Jack's new album is out. so kick back, wash your troubles away, and enjoy the vibe.

economics was the the driving force for the national party's win in the parliamentary elections. With the Taiwanese economy starting to become overshadow by china's economic boom it was apparent this was going to happen.

Sad indeed...

Hopefully Taiwan can show China how to make products not tainted in Lead or Dog food that will not kill fido.

Maybe i can visit Hong Kong now without being harassed by the little commie shithead sitting at the gate......(doubt it)



anyways

ronpaul2008.com

About 1,800 brand new 300-GB or 500-GB external hard drives made for Maxtor in Thailand were found to have trojan horse malwares pre-installed
(autorun.inf and ghost.pif). When the HD is in use, these forward
information on the disk to two websites in Beijing, China:
www.nice8.org or www.we168.org. The article implies that authorities
believe the Chinese government is behind the trojans. A later article pins down the point of infection to a subcontractor company in China

A report written by a tech worker in China describes the pervasive censorship,
abetted by ample manpower and funding estimated at $27 billion in US
dollars. The author, who calls himself Mr. Tao, also writes that plenty
of Chinese are finding ways to resist censorship, and offers tips on
how to keep evading Big GeGe (that's Older Brother). Not surprisingly,
self-censorship is very prevalent. Also not surprisingly, the
authorities are starting to catch on to things like RSS feeds. It's
another race for survival between the tiny mammals and the lumbering
dinosaurs.

Its not that hard to bypass the communist regime's restriction on the internet. Yet it can come at great risk if caught doing so
According to a BBC News article, "Images of saffron-robed monks leading throngs of people along the streets of Rangoon have been seeping out of a country famed for its totalitarian regime and repressive control of information. The pictures, sometimes grainy and the video footage shaky, are captured at great personal risk on mobile phones — but each represents a powerful statement of political dissent." The article goes on to tell the stories of how Burma's bloggers use proxy servers, free hosting services, and other technologies to overcome Burma's "pervasive" filtering of internet access and news." ..Here is the article

So I jumped off the social networking train long ago. Many of you on my friends list do not know me but as some random person that accepted your request or accepted my request. If your ok with that so am I.

I came across imeem from a friend in the bayarea and ask me to check it out. I found myself adding more music and it has become very convient when i want to listen to my fav songs i PURCHASED without having to carry my iPod or CD to work.

I like to share music with my friends and random people too. (Not the kind of sharing of music blasting out of my car or sharing my sub woofer output that rattles the mirrors off the car in front of me)


If RIAA (the witch hunters targeting old ladies with no computers) had it their way they would want you pay a fee for every time you listen to your purchased music along with an extra fee for each person within earshot .

Well i think people on my friends list should be able to listen my purchased music and not be limited to a 30 sec feed.

If my friends are in my car listening to the music I put in the CD player they are not subjected to a 30 sec snippet.

To my knowledge Imeem has overcome some obstacle with some of the big music publishers

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13526_1-9743880-27.html

Yet they still have an uphill battle.

Overall money tallks and the old school music publisher need to get with the program....

Fair Use Worth More Than Copyright To Economy!

If you have a lot of time on your hands read the study here

http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/uploads/1/FairUseStudy-Sep12.pdf

Now I have not seen a Ninja (maybe thats what makes them ninja) but i doubt a single ninja will have a chance face to face with a shaolin monk

A Chinese Shaolin temple has demanded an apology from 'an Internet
user who claimed a Japanese ninja beat its kung fu-practicing monks in
a showdown.'

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070831/K083106AU.html

Starting Sept. 1, little animated cop figures will wander across the displays of users of a baker's dozen of Chinese Web portals. The program is set to expand by year's end to all sites "registered with Beijing servers," according to the report. The point of the anime-like figures seems to be to remind citizens that their Web usage is being monitored, not to actually implement any further monitoring themselves.

Article can be viewed here

China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.
This article is both hilarious and sad, looking at the lengths to which
a government will go to regulate thought through censorship. It also
goes into some of the more subtle politics of the current 72-year-old
Dalai Lama as he thinks about his political and spiritual successor.
The Dalai Lama 'refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under
Chinese control