That's the whole point. The patent is so obvious and broad that if you want to display a list of music, selectable by category/artist/title/whatever, along with some buttons to start and stop the music, then you're going to end up with SIMILAR INTERFACES.
You're not likely to get a sensible reply out of him, but I'd just like to thank you for a truly well-reasoned, well-argued post, which is a rare thing here.
Oh for fuck's sake, if you're going to be a reactionary redneck at least get your facts straight.
What part of "women and children" did you miss in those passages you quoted? Or was everybody in Japan classified as a combatant in your eyes?
Kyoto was skipped over purely because a couple of people in the US Administration (and one of the general's wives, apparently) couldn't bear the thought of not being able to go sightseeing there after the war.
The second bomb was dropped before the Japanese government had actually made any official response to the first bombing (it took quite a while for the full extent of the damage to reach other areas, for one thing). How did the US Government "know" Japan wouldn't surrender? Perhaps they were psychic? Or perhaps, just maybe, they wanted to try out their shiny new plutonium weapon that's never been tested (seeing as how both Trinity and the Hiroshima bomb were uranium-based weapons)?
Now go fuck off, you idiot. In case you hadn't noticed, history isn't always as simple as it appears in the excuses for textbooks that you apparently used in school.
Nice if it were true, but it's not. You're probably thinking of the Unit 731 experiments, which while brutal and unjustified certainly didn't "kill millions".
Well maybe if you tried looking at sources other than TFA, you'd know that Nagasaki was a city like most others in wartime, with some military facilities and a bunch of civilians who worked at them along with their grandparents, parents, children, etc.
Of course it was a civilian target, just the same as any other city would be. If somebody wiped out Washington D.C. with a nuclear weapon and said that it being the location of the CinC of the US military justified it as a military target, how would you take it?
If "number of combatants killed or wounded" is how you determine who is in the right, then I think you'd better give Russia credit for your freedom, considering their casualties were far higher than the US's...
Japanese soldiers out of supplies and hope for victory often ran off nearby cliffs and even, in some cases, resorted to cannibalism rather than surrender.
For the Japanese, submitting in battle was the worst humiliation possible. Only the realistic prospect of utter annihilation would (and did) convince them to surrender.
You seem to have trouble distinguishing between individuals and governments. (Not to mention that the image of Japanese as relentless fanatics was only partially true, but it was convenient for the US to promote that image. A relative of mine was in the Tokkotai (aerial suicide corps), but he was quite happy that Japan surrendered before he had to take his final flight...)
The US had military intelligence available to them from interceptions of secret Japanese communiques that indicated the Japanese government would be willing to surrender as long as the US would guarantee that the Emperor would not be held responsible for war crimes; this was mainly fuelled by the pressure the government was under to do something before the Russians reached the Japanese mainland.
Unfortunately, a certain section of the US government felt that this gave them an excellent opportunity to test out their newly-developed nuclear weapons; an opportunity that they'd lose if Japan surrendered first.
Believe me, the world isn't as simple as you think it is.
Er, hello... the "total war" crap was put around by the members of the US government that were hot to test their new weapon. Many other people in the government kept trying to point out that their own intelligence was telling them that the Japanese government was willing to surrender under certain terms, but these guys had no intention of letting that interfere with the chance to use things that go boom.
We have to make sure it doesn't break the Internet.
Don't worry, guys, no matter how badly you screw up it won't hurt the Internet - because the Internet doesn't run on Microsoft boxes. Hard to imagine, I know, but true.
The most practical form of this proposal is to reduce the automatic copyright period (i.e. the initial period of protection for all copyrightable works) to something like 10 years, and then charge the copyright owner a certain amount to renew the copyright after the initial period. Variations include increasing the renewal cost for every renewal (so that it costs more to renew the copyight for something that's been copyrighted for 50 years than to renew the copyright for something that's been copyrighted for 20 years).
It's a good idea, as it ensures that all works that the owner didn't consider worthwhile renewing the copyright for automatically go into the public domain after a reasonable period of time - which is what copyright was originally intended to be.
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Well, uh, duh.
That's the whole point. The patent is so obvious and broad that if you want to display a list of music, selectable by category/artist/title/whatever, along with some buttons to start and stop the music, then you're going to end up with SIMILAR INTERFACES.
children to the elderly, along with large numbers of slave labor prisoners pulled from all over the Far East
So which of those were not civilians?
You're not likely to get a sensible reply out of him, but I'd just like to thank you for a truly well-reasoned, well-argued post, which is a rare thing here.
I'm sure the ex-residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are overjoyed to hear that you think their deaths were justified, moron.
Oh for fuck's sake, if you're going to be a reactionary redneck at least get your facts straight.
What part of "women and children" did you miss in those passages you quoted? Or was everybody in Japan classified as a combatant in your eyes?
Kyoto was skipped over purely because a couple of people in the US Administration (and one of the general's wives, apparently) couldn't bear the thought of not being able to go sightseeing there after the war.
The second bomb was dropped before the Japanese government had actually made any official response to the first bombing (it took quite a while for the full extent of the damage to reach other areas, for one thing). How did the US Government "know" Japan wouldn't surrender? Perhaps they were psychic? Or perhaps, just maybe, they wanted to try out their shiny new plutonium weapon that's never been tested (seeing as how both Trinity and the Hiroshima bomb were uranium-based weapons)?
Now go fuck off, you idiot. In case you hadn't noticed, history isn't always as simple as it appears in the excuses for textbooks that you apparently used in school.
Nice if it were true, but it's not. You're probably thinking of the Unit 731 experiments, which while brutal and unjustified certainly didn't "kill millions".
Well maybe if you tried looking at sources other than TFA, you'd know that Nagasaki was a city like most others in wartime, with some military facilities and a bunch of civilians who worked at them along with their grandparents, parents, children, etc.
Of course it was a civilian target, just the same as any other city would be. If somebody wiped out Washington D.C. with a nuclear weapon and said that it being the location of the CinC of the US military justified it as a military target, how would you take it?
Then you're admitting your argument is just as stupid?
If "number of combatants killed or wounded" is how you determine who is in the right, then I think you'd better give Russia credit for your freedom, considering their casualties were far higher than the US's...
What?
Japanese soldiers out of supplies and hope for victory often ran off nearby cliffs and even, in some cases, resorted to cannibalism rather than surrender.
For the Japanese, submitting in battle was the worst humiliation possible. Only the realistic prospect of utter annihilation would (and did) convince them to surrender.
You seem to have trouble distinguishing between individuals and governments. (Not to mention that the image of Japanese as relentless fanatics was only partially true, but it was convenient for the US to promote that image. A relative of mine was in the Tokkotai (aerial suicide corps), but he was quite happy that Japan surrendered before he had to take his final flight...)
The US had military intelligence available to them from interceptions of secret Japanese communiques that indicated the Japanese government would be willing to surrender as long as the US would guarantee that the Emperor would not be held responsible for war crimes; this was mainly fuelled by the pressure the government was under to do something before the Russians reached the Japanese mainland.
Unfortunately, a certain section of the US government felt that this gave them an excellent opportunity to test out their newly-developed nuclear weapons; an opportunity that they'd lose if Japan surrendered first.
Believe me, the world isn't as simple as you think it is.
Er, hello... the "total war" crap was put around by the members of the US government that were hot to test their new weapon. Many other people in the government kept trying to point out that their own intelligence was telling them that the Japanese government was willing to surrender under certain terms, but these guys had no intention of letting that interfere with the chance to use things that go boom.
Just wait for the dupe...
...would be proud.
It's based on the name of the Google engineer who wrote it.
At last, a real use for animatronics!
...of the phrase "the Internet" are you having trouble understanding?
Hint: Internet != WWW
We have to make sure it doesn't break the Internet.
Don't worry, guys, no matter how badly you screw up it won't hurt the Internet - because the Internet doesn't run on Microsoft boxes. Hard to imagine, I know, but true.
I said No Text!
The most practical form of this proposal is to reduce the automatic copyright period (i.e. the initial period of protection for all copyrightable works) to something like 10 years, and then charge the copyright owner a certain amount to renew the copyright after the initial period. Variations include increasing the renewal cost for every renewal (so that it costs more to renew the copyight for something that's been copyrighted for 50 years than to renew the copyright for something that's been copyrighted for 20 years).
It's a good idea, as it ensures that all works that the owner didn't consider worthwhile renewing the copyright for automatically go into the public domain after a reasonable period of time - which is what copyright was originally intended to be.
It's the "centre" in the same way that the "centre" of an M&M is a peanut.
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The OS X interface is based on NeXTSTEP.
The underpinnings are a bastardized combination of Mach and FreeBSD.
WTF are you talking about? /. has always been slashdot.org. The slashdot.com domain was only obtained to stop some idiot picking it up instead.
...BigTarget, sorry I meant BitTarget.
Maybe your sense of humour is messed up. or maybe you just didn't get the joke.