It saved far more people than it killed. Even disregarding the huge death counts that would come with an invasion, a second East Germany and Soviet management would kill millions. Even just the time that it would take to get on the mainland would have caused millions of Japanese to die of starvation.
emphasize the greater question of humans killing humans by nuclear means
Why does it being nuclear matter? A corpse is a corpse, no matter if it got shot in the head, fell on a grenade, starved, got a disease, or was incinerated by an atom bomb. There is no honorable way of killing another human being. There is no way of killing that makes it any cleaner. There are ways to get it over quicker. Would a prolonged, drawn-out conflict where men bayonet each other in trenches or in cities before dying of malnutrition and dysentery is more humane?
To make things simpler, just imagine that those cities had a fatal disease which could kill millions: is it a valid trade-off to annihilate both?
Annihilate? Perhaps not, quarantine with military force, of course. Burn down a few blocks and kill the diseased? Yes. Regardless, you've oversimplified.
Patriotism is great and it's nice to see anyone loving his/her own homeland.
I don't even give a shit about maintaining the reputation of the US and I am a weeaboo idiot who looks at Japanese shit all day. Don't play that card.
You're right, we should have invaded with help from the USSR and let them subjugate half of Japan for 50 years, killing 10 million people in the invasion. That would have been the ethical thing to do.
For USPS to be self supporting, the prices at least would have to keep up with the rising inflation, which is 11-15% a year for 20 years now, that didn't happen, it's not allowed to happen by Congress.
The prices for postage with USPS have to be much higher than prices of UPS and Fedex for USPS to be self supporting.
Nonsense, being self supporting has nothing to do with inflation, nor does the prices. How in the fuck would you even make that connection? You will resort to anything, even blatant lies and nonsense to make your `argument', won't you? Typical Randian cultist.
Not trolling enough. I usually just barely hold Excellent by one or two posts, my years spent in imageboard culture has left me unable to make a post without some degree of flamebait or sarcasm, and that is reflected in how my posts are modded. I also never metamoderate and 90% of the mods points I spend are only spent modding up -1's that no one agrees with and will probably get me raped in metamoderation.
According to everything, I should not be given points at all. Yet, I get mod points every couple of weeks.
You sound extremely butthurt and jealous. Is this related to all the mac-hate? Maybe, maybe....
Harley are loud
Loud pipes save lives. Maybe if everyone else wasn't fucking around in their cars and were watching the road, I wouldn't need to pour 50G decibels into the air just to avoid getting ran over at a red light.
they run horribly, they're slow
Say what nigga? Mine runs great and can hit 110mph pretty fucking fast. I don't know what the fuck you are talking about, and I suspect that you don't either.
they're made for old guys who like to pretend that they're rough and tough and can give up their accounting or dental practice whenever they want and hit the road with Jack Nicholson and Pete Fonda
There's that bitterness showing.
I guess they ride a Harley to look like low life trash.
Yeah, and people use linux so they can grow neckbeards and avoid women.
blah blah blah bitch bitch bitch
Say that to my face, fucker, not online, see what happens.
The guards that aren't single-minded sociopaths looking for power will likely get out while they can. Most thugs aren't smart enough to think that far into the future, or will stick with it so that they can kick back and still beat the shit out of people when they feel like it.
I've heard Christians get pissed about RFID because they thought the government was going to put it in your forehead and that it was the mark of the devil. Really. That was before 9/11 though, and not everyone had GPS enabled, dual-core 1.6Ghz smartphones capable of tracking you to the picometer. I really doubt that the outcry will even be existent. (For better or worse).
This isn't limited to English. Apparently, it's the new chik thing in Japanese to use obscure kanji just because the IME can display it. (Shit, some of them can't even write kanji without typing it out in the IME first.)Even more oddly, some of the teenage Jap girls that I cyberstalk replace `I'\`E' with `Yi'\`Ye', even though, or because, `Yi'\`Ye' is archaic and isn't even part of the language anymore, officially. Guess it looks cute.
I would gladly be sent to prison for 2 years for obstruction of justice, rather than going for what ever I was hiding. Maybe not worth it for petty fraud, but some things that people would like to encrypt can land them a sentence that they couldn't possible live to see expire.
Those images of the cartel's victims being brutally tortured and having their genitals shoved in their mouth and lit on fire didn't have a choice either, but it isn't illegal. What's the difference. Why should any arbitrarily large of number be illegal?
Besides that, [your] GP said animated, as in animated, as in it isn't real anyway.
Why are even apologizing to this guy? It's like he hits you in the face and you apologize for having your face in his way. Grow some balls and stop being a bitch.
Back in my high school, Slashdot was blocked as a blog, while 4chan, and more amazingly, 12chan, were not. Also, all CNN.com was blocked as violence while foxnews.com wasn't. The people compiling those lists are fucking morons.
Slashdot Mirror
How much can you improve a 100 line program that does nothing by concatenate streams?
emphasize the greater question of humans killing humans by nuclear means
Why does it being nuclear matter? A corpse is a corpse, no matter if it got shot in the head, fell on a grenade, starved, got a disease, or was incinerated by an atom bomb. There is no honorable way of killing another human being. There is no way of killing that makes it any cleaner. There are ways to get it over quicker. Would a prolonged, drawn-out conflict where men bayonet each other in trenches or in cities before dying of malnutrition and dysentery is more humane?
To make things simpler, just imagine that those cities had a fatal disease which could kill millions: is it a valid trade-off to annihilate both?
Annihilate? Perhaps not, quarantine with military force, of course. Burn down a few blocks and kill the diseased? Yes. Regardless, you've oversimplified.
Patriotism is great and it's nice to see anyone loving his/her own homeland.
I don't even give a shit about maintaining the reputation of the US and I am a weeaboo idiot who looks at Japanese shit all day. Don't play that card.
Not people with money and not people on TV. These are both.
Didn't read, I already know what you said. You are wrong and an apologist who does not understand trade-offs.
You're right, we should have invaded with help from the USSR and let them subjugate half of Japan for 50 years, killing 10 million people in the invasion. That would have been the ethical thing to do.
For USPS to be self supporting, the prices at least would have to keep up with the rising inflation, which is 11-15% a year for 20 years now, that didn't happen, it's not allowed to happen by Congress.
The prices for postage with USPS have to be much higher than prices of UPS and Fedex for USPS to be self supporting.
Nonsense, being self supporting has nothing to do with inflation, nor does the prices. How in the fuck would you even make that connection? You will resort to anything, even blatant lies and nonsense to make your `argument', won't you? Typical Randian cultist.
Fired from orbit, just to be sure.
Not trolling enough. I usually just barely hold Excellent by one or two posts, my years spent in imageboard culture has left me unable to make a post without some degree of flamebait or sarcasm, and that is reflected in how my posts are modded. I also never metamoderate and 90% of the mods points I spend are only spent modding up -1's that no one agrees with and will probably get me raped in metamoderation.
According to everything, I should not be given points at all. Yet, I get mod points every couple of weeks.
Why do you bully loli?
aluminum hats
It's supposed to be TIN FOIL ! You've revealed all our secrets!
Surely they have. Governments are usually far ahead of the curve when it's devising ways to kill people, if only then.
It's (going to be) like The Stand.
Inorite?
Oh no! They're missing a great opportunity to be called gay by 12 year olds on the internet! And single player is shit (except visuals).
It really sucks that the Iranian government is censoring this, but I doubt they were going to buy it anyway.
You're right, wrong website. Slashdot doesn't appreciate my humor.
Harley are loud
Loud pipes save lives. Maybe if everyone else wasn't fucking around in their cars and were watching the road, I wouldn't need to pour 50G decibels into the air just to avoid getting ran over at a red light.
they run horribly, they're slow
Say what nigga? Mine runs great and can hit 110mph pretty fucking fast. I don't know what the fuck you are talking about, and I suspect that you don't either.
they're made for old guys who like to pretend that they're rough and tough and can give up their accounting or dental practice whenever they want and hit the road with Jack Nicholson and Pete Fonda
There's that bitterness showing.
I guess they ride a Harley to look like low life trash.
Yeah, and people use linux so they can grow neckbeards and avoid women.
blah blah blah bitch bitch bitch
Say that to my face, fucker, not online, see what happens.
Amazing. Where were the works of Aristotle excavated? How did they survive being buried?
Don't be an idiot. It was last week.
The guards that aren't single-minded sociopaths looking for power will likely get out while they can. Most thugs aren't smart enough to think that far into the future, or will stick with it so that they can kick back and still beat the shit out of people when they feel like it.
I've heard Christians get pissed about RFID because they thought the government was going to put it in your forehead and that it was the mark of the devil. Really. That was before 9/11 though, and not everyone had GPS enabled, dual-core 1.6Ghz smartphones capable of tracking you to the picometer. I really doubt that the outcry will even be existent. (For better or worse).
This isn't limited to English. Apparently, it's the new chik thing in Japanese to use obscure kanji just because the IME can display it. (Shit, some of them can't even write kanji without typing it out in the IME first.)Even more oddly, some of the teenage Jap girls that I cyberstalk replace `I'\`E' with `Yi'\`Ye', even though, or because, `Yi'\`Ye' is archaic and isn't even part of the language anymore, officially. Guess it looks cute.
I would gladly be sent to prison for 2 years for obstruction of justice, rather than going for what ever I was hiding. Maybe not worth it for petty fraud, but some things that people would like to encrypt can land them a sentence that they couldn't possible live to see expire.
Oh, never mind my previous reply to you. You are an idiot; I am ashamed at having debased myself by thinking that you were open to reason.
Those images of the cartel's victims being brutally tortured and having their genitals shoved in their mouth and lit on fire didn't have a choice either, but it isn't illegal. What's the difference. Why should any arbitrarily large of number be illegal?
Besides that, [your] GP said animated, as in animated, as in it isn't real anyway.
Why are even apologizing to this guy? It's like he hits you in the face and you apologize for having your face in his way. Grow some balls and stop being a bitch.
Back in my high school, Slashdot was blocked as a blog, while 4chan, and more amazingly, 12chan, were not. Also, all CNN.com was blocked as violence while foxnews.com wasn't. The people compiling those lists are fucking morons.
Maybe you could start using .eu? Brilliant idea, no? Or is this your Eurocentric vision of a world without the US talking?