You make it sound like North Korea was just dealt a bum hand, and its really not the fault of anyone in North Korea that they are in the shit heap they are in.
which I find amusing, seeing as RIGHT across the DMZ is the flourishing country of South Korea.
Whether or not you meant to imply this, I think its worth emphasizing that it is the actions of the North Korea government that has damned the nation. Perhaps the influence of China and the Soviets wasn't quite NK's fault, the past dozen year or so resulted in the marked improvement of many post-Soviet satellite states. The North Koreans government ill management of agricultural resources, ill management of foreign relations, and their massive expenditure of money on their idle million man army, consuming one third of their GDP in supporting their army and developing weapons.
it basically says that at a certain point, rate increases equal revenue decreases.
of course, the economy is more complex then just that picture, so if you happen to move closer to the T rate, other economic factors might mean a decrease in revenue, or vice versa.
well, at war's end, our industry could produce a Battleship every month. the Japanese could NEVER match that level of production, not even if we had left their industry intact.
but you're right, we had a sortie limit for our pilots (which is why American pilots didn't make it up as high in the Number of Kills game. German, Japanese, Russian, and I think British pilots all flew until they died.) Japanese had a problem with keeping their most experienced men alive throughout the war. In the beginning of the war, they favored the "Bonsai" attack, which pretty much rid them of all their experienced infantrymen.
a number of objective factors were against the Japanese. But unlike what they did with their troops, one of the things they could not change was their ability to produce more war material. By the end of the war, they had school children hand sewing uniforms and backpacks and whatever else they could do. So that was definitely a major strategic disadvantage.
the fight isn't over until they stop, you know, fighting. Our goal wasn't to "prove" ourselves better then the Japanese. we had been doing that since 1942. our goal was to get them to STOP shooting at us.
consider the facts presented in the Fog of War. American bombers killed 100,000 people in a single night of fire bombing. We destroyed, what, 95% of Tokyo? in a single night.
we "only" killed about 80,000 in a night in Hiroshima (many of the secondary deaths took a lot longer).
The A-Bombs killed only a fraction of the people killed thru conventional bombings and warfare. Add up just the numbers that are shown in Fog of War.
but, after allll that, the Japanese were STILL FIGHTING. They had no navy to speak of, and they had no manufacturing capabilities to make a new one. After the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, there was no way they could have produced enough Aircraft Carriers to rival us. We had more at that point, and we could build them faster. They also didn't haevteh means (nor apparently the will) to develop new weapons. (They ahd the same model planes at the beginning and end of the war, while the Allies developed better equipment in general). They barely had two cities left standing on their island. They didn't have much of ANY military or industry left.
buuut, they kept fighting. even "castrated". what we needed was something to make them GIVE UP. maybe another year of conventional war would have made them give up. But the A-bomb DID make them give up.
so no, the war was NOT over. Not until the opponent stops fighting.
a little life lesson here. If you're in a fight, and the guy who is shooting at you might be CONSIDERING stopping shooting at you, don't stop fighting yourself just yet. The fight isn't over when he CONSIDERS stopping. The fight is over when he DOES stop shooting at you.
as it was, the Japanese had not stopped shooting at the Americans.
and as a side note, in a single night we completely destroyed Tokyo with firebombs and killed an estimated 100,000 people (well, according to the Fog of War, which is that last place I saw that statistic). We destroyed a vast number of Japanese cities, and killed hundreds of thousands of citizens in our bombardments. Yet they still fought. They had no way in hell to match our manufacturing capabilities by the end of the war... but they kept on fighting. Their only choices by '45 were HOW to loose. Go down fighting, or surrender? even after we destroyed just about every city in Japan EXCEPT Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they STILL had not given up shooting at us.
the fight had strategically been won by the Allies long before we dropped the A-Bombs. Arguably, Japan began to loose in 1942 with Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Guadalcanal being the pivotal turning points in the Pacific Theater.
quite frankly, Japan DID go down fighting. They fought on in a hopeless war, months after their only allies had been overwhelmed and their island was mostly destroyed.
after ALLLL that we did to them, they gave up shooting at us RIGHT AFTER we dropped the bombs. They SHOULD have been "Considering" giving up long before August 6, 1945. But what actually MADE them give up was the bomb.
or do geeks only care that they can frag aliens online?
i swear, half the kids in my dorm who would be bragging about headshots in CS looked damn near terrified when i asked them if they wanted to go to the range to shoot *gasp* REAL guns.
Was that just a characteristic of my dorm, or the geek cultrue as a whole?
I read an article about how they wanted to remove the Spotted Owl from the Endangered Species list, since there are plenty of them around these days... but environmentalists threw a fit. I guess its more important to some people that NO animals are EVER harmed then just making sure there is a healthy lot of the animals...
almost all infections can be stopped before there's a VIRUS out. Just get the patches. If i recall, Sasser, Netsky and Blaster could have been worhtless.... if people had patched their systems. Hell it took over a month after the security update came out for Blaster to come out.
If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
MS is pretty good about putting out a patch every time a vulnerability is discovered, usually with in a few days.
But users never patch their systems. I do tech support for small businesses, and every time MS sends out a Critical update about a security vulnerability, two to four weeks later a virus comes out. And when that happens, we get calls. MOST of the recent worms out there were 100% preventable with a patch, even if you DID open up an email attachment.
If users were smart enough to run Windows updates every once and a while, or set it to auto-update, they wouldn't have a fraction of the problems. When i get a hold of a customer's computer, more often then not there's at least 10 critical updates that need to be downloaded form Windows Updates. (gf's mom's had 21)
So yeah, blame MS for making an OS to begin with, but don't blame MS because users don't take the opportunity to download patches that MS supplies.
the amsuing part is how the main article points out that "Microsoft is, conspicuously, the only entry under 'Computers/Internet". They don't point out the other 15 companies that got their own catagory. A single company would need to spend well over $5 million to get on that list of top 100.
its the Far Side we cant see form Earth. The moon always shows us its same side. So if you were on the moon, you would see the sun rise and set each month, but not the Earth. The Earth will stay the same place in the sky the whole time.
what i think he means to say is that they would have the same signature. If i remember correctly from chem class, thats abotu right. If its got one or two or 97 electrons in its orbits, it will still emit the same wavelength of light when an excited electron drops down a level.
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The point is that this is a stepping stone. This particular planet and this particular atmosphere are totally irrelevent to anythign and everythign. What is importent is the developement of the TECHNOLOGY behind this discovery. The fact that we were ABLE to ditect it means we are going forward and may someday soon have a way to detect earth-like planets. Or other nifty stuff.
Your time is your to do what you please. you are not oblidged to help anyone at your own expense. You are in no way profiting bye anyones death if they kill themselves and you dont do anythign about it.
Do you really believe that the administration did something wrong?
If the kid had thrown a rock through the school window, the punishment would most likely be the EXACT SAME THING
Yes i do think they did something wrong. But my oringinal post was to say that you cant stop somehting by wiching it away. Something has to actually be DONE abot uit if you want it to go away.
And no, i dont think the punishment would be the same thing. Out of Fear they over reacted just a bit. The school i used to go to was a public school. There was kid in particular that always caused trouble. He even killed another kid (not in school) and it was said to be an accident. Thsi kid often got in trouble, he litterally threw a freind of mine into a tree and gave him a concussion. THis kid usually got reprimands and detentions, but i dont recall him getting suspended for more then 2 or 3 days. At very most the admins would have a vandal (like someone who throws a rock thru a window) fix what he destroyed. There was never any talk of jail time, or legal action. I dont know about you, but i AM in school now, and kids who are computer savy are look at with more suspition then anyone of the bullies.
Im sure there are lots of things that pushed him to the edge, before he went over it. But the actions of the school is what I do not condone. The kid who sits next to me on one of my classes attempted suicide 2 weeks ago. and that was his choise to do it. As you have made clear, you do not care if a kid choose to commit suicide. But my tresponse was to someone who DOES care. He said "May this never happen again". I told him that he cant wish it away. YOu dont want to wish it away, so my comment wasnt for you.
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You make it sound like North Korea was just dealt a bum hand, and its really not the fault of anyone in North Korea that they are in the shit heap they are in.
which I find amusing, seeing as RIGHT across the DMZ is the flourishing country of South Korea.
Whether or not you meant to imply this, I think its worth emphasizing that it is the actions of the North Korea government that has damned the nation. Perhaps the influence of China and the Soviets wasn't quite NK's fault, the past dozen year or so resulted in the marked improvement of many post-Soviet satellite states. The North Koreans government ill management of agricultural resources, ill management of foreign relations, and their massive expenditure of money on their idle million man army, consuming one third of their GDP in supporting their army and developing weapons.
Remember, an Ion Drive powered the Deep Space 1.
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it basically says that at a certain point, rate increases equal revenue decreases.
of course, the economy is more complex then just that picture, so if you happen to move closer to the T rate, other economic factors might mean a decrease in revenue, or vice versa.
we'd have a half soviet Japan, whatever that looks like.
maybe a it looks a bit like germany did?
well, at war's end, our industry could produce a Battleship every month. the Japanese could NEVER match that level of production, not even if we had left their industry intact.
but you're right, we had a sortie limit for our pilots (which is why American pilots didn't make it up as high in the Number of Kills game. German, Japanese, Russian, and I think British pilots all flew until they died.) Japanese had a problem with keeping their most experienced men alive throughout the war. In the beginning of the war, they favored the "Bonsai" attack, which pretty much rid them of all their experienced infantrymen.
a number of objective factors were against the Japanese. But unlike what they did with their troops, one of the things they could not change was their ability to produce more war material. By the end of the war, they had school children hand sewing uniforms and backpacks and whatever else they could do. So that was definitely a major strategic disadvantage.
that radiation causes cancer... but then we turn around and use radiation to cure it. hmmmm....
the war was already over
the fight isn't over until they stop, you know, fighting. Our goal wasn't to "prove" ourselves better then the Japanese. we had been doing that since 1942. our goal was to get them to STOP shooting at us.
consider the facts presented in the Fog of War. American bombers killed 100,000 people in a single night of fire bombing. We destroyed, what, 95% of Tokyo? in a single night.
we "only" killed about 80,000 in a night in Hiroshima (many of the secondary deaths took a lot longer).
The A-Bombs killed only a fraction of the people killed thru conventional bombings and warfare. Add up just the numbers that are shown in Fog of War.
but, after allll that, the Japanese were STILL FIGHTING. They had no navy to speak of, and they had no manufacturing capabilities to make a new one. After the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, there was no way they could have produced enough Aircraft Carriers to rival us. We had more at that point, and we could build them faster. They also didn't haevteh means (nor apparently the will) to develop new weapons. (They ahd the same model planes at the beginning and end of the war, while the Allies developed better equipment in general). They barely had two cities left standing on their island. They didn't have much of ANY military or industry left.
buuut, they kept fighting. even "castrated". what we needed was something to make them GIVE UP. maybe another year of conventional war would have made them give up. But the A-bomb DID make them give up.
so no, the war was NOT over. Not until the opponent stops fighting.
The Japanese were considering this
a little life lesson here. If you're in a fight, and the guy who is shooting at you might be CONSIDERING stopping shooting at you, don't stop fighting yourself just yet. The fight isn't over when he CONSIDERS stopping. The fight is over when he DOES stop shooting at you.
as it was, the Japanese had not stopped shooting at the Americans.
and as a side note, in a single night we completely destroyed Tokyo with firebombs and killed an estimated 100,000 people (well, according to the Fog of War, which is that last place I saw that statistic). We destroyed a vast number of Japanese cities, and killed hundreds of thousands of citizens in our bombardments. Yet they still fought. They had no way in hell to match our manufacturing capabilities by the end of the war... but they kept on fighting. Their only choices by '45 were HOW to loose. Go down fighting, or surrender? even after we destroyed just about every city in Japan EXCEPT Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they STILL had not given up shooting at us.
the fight had strategically been won by the Allies long before we dropped the A-Bombs. Arguably, Japan began to loose in 1942 with Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Guadalcanal being the pivotal turning points in the Pacific Theater.
quite frankly, Japan DID go down fighting. They fought on in a hopeless war, months after their only allies had been overwhelmed and their island was mostly destroyed.
after ALLLL that we did to them, they gave up shooting at us RIGHT AFTER we dropped the bombs. They SHOULD have been "Considering" giving up long before August 6, 1945. But what actually MADE them give up was the bomb.
The fight isn't over 'til it's over.
Everyone would just ignore them ...so what is everyone doing NOW?
So what about that extra arm Zaphod has?
Article 1 section 8 doesn't seem to mention the congress's power to regulate rocketry...
Where are those mod points when I need em
you didn't use them to mod +1 funny to a soviet russia joke, did you?
the gubmint doesnt have the POWER to REGULATE rockets, actually. The constitution does not outlien our rights, it outlines the government's powers.
or do geeks only care that they can frag aliens online?
i swear, half the kids in my dorm who would be bragging about headshots in CS looked damn near terrified when i asked them if they wanted to go to the range to shoot *gasp* REAL guns.
Was that just a characteristic of my dorm, or the geek cultrue as a whole?
I read an article about how they wanted to remove the Spotted Owl from the Endangered Species list, since there are plenty of them around these days... but environmentalists threw a fit. I guess its more important to some people that NO animals are EVER harmed then just making sure there is a healthy lot of the animals...
almost all infections can be stopped before there's a VIRUS out. Just get the patches. If i recall, Sasser, Netsky and Blaster could have been worhtless.... if people had patched their systems. Hell it took over a month after the security update came out for Blaster to come out.
If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
MS is pretty good about putting out a patch every time a vulnerability is discovered, usually with in a few days.
But users never patch their systems. I do tech support for small businesses, and every time MS sends out a Critical update about a security vulnerability, two to four weeks later a virus comes out. And when that happens, we get calls. MOST of the recent worms out there were 100% preventable with a patch, even if you DID open up an email attachment.
If users were smart enough to run Windows updates every once and a while, or set it to auto-update, they wouldn't have a fraction of the problems. When i get a hold of a customer's computer, more often then not there's at least 10 critical updates that need to be downloaded form Windows Updates. (gf's mom's had 21)
So yeah, blame MS for making an OS to begin with, but don't blame MS because users don't take the opportunity to download patches that MS supplies.
the amsuing part is how the main article points out that "Microsoft is, conspicuously, the only entry under 'Computers/Internet". They don't point out the other 15 companies that got their own catagory. A single company would need to spend well over $5 million to get on that list of top 100.
its the Far Side we cant see form Earth. The moon always shows us its same side. So if you were on the moon, you would see the sun rise and set each month, but not the Earth. The Earth will stay the same place in the sky the whole time.
hey, you might get thirsty on a super heated planet and need to buy a drink
what i think he means to say is that they would have the same signature. If i remember correctly from chem class, thats abotu right. If its got one or two or 97 electrons in its orbits, it will still emit the same wavelength of light when an excited electron drops down a level.
The point is that this is a stepping stone. This particular planet and this particular atmosphere are totally irrelevent to anythign and everythign. What is importent is the developement of the TECHNOLOGY behind this discovery. The fact that we were ABLE to ditect it means we are going forward and may someday soon have a way to detect earth-like planets. Or other nifty stuff.
Your time is your to do what you please. you are not oblidged to help anyone at your own expense. You are in no way profiting bye anyones death if they kill themselves and you dont do anythign about it.
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Do you really believe that the administration did something wrong?
If the kid had thrown a rock through the school window, the punishment would most likely be the EXACT SAME THING
Yes i do think they did something wrong. But my oringinal post was to say that you cant stop somehting by wiching it away. Something has to actually be DONE abot uit if you want it to go away.
And no, i dont think the punishment would be the same thing. Out of Fear they over reacted just a bit. The school i used to go to was a public school. There was kid in particular that always caused trouble. He even killed another kid (not in school) and it was said to be an accident. Thsi kid often got in trouble, he litterally threw a freind of mine into a tree and gave him a concussion. THis kid usually got reprimands and detentions, but i dont recall him getting suspended for more then 2 or 3 days. At very most the admins would have a vandal (like someone who throws a rock thru a window) fix what he destroyed. There was never any talk of jail time, or legal action. I dont know about you, but i AM in school now, and kids who are computer savy are look at with more suspition then anyone of the bullies.
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Im sure there are lots of things that pushed him to the edge, before he went over it. But the actions of the school is what I do not condone. The kid who sits next to me on one of my classes attempted suicide 2 weeks ago. and that was his choise to do it. As you have made clear, you do not care if a kid choose to commit suicide. But my tresponse was to someone who DOES care. He said "May this never happen again". I told him that he cant wish it away. YOu dont want to wish it away, so my comment wasnt for you.
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