2011年8月29日星期一

2011.08.29Part2[ 美孚JR敗訴,中港樓市,簫生與阿旦,港大往事]

美孚JR敗訴,中港樓市,簫生與阿旦,港大往事

2011年08月29日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,慢必,Mark

2011.08.29Part1[保安事務委員會特別會議,G4的証言,一哥賴港大,品評兩篇報章宣言,麗港城之「黑影靈體」,唐英年民意插水]

保安事務委員會特別會議,G4的証言,一哥賴港大,品評兩篇報章宣言,麗港城之「黑影靈體」,唐英年民意插水

2011年08月29日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,慢必,Mark



不同人士及團體在報章刊登聲明,支持或反對警方在李克強訪港期間的保安安排。
http://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=11226




本台片段證警方曾阻撓採訪
http://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=11330

2011年8月26日星期五

2011.08.26Part2[Apple之未來,評論自由黨青年小組李梓敬,吉祥航空拒不避讓事件,解放軍鬼拍後尾枕]

Apple之未來,評論自由黨青年小組李梓敬,吉祥航空拒不避讓事件,解放軍鬼拍後尾枕

2011年08月26日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,劉嗡,Mark

專家稱吉祥航空拒不避讓事件可能涉及刑責
http://news.eastday.com/c/20110828/u1a6076717.html

吉祥航空、卡塔爾航空航班空中搶道風波現場還原東方IC供圖

8月13日下午,雨霧瀰漫著上海虹橋機場。一架卡塔爾班機稱剩油僅夠維持5分鐘發出緊急信號要求提前降落,空管部門要求前方的吉祥航空班機讓開跑道,不想該班機竟然拒絕讓路---近期發生的吉祥航空"拒讓門"事件,引發人們對"空路"規則的熱議。在"拒讓門"事件中,各方究竟孰是孰非?"空路"規則由誰說了算?如何規避此類險情的發生?……羊城晚報記者針對這些問題展開調查和採訪。

空中搶道

據民航華東地區管理局24日在官網上發佈的信息顯示:8月13日,因浦東機場天氣原因,卡塔爾航空公司多哈至浦東QR888航班在等待降落過程中,該航班機組報告油量不足,申請備降虹橋機場。當班管制員獲悉後立即啟動優先落地程序,要求吉祥航空公司HO1112航班避讓,但該航班機組未能立即執行指令。管制員隨即重新調整航班降落順序,指揮卡塔爾航空公司QR888航班安全著陸虹橋機場。
而來自網上的消息稱,當時卡塔爾航空飛行員呼叫「MAYDAY」請求緊急降落,但吉祥航空機長也自稱油量不足,沒有主動讓路。
26日,民航華東地區管理局介紹調查新進展,稱兩家民航班機相隔4分鐘分別降落在不同的跑道。調查結果顯示,卡塔爾航班當時還存有5噸油,夠續航半小時,而吉祥航空班機油量還有2-3噸左右,足夠續航1小時。目前,當事雙方表示,以民航當局的調查結果為準。吉祥航空班機機組所涉及人員已經暫停飛行。
兩句不實之語,加上一個蠻橫的舉動,險些釀成一個巨大的事故。不過,對於這兩個謊言,公眾有著不同的評價。「卡塔爾的謊報只能說是佔小便宜,吉祥航空的行為卻形同謀殺」,網友「半杯可樂」如是說。這個說法得到了很多網友的認可。

仍在調查

「飛機必須嚴格遵守空管的指揮,因為這樣才能保證機場的秩序和飛行的安全。如果不聽從指揮,將面臨嚴格的處罰。」白雲機場有關工作人員告訴羊城晚報記者。
在極為特殊的情況下,飛機是否可以為了公共利益等不遵守空管的命令而自處呢?民生證券航空業分析師王曉艷表示,「除非有極個別的特例。比如,當值班飛行員在降落時通過自己的目測等發現,相關指令並不能絕對保障乘客的生命和財產安全時,其就會違背民航局指令,以安全為前提,作另一番處理。」
有關專家表示,從目前掌握的情況來看,吉祥航空航班的行為並不具備「極個別的特例」的條件,是明顯的違規行為。
對於違規行為,航空公司一般會如何懲處?南方航空公司的有關工作人員告訴羊城晚報記者,各個航空公司的做法略有不同,南航在這方面有非常健全的制度,會根據飛行員實際犯錯誤的大小、是否故意等情況分別處理,主要的措施包括停飛甚至開除等。
吉祥航空有關負責人在接受羊城晚報記者採訪時首次表示,民航局調查結束後,將會對相關處理意見提出「建議」,該公司將以此為依據對相關責任人員進行處理。而對於公司內部的相關規定,該負責人未透露。

或涉刑責

中國政法大學航空與空間法研究中心研究員張起淮在接受羊城晚報專訪時表示,「當時卡塔爾的航班已經發出MAYDAY信號,這是民航飛行中最高等級的遇險信號,一般會在遭遇劫機、機艙著火或爆炸、少油等十分嚴峻的情況下才會使用,相當於海難當中的SOS。如果查實吉祥航空機長的做法的確無特殊緣由而拒不避讓,那麼其要承擔相應的法律責任,甚至是終生停飛。此前比這要輕微很多的違規行為,都有被處終生停飛的先例。」
「如果最後查證吉祥航空的機長在接到命令後拒不執行,繼續自行降落,而並沒有其他特殊情況,那就還要涉及刑法的內容。」張起淮說。這種觀點不僅來自專家學者,也同樣來自其他航空業從業人員。一位不願意透露姓名的航空業人士表示:「這種行為如果不嚴懲,將來越來越多的人這麼做,那發生重大事故就只是遲早的事了。」
這種行為會觸犯什麼罪名呢?張起淮表示,如果造成了比較嚴重的後果,比如機毀人亡等,就涉嫌構成「重大責任事故罪」或「危害公共安全罪」。根據《刑法》相關規定,最高甚至可以判死刑。
不過,也有業內人士認為,因航道資源緊張,加上當時天氣情況不好,有可能出現機組為搶先降落,以謊報油量的方式緊急呼叫、要求緊急降落的情況,由此導致機組之間缺乏誠信,互不相讓。
對此,張起淮說,如果卡塔爾航空作出了不符合規定的呼叫,一經查實,會受到處罰。若吉祥航空謊報了自己的油量,也將受到處罰,對給其他航空器造成的損失也應承擔責任。

航空專家許耿睿:

美國

若不聽從空中管制或令軍機將其擊落

航空專家許耿睿生於中國台灣,現在成都工作。每個月他都會專門去機場幾次,專門拍攝和研究飛機。對於飛機起落的相關規定和具體操作,他都瞭然於胸。本次「拒讓門」事件發生後,他進行了非常詳細的研究。8月26日下午,他接受了羊城晚報記者的獨家專訪———

羊城晚報:像這種飛機拒不避讓的情況,我國以前是否曾經發生過?這種事件發生的頻率如何?
許耿睿:這種情況不要說在中國,在全世界範圍內都是十分罕見的,這實在是匪夷所思。按照國際普遍的規則,只要空中的飛機發出MAYDAY,就意味進入緊急狀態,有墜毀的可能,需要迫切救助,這個時候,無論是「空軍一號」,還是一般民用、軍用航班,都要給它避讓。在美國,如果這樣不聽從空中管制的航班,有可能會出動軍機將其擊落,在「911」事件之後,美國就已經授權軍方了。
羊城晚報:從我國實際操作的情況看,當有航班發出MAYDAY信號或發生其他問題後,相關的航班可以採取一些怎樣的措施來幫助發信號的航班?
許耿睿:除了按照指揮讓發信號的航班優先降落,為其避讓外,其他航班最主要的幫助方法就是靜默。這樣可以將溝通的平台留給發信號的航班,保持其和管制員之間的溝通順暢,從而有利於危險的解決。此前不久,國內某航空公司有一個航班,兩個發動機中有一個壞了,其他航班就全部靜默,最後協助該航班平安降落。
羊城晚報:事發後,網上稱卡塔爾的航班在發出MAYDAY信號時稱還有5分鐘油量,如果果真如此,其危險程度有多大?後來卡塔爾方面表示還有半小時的油量,在這種情況下它可以發出MAYDAY信號嗎?
許耿睿:如果真的只有5分鐘的油量,那危險程度就非常高了。它只能一次降落成功,連復飛一次的機會都沒有。只要降落失敗,就是機毀人亡。因此,虹橋地面得知QR888航班三次發出MAYDAY呼號後便出動消防車待命。發出信號的卡塔爾航班是波音777-300型,非常巨大,乘客眾多。出於對乘客的生命安全考慮,當機上所剩的油僅夠維持半小時甚至以下的時候,是可以發出MAYDAY信號的,這也是符合國際通則的。
羊城晚報:吉祥航空也曾在下降前表示自己的油也不夠用了,僅夠維持幾分鐘,會不會是該飛機上的顯示系統出問題導致機長認為自己飛機的油不夠採取了不避讓的態度?
許耿睿:吉祥航空的是空客320,機型比卡塔爾的要小很多,常規座位是120人左右。後來的調查顯示,它的油還夠用一個小時。如果真的是儀器顯示錯誤,發現油不夠,機長早就應該發出MAYDAY信號了,而不是等別人發出後自己才表示油「也不夠了」。
羊城晚報:如果卡塔爾航班真的因為油不夠而無法降落,最壞的後果會怎樣?吉祥航空的機長對此應有預料,你覺得他是出於什麼考慮最終不避讓的?
許耿睿:波音777-300最多座位數量為550個,典型座位數量368,機上人數眾多。其降落當天上海市雨霧天氣,如果油耗盡很容易墜落上海市區。就算在黃浦江迫降,因為黃浦江江道較彎,也很難獲得較好的迫降效果,甚至可能波及鬧市。吉祥航空機長最終採取不避讓的做法,可能是考慮到如果避讓,就必須轉一圈重新排隊,當時空中有十幾個航班都在等待,它如果又排在最後一位,意味著要多耗燃油。

相關鏈接

一機發遇險信號時,他機應暫停發信號

中華人民共和國飛行基本規則》的相關規定
一機發遇險信號時,他機應暫停發信號

第九十四條 執行不同任務的航空器或者不同型別的航空器,在同一機場同時飛行的,應當根據具體情況安排優先起飛和降落的順序。
對執行緊急或者重要任務的航空器,班期飛行或者轉場飛行的航空器,速度大的航空器,應當允許優先起飛;對有故障的航空器,剩餘油量少的航空器,執行緊急或者重要任務的航空器,班期飛行和航路、航線飛行或者轉場飛行的航空器,應當允許優先降落。

第一百零一條 在飛行中遇到嚴重危及航空器和人員安全的情況時,飛行人員應當利用一切手段,重複發出規定的遇險信號。其他航空器飛行人員在飛行中收到遇險信號,應當暫時停止使用無線電發信號,必要時協助遇險航空器重複發出遇險信號。
第一百一十八條 飛行人員未按本規則規定履行職責的,由有關部門依法給予行政處分或者紀律處分;情節嚴重的,依法給予吊扣執照一個月至六個月的處罰,或者責令停飛一個月至三個月;構成犯罪的,依法追究刑事責任。

宣佈最低油量後,最多可飛半個鐘
《大型飛機公共航空運輸承運人運行合格審定規則》第121.555條(b):最低油量是指飛行過程中應當報告空中交通管制員採取應急措施的一個特定燃油油量最低值。該油量是在考慮到規定的燃油油量指示系統誤差後,最多可以供飛機在飛抵著陸機場後,能以等待空速在高於機場標高450米(1500英尺)的高度上飛行30分鐘。








Chinese State TV Alludes to U.S. Website Attacks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904009304576528363095538754.html




2011.08.26Part1[港大集會,核心保安區,Steve Jobs]

港大集會,核心保安區,Steve Jobs

2011年08月26日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,劉嗡,Mark

















蘋果電腦執行長 Steve Jobs 於 2005 年 6 月 12 日受邀在美國史丹佛大學畢業典禮上發表的這篇演講,也是我想勉勵自己的話。

今天,有榮幸來到各位從世界上最好的學校之一畢業的畢業典禮上。我從來沒從大學畢業。說實話,這是我離大學畢業最近的一刻。

Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

今天,我只說三個故事,不談大道理,三個故事就好。

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

第一個故事,是關於人生中的點點滴滴怎麼串連在一起。

The first story is about connecting the dots.

我在里德學院(Reed college)待了六個月就辦休學了。到我退學前,一共休學了十八個月。那麼,我為什麼休學?這得從我出生前講起。我的親生母親當時是個研究生,年輕未婚媽媽,她決定讓別人收養我。她強烈覺得應該讓有大學畢業的人收養我,所以我出生時,她就準備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養。但是這對夫妻到了最後一刻反悔了,他們想收養女孩。所以在等待收養名單上的一對夫妻,我的養父母,在一天半夜裡接到一通電話,問他們「有一名意外出生的男孩,你們要認養他嗎?」而他們的回答是「當然要」。後來,我的生母發現,我現在的媽媽從來沒有大學畢業,我現在的爸爸則連高中畢業也沒有。她拒絕在認養文件上做最後簽字。直到幾個月後,我的養父母同意將來一定會讓我上大學,她才軟化態度。

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

十七年後,我上大學了。但是當時我無知選了一所學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學,我那工人階級的父母所有積蓄都花在我的學費上。六個月後,我看不出唸這個書的價值何在。那時候,我不知道這輩子要幹什麼,也不知道唸大學能對我有什麼幫助,而且我為了唸這個書,花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄,所以我決定休學,相信船到橋頭自然直。當時這個決定看來相當可怕,可是現在看來,那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。當我休學之後,我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課,把時間拿去聽那些我有興趣的課。

This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍,所以我睡在友人家裡的地板上,靠著回收可樂空罐的五先令退費買吃的,每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個鎮去印度教的 Hare Krishna 神廟吃頓好料。我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。追尋我的好奇與直覺,我所駐足的大部分事物,後來看來都成了無價之寶。

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.

舉例來說:當時里德學院有著大概是全國最好的書法指導。在整個校園內的每一張海報上,每個抽屜的標籤上,都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學了,可以不照正常選課程序來,所以我跑去學書法。我學了serif 與san serif 字體,學到在不同字母組合間變更字間距,學到活版印刷偉大的地方。書法的美好、歷史感與藝術感是科學所無法捕捉的,我覺得那很迷人。

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

我沒預期過學的這些東西能在我生活中起些什麼實際作用,不過十年後,當我在設計第一台麥金塔時,我想起了當時所學的東西,所以把這些東西都設計進了麥金塔裡,這是第一台能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

如果我沒沉溺於那樣一門課裡,麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟變間距字體了。又因為Windows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式,如果當年我沒這樣做,大概世界上所有的個人電腦都不會有這些東西,印不出現在我們看到的漂亮的字來了。

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

當然,當我還在大學裡時,不可能把這些點點滴滴預先串在一起,但是這在十年後回顧,就顯得非常清楚。我再說一次,你不能預先把點點滴滴串在一起;唯有未來回顧時,你才會明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起的。

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

所以你得相信,你現在所體會的東西,將來多少會連接在一塊。你得信任某個東西,直覺也好,命運也好,生命也好,或者業力。這種作法從來沒讓我失望,也讓我的人生整個不同起來。

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well- worn path, and that will make all the difference.

我的第二個故事,有關愛與失去。

My second story is about love and loss.

我好運-年輕時就發現自己愛做什麼事。我二十歲時,跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫裡開始了蘋果電腦的事業。我們拼命工作,蘋果電腦在十年間從一間車庫裡的兩個小夥子擴展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億美金的公司,在那之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品-麥金塔,而我才剛邁入人生的第三十個年頭,然後被炒魷魚。

I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired.

要怎麼讓自己創辦的公司炒自己魷魚?

How can you get fired from a company you started?

好吧,當蘋果電腦成長後,我請了一個我以為他在經營公司上很有才幹的傢伙來,他在頭幾年也確實幹得不錯。可是我們對未來的願景不同,最後只好分道揚鑣,董事會站在他那邊,炒了我魷魚,公開把我請了出去。曾經是我整個成年生活重心的東西不見了,令我不知所措。有幾個月,我實在不知道要幹什麼好。我覺得我令企業界的前輩們失望-我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創辦HP的David Packard跟創辦Intel的Bob Noyce,跟他們說我很抱歉把事情搞砸得很厲害了。我成了公眾的非常負面示範,我甚至想要離開矽谷。但是漸漸的,我發現,我還是喜愛著我做過的事情,在蘋果的日子經歷的事件沒有絲毫改變我愛做的事。我被否定了,可是我還是愛做那些事情,所以我決定從頭來過。

Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

當時我沒發現,但是現在看來,被蘋果電腦開除,是我所經歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重被從頭來過的輕鬆所取代,每件事情都不那麼確定,讓我自由進入這輩子最有創意的年代。接下來五年,我開了一家叫做 NeXT的公司,又開一家叫做Pixar的公司,也跟後來的老婆談起了戀愛。Pixar接著製作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影,玩具總動員,現在是世界上最成功的動畫製作公司。

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

然後,蘋果電腦買下了NeXT,我回到了蘋果,我們在NeXT發展的技術成了蘋果電腦後來復興的核心。我也有了個美妙的家庭。

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.

我很確定,如果當年蘋果電腦沒開除我,就不會發生這些事情。這帖藥很苦口,可是我想蘋果電腦這個病人需要這帖藥。有時候,人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。我確信,我愛我所做的事情,這就是這些年來讓我繼續走下去的唯一理由。你得找出你愛的,工作上是如此,對情人也是如此。

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.

你的工作將填滿你的一大塊人生,唯一獲得真正滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作,而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事。如果你還沒找到這些事,繼續找,別停頓。盡你全心全力,你知道你一定會找到。而且,如同任何偉大的關係,事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。
所以,在你找到之前,繼續找,別停頓。

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.

我的第三個故事,關於死亡。

My third story is about death.

當我十七歲時,我讀到一則格言,好像是「把每一天都當成生命中的最後一天,你就會輕鬆自在。」這對我影響深遠,在過去33年裡,我每天早上都會照鏡子,自問:「如果今天是此生最後一日,我今天要幹些什麼?」每當我連續太多天都得到一個「沒事做」的答案時,我就知道我必須有所變革了。提醒自己快死了,是我在人生中下重大決定時,所用過最重要的工具。因為幾乎每件事-所有外界期望、所有名譽、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼-在面對死亡時,都消失了,只有最重要的東西才會留下。提醒自己快死了,是我所知避免掉入自己有東西要失去了的陷阱裡最好的方法。

When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

人生不帶來,死不帶去,沒什麼道理不順心而為。

You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

一年前,我被診斷出癌症。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描,在胰臟清楚出現一個腫瘤,我連胰臟是什麼都不知道。醫生告訴我,那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之症,我大概活不到三到六個月了。醫生建議我回家,好好跟親人們聚一聚,這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議。那代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。那代表你得把每件事情搞定,家人才會盡量輕鬆。那代表你得跟人說再見了。

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

我整天想著那個診斷結果,那天晚上做了一次切片,從喉嚨伸入一個內視鏡,從胃進腸子,插了根針進胰臟,取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮靜劑,不醒人事,但是我老婆在場。她後來跟我說,當醫生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞後,他們都哭了,因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌,可以用手術治好。所以我接受了手術,康復了。

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.

這是我最接近死亡的時候,我希望那會繼續是未來幾十年內最接近的一次。經歷此事後,我可以比之前死亡只是抽象概念時要更肯定告訴你們下面這些:

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept.

沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人,也想活著上天堂。但是死亡是我們共有的目的地,沒有人逃得過。這是註定的,因為死亡簡直就是生命中最棒的發明,是生命變化的媒介,送走老人們,給新生代留下空間。現在你們是新生代,但是不久的將來,你們也會逐漸變老,被送出人生的舞台。抱歉講得這麼戲劇化,但是這是真的。

No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.

你們的時間有限,所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活裡。不要被信條所惑-盲從信條就是活在別人思考結果裡。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。最重要的,擁有跟隨內心與直覺的勇氣,你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人。任何其他事物都是次要的。

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

在我年輕時,有本神奇的雜誌叫做 Whole Earth Catalog,當年我們很迷這本雜誌。那是一位住在離這不遠的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發行的,他把雜誌辦得很有詩意。那是1960年代末期,個人電腦跟桌上出版還沒發明,所有內容都是打字機、剪刀跟拍立得相機做出來的。雜誌內容有點像印在紙上的Google,在Google出現之前35年就有了:理想化,充滿新奇工具與神奇的註記。Stewart跟他的出版團隊出了好幾期Whole Earth Catalog,然後出了停刊號。當時是1970年代中期,我正是你們現在這個年齡的時候。在停刊號的封底,有張早晨鄉間小路的照片,那種你去爬山時會經過的鄉間小路。

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.

在照片下有行小字:「求知若飢,虛心若愚」那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息,我總是以此自許。當你們畢業,展開新生活,我也以此期許你們:「求知若飢,虛心若愚」

Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

非常謝謝大家。

Thank you all, very much.







2011年8月24日星期三

2011.08.24Part2[馬仔舌戰周融,大學學權之歷史,菲律賓人質慘劇案一週年,唐唐勁過三世祖,商界大迫宮,邊緣回望-孝道]

馬仔舌戰周融,大學學權之歷史,菲律賓人質慘劇案一週年,唐唐勁過三世祖,商界大迫宮,邊緣回望-孝道

2011年08月24日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,馬草泥,一樹


2011.08.24Part1[卡達菲家族去向不明 ,義鳥兵,沙田替補大混戰,批「國家行為」論]

卡達菲家族去向不明 ,義鳥兵,沙田替補大混戰,批「國家行為」論

2011年08月24日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,馬草泥,一樹







昨日(2011年8月23日)特區政府為替補機制舉行首場公開論壇,香港人網亦有派出記者到場進行採訪,惟本網記者卻被在場負責職員以香港人網並非傳統媒體為由,粗暴驅逐員離場,禁止繼續進行採訪工作。本網認為此舉有嚴重打壓新聞自由之嫌。

香港人網成立至今已經六年,作為新時代網絡媒體,社會認受性甚高。過去香港人網一直有記者採訪立法會大小會議、公聽會、公開論壇等市民關注的時事活動,並未受到任何阻撓。在採訪期間,本網記者亦遵守所有規則,未有任何違規的行為,但是本網記者在今次替補機制公開論壇卻遭受無理的阻撓。

本網對於公開論壇負責人員在未有交代任何原因的情況下禁止本網記者進行採訪,並驅逐離場一事,表示強烈不滿。本網現要求主辦單位公開交代禁止本網採訪的原因,並就是次踐踏新聞自由之行為作出道歉。


香港人網
二零一一年八月二十四日




周顯: 人口結構涉主權 特區法院無權判

有關外傭居留權應不應該交由「人大釋法」的問題,坊間眾口紛紜,但俱不得要領。一言以蔽之,這是由於香港在這一百多年來,曾是中國邊陲的英國殖民地、以至今天的特別行政區,所謂法律界的法制觀,局限於狹窄的視野,即是強於實效、精於打官司、拘泥於條文字句,而對國家大法等觀念或視若無睹,或略識之無,是以其論亦有如隔靴搔癢、文不對題。本文就是從宏觀角度去看這案件,以證出坊間有關《基本法》和此案的觀念,是如何的訴諸皮毛,而不識國家法制、法律哲學和憲法的根本。

一個國家最基本的基礎是甚麼?這問題也即是問:甚麼是一個國家?答案是:主權。第二個問題是:甚麼是主權?答案有很多,但是一個主權國家的兩大基本因素是:土地和人民。換言之,在一個主權國家而言,沒有任何事物,比土地和人民更重要的了。

土地人民組成國家
香港是中國的特別行政區,享有高度的自治權。但是,香港並非一個獨立的國家,所以並不能擁有獨立的主權。換言之,有關主權的獨立要素,即土地和人民,香港並不能享有完全的決定權。舉例說,香港政府可以將一塊黃金地段的土地拍賣給任何一個外國財團,但卻不能把整個昂船洲賣掉給一個單一的外國人,因為這可以涉及有關土地主權的出賣。

同樣道理,香港特區政府可以自行決定接受外國移民政策,香港的法院也能自行判決外國移民能否獲得本地居留權。但這權力是有限的,政府批准一千個、一萬個移民,這是它的權力範圍。但是,如果外國移民的數目是十萬、一百萬、一千萬呢?這龐大的數目牽涉到整個城市的人口結構,便是屬於國家主權的問題,並非一個特別行政區政府所能決定的事,自然也不是特區的一個法院的其中一個或幾個法官所能決定的。

可以這樣說,沒有一個國家的地方法院,可以作出可以改變其人口結構的判決,這必須由中央政府的最高司法機關,甚至是要由國會去決定,在嚴重的個案中,這也許需要全國公投。因為事體影響大,改變人口結構是嚴重得往往需要由公投去決定的重大事項,單由一個特別行政區政府的法院便可以拍板決定,未免不合體制,亦可算是兒戲胡鬧到了極點。

香港的法律界人才鼎盛,但很可惜,精於打官司者眾,資深大律師們對於民事刑事諸案的條文案例熟極如流,法學院也常常撰寫有關於法律的文章,但俱都局限於法律的「專業主義」這一部份。有關法律哲學、國家大法如主權等等上層結構的討論,可以說,香港從來都是交了白卷,從來沒有出過一位會受國際法學界尊重的重量級大師。故而當我們討論到有關國家大法時,論者未免荒腔走板,莫不脫節了。

對於外傭居留權案件,總括一句,我們只能搬用克林頓當年的名句,稍為改動一下:「這是主權,笨蛋!」(It’s the sovereignty, stupid!)

2011年8月22日星期一

2011.08.22Part1[外傭案開審,民主黨裡外不是人,工專聯、工黨成立,鄧穎超日記,黎智英之思考藝術]

外傭案開審,民主黨裡外不是人,工專聯、工黨成立,鄧穎超日記,黎智英之思考藝術

2011年08月22日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,慢必,劉嗡




2011.08.22Part1[劉嗡的澳紐行,的黎波里之戰,港大新舊生齊抗議]

劉嗡的澳紐行,的黎波里之戰,港大新舊生齊抗議

2011年08月22日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,慢必,劉嗡

2011年8月19日星期五

2011.08.19Part2[胡錦濤南巡,宋祖英老公重見天日,故宮大醜聞,北宋五大名窯,名貴木器,免費報大血戰,電視狂人王維基,解說柳永《八聲甘州》]

胡錦濤南巡,宋祖英老公重見天日,故宮大醜聞,北宋五大名窯,名貴木器,免費報大血戰,電視狂人王維基,解說柳永《八聲甘州》

2011年08月19日
主持:蕭若元,勒民知,慢必

眾星助陣劉老根會所開幕 宋祖英老公首度亮相
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2011-08/17/c_121872541.htm

北宋五大名窯
http://www.hudong.com/wiki/北宋五大名窑


城市電訊多媒體創作中心 Presentation:
http://reg.hkbn.net/ctigroup_admin/files_upload/PR_Multimedia_Presentation_C.pdf

新聞稿:
http://reg.hkbn.net/ctigroup_admin/files_upload/20110815_MultimediaCenter_PR_C.pdf



八聲甘州 柳永

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