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For what it's worth, which may not be much, I think Mr Hu is unwise to stress the independence/unification issue. Generally speaking in the last few decades, once political debates have been framed in sovereignty terms, it's been a one-way ticket towards independence or autonomy, unless a referendum or election has confirmed the desire by the affected people to remain part of the motherland. This has descended into nasty conflicts, as we know, and while with regards to such places as Kosovo the evil hand of the American imperialist has been fashionably detected that line does not play well in East Timor or Estonia.

我看到很多人写自己和西方同事争辩，“让XX哑口无言”，自己完胜。不是这样的，你居高临下的先做结论再教育人家，没有人能够和你说话。如果我们不去了解别人的前提，而一味坚持自己的结论，那完全没有可能沟通 。 Without the definition of truth, evil is seductive. 我希望身在西方的大家，多和西方人沟通，多倾听，少愤怒。不然，认为我们“被恶魔控制了”的西方，和相信“敌人亡我之心不死”的我们，真的只能到战场上去了解西方了。

民主不相信圣人，哪怕尧舜都可能腐败，所以权力要制衡。

这场大游行中，每一个人都在为自己的义愤和信仰呐喊。但我看到，双方，谁也没有说服对方。所谓哪一方“取得了伟大胜利”，那是让人伤感的自欺欺人。

Good news for users of Google Chrome, Picasa, and other Google desktop apps on Windows systems: Google Update, previously a background new version checker that was mighty hard to kill off, runs as a scheduled task, either when your system is idle or every so many hours. Better still, if you no longer use Google apps at all, it uninstalls itself. [via Google Operating System]