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Showing posts with label Others. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2026

TASA Act

This is a great news.

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Schmitt, Duckworth, Bennet’s Bipartisan Bill to Promote Space Exploration, Boost U.S.-Taiwan Relations Passes Commerce Committee (March 4, 2026) (from the press release of U.S. senator Eric Schmitt)

U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senators Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Michael Bennet (D-CO) today announced their bipartisan Taiwan and American Space Assistance Act (TASA) passed out of the Commerce Committee and will now head to the Senate floor. TASA helps the United States counter threats from China and addresses current gaps in NASA’s ability to cooperate with Taiwan’s space efforts, including satellite programs, space exploration initiatives, and atmospheric and weather research.

(source: https://www.schmitt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/schmitt-duckworth-bennets-bipartisan-bill-to-promote-space-exploration-boost-u-s-taiwan-relations-passes-commerce-committee/)

美國參議院參議員埃里克·施密特(共和黨,密蘇裡州)、塔米·達克沃斯(民主黨,伊利諾州)和邁克爾·貝內特(民主黨,科羅拉多州)在 March 4, 2026 宣布,他們共同提出的兩黨合作法案《臺灣與美國太空援助法案》(TASA)已獲商務委員會通過,即將提交參議院全體會議審議。 TASA旨在幫助美國應對來自中國的威脅,並彌補美國國家航空暨太空總署(NASA)在與臺灣太空計畫合作方面存在的不足,這些合作涵蓋衛星計畫、太空探索計畫以及大氣和氣象研究等領域。

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Monday, June 16, 2025

Let Me Stand Up Like A Taiwanese

We shouldn't take democracy and freedom for granted. This is a documentary about Peter Huang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Huang), who dedicated his life to fighting for Taiwan's democracy, freedom, and independence.

【春雨424】 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨
𝟲/𝟭𝟵 (一, 二 集) ​ 週四 𝟮𝟮:𝟬𝟬 |公視紀錄觀點
𝟲/𝟮𝟲 (三, 四 集) ​ 週四 𝟮𝟮:𝟬𝟬 |公視紀錄觀點
公視YT網路直播
公視+免費線上看
導演┃馮賢賢

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Over 90% forgery rate. That's typical KMT

Today, I'm just sharing news, but this absurd forgery rate leaves me truly speechless. Typical KMT.


Northern Prosecutors Indict Huang Lu Jin-ru and 4 Others in "Recall  Legislators Wu and Wu" Case; Prosecutors: Over 90% Forgery Rate in Petition Signatures

The Taipei District Prosecutors Office today (June 16, 2025) concluded its investigation into the "Recall Legislators Wu and Wu" group's alleged fraudulent signature collection, indicting Huang Lu Jin-ru, chairperson of the KMT Taipei City Chapter, Secretary-General Chu Wen-ching, and Wu Szu-yao recall initiator Lai Yi-jen, among five individuals, on charges including forgery of documents and illegal use of personal data. Additionally, 18 people received deferred prosecution, and 9 were not prosecuted. 

Prosecutors stated that the defendants forged the first-stage recall roster by copying signatures, with the forgery rate reaching 96.2% for the Wu Pei-yi recall petition and 94.18% for the Wu Szu-yao petition.


今天純粹貼新聞,這麼荒謬的偽造比率,我真的無言了,不愧是KMT。
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罷雙吳不實連署案起訴黃呂錦茹等5人 北檢:提議書偽造比率破9成(https://news.pts.org.tw/article/756358)
台北地檢署今日(6/16/2025)偵結台北市「罷雙吳」團體涉嫌不實連署案,依涉犯偽造文書、非法利用個資等罪,起訴國民黨台北市黨部主委黃呂錦茹、書記長初文卿、吳思瑤罷免案召集人賴苡任等5人,另有18人緩起訴、9人獲不起訴。檢方指出,被告以抄寫方式偽造一階罷免名冊,其中吳沛憶罷免案提議書偽造比率達96.2%,吳思瑤案則達94.18%。

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Friday, June 13, 2025

I am tired of being treated like this

Why can't I get angry, call the police, or chase them away in self-defense when a weirdo comes to my doorstep three times a day to spray paint, throw rocks, curse, and even put a camera in front of my door to take pictures all the time? This is really strange and doesn't make sense.

為什麼遇到怪人每天照三餐到我家門口噴漆、丟石頭、罵人,還架著攝影機對著我家大門拍照,我都不能生氣、報警、自衛趕人呢?這真是奇怪的邏輯。





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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Do not blame everything on Taipower

When I was a kid, my family always kept candles at home for emergencies. This was basic common sense in Taiwan. After flashlights became popular, we kept flashlights at home.Power outages caused by natural disasters, man-made disasters, and electric shocks from animals are common sense. There is nothing to be surprised about. Power outages will occur when the wires short-circuit and trip, when the current is too large and the fuse burns out, when trees fall and crush the wires, and when lightning strikes the transformer box. There are too many situations that can cause power outages. If the power is normal when any above situation happens, that's the time we have to worry about it.
I remember that the network of a former company was intermittent for a while. The network was optical fiber, and the quality was quite poor. My colleagues thought it was a problem with the Chunghwa Telecom and kept asking them to repair it. It was not until we moved to a new office and removed all the network cables. We found that the network cables running from the ceiling were bitten by rats and were broken in several places. No wonder the signal was so poor. At this time, everyone realized that they had wrongly blamed Chunghwa Telecom. Fortunately, the rats only bit the network line. If they had bitten the electric wires, wouldn't it have caused a power outage or even a fire? Can we blame the Taipower and the lack of nuclear power plants for this?

小時候在家裡常備蠟燭以備不時之需,這是生活的基本常識,等手電筒普及後就是常備手電筒了。
因天災人禍動物觸電造成停電,這根本就是常識,有什麼好大驚小怪的。電線短路跳電就會停電,電流過大保險絲燒掉也會停電,樹木倒塌壓倒電線會停電,閃電打到變電箱會停電,造成停電的原因太多了,這時候如果不停電才是要擔心的事情。
記得某前公司的網路有一段時間一直斷斷續續很糟糕,明明是光纖卻品質這麼差,同事都以為是中華電信的問題,一直找他們來維修。直到搬辦公室前,將所有網路線拆下,才發現從天花板走線的網路線被老鼠咬的很淒慘,好幾處都要斷不斷的,難怪訊號很差。
這時候大家才知道當初是錯怪中華電信了。還好只是咬網路線,如果是咬電線,那不就會造成停電甚至火燒,難道這也要怪台電及沒有核電廠嗎?

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Constitution of the Taiwan (ROC)

When the Constitution of the ROC was first drafted, it emphasized the independence of the five powers.  The legislative power has become dominant now, overriding the executive, judicial, supervisory, and examination powers. Isn't this strange?

Article 57 of the Constitution regulates the methods of questioning, reconsideration, and confirmation. Why do I feel that the current chaos is due to the abuse of Article 57? Maybe my understanding of the legal provisions and text is not accurate enough.

中華民國的憲法一開始在制定時,就強調五權分立,但是現在卻變成立法權獨大,凌駕行政、司法、監察及考試權之上,這樣不會很奇怪嗎?

憲法第57條的規範,規範了質詢、覆議、覆議之決議方式,為什麼我怎麼看都覺得現在的亂象是因為濫用第57條啊。有可能是我對法律條文及文字的理解不夠精確吧。

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憲法第57條:
行政院依左列規定,對立法院負責:
一、行政院有向立法院提出施政方針及施政報告之責。立法委員在開會時,有向行政院院長及行政院各部會首長質詢之權。
二、立法院對於行政院之重要政策不贊同時,得以決議移請行政院變更之。行政院對於立法院之決議,得經總統之核可,移請立法院覆議。覆議時,如經出席立法委員三分之二維持原決議,行政院院長應即接受該決議或辭職。
三、行政院對於立法院決議之法律案、預算案、條約案,如認為有窒礙難行時,得經總統之核可,於該決議案送達行政院十日內,移請立法院覆議。覆議時,如經出席立法委員三分之二維持原案,行政院院長應即接受該決議或辭職。

Article 57
The Executive Yuan shall be responsible to the Legislative Yuan in accordance with the following provisions:
1. The Executive Yuan has the duty to present to the Legislative Yuan a statement of its administrative policies and a report on its administration. While the Legislative Yuan is in session, Members of the Legislative Yuan shall have the right to question the President and the Ministers and Chairmen of Commissions of the Executive Yuan.
2. If the Legislative Yuan does not concur in any important policy of the Executive Yuan, it may, by resolution, request the Executive Yuan to alter such a policy. With respect to such resolution, the Executive Yuan may, with the approval of the President of the Republic, put a request to the Legislative Yuan for reconsideration. If, after reconsideration, two-thirds of the Members of the Legislative Yuan present at the meeting uphold the original resolution, the President of the Executive Yuan shall either abide by the same or resign from office.
3. If the Executive Yuan deems a resolution on a statutory, budgetary, or treaty bill passed by the Legislative Yuan difficult of execution, it may, with the approval of the President of the Republic and within ten days after its transmission to the Executive Yuan, request the Legislative Yuan to reconsider the said resolution. If after reconsideration, two-thirds of the Members of the Legislative Yuan present at the meeting uphold the original resolution, the President of the Executive Yuan shall either abide by the same or resign from office.

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Safety of Li Battery

This news is reported today because it's currently suspected that the fire was caused by Li battery inside the air monitoring equipment, even it is still under investigation. This makes me think of the Li battery safety certification issues I've recently encountered at work. Because it is required to self-charging the Li batteries inside our equipment continuously, we're planning to use ternary lithium batteries (NMC). Currenty, I am busy evaluating various certifications like UL 2580, UL2271, UL 62133-2, and IEC 62133-2.  I think they might have used the higher energy density ternary lithium battery (LiNiCoMnO2) instead of the lower energy density but safer lithium iron phosphate battery (LiFePO4).

Here's the news:

On April 14, 2025, a large fire occurred in Yangmingshan, Taipei. It's suspected that the lithium battery in the solar power module of an air quality sensor belonging to the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) under the National Science and Technology Council caused it. The NCHC has removed 16 air quality sensors with built-in lithium batteries installed in Hsinchu City, Nantou County, Tainan City, and Chiayi County, and has strengthened its control measures. 
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/5053708 
https://news.pts.org.tw/article/752885

I did a quick check, and it seems they were using iAeris air quality monitoring equipment: https://www.niar.org.tw/xmdoc/cont?xsmsid=0I148622737263495777&sid=0P104624748119528484  https://www.sysinnotec.com/iaeris3

今天會刊出這個新聞,是因為目前懷疑是設備裡面的鋰電池造成失火,不過詳細結果還待後續偵辦確認。想到最近工作上遇到的鋰電池安全認證議題,由於是需要能持續自動充電的鋰電池,所以規劃使用三元鋰電池。最近正在努力評估 UL 2580、UL2271、UL62133-2、IEC62133-2 等不同的認證。我覺得他們是使用能量密度較高的三元鋰電池(NMC, LiNiCoMnO2),沒有使用能量密度較低但安全性較高的磷酸鐵鋰電池(LiFePO4)。

新聞內容:

4/14/2025臺北市陽明山小油坑發生大火,懷疑是國科會旗下國網中心的空氣品質感測器中的太陽能供電模組的鋰電池所引起,國網中心已拆除安裝在新竹市、南投縣、台南市及嘉義縣的16支內建鋰電池的16支有鋰電池的空品感測器,並加強管控。
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/5053708https://news.pts.org.tw/article/752885

查了一下,他們是用 iAeris 的空品監測設備:
https://www.niar.org.tw/xmdoc/cont?xsmsid=0I148622737263495777&sid=0P104624748119528484
https://www.sysinnotec.com/iaeris3

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Friday, August 5, 2022

Taiwan for Taiwanese, China for Chinese. We are Taiwanese, not Chinese.

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

The taste of freedom

生命誠可貴,愛情價更高,若為自由故,兩者皆可拋

嚐過自由滋味的人,是不可能輕言放棄的。

US speaker makes late-night landing (Aug. 3, 2022)


China and Taiwan: A really simple guide (8/2/2022)


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Freedom love!
I need these two.
I will sacrifice for my love
The life,
I sacrifice for freedom
My love.
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Petőfi Sándor -

SZABADSÁG, SZERELEM!

Szabadság, szerelem!
E kettő kell nekem.
Szerelmemért föláldozom
Az életet,
Szabadságért föláldozom
Szerelmemet.

(Pest, 1847. január 1.)

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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Rehearsal of the 500 Drone show rehearsal in the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

The rehearsal of the 500 drone show in the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum was performed on 7/15/2022 night. The nearly 16-minute video was compressed to almost 3 minutes of time-lapse. Tonight is the official premiere.

7/15/2022 在故宮南院的無人機群飛預演,將近16分鐘的影片,被我縮時壓縮成接近3分鐘,當然檔案大小也從 10GB 壓縮成 61MB。今天晚上是正式首演。



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Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Bonus Performance: Verge Aero Delivers a Gorgeous Drone Show | AGT: Extreme 2022

After seeing many drone performances, I still think this one is the best drone performance I have ever seen.  Smooth image transitions, the sense of river flow through the sky, the color change, etc.



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Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Japanese TV drama and anime

最近看過一些日本電視劇及動漫

動漫(Anime)
名偵探柯南(未完結)
鬼滅之刃 (未完結)
魔女之旅(未完成)
86-不存在的戰區(未來要看的)
還有一些不記得了.......

電視劇(TV Drama)
還有一些不記得了.....

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Chocolate is my favorite


I love chocolate.  I am surprised to see that there are some links that are not chocolate-related stuffs when I used "choco" as a keyword to search in Google.

Choco Department is a department (province/region) of Western Colombia.  It looks it is pretty and worth visiting.

Chocoshop is a women's underwear shop in Taiwan.

What's a surprise!  



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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I Shouldn't Be Alive

We just watched "I Shouldn't Be Alive - Dive into Danger." I think I like this documentary series.

"Dive Into Danger" was first on air on 15 December 2006. It is the 6 episode in season, i.e. episode 19 of total. It talks about "In March 2002, when filming for a documentary they were making, two divers, Melissa Armstrong and Captain David Tomlinson, became stranded in the Pacific Ocean when their boat drifts away from them. As they believe help is not coming, they make a decision to swim for shore miles away or die trying.'

I Shouldn't Be Alive (also known as Alive in the UK) is a documentary television series that airs on multiple networks in the United States, the U.K., and Australia. Discovery's Animal Planet's I Shouldn't Be Alive is made by Darlow Smithson Productions, a UK-based production company.

The show features accounts of individuals and groups caught in dangerous scenarios, presented both through interviews and dramatic reenactments. Furthermore, it has been renewed for a fifth season scheduled to begin on January 5, 2011.

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Friday, December 10, 2010

Electronic Pickpocket

I just saw this information about electronic pickpocket. It is kind of scary that people can steal your identity so easy via a $8 reader.

How to Keep RFID Credit Cards Safe
RFID credit cards use a radio frequency to transmit personal financial data. They are not swiped through a scanning machine like a traditional credit card. Unfortunately, RFID credit cards can be skimmed when an unauthorized user grabs the unencrypted data from your card using an RFID reader. The technology Website EnGadget found that data from RFID credit cards is easily skimmed using an $8 reader purchased on eBay. Credit card companies are aware of the problem and are creating security fixes, but there are a number of steps you can take to protect your financial information.

1. Leave your RFID credit cards at home. If you are concerned about the safety of your information on your card, use it only at home for online purchases. Pay for purchases outside your home with cash or regular credit cards.
2. Stack your RFID credit cards together in your wallet. Putting your cards next to one another will make it harder for a scanner to read the data on a particular RFID card. However, this only offers a small amount of protection.
3. Wrap your RFID credit cards in aluminum foil before putting them in your wallet. Some users have reported that this simple, homemade technique helps block RFID scanners from reading the card.
4. Consider a credit card shield for more advanced protection. There are a number of companies that manufacture shields that hold your credit card when it is not in use. Most companies use aluminum material to prevent RFID scanners from reading the data on your card, and they usually cost less than $10.
5. Consider a special wallet, such as a DataSafe wallet, if you would prefer not to have a separate shield for each individual credit card. These wallets look completely normal, but they are manufactured with materials that have been approved by the Government Services Administration to block RFID transmissions.
6. Monitor your credit card statements regularly for errors or odd charges. Credit card theft and fraud can occur even after taking the best precautions, but regularly monitoring your bank statements can alert you to any suspicious activity.

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Video about electronic pickpocket

Video about easy protection from electronic pickpocket by aluminum foil

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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Atonement

We just watched this movie, Atonement.

A false testimony destroyed several people's lives. It is too late when you want to correct the mistake. Sad! Especially in the end.

(from IMDB)
Atonement (2007, UK) (from wiki)

Atonement is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel of the same name, directed by Joe Wright, based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, and Saoirse Ronan. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in England and France. Distributed worldwide by Universal Studios (with the North American release handled through its Focus Features division), it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 September 2007, and in North America on 7 December 2007.

Atonement opened the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at the age of 35, the youngest director ever to open the event. The film also opened the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival.

The film won an Oscar for the Best Original Score at the 80th Academy Awards, and was nominated for six others, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Saoirse Ronan). At the 61st British Academy Film Awards, it won the Best Film of the Year, and the Production Design award.

Plot

In 1935, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a 13-year-old girl from a wealthy English family, has just finished writing a play. As Briony attempts to stage the play with her cousins, they get bored and decide to go swimming. Briony stays behind and witnesses a significant moment of sexual tension between her older sister, Cecilia (Keira Knightley), and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), a man Briony has a childish crush on. Robbie returns home and writes several drafts of letters to Cecilia, including one, explicit and erotically-charged. He does not, however, intend to send it and sets it aside. On his way to join the Tallis family celebration, Robbie asks Briony to deliver his letter, only to later realise that he has mistakenly given her the prurient one. Briony secretly reads the letter and becomes still more suspicious of Robbie's intentions.

That evening, Cecilia and Robbie meet in the library, where they spontaneously have sex. During, Briony walks in on the couple and mistakenly believes that Robbie is raping her sister. During dinner it is revealed that the twins cousins have run away. Briony goes off alone into the woods looking for them and stumbles upon a man running away from apparently raping her teenaged cousin Lola. Lola claims that she does not know the identity of her attacker, but Briony is certain that it was Robbie, and tells everyone this, including the police, claiming she saw Robbie commit the act. She shows the shocking letter to her mother. Everyone believes her story – except for Cecilia. Robbie is arrested and sent to prison.

Four years later, in 1939, Robbie is released from prison on condition that he joins the army. He is reunited with Cecilia in London, where they renew their love before he is shipped off to the French front. Briony (Romola Garai), now 18, has joined Cecilia's old nursing corps at St. Thomas's in London. Her attempts at contacting her sister go unanswered, as Cecilia blames her for Robbie's imprisonment. Later, Robbie, wounded and very ill, finally arrives at the beaches of Dunkirk, where he waits to be evacuated.

Briony, now fully understanding the impact of her accusation, later visits Cecilia to apologize to her directly; Cecilia coldly replies that she will never forgive her. Robbie, in a rage that almost becomes physical, confronts Briony and demands that she immediately tell her family and the authorities the truth. Briony reveals that the rapist was actually family friend Paul Marshall (Benedict Cumberbatch), who was an adult at the time of the rape, and that he cannot be implicated in a court of law because he has married Lola.

Decades later, an elderly Briony (Vanessa Redgrave) reveals in an interview that she is dying of vascular dementia, and that her novel, Atonement, which she has been working on for most of her adult life, will be her last. In a sudden plot twist, Briony reveals that Robbie actually died at Dunkirk of septicemia while awaiting evacuation, and that Cecilia died a few months later as one of the 65 flood victims in the Balham tube station of the London Underground during The Blitz. Briony hopes that, by reuniting them in fiction, she can give them the happy conclusion to their lives that they have always deserved.


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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Lie To Me

Lie To Me is a TV show we have been watching. Well, it is amazing to use all those tiny detail behavior difference to know what people are thinking.


Lie to Me (titled as Lie To Me*) is an American television series that premiered on the Fox network on January 21, 2009. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language.

Based on the real-life scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman, the series follows Lightman and his team of deception experts as they assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies.
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FBI超強閱人術,一分鐘讀出對方心思 (作者:吳凱琳  出處:Cheers 83期 2007/08)

初次見面的陌生人,要在短時間內摸清對方底細,迅速掌握對方性格上的優缺點,依靠的就是「閱人術」。前美國聯邦調查局探員喬‧納瓦羅將運用他25年的偵察經驗,告訴你如何藉由敏銳的觀察力,從隱微的細節中看穿對方心思。

 和陌生人第一次見面時,要如何在一開始談話的幾分鐘內,了解這個人?如何和對方拉近距離?如何找到對方喜愛的話題?如何讓對方願意開口?

 這都得依靠細心而入微的觀察力,談到這裡就不能不提最近聲名大噪的喬‧納瓦羅(Joe Navarro)。

 他曾經擔任美國聯邦調查局幹員長達25年時間,是反間諜情報小組的身體語言行為分析專家,如今退休後成為美國知名的撲克牌教練。贏得牌局的關鍵就是掌握70—30法則,「其中70%來自於閱人能力,賭博技巧僅佔30%。」

 去年年底他出版了《牌桌上的閱人術》(Read'Em and Reap)新書,借重他在擔任探員期間測謊犯罪人士所練就的觀察力,教導玩家如何透過眼神、肢體動作的觀察,看透對方的心思,在牌桌上給予對方致命一擊。

觀察力可以靠後天練習

 首先最重要的,就是練習你的觀察力,其中最有效的方法之一是「回想遊戲」(recall game)。你可以在任何時候、任何地方練習。例如,當你走進一個房間之後,閉上眼睛,盡可能回想走進房間之前你看到了什麼,愈詳細愈好。

 時間久了,你也可以像納瓦羅一樣,走到朋友家的前門,就已經把周遭環境看清楚了:門前街道上停了哪些廠牌的車、隔壁房屋外有位男性在除草、另一間房子的門前放著兩份報紙……。

 另一種練習方式則是更進一步,當你觀察完周遭環境之後,還要再問自己,這些代表什麼意義?例如,除草的人應該就住在那間房子裡,因為門前的街道上沒有停放任何除草維護公司的車輛。

 答案正確與否不是重點,真正重要的是你必須訓練自己,從觀察到的線索中做出合理的推論。

 而當你真正和對方面對面接觸時,得隨時保持警覺,任何細節都不能放過。納瓦羅每次坐上牌桌,第一件事就是觀察同桌的對手,包括他們的臉部表情、雙手放的位置、坐姿、穿著打扮、發牌時出現什麼樣的臉部表情或動作。

 更重要的是競賽過程中,他會特別注意對手的行為是否出現異常。例如原本放在牌桌上的雙手突然環抱在胸前或放在大腿上,可能代表情勢變得對他不利。

雙腳動作比臉部表情更可靠

 一般我們在觀察人時,習慣第一眼就看對方的表情,但是納瓦羅卻反其道而行,先觀察對手的雙腳動作,「臉部表情可以裝,但是很少人知道如何偽裝雙腳的動作。」

 其中一個線索就是雙腳朝向的方向。根據許多針對法庭行為的研究顯示,如果法官不喜歡某個證人,通常會將雙腳朝向他們之前走進法庭時的大門。

 同樣地,當你和某個人說話時,如果對方的雙腳朝向某個方向,而不是正對著你,就代表他想要結束這場對話。

 如果對方突然雙腳(腳踝之處)交叉,就代表他有些緊張或是覺得受到威脅。

 如果對方將身體往後移,然後翹腳而坐,這就是自信的表現,代表情勢對他非常有利。

觀察不尋常的動作

 當然,觀察不只限於剛碰面的幾分鐘而已,愈到中後段,愈能看到對方真正的行為反應。因為除非接受專業訓練,否則過了一段時間,便會不經意露出馬腳。

 因此,在過程中你必須特別注意突然出現的異常行為。例如當人在緊張或是有壓力時,常會不自覺做出某些動作:

 1.觸摸或按摩頸部:我們的頸部有許多神經末梢,只要稍加按摩,就可以有效降低血壓與心跳速度,消除緊張。另外,按摩額頭或是摸耳垂,也都是一般人緊張時會出現的動作。而如果男生拉著領帶,或是女生玩弄頸上的項鍊,也代表同樣的意思。

 2.深呼吸或是話變多:深呼吸是立即平緩情緒的最簡單方法,因此當你看到對方深呼吸,就知道他可能在壓抑自己的情緒。或是在過程中對方不太愛說話,卻突然話多了起來,也代表他的情緒開始變得不穩定。

 3.用手放在大腿上:緊張時我們也會不自覺地雙手放在大腿上來回摩擦,試圖平緩自己的情緒,因此這個動作也是另一個重要的線索。
此外,有時候當你發現對方動作快速,決定很果斷,通常這麼做的目的是為了掩飾自己的沒信心。真正有自信的人會深思熟慮,而不是不假思索就做出決定,急著展現自己的信心。

 當你觀察到以上的行為時,就可以依據情況決定自己是否要趁勝追擊,迫使對方答應你的要求,或是說些話讓對方放鬆,以利接下來的對談。

從肢體語言看出對方個性

 然而,身體動作除了顯示對方當下的狀態之外,很多時候也是個性的展現。日本管理顧問武田哲男歸納出幾種常見的習慣動作,反映了特定的個性與行為模式:

 1.喜歡眨眼:這種人心胸狹隘,不太能夠信任。如果和這種人進行交涉或有事請託時,最好直截了當地說明。

 2.習慣盯著別人看:代表警戒心很強,不容易表露內心情感,所以面對他們,避免出現過度熱情或是開玩笑的言語。

 3.喜歡提高音量說話:多半是自我主義者,對自己很有自信,如果你認為自己不適合奉承別人,最好和這種人劃清界線。

 4.穿著不拘小節:也代表個性隨和,而且面對人情壓力時容易屈服,所以有事情找他們商量時,最好是套交情,遠比透過公事上的關係要來得有效。

 5.一坐下就翹腳:這種人充滿企圖心與自信,而且有行動力,下定決心後會立刻行動。

 6.邊說話邊摸下巴:通常個性謹慎,警戒心也強。

 7.將兩手環抱在胸前:做事也非常謹慎,行動力強,堅持己見。

多搜尋其他周邊線索

 不過,外表只是線索之一,你還可以從其他不同的來源,搜尋關於對方的重要資訊。《冷讀術》的作者石井裕之,提供了一些有趣的技巧,有助於摸清對方的個性。

 首先,你可以從筆跡下手:在適當的機會,請對方在一張白紙上寫下你要的資訊,像是請他寫下他的聯絡方式等。

 如果字跡潦草而寫字速度很快的人,工作速度也很快,但是通常比較馬虎粗糙,因為他認為「大略做好後再修改細節就行了」。

 寫字謹慎而慢的人,工作時會一步步邊確認邊進行、非常仔細,但是如果催促他加快速度,就不能發揮應有的水準。

 此外,手機吊飾也是很好的線索。吊飾複雜的人,通常朋友很多,是屬於怕寂寞、喜歡熱鬧的類型。沒有配戴手機吊飾,即使有也是式樣簡單的人,不大喜歡一群人在一起吵吵嚷嚷,也不大重視表面的交友關係,只與少數能真正交心的人長久交往。

 以上只是簡單說明幾種重要的觀察方法,重要的是要靠經驗的累積,只要平時多與人互動、多觀察,你也能擁有驚人的閱人能力。

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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Poland Greens

Yeah! Poland Greens has seats now. Hope to see the same result for Taiwan Green Party in today's election. By the way, today is also 2010 Victoria State Election in Australia, best wish to Victoria Greens.


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Green breakthrough in Poland (Thursday November 25 2010 05:48:00 PM)

Now all votes have been counted in Poland after last Sunday's local and regional elections 5 green seats have been confirmed. The first Polish Greens ever are elected into regional parliaments.

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Dots and Plus Signs in Gmail

I think this is a very useful information for me, so I just want to keep the article from PC Magazine in here.

An Unofficial User's Guide to Gmail

Think you know everything there is to know about the popular Web-based e-mail application from Google? Think again.

Dots and Plus Signs in the Address
When Gmail receives messages, it ignores extra periods inserted in the first part of the address. That means youraddress@gmail.com is the same as your.address@gmail.com and even y.o.u.r.address@gmail.com and your......address@gmail.com.
What's more, you can append words to the Gmail address, like so: youraddress+comics@gmail.com or youraddress+news@gmail.com. Combine dots and pluses all you want: Messages sent to your.addr.ess+superstar@gmail.com will get there nonetheless.

Why are these infinitely customizable aliases useful? They make it easier to filter messages as they arrive. Give one kind of address to friends, another to coworkers. Append +spam when you sign up for a service you fear might pass your name along, then filter out any messages sent to that address.

Better yet, sign up and append the name of the service you're using (like youraddress+pcmag@gmail.com)—you can tell when it gets passed along. That makes it easy to remember when you have to sign in using your address as a username.
Of course, not all services will let you put a plus sign in your e-mail address, so this technique may not work for you.

One more alias you can use: the domain names of gmail.com and googlemail.com are interchangeable. youraddress@googlemail.com is the same to Gmail as all the above examples. The same alias rules above apply, therefore.

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Taiwan's Taekwondo Athlete

Shame on the WTF (World Taekwondo Federation).
Shame on the ATF (Asian Taekwondo Federation)
Shame on Asian Games.
If play dirty was the only way to ensure that Chinese athlete won the gold medal, then shame on China.

Based on current information (Nov 20, 2010), the truth are
1. WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) has announced that both new and old models are NOT banned.
2. Yang put the sensors on the correct position as the manufacture suggests for that model.
3. Yang removed the sensors as request after the test kicks which was prior to the match.

之所以會換成舊款,是因為裁判要求的,這裁判是故意的嗎?如果舊款真的禁用,為什麼裁判要這麼要求?為什麼台灣的教練團不知道?而根據「20101118三立揭發電子襪事件疑點多」及 Nov 20, 2010 自由時報報導,我們可以很清楚知道,新舊款電子襪都可用,沒有所謂的禁用,更何況換上舊款還是應裁判要求的耶,也都檢查過了,也把腳後跟的感應片拆下來才上場踢的,真是欲加之罪,何患無詞。

中韓檢錄、技術人員 誣君事件主角 (自由時報 Nov 24, 2010)
〔記者梁偉銘/台北報導〕楊淑君和教練劉聰達一行人,昨天赴體委會說明「冤枉失格事件」,重建現場並描述當時的細節。由他們的陳述內容歸納,中、韓裁判和技術人員,確實是這起污衊事件的主角。

張靖欣是中國籍非韓籍

楊淑君和劉聰達出席體委會召開的會議,說明當時狀況,供體委會和法界人士分析後續處理參考,也釐清一些以訛傳訛的媒體報導,包括檢錄工程技術人員張靖欣是中國籍,並非韓籍,檢錄的女裁判才是韓籍,她們加上中國籍技術委員趙磊和韓裔菲籍洪性天沒收了楊淑君的比賽。

劉聰達指出,當初張靖欣是拿兩根檢測器,發現楊淑君第一雙新式的電子襪有問題,即腳後跟電子貼片感應不良,要求他們換一雙,劉聰達才會趕回去休息區,拿備用的舊式電子襪更換,隨後楊淑君檢查過關,沒想到後來卻因此引發軒然大波。

檢錄女裁判才是南韓籍

「張靖欣是中國人,不是先前媒體誤傳的南韓人啦!」劉聰達透露,廣州亞運賽前進行檢查工作的張靖欣,其實是中國的工程人員,檢錄女裁判才是南韓籍,後來亞跆盟顛倒是非,稱楊淑君通過檢錄後才貼上電子感應貼片,有兩個證人,應該就是指這兩人。

總教練劉慶文回顧當時的狀況,主辦單位原本似乎要硬幹,取消台灣其他跆拳道選手參賽權,黃顯詠在女子四十六公斤級的金牌戰踢完首回合後,一度被迫中斷五分鐘,險些無法再度上場,令台灣跆拳道代表隊相當緊張。劉慶文說,當時情況很亂,眾說紛紜,感覺很無助,幸好其他選手出賽沒再受影響。

楊淑君事件 我申訴獲受理/亞奧會:亞跆盟說法與影片不符 (自由時報,2010-11-20)
代表團昨展示多項證據,並找來護具供應商經理蔡智凱,展示電子襪使用圖解,他強調護具都經世跆盟認證,無法自行變造。蔡智凱現場拆封全新的電子護具,展示所有零件,除兩雙襪套、腳背、腳底感應貼片四片,以及這次事件中的爭議後跟貼片兩片,他強調,在使用說明圖解上,腳跟貼片本來就有貼上。

蔡智凱說:「其實感應貼片不是晶片,只是薄薄的金屬感應網片,既無法發射訊號,更不可能改寫頻率。」代表團還拿出最新版原文跆拳道國際規則手冊,上面明文寫著第一代電子襪,使用期限將到二○一二年五月十七日,並無明訂如何使用以及相關罰則,全面推翻梁振錫的鬼話。

Nov. 17, 2010 on youtube: Taiwanese taekwondo athlete disqualified at Asian Games over...... socks!?!?!?

[Taiwanese taekwondo athlete disqualified at Asian Games over...... socks!?!?!?] The word "Skepticism" in 7:55 should be "conspiracy", my fault. If you want to catch the important points, please turn to 2:52, 4:42, 5:51, 7:32

說楊淑君作弊,8種說法,4種原因,都是謊言! (Nov 19, 2010 by Billy Pan)

Nov 18, 2010 on youtube: 三立揭發電子襪事件疑點多


Taiwan fury after athlete's Asian Games disqualification in China (CNN, November 17, 2010)
"This was an extremely unfair decision. I don't know what was wrong. All of my electronic protective equipment followed official specifications," she said on Wednesday.
"I brought two pairs of WTF-certified socks with me. The Chinese examiner asked me to scrap the first pair, but the second pair passed the examination.
"Before the start of [yesterday's] bout, the chief judge carefully examined all the equipment on my body and did not raise any questions."

Follow Up to CNN report "Taiwan fury after athlete's Asian Games disqualification in China"

黑襪事件/不知者不罪? 中華跆拳道教練團恐難卸責(2010/11/18 14:01)

兩片感應片 網友密搜:根本拔下 沒上場 (中廣新聞網╱程平 2010-11-18)
讓楊淑君被判失格的兩片感應片,其實在比賽開始之前,就已經在主審的要求下,由教練劉聰達取下,之後一直到洪性天提出質疑時,主審才又跑去劉聰達身邊,將這兩片感應片取走,過程中也沒有再次檢查楊淑君的電子襪,顯見大會是憑著兩片從來沒有在正式比賽過程中出現的感應片,就判定楊淑君失格,對此,楊淑君的師兄,國民黨立委黃志雄認為,「這何來失格之有」?

曾替台灣奪下雅典奧運跆拳道金牌的陳詩欣則認為,中華隊的教練太大意,因為去大陸或韓國比賽,一定要注意被動手腳,賽前被取下的兩片感應片,應該早點收好。

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