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Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: Bryson
Date: Jul 21, 2008 05:25

On Jul 21, 4:20 am, baldeagle yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2:32 pm, Bryson virginia.usa.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 6:37 am, baldeagle yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 21, 12:28 pm, Bryson virginia.usa.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 20, 5:00 pm, "abianc...@my-deja.com" my-deja.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Stupid bitch!
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>>>> Hey, Chink Boy, you say a whole load of bullshit but can't prove any
>>>> of your accusations, don't you? All you can do is throw insults. Go
>>>> on, prove that I am the same person whom you accuse me of being by
>>>> providing IPS and IDs. Can't, can you, wimp homo ApeManChink!
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>>> Is there a need to prove that you are a moron..?
>>> It is what you are, a brainless moron...by whatever names
>>> you called yourself.
>>> Just review your postings so far...you will see..a brainless
>>> moron in yourself.
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>>> Show us that you are not a moron...able to debate and
>>> discuss intelligently, logically and rationally.
>>> Can you ?
>>> Show us !
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>> I know that a third of the world's trade--including 90 percent of
>> China's trade and 80 percent of Japan's trade--flows through the
>> bordering Straits of Malacca - the country of about 4.5 million people
>> could find itself a lucrative terrorist target.That's why the
>> government of Singapore is interested in unmanned drone aircrafts.
>> Since the late 1970s, shortly after the British withdrew from the
>> colonial outpost, Singapore's military has been testing out unmanned
>> aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an attempt to make up for its limited human
>> resources. They've now become "indispensable" for tackling the dreaded
>> four d's of military missions--"the dull, dirty, dangerous and
>> demanding" ones. Earlier this year, the Singapore government unveiled
>> plans to revamp its Air Force organization into five commands--
>> including a new one devoted solely to building up UAV "expertise and
>> capabilities." In late May, the Air Force added to its lineup Israeli-
>> made Hermes 450 UAVs, which are designed for surveillance and have
>> also been used by the British government and by U.S. Customs and
>> Border Protection. The country is also trying to get "people who never
>> worked in defense before" interested in the UAVs. The government
>> announced a contest in January to build the best "urban warrior"
>> robot, backed by a $1 million cash prize. The idea is for teams to
>> devise an unmanned ground vehicle that's the swiftest at completing a
>> sequence of tasks--climbing stairs, navigating pavement, moving along
>> corridors, entering rooms and even operating elevators. A country
>> whose area is less than a quarter of Rhode Island's does encounter
>> some unique challenges in its UAV rollout, though. If a UAV goes out
>> of control it will go into our neighboring countries (to help get
>> around the skimpy-airspace problem, the government has taken to using
>> a simulator). I am working on the latest UAV. What do you do? What do
>> you contribute to your country?
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> The topic of discussion here is "the new Beijing"....
> NOT the volume of trade passing through Malacca Straits...or
> Singapore's interests in unmanned aerial vehicles..
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> It may help, if you  can stay focus...discuss about the new
> Beijing...
> Irrelevant material is like... you bring dog food for a picnic
> outings ...only you would be interested...your friends would
> think that you are strange.
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Why? Don't you want to know what's been going on in the military in
Singapore? New Beijing? Ha! You mean "white-washed Beijing"? I know
that at a high-level meeting in London recently, participants noted
that concern about China's repression of the press was not confined to
the usual suspects: human-rights organisations have long been sounding
the alarm over the renewed repression, but now businessmen and
government officials are beginning to voice concern that trade with
and business in China are being damaged by Beijing's repression.
Business and trade, they argue, depend on an open environment, in
which corruption can be exposed and legal abuses checked. Without a
culture of free criticism, they fear that business will be unable to
operate in a stable environment. Now three former senior party
officials are pointing out the practical dangers of such extreme media
repression. The three – Li Rui, a former aide to Mao Zedong; Hu Jiwei,
former editor of the Communist Party newspaper the People's Daily; and
Zhu Houze, former party propaganda chief – wrote in a letter: "History
demonstrates that only a totalitarian system needs news censorship,
out of the delusion that it can keep the public locked in ignorance…".
Far from ensuring stability, they argued, such media repression would
"sow the seeds of disaster". I also know that Chinese textbooks
conceal the government's responsibility and blame others instead for
China's troubles. This series of incidents presents a sharp question
for China's censors: what is the greater danger for China, to allow
official corruption and abuse to continue unchecked, or to allow a
free press to investigate such abuses? The current government in
Beijing appears to have decided that the price of holding on to power
is increased repression. The warnings that are now coming from inside
as well as outside China say this policy is dangerously self-
defeating. Why don't you go back and live in China? See how long you
will survive.
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