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....zwyx, O, you're here. Thanks for the HR news. We certainly need many of these, in addition to Tiger's official news.
What a wonderful community here, save us a lot of trouble digging up the news.
[new student 2009]: On your comment of April 27, 2009 15:36,
I must agree with you that, like any national should be proud of his (her) nationality, a Chinese should be proud of being Chinese despite all the problems and baggage's it carries, and that China has the right to develop its naval power. All at the same time China should take up increased responsibilities of the world without infringing the development right of others. The successful 2008 Africa-China Summit, attended by 45 heads of state of Africa held in Beijing being a good example and a good start.
I think your post is among the best on this article. You (and I) may be still some years away from being qualified to teach English (as second language), but your expression is succinct, clear and made from your heart, and that's all that mattered. Good luck with your study.
"by and large the sino-us relation is not bad, the majority of the two people are rational, I don't see a war between china and america." LesAdieux
I agree with you. With the financial tsunami, and with Obama taking on the Presidency, there is now a new foreign policy for the US. In foreign affairs, Obama's policy looks very focused. As long as a country does not pose terrorist attacks to US, and as long as a country does not pose any threat to its major regional allies, the US will take on a friendly gesture. Firstly, the relation with Cuba and other Latin American countries will improve. Secondly, the relation with some Gulf countries will improve, in particular after troop withdrawal from Iraq (I will even predict the relation with Iran will also improve, and very likely Iran regime will become secular again within a two-term US Presidency, I speculate).
There remains the relation between Russia/US and China/US. I don't think Russia will be a major challenge to US in many strategic matters, though Russia will definitely cause the most tactical headaches to US administrations due to easy clashes in many common areas, in particular in the former Soviet states where internal pro-US, pro-Russia forces will most likely be having tug-of-wars in the years ahead.
China has more internal concerns (both economical and political) to tackle than to divert energy to fuss around with US, though CCP rhetoric might look antagonistic from time to time, but clearly will just be strong national stands for the benefits some of its supportive people (to be proud of and day-dream about a glorious No. 1 China). The ultra-nationalists would of course like China to flex its military muscle in the region, but would unlikely be successful. Unlike Russia's military intervention into former Soviet states that have internal support to the Russians, any military intimidation by China towards its neighbors will be viewed as simply aggression from the outside. The only possible military conflict will be in relation to Taiwan. With this limited area of concern, I believe the US administration has no problem in persuading and preventing any military actions across the Strait.
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[These are all 'democracies' with citizens not nearly as nationalistic or racist as (what appears to be) the Chinese norm].
No, chirangu, Chinese are not racist, on the contrary, they are the victims of the racism.
Look at the postings on this website, how many of them from the west really treat China as an equal? They are either demonizing China or bashing the Chinese, casting China as an abnormal entity simply because it is a "Communist" state.
To look at a people and categorize them purely from an ideological angle is in itself a form of racism.
Correction: "Could democracy be a religion somehow?"
"If China has chosen controlled Capitalism, may be it is good for them and I wish them luck and prosperity" Vineet Joshi
China economic policy is actually more capitalist than many European countries. The issue in contention here is political rather than economical. After setting the platform clear, here is my view:
Did North Korean people choose their form of government? I don't think so. And judging from the wishes as expressed by Chinese in HK and Taiwan plus intellectuals in the Mainland signing the Charter 08, I doubt very much Chinese will choose the current authoritarian regime if given a choice.
PS: China is also very complex with many minorities. The hot-headed nationalists of Mainland China will most likely contend that the more complex a society is, the more reason for it to be gorverned in a non-democratic, authoritarian way.
Keep lying if that makes you feel good about your country. ;) Oh, have you just again elected those prison breakers to be your leaders recently? ;)
"Qin, do you know why there are so many Indian posters here? Because they are having so much fun! Due to misguided "national pride" you and Tiger do not want to talk about the negative side of an authoritarian regime like CCP. How can one ever defend an authoritarian regime given the contemporary political culture of the general acceptance of the importance of democracy and "rule-by-common consent"? It is just like as futile as to defend "colonialism" nowadays!"
I've come to realized that its not our fault to be holding a 'national pride' banner all time long but the restless, senseless china-bushing everytime a topic about china. This thread is about navy, why you and your friends from India try to say something that's very off topic? That's quite silly. What's the navy building in China having something to do with your dear democracy, huh?
"Admit it, HK Chinese choose democracy rather than authoritarianism, that is why there is one-country-two-systems in the first place. Admit it, Chinese in Taiwan choose democracy rather than united with the Mainland under a "more-relaxed-one-country-two-system". Admit it, given a choice, you know that Chinese in HK will choose the Taiwan political system rather than the current one-country-two-systems structure. "
So what? You have the right to choose what you like. But you just can't force others to live the way that you like. China's meritocracy work just fine. Let it be. ;)
By the way, I'm waiting for the perfect form of the democracy at the far end of the horizon. Until then China's political system seems OK to me. Just imagine a few prison breakers in the parliament... that lets me down. ;)
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"Our market is 5 times larger than US's, this determines that China will the superpower in the future. India will be No.2, but it will cost more time, cuz of your "democratic" and caste system."
I don`think so because the assumption is based on unlimited resources.But resources are limited! Especially oil and water will be critical. Once the oil price hit 200$ per Barrel (which it will in some years already) China with its resource intensive industry will be hit hard. In 2007 and beginning of 2008 one could already experience what happens when oil prices hit 100$ per barrel and more. India may grow slower but India`s growth is more sustainable. The whole world economy will change but same as with the financial crisis, the resource crisis is often ignored. Only some economist admit all these projections for 2030 or even 2050 are not realistic because there are simply not enough resources on this planet.
For better or worse, as a nation China has not had a very heroic military history. Among the population the PLA is a joke. I've been to many company meetings in China where they do a skit poking fun at the PLA. Most popular Chinese movies with them in it is always a tragedy. Turn on the TV in China at mid-day and you will certainly find just such a tragedy showing.
Further, in history the Chinese spend more time fighting among themselves (PLA versus KMT, Red Guards vs PLA) than anything else. It's a curse that cannot be solved with new and fancy ships. History more often than not repeats itself, and China is one political struggle away from wasting away recent gains.
World empires always end up crushing the big ideals they profess to support and defend.
The Iberian conquistadores did many unchristian things to the people Spain and Portugal subjugated in the name of Christendom;
...and 19th-century European empires, like Britain, Belgium and France, treated in awfully uncivilized ways the "savages" to whom they generously brought Civilization;
...and the United States supported countless dictators, torturers and tyrants all around the world in the name of Freedom and Democracy, in the last century.
...and the Soviet Union crushed worker's rights in the name of the State of the Proletariat.
so, listening to China's official Big Words, I'm beggining to get seriouly worried about the fate of poor Harmony.
Well said Peter_Jay.
Also, I appreciate Change_Face's efforts to defend what he sees as misinterpretation of his country and their actions, but it's frustrating to see even balanced comments addressed as attacks. I don't know if it is a factor of writing style, but I hope people realize that their posts can sometimes be combative and force polarization of an issue. Maybe that is the preference of some, but I don't know if makes for the most productive discussion. I appreciate the passion, as the most controversial posts often provide the most insight; I just don't think that they need to be so abrasive a read.
To follow up on my last post, 3 pages back now, I did not say that China wished war, merely that it's propensity for violence is no more than any other armed country. I do not believe it is currently in China's interest to make war; I was voicing my anticipation for the further advancement of the country and the innovation and prosperity it will no doubt bring the world through its ascension. I apologize if it was poorly worded.
As far as military growth being necessary for scientific advancement, that may seem to be the case if you study the current American system. However, I think it is more of a case of where the money is coming from, as the DoD spends large sums of money through DARPA on research. That same government money could just as easily go through the NSF I feel. I think there are other countries that have managed scientific research just fine without it being driven by militarization. Post-war Japan comes to mind, but the military umbrella probably undermines that example. Switzerland maybe?
PS1: It always appalls me when Mainland Chinese folks say, "hey, you don't understand Chinese culture, so you don't understand Chinese mentality, such as Chinese "can't work with western democracy", "China ACTUALLY had religious freedom, and human rights etc". In reality, these same folks don't know ANYTHING about Chinese culture. Only my friend Qin knows something about classical Chinese literature (hmm, I guess panda knows something about poetry too, actually he tried to write English in a poetic way, not totally successful, but nice try and with progress). I find Taoism rather interesting, and would take this opportunity to share one of my previous posts with folks here:
"...a short trip of philosophizing according to Chinese culture, a Taoist interpretation of Big Bang :
道 生 一 , 一 生 二 , 二 生 三 , 三 生 萬 物
Before the Big Bang, there is nothingness, there is Tao. Nothingness means positive elements completely balancing out negative elements. As in quantum mechanics when a particle collides with an anti-particle, BOTH will be annihilated into nothingness; conceptually speaking THAT nothingness actually consists of both a particle and its anti-particle. When ONE is born from Tao, our universe was born and the law of physics took over, and ONE bred TWO, TWO bred THREE ("Three" means a lot in Chinese conceptual system), and THREE bred EVERYTHING."
PS: Ian Johnson, a report of Wall Street Journal won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize on International Reporting on his reports on the suppression and persecution of FLG and its members in China. His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. Later in 2004 he also published a book "Wild Grass" on the subject. Needless to say, after that, he was barred from reporting in China. Currently he works from Berlin and is working on a book about the Islamic Center of Munich. Those who are interested in a non-CCP perspective of falun gong can check up the Pulitzer Prize official website for Ian's award winning reports.
So much for freedom-of-speech and religious freedom in China.
I don't think China as ruled by CCP is trying to, or actually can, challenge the military might of US. Its military muscles, even when flexed, certainly has no effect on some of her more aggressive land-neighbors like the Vietnamese who had demonstrated to be able to fight more fiercely than the more well-fed PLA soldiers (who has proved to be more adept at crowd control around Tienanmen Square then, I mean in 1989, and now (plus efficiently setting up numerous road-blocks around Tibet periodically); long gone are the adept PLA fighters against the old KMT and Imperial Japanese army).
One outcome for certain, hot-headed young Chinese nationalists ("bao qing" in Chinese; well-fed and well-spoiled), many around here, will certainly stand more firmly behind one CCP, dreaming of a future "world-militarily-financially-culturally-and "god knows what"" number one. Simple minds and easy pawns.
"One crab is worse than one previous crab" is the state of many young people in the Mainland.
Japan became a military power born out of the samarai culture and Yamato Damashi....the Spirit of Japan....its country is small and mountainous with no natural resources..they feared foreigners calling them KATO ....hairy foreign barabarians. Admiral Perry of the USA sorted them out one morning. General Douglas MacArthur fixed them again later refusing to execute the Emperor...a wise move.
Japan today is in a state of panic as America is no longer their bread basket or dumping market. The high Yen has ended that cosy trading relationship.
CHINA is not a beligerent country by nature. The Chinese like America for more reasons than just trade. The Chinese have never attacked TAIWAN although they detest that thorn in their side if TAIWAN attempts to challenge the authority of China. War is a human system of organised slaughter....but without modern war machines one becomes an open-door to aggressors. America has tried and failed to deploy convential power in Iraq and Afghanistan....its failed.
China is a great nation....make way for the dragon.
NATO, as its name suggests, has its main power in Article 5 - mutual protection in the Northern Atlanitc Area, therefore, NATO is completely useless in case in had to stop a Chinese aggression. In general, NATO is completely useless in stopping any agression - every major country in the Northern Atlantic Area except Russia is a NATO member and the Russians are not so insane to destroy their good trading relationships with EU for nothing. Therefore, abolish NATO and create an EU common defence (without USA) and a Pacific common defence (USA, Japan, South Korea, Australia etc.).
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With the United Nations deciding to begin inter-governmental negotiations on Security Council reforms, the 'Group of Four' comprising India, Japan, Germany and Brazil has decided to revive its plans for moving ahead in unison.
After high-level talks with Japan here on Tuesday, India agreed to hold a meeting of the G-4 Foreign Ministers along with special invitee South Africa on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September this year. "We have the framework of this cooperation already. We compared notes and exchanged views on how to proceed with this matter… There were lots of discussions on how to move ahead," the officials said.
The Indian side to the 2+2 talks was led by Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar, while Japan was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae and Vice-Defence Minister Kimito Nakae. Later, the two sides held Foreign Office Consultations. Security and strategic cooperation and exchange of notes on the regional situation were the main topics of discussions at the two meetings. Talks on the regional situation covered Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar also.
Officials pointed out that this was the first time India held talks in the 2+2 format (Foreign and Defence Secretaries from both sides), while for Japan this was the third such instance. "Japan has it only with very special countries like the U.S. and Australia who are both allies. Obviously the signal from the Japanese side is to increase the level of security dialogue," observed an official.
"Having a meeting in this format is new and is the first one after the two Prime Ministers adopted the Action Plan [on security cooperation] in December last year. This enabled a detailed review of the security environment and positive discussions on all elements of the Action Plan," said other sources.
The two sides also decided to step up maritime cooperation by expanding the joint exercises to include the navies from both countries and stepping up cooperation in anti-piracy operations off the Gulf of Aden. With piracy having spread to the high seas, both sides held discussions on further coordinating the movement of their warships.
Having held the first round of civil nuclear dialogue only last month, Ms. Rao expressed her appreciation to Japan for having taken the initiative despite local opposition. Days after the talks, the Mayors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima met Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and protested against the opening of civil nuclear negotiations with India.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:245 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-245Published: 20 December 2007
Among the long-standing conundrums of evolutionary theory, obligatory sex is one of the hardest. Current theory suggests multiple factors that might explain the benefits of sex when compared with complete asexuality, but no satisfactory explanation for the prevalence of obligatory sex in the face of facultative sexual reproduction.
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Supporters of a tax change say Alaska can't stand by as production continues to decline. They see lowering taxes as a way to increase production and investment.
Production has been on a downward trend since the late 1980s, but higher prices in recent years have helped to mask the impact of the decline on the state budget. Alaska relies heavily on oil revenues to run.
Critics call the tax plan a dangerous gamble that amounts to a giveaway of Alaska's oil wealth.
"Stop the Giveaway" rallies, organized by the group Backbone, were held in several communities Thursday, including Juneau, where Democratic legislators addressed the sign-waving crowd and tore up a large, multibillion-dollar fake check to the North Slope's three major oil companies. Music, including Tom Petty's "Won't Back Down," and Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising," blared from loudspeakers.
Senate Minority Leader Johnny Ellis called it a "day of resistance" to an "epically bad rip-off." Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, said the people needed to send a message to lawmakers and Gov. Sean Parnell, before leading the crowd in a chant of "It's our oil."
This came hours after the House Resources Committee — during a marathon hearing that ended in the early-morning hours — advanced a rewritten tax bill that Democrats say would have the state rely on oil company statements rather than receipts in determining whether expenses qualify for deductions.
"In the cover of night, this bill was made much, much worse," Wielechowski said.
Parnell said the bill is in line with the guiding principles he set out for any tax change, though he said there are some elements the administration is taking a closer look at, including the billing provision. He reiterated his resolve in pushing to lower taxes, as a way to create more opportunities for Alaskans.
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Actually, it would seem you fail English via trying to apply mathematical rules to it.
The phrases 'times less than', 'times smaller', 'times fewer' have been in use in the English language for hundreds of years. Swift, Newton, Herschel, Boyle, and Locke all used those phrases at one point or another in their works. Now, generally speaking an argument from authority is not a good argument, but when you're talking about language which is by definition defined by the way it's used I think it is a sound one here. Those examples of usage are from hundreds of years ago, by some of the most educated, intelligent people of their times, I think it is safe to say the phrases were in standard usage then as they are now.
Obviously you can argue that logically or mathematically the phrasing doesn't make sense. The thing about language is that is is neither mathematical nor logical.
I prefer engineering notation (indices of 3,6,9): 50e-09 m
BTW why does it matter if they wrote 50 nanometers?
I think the GP is largely complaining that they left off the 'e' in front of the exponent. Perhaps '-8' was written in superscript and somehow that formatting was lost. "5 x" is atypical but "10-8m" is wrong.
You are correct that engineering notation would have made more sense, reminding readers what a nanometer is.
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I am trying to convert my shop from using VSS to TFS.
Our current codebase consists of a large number of Visual Studio 2008 solutions and I've noticed some of them seem to cause MSBuild to fail, but I cannot figure out why. The actual solutions themselves and the projects they hold build correctly, but the overall build still fails.
The ErrorsAndWarnings.txt and Release.txt file show no errors, just warnings (various little things in the code we need to clean up)
The BuildLog.txt file is, of course, enormous and has tons and tons of difficult-to-comprehend text in it. As best I can tell though, when it gets to one of these SLN files that give it problems, MSBuild just flat out crashes and dies.
Task "MSBuild" Global Properties: Configuration=Release Platform=Any CPU OutDir=C:\TFS\REPOSITORY\Full\Binaries\Release\ PublishDir=C:\TFS\REPOSITORY\Full\Binaries\Release\ SkipInvalidConfigurations=true RunCodeAnalysis=false VCBuildOverride=C:\TFS\REPOSITORY\Full\Sources\Code\Solution\Solution.sln.Release.vsprops VCBuildAdditionalLibPaths= VCBuildAdditionalOptions= VCBuildToolPath= VCBuildUseEnvironment= TeamBuildConstants=_TEAM_BUILD_ TargetsNotLogged=GetTargetPath;GetNativeManifest;GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets(1008,5): error MSB4018: The "MSBuild" task failed unexpectedly. error MSB4018: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevel(ProjectInSolution project, SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevel(ProjectInSolution project, SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.AssignDependencyLevels(SolutionParser solution, Dictionary`2 projectsByDependencyLevel) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.CreateSolutionProject(SolutionParser solution, Project msbuildProject, BuildEventContext projectBuildEventContext, String wrapperProjectToolsVersion, Engine parentEngine, String solutionProjectCache) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.SolutionWrapperProject.Generate(SolutionParser solution, Project msbuildProject, String toolsVersionOverride, BuildEventContext projectBuildEventContext) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Project.Load(String projectFileName, BuildEventContext buildEventContext, ProjectLoadSettings projectLoadSettings) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Engine.GetMatchingProject(Project existingProject, String projectFullPath, BuildPropertyGroup globalPropertiesToUse, String toolsVersion, String[] targetNames, BuildEventContext buildEventContext, Boolean toolsVersionPeekedFromProjectFile) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Engine.BuildProjectFileInternal(BuildRequest buildRequest) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.Engine.EngineBuildLoop(BuildRequest terminatingBuildRequest) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskExecutionModule.BuildProjectFile(Int32 handleId, String[] projectFileNames, String[] targetNames, IDictionary[] globalPropertiesPerProject, IDictionary[] targetOutputsPerProject, EngineLoggingServices loggingServices, String[] toolsVersions, Boolean useResultsCache, Boolean unloadProjectsOnCompletion, BuildEventContext taskContext) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.EngineProxy.BuildProjectFilesInParallel(String[] projectFileNames, String[] targetNames, IDictionary[] globalProperties, IDictionary[] targetOutputsPerProject, String[] toolsVersions, Boolean useResultsCache, Boolean unloadProjectsOnCompletion) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.MSBuild.ExecuteTargets(ITaskItem[] projects, Hashtable propertiesTable, ArrayList targetLists, Boolean stopOnFirstFailure, Boolean rebaseOutputs, IBuildEngine2 buildEngine, TaskLoggingHelper log, ArrayList targetOutputs, Boolean useResultsCache, Boolean unloadProjectsOnCompletion, String toolsVersion) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.MSBuild.BuildProjectsInParallel(Hashtable propertiesTable, ArrayList targetLists, Boolean success, Boolean[] skipProjects) error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.MSBuild.Execute() error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(EngineProxy engineProxy, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, ITask task, Boolean& taskResult) Done building target "CoreCompileSolution" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED. Done Building Project "C:\TFS\REPOSITORY\Full\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (CompileSolution target(s)) -- FAILED. Done executing task "MSBuild" -- FAILED. Done building target "CoreCompileConfiguration" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED. Done Building Project "C:\TFS\REPOSITORY\Full\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (CompileConfiguration target(s)) -- FAILED. Done executing task "MSBuild" -- FAILED. Done building target "CoreCompile" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED. Done Building Project "C:\TFS\REPOSITORY\Full\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (CoreCompile target(s)) -- FAILED. Done executing task "MSBuild" -- FAILED. Done building target "CallCompile" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED.
I know pasting incredibly verbose error messages in Stack Overflow is lame but the core thing to take from the above is MSBuild is crashing and I can't figure out why. It gives the usual "Object reference not set..." error, which is pretty much universally useless when it's not your code or program you're troubleshooting.
I see that it's referencing TeamFoundation.Build.targets. I look up that file that file but it doesn't really jump out at me what the problem could be. (the line after the comment is the (1008,5) referenced above)
<!-- Build using MSBuild task -->
<MSBuild BuildInParallel="$(BuildSolutionsInParallel)"
<Output TaskParameter="TargetOutputs" ItemName="CompilationOutputs" />
At first I thought this was telling me that one of the items that need to be substituted in the node was missing, but the other solutions which don't have issues have similar/identical setups.
I notice some of the items in the call stack of the MSBuild deal with targets and the issue seems to stem from the TeamFoundation.Build.targets file but I'm stuck as to what to do next to troubleshoot it.
Has anyone run into this before?


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