Who is going to win in a vote, a billionaire or a bunch of Average Joes with jobs? Before you answer, think about the DMCA and the Mickey Mouse (Sonny Bono) copyright extension act.
I cannot believe that we still do not use the Coral Cache and Bittorrent to prevent crashing poor servers. I mean, now we're just going to end up slashdotting that first link, uh, slashdot...
You are President Truman in 1945. Your country has been dragged into a war by a sneak attack. The enemy fights to the last man, committing suicide rather than surrendering. They execute your POWs, amid repeated reports of cannibalism. They are taking airplanes and deliberately crashing them into your ships, at great cost to your soldiers. On Iwo Jima, of the twenty-two thousand defending Japanese soldiers, only thirty surrender and only a thousand are captured. The fight for Okinawa left America with 39,000 casualties. Okinawa, Iwo Jima: to you, these are hollow victories borne on the corpses of thousands of your young. Every day, your Secretary of Defense writes more and more letters to the kin of the fallen, expressing the thanks of a grateful nation for their sacrifices in our collective time of need. However sincere and noble those sentiments are, you know that they are just empty words to those who have lost a loved one to Japanese guns. The truth is that too many Americans are dying. The war has to end.
Military men present Operation Olympus, the invasion of the Japanese motherland. They estimate a million American casualties; hundreds of thousands of young Americans will fall on foreign shores--little more than jagged rocks--ten thousand miles from home. The Japanese have shown that they will not surrender without a show of absolute, total, and utter destruction. The military men also reveal the Manhattan Project to you: a superbomb that could end the war.
The decision is this: 200,000 men will die; choose whether these are American or Japanese lives. If 200,000 Japanese lives could be saved by sacrificing the lives of 75,000 Americans, would you? To any sane person the right choice is to let the Japanese pay the price for a war they started. The means by which the deed is done does not change the fact that it is indebateable that the Japanese must be forced to bear the cost of a war they started and ruthlessly prosecuted. Any debate is over the horrors of war, and let's face it, the Japanese started that one.
You seem to equate Japanese and American lives. But let's remember that the Japanese began this war with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor while conducting peace talks with America. That has got to count for something, right? Or how about the Rape of Nanking? Or the Bataan Death March? Or how about the execution of Allied prisoners of war? Or how about eating those executed prisoners of war?
The Japanese started the war against America, slaughtering 2400 servicemen who were at peace with the Japanese. The Japanese murdered hundreds of thousands of humans, while conducting bioweapons research on them that incldued vivisection. The Japanese executed POWs and ate their corpses. (Read Flyboys.)
So you can do all the moral equivalence you want. But be damned sure that if the Japanese could have nuked us, they wouldn't have hesitated.
Just because the Japanese got their asses handed to them in a spectacular fashion via nuke does not mean they were innocent and completely undeserving of what they got. Read "Flyboys". Japanese troops were executing American prisoners of war and then eating them. Yes. The Japanese were cannibals. American troops reported finding bodies of their fallen stripped of meat and finding human body parts in Japanese stewing pots. Really. And that's ignoring what they did to China and during the Bataan Death March. And that's also ignoring Pearl Harbor: a surprise attack conducted during peace talks.
In summary: the nuke was bad, but so were the Japanese during that time. How does the cookie crumble? Not as clearly as some would think.
It is quite possible that the Saturn blueprints are lost. Back then, computerization was not that commonplace. All the drawings were manually drafted and kept. Furthermore, the rocketship was made by a multitude of subcontractors around the country. After a few decades where no one ordered a Saturn V, it is quite possible that the Saturn V blueprints cannot be found in their entirety.
This does not mean, however, that we cannot reach the moon. We did it once, and we should be able to do it again--if we ever made it a political priority.
From TFA: "But the higher average level of Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence is so glaringly obvious that I figure anyone who tries to argue otherwise is either engaged in intellectual con artistry or is ignorant or foolish. So again, why are Jews so smart?"
Why it's offensive: "But the higher average level of Aryan intelligence is so glaringly obvious that I figure anyone who tries to argue otherwise is either engaged in intellectual con artistry or is ignorant or foolish. So again, why are Germans so smart?"
The parent is joking. A shareholder derivative suit alleging a violation of fiduciary duty will be preempted by the business judgment rule. As long as Microsoft decisionmakers were not self-dealing and looked at the relevant research, there is no basis for such a suit.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires all public companies to maintain records for three years. Six months is a problem. What happened to Morgan Stanley, however, is not simply that it failed to keep the records. Rather, it kept on saying that it could not find the files. There is a rather reasonable rule of evidence that says failure to produce evidence in your possession without a reasonable excuse for that failure (like there was a non-suspicious fire, or 9/11) can lead to the presumption that that evidence would have vindicated the position of the opposing party. For instance, pretend a supermarket has a security camera that I claim recorded the store clerk beating me. I want the tape to prove the unprovoked attack. If the store says it lost the tape and the judge believes that this was a pretext for destroying evidence, he may make a pre-trial ruling that the tape would show an unprovoked attack against me by the clerk.
I think the point is that autism is what autism does. If having autism will just give you an excuse to borrough even deeper away from society, then you "don't" have autism. If having autism empowers you to work harder and not be afraid of failure because now you can understand why you do the things you do, then you "are" autistic. I get the sense that the guy was autistic.
In Firefox 1.1, there is a planned feature that will allow for resuming stopped/interrupted downloads. This would allow for differential patches rather than entire new downloads. With this feature (and reduced stresses on the server) the infrastructure probably can update everything.
And let's remember, 5 megs is smaller than some of the IE patches I've downloaded. (Really.)
Yep. And integrated chipsets usually work very well with linux. Even buggy implementations will have workarounds because the configurations are so popular (due to the cheap price) the open source programmers have a huge incentive to maintain compatibility.
Hmm... The Nvidia Soundstorm chipset sounded pretty good to me. Sounded much better than my four year old soundblaster. But then, if your contention is that an integrated sound card doesn't sound as good as a separate sound card that costs as much as the entire motherboard, then I would have to agree with you--even if you need a $300 pair of speakers to tell the difference.
Using the accelerator, the webpage says, "Move along. Nothing to see here." Hmmm... Google doesn't want me to read this.
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The article says "applications" from Microsoft. The underlying operating systems will of course be windows. If and when Google gets well established enough then they may release their own operating system.
Okay, so when can we expect the code to flow out and make Firefox/Mozilla pass the Acid2 test? I mean Apple takes a lot of code from open source projects such as FreeBSD, so it would be great if they pay back.
Aren't we already saving too many people who should be dead and thereby contributing greatly to world problems like overcrowding and world hunger and fun stuff?
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Who is going to win in a vote, a billionaire or a bunch of Average Joes with jobs? Before you answer, think about the DMCA and the Mickey Mouse (Sonny Bono) copyright extension act.
I cannot believe that we still do not use the Coral Cache and Bittorrent to prevent crashing poor servers. I mean, now we're just going to end up slashdotting that first link, uh, slashdot...
Forget it.
You are President Truman in 1945. Your country has been dragged into a war by a sneak attack. The enemy fights to the last man, committing suicide rather than surrendering. They execute your POWs, amid repeated reports of cannibalism. They are taking airplanes and deliberately crashing them into your ships, at great cost to your soldiers. On Iwo Jima, of the twenty-two thousand defending Japanese soldiers, only thirty surrender and only a thousand are captured. The fight for Okinawa left America with 39,000 casualties. Okinawa, Iwo Jima: to you, these are hollow victories borne on the corpses of thousands of your young. Every day, your Secretary of Defense writes more and more letters to the kin of the fallen, expressing the thanks of a grateful nation for their sacrifices in our collective time of need. However sincere and noble those sentiments are, you know that they are just empty words to those who have lost a loved one to Japanese guns. The truth is that too many Americans are dying. The war has to end.
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Military men present Operation Olympus, the invasion of the Japanese motherland. They estimate a million American casualties; hundreds of thousands of young Americans will fall on foreign shores--little more than jagged rocks--ten thousand miles from home. The Japanese have shown that they will not surrender without a show of absolute, total, and utter destruction. The military men also reveal the Manhattan Project to you: a superbomb that could end the war.
The decision is this: 200,000 men will die; choose whether these are American or Japanese lives. If 200,000 Japanese lives could be saved by sacrificing the lives of 75,000 Americans, would you? To any sane person the right choice is to let the Japanese pay the price for a war they started. The means by which the deed is done does not change the fact that it is indebateable that the Japanese must be forced to bear the cost of a war they started and ruthlessly prosecuted. Any debate is over the horrors of war, and let's face it, the Japanese started that one.
So reply to this instead of modding Overrated.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:nY-xrLLZCN4J
You seem to equate Japanese and American lives. But let's remember that the Japanese began this war with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor while conducting peace talks with America. That has got to count for something, right? Or how about the Rape of Nanking? Or the Bataan Death March? Or how about the execution of Allied prisoners of war? Or how about eating those executed prisoners of war?
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The Japanese started the war against America, slaughtering 2400 servicemen who were at peace with the Japanese. The Japanese murdered hundreds of thousands of humans, while conducting bioweapons research on them that incldued vivisection. The Japanese executed POWs and ate their corpses. (Read Flyboys.)
So you can do all the moral equivalence you want. But be damned sure that if the Japanese could have nuked us, they wouldn't have hesitated.
http://mensightmagazine.com/Articles/Bradley/flyb
Just because the Japanese got their asses handed to them in a spectacular fashion via nuke does not mean they were innocent and completely undeserving of what they got. Read "Flyboys". Japanese troops were executing American prisoners of war and then eating them. Yes. The Japanese were cannibals. American troops reported finding bodies of their fallen stripped of meat and finding human body parts in Japanese stewing pots. Really. And that's ignoring what they did to China and during the Bataan Death March. And that's also ignoring Pearl Harbor: a surprise attack conducted during peace talks.
In summary: the nuke was bad, but so were the Japanese during that time. How does the cookie crumble? Not as clearly as some would think.
It also gives them 8.10 billion reasons to knock Google off before they take some of that money.
Hey, look! The Emperor is wearing no pants!
It is quite possible that the Saturn blueprints are lost. Back then, computerization was not that commonplace. All the drawings were manually drafted and kept. Furthermore, the rocketship was made by a multitude of subcontractors around the country. After a few decades where no one ordered a Saturn V, it is quite possible that the Saturn V blueprints cannot be found in their entirety.
This does not mean, however, that we cannot reach the moon. We did it once, and we should be able to do it again--if we ever made it a political priority.
That's absolutely insulting.
- Retarded Monkey
Here's a Catch-22: this study was a study that might have been rigged to make sensationalist claims for the Post, right?
From TFA:
"But the higher average level of Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence is so glaringly obvious that I figure anyone who tries to argue otherwise is either engaged in intellectual con artistry or is ignorant or foolish. So again, why are Jews so smart?"
Why it's offensive:
"But the higher average level of Aryan intelligence is so glaringly obvious that I figure anyone who tries to argue otherwise is either engaged in intellectual con artistry or is ignorant or foolish. So again, why are Germans so smart?"
How big does the battery have to be to run a *laser printer* for even a couple of minutes? Hmmm...
No Nazism, no concentration camps, no Holocaust, no bombs in Austria. That simple.
The parent is joking. A shareholder derivative suit alleging a violation of fiduciary duty will be preempted by the business judgment rule. As long as Microsoft decisionmakers were not self-dealing and looked at the relevant research, there is no basis for such a suit.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires all public companies to maintain records for three years. Six months is a problem. What happened to Morgan Stanley, however, is not simply that it failed to keep the records. Rather, it kept on saying that it could not find the files. There is a rather reasonable rule of evidence that says failure to produce evidence in your possession without a reasonable excuse for that failure (like there was a non-suspicious fire, or 9/11) can lead to the presumption that that evidence would have vindicated the position of the opposing party. For instance, pretend a supermarket has a security camera that I claim recorded the store clerk beating me. I want the tape to prove the unprovoked attack. If the store says it lost the tape and the judge believes that this was a pretext for destroying evidence, he may make a pre-trial ruling that the tape would show an unprovoked attack against me by the clerk.
She didn't taunt the guy--the dude was checking her e-mail. She didn't know he had this capability until he, uh, deleted all her e-mail.
I think the point is that autism is what autism does. If having autism will just give you an excuse to borrough even deeper away from society, then you "don't" have autism. If having autism empowers you to work harder and not be afraid of failure because now you can understand why you do the things you do, then you "are" autistic. I get the sense that the guy was autistic.
Good points.
In Firefox 1.1, there is a planned feature that will allow for resuming stopped/interrupted downloads. This would allow for differential patches rather than entire new downloads. With this feature (and reduced stresses on the server) the infrastructure probably can update everything.
And let's remember, 5 megs is smaller than some of the IE patches I've downloaded. (Really.)
Yep. And integrated chipsets usually work very well with linux. Even buggy implementations will have workarounds because the configurations are so popular (due to the cheap price) the open source programmers have a huge incentive to maintain compatibility.
Hmm... The Nvidia Soundstorm chipset sounded pretty good to me. Sounded much better than my four year old soundblaster. But then, if your contention is that an integrated sound card doesn't sound as good as a separate sound card that costs as much as the entire motherboard, then I would have to agree with you--even if you need a $300 pair of speakers to tell the difference.
Because you can whitelist websites before they can install.
Using the accelerator, the webpage says, "Move along. Nothing to see here." Hmmm... Google doesn't want me to read this.
The article says "applications" from Microsoft. The underlying operating systems will of course be windows. If and when Google gets well established enough then they may release their own operating system.
Okay, so when can we expect the code to flow out and make Firefox/Mozilla pass the Acid2 test? I mean Apple takes a lot of code from open source projects such as FreeBSD, so it would be great if they pay back.
Aren't we already saving too many people who should be dead and thereby contributing greatly to world problems like overcrowding and world hunger and fun stuff?
Fair enough: drop dead.
You do not want to? Hm, funny. Neither do I.