shooting

Recently the shootings at Virginia Tech University had 33 die was the worst shooting in US history. This thing gave many students shocked and upset, at the same time also alert people worried about the safety on a college campus. In this tragedy, many students were bothered by the 2 hours interval between shootings, questioning why the gunman was not caught, why the university didn’t notify people faster, and why the university was not immediately shut down. I think it’s very sad and saddened by it. Also, I think university has part of responsibility for this crime, because if school had shut down at the first attack then won’t have this many people would die in this thing. Somehow, there is a warning for campus safety problem. Many students and parents have thought that living on-campus is better off-campus for safety, because there are many securities around on-campus. However, I think that is so wrong, no place is safe, only we can protect ourselves

Global Warming

Global Warming is one of hottest topic recently. Since last year, I could feel the weather has much different then used to be. For example, Northern California usually begin to snowfall after Thanksgiving about beginning of November, but in this year, it started to fall snow at beginning of January; furthermore, the weather in the bay area usually stop raining after March, but now weather report shows the climate still has chance to rain in next few weeks. Therefore, the seasons have not become as normal as before, and I understand that global warming is a serious problem that can’t neglect it.

When I start to concern the problems of global warming, I recognized that it is not only the weather becomes unpredictable, but also it causes the damage of economy from the global warming. Some scholars think because of global warming is mainly reason to increase the temperature of sea surface. The first requirement of becoming a hurricane is that the temperature of the sea surface must be up to 26 degrees Celsius. There is no creditable evident to show that higher temperature of sea surface can increase the number of hurricanes became, but some people believed that when the temperature of sea surface reach up to 26 degrees Celsius can cause the number of destructiveness of the hurricanes becoming major hurricanes (category 4 and up) has increased. So there have some relationship between destructiveness of hurricanes and economy losses, for example, the hurricane Katrina made the Unite State lost $81.2 billion dollars in 2005, and this number only showed the cost of damage when that time. The estimated number didn’t include the intangible such as people could not continue to wok after Katrina hurt; also government had to set up a budget to aid people to settle down.

This problem is only a comer of iceberg, and more troubles like the sea level has risen because of the global warming. The prediction shows Manhattan will vulnerable to flooding about 1 meter (3 feet) by 2100. Even though some countries will disappear and the governments have to decide to abandon their grounds and to move another land or countries; in addition, it is because the temperature of the Earth goes up and mortify the climate system, the agriculture patterns changed. According the studying, the percentage of rainfall in the area of tropic is getting less, but the countries of toward poles are gaining rainfall increasingly. So the people in tropical countries can not produce enough major food, which is rice, with only little rainfall; poleward countries like Canada also can not plant their agricultural products with profuse water.

In March 2007, thing has been changed, because California passed the Clear Air Act. The mainly propose is reducing the emission of carbon dioxide by burning the gasoline from the cars. Carbon dioxide is the most element to trap heat in atmosphere, and also increasing the emission of greenhouse gas. California government is going to enforce this rule beginning from 2009 years by requiring automakers increasing the population number of hybrid car and decreasing the number of tradition car, which movement by burning the fuel. The estimated number of doing this action will decrease greenhouse gas emission about 30% in 2019 year. Following this action, California is a leader to direct other 17 states either passed the same action or considered copying California’s law to require automakers to cut greenhouse as emission from cars staring with the 2009 model years and the amount of cutting in greenhouse gas emission will increasingly from 30% to 50% by others’ following. . However, it is a grand step and also important action to lead people survival within 10 decades in the futures. I believe that might have more countries willing follow and agree what CA has done within next few years.

piracy issue in China

it's a big challenger for stopping china to piracy music, movie, and softwares and US government enforce china government to face this problems. Since internet has populated 2000's, people can't stop to download and copy the intellectual property from others. the most serious counterfeited country is China. According to new showed US trade deficit with China soared to 235.5 billion in which the highest imbalance ever with another nation. It's also said the intellectual property protection in China has significantly decreased over 3 years specifically in software practiced. It's a big improvement, but still not enough. However, US complaint to WTO to enforce China to do more actions and whatever China will do in future, hopeful will be better.

100 million iPod

it's amazing number of one product has been sold since Nov 2001, and it will continues go up in the future. Since Apple has changed its strategy to sell the color-style of computer and accessories like iPod, it became the number one of MP3 seller combine its service, which is iTunes. iTunes is the first contributed to make the sold number of iPod go straight up in every year. Also, basically the iPod user can store their favorite music by purchasing musics from online iTunes store with $0.99 per song, it's a convenient tool to gather the musics people's want. However, Apple's success story can really proud of themselves by its incredible number of iPod be sold

download music legally...

EMI is going to offer the unrestricted music through by iTunes store for $1.29 a song. That's big step for the major music company to sell the unprotected songs which can change and download any kind of format of music by legally way. This action will not only lead the tradition music CD into digital field, also will help EMI to gain back the customers who have listened music on MP3 format. in addition, EMI also provide the high quality for sounds compare with the music downloaded from somewheres. By another chance to other brands such Microsoft, Creative and SandDisk can compete with Apple again, yet increasing he potential open up competition in market for music players, said news.