"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
The following Citation is from China Daily of today: "The State Council has approved 2 trillion yuan ($292 billion) for the construction of a series of railway projects, to help boost economic growth amid the worldwide financial crisis. Increasing investment in fixed assets has remained a catalyst of China's economic development. By 2010, the total length of China's railway will reach 90,000 km, according to the Ministry of Railways. A number of major railway projects will be started soon, www.ce.cn - the country's leading economic news portal - quoted Wang Yongping, spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, as saying on Friday. About 1.2 trillion yuan has already been allocated, he said. Zheng Xinli, a senior government policy advisor, said: "In 1997, we dealt with the Asian financial crisis by stimulating domestic economic growth by investing in the construction of highways. This time the money will go on improving the rail network." The National Development and Reform Commission is developing plans to improve the country's railway systems, he said. (China Daily October 25, 2008)"
The article shows that CO2 content in atmosphere could be limited under a dangerous threshold by only curbing emissions from coal not taking care so much on gas and oil
From August 24-27 I participated in the joint meeting of AFITA (Asean Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture) and IAALD (International Association of Agricultural Information Management Sepecialists). https://afita.ac.affrc.go.jp/wcca2008/program-list.htm
On invitation of Dr. Wang Zhong from the polytechnical University of Guangzhou I gave today a presentation with the title "The global knowledge society in the age of the Internet". More than 30 graduate and postgraduate students participates. A PDF Version of the presentation is attached. The .odp version is at https://www.johanneskeizer.com/files/GZ-University_jk_2008-08-01.odp.
I never felt so hot. It is nearly 40 C with high umidity and it does not cool down in the night and the air condition in my (government owned) hotel has only two modes: Backoven=off and fridge=on, but tomorrow I will change hotel, thanks to lily.
the attached link will lead you to an article with a position what at the moment is fashionable: new information technologies distract us more than in the past from concentrated working and production of ideas and content. The main argument is that we are constantly looking to emails, messaging systems and similar. I would like to challenge this position with two arguments.
Ingrid Betancourt has been freed by the Columbian military (https://www.china.org.cn/international/news/2008-07/03/content_15924880_3...). The liberation action took place without blood shed, purely by intelligence. The idiotic and idioscyncratic left wing drug dealers of the FARC were defeated by the application of human intelligence. Ingrid Betancourt is free! Could Uribe extend this intelligence to stop making war on drugs and starts making war on poverty_
