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To: RealMuLan who wrote (36507)	7/25/2003 4:02:09 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

China wants place on supercomputer charts 10:31 Friday 25th July 2003 John Lui, CNet Asia China is developing the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will use AMD's new Opteron processor China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such machines to use the Opteron processor from US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). According to the official People's Daily, Chinese supercomputer-maker Dawning Information Industry will use 2,000 of these chips to make the Dawning 4000A, with help from AMD. news.zdnet.co.uk

To: RealMuLan who wrote (36507)	7/25/2003 4:13:45 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Arc of Democracy - After a while people and/or special interest find they can 'vote themselves rich' without the system IMMEDIATELY collasping. Argentina is a great example of this (with varying degrees of democracy) and the social welfare states of Europe also have this problem. The US is headed in that direction, becoming more ridgid, with parasitic interest groups like trial lawyers having excessive influence. Previously, large, more representative groups, like industrial labor unions, had more influence. This is why the US is heading the Japanese and European direction of greater economic rigidity. Taiwan prehaps not a good example, but Korea and KDJ and the Chaebols is a well known story. Weat Germany vs. East Germany is an even better illustration of democratic & capitalist results vs. state dictation from the top. Some people in the Chinesse government are being VERY smart about economic development. The ruling saying that their oil companies could not have even a little price fixing is very wise.