, which is something many do not want a repeat of. It was a complete disaster to Chinese history, industrial base and people.
or if they are more interested in consolidating power for friends in high places and ideological allies?
Bo was one of the "princelings" having a father who was a high ranking officer with Mao since the start of the Red Revolution in China. It has been a problem for many Chinese that people are attaining power through connections over their abilities. Deng Xiaoping got most of the current leadership involved long after they finished school in technical fields and proved their wroth as scientists, engineers and doctors. In Chinese news, there is a undertone of a fear of going back to the old ways of having a "privileged" class which doesn't actually run the country effectively. Pushing Bo out of office is a sign that generational power transfer will not be tolerated.
China is becoming more progressive, and while it won't become the United States, or the West, as a country they have a 5,000 year history to back their decisions on, and have another thousand years or so of watching Western culture evolve into the mess we are in today. Something tells me they will not take our form of "progress" but a different approach where the country's needs are more important then the "freedom" of voting which seems to have little effect in Western politics anyways.
Tiananmen Square was about the people openly protesting what they saw as a government that was leading down the path the dynasties did. Something they knew would not be good for themselves. By allowing Chinese access to the information, it stands to reason that the Chinese people, will actually turn around and support their government for it, and for the measures its been trying to take to prevent a economic slow down of the country, as what typically happens when a government gets old and complacent in any form of Government.
I bought a Archos 9, Win7, which came out pre-iPad, while its much more useful then the iPad and Playbook in my opinion after I playing around with all 3.
But I have to completely agree, for me, its not a Palm Pilot (which my smartphone nearly replaces, I do miss graffiti though), nor is it a "real" computer such as a laptop or desktop to use for more useful items.
The iPod Touch makes more sense then the iPad and many other tablets, atleast you can carry it around in your pocket. Otherwise I find I take the Thinkpad anywhere I go over the Archos. If I do get another tablet like device, it will be a convertible laptop which the performance spec's so I may use it for more then playing around on the internet and with some small silly software.
I got a small stash of floppy drives and every time I build a new desktop I always put one in. MAYBE in a high end technology only location does not having one not pose a problem.
For the rest of us, there is still plenty of machines out there that need support with one, and plenty of (especially industrial) machines that still come with a FDD as a standard I/O interface to do low level resetting and file transfers. Simply because a manufacturing location doesn't want to replace everything every few years cause "technology" either progressed away, or worse doesn't have the robustness to actually give you a decent ROI.
I'm sorry but rifle scopes with Camera's are nearly a decade old if not older, and yes for hunting purposes, rifle scopes in the half dozen thousand dollars for LE to train and then record in a shooting situation their marksman have been around for much longer.
This is hardly news. If anything its designed with a slight anti-hunting aspect to the way the blurb was written. To start a flame war perhaps?
Dealing with the Romans after they copied their entire culture and then molested it.
Dealing with the crusaders who pillaged and burned anything along their path to the ME.
Dealing with a Muslim occupation for 400 years without losing their identity.
Dealing with a foreign imposed Bavarian then Danish King they didn't ask for.
Dealing with a Civil War started by the British to force Greece to take back said Kingdom.
Dealing with a Euro Dollar that no one in Greece other then the pro-Euro government actually wanted.
Dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars of Bribes from German companies ThyssenKrupp and Siemens.
Just a short form of the history the last 2000 years, there is more if you look for it.
If having a single child is important for society, then maybe the first one should be free, and you only pay after that.
China already does that, if you want more then one kid, they tabulate the average income of your area for the year the extra baby is born, and the average cost of living again for the same year, and then you owe them the difference. And some regions are already allowing a "free" second child if both parents are only children, and historical minorities (aka ones who have lived in China's boarders for centuries) are allowed between 2 children (in urban settings) to 4 children (in rural farm land).
For every law there is always a exception in any country if you look for it.
PowerVR GPU's are integrated on a lot of ARM processors used by many mobile companies. Its not a secret, but only Apple related articles like to poke fun at it. PowerVR went from being a "brand name" to being the developer behind a lot of graphics on everything from PC's, to game consoles, to HDTV's, to cell phones etc.
For that matter Samsung had been integrating the both of them before the iPhone in any flavor came out. And continues to do so.
And Canada and the US sold hundreds of millions of bushels of grain to the USSR during the 1950's to 1980's, including the "height" of it with the Cuban Missile Crisis etc.
Don't let political posturing fool you, some decisions, such as helping your enemy feed its people is a better olive branch then any peace treaty or alliance.
Too many fair weather people. Snow related power outages which are common here, which tend to happen in the middle of winter, to which typically your furnace stops working because a lack of electricity even if its NG. Doesn't phase people, you know its there and you must live with it.
Some people just need to Harden the f**k up and accept life for what it is. But that would involve personal responsibility, which means, its unlikely to happen.
From the 5-6 computers there is a market for worldwide to 640k that should be enough for anyone.
To which both are misrepresented quotes with little basis in fact. But somehow have leached onto the average persons vocabulary when it comes to computers.
Way to prove your point. [/sarcasm]
They still are a day old, frozen or not. Swill that used to be sold by the bag at donut shops pre-Tim Hortons for 25 cents a dozen to the homeless, by every other coffee shop. Now the average Canadian gladly pays quite a bit more for a dozen of these donuts.
Day old donuts that have been trucked across country from central bakeries. Sounds like good eating.
It had nothing to do with PC's the original quote, seeing as IBM started to produce small PC's in 1975 which was years ahead of the competition (The IBM 5100), instead your misquote comes from Thomas Watson's so called quote in 1943 about electronic computers, and yet since 1973 people knew it was a misquote and outright wrong.
If your going to open your mouth (or in this case type) please read some history before you remove all doubt.