Here's some "good news":

"China is trying to do business with North Korea ... we are not in a hurry to resolve the nuclear issue."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0301/p01s03-woap.html

By the way, Mr. Flak:

What Google is doing is part of the "Free Market" system. Pull the "R" lever to blindly support the be-all and end-all "Free Market" system.

Ask Neo and Dan, they'll tell you all 'bout it. (Sorry dude-Neo and Dapper-Dan, but that's how you're interpreted from this vinyl chair: Free Reign for Business, regardless of consequence.)

fwiw, I don't have a real problem with what Google has done ... but do have a real problem with "Free Reign for Business, regardless of consequence", as everyone in This blog knows.

Have a nice day !

Google seems less bad in regards to China than Yahoo!, which has actively helped the government in its campaign against free speech.

Here's NYT columnist Nick Kristof:
"Yahoo sold its soul and is a national disgrace...Microsoft has also been cowardly, but nothing like Yahoo...Cisco in China is a bit sleazy but nothing like Yahoo...Google strikes me as innocent of wrongdoing."

Dan isn't too dapper this morning JDR, I'm sitting in my home office unshaven and wearing my bathrobe. Ahh the joy of self employment.

As for Google, I remember reading about a local company producing software than enables users to circumvent the restrictions Google and others have in place. You know anything about that Ed?

Once a few hundred million intelligent Chinese get on line, the technological genie will be out of the bottle, as they will figure out methods to access what they want. This will spread the freedom of information in a politically oppressed society. So actually JDR, I think Google in China is beneficial.

I agree - having the internet will be great for China, even a limited version. In 50 years it'll be level playing field, but until then, it's a rapid decline for most US citizens, falling to European-like status, VAT taxed-to-death. The exceptions will be the Very Wealthy, the same ones currently raping and plundering America to assure security of their villa's.

Perhaps your dad will leave you enough to get over the hump. My dad left me a couple pieces of nice furniture, that's it.

If I were King, however, I would have considered Computers a National Secret - more valuable than the Atomic Bomb - and none would leave US ports without penalty of death. If American held that tech' exclusively, we'd be living like the Jetsons.

But alas ... instead we're screwed, 'cause there ain't hardly nothing that can't be done cheaper there then here - including engineering and alcohol detection.

JDR,

Here, you and I agree. We will improve life for the Chinese by exporting our technology and our jobs. And, yes, maybe there will be a level playing field. But we Americans will be the one to pay the cost.

We've spent decades and actually centuries becoming the leader in technology. Just look at the inventions that people in this country have been responsible for. That's why we've been the most prosperous nation in the world for so long. Now we're giving it all away for short-lived pleasure. Disgusting.

Google's got my business exclusively.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165530

yellowdog,

"Now we're giving it all away for short-lived pleasure."

You're exactly right. Which is why I propose that all technology based curriculums come standard with four years of Mandarin, Farsi, and Hindi. If we keep it up, those are going to be need-to-know languages for every American involved in anything from Engineering to Computer Programming.

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