Would you select a computer scientist who doesn't know his shit to write mission critical applications?
Arguing a case before the Supreme Court entails completely different requirements than arguing at a trial court. Of the thousands of cases which are appealed to the Supreme Court, only a tiny fraction of them are reviewed by the court. You can bet that if anyone is going up there to argue, he or she have to be exceptional. I don't think just anyone can go up there, present the case, and then be grilled by nine of the best legal minds in the country.
Considering that Lessig clerked for Scalia, taught as a law professor, performed for years as a public speaker, and has command of the necessary background knowledge, I don't think he'll have issues.
If you have access to back issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science from the early 1990s (check local library), you will see on a few covers concept designs of an arsenal ship. Essentially, imagine a flat, long ship that is loaded with nothing but guided or unguided munitions.
Not sure what good this ship will do...maybe it'll be good for cowing weaker countries into submission. Real gunboat diplomacy.
I used to own a Psion 3A after searching for an organiser which could double as a portable word processor. The Palm Pilot then was still either unreleased or was in its 1000/5000 infancy, not like today when you have the choice of getting anywhere from a $79 Palm m100 to ~$400 color Handspring Prism, hook it up with a foldable Stowaway keyboard. Need a modem? No problem, you have a dozen or so to choose from off the shelf. Most people wouldn't pay more than $200 for PDA accessories these days.
I was relatively skeptical of the Psion units at first. Folks on comp.sys.palmtops wrote about its weaknesses, such as a mushy keyboard and weak screen hinges, which bothered me. One night, I stumbled onto Steve Litchfield's Psion site, and that's when I got an glimpse of the Psion organizer's potential. This guy wrote several interesting articles on how he used his Psion in his daily life, reviews of hardware and software for the Psion and on many other topics. The content on the site isn't 1/100 what it used to be (it looks like Steve subsequently went over to Palm's side).
Here's a link to a short history of Psion devices from his site.
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/historyofpsion.htm
There was a vibrant Psion community on the web and in the newsgroups. Lots of Psion users were writing programs, trading tips, creating user groups. It seemed exciting. I got a second-hand 3A from a person off the newsgroups and for three months used it just about every hour. I liked the mushy keyboard. However, I wanted to do more with it, but the accessories were just too damn expensive. Psiwin, the windows based syncronization software was unreliable. Psion used propreitary hardware, which meant $$$ if you wanted to upgrade, like me.
Yeah like you can fit the entire history of China in one Slashdot post.
Nor was I trying to, just merely pointing out certain things which may be of interest to others.
Not sure what you mean when referring to the U.S. 'Open Door' Policy. Just about every Western colonial power wanted to carve a piece of China for itself.
You are absolutely right--The Qing ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores to Japan in 1895. Japan occupied all of Manchuria in 1931. I was referring to the actual date of all-out hostility, when Chiang Kai-Shek and the KMT government finally got their act together and resisted the Japanese militarily.
Which puppet regime? I don't know which sources you're referencing, but this is the first time I've heard anything about this "coincidence." Can you point me to those sources?
And as for this left wing/right wing view, I'm not even going to go there.
Peace out.
Taiwan, (which still is officially) the Republic of China, renounced sovereignty over Mainland China in the late 80s (can't recall the actual date of the law). It also renounced its provincial status in the late 90s by doing away with the provincial government structure (which always had implied that it was part of China, just like Rhode Island has the same political status as California, but both belong to the United States).
I can't say whether or not the Opium Wars are written on Mainland Chinese textbooks, but the historical experience is written on Chinese history books in Taiwan, and many historians consider it as what brought about China's relative decline to the West. This war and many other wars fought with western nations at the time, lead to the growth of Chinese nationalism as well as anti-West sentiments.
China and Japan have traditionally been rivals with one another. Much of the Chinese resentment began after the Sino-Japanese War in which China under the Qing Dynasty lost decisively and had to cede territory (for instance, Taiwan). However, Japan was also host to thousands of Chinese overseas students during the early part of the 1900s, because intellectuals and revolutionaries who overthrew the Qing Dynasty believed that China could learn from the Japanese on how to modernize.
Chinese resentment against Japan turned into national hatred as the result of the atrocities caused during the Japanese occupation from 1937 to 1945. Japanese troops massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, used Chinese POWs and entire villages for chemical and biological weapons research, enslaved women for use as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. To this day, the Japanese government never formally apologized for the actions, which furthers much of the Chinese resentment.
I can't recall the U.S. helping Japan with the occupation of China, but U.S. did help the KMT government re-establish control of major Chinese cities after Japan's defeat and withdrawal by airlifting nearly a million Chinese troops from southwestern China. This was done to prevent the Chinese Communists from taking control.
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Would you select a computer scientist who doesn't know his shit to write mission critical applications?
Arguing a case before the Supreme Court entails completely different requirements than arguing at a trial court. Of the thousands of cases which are appealed to the Supreme Court, only a tiny fraction of them are reviewed by the court. You can bet that if anyone is going up there to argue, he or she have to be exceptional. I don't think just anyone can go up there, present the case, and then be grilled by nine of the best legal minds in the country.
Considering that Lessig clerked for Scalia, taught as a law professor, performed for years as a public speaker, and has command of the necessary background knowledge, I don't think he'll have issues.
Depends on where you are--they are available in Germany.
There was one on display at the Saturn Store in
Duesseldorf. IIRC, the price was around 699 Euro. Too bad it was password locked.
Guess that 16% VAT really does make a difference.
If you have access to back issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science from the early 1990s (check local library), you will see on a few covers concept designs of an arsenal ship. Essentially, imagine a flat, long ship that is loaded with nothing but guided or unguided munitions. Not sure what good this ship will do...maybe it'll be good for cowing weaker countries into submission. Real gunboat diplomacy.
I was relatively skeptical of the Psion units at first. Folks on comp.sys.palmtops wrote about its weaknesses, such as a mushy keyboard and weak screen hinges, which bothered me. One night, I stumbled onto Steve Litchfield's Psion site, and that's when I got an glimpse of the Psion organizer's potential. This guy wrote several interesting articles on how he used his Psion in his daily life, reviews of hardware and software for the Psion and on many other topics. The content on the site isn't 1/100 what it used to be (it looks like Steve subsequently went over to Palm's side).
Here's a link to a short history of Psion devices from his site.
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/historyofpsion.htmThere was a vibrant Psion community on the web and in the newsgroups. Lots of Psion users were writing programs, trading tips, creating user groups. It seemed exciting. I got a second-hand 3A from a person off the newsgroups and for three months used it just about every hour. I liked the mushy keyboard. However, I wanted to do more with it, but the accessories were just too damn expensive. Psiwin, the windows based syncronization software was unreliable. Psion used propreitary hardware, which meant $$$ if you wanted to upgrade, like me.
Nor was I trying to, just merely pointing out certain things which may be of interest to others.
Not sure what you mean when referring to the U.S. 'Open Door' Policy. Just about every Western colonial power wanted to carve a piece of China for itself.
You are absolutely right--The Qing ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores to Japan in 1895. Japan occupied all of Manchuria in 1931. I was referring to the actual date of all-out hostility, when Chiang Kai-Shek and the KMT government finally got their act together and resisted the Japanese militarily.
Which puppet regime? I don't know which sources you're referencing, but this is the first time I've heard anything about this "coincidence." Can you point me to those sources?
And as for this left wing/right wing view, I'm not even going to go there. Peace out.You're oversimplifying many of your facts.
Taiwan, (which still is officially) the Republic of China, renounced sovereignty over Mainland China in the late 80s (can't recall the actual date of the law). It also renounced its provincial status in the late 90s by doing away with the provincial government structure (which always had implied that it was part of China, just like Rhode Island has the same political status as California, but both belong to the United States).
I can't say whether or not the Opium Wars are written on Mainland Chinese textbooks, but the historical experience is written on Chinese history books in Taiwan, and many historians consider it as what brought about China's relative decline to the West. This war and many other wars fought with western nations at the time, lead to the growth of Chinese nationalism as well as anti-West sentiments.
China and Japan have traditionally been rivals with one another. Much of the Chinese resentment began after the Sino-Japanese War in which China under the Qing Dynasty lost decisively and had to cede territory (for instance, Taiwan). However, Japan was also host to thousands of Chinese overseas students during the early part of the 1900s, because intellectuals and revolutionaries who overthrew the Qing Dynasty believed that China could learn from the Japanese on how to modernize.
Chinese resentment against Japan turned into national hatred as the result of the atrocities caused during the Japanese occupation from 1937 to 1945. Japanese troops massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, used Chinese POWs and entire villages for chemical and biological weapons research, enslaved women for use as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. To this day, the Japanese government never formally apologized for the actions, which furthers much of the Chinese resentment.
I can't recall the U.S. helping Japan with the occupation of China, but U.S. did help the KMT government re-establish control of major Chinese cities after Japan's defeat and withdrawal by airlifting nearly a million Chinese troops from southwestern China. This was done to prevent the Chinese Communists from taking control.