The team at Los Alamos designed the weapons, but they didn't design all the systems, remeber that the explosion 60 years ago was simply the culmination of a vast system of factories, labratories and systems. The scientists were just the tip of a huge pyramid for the Manhattan Project, so they were not 90% responsible for building it.
And when one looks at terrible weapons, I don't think nukes are the "worst". I think Chemical Weapons might well be the "worst" weapon system developed.
Why did the US drop two weapons? Because it took two weapons to get Japan to surrender. Had the Japanese not surrendered, the US would have stockpiled devices for Operation Olympic and used the nukes against massed Japanese Troops and Civilians on the Home Islands.
No, the US didn't jail every American Citizen that looked Japanese.
"The Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially described as "persons of Japanese ancestry," 62 percent of whom were United States citizens, from the west coast of the United States during World War II to hastily constructed housing facilities called War Relocation Camps in remote portions of the nation's interior. The U.S. government officially apologised for this action in the 1980s and paid reparations. (Note: Reparations had in fact already been paid in 1948, and Congress passed eight more compensation-related laws between 1951 and 1978.) Similar internments occurred across Canada as well." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment
The camps weren't prisons, nor concentration camps, and many Japanese settled outside of the camps after initial processing and many young males served in Europe in a number of Regimental Combat Teams.
No, actually, the civilian leaders didn't want to surrender. Some of them, a handful actually, wanted to but don't make it sound like they all did.
At the end, Prince Konoe thought the Soviets would kick them out of China and be on the side of the US and UK While Hirohito thought the Soviets would go head to head with the West and thus thought Japan was in a position of power.
And another thing to remember is that in 1944-45 the Japanese were actually getting better at killing Americans on Pacific Islands and so they didn't think they were losing the war. They thought that as soon as the Americans landed on the Japanese Home Islands that they could attrite the American Forces to the point they'd negoitate with Imperial Japan.
No, most of the people on the team wanted it used on the Germans but that theatre quit before the bomb was finished.
There was alot of talk on using it for a demonstration, but is was rejected because popping it at sea or in the air wouldn't illustrate it's power effectivly and if it failed to go off or failed to go off properly wouldn't do any good towards ending the war.
If you'd watched it more than once, they make reference to the space outside the Colonies being like a desert, and they needed water that didn't have alot of extra compounds in it since they didn't have the facilities to clean it up.
"Problem is, other nations do not want the US to be in charge of the internet. They see it as a potential way for the US to impose the US's views on them."
Yea, because if we assign IPs...well we can do all sorts of terrible things to France or the Congo...
Yea, you really can say that the US is managing things better.
From a year ago for example, a large number of leading indicators showed progress in Iraq's infrastructure. Compare that to the Congo or Haiti in which the UN is running peacekeeping operations. While the US has made mistakes on the ground dealing with Iraqi and Afghani Prisoners and civilians, at least widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of women, boys and girls havn't been happening like they are happening in the Congo.
"Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in an image found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young Congolese girls."
"...only a small percentage of the 11,000 U.N. personnel in Congo were involved." - So it's alright for UN Peacekeepers to molest kids in the Congo, but if a Koran gets wet in Gitmo people riot to death.
"Men from roughly 50 different countries make up the U.N. forces in Congo, and the United Nations does not conduct background checks. Furthermore, U.N. troops are exempt from prosecution in Congo."
"The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance to countries for purposes of development and poverty reduction, and for encouraging and safeguarding international investment. The group and its affiliates are headquartered in Washington, D.C.."
"Technically the World Bank is part of the United Nations system, but its governance structure is different: each institution in the World Bank Group is owned by its member governments, which subscribe to its basic share capital, with votes proportional to shareholding. Membership gives certain voting rights that are the same for all countries but there are also additional votes which depend on financial contributions to the organisation."
When I'm dogging the UN, and I do often, based on how it's fouled up International Peacekeeping and International Relations.
Bosnia, Sudan, Congo/Katanga, Rwanda to name four places done wrong by the UN. Inclusion on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of nations, such as Sudan, Cuba and Libya, which demonstrably have abysmal records on human rights, and also Libya's chairmanship of this Commission is idiotic at the least.
I'm sorry, I tried to like him, but Cringely is a hack. He makes wild ass guesses and long winded posts about things like getting Wifi from a neighbor and why are we suposed to care again?/. posts links to his garbage at least weekly, if/. is getting cash from these posts to Cringely, I think they should tell us.
Remeber Cringely famously posted in 1998 that the iMac launch was going to fail.
"For one thing, it is very doubtful that there will be enough of the machines to go around. Apple's expectation, I have read over and over, is to sell 400,000 of the machines right away. I hope they do. They plan to have at least the first 30,000 of these machines in stores by next Friday. That, I doubt. As of last week, only about 5,000 iMacs had been produced. And a random sampling showed an out-of-box failure rate of 11 percent, which is vastly above Apple and the industry's average. These are just teething problems, sure, but they are problems nonetheless. You'll see stories about them."
We didn't see stories about them because it was all bull.
Communist Party of China Authoritarian in structure and ideology - Check The Politburo - Check The Secretariat - Check The Central Military Commission - Check The Discipline Inspection Commission, which is charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among party cadres - Check International Liaison Department - Check The Organization Department - Check The Propaganda Department - Check Semi-autonomous Military - Check
You can call it Free-Market or not Communist, but the CPC is a Communist Party with all the organization and trappings of Communism. China is some strange Mao/Marxist/Adam Smith beast, but it's not a Free-Market, it's not Capitalist.
How many parties are there in China during General or Local elections?
The Communist Party of China. Thats it for all practical purposes
"There are some other parties in PRC. The CPC cooperates with these parties through a special conference, called the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) led by the CPC, rather than elections. Nevertheless, the effect of the other parties on the government remains minimal. As an advisory body of the CPC without real power, the C.P.P.C.C. is quite like an external eye, although there are officers from the CPPCC in almost all government departments."
"The People's Republic of China is in many regards a single-party state. This means that only one political party, the Communist Party of China, is legally allowed to hold effective power at the national level. Eight minor parties are allowed, but they are legally required to accept the leadership of the dominant party."
I see alot of Corporation and Capitalism bashing, but where is the finger pointing at the real problem here?
Communism. Thats the problem causing the Great Firewall of China, not Google or Microsoft or Cisco, but the underlying Totalitarianism of China.
This is a system that's killed far more people than Hitler in the 20th Century. This is a Government bent on far more demanding and bloody Imperalism than the United States would ever think of and to get it's "lost" Taiwan back might very well embark on a war that would destablize not only the Pacific Rim but the entire World's Economy.
Yet, on Slashdot, most of the time from what I've seen when theres a story about the Chinese Space Program or Linux, it's "Go China! Those good and resourceful folks!" And when it's about censorship, "Booo Capitalist Corporations who as enabling China!".
China wants the Internet censored, if all the Corps in the Free World banned togeather and said no, China would roll thier own solution. If it wasn't Google and Cisco doing this, but IT companies in Germany would/. post on it?
When there is evidence of higher intelligence in a clam or a cow, I'll stop eating them. When a cow speaks or unscrews a jar or learns zero, I'm not having another beef taco.
It was the first id game I didn't buy simply because it didn't look fun.
They have all that technical and artistic talent but they can't break out and do something different.
And to be honest, they have a very limited palette of colors, they have blood, shit, grey, black for color schemes from what I've seen, so when it came time to buy a game and Doom3 came out, I voted with my wallet and bought something else.
The difference between Apple and SGI in the Intel architecture market is that Apple's hardware isn't "vastly overpriced" today on IBM/Motorola chips and won't be on Intel.
50-65 Years of Petroleum at current exploration and use. Exploration is dropping off though. Good Saudi/Gulf and North Sea oil for gasoline is going to start getting played out in the next 25-30 years.
There is about 230 years of tar sand and oil shale oil at current use in known deposits in the US/Canada. That is harder to exploit and so it's not commented on as much by doomsayers on oil.
Also, theres increasingly good and cost effective processes for turning natural gas into a very clean Diesel fuel as well.
"How do you measure the amount of goodwill and good relations that the UN has fostered simply by bringing representatives together to meet?"
Huh? Like there weren't already embassies established? Like there hadn't been tons of back channel links established during the wars, trade talks, etc?
The UN has not fostered goodwill and good relations between nations/people screwed by the UN (Bosnia, Sudan, Congo/Katanga, Rwanda to name four).
The UN works well when it's not doing something political. When it's doing WHO work, it's done well.
When dealing in Internation Politics and Peace Keeping, it's not so good. Inclusion on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of nations, such as Sudan, Cuba and Libya, which demonstrably have abysmal records on human rights, and also Libya's chairmanship of this Commission is idiotic at the least.
Sexual abuse of girls by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo isn't fostering good will.
If it's goodwill and good relations we're after from bringing people togeather, cocktail parties would be more effective. Or Linux Installfests, or LAN parties of UT2004 and Halo.
"You'd probably be dead of smallpox, if not all out nuclear war, but hey who cares when you you've got fox news talking points to spread on the web."
Well, the UN didn't end the Cold War and didn't stop the US/USSR from having a nuclear war.
The US/USSR stopped themselves from having a nuclear war. The UN didn't stop Korean 50-53, they didn't stop the Suez Crisis, they didn't solve the Israel/Arab wars, they didn't stop the Cuban Missile Crisis, the UN didn't tell the US/USSR to have the SALT I/II treaties, nor the Convention Forces in Europe Treaty or the reduction in tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
To claim the UN stopped a nuclear war is foolish, the Nuclear Powers - US/USSR/UK/France/China are the ones who stopped nuclear wars from happening.
I don't have the time to find it now, but I swear this plan is straight out of the Congressional Reports for follow on to the Shuttle unmanned systems in the late 1980s following Challenger.
Slashdot Mirror
The team at Los Alamos designed the weapons, but they didn't design all the systems, remeber that the explosion 60 years ago was simply the culmination of a vast system of factories, labratories and systems. The scientists were just the tip of a huge pyramid for the Manhattan Project, so they were not 90% responsible for building it.
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And when one looks at terrible weapons, I don't think nukes are the "worst". I think Chemical Weapons might well be the "worst" weapon system developed.
Why did the US drop two weapons? Because it took two weapons to get Japan to surrender. Had the Japanese not surrendered, the US would have stockpiled devices for Operation Olympic and used the nukes against massed Japanese Troops and Civilians on the Home Islands.
No, the US didn't jail every American Citizen that looked Japanese.
"The Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially described as "persons of Japanese ancestry," 62 percent of whom were United States citizens, from the west coast of the United States during World War II to hastily constructed housing facilities called War Relocation Camps in remote portions of the nation's interior. The U.S. government officially apologised for this action in the 1980s and paid reparations. (Note: Reparations had in fact already been paid in 1948, and Congress passed eight more compensation-related laws between 1951 and 1978.)
Similar internments occurred across Canada as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment
The camps weren't prisons, nor concentration camps, and many Japanese settled outside of the camps after initial processing and many young males served in Europe in a number of Regimental Combat Teams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Com
A good sized number of Italians and Germans in the US were also intered.
No, actually, the civilian leaders didn't want to surrender. Some of them, a handful actually, wanted to but don't make it sound like they all did.
At the end, Prince Konoe thought the Soviets would kick them out of China and be on the side of the US and UK While Hirohito thought the Soviets would go head to head with the West and thus thought Japan was in a position of power.
And another thing to remember is that in 1944-45 the Japanese were actually getting better at killing Americans on Pacific Islands and so they didn't think they were losing the war. They thought that as soon as the Americans landed on the Japanese Home Islands that they could attrite the American Forces to the point they'd negoitate with Imperial Japan.
No, most of the people on the team wanted it used on the Germans but that theatre quit before the bomb was finished.
There was alot of talk on using it for a demonstration, but is was rejected because popping it at sea or in the air wouldn't illustrate it's power effectivly and if it failed to go off or failed to go off properly wouldn't do any good towards ending the war.
If you'd watched it more than once, they make reference to the space outside the Colonies being like a desert, and they needed water that didn't have alot of extra compounds in it since they didn't have the facilities to clean it up.
We used it for a multi building HVAC/Elevator/Climate monitoring and adjustment system at a place I worked from '97-2000. They are still using it.
"Problem is, other nations do not want the US to be in charge of the internet. They see it as a potential way for the US to impose the US's views on them."
Yea, because if we assign IPs...well we can do all sorts of terrible things to France or the Congo...
Yea, you really can say that the US is managing things better.
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From a year ago for example, a large number of leading indicators showed progress in Iraq's infrastructure. Compare that to the Congo or Haiti in which the UN is running peacekeeping operations. While the US has made mistakes on the ground dealing with Iraqi and Afghani Prisoners and civilians, at least widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of women, boys and girls havn't been happening like they are happening in the Congo.
"Didier Bourguet, a U.N. official from France, is pictured here in an image found on his hard drive, which was obtained by ABC News. Also on the hard drive were thousands of photos of him having sex with hundreds of young Congolese girls."
"...only a small percentage of the 11,000 U.N. personnel in Congo were involved." - So it's alright for UN Peacekeepers to molest kids in the Congo, but if a Koran gets wet in Gitmo people riot to death.
"Men from roughly 50 different countries make up the U.N. forces in Congo, and the United Nations does not conduct background checks. Furthermore, U.N. troops are exempt from prosecution in Congo."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0319/p01s03-woiq.ht
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/UnitedNations/story?id
"The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance to countries for purposes of development and poverty reduction, and for encouraging and safeguarding international investment. The group and its affiliates are headquartered in Washington, D.C.."
"Technically the World Bank is part of the United Nations system, but its governance structure is different: each institution in the World Bank Group is owned by its member governments, which subscribe to its basic share capital, with votes proportional to shareholding. Membership gives certain voting rights that are the same for all countries but there are also additional votes which depend on financial contributions to the organisation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank
So it's not really the UN.
When I'm dogging the UN, and I do often, based on how it's fouled up International Peacekeeping and International Relations.
Bosnia, Sudan, Congo/Katanga, Rwanda to name four places done wrong by the UN. Inclusion on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of nations, such as Sudan, Cuba and Libya, which demonstrably have abysmal records on human rights, and also Libya's chairmanship of this Commission is idiotic at the least.
I'm sorry, I tried to like him, but Cringely is a hack. He makes wild ass guesses and long winded posts about things like getting Wifi from a neighbor and why are we suposed to care again? /. posts links to his garbage at least weekly, if /. is getting cash from these posts to Cringely, I think they should tell us.
Remeber Cringely famously posted in 1998 that the iMac launch was going to fail.
"For one thing, it is very doubtful that there will be enough of the machines to go around. Apple's expectation, I have read over and over, is to sell 400,000 of the machines right away. I hope they do. They plan to have at least the first 30,000 of these machines in stores by next Friday. That, I doubt. As of last week, only about 5,000 iMacs had been produced. And a random sampling showed an out-of-box failure rate of 11 percent, which is vastly above Apple and the industry's average. These are just teething problems, sure, but they are problems nonetheless. You'll see stories about them."
We didn't see stories about them because it was all bull.
Lets see...
Communist Party of China
Authoritarian in structure and ideology - Check
The Politburo - Check
The Secretariat - Check
The Central Military Commission - Check
The Discipline Inspection Commission, which is charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among party cadres - Check
International Liaison Department - Check
The Organization Department - Check
The Propaganda Department - Check
Semi-autonomous Military - Check
You can call it Free-Market or not Communist, but the CPC is a Communist Party with all the organization and trappings of Communism. China is some strange Mao/Marxist/Adam Smith beast, but it's not a Free-Market, it's not Capitalist.
Yea, but think of how many hundreds of thousands of NPCs there are to move, keep track of stats, hit the loot tables for when killed every second.
On that note, I've wondered for a while what the WoW servers are like for a world, say, Uther where I am.
Sorry, that doesn't wash.
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How many parties are there in China during General or Local elections?
The Communist Party of China. Thats it for all practical purposes
"There are some other parties in PRC. The CPC cooperates with these parties through a special conference, called the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) led by the CPC, rather than elections. Nevertheless, the effect of the other parties on the government remains minimal. As an advisory body of the CPC without real power, the C.P.P.C.C. is quite like an external eye, although there are officers from the CPPCC in almost all government departments."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of
"The People's Republic of China is in many regards a single-party state. This means that only one political party, the Communist Party of China, is legally allowed to hold effective power at the national level. Eight minor parties are allowed, but they are legally required to accept the leadership of the dominant party."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_pa
I see alot of Corporation and Capitalism bashing, but where is the finger pointing at the real problem here?
/. post on it?
Communism. Thats the problem causing the Great Firewall of China, not Google or Microsoft or Cisco, but the underlying Totalitarianism of China.
This is a system that's killed far more people than Hitler in the 20th Century. This is a Government bent on far more demanding and bloody Imperalism than the United States would ever think of and to get it's "lost" Taiwan back might very well embark on a war that would destablize not only the Pacific Rim but the entire World's Economy.
Yet, on Slashdot, most of the time from what I've seen when theres a story about the Chinese Space Program or Linux, it's "Go China! Those good and resourceful folks!" And when it's about censorship, "Booo Capitalist Corporations who as enabling China!".
China wants the Internet censored, if all the Corps in the Free World banned togeather and said no, China would roll thier own solution. If it wasn't Google and Cisco doing this, but IT companies in Germany would
Well, I don't eat the meat of smart animals...
I eat shellfish, cow, chicken.
When there is evidence of higher intelligence in a clam or a cow, I'll stop eating them. When a cow speaks or unscrews a jar or learns zero, I'm not having another beef taco.
It was the first id game I didn't buy simply because it didn't look fun.
They have all that technical and artistic talent but they can't break out and do something different.
And to be honest, they have a very limited palette of colors, they have blood, shit, grey, black for color schemes from what I've seen, so when it came time to buy a game and Doom3 came out, I voted with my wallet and bought something else.
The difference between Apple and SGI in the Intel architecture market is that Apple's hardware isn't "vastly overpriced" today on IBM/Motorola chips and won't be on Intel.
In 1997 someone stole the Darwin fish off my car in Portland Oregon
50-65 Years of Petroleum at current exploration and use. Exploration is dropping off though. Good Saudi/Gulf and North Sea oil for gasoline is going to start getting played out in the next 25-30 years.
There is about 230 years of tar sand and oil shale oil at current use in known deposits in the US/Canada. That is harder to exploit and so it's not commented on as much by doomsayers on oil.
Also, theres increasingly good and cost effective processes for turning natural gas into a very clean Diesel fuel as well.
I built one.
It's terribly complex and if one didn't look at the instructions you couldn't do it.
For me, sorting the parts by type/size was a good 25% of the build time and effort.
I mine alot in Desolace and use that as a smelting point. Now that there are cultists there, I have to do a little killing before I smelt.
"How do you measure the amount of goodwill and good relations that the UN has fostered simply by bringing representatives together to meet?"
Huh? Like there weren't already embassies established? Like there hadn't been tons of back channel links established during the wars, trade talks, etc?
The UN has not fostered goodwill and good relations between nations/people screwed by the UN (Bosnia, Sudan, Congo/Katanga, Rwanda to name four).
The UN works well when it's not doing something political. When it's doing WHO work, it's done well.
When dealing in Internation Politics and Peace Keeping, it's not so good. Inclusion on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of nations, such as Sudan, Cuba and Libya, which demonstrably have abysmal records on human rights, and also Libya's chairmanship of this Commission is idiotic at the least.
Sexual abuse of girls by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo isn't fostering good will.
If it's goodwill and good relations we're after from bringing people togeather, cocktail parties would be more effective. Or Linux Installfests, or LAN parties of UT2004 and Halo.
"When the #1 threat to world peace and prosperity has a veto on anything you do, your options are pretty limited..."
When did poverty and Kleptocracies get a veto on the UN Security Council?
"You'd probably be dead of smallpox, if not all out nuclear war, but hey who cares when you you've got fox news talking points to spread on the web."
Well, the UN didn't end the Cold War and didn't stop the US/USSR from having a nuclear war.
The US/USSR stopped themselves from having a nuclear war. The UN didn't stop Korean 50-53, they didn't stop the Suez Crisis, they didn't solve the Israel/Arab wars, they didn't stop the Cuban Missile Crisis, the UN didn't tell the US/USSR to have the SALT I/II treaties, nor the Convention Forces in Europe Treaty or the reduction in tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
To claim the UN stopped a nuclear war is foolish, the Nuclear Powers - US/USSR/UK/France/China are the ones who stopped nuclear wars from happening.
Yea, because other nation-states give up control of important assets to international bodies.
Look at how well the International Community handled the Suez after Egypt...oh wait, Egypt blocked it from 1954 to '57 and from '67 to '75.
Or look at how well we've done since OPEC gave up control for the production rates of Oil...
Or how cheap and murder free diamonds are since DeBeers stopped hording them...
I don't have the time to find it now, but I swear this plan is straight out of the Congressional Reports for follow on to the Shuttle unmanned systems in the late 1980s following Challenger.