Like 15 million impoverished Africans being sued in the world court not to purchase generic AIDS drugs from India, like safety devices in cars held back 20 years while over a million people died in auto accidents. Like 20 million elderly being subjected to overpriced drugs that have unknown chemical distortions only because safer classes aren't patentable. It's amazing the number of people we are willing to torture and kill in the name of fradulent property rights.
True, but without patent, we can still ensure the same millions that are dying now + many many more millions would have died, because the inventions you have mentioned + many other expired/non-expired patents would have never been created.
Don't believe that? Patents + the enforcement of IP are the reasons why most of these inventions are created in the U.S. rather than in India or China, even though they have lots of highly educated scientists as well. (They have patents, just lack the enforcement.)
So Asian countries cannot fight the millions of pirated software/video/music sellers on the street are considered irresponsible and damned, even though their laws recognize the intellectual properties of these copyrighted materials.
but European political parties are salvaging humanity and culture by promoting the legalization of piracy in the name of sharing?
Maybe China and other Asian countries should adopt this Nowagian political party's law to quiet down all the international complains.
Depend on how you look at it. Officially it is a Delaware company according to its S-1 filing.
1. Organisation and Nature of Operations
Sohu.com Inc. (the "Company") was incorporated in Delaware, USA in August 1996 under the name of Internet Technologies China, Inc. The Company changed its name to Sohu.com Inc. in September 1999. The Company does not have any substantive operations of its own and substantially all of its primary business operations are conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sohu ITC Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., which was incorporated in the People's Republic of China during 1997. The Company offers internet-based advertising and content through its internet portal site, Sohu.com. The Company conducts its business within one industry segment and markets its products and services to clients primarily in the People's Republic of China.
Like every successful hi-tech company, sohu.com is registered in the US or in a carribean island and run by western venture capitalist firms.
When you are typing your term paper using this IME, the IME will automatically google the Web and find out other papers on the same topic and you can just stop thinking and typing but instead copy from those paper on a click of a button.
I'm not sure if Ireland had a real 3rd world status, it might be considered so by the Britons.
How many people are there in Ireland? And how many in China?
The size makes it a very hard problem to solve. Singapore is very prosperous even though it is not a democracy. India is considered the largest democracy in the world but the poverty level there is so bad.
Democracy is a good thing for richer countries, but it has yet to be proven working well in a real 3rd world country.
Well... it would be good if the business and technology people over there are really trying to create or even just immitate the "NEW" technologies. But as numerous scandals reveals, most of these so-call high-tech projects are just scheme to rob government funds by these "high-tech" people and their friends in the governments (of all level.)
Examples: One project repackaged BSD Unix and claimed it "an advanced OS developed by China; in the other, a professor in a well-known university in Shanghai simply took a DSP chip made by Texas Instrument and erase the logo and etch his company's logo and claimed it "a breakthrough in microprocessor design". They all get millions of fundings from the govrnment's "high-tech fund".
Many more use the name of high-tect to acquire subsidized office properties in various "high-tech zones" in every major city at a fraction of the market value.
So Americans, do not worry about China, until they have solved their widespread corruptions and accountability problems. (In the US, of course, the corruption is not as widespread, but it is legalized in the name political contribution, IMO.)
BTW Tencent is a publicly trade company list in Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Whether the number from a public trade company is accurate? No comment.
But this number of registered QQ users are huge, that's for sure. there are large and successful Internet companies in China that you have never heard of.
If you find an English version of this news, suggest post it to slashdot.org.
Here is my brief summary:
Notice on the further regulation of Internet cafe and online games
Announced by the People's Bank of China, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Education, Administration of Industry and commerce,... (totally 14 ministries)
Strictly limiting the amount of released virtual currency within each service/publisher
Strictly limiting the amount of virtual currency a user can buy
Virtual currency cannot be used to purchase real-world products
When converting back to real-world currency, cannot exceed the original purchase price (in the real currency
Cannot speculate on virtual currency
(Other items in the notice including no new permits for Internet cafe.)
Then as usually happen in China, people will do the opposite of what the government intends to do. There will be black market arise immediately.
also this hype may also be related to recent franzy in the Chinese stock market which are hitting new high every other day (after dropping 9% earlier in March.)
qq.com is the dominant IM service in China. Every other Chinese I encountered over there has a qq.com account and there are something like 300 million Internet users in China. Almost all of them uses QQ.
Anyone believes Russian piracy rate has dropped from 90% to 60% over the last year(s) should instead believe the Russian government is capable of solving all their poverty and corruption problm by the end of this year.
I think one huge difference between real-world land and SL land is that in the real-world, you can't just teleport from place to another for free. You have to spend a lot of time and money moving around. That alone place more meaningful value differences on lands. That's why lands in metropolitan area cost much more than lands in a rural area in New Mexico, even though the toral amount of land in this country is finite. You can't eat lunch in New Mexico and return to work in San Francisco. Now imaging what the land price of San Francisco would be if people can teleport in no time and money in the physical world.
If there is any significant value of "land" in SL now, it is the limited server resource but hardware and network bandwidth are still depreciated by half or more every 2 year due to Moore's Law. And it would deminish more if they run multiple sims in one CPU/core.
Therefore, the hardware cost is not a good measurement of sim value. I believe the right way is to do away teleporting and implement virtual fee-bearing commute system. So area with more people and businesses naturally worth more, just like they do in the real world.
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But in China, anyone can spend a few buck and get fake ID of any kind: ID card, diploma, driver license, passport,...
Frauds are rampant.
How does this relate to democracy?
I do worry about the technical security of this database and web site. It is just time that hackers can intrude the system and gain millions of ID/name records.
"Why is there lightning?" "God did it."
This is so you would understand that the food you eat (that rains help grow) comes from someone that can turn night into day (lighting) and make you shake in your boots (thunder). "turn night into day (lighting)"? Maybe you should study the meanings and common usages of the English word "lighting" first.
Exactly what all your "rights" are philosophically is more of a, well, philosophical and ethical issue. Essentially it is what people think their rights should be vs what they actually have. The history has shown that people (and society) changed the scope of what their rights should be all the time.
Example:
Hea, Can I have a piece of your pizza? -- Pizza is not your property, you need to ask.
Hea, Can I have a piece of my pizza? -- Pizza is yours, you do not need to ask anyone.
What about if you change your examples to:
Hea, Can I have a piece of your marijuana? -- Marijuana is not your property, you need to ask.
Hea, Can I have a piece of my marijuana? -- Marijuana is yours, you do not need to ask anyone.
Well... it used to be that you did have the right to have your own marijuana because it was just another type of your property, but no more. It is illegal to own any marijuana; your marijuana right has been taken away no matter how you argue that it is your fundamental rights to have it.
Other current debates of rights include: rights to have abortion, rights to same sex marriage, etc.
My point is that it does not matter if you have certain rights philosophically, as the social economic condition advances, people will (1) widening their scope of rights (2) if they don't have the rights they think they should have, they will certainly make the claim over time (3) if there are large enough population wanting that "right", the government, dictatorship or democratic, will have to give in and grant the rights.
I think people in China are starting to learn about freedom, as income levels rise so does communication.
You got the idea. No matter what your rights are philosophically, the actually rights are limited by Chinese or other 3rd world governments and to less extends by US and other developed government.
The people of China need to get rid of their government, that is the only way they will get all the liberty and freedom that people desire.
Well... other than civil unrest and bloody revolution. How can you get a better government quickly? But I don't think any Chinese would want that.
Democratic election? It would not happen overnight without that bloody revolution (or maybe US invasion, Iraq again 100x worse?) And elections in 3rd world countries produced no better governments over the years -- they are just as corrupted.
People will learn and ask for rights beyond basic foods and sheltering as their income level go up. The American history has shown the same path. Blacks, Chinese or other minorities did not even have rights to buy lands, let alone political rights. But as the US got prosper, they also made the claims and got the rights.
The good thing is that once people are on the path to economic prosperity, no dictatorship can stop their growing desires for rights and freedom.
American trades and products are our best weapons. In fact today the people in China get more rights and freedom than before exactly because the US had opened up the trades. For that, the Chinese people should thank the Americans.
That's true but freedom including speech freedom is relative. I'm not saying it is a bad thing. I'm saying it is only realistic to get more of these freedoms when the general economy improves. This is evidential in China. I was born there in the 1970's (at the time any complaint to the government privately would result in harsh punishments) and lived there until 1989 and then returned there for a few years lately. I can tell the amount of freedom, from freedom to change job to freedom to talk, people have gained over the decades proportional to their general income level.
Even though Internet access in China is restricted, it is still much better than if we try to force the Chinese government to take it away from people. It can only be pushed gently.
Well.... first don't assume that only American companies know how to create Web sites. If Americans don't take that market, fine, there are thousands of similar web sites from e-mail to blogs in China. In fact, many US sites like Yahoo are not popular in China because their front pages do not contain tons of "sexually implicit" materials as you can find in a true Chinese website.
I have been living in China for a few years. While it is absolutely true that the government has restrictions on the cyberspace. The Internet is still the most open place for public opinions. In fact, except a few very sensitive issues like Taiwan or Fa Lun Gong, you can see many criticism of the government or the party; I have read posts that simply refers the party as dictators and the posts were appearing in major sites like Sina.com. Other examples I just read (sorry you need to be able to read Chinese):
So restricting American companies' conducts in China is both useless and unnecessary. This is advocated by politicians who know not much about China and just try to appeal to the equally mis-informed public.
Aside what do most Chinese people worry about? Politic? Democracy? Freedom? No. They worry about sky-rocketing housing price, education and medical costs, and they worry about jobs. The same things we worry about in America. Things like democracy and freedom of speech do not solve all those problems. Look at Philippine, Mexico, India,... Are people better off in those countries with elected officials?
As people in China get richer and richer, they will ask for more and more political rights and freedom. That has been the case for last 20 years. Those things will not need to come overnight. What works is a middle-class-driven economy.
There is life out side of politics in those countries.
Well.... first don't assume that only American companies know how to create Web sites. If Americans don't take that market, fine, there are thousands of similar web sites from e-mail to blogs in China.
In fact, many US sites like Yahoo are not popular in China because their front pages do not contain tons of "sexually implicit" materials as you can find in a true Chinese website.
I have been living in China for a few years. While it is absolutely true that the government has restrictions on the cyberspace. The Internet is still the most open place for public opinions. In fact, except a few very sensitive issues like Taiwan or Fa Lun Gong, you can see many criticism of the government or the party; I have read posts that simply refers the party as dictators and the posts were appearing in major sites like Sina.com. Other examples I just read (sorry you need to be able to read Chinese):
So restricting American companies' conducts in China is both useless and unnecessary. This is advocated by politicians who know not much about China and just try to appeal to the equally mis-informed public.
Aside what do most Chinese people worry about? Politic? Democracy? Freedom? No. They worry about sky-rocketing housing price, education and medical costs, and they worry about jobs. The same things we worry about in America. Things like democracy and freedom of speech do not solve all those problems. Look at Philippine, Mexico, India,... Are people better off in those countries with elected officials?
I think as people in China get richer and richer, they will ask for more and more political rights and freedom. That has been the case for last 20 years. Those things will not need to come overnight. What works is a middle-class-driven economy.
There is life out side of politics in those countries.
If I were a student then I will do:
1) use all information or opinion you have found in Wikipedia
2) list the references found in Wikipedia as citations in your paper
3) turn in your paper and wait to get a good grade and go play video game
That would resolve all concerns of your professors and this thread of discussions
Not matter what it is, stocks, lands, houses, gold, slahdot.org website, google.com or Second Life virtual lands. If it attracts large number of people around it and then it has values. Before that, it is pretty much a pyramid scheme when you are asked to put money in it.
The exchange of the stuff is gambling, regardless its underlying value.
although I'd have gone further and said money itself is a pyramid scheme. Absolutely agree! So please send in all your money!
Human beings don't need truth, they need pretension.
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Don't believe that? Patents + the enforcement of IP are the reasons why most of these inventions are created in the U.S. rather than in India or China, even though they have lots of highly educated scientists as well. (They have patents, just lack the enforcement.)
So Asian countries cannot fight the millions of pirated software/video/music sellers on the street are considered irresponsible and damned, even though their laws recognize the intellectual properties of these copyrighted materials.
but European political parties are salvaging humanity and culture by promoting the legalization of piracy in the name of sharing?
Maybe China and other Asian countries should adopt this Nowagian political party's law to quiet down all the international complains.
Like every successful hi-tech company, sohu.com is registered in the US or in a carribean island and run by western venture capitalist firms.
Now that would make Google guilty.
The advanced feature will be:
When you are typing your term paper using this IME, the IME will automatically google the Web and find out other papers on the same topic and you can just stop thinking and typing but instead copy from those paper on a click of a button.
How many people are there in Ireland? And how many in China?
The size makes it a very hard problem to solve. Singapore is very prosperous even though it is not a democracy. India is considered the largest democracy in the world but the poverty level there is so bad.
Democracy is a good thing for richer countries, but it has yet to be proven working well in a real 3rd world country.
Examples: One project repackaged BSD Unix and claimed it "an advanced OS developed by China; in the other, a professor in a well-known university in Shanghai simply took a DSP chip made by Texas Instrument and erase the logo and etch his company's logo and claimed it "a breakthrough in microprocessor design". They all get millions of fundings from the govrnment's "high-tech fund".
Many more use the name of high-tect to acquire subsidized office properties in various "high-tech zones" in every major city at a fraction of the market value.
So Americans, do not worry about China, until they have solved their widespread corruptions and accountability problems. (In the US, of course, the corruption is not as widespread, but it is legalized in the name political contribution, IMO.)
BTW Tencent is a publicly trade company list in Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Whether the number from a public trade company is accurate? No comment. But this number of registered QQ users are huge, that's for sure. there are large and successful Internet companies in China that you have never heard of.
http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2007-03-22/163311472689s .shtml
If you find an English version of this news, suggest post it to slashdot.org. Here is my brief summary:Then as usually happen in China, people will do the opposite of what the government intends to do. There will be black market arise immediately.
also this hype may also be related to recent franzy in the Chinese stock market which are hitting new high every other day (after dropping 9% earlier in March.)
Yes indeed!
qq.com is the dominant IM service in China. Every other Chinese I encountered over there has a qq.com account and there are something like 300 million Internet users in China. Almost all of them uses QQ.
Anyone believes Russian piracy rate has dropped from 90% to 60% over the last year(s) should instead believe the Russian government is capable of solving all their poverty and corruption problm by the end of this year.
I think one huge difference between real-world land and SL land is that in the real-world, you can't just teleport from place to another for free. You have to spend a lot of time and money moving around. That alone place more meaningful value differences on lands. That's why lands in metropolitan area cost much more than lands in a rural area in New Mexico, even though the toral amount of land in this country is finite. You can't eat lunch in New Mexico and return to work in San Francisco. Now imaging what the land price of San Francisco would be if people can teleport in no time and money in the physical world. If there is any significant value of "land" in SL now, it is the limited server resource but hardware and network bandwidth are still depreciated by half or more every 2 year due to Moore's Law. And it would deminish more if they run multiple sims in one CPU/core. Therefore, the hardware cost is not a good measurement of sim value. I believe the right way is to do away teleporting and implement virtual fee-bearing commute system. So area with more people and businesses naturally worth more, just like they do in the real world.
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I suggest you take the compensation from the insurance, build a new house and sell it before the housing market crashes.
But in China, anyone can spend a few buck and get fake ID of any kind: ID card, diploma, driver license, passport, ...
Frauds are rampant.
How does this relate to democracy?
I do worry about the technical security of this database and web site. It is just time that hackers can intrude the system and gain millions of ID/name records.
Plenty if they have an ad-profit sharing program. What reason do you think they let the vending machine in?
Hea, Can I have a piece of my pizza? -- Pizza is yours, you do not need to ask anyone.
What about if you change your examples to:Hea, Can I have a piece of your marijuana? -- Marijuana is not your property, you need to ask.
Hea, Can I have a piece of my marijuana? -- Marijuana is yours, you do not need to ask anyone.
Well... it used to be that you did have the right to have your own marijuana because it was just another type of your property, but no more. It is illegal to own any marijuana; your marijuana right has been taken away no matter how you argue that it is your fundamental rights to have it.
Other current debates of rights include: rights to have abortion, rights to same sex marriage, etc.
My point is that it does not matter if you have certain rights philosophically, as the social economic condition advances, people will (1) widening their scope of rights (2) if they don't have the rights they think they should have, they will certainly make the claim over time (3) if there are large enough population wanting that "right", the government, dictatorship or democratic, will have to give in and grant the rights.
You got the idea. No matter what your rights are philosophically, the actually rights are limited by Chinese or other 3rd world governments and to less extends by US and other developed government.
The people of China need to get rid of their government, that is the only way they will get all the liberty and freedom that people desire.Well... other than civil unrest and bloody revolution. How can you get a better government quickly? But I don't think any Chinese would want that.
Democratic election? It would not happen overnight without that bloody revolution (or maybe US invasion, Iraq again 100x worse?) And elections in 3rd world countries produced no better governments over the years -- they are just as corrupted.
People will learn and ask for rights beyond basic foods and sheltering as their income level go up. The American history has shown the same path. Blacks, Chinese or other minorities did not even have rights to buy lands, let alone political rights. But as the US got prosper, they also made the claims and got the rights.
The good thing is that once people are on the path to economic prosperity, no dictatorship can stop their growing desires for rights and freedom.
American trades and products are our best weapons. In fact today the people in China get more rights and freedom than before exactly because the US had opened up the trades. For that, the Chinese people should thank the Americans.
Even though Internet access in China is restricted, it is still much better than if we try to force the Chinese government to take it away from people. It can only be pushed gently.
I have been living in China for a few years. While it is absolutely true that the government has restrictions on the cyberspace. The Internet is still the most open place for public opinions. In fact, except a few very sensitive issues like Taiwan or Fa Lun Gong, you can see many criticism of the government or the party; I have read posts that simply refers the party as dictators and the posts were appearing in major sites like Sina.com. Other examples I just read (sorry you need to be able to read Chinese):
http://comment4.news.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/def
http://comment4.news.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/def
So restricting American companies' conducts in China is both useless and unnecessary. This is advocated by politicians who know not much about China and just try to appeal to the equally mis-informed public.
Aside what do most Chinese people worry about? Politic? Democracy? Freedom? No. They worry about sky-rocketing housing price, education and medical costs, and they worry about jobs. The same things we worry about in America. Things like democracy and freedom of speech do not solve all those problems. Look at Philippine, Mexico, India,
As people in China get richer and richer, they will ask for more and more political rights and freedom. That has been the case for last 20 years. Those things will not need to come overnight. What works is a middle-class-driven economy.
There is life out side of politics in those countries.
I have been living in China for a few years. While it is absolutely true that the government has restrictions on the cyberspace. The Internet is still the most open place for public opinions. In fact, except a few very sensitive issues like Taiwan or Fa Lun Gong, you can see many criticism of the government or the party; I have read posts that simply refers the party as dictators and the posts were appearing in major sites like Sina.com. Other examples I just read (sorry you need to be able to read Chinese):
http://comment4.news.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/defa ult.html?channel=cj&newsid=31-1-3297449
http://comment4.news.sina.com.cn/comment/skin/defa ult.html?channel=gn&newsid=1-1-12182898&style=0
So restricting American companies' conducts in China is both useless and unnecessary. This is advocated by politicians who know not much about China and just try to appeal to the equally mis-informed public.
Aside what do most Chinese people worry about? Politic? Democracy? Freedom? No. They worry about sky-rocketing housing price, education and medical costs, and they worry about jobs. The same things we worry about in America. Things like democracy and freedom of speech do not solve all those problems. Look at Philippine, Mexico, India, ... Are people better off in those countries with elected officials?
I think as people in China get richer and richer, they will ask for more and more political rights and freedom. That has been the case for last 20 years. Those things will not need to come overnight. What works is a middle-class-driven economy.
There is life out side of politics in those countries.
If I were a student then I will do: 1) use all information or opinion you have found in Wikipedia 2) list the references found in Wikipedia as citations in your paper 3) turn in your paper and wait to get a good grade and go play video game That would resolve all concerns of your professors and this thread of discussions
The exchange of the stuff is gambling, regardless its underlying value.