It's been over 30 years since Voyager 2 was launched, and technology wise we've come a long way. It's long overdue that a new Voyager should be made and sent up.
so my question is, why hasn't it happened already?
"We have a Broken Arrow" "A what?" "A Broken Arrow. It's when we lose a nuclear weapon." "I don't know what's scarier, the fact that we lost nukes or the fact that it happens often enough that we have a name for it"
FYI...
Time To Reassess Tibet Policy
by A. Tom Grunfeld
The Progressive Response
(Editor's Note: As the debate in Congress over granting China permanent normal trading status heats up, the complexity of U.S.-China relations will be on display. Contributing to that complexity is Washington's ambiguous policy toward Tibet. A new FPIF policy brief, excerpted below, the examines the history and current status of the U.S. approach to Tibet.)
The flight of the 17th Karmapa Lama from Tibet to India in January 2000 catapulted Tibet back into the world headlines, creating an opportunity for both China and the U. S. to reassess their policies toward Tibet.
Tibet's status has been intertwined with China since the 7th century through marriages, wars, and treaties. Mongol conquests in the 13th century made Tibet part of a Mongol-ruled Chinese state, while four centuries later the ethnic Manchu Q'ing dynasty further incorporated Tibet into China. In 1912 the13th Dalai Lama's unilaterally declared independence in 1912 but two years later signed a treaty granting Chinese "suzerainty" and direct rule over "Inner Tibet" while "Outer Tibet" remained under Tibetan autonomy. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reestablished strong central government in 1949, Tibet was regarded as politically "integral" with China but in fact so autonomous that Beijing insisted on a incorporation "treaty" to preempt any claims of independence. But the CCP refrained from stamping out feudalism and theocratic rule. Twice in the 1950s Mao Zedong assured the Dalai Lama that China would make no further inroads against de facto Tibetan autonomy. This policy, however, applied only to Outer Tibet or what was later called the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Other ethnic Tibetan areas, known as Amdo and Kham (Inner Tibet) underwent political transformation.
This process of integration sparked rebellion, and minor insurrections in Kham/Sichuan turned into open revolt by1956. Soon support came from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which as eager to destabilize the communist government. China's suppression of a 1959 revolt forced the Dalai Lama and 50-60,000 Tibetans into exile. Beijing then subjected the TAR to political and social integration, ending Lhasa's autonomous rule. During the Cultural Revolution the Red Guards, both Chinese and Tibetan, engaged in wholesale destruction of almost every religious building in Tibet, paralleling antireligious campaigns throughout China. From exile, the Dalai Lama directed refugee resettlement and guerrilla warfare-although he officially renounced all violence. CIA support encouraged insurgent Tibetans to continue their war for independence, but the CIA was more interested in harassing communist China than in Tibetan independence. Following the 1971 visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the U.S. cut off its support to the Tibetan resistance. The Tibetan rebellion of 15 years quickly dissipated; the Tibetans had been unable to create a sustainable, free-standing military force after 15 years.
By the late 1970s China began relaxing its grip on Tibet. In 1978 the Panchen Lama was released from detention, and he began championing the preservation of Tibetan culture. A new round of Dalai Lama-Beijing contacts resulted in several Tibetan-exile delegations visiting Tibet. After these talks faltered in the1980s, the Dalai Lama decided to promote his cause internationally, believing that increased foreign pressure generated by his "Tibet Lobby" would force Beijing to renew serious negotiations. Rising international attention and continued unrest in Tibet sparked a policy debate within China. The moderates argued for more freedom for Tibetan cultural practices and the return of the Dalai Lama, while the hardliners (many of them Tibetan governmental and party officials) urged ending ties to the Dalai Lama and repressing all expressions of Tibetan nationalism.
After the Panchen Lama's sudden death in January 1989, the Dalai Lama was invited for religious funerary ceremonies in Beijing.
"We labelled the OpenOffice Writer icon as "Microsoft Word", for instance, and people didn't know the difference."
that's unbelievable, but i am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on that one. Here's my question: what about "Microsoft Outlook"? I don't think you can label the Evolution icon as "Outlook" and get away with it. the look and feel is just too different.
a tiny bit of yes but a resouding NO!
Opium war the 1st of many humiliations done to China by imperial western powers, but that was 1840, over 160 years ago. Save a few hardcore nationalists, majority chinese just don't hold it against the current british people or government.
You are wrong to claim Britain successfuly conquered China. That's just not true. Britain certain had tried, but China was just too big and the chinese civilization just too resilient to be conquered by the Brits alone. What happened is western powers carved their area of influence in china: The brits had HK and neighboring Canton province, French had Fujian and indo-china, German had Tsingdao etc.
Of course, all these ended when Mao and his comrades took over China and established PRC.
Before the Opium war, the machu Qing dynasty was running a huge surplus with the Brits but with no crediblity military, that made china a fat turkey on thanksgiving table. Not unlike the situation today, except it's between China and U.S.. let's hope nobody does anything stupid.
NOT!
do you know why most comoputer attacks and email spams are from China?
No, it has little to do with chinese government.
That's because over 90% of the computers in china run pirated software, they are not updated often or can't be updated. Also internation traffic usually costs more than domestic traffic plus, it takes forever because of small bandwith, so people patch their software when it's available on pirated CD on the street.
The little known secret is chinese PCs are perfect zombies, because they are easy to crack. Majority web admins know little english, are paid peanuts by their employers. Most don't have the ability to track the latest threats and apply updates, and worse, most employers and web admins are very ignorant about computer security and frankly, security just isn't that a big priority. Personal computers are mostly used for gaming and emailing and browsing news and forums etc, people just don't care that much if they are hacked and turned into a zombie. Annoyed maybe, but not a big deal.
People often forget, China is still a 3rd world contry, most banks and grocery stores don't use computers. If the computers were gone today, the world wouldn't come to a halt in china. People still keep their important information on paper, not in computer. y
Well I am late to the party, but being chinese and all, I feel obliged to contribute my 2 cents.
There is a lot of talking about how circumstancing the Great Fire Wall is breaking chinese law and commie will put you in jail etc.
Well the situation is rather more complicated.
Rule of laws never really established in China's long history. It's rather "rule by law". Emperors enacted laws to govern the people, law is common people's enemy, law isn't there to ensure justice but to install order.
Even in mordern china, people don't respect law. Laws are often written by government agency in a hasty and rubber-stamped by a stooge congress, without much consultation of the people.
people get around law whenever they can and more often then not nobody cares. Piracy is supposedly illegal, prostitution is supposedly illegal, but in any city you can find DVDs for $1.00 and massage parlors on certain streets. everybody's driving like there is no traffic law. waiting lines are for suckers in theater or public trans tick counter. that's just for common people.
for big crooks and shady businesses, wining, dining and bribing are the grease the oil the wheel. business even MNCs look for preferential treatment 1st fair competition 2nd.
Unless you are in china with a mission to overthrow the government, getting around the Great FireWall is the last thing anyone would care.
petty crimes are expected, you almost can't live without commiting a few daily.
This will bring a sense of urgency to US and the rest world to roll out the next generation internet, and every human and every kitchen shall get its own IP address.
The impact sent molten redhot debris into suborbital space, and those debris reentered like a ICBM, blanketed the whole earth atomsphere, including the other side of the earth. that's a plausible scenario even if it's unprovable.
What about cellphone as a TV romate controller? so next time you can't find your reomoate control, you can always pull out your cellphone.
or car door opener? car engine starter? that's one less thing to carry around. the only problem is when the phone battery runs out, you are stuck and you can't call AAA.
Or MagA can stay with Rush, but spin off a MagB for Ralph Nader.
Trageted content is nothing new, it's already done in Cable and radio. Thank Fox News and CNN, Rush Limbaugh and Al Franken. They have their targeted audience, and they profit plenty if they can keep their audience, there is no need to be "fair and balanced".
Even within the same TV channel, targeted programming is a well-established practice. NBC has "Friends" for the coveted 18-35 age group, "Frasier" for 35 and above, "Queer eyes" for gays.
because of internet and cable, no single player can dominate the news. Target content is already happening, and it will only grow bigger.
I strongly recommend you read Brian Greene's "Fabrics of the Cosmos", the book explain in plain english the exact same question and much more.
What's to say that the spaceship is actually in geostationary orbit and not just STATIONARY if there is nothing else to measure their motion against? These two things are all that exist in this hypothetical universe and they are stationary relative to each other, so why aren't they 'absolutely' stationary, causing the spaceship just to fall? How do you know the moon is really even spinning?
I am no physics major, here's my amateurish understanding.
Newton pondered the same question, but he used a spinning water bucket as an example. suppose you are on the inner bucket wall, you know your are spinning because you can feel your back is pressed against the wall, even if you can see any motion relative to the wall or the center pole. but when the spinning stops, the force disappears. By the same token, we can deduce the spaceship is geostationary because it does't fall, a truly stationary spaceship will fall because of gravity.
The way I usually phrased this to physics professors was that if the spaceship, floating in space for all it knows, comes flying past the moon at near light speed, why do we assume the spaceship is moving at near lightspeed and therefore clocks on it run slower, rather than the moon is hurtling through space at near lightspeed past a stationary ship?
Einstein says you can see it either way, and both perspective are valid but they don't necessarily reconcile in a traditional sense. the distance and time measures differ depends on the observer's speed.
In general, when you speed up and down, your space and time perspective dynamically changes. According to Einstein, it's perfectly valid for everyone on Earth to have a different time reading for the very same event, like exactly when Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby.
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It's been over 30 years since Voyager 2 was launched, and technology wise we've come a long way. It's long overdue that a new Voyager should be made and sent up.
so my question is, why hasn't it happened already?
"We have a Broken Arrow"
"A what?"
"A Broken Arrow. It's when we lose a nuclear weapon."
"I don't know what's scarier, the fact that we lost nukes or the fact that it happens often enough that we have a name for it"
Are you saying Chloe from CTU has been faking it all along when Jack Bauer asked for "satellite link"?
damn! I was so duped!
FYI ...
Time To Reassess Tibet Policy
by A. Tom Grunfeld
The Progressive Response
(Editor's Note: As the debate in Congress over granting China permanent normal trading status heats up, the complexity of U.S.-China relations will be on display. Contributing to that complexity is Washington's ambiguous policy toward Tibet. A new FPIF policy brief, excerpted below, the examines the history and current status of the U.S. approach to Tibet.)
The flight of the 17th Karmapa Lama from Tibet to India in January 2000 catapulted Tibet back into the world headlines, creating an opportunity for both China and the U. S. to reassess their policies toward Tibet.
Tibet's status has been intertwined with China since the 7th century through marriages, wars, and treaties. Mongol conquests in the 13th century made Tibet part of a Mongol-ruled Chinese state, while four centuries later the ethnic Manchu Q'ing dynasty further incorporated Tibet into China. In 1912 the13th Dalai Lama's unilaterally declared independence in 1912 but two years later signed a treaty granting Chinese "suzerainty" and direct rule over "Inner Tibet" while "Outer Tibet" remained under Tibetan autonomy. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reestablished strong central government in 1949, Tibet was regarded as politically "integral" with China but in fact so autonomous that Beijing insisted on a incorporation "treaty" to preempt any claims of independence. But the CCP refrained from stamping out feudalism and theocratic rule. Twice in the 1950s Mao Zedong assured the Dalai Lama that China would make no further inroads against de facto Tibetan autonomy. This policy, however, applied only to Outer Tibet or what was later called the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Other ethnic Tibetan areas, known as Amdo and Kham (Inner Tibet) underwent political transformation.
This process of integration sparked rebellion, and minor insurrections in Kham/Sichuan turned into open revolt by1956. Soon support came from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which as eager to destabilize the communist government. China's suppression of a 1959 revolt forced the Dalai Lama and 50-60,000 Tibetans into exile. Beijing then subjected the TAR to political and social integration, ending Lhasa's autonomous rule. During the Cultural Revolution the Red Guards, both Chinese and Tibetan, engaged in wholesale destruction of almost every religious building in Tibet, paralleling antireligious campaigns throughout China. From exile, the Dalai Lama directed refugee resettlement and guerrilla warfare-although he officially renounced all violence. CIA support encouraged insurgent Tibetans to continue their war for independence, but the CIA was more interested in harassing communist China than in Tibetan independence. Following the 1971 visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the U.S. cut off its support to the Tibetan resistance. The Tibetan rebellion of 15 years quickly dissipated; the Tibetans had been unable to create a sustainable, free-standing military force after 15 years.
By the late 1970s China began relaxing its grip on Tibet. In 1978 the Panchen Lama was released from detention, and he began championing the preservation of Tibetan culture. A new round of Dalai Lama-Beijing contacts resulted in several Tibetan-exile delegations visiting Tibet. After these talks faltered in the1980s, the Dalai Lama decided to promote his cause internationally, believing that increased foreign pressure generated by his "Tibet Lobby" would force Beijing to renew serious negotiations. Rising international attention and continued unrest in Tibet sparked a policy debate within China. The moderates argued for more freedom for Tibetan cultural practices and the return of the Dalai Lama, while the hardliners (many of them Tibetan governmental and party officials) urged ending ties to the Dalai Lama and repressing all expressions of Tibetan nationalism.
After the Panchen Lama's sudden death in January 1989, the Dalai Lama was invited for religious funerary ceremonies in Beijing.
Upon hearing Bangkok banned Youtube, Sergey hurled a chair across the room: "Phuket!"
that's unbelievable, but i am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on that one. Here's my question: what about "Microsoft Outlook"? I don't think you can label the Evolution icon as "Outlook" and get away with it. the look and feel is just too different.
a tiny bit of yes but a resouding NO! Opium war the 1st of many humiliations done to China by imperial western powers, but that was 1840, over 160 years ago. Save a few hardcore nationalists, majority chinese just don't hold it against the current british people or government. You are wrong to claim Britain successfuly conquered China. That's just not true. Britain certain had tried, but China was just too big and the chinese civilization just too resilient to be conquered by the Brits alone. What happened is western powers carved their area of influence in china: The brits had HK and neighboring Canton province, French had Fujian and indo-china, German had Tsingdao etc. Of course, all these ended when Mao and his comrades took over China and established PRC. Before the Opium war, the machu Qing dynasty was running a huge surplus with the Brits but with no crediblity military, that made china a fat turkey on thanksgiving table. Not unlike the situation today, except it's between China and U.S.. let's hope nobody does anything stupid.
NOT! do you know why most comoputer attacks and email spams are from China? No, it has little to do with chinese government. That's because over 90% of the computers in china run pirated software, they are not updated often or can't be updated. Also internation traffic usually costs more than domestic traffic plus, it takes forever because of small bandwith, so people patch their software when it's available on pirated CD on the street. The little known secret is chinese PCs are perfect zombies, because they are easy to crack. Majority web admins know little english, are paid peanuts by their employers. Most don't have the ability to track the latest threats and apply updates, and worse, most employers and web admins are very ignorant about computer security and frankly, security just isn't that a big priority. Personal computers are mostly used for gaming and emailing and browsing news and forums etc, people just don't care that much if they are hacked and turned into a zombie. Annoyed maybe, but not a big deal. People often forget, China is still a 3rd world contry, most banks and grocery stores don't use computers. If the computers were gone today, the world wouldn't come to a halt in china. People still keep their important information on paper, not in computer. y
or did he? do astronauts masterbate and how? do they carry condoms with them? not flaming..but honestly curious
Well I am late to the party, but being chinese and all, I feel obliged to contribute my 2 cents.
There is a lot of talking about how circumstancing the Great Fire Wall is breaking chinese law and commie will put you in jail etc.
Well the situation is rather more complicated.
Rule of laws never really established in China's long history. It's rather "rule by law". Emperors enacted laws to govern the people, law is common people's enemy, law isn't there to ensure justice but to install order.
Even in mordern china, people don't respect law. Laws are often written by government agency in a hasty and rubber-stamped by a stooge congress, without much consultation of the people.
people get around law whenever they can and more often then not nobody cares. Piracy is supposedly illegal, prostitution is supposedly illegal, but in any city you can find DVDs for $1.00 and massage parlors on certain streets. everybody's driving like there is no traffic law. waiting lines are for suckers in theater or public trans tick counter. that's just for common people.
for big crooks and shady businesses, wining, dining and bribing are the grease the oil the wheel. business even MNCs look for preferential treatment 1st fair competition 2nd.
Unless you are in china with a mission to overthrow the government, getting around the Great FireWall is the last thing anyone would care.
petty crimes are expected, you almost can't live without commiting a few daily.
This will bring a sense of urgency to US and the rest world to roll out the next generation internet, and every human and every kitchen shall get its own IP address.
actually it's in 1984.
In other words, it's not the size of your prime number, it's how you use it that counts. obviously your girlfriend has been lying to you.
The impact sent molten redhot debris into suborbital space, and those debris reentered like a ICBM, blanketed the whole earth atomsphere, including the other side of the earth. that's a plausible scenario even if it's unprovable.
What about cellphone as a TV romate controller? so next time you can't find your reomoate control, you can always pull out your cellphone.
or car door opener? car engine starter? that's one less thing to carry around. the only problem is when the phone battery runs out, you are stuck and you can't call AAA.
Even within the same TV channel, targeted programming is a well-established practice. NBC has "Friends" for the coveted 18-35 age group, "Frasier" for 35 and above, "Queer eyes" for gays.
because of internet and cable, no single player can dominate the news. Target content is already happening, and it will only grow bigger.
Newton pondered the same question, but he used a spinning water bucket as an example. suppose you are on the inner bucket wall, you know your are spinning because you can feel your back is pressed against the wall, even if you can see any motion relative to the wall or the center pole. but when the spinning stops, the force disappears. By the same token, we can deduce the spaceship is geostationary because it does't fall, a truly stationary spaceship will fall because of gravity.
Einstein says you can see it either way, and both perspective are valid but they don't necessarily reconcile in a traditional sense. the distance and time measures differ depends on the observer's speed. In general, when you speed up and down, your space and time perspective dynamically changes. According to Einstein, it's perfectly valid for everyone on Earth to have a different time reading for the very same event, like exactly when Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby.link