September 18, 2003, 16:42
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China watchers, read this article.
I find this entire article hideously amusing. It's at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=34037 and the printable version is too long to post here. The link does not require a password.
In short, the article focuses on the concerns of two Dem senators in the US, who fear that the iminent relocation of a smart bomb munitions factory to mainland China may constitute a safety hazard.
I first thought Joseph Heller had written this.
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September 18, 2003, 17:12
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Despite the wide range of consumer-market uses for NdFeB magnets, the possible military applications of "dual-use" sintered NdFeB magnets concern critics.
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If it's true that rare-earth magnets are a critical component of American military technology, then I can understand why the Pentagon ought to consider diversifying its supply dependencies.
However, if global economic forces are behind a growing Chinese monopoly on this technology, it may prove expensive to diversify. A careful cost/benefit analysis which accounts for the real strategic value of these magnets needs to be carried out to determine if the strategic risk warrrants action, such as subsidizing alternative rare-earth magnet sources.
I think the author perhaps makes a bit too much of the "princeling" connection involving Deng's daughter. Those people are legion in China, they are involved in all manner of lucrative ventures. Part of life in a guanxi- ("connection"-) driven society which values family ties above all.
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September 18, 2003, 23:07
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What kind of daft people use underline for emphasis on the Web? 
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September 18, 2003, 23:10
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Daft ones.
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September 18, 2003, 23:37
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What kind of daft people use underline for emphasis on the Web?
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Why don't you make that your personal crusade, UR?
Rid the world of evil  underlined text!
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September 18, 2003, 23:40
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Underlined text is a holdover from the days of typewriters. Emphasis should always be indicated with italics, never underlines. In fact, underlines should only be used to indicate hyperlinks.
Yeah, I'm a typographer. What're you gonna do about it?
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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September 18, 2003, 23:46
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I WILL UNDERLINE EVERYTHING! and use italics for things that should not be emphasized at all, like this right here and now..so there, what will your "mighty" Typographers guild do about that? Ha, I bet nothing!
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September 18, 2003, 23:48
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You have no idea the mighty forces you have unleashed against you. Let's see how funny you think you are without letters?
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September 18, 2003, 23:50
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286 58698 0863 570962 0875 !!! %^$#*&$)*&*=--)(^*^%
 
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September 18, 2003, 23:50
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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September 18, 2003, 23:55
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September 18, 2003, 23:58
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September 19, 2003, 00:10
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September 19, 2003, 00:12
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September 19, 2003, 00:16
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Ok, enough with the empty posts..that is annoying, not fun.
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September 19, 2003, 00:16
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My posts are not empty, Gepap.
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September 19, 2003, 00:21
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Finally! The typesetters have returned to work.
As I was trying to say earlier, next time think before you aggravate the typesetters, Gepap.
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September 19, 2003, 01:03
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
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Even when there are words in your posts, they are still 'empty' .
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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September 19, 2003, 01:08
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Even when there are words in your posts, they are still 'empty' .
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You need re-education. Capitalists have infected your mind with counter-revolutionary thoughts
Please come to room 242424 with me immediately 
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September 19, 2003, 01:20
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What was that? 
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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September 19, 2003, 09:55
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Returning to this thread, it feels like I left a piece of cheese in the fridge and came back a year later to find it had developed sentience.
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September 19, 2003, 11:00
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 You call this sentience?
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September 19, 2003, 11:12
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 19, 2003, 17:17
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You call this sentience?
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Yes, I suppose the term "sentience" is too high a nomenclature.
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As would be the word "sentence", at least for a few of the less-verbose posts
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September 19, 2003, 17:33
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Originally posted by Oerdin
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September 19, 2003, 18:27
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I would call this thread spam, but...
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September 19, 2003, 20:08
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September 19, 2003, 20:32
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September 19, 2003, 20:34
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September 19, 2003, 20:34
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I feel this strange need to post in this thread
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