"China is in the process of modifying the full range of intellectual property laws and regulations, including those relating to patents, trademarks, trade secrets, integrated circuits and copyrights."
I would like to thank America. Not only for saving us during the great war, giving us democracy, human rights and capitalism, but also by making me instantly rich. I would like to thank America for enlarging my pathetically small tool, so now it almost matches my beloved's pink toy in size and magnificence. And I would like to thank America for giving me access to all those nude Britney pics. When I sit in front of my American made Windows Computer my beloved helps me use my enhanced tool getting off to the images of this wonderful and healthy country bumpkin. Thank you! Thanks to you, my fellow Americans, my life has so much improved.
"GlÃgg" is of course "Glögg" in UTF-8 viewed as ISO-8859-1. It cracks me up to see how unable the Linux community (and Slashdot) is to cope with anything but ASCII and its immediate extensions.
Actually, Japanese (and Chinese, Korean...) women oftentimes smash their cell phones whenever they have a fit. It's not like their punishing their phones, but they use them to get rid of frustration with humans.
Also, you can get non-.cn sites if you're surfing inside China, right?
Yes. There are virtually no restrictions at all, and the censorship is purely symbolic, at least when surfing over private DSL from Shanghai. I can't get to BBC and Asian 4 You without proxies, but I can get to every other western news and porn sites. P2P works like a charm, especially for downloading Asian files of all kinds (especially from Japan, if you know what I mean - hm, perhaps you don't; ignorance is bliss).
The Western cry over Chinese censorship is ridiculous and only has an academic value, IMHO.
For chrissake... you can't compare physical entities with software. And your argument is ridiculous. I run OS X, but have currently no use for iCal, iChat, iSync, iDVD, iMovie or Garage Band. I guess I should ask Apple for a refund, since they are charging me for all those extras that I really don't want. Not to mention Address Book, PHP, X11, cpp, diff, tar and various tools for people with disabilities. Hey, they even forced Chess on me, wasting valuable disk space.
Quicktime is tightly integrated with Mac OS X. Does this mean Apple has committed an equally horrible crime? I find it ludicrous that this is an issue, as long as you can install other players. I frequently use Windows Media Player on the Mac, and I guess people also frequently use Quicktime on Windows. As long as the two are mutually incompatible, this is going to continue to be the case.
In fact, most operating systems come with a bunch of integrated technologies. I fail to see why this is bad.
Smartass. No one is happy being poor. But riches above a certain level will not necessarily make you happier, but sometimes more miserable. Depression is a luxury.
Scandinavia has been very religous, that's true. Scandinavia became sexually liberated _after_ religion lost its grip on the populace. I am Scandinavian, so I should know.
This is a process: Christianity was a tool that united Europe, gave it a common cultural ground to build upon. It could have been another uniting factor, with the same final outcome (philosophy, science, technology, medicine, rationality, law, democracy, human rights, freedom, pornography).
As for corruption, Italy and Russia have vast corruption, to name just a couple of Christian nations. You could add a slew of South American nations as well.
And if the Christians are so damn happy, they why they eat so much Prozac? Why are they never content? Living in China, I can tell you that people in general are happier here, unless they are very poor. It seems to be that the richer you get, the less happy you get. At least this has been the recent trend in the West, and there are signs of it also in booming China.
our society is built on the foundations of sexual relationships
Yeah, that's why your oppressive and tyrant government wants you to have one and only one spouse, because they want to control you.
In some liberal Arab countries, you can have as many spouses as you want. This is of course an irony, but you get the point. There is sexual control in all cultures, by law and by cultural tradition. Western girls who screw around don't face the death penalty, but they frequently are called names like "whore".
Your oppressive government also prevents you from fucking your dog or your horse. Why? The animals don't care, and you should be able to do what you feel is right for you, right?
Furthermore, your oppressive government has until very recently outlawed homosexuality. Still, there are troubles for some to get legally recognized as homo couples in your oppressive country.
it is the western missionaries that brought sexual repression to the east. when the victorian missionaries showed up with their straitlaced attitudes, that was the end of the good times as far as most people were concerned.
Not so. China had liberal attitudes toward sex before and under Tang (581-617), but thereafter declined into more social control. It has nothing to do with Christianity or westerners. Chinese people have always been sexually open, just that it is taboo talking about it. The Chinese prudence is on the surface and on the surface only. The same goes for most of Asia. Japan, although very influenced by the West, is probably the most extreme country in the world when it comes to sex. Yet there is prudence also in Japan.
The impact of Christianity in China is virtually none. This is fortunate.
However, computers are deterministic. Two identical machines, performing identical operations, will always produce identical results.
Fuck no! Computers have souls, man. That is because they are so complicated that the deterministic model no longer holds; there's a non-deterministic layer that gives the machines their personal features.
A moment of realization is worth a thousand/. comments: the media is like the weather, only it's corporate-made weather. Take the corporate media and the story ends. Take the independent media, stay in Wonderland and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Why not? After all, eastern eyes are prettier than western ones, at least on the girls ( which are also prettier than the western ones).
And believe me, as a laowai (foreigner) in China, I am the victim of constant attempt of fraud. So in general, I tend to trust western eyes more than eastern, at least when it comes to money transactions and trade.
I believe they call their province "The Republic of China". So, yes, it is China, regardless of what the mainland says.
Anyhow, it is of course just a matter of time before Taiwan is incorporated as a special administrative zone of the People's Republic of China. What is happening now is just negotiations on the terms, and these negotiations have inflammatory signs of "war", "declaration of independence" and so on attached to them.
Can't go smaller. Quarks are bound in pairs or triplets, unless a tremendous amount of energy is released to overcome the strong force that glue quarks together. It is meaningless trying to communicate with a single quark.
Neutrinos interact extremely weakly with other matter particles, and only rarely is there a "collision" that causes a reaction. This is why it takes a year to detect a neutrino hit in tons of water buried deep underground. Furthermore, neutrions can't be contained like an electron.
Photons carry information, but they need a trigger, like electrons. Photons have the awkward feature of traveling at the speed of light, and so cannot be contained for more than a few picoseconds.
This should be no match for a regular burner provided with some relevant open source software, and perhaps "special coated discs". After all, it is just patterns.
On a more personal note, I would like to add that this technology would be great to visually keep my porn library in order.
You are assuming that all Slashdot users are male? Or you maybe believe all love is sexual in nature?
AFAIK, there are very few gay Apple users. Gays tend to complicate things, whereas Apple is all about making stuff simple. Gays tend to the extremes, Apple users tend to the slick and neat. Apple makes too nice stuff for gays.
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Yeah, like the weather, temperature and so on is actually gonna change on board ISS...
http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Fact_Sheets/2 001/Background_Information_on_China's_Accession_to _the_World_Trade_Organization.html
"China is in the process of modifying the full range of intellectual property laws and regulations, including those relating to patents, trademarks, trade secrets, integrated circuits and copyrights."
China's entry into the WTO of course means they have to give and take. Giving here means complying with international agreements.
I would like to thank America. Not only for saving us during the great war, giving us democracy, human rights and capitalism, but also by making me instantly rich. I would like to thank America for enlarging my pathetically small tool, so now it almost matches my beloved's pink toy in size and magnificence. And I would like to thank America for giving me access to all those nude Britney pics. When I sit in front of my American made Windows Computer my beloved helps me use my enhanced tool getting off to the images of this wonderful and healthy country bumpkin. Thank you! Thanks to you, my fellow Americans, my life has so much improved.
"GlÃgg" is of course "Glögg" in UTF-8 viewed as ISO-8859-1. It cracks me up to see how unable the Linux community (and Slashdot) is to cope with anything but ASCII and its immediate extensions.
You're late. Steve Jobs already introduced the digital hub some years ago.
Actually, Japanese (and Chinese, Korean...) women oftentimes smash their cell phones whenever they have a fit. It's not like their punishing their phones, but they use them to get rid of frustration with humans.
Actually it is Alfred Nobel. 'Nobel' is not pronounced as 'noble", but with accent on the 'e'.
Yes. There are virtually no restrictions at all, and the censorship is purely symbolic, at least when surfing over private DSL from Shanghai. I can't get to BBC and Asian 4 You without proxies, but I can get to every other western news and porn sites. P2P works like a charm, especially for downloading Asian files of all kinds (especially from Japan, if you know what I mean - hm, perhaps you don't; ignorance is bliss).
The Western cry over Chinese censorship is ridiculous and only has an academic value, IMHO.
Who the fuck BUYS Playboy? I even't watch their lame stuff on the net...
... or Asian 4 The Blind. Finally!
But I wonder if tactile porn is better than visual. Any wiseguy who would like to comment on that?
For chrissake... you can't compare physical entities with software. And your argument is ridiculous. I run OS X, but have currently no use for iCal, iChat, iSync, iDVD, iMovie or Garage Band. I guess I should ask Apple for a refund, since they are charging me for all those extras that I really don't want. Not to mention Address Book, PHP, X11, cpp, diff, tar and various tools for people with disabilities. Hey, they even forced Chess on me, wasting valuable disk space.
Quicktime is tightly integrated with Mac OS X. Does this mean Apple has committed an equally horrible crime? I find it ludicrous that this is an issue, as long as you can install other players. I frequently use Windows Media Player on the Mac, and I guess people also frequently use Quicktime on Windows. As long as the two are mutually incompatible, this is going to continue to be the case.
In fact, most operating systems come with a bunch of integrated technologies. I fail to see why this is bad.
Smartass. No one is happy being poor. But riches above a certain level will not necessarily make you happier, but sometimes more miserable. Depression is a luxury.
Scandinavia has been very religous, that's true. Scandinavia became sexually liberated _after_ religion lost its grip on the populace. I am Scandinavian, so I should know.
This is a process: Christianity was a tool that united Europe, gave it a common cultural ground to build upon. It could have been another uniting factor, with the same final outcome (philosophy, science, technology, medicine, rationality, law, democracy, human rights, freedom, pornography).
As for corruption, Italy and Russia have vast corruption, to name just a couple of Christian nations. You could add a slew of South American nations as well.
And if the Christians are so damn happy, they why they eat so much Prozac? Why are they never content? Living in China, I can tell you that people in general are happier here, unless they are very poor. It seems to be that the richer you get, the less happy you get. At least this has been the recent trend in the West, and there are signs of it also in booming China.
Yeah, that's why your oppressive and tyrant government wants you to have one and only one spouse, because they want to control you.
In some liberal Arab countries, you can have as many spouses as you want. This is of course an irony, but you get the point. There is sexual control in all cultures, by law and by cultural tradition. Western girls who screw around don't face the death penalty, but they frequently are called names like "whore".
Your oppressive government also prevents you from fucking your dog or your horse. Why? The animals don't care, and you should be able to do what you feel is right for you, right?
Furthermore, your oppressive government has until very recently outlawed homosexuality. Still, there are troubles for some to get legally recognized as homo couples in your oppressive country.
Not so. China had liberal attitudes toward sex before and under Tang (581-617), but thereafter declined into more social control. It has nothing to do with Christianity or westerners. Chinese people have always been sexually open, just that it is taboo talking about it. The Chinese prudence is on the surface and on the surface only. The same goes for most of Asia. Japan, although very influenced by the West, is probably the most extreme country in the world when it comes to sex. Yet there is prudence also in Japan.
The impact of Christianity in China is virtually none. This is fortunate.
Fuck no! Computers have souls, man. That is because they are so complicated that the deterministic model no longer holds; there's a non-deterministic layer that gives the machines their personal features.
A moment of realization is worth a thousand /. comments: the media is like the weather, only it's corporate-made weather. Take the corporate media and the story ends. Take the independent media, stay in Wonderland and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Why not? After all, eastern eyes are prettier than western ones, at least on the girls ( which are also prettier than the western ones).
And believe me, as a laowai (foreigner) in China, I am the victim of constant attempt of fraud. So in general, I tend to trust western eyes more than eastern, at least when it comes to money transactions and trade.
I believe they call their province "The Republic of China". So, yes, it is China, regardless of what the mainland says.
Anyhow, it is of course just a matter of time before Taiwan is incorporated as a special administrative zone of the People's Republic of China. What is happening now is just negotiations on the terms, and these negotiations have inflammatory signs of "war", "declaration of independence" and so on attached to them.
Can't go smaller. Quarks are bound in pairs or triplets, unless a tremendous amount of energy is released to overcome the strong force that glue quarks together. It is meaningless trying to communicate with a single quark.
2 6071220.htm, but this is still mostly theoretical stuff.
Neutrinos interact extremely weakly with other matter particles, and only rarely is there a "collision" that causes a reaction. This is why it takes a year to detect a neutrino hit in tons of water buried deep underground. Furthermore, neutrions can't be contained like an electron.
Photons carry information, but they need a trigger, like electrons. Photons have the awkward feature of traveling at the speed of light, and so cannot be contained for more than a few picoseconds.
Now there is of course the possibility of entangled photon pairs http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/09/0009
This should be no match for a regular burner provided with some relevant open source software, and perhaps "special coated discs". After all, it is just patterns.
On a more personal note, I would like to add that this technology would be great to visually keep my porn library in order.
You are assuming that all Slashdot users are male? Or you maybe believe all love is sexual in nature?
AFAIK, there are very few gay Apple users. Gays tend to complicate things, whereas Apple is all about making stuff simple. Gays tend to the extremes, Apple users tend to the slick and neat. Apple makes too nice stuff for gays.
... but I'll stick to my G5. Steve, I love you!