The recent post by pugster about rioters in Hong Kong brought to my mind some thoughts I had as the Umbrella Revolution was flaming out a couple of years ago. One of the arguments many people in the West used to denigrate the HK and Mainland government in support of the Umbrella movement was that the rioters had a right to block streets and shut down districts to get their … [Read more...] about Free Speech Definitely Doesn’t Mean Cost Notwithstanding Speech
How would this story be reported if it were China asking Apple for a way to get into a Terrorist’s phone?
Interesting story from NYT today titled "Judge Tells Apple to Help Unlock San Bernardino Gunman’s iPhone." Here is an excerpt: WASHINGTON — A judge in California on Tuesday ordered Apple to help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone used by one of the attackers in the assault in San Bernardino that killed 14 people in December. The ruling handed the F.B.I. a potentially important … [Read more...] about How would this story be reported if it were China asking Apple for a way to get into a Terrorist’s phone?
DPP Wins in Taiwan
The writing has been on the wall for KMT's chances in the election this time around for some time. As I had discussed earlier, the battle between DPP and KMT in the 2016 election is not about independence vs. status quo as it had been 8 years back when Taiwan elected Ma Ying-jeou, or 16 years ago when Taiwan elected Chen Shui-Bian. That battle had been won long ago, with this … [Read more...] about DPP Wins in Taiwan
Server Migrated
If you see this page. You have reached our new server. If you see things that appear wrong, please let me know, so I can fix them. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a shakeout period for me to see how this new server works for us. Thanks All! … [Read more...] about Server Migrated
Out of date SSL Certificates and Other Issues
Hi Everyone, If you are logging in to comment, you may notice that our SSL certificate is out of date. We are working with the host on resolving that issue and other issues. Over the last year or so, we've had several outages even though our traffic was modest. In the next couple of days, I will be periodically putting the site on read-only maintenance mode (where you … [Read more...] about Out of date SSL Certificates and Other Issues