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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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This has got to be the funnist thing EVER posted to ./
You mean first post? (Slow down, cowboy! It's been 17 seconds...)
A Nobel Prize for first posts. That would be SWEET!
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Ok, who knows that shitty perl code that Taco wrote? What are the keywords that gotted modded down with in 2 seconds of posting. We all know that Taco and his cronies are socialist cunts. Move to Europe Taco!
I get it. The truth hurts so its a troll?
Get real. The problem is there. You can try to bury it under "Troll" tags and moderation, but its a valid point.
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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.
this is the funniest thing i've read on /. in a long time. and 12 is bitingly accurate. mad props to whoever wrote this.
Yes, I know that sentence wasn't much of a sentence grammatically, but it's late and I'm tired.
and i'm sick of winners like you slagging off the rest of the world. get over yourself already, troll.
And hey, it only looks fat cos it's so short \:-D.
How many accounts do you have to keep modding up your tedious drivel?
---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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It's funny because it uses sarcasm to point out that many of the posts in this so called 'Nobel Prize' discussion are made without any idea of the subject. Most of the so called 'readers' here form their opinions based on the color of the gum balls they get out of the machine just inside the door at the video arcade. Yet despite IQ's that wouldn't light a 40watt bulb, the Editors seem to have boundless energy when it comes to trying again and again to raise the conciousness of the people that pass thru here.
The sarcasm is a salute (wry smile) to their efforts in the face of otherwise rampant ignorance that is displayed over and over and over again.
Nobel invented dynamite...doesn't that seem a little funny/sarcastic when we hear talk of a 'peace' prize? Isn't sarcasm supposed to be used as a countermeasure in the face of abject poverty of thought?
If they teach you one thing in journalism class, it's to never underestimate the ignorance of your readers. And to never let that stop you from giving them a chance to prove you wrong.
David Copperfield, for his amazing ability to walk through the great wall of china, making the statue of liberty dissapear, cutting himself into half and miraculously combine his body part together without any sign of cutting, and flying across the grand canyon
Yeah, Europe really suck.
What kind of sh*t*ss nations would like to be ranked as the best to live in by the UN ?
(Norway send those darn Canadians to 2. place this year)
What kind of f**** nations would produce crappy cars such as BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, etc.
(Germany must really suck)
And who would even think about building a supersonic airplane for passangers ?
(Guess England and France is full of idiots)
And the Danes can by beer from they're 15. What a bunch of gouvernment dependent a*******.
Yeah, the list goes on and on. Damn those Europeans are f***** up s********.
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...