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From: chang@tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Yaudong Chang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: Our Olympic Baseball Team vs US Team (Was Re: Bad News)
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:41:46 GMT
	<1992Jul29.125520.2292%ylin@nthu.edu.tw>
Organization: Institute of industrial science, University of Tokyo
In-reply-to: ylin@nthu.edu.tw's message of 29 Jul 92 12:55:20 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.125520.2292%ylin@nthu.edu.tw> ylin@nthu.edu.tw (Youn-Long Lin (035)713786) writes:

 >>
 >>What are Taiwan TV stations doing?
 >>Baseball is the only event that Taiwan team is competitive.

  Why not see NHK Satellite Broadcast? There is one channel that 
broadcasts the Olympic Game nearly 24 hours a day. The baseball game
Japan vs Taiwan will be broadcast this Sunday morning too.

================================================================
chang@tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp	 |  Yau-dong Chang
2nd. grade of Doctoral Course    |  3 Dept. Takagi Lab.
Dept. of Electronic Engineering  |  Institute of Industrial Science
				 |  Univ. of Tokyo.
 7-22-1, Roppongi, Minato-Ku     |  Tel:+81 3-3402-6231 ex.2643
 TOKYO 106, JAPAN		 |  Fax:+81 3-3423-2834
From: hwang@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Kailan Hwang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: Aren't you tired?
Keywords: Be a practioner!
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:25:11 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley

In article <76003@ut-emx.uucp> turtle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (the Cure) writes:
=Are you really feel "song" just sitting in front of your computer arguing?  If
=you really have some great ambitions, go to achieve them!  Don't just sit there
=and "type" to others that TI is good, KMT is bad...etc.  Be a practioner!
=
=In fact, I really don't think that any one of you will pay attrention to my
=mail.
=
=--Chang
=*****************************************************************************
=
=	I agree with Chang here...Then again, we all know that Taiwanese
=or Chinese people are bored here in the U.S., especially for those 'dreamers'
=who like arguing so much but can't find nothing but politics to argue about.
=So why bother halting them? If they like politics so much but can't touch any
=in the U.S., let them argu to death...:) Who really cares? *poof*
=						-Kim Chang-
=


It seems you both do care, otherwise you won't bother to
do posting.  :-)

I, for example, if I don't like that kind of articles, I'll
just kill them and don`t even bother to read them.

This is a newsgroup with many different people and they
are all entitled to post their own opinion, but we do not
have obligation to read them.  :-)


-- 
| Above is my own opinion and I do not mind if Berkeley agrees with me. :-) |
| E-Mail Addr.: hwang@postgres.berkeley.edu                                 | 
| Real world: Kailan Hwang                              % flame > /dev/null |
| "The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."    --- Gunter Grass     |
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.japan
From: ptyshih@watnow.uwaterloo.ca (Paul T.Y. Shih (Taku or Pear))
Subject: Zen Story (13)
Originator: ptyshih@watnow.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:06:47 GMT




	A general went to visit a monk. The monk took some fruits
	and tea to serve the general. After a while, the general
	asked the monk; "There's an ancient saying; 'Use everyday
	without realizing what it is.'. Can you explain to me what
	that means?"

	The monk grabbed some more fruits, handed them to the general
	and asked the general to eat some more. The general asked the
	same question again while he's eating those fruits.

	"Just like you are eating these fruits, that's what 'Use
	everyday without realizing what it is.' means." monk replied.



Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.china
From: horne-scott@CS.YALE.EDU (Scott Horne)
Subject: Re: Economic prosprous and Political unification
Organization: Computer "Science" Dept, Yale University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:45:41 GMT

In article <76214@ut-emx.uucp>, joe@astro.as.utexas.edu (Joe Wang) writes:
<
<If you are
<an Irish doctor who wants to move to Italy and start working there, all you
<have to do is to get into a car and drive there.  

Perhaps, but I think you'd have better luck with a boat.

					--Scott

-- 
Scott Horne                               ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne
horne@cs.Yale.edu      SnailMail:  Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT   06520
203 436-1848                Residence:  Rm 1848 Silliman College, New Haven, CT
Shi4 shang4 wu2 nan2 shi4, zhi3 yao4 ken3 deng1 pan1.  --Mao2 Zhu3xi2
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.china,talk.politics.china
From: shchen@eos.ncsu.edu 
Subject: Re: Voice to change of voter.
Originator: shchen@c00019-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: shchen@eos.ncsu.edu 
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:52:17 GMT



|>In article <1992Jul15.183400.4038@wuecl.wustl.edu> esh1@cec2.wustl.edu (Edmond Siu-kei Hui) writes:
|>=I was not completely ignorant about the situation in the USA, but this graph
|>=which I found in a local newspaper here in Lausanne really struck me.
|>=It gives the number of prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants over 1991:
|>=
|>=USA         420 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Canada      110 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Gr.Britain   97 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Turkey       96 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Luxemburg    87 xxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Germany      84 xxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Portugal     83 xxxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Spain        80 xxxxxxxxxxx
|>=France       78 xxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Switzerland  78 xxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Austria      77 xxxxxxxxxxx
|>=Finland      73 xxxxxxxxxx
|>=Denmark      68 xxxxxxxxxx
|>=Belgium      68 xxxxxxxxxx
|>=Malta        67 xxxxxxxxxx
|>=Sweden       56 xxxxxxxx
|>=Ireland      55 xxxxxxxx
|>=Italy        54 xxxxxxxx
|>=Greece       50 xxxxxxx
|>=Japan        50 xxxxxxx
|>=Norway       49 xxxxxxx
|>=Netherlands  40 xxxxxx
|>=Cyprus       40 xxxxxx
|>=Iceland      38 xxxxx
|>=
|>=One could make many sick jokes about this (>>The American way of life<< or
|>=>>Who told you that Reagan and Bush diseased social security, and especially
|>=for black people<<), but I really hope that there are still people who try
|>=to discuss this sort of figures with presidential candidates BEFORE the
|>=elections. This might not guarantee anything (read my lips), but a continuous
|>=pressure might work eventually...
|>=In any case, all the best!
|>
|>If this data does show something and China, Cuba ..etc isn't
|>there at all, we should all vote for communism.  :-)
|>Which will you choose?
|>Freedom with high crime rate?
|>Or freedom-less with low crime rate?
                       
Maybe because in China there really isn't that much to steal or give people 
motives to commit petty crimes.  And people who commit more serious crimes
are summonly executed (bullet to the back of the head).  Also you can't deny
that there are many corrupted officials in China who would be considered 
crimials under the U.S. Law.  You Chinese really need to clean up your acts.
You people are beginning to tarnish the good clean image of Taiwan. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,rec.radio.shortwave
From: rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (GE Superradio II)
Subject: Re: Taiwan news worldwide via shortwave radio
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:43:23 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.taiwan,rec.radio.shortwave


|eric.wu> Someone is (mail order ads on WJ) selling a special radio for 
|eric.wu> $99 that can receive Chinese program (Chiao Sheng).  I guess the 
|eric.wu> program is broadcasted at a different frequency other than AM/FM 
|eric.wu> so we need a special radio.  Has anybody try this?  How is the 
|eric.wu> reception or the program?

|eric.wu> What interests me the most is the little ear.  You can get one
|eric.wu> for $288 plus shipping but I was told that you need to spend
|eric.wu> more to get a higher end model.  But it will still be a good 
|eric.wu> deal if the program it can receive is good.  Would somebody 
|eric.wu> who has seen this kind of program tell us more about it?

|Hmmm, sounds odd, I better crosspost this to rec.radio.shortwave for
|full peer analysis.

This sounds like a SCA (Subcarrier) receiver; apparently the higher
end model SCA receiver contains better filtering to remove the main
FM signal from the output.

Subcarriers are typically transmitted from FM stations to provide
special services like talking books for the blind, Stockmarket data,
a medical news channel.

The subcarrier is typically in the 60-100khz range and modulated via
AM.

If you have a longwave receiver that covers that frequency range,
sometimes you can feed the audio output of an FM receiver into the
RF input of the longwave receiver to demodulate the SCA signal.

This typically results in a noisy signal with the main FM signal
always in the background.

An alternative is to tap off the audio right after the FM demodulator
in the FM receiver, before it is sent into a filter to remove it,
leaving a clean audio signal to amplify, and feed that into the 
longwave receiver for demodulation...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,rec.radio.shortwave
From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
Subject: Re: Taiwan news worldwide via shortwave radio
Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:02:41 GMT
	<1992Jul22.154932.7028@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>

>>>>> On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:49:32 GMT, hhwu@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (eric.wu) said:

eric.wu> I tried short wave radio once.  I got a portable one (Sharp or 
eric.wu> Panasonic or something Japanese) for <$200.  I ended up returning 
eric.wu> it the next day.  Its reception is quite poor.  Is it because of 
eric.wu> cheapy radio or is it the norm of short wave?  What does it take
eric.wu> to receive good quality short wave?

There is a whole newsgroup about shortwave "rec.radio.shortwave".
Yes, the reception is affected by many factors.  Since most Taiwan
broadcasts to the USA are relayed by station WYFR, Okeechobee, Florida
USA, they are much stronger in North America than if broadcast direct
from Taipei, but still you will have some static sounds and signal
drift.  Each day's reception will also be different due to sunspot
conditions, etc.

Many of you might even already own a shortwave radio though you didn't
notice it: my US$100 "ghetto blaster" or "boom box" even includes
shortwave ("SW1" and "SW2" bands.)

eric.wu> Someone is (mail order ads on WJ) selling a special radio for 
eric.wu> $99 that can receive Chinese program (Chiao Sheng).  I guess the 
eric.wu> program is broadcasted at a different frequency other than AM/FM 
eric.wu> so we need a special radio.  Has anybody try this?  How is the 
eric.wu> reception or the program?

eric.wu> What interests me the most is the little ear.  You can get one
eric.wu> for $288 plus shipping but I was told that you need to spend
eric.wu> more to get a higher end model.  But it will still be a good 
eric.wu> deal if the program it can receive is good.  Would somebody 
eric.wu> who has seen this kind of program tell us more about it?

Hmmm, sounds odd, I better crosspost this to rec.radio.shortwave for
full peer analysis.
-- 
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA Chinese~{;}5$Da~}Ji1Dan1ni2
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
From: ccchou@z.eecs.umich.edu (Chih-Che Chou)
Subject: Photo radar in Taiwan 
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:50:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.203450.13197@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> hwang@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Kailan Hwang) writes:
>They do set up a series of Photo-Radar detectors along the #1 Payway(it
>is never free at all).  Those detectors either got removed by PD lator
>on or got destroyed by the angry drivers. The news papers even showed
>some picturse of those detectors with bullet holes on it.  :-)
>
>The news papers did mention that the PD replaced those stationed
>detectors with mobile one.
>
There are some photo radars deployed on non-highway area.
For example, the road before the "Suchou University (East-Wu)" in Taipei.
Usually, people don't pay too much attention there unless you have been caught 
before.  :(
From: stsai@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shuoh-Ren Tsai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: address
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:58:09 GMT
Organization: UB

From: lowong@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Lopim Wong)
 
> Does anyone have the E-mail address from Taiwan's Universities?
>
> Can somebody post it? I appreciated the help, thank you.
>
> lpw
 
Well, one nice netter sent me an email about the email address of Taiwan.  I
have not tried yet.  So please do not ask me any further questions about it.
As I know, some of them do not work.  Would anyone try and send me email about
the result.
 
--- Shuoh-Ren Tsai                         stsai@acsu.buffalo.edu
    Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng.    State U. of N.Y. at Buffalo
 
Here is the email:
 
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From: rsanders@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (RRobert M Sanders)
Subject: Re: Olympic Baseball Games (Was Re: Our Olympic Baseball Team vs US Te
Keywords: Baseball
 of
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:49:25 GMT

In English we have a special term to refer to getting all four types of hits in
one game.  It is called "hitting for the cycle."  Does Chinese have an 
equivalent term?  If so, please let me know what it is.

Robert Sanders
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 31 Jul 1992 14:27:43 CDT
From: Sandy Yeh <U53298@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: Taiw Basewins again!

Good for the baseball team! Can somebody tell me if it means that we've already
made one of the finalists? (Since we've defeated Spain and Domincan...)
From: pan@arete.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Victor Pan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: Olympic Baseball Games (Was Re: Our Olympic Baseball Team vs US Te
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:11:30 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <l7gbfqINN3tt@nunki.usc.edu> mengweil@nunki.usc.edu (Meng-Wei Lin) writes:
> In article <1992Jul30.174925.5292@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
rsanders@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (RRobert M Sanders) writes:
> >In English we have a special term to refer to getting all four types of hits in
> >one game.  It is called "hitting for the cycle."  Does Chinese have an 
> >equivalent term?  If so, please let me know what it is.
> >
> >Robert Sanders
> 
> Maybe in Chinese we can call it "Da4 Man3 Guan4."
> 
> Mengwei Lin     

that is "grand slam", i think, as for "hitting for the cycle", beats me.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.taiwan:11205 soc.culture.japan:6193
From: chuang@acsu.buffalo.edu (E-Ren Chuang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Zen Story (8)
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:21:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.BrwIsK.J8M
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

>>	"I lost my keys, I am looking for my keys."
>>
>>	"I'll help you. Do you remember where about you lost you keys?"
>>	The friend said.
>>
>>	"I lost it in my house."
>>
>>	"Then why are you looking for the keys here on the street?"
>>
>>	"Oh well, don't you think that here is brighter?" 
>
>are you sure this wasn't a blonde joke?  :-)  :-)  
><duck mode on>
>laly thao
>p.s. continue with the zen postings though...very enlightening...i mean it.

An article in the latest Central Daily News are reporting the fever of
jin4-zhuo4 (still sit) in Taiwan. A lot of people go to famouse temple, 
or famous master to learn it. Some ones go to the temple which has 
some celebrities as its members because  they think this temple is
"brighter". They are blonde, aren't they? Please check the Bible
Romans 2:15, then you might know what the meanings of the "house" and
"key".

Eren Chuang.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
From: kenw@austlcm.sps.mot.com 
Subject: Re: We support Taiwan Independence
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:53:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.155919.28946@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> tylee@austin.ibm.com (Ter-Yuan Lee) writes:
>
>
>Tibet is a part of China. It was not an invasion by any means.
>Vietnam is not a part of China. Chinese did not invade Vietnam; the Chinese
>were crossing the border in return for the invasion from the Vietnamese.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Your "an eye for an eye" attitude makes you blind. 
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>
>You stupid nerd.
> 
>/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *\
> * The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of IBM's.         *
> *                                                                           *
> * Take care and have a nice day.                                            *


What a interesting post!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.japan
From: ptyshih@watnow.uwaterloo.ca (Paul T.Y. Shih (Taku or Pear))
Subject: Zen Story (8)
Originator: ptyshih@watnow.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:46:28 GMT




	A guy was looking for something on the street. One of his
	friend saw him and asked him; "Hey, what are you looking 
	for?" 

	"I lost my keys, I am looking for my keys."

	"I'll help you. Do you remember where about you lost you keys?"
	The friend said.

	"I lost it in my house."

	"Then why are you looking for the keys here on the street?"

	"Oh well, don't you think that here is brighter?" 



Xref: sparky soc.culture.taiwan:11165 soc.culture.china:20829
From: bbs@medsys.rn.com (Public BBS System)
Subject: Re: HELLO People!  Let's cool off a bit.
Reply-To: bbs@medsys.UUCP (Public BBS System)
Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, Tennessee
Date: 27 Jul 1992 03:53:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.175213.20357@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> hwang@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Kailan Hwang) writes:
>In article <1992Jul07.013655.17830@medsys.rn.com> bbs@medsys.UUCP (Public BBS System) writes:
>=In article <7565@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> chang@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Fengteng Chang) writes:
>=>
>=>Dr. George Chang gave up his US citizenship when AIT tried
>=>to help him.
>=>
>=
>=So what citizenship does Dr. Chang hold now? As far as I know, in order
>=to be granted the U.S. citizenship, one has to abandon any other 
>=citizenships one may have. Naturalized U.S. citizens can't have dual
>=citizenship.
>=
>=Chou1
>=
>
>
>I guess you don't pay much attention to American contemporary.
>Your knowledge of US law is out of date.
>

As long as it was valid when Mr. Chang got his American citizenship,
it is fine to me.

Chou1

Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
From: hwang@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Kailan Hwang)
Subject: Re: HELLO People!  Let's cool off a bit.
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:52:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul07.013655.17830@medsys.rn.com> bbs@medsys.UUCP (Public BBS System) writes:
=In article <7565@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> chang@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Fengteng Chang) writes:
=>
=>Dr. George Chang gave up his US citizenship when AIT tried
=>to help him.
=>
=
=So what citizenship does Dr. Chang hold now? As far as I know, in order
=to be granted the U.S. citizenship, one has to abandon any other 
=citizenships one may have. Naturalized U.S. citizens can't have dual
=citizenship.
=
=Chou1
=


I guess you don't pay much attention to American contemporary.
Your knowledge of US law is out of date.


-- 
| Above is my own opinion and I do not mind if Berkeley agrees with me. :-) |
| E-Mail Addr.: hwang@postgres.berkeley.edu                                 | 
| Real world: Kailan Hwang                              % flame > /dev/null |
| "The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."    --- Gunter Grass     |
From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: NBC......Gan!
Date: 26 Jul 92 05:03:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <BrzAKw.81J@watserv1.waterloo.edu> kzumy@watnow.waterloo.edu (Kazuo Uezumi) writes:
>
>	You should have known by now that americans are just like
>that. Dream team, american flag,..., why don't they mention something
>like riot, recessions? The image of the superpower country is merely a
>joke.

Why does it have to be mentioned at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies?  Hardly
a time for a dissertation on economic difficulties or social problems.
Hopefully, you'll never be the program director for such a thing - your show
will be incredibly boring and depressing...

All that stuff has dominated the news to such a massive degree lately that it
is no wonder that people look for anything positive.

NBC didn't show the PRC team in the Winter Games coverage of the opening
ceremonies, incidentally.  I guess they figured they had to make equal time to
balance opening ceremony coverage of the "two Chinas" :-) :-)

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