FTFA: It is about abuse of a monopoly. Could have a lot of beef, or could not, but to answer your question:
China has accused the makers of the technology developed by the chipmaking giant Intel of unethical behaviour and has asked the International Standards Organization (ISO) to review the case, Xinhua news reported.
It says that the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), actual makers of the technology, broke ISO rules when its national bodies voted on new technology to mend security loopholes in the WLAN standard.
China now wants the ISO to investigate the fast-track process to determine "whether the ethical and procedural rules and principles have indeed been violated and whether the ballots have been unfairly influenced by those ethical and procedural violations".
That is what has been done, it chose new technology and in doing so apparently broke rules on voting for procedures.
I saw this bootleg DVD a couple of days ago, as well as MI3. It is very unusual for Chinese pirated DVDs to be low quality, even on first release. The pitures were pretty grainy on both, the background sounds on MI3 awful.
What strikes me is that the MPAA/whoever must have kept pretty good wraps on all of the DVD screeners/cinema digital copies/critic released copies to stop these two films, both highly desired at the moment by the Chinese public, under wraps.
The city in which I live (population 5 million) does not have a single shop which sells legal copies of Hollywood movies.
I used to work in a pub called the Red Lion, and it had a landlord called Ted (and his wife was called Mary).
Back in 2000, CCTV tapes were sometimes monitored, but often not recorded, only for the ones at strategic locations were the recordings kept for more than a couple of days. Most of their use was for numberplate checking (ring of steel, Central London), many that were mistaken for police cameras were privately owned whose owners claimed not to record them (unless something REALLY serious happened in the area or their own business was affected).
They spend too much time teaching about George Washington and black rights, and not enough time teaching about economics.
Surely the teaching of economics starts with the principals of 'opportunity cost', demand/supply, and 'externalities'. In that order. Sadly most of the first has been scrapped from high school courses, and much of the last is under pressure. Compare a good university degree with the emphasis on various concepts to a high school course - the high school course is simplistic to the extreme and uncovers little if any of the (non-obvious) insights of economics over the past 300 years.
Tor is a workaround. Though I think the block would be remapped to whatever other website BBC News gets set up on. In addition, BBC podcasts work fine as they're hosted at bbc.co.uk, not news.bbc.co.uk.
Retard alert.
There is only ONE LEGAL PARTY in China. Get a clue and quit posting nonsense.
No, there are several legal parties in China.
Whether they are puppet parties... BUT, to perhaps counter another suggestion, there are several counties, jurisdictions, etc, who have started to introduce voting for various local government and mayoral candidates - anonymous voting - and these are candidates mandating and introducing widly different policies, albeit at their micro level. So far this has been in a small scale and in small regions (I'm not talking Hong Kong et al with their weighted system).
Compare China now with the China 20 years ago and the China 40 years ago. A better standard of living together with increased accountability of officials. It's not there yet, it has a long long way to go, but it is gradually stepping forwards. I'd prefer a gradual progression than a revolution, millions dying from strife and hunger, etc. Would a revolution be peaceful and straightforward rather than a power and landgrap? Really? How would you go about instigating it?
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FTFA: It is about abuse of a monopoly. Could have a lot of beef, or could not, but to answer your question:
China has accused the makers of the technology developed by the chipmaking giant Intel of unethical behaviour and has asked the International Standards Organization (ISO) to review the case, Xinhua news reported.
It says that the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), actual makers of the technology, broke ISO rules when its national bodies voted on new technology to mend security loopholes in the WLAN standard.
China now wants the ISO to investigate the fast-track process to determine "whether the ethical and procedural rules and principles have indeed been violated and whether the ballots have been unfairly influenced by those ethical and procedural violations".
That is what has been done, it chose new technology and in doing so apparently broke rules on voting for procedures.
I saw this bootleg DVD a couple of days ago, as well as MI3. It is very unusual for Chinese pirated DVDs to be low quality, even on first release. The pitures were pretty grainy on both, the background sounds on MI3 awful.
What strikes me is that the MPAA/whoever must have kept pretty good wraps on all of the DVD screeners/cinema digital copies/critic released copies to stop these two films, both highly desired at the moment by the Chinese public, under wraps.
The city in which I live (population 5 million) does not have a single shop which sells legal copies of Hollywood movies.
I used to work in a pub called the Red Lion, and it had a landlord called Ted (and his wife was called Mary). Back in 2000, CCTV tapes were sometimes monitored, but often not recorded, only for the ones at strategic locations were the recordings kept for more than a couple of days. Most of their use was for numberplate checking (ring of steel, Central London), many that were mistaken for police cameras were privately owned whose owners claimed not to record them (unless something REALLY serious happened in the area or their own business was affected).
They spend too much time teaching about George Washington and black rights, and not enough time teaching about economics.
Surely the teaching of economics starts with the principals of 'opportunity cost', demand/supply, and 'externalities'. In that order. Sadly most of the first has been scrapped from high school courses, and much of the last is under pressure. Compare a good university degree with the emphasis on various concepts to a high school course - the high school course is simplistic to the extreme and uncovers little if any of the (non-obvious) insights of economics over the past 300 years.
I reject anywhere from 20 to 40 THOUSAND emails daily, on a domain with precisely two email users: My wife and me.
Personal domain... WOW! Not much more has to be said.
Tor is a workaround. Though I think the block would be remapped to whatever other website BBC News gets set up on. In addition, BBC podcasts work fine as they're hosted at bbc.co.uk, not news.bbc.co.uk.
Retard alert. There is only ONE LEGAL PARTY in China. Get a clue and quit posting nonsense.
No, there are several legal parties in China.
Whether they are puppet parties... BUT, to perhaps counter another suggestion, there are several counties, jurisdictions, etc, who have started to introduce voting for various local government and mayoral candidates - anonymous voting - and these are candidates mandating and introducing widly different policies, albeit at their micro level. So far this has been in a small scale and in small regions (I'm not talking Hong Kong et al with their weighted system).
Compare China now with the China 20 years ago and the China 40 years ago. A better standard of living together with increased accountability of officials. It's not there yet, it has a long long way to go, but it is gradually stepping forwards. I'd prefer a gradual progression than a revolution, millions dying from strife and hunger, etc. Would a revolution be peaceful and straightforward rather than a power and landgrap? Really? How would you go about instigating it?