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Nobel Prizes Awarded
imrdkl writes: "Looks like Cisco has done a deal with CNN to present a nice overview of the Nobel Prizes this year. The Science awards that have been presented so far include one for singing atoms in Physics, as well as others linked from the URL above for medicine and chemistry. It's worth noting that the physics article was already covered here on slashdot, but now it's official for all."
I think we could think about getting a Noble Prize for Math and Computer Science, Environment Defense, Cultural Heritage Defnse,...
What do you think? Any suggestions?
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A Nobel Prize for first posts. That would be SWEET!
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Some corrections. First of all, Israel would never "assinate" anyone: I didn't mean to insinuate that they were that barbaric. I meant "assassinate," of course.
Secondly, I probably should have mentioned more specifically that their assassination attempt was via bombing.
Yes, I know that sentence wasn't much of a sentence grammatically, but it's late and I'm tired.
---Japan and the japanese were prepared to fight to the end.---
This may have been a comforting and popular theme in Japan towards the end of the war, but it certainly wasn't what was going on politically. Japan was already trying to negotiate surrender by the time we dropped the bombs: their only hold out was immunity for the emporer: a condition we eventually agreed to anyway. However, we had said publically that the surrender must be unconditional: so we couldn't let a little loss of face get in the way of a little terrorism.
So, at the time we dropped the bomb, we knew that the Japanese were willing to surrender on conditions that we were comfortable with (and were even LESS amenable to Japan than what we eventually did for them). But nothing short of total victory was acceptable in the public eye. Now, we can argue about the value of that vs. leaving the Japanese perhaps a little less than morally devastated, but the fact is that the "otherwise we would have had to invade and lose more lives" is bunk. That was simply NOT the only other possible outcome.
---Based on what we now know about the bomb's after affects, no.---
Forget the aftereffects: is murdering a civilian population just to send a political message a moral way to act? Claiming that the Japanese did it too is no excuse. Claiming that it was a war is no excuse: this was the final signature of a war that was already over: all that was at stake was how much power to dictate terms we wanted. And we really could have pursued other options rather than bombing a largely undamaged and peaceful city: we could have picked a more directly military target for one thing: perhaps even one with a better view of Tokyo (though in retrospect the radiation would hav emade that a bad choice, but we didn't know that then). Obviously, other options have other risks, but the fact is that we did not even pursue any of those options. Our moral depravity was even more apparent in the reason that we picked Hiroshima: because it was largely undamaged, we would have a better test subject to see what our weapon could do.
I of course meant "East Jerusalem," not "Jerusalem."
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In conclusion, _most_ western europeans are weak and lazy.
No, they just realise that there is more to life than work. Hence the large amount of vacation days. Remember, you are not your job.
Am I missing something? What's the connection here to Nobel Prizes?
Does this mean that I should maybe crack a few blonde jokes in the "Science: 3D Images Of Valles Marineris" discussion to increase my karma? Is this "Slashdot, Night at the Improv!" or what?
Ygis is funny because is off-topic or because is a well-dress racist joke? Can I have slashdot back please? Thank you!
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Hello? Moderators? Posts reminding posters what the topic is are not "offtopic." Geez: my post mentions the word "Nobel" and the original post doesn't, it's rated a four, while I'm demoted to 0? Some justice...