Posted in In English, comments on news on Nov 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
California Supreme court, in a 34-page ruling,overturned a lower court decision and unanimously upheld that federal law is clear on insulating Internet providers and Web sites against lawsuits for the inflammatory statements of others.
Posted in Joke, 中文, life, China on Nov 21st, 2006 No Comments »
（转帖）Smurf,《蓝精灵》和共产主义
《蓝精灵》出现于六十年代中期左右，应该说全盛时期就是六、七十年代，众所周知，此时正是西欧左派运动热火朝天之时。西欧的许多知识分子仍然为共产主义或各种版本的社会主义所所深深吸引。据说，《蓝精灵》这个动画片里也带有社会/共产主义思想的深深印记。甚至有人怀疑，《蓝精灵》是作者用以宣传共产主义观念的一种特别的手段——利用文艺形式来达到其政治目标。而《蓝精灵》面对的对象主要是儿童，也就是说，希望在成长中的八九点钟的太阳身上灌输某种共产主义的理想。还有好事者指出，所谓的Smurf实质上是暗示Soviet/Socialist Men Under Red Father （红色父亲领导下的苏维埃/社会主义人民），当然这个说法是占不住脚的，因为在原著里蓝精灵的名字是Schtroumpf，而Smurf只不过是英文翻译。
Posted in In English, Comments on Nov 18th, 2006 No Comments »
The answer of the following game theory question sheds light on the issue why no one speaks against government in China.
Question:
Two players, A and B, are bidding in a blind auction. They each write down a bid and give it to me.The winner (higher bid) pays his bid to me and nothing else happens to […]
Posted in Joke, In English on Nov 18th, 2006 No Comments »
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Nov. 18–al-Qaeda released a video today with Osama bin Laden’s instruction to his followers never again attack China.
The video was released through the Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera, again, which said today that it received the latest videotaped message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at its offices in the Pakistani capital.
Al-Qaeda had sent […]
Posted in In English, life on Nov 18th, 2006 3 Comments »
Go is a traditional Chinese game.
Rule: Players place alternately black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a 19×19 rectilinear grid. A stone is captured and removed if it is tightly surrounded by stones of the opposing color. The objective is to control a larger territory than the opponent by placing one’s stones so […]
Posted in In English, China, reading on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Horwitz talked about “[I]n most general historical studies, fields like torts and contracts… are treated as if they stand apart from content or policy”.
I feel that many Chinese legal scholars are doing exactly what Horwitz criticized. Only, they do it in bad faith (or intentionally, or with contextualized wisdom, whatever), while historians that Horwitz criticized […]