According to Admiral William D. Leahy, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Truman's Chief of Staff: "The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... In being the first to use it [the atomic bomb], we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."
Anyone who has a problem with the above link can go research this at the Library of Congress. There is even more info to be found there.
Japan was defeated. Stop all the revisionist bullshit. The bombs were dropped on motherfucking civilians. Your own president was writing in his journal about the injustice of dropping the bomb on civilians.
This makes me sick. How can people even doubt what happened in Hiroshima? In Nagasaki? It was true horror. This is so fucking dumb!@ I can't believe what people are writing to me because of this subject on my e-mail.
Are you sure you checked your sources? I don't want to get too close to home here, but family lore has it that there were only a few sticking points that kept the war going long enough for the bombs to be dropped.
Yes there were factions... but none of them were stupid enough to think that they could continue the fight under existing conditions.
Two bombs were used to prove a point. Point *fucking* proved. There was very little reason to drop the first bomb, there was no reason to drop the second bomb. Read Truman's personal history if you doubt me. He refers to 'Jap pleas' for surrender on several occasions... entries dated several days before the first bomb hit a city 90% composed of civilians.
The Japanese were only ready to give up their arms, not surrender. IIRC they were asking for terms that would have allowed them to retain some level of dignity prior to the first bomb dropping.
Hmmm... How many other/. readers are from VT.? We held off Wal-Mart for years and continue to fight them at the state level. I have only been inside one to protest... There is only one Wal-Mart within a day drive of my house, and neither myself or any of my neighbors would ever go there to shop. Please remember that not everyone on this site comes from sold-out/corn-bread America.
All 2007 Office products are having some difficulties right now, which is why my production environments still run older versions. Here is a fun one: a client patched their SBS 2003 box last week after not doing it for a while. Now everyone using Office 2007 is intermittently losing server connectivity, but the users who are still on Office 2k have experienced no problems.
Not only that, but a number of services disappeared from the SBS box and MS is apparently charging for a hotfix. I have not looked into this yet, but that is what my client told me this afternoon on the phone.
"Can anyone out there make a convincing case that Calc or Gnumeric are just as good as Excel, even for advanced users?"
Not I, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't install and play with the alternatives. Hell, if you feel so motivated you might even contribute some feedback to the dev community about what would motivate you to switch away from Excel.
Long story short, Excel is one of the few areas that MS actually delivers the goods. There are issues with Excel, but nothing like the issues that plague most other MS products.
The collection "Tales Before Tolkien" contains a number of earlier stories that influenced him. These are not the ancient patterns that he drew from, but more contemporary. Most of the stories are hard to read due to their strange styles, but once you have read them you recognize many common threads that run through the trilogy.
Tolkien was a true student of literature.
Anyhow, it is worth checking out if you are into the history of Tolkien's style.
"Please explain how the license for GCC affects code compiled by it."
I am not sure what you are suggesting here... Should people who feel that the GPL license is heading in a disastrous direction just STFU? It really doesn't matter if the new license affects the compiled code.
Adoption of the license is driving a serious wedge into a community that was driving change and making huge strides in mainstream tech markets. IMHO the GPLv2 is one of the greatest innovations in the field of modern tech. The GPLv3 is worse than useless, it is harmful.
It really doesn't matter how the compiled code is affected. It is the message to the community that matters. In this case the message is that BSD licensing looks better every day.
IIRC you are correct about the WOT being a trilogy.
Jordan's passing is all the more disheartening for this. He could have been an epic figure in fantasy lit, but he gave in to the marketing drones.
I absolutely loved the series until the last chapters of book three. His legacy is fucked now. The later books in the WOT series are as unreadable as his work on the Conan series.
Anyhow... RIP Jordan. You wrote more good lit than I ever did, even if the good material was the vast minority of your output.
Some people are born with this ability, but are not trained killers. A member of my family is completely immune to excitement and pain. He is in his fifties and has never accepted anaesthetic during medical procedures (including major dental) because the pain does not phase him in the least. His mood never changes. It is creepy to a lot of people, but he leads a normal life as a high-end carpenter, husband, and father.
I remember hearing that he had been hit by a cab and was in the hospital for over a week, and in a wheelchair for a while after that. After the cab hit him he got in and requested a ride to the hospital... then limped himself into the lobby and calmly told the nurse that he was seriously damaged.
I am pretty certain that he could off a bus full of preschoolers without flinching.
Vermont Yankee has been a sore subject in Vermont for a while, and not because of FUD. Doing things like losing spent fuel rods, and then trying to spin the situation as not-such-a-big-deal is not going to endear you to Vermonters or their neighbors.
The rods are not in the cooling pool, they weren't found, and after observing this and other Yankee Nuke related issues as a concerned citizen I am convinced that Entergy and Co should get the fuck out of Vermont.
VT Yankee has been run too poorly for too long. Nuclear done right is a beautiful thing, nuclear done the VT Yankee way leads to disasters.
Researchers now have a new lead in the fight against cancer. If the stats prove consistent then we may be able to find a link between certain types of foreign molecules in the body and cancer risk.
Your comment kinda reminds me of the asbestos revelations... there was a time when asbestos was put into cigarette filters as an advertised health feature.
If I were in MS strategy I would buy the new 'P' members and have them vote 'No with comments,' ensuring the comments were easily addressed and trivial. This would add validity to the next vote when all of the pocketed participants vote Yes as their comments had been addressed.
I have a hard time believing that MS would stack the deck so blatantly, but have no doubt that they would do so in a more covert manner. Long story short, don't be surprised if a number of the new voting members vote no initially.
My question is who pays to have it removed? Say you switch jobs...
Anyhow, if this tech ever becomes widespread I may turn to a life of crime. IT would just be too easy to tell if anyone were home or not. Just drive up and down the street with a van equipped w/a powerful rfid scanner and voila.
I'll join you in being O.T. The FP and my post both went up at 8:06 on exactly the same subject.
Kinda annoying, but the mods are actually helping the conversation along by lowering our scores. I hate rereading the same thing over and over throughout a thread.
I've been busy lately, so maybe I missed it. Was there some breakthrough that drastically increased the number of read/writes flash drives are rated for? TFA makes no mention of flash lifespans, which were relatively short in high usage environments last time I checked.
Extending that concept... God explicitly handed supremacy over all living things to mankind... so if 'the world' becomes interpreted as 'the universe' we are going to have a very difficult time being good neighbors.
Not that it would be a cakewalk without religious fundamentalism. There will just be one more barrier to overcome before we can hope to deal with the existence of E.T. life in a rational manner.
Unauthorized possession of the film prior to public release is not copyright infringement. It is plain old theft at the least, and has more parallels to corporate espionage than to copy infringement.
Anyhow, every movie copy that is released for reviews and pre-screenings etc come with very tight legal language, and usually has on-screen reminders throughout the film that there are specific legal restrictions on the use of the film. Many of the legit advanced screening DVD's that I have actually go to black & white for 10 second long periods throughout the movie so you can't 'forget' that you are watching a heavily restricted version of the movie.
This guy could have gone away for a lot longer because of the dollar values involved in undercutting a major theatrical release.
That being said, I agree that we use imprisonment for too many non-violent offenses.
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According to Admiral William D. Leahy, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Truman's Chief of Staff: "The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... In being the first to use it [the atomic bomb], we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages."
Go research it. How's that for logic?
Should arabs hold you responsible for Bush's bullshit?
Seriously/
Should you be held to task for the civilian deaths in Iraq?
Peaceful Japanese were burned by nuclear fire for no reason at all. How about if this was your family?
I appreciate the opportunities I have in America... But sometimes this is too much. Seriously.
I am going to need to stop posting. This touched a too sensitive nerve.
Anyone who has a problem with the above link can go research this at the Library of Congress. There is even more info to be found there.
Japan was defeated. Stop all the revisionist bullshit. The bombs were dropped on motherfucking civilians. Your own president was writing in his journal about the injustice of dropping the bomb on civilians.
This makes me sick. How can people even doubt what happened in Hiroshima? In Nagasaki? It was true horror. This is so fucking dumb!@ I can't believe what people are writing to me because of this subject on my e-mail.
You know what? Fuck You.
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/stowell/a-bomb.htm
Japan committed horrific crimes. America committed worse.
Are you sure you checked your sources? I don't want to get too close to home here, but family lore has it that there were only a few sticking points that kept the war going long enough for the bombs to be dropped.
Yes there were factions... but none of them were stupid enough to think that they could continue the fight under existing conditions.
Two bombs were used to prove a point. Point *fucking* proved. There was very little reason to drop the first bomb, there was no reason to drop the second bomb. Read Truman's personal history if you doubt me. He refers to 'Jap pleas' for surrender on several occasions... entries dated several days before the first bomb hit a city 90% composed of civilians.
The Japanese were only ready to give up their arms, not surrender. IIRC they were asking for terms that would have allowed them to retain some level of dignity prior to the first bomb dropping.
Then again, there are some new reading materials that challenge my understanding of the situation... http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HASRAC.html
Who knows what to believe.
I really apologize, but I have to mod you down. Do you even realize that you just tried to use logic on /.?
Hmmm... How many other /. readers are from VT.? We held off Wal-Mart for years and continue to fight them at the state level. I have only been inside one to protest... There is only one Wal-Mart within a day drive of my house, and neither myself or any of my neighbors would ever go there to shop. Please remember that not everyone on this site comes from sold-out/corn-bread America.
All 2007 Office products are having some difficulties right now, which is why my production environments still run older versions. Here is a fun one: a client patched their SBS 2003 box last week after not doing it for a while. Now everyone using Office 2007 is intermittently losing server connectivity, but the users who are still on Office 2k have experienced no problems.
Not only that, but a number of services disappeared from the SBS box and MS is apparently charging for a hotfix. I have not looked into this yet, but that is what my client told me this afternoon on the phone.
"Can anyone out there make a convincing case that Calc or Gnumeric are just as good as Excel, even for advanced users?"
Not I, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't install and play with the alternatives. Hell, if you feel so motivated you might even contribute some feedback to the dev community about what would motivate you to switch away from Excel.
Long story short, Excel is one of the few areas that MS actually delivers the goods. There are issues with Excel, but nothing like the issues that plague most other MS products.
The collection "Tales Before Tolkien" contains a number of earlier stories that influenced him. These are not the ancient patterns that he drew from, but more contemporary. Most of the stories are hard to read due to their strange styles, but once you have read them you recognize many common threads that run through the trilogy.
Tolkien was a true student of literature.
Anyhow, it is worth checking out if you are into the history of Tolkien's style.
"Please explain how the license for GCC affects code compiled by it."
I am not sure what you are suggesting here... Should people who feel that the GPL license is heading in a disastrous direction just STFU? It really doesn't matter if the new license affects the compiled code.
Adoption of the license is driving a serious wedge into a community that was driving change and making huge strides in mainstream tech markets. IMHO the GPLv2 is one of the greatest innovations in the field of modern tech. The GPLv3 is worse than useless, it is harmful.
It really doesn't matter how the compiled code is affected. It is the message to the community that matters. In this case the message is that BSD licensing looks better every day.
IIRC you are correct about the WOT being a trilogy.
Jordan's passing is all the more disheartening for this. He could have been an epic figure in fantasy lit, but he gave in to the marketing drones.
I absolutely loved the series until the last chapters of book three. His legacy is fucked now. The later books in the WOT series are as unreadable as his work on the Conan series.
Anyhow... RIP Jordan. You wrote more good lit than I ever did, even if the good material was the vast minority of your output.
Some people are born with this ability, but are not trained killers. A member of my family is completely immune to excitement and pain. He is in his fifties and has never accepted anaesthetic during medical procedures (including major dental) because the pain does not phase him in the least. His mood never changes. It is creepy to a lot of people, but he leads a normal life as a high-end carpenter, husband, and father.
I remember hearing that he had been hit by a cab and was in the hospital for over a week, and in a wheelchair for a while after that. After the cab hit him he got in and requested a ride to the hospital... then limped himself into the lobby and calmly told the nurse that he was seriously damaged.
I am pretty certain that he could off a bus full of preschoolers without flinching.
Vermont Yankee has been a sore subject in Vermont for a while, and not because of FUD. Doing things like losing spent fuel rods, and then trying to spin the situation as not-such-a-big-deal is not going to endear you to Vermonters or their neighbors.
v ermont-yankee-issues/location-spent-fuel-rod.html
Link: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/plant-specific-items/
The rods are not in the cooling pool, they weren't found, and after observing this and other Yankee Nuke related issues as a concerned citizen I am convinced that Entergy and Co should get the fuck out of Vermont.
VT Yankee has been run too poorly for too long. Nuclear done right is a beautiful thing, nuclear done the VT Yankee way leads to disasters.
Regards from Burlington 05401.
Researchers now have a new lead in the fight against cancer. If the stats prove consistent then we may be able to find a link between certain types of foreign molecules in the body and cancer risk.
Your comment kinda reminds me of the asbestos revelations... there was a time when asbestos was put into cigarette filters as an advertised health feature.
Regards.
If I were in MS strategy I would buy the new 'P' members and have them vote 'No with comments,' ensuring the comments were easily addressed and trivial. This would add validity to the next vote when all of the pocketed participants vote Yes as their comments had been addressed.
I have a hard time believing that MS would stack the deck so blatantly, but have no doubt that they would do so in a more covert manner. Long story short, don't be surprised if a number of the new voting members vote no initially.
Regards.
My question is who pays to have it removed? Say you switch jobs...
Anyhow, if this tech ever becomes widespread I may turn to a life of crime. IT would just be too easy to tell if anyone were home or not. Just drive up and down the street with a van equipped w/a powerful rfid scanner and voila.
Regards.
"Oh that Fyodor! I for a moment there I thought you were talking about that russian guy.
Thanks for clearing it up!"
Both snort and nmap have developers named Fyodor, and people get them confused all the time.
I'll join you in being O.T. The FP and my post both went up at 8:06 on exactly the same subject.
Kinda annoying, but the mods are actually helping the conversation along by lowering our scores. I hate rereading the same thing over and over throughout a thread.
I've been busy lately, so maybe I missed it. Was there some breakthrough that drastically increased the number of read/writes flash drives are rated for? TFA makes no mention of flash lifespans, which were relatively short in high usage environments last time I checked.
Extending that concept... God explicitly handed supremacy over all living things to mankind... so if 'the world' becomes interpreted as 'the universe' we are going to have a very difficult time being good neighbors.
Not that it would be a cakewalk without religious fundamentalism. There will just be one more barrier to overcome before we can hope to deal with the existence of E.T. life in a rational manner.
... welcome our *glowing* hydrogen-peroxide breathing overlords...
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linky: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/
Regards.
Unauthorized possession of the film prior to public release is not copyright infringement. It is plain old theft at the least, and has more parallels to corporate espionage than to copy infringement.
Anyhow, every movie copy that is released for reviews and pre-screenings etc come with very tight legal language, and usually has on-screen reminders throughout the film that there are specific legal restrictions on the use of the film. Many of the legit advanced screening DVD's that I have actually go to black & white for 10 second long periods throughout the movie so you can't 'forget' that you are watching a heavily restricted version of the movie.
This guy could have gone away for a lot longer because of the dollar values involved in undercutting a major theatrical release.
That being said, I agree that we use imprisonment for too many non-violent offenses.
Regards.
A number of the projects on CodePlex use GPL v.2, no mention of the Ms-PL that you link to on a completely different site.
s px
Here is an example from one of the projects cited in TFA: http://www.codeplex.com/ddotnet/Project/License.a