Hmm, I have heard suggestions of rehousing people to spread them out, but I suspect such a policy would be regarded as wildly unethical. Regardless, I think these riots will certain will certainly increase ghettoisation.
"The information that circulates in CST is every bit as material as a chair, a car, or a quantum particle. Electromagnetic waves are just as material as the earth from which the calculi were made: it is simply that their degrees of materiality are different. In modern physics matter is associated with the complex relationship: substance-energy-information-space-time. The semantic shift from material to immaterial is not merely naive, for it can lead to dangerous fantasies."
Now there's plenty of reasonable ways to talk about US weaknesses in cyber warfare (which IMHO is commonly overstated: what seems like weakness can often be a strength. It may merely be the case that the US is more subtle about its cyber shenanigans), but this article seems to meander into complete incoherence. Jung's synchronicity? I Ching? Seriously?
Seems like someone's watched too much Serial Experiments Lain.
The trouble as I see it is this. People are focusing on the government response to this, when the deciding factor is the private sector. Even if the most enlightened government in the world takes over (and this will not happen), the private companies and their owners are going to vote with their feet. Some will stay, sure, but I'd imagine most would be very leery of employing and serving people who may have burned down their shops. Let alone go and set up new shops in the area. Oh, grinding poverty for the last two decades may be the root cause of this riot, but I see this riot as being the root cause of the next two decades of grinding poverty. And I don't really think anything the government does at this point is going to change that.
If I was living in the affected areas, I'd get out while I can.
If you are poor, and the local small businesses get burned down or driven out, where do you think the jobs are coming from? To every single not-poor business owners there's a half dozen or more poor employees, and to each of them there's a half-dozen dependents. And then there's the other businesses that depend on the income from these people spending their wages, and their employees, and so on. These riots are basically ruining the local economy, and while the richer people will be able to leave, the poorer people won't.
"Now, why both + and * ? Well, these operators alone can, when composed together, give any other function."
Eh. Any smooth function, maybe.
But 'any function' seems pretty contradictory. If you can apply functions like 'is this number >1, return 1 if yes, 0 if no' you'd be able to find out what the answer is pretty quickly without decrypting it. Actually, really, isn't homomorphic computer inherently contradictory this way?
It's generally dangerous to do statistical analyses without looking at the data. You never know if the data turns out to be something you've never envisioned as possible.
Um, the third statement is in defense of the US government re: people saying that wikileaks has no responsibility with respect to endangering people's lives because OMG the US military sometimes gets people killed in Afghanistan. The second statement is pointing out the irony of the US cutting critical NASA projects whilst simultaneously cutting collaboration with China in the space, noting that the latter exacerbates the damage of the former. The first statement is a counter to people blaming US politicians for failures to enact healthcare reform, when as a democracy, the problem is due to the stupidity and ignorance of the electorate in consistently voting for anti-healthcare politicians. This is racist how?
But enjoy your paranoia. The Unrestricted Warfare book is not a strategy document, it's not official Chinese government strategy. It's a popular book published in bookstores including the US, like Sun Tzu or Machiavelli's Prince. You can't read it and go 'oh China is at war with America', as if you've found your protocols of elders of zion.
The study is corroborated by several other studies before and since (see http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.062906.070752 for a review).The RRT design method was pioneered in that study, but since has been applied to others, and it's mathematically provable to be a reasonable and justified method. The assertion of bias is non-sequitir, given that the design is double blinded and anonymous, and as far as I can tell the lead author's body of work comprises several works on statistical theory and some followup articles on racism.
So, basically what you are saying is that there is no scientific way of convincing you otherwise? Well, guess that settles that, then.
Racism is very much prevalent in the US and especially amongst conservatives. It has simply become socially undesirable to express it. Hence racists have come up with a great number of euphemisms and a great many rationalisations to justify the fact that they are still terrified of a black family moving into the neighbourhood, let alone hire a black person, recruit a black student, etc etc.
The claim that 'I am talking culture' is without foundation. How is painting people living in a region the size of Europe, with vast differences from West to East (even in terms of language, Han Chinese speaking the traditional accent from NW China would scarcely be intelligible to NE Chinese), who possess little similarity beside their specifically pointed out racial subtype, a cultural observation? How is talking about 'paranoid' and 'having a screw loose' a cultural observation? Observe that stargoat's first instinct was to jump to anti-Japanese racial slurs. And then, on revelation of my ethnicity, he decided to make 'cultural criticism' of me. In what way is culture distinguished from race here? When it's inescapable through education and upbringing, applied in blanket form along strict ethnic lines, and comes with no attempt to understand the source and context of certain attitudes and behaviours your culture is merely a politically sanitised way of selling the old racism. This the sort of 'cultural criticism' that led to islamophobes to attack a fellow islamophobe because he looked arabic.
The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief
It's not chauvism to point out you shouldn't judge people on their race. It's not "cultural criticism" to insult someone on the basis of their racial background when you know *absolutely nothing* about the environment they are brought up in. I said I'm north Han, and so the assumptions immediately start to flow. At no point did I enquire or comment on your race or background. At no point did I even say China was superior in any way.
Look outside your racial lens and judge people as individuals please. And if you can't, fuck off.
That's not a secret strategy document, that's a popularly published book on military strategy by a couple of mid-ranking PLA officers. An odd choice for a secret masterplan.
Labelling literally hundreds of millions of people by their genetic ethnic type, espousing a negative stereotype of 'paranoid, screwloose' from vague anecdotal armwaving and generalising to the entire group, and inserting it non-sequitir into a discussion that has absolutely no mention of ethnic Han in the north isn't an "useful cultural observation". It's racism by definition.
Also, I am a 'northern Han' emigree, and whenever I go back there the people I meet are the friendliest, most open, and most level-headed people, despite the horrible chinese government, so seriously, fuck you and your 'cultural understanding'.
Han is a race. It's not a culture, but a genetic lineage. If you were to even refer to 'chinese' or whatever you could cover your arse by saying you are just referring to culture, but complaining about northern Han on a majority western forum is equivalent to talking about northern black americans and just as dumb.
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Do you have a source for this? It sounds a lot like an urban legend.
Which makes the tech actually quite impressive, if it managed to survive the horrible, horrible general traffic behaviour there.
Hmm, I have heard suggestions of rehousing people to spread them out, but I suspect such a policy would be regarded as wildly unethical. Regardless, I think these riots will certain will certainly increase ghettoisation.
Now there's plenty of reasonable ways to talk about US weaknesses in cyber warfare (which IMHO is commonly overstated: what seems like weakness can often be a strength. It may merely be the case that the US is more subtle about its cyber shenanigans), but this article seems to meander into complete incoherence. Jung's synchronicity? I Ching? Seriously? Seems like someone's watched too much Serial Experiments Lain.
If I was living in the affected areas, I'd get out while I can.
That is super cool. You should write an article on this somewhere.
Haha, yes. I can't wait for the new wave of emulators that make you blow on your hard drives before your roms will work.
If you are poor, and the local small businesses get burned down or driven out, where do you think the jobs are coming from? To every single not-poor business owners there's a half dozen or more poor employees, and to each of them there's a half-dozen dependents. And then there's the other businesses that depend on the income from these people spending their wages, and their employees, and so on. These riots are basically ruining the local economy, and while the richer people will be able to leave, the poorer people won't.
Eh. Any smooth function, maybe.
But 'any function' seems pretty contradictory. If you can apply functions like 'is this number >1, return 1 if yes, 0 if no' you'd be able to find out what the answer is pretty quickly without decrypting it. Actually, really, isn't homomorphic computer inherently contradictory this way?
It's generally dangerous to do statistical analyses without looking at the data. You never know if the data turns out to be something you've never envisioned as possible.
Well, Asimov's second law of robotics does overrule the third law...
I wish I *was* paid for this though.
But enjoy your paranoia. The Unrestricted Warfare book is not a strategy document, it's not official Chinese government strategy. It's a popular book published in bookstores including the US, like Sun Tzu or Machiavelli's Prince. You can't read it and go 'oh China is at war with America', as if you've found your protocols of elders of zion.
So, basically what you are saying is that there is no scientific way of convincing you otherwise? Well, guess that settles that, then.
No, I'm saying xenophobes exist in all races and societies.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2998167
Racism is very much prevalent in the US and especially amongst conservatives. It has simply become socially undesirable to express it. Hence racists have come up with a great number of euphemisms and a great many rationalisations to justify the fact that they are still terrified of a black family moving into the neighbourhood, let alone hire a black person, recruit a black student, etc etc.
ITYM 'cultural criticism'.
The claim that 'I am talking culture' is without foundation. How is painting people living in a region the size of Europe, with vast differences from West to East (even in terms of language, Han Chinese speaking the traditional accent from NW China would scarcely be intelligible to NE Chinese), who possess little similarity beside their specifically pointed out racial subtype, a cultural observation? How is talking about 'paranoid' and 'having a screw loose' a cultural observation? Observe that stargoat's first instinct was to jump to anti-Japanese racial slurs. And then, on revelation of my ethnicity, he decided to make 'cultural criticism' of me. In what way is culture distinguished from race here? When it's inescapable through education and upbringing, applied in blanket form along strict ethnic lines, and comes with no attempt to understand the source and context of certain attitudes and behaviours your culture is merely a politically sanitised way of selling the old racism. This the sort of 'cultural criticism' that led to islamophobes to attack a fellow islamophobe because he looked arabic.
The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief
It's not chauvism to point out you shouldn't judge people on their race. It's not "cultural criticism" to insult someone on the basis of their racial background when you know *absolutely nothing* about the environment they are brought up in. I said I'm north Han, and so the assumptions immediately start to flow. At no point did I enquire or comment on your race or background. At no point did I even say China was superior in any way. Look outside your racial lens and judge people as individuals please. And if you can't, fuck off.
And maybe you might want to take a look in the mirror sometime.
That's not a secret strategy document, that's a popularly published book on military strategy by a couple of mid-ranking PLA officers. An odd choice for a secret masterplan.
Labelling literally hundreds of millions of people by their genetic ethnic type, espousing a negative stereotype of 'paranoid, screwloose' from vague anecdotal armwaving and generalising to the entire group, and inserting it non-sequitir into a discussion that has absolutely no mention of ethnic Han in the north isn't an "useful cultural observation". It's racism by definition.
Also, I am a 'northern Han' emigree, and whenever I go back there the people I meet are the friendliest, most open, and most level-headed people, despite the horrible chinese government, so seriously, fuck you and your 'cultural understanding'.
Han is a race. It's not a culture, but a genetic lineage. If you were to even refer to 'chinese' or whatever you could cover your arse by saying you are just referring to culture, but complaining about northern Han on a majority western forum is equivalent to talking about northern black americans and just as dumb.