Actually an invasion of Japan might have ended up in the murder-suicide of the entire population. No less a person than Kurosawa Akira recorded as much in his memoirs. The Japanese public were basically told, from the beginning of "The Pacific War," that the Emperor would, in the event of an invasion of Japan, order the suicide of all Japanese. I say murder-suicide because parents would have been ordered to dispatch their children before taking their own lives. Most families had knives for this purpose, and usually kept in a place of honor in their residence.
However, the results of the two atomic bombings of Japan are staggeringly horrific. So much so that it took until 1968 before footage taken by the Japanese Army's Documentary Corps was released as the documentary Hiroshima-Nagasaki August 1945. I am just finishing up a class on the history of documentary film, and I've watched some pretty hard-to-take footage. The clips from this documentary are perhaps the hardest to watch of anything I've seen.
Thermonuclear weapons are absolutely horrifying. We must endeavor never, ever, to use them again. However, considering what the Japanese were prepared to do to themselves and to their children if an invasion occurred, the atom bomb saved an entire civilization from self-destruction.
I wouldn't exactly call him either conservative (he was a radical corporatist) or harmless. He and Josef Stalin decimated the population of Europe between them.
So this is an argument that because most of the people on the Titanic were White, they behaved one way, and because most of the people in Haiti are Black, they behaved another? Just an observation...
They aren't going to increase the Japanese population talking to women like that. One of the reasons why Japan is in the population fix it's in is because women have decided "Screw it, I'm having too much fun being single, and being a married woman is akin to a season in Hell anyway, especially if you are married to a First Son, so I'm going to live with my parents and spend my money on fashion and Host Clubs and Yaoi doujinshi."
The reason why women make the choice to become a "parasite single" is not just a rebellion against society's expectations of being a "good wife and good mother," but it has a lot to do also with the economic situation that pretty much started with the end of the Showa era and the beginning of the Heisei era. When the bubble economy burst in 1990, the earning power of the Japanese male burst as well. The old assumptions collapsed. You didn't graduate a prestigious university and get a job for life. Much of the excesses of Sarariman life was forgiven because, well, he would bring home the salary. Now, after the burst of the bubble economy, employment was scarce and tenuous.
Marriage had long ago evolved from a business arrangement between families to a partnership arrangement between a man and a woman -- love usually was way down the list even during the go-go '70s and '80s -- so the economic viability of the potential husband determined his marriageability. With so many young men graduating from university without the guarantees their fathers and grandfathers have, you wind up with with lots of single men and single women.
There is a huge stigma against birth out of wedlock in Japan, way more than in the West. So the economic and social situation means birth rates have plummeted.
You cannot simply wish away the current situation, or sloganize it away. This is the result of a social collapse unprecedented in Japanese society.
It was sleek, usable, rock-solid and ran on most computers that could run 98se. It came on a single CD-ROM...that's right, CD, not DVD. It installed in 30 minutes. Then MS had to go throw on all the eyecandy and craptacularness of XP, and suddenly things started slowing down. Then we had the Vista debacle. If 7 is as sleek and slim as 2K I'd be all over it. But apparently 7 is still suffering bloat and eyecandy obsession. I miss 2K. If it wasn't so risky to run I'd still run it. Too many vulnerabilities that are unpatched in 2K.
Hackintosh = bog standard PC running Mac OS X. Case mod = hardware stuffed into a case that is wildly different or decorative or super-functional. Mac case mod = Mac logic board stuffed into a case that is wildly different from standard Macs.
I still want to do a Classic Mac modded with a Mac mini inside and an LCD replacing the old CRT.
I have a 600X. It runs Xubuntu. For a 600E, Debian would be your best bet, because you can tailor-fit it to your needs. XFCE is such a good window manager I even run it on more powerful systems because it's lightweight and goes fast.
The easiest way to get sound out of one of these machines is to use a USB sound card. There are three chips inside a 600 and a 600e that look like sound cards to Linux. The 600x is better on this score, and so is the T22, but it's way easier to work around the elderly sound circuitry with a USB stick in all of these cases.
Actually another distro you should look into is Tiny Core Linux. It is idiosyncratic, to say the least, but it is the lightest Linux in a long, long time.
This is pretzel logic at its worst. Memo to Apple: build a machine that has a price point between the Mac mini and Mac Pro, that isn't an all-in-one machine, and is internally expandable, and people will buy that machine from YOU rather than buy a PC and make a Hackintosh. People know the difference between a Mac and a crappy PC. They know that the Mac will be the better quality machine. They will pay more -- not a King's Ransom, but modestly more -- for Apple quality. This is why the MacBook has pwn3d most lappies for years, and why the MacBook Pro is the best damn lappie experience currently available. Build something BETTER for a little more than a Dell or a HP or a Compaq and you will have the business back. I guarantee it.
I want half of my ashes incorporated into a WORKING computer. Maybe in a box in an empty 5.25" bay, that would work. The other half can be scattered at the same coordinates my deceased husband was scattered at: basically 3 miles off the coast of San Pedro, CA, US.
What good is a computer buried six feet underground, with all the guts taken out of it? I want to be part of something USEFUL.
Much of what killed people in 1918 was not the flu itself, but opportunistic bacterial infections. And we have good medicines for those, or at least we did until they were passed out as placebos to calm worried parents demanding their doctors "do SOMETHING" for Junior and/or Missy and their viral ear infections.:P
The problem is that mac (sic) users don't know how to use a computer... ergo, they are mac (sic) users.
Well, at least you didn't capitalize: shows you know the diff between a Macintosh and the Media Access Control sub-layer of Ethernet. ^_^
I know enough highly technical Mac users, most of them OSX-era converts, who use Mac because they DO know how to use a computer. A lot of the time they do things through the command line, something that physically could not be done in the days of the "Classic" Mac OS. Mac OS X became officially designated a full fledged distribution of UNIX with Leopard.
Certainly you can use X without darkening the doors of Terminal. Most Mac users don't futz with the command line. But once you do, often times there is no going back. It's just easier to dash off a command line incantation sometimes than to wait for the graphical program which does the same thing to launch...bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
Linux and FreeBSD have the advantage over Mac OS X of being 100% free, and they don't play silly marketing games with their users like creating arbitrary software "switches" for 64-bitness or installer behavior that does not allow the installation of high-end programs like Final Cut Studio on low-end computers like the MacBook and the Mac mini, both perfectly capable of running the program yet prevented from doing so because Apple wants to up-sell the MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro to students and indie filmmakers instead of letting them run Studio on low-end hardware more in budget for such markets. Any modern Mac can have their disk wiped and Mac OS X replaced with 64-bit Intel architecture Linux or FreeBSD. And believe me, that Mac will sprout wings and FLY. (metaphorically speaking) I am tempted, once all my apps are patched for Snow Leopard, to partition the hard drive to be able to dual boot Mac OS X and Debian GNU/Linux. My BF did that with a dual-proc G4 Mac minitower for me, and the contrast between Tiger and Debian is startling.
Apple is not perfect, and Snow Leopard is not the Second Coming of Jeebus(tm). However, give some Mac users more credit, kthxbai.
And at what point did they agree that Pure Evil looks like Henry Rollins? Jeez, I know Henry. He's not a bad guy at all. One wonders if ex LA Police Chief Daryl Gates had something to do with this project...he certainly gave Black Flag a hard time when he was chief and punk rock was just in its infancy in LA.
Netbook size and battery life but released in 2000. It could use more modern ports and a better processor (240 has a PII-class mobile Celeron) and more room for RAM, but it's serviceable. The keyboard is a nice clicky old-school Thinkpad keyboard. And it has a trackpoint, glory be!
Srsly, Lenovo needs to look at this old-school model for some inspiration.
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Actually an invasion of Japan might have ended up in the murder-suicide of the entire population. No less a person than Kurosawa Akira recorded as much in his memoirs. The Japanese public were basically told, from the beginning of "The Pacific War," that the Emperor would, in the event of an invasion of Japan, order the suicide of all Japanese. I say murder-suicide because parents would have been ordered to dispatch their children before taking their own lives. Most families had knives for this purpose, and usually kept in a place of honor in their residence.
However, the results of the two atomic bombings of Japan are staggeringly horrific. So much so that it took until 1968 before footage taken by the Japanese Army's Documentary Corps was released as the documentary Hiroshima-Nagasaki August 1945. I am just finishing up a class on the history of documentary film, and I've watched some pretty hard-to-take footage. The clips from this documentary are perhaps the hardest to watch of anything I've seen.
Thermonuclear weapons are absolutely horrifying. We must endeavor never, ever, to use them again. However, considering what the Japanese were prepared to do to themselves and to their children if an invasion occurred, the atom bomb saved an entire civilization from self-destruction.
I wouldn't exactly call him either conservative (he was a radical corporatist) or harmless. He and Josef Stalin decimated the population of Europe between them.
Yes, the very one.
Goddess, this has been up for minutes and nobody's made the obvious comment...Chii!!!!
And if you don't get the ref...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEvyHXNhHAc
So this is an argument that because most of the people on the Titanic were White, they behaved one way, and because most of the people in Haiti are Black, they behaved another? Just an observation...
The idea was that memory is not to be trusted in the world of Blade Runner.
They aren't going to increase the Japanese population talking to women like that. One of the reasons why Japan is in the population fix it's in is because women have decided "Screw it, I'm having too much fun being single, and being a married woman is akin to a season in Hell anyway, especially if you are married to a First Son, so I'm going to live with my parents and spend my money on fashion and Host Clubs and Yaoi doujinshi."
The reason why women make the choice to become a "parasite single" is not just a rebellion against society's expectations of being a "good wife and good mother," but it has a lot to do also with the economic situation that pretty much started with the end of the Showa era and the beginning of the Heisei era. When the bubble economy burst in 1990, the earning power of the Japanese male burst as well. The old assumptions collapsed. You didn't graduate a prestigious university and get a job for life. Much of the excesses of Sarariman life was forgiven because, well, he would bring home the salary. Now, after the burst of the bubble economy, employment was scarce and tenuous.
Marriage had long ago evolved from a business arrangement between families to a partnership arrangement between a man and a woman -- love usually was way down the list even during the go-go '70s and '80s -- so the economic viability of the potential husband determined his marriageability. With so many young men graduating from university without the guarantees their fathers and grandfathers have, you wind up with with lots of single men and single women.
There is a huge stigma against birth out of wedlock in Japan, way more than in the West. So the economic and social situation means birth rates have plummeted.
You cannot simply wish away the current situation, or sloganize it away. This is the result of a social collapse unprecedented in Japanese society.
Here's my suggestion:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/b7ce/
Organize!
It was sleek, usable, rock-solid and ran on most computers that could run 98se. It came on a single CD-ROM...that's right, CD, not DVD. It installed in 30 minutes. Then MS had to go throw on all the eyecandy and craptacularness of XP, and suddenly things started slowing down. Then we had the Vista debacle. If 7 is as sleek and slim as 2K I'd be all over it. But apparently 7 is still suffering bloat and eyecandy obsession. I miss 2K. If it wasn't so risky to run I'd still run it. Too many vulnerabilities that are unpatched in 2K.
That. Is. Cool. Thanks for sharing!
That Flash animation is full of WIN. Epic WIN.
Hackintosh = bog standard PC running Mac OS X.
Case mod = hardware stuffed into a case that is wildly different or decorative or super-functional.
Mac case mod = Mac logic board stuffed into a case that is wildly different from standard Macs.
I still want to do a Classic Mac modded with a Mac mini inside and an LCD replacing the old CRT.
I have a 600X. It runs Xubuntu. For a 600E, Debian would be your best bet, because you can tailor-fit it to your needs. XFCE is such a good window manager I even run it on more powerful systems because it's lightweight and goes fast.
The easiest way to get sound out of one of these machines is to use a USB sound card. There are three chips inside a 600 and a 600e that look like sound cards to Linux. The 600x is better on this score, and so is the T22, but it's way easier to work around the elderly sound circuitry with a USB stick in all of these cases.
Actually another distro you should look into is Tiny Core Linux. It is idiosyncratic, to say the least, but it is the lightest Linux in a long, long time.
This is pretzel logic at its worst. Memo to Apple: build a machine that has a price point between the Mac mini and Mac Pro, that isn't an all-in-one machine, and is internally expandable, and people will buy that machine from YOU rather than buy a PC and make a Hackintosh. People know the difference between a Mac and a crappy PC. They know that the Mac will be the better quality machine. They will pay more -- not a King's Ransom, but modestly more -- for Apple quality. This is why the MacBook has pwn3d most lappies for years, and why the MacBook Pro is the best damn lappie experience currently available. Build something BETTER for a little more than a Dell or a HP or a Compaq and you will have the business back. I guarantee it.
I want half of my ashes incorporated into a WORKING computer. Maybe in a box in an empty 5.25" bay, that would work. The other half can be scattered at the same coordinates my deceased husband was scattered at: basically 3 miles off the coast of San Pedro, CA, US.
What good is a computer buried six feet underground, with all the guts taken out of it? I want to be part of something USEFUL.
Why?
The Internet is for Porn!
(Thank you, Avenue Q)
Much of what killed people in 1918 was not the flu itself, but opportunistic bacterial infections. And we have good medicines for those, or at least we did until they were passed out as placebos to calm worried parents demanding their doctors "do SOMETHING" for Junior and/or Missy and their viral ear infections. :P
Die Iron ist nicht fur Macintosh, ist fur Windows only. Scheisse!
...one might think the lightning strike was a divine verdict on the whole tawdry spectacle of The Passion Of The Christ.
Mary Poppins? T&A? WIN. (This was in 1981 before she pruned out.)
The problem is that mac (sic) users don't know how to use a computer ... ergo, they are mac (sic) users.
Well, at least you didn't capitalize: shows you know the diff between a Macintosh and the Media Access Control sub-layer of Ethernet. ^_^
I know enough highly technical Mac users, most of them OSX-era converts, who use Mac because they DO know how to use a computer. A lot of the time they do things through the command line, something that physically could not be done in the days of the "Classic" Mac OS. Mac OS X became officially designated a full fledged distribution of UNIX with Leopard.
Certainly you can use X without darkening the doors of Terminal. Most Mac users don't futz with the command line. But once you do, often times there is no going back. It's just easier to dash off a command line incantation sometimes than to wait for the graphical program which does the same thing to launch...bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
Linux and FreeBSD have the advantage over Mac OS X of being 100% free, and they don't play silly marketing games with their users like creating arbitrary software "switches" for 64-bitness or installer behavior that does not allow the installation of high-end programs like Final Cut Studio on low-end computers like the MacBook and the Mac mini, both perfectly capable of running the program yet prevented from doing so because Apple wants to up-sell the MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro to students and indie filmmakers instead of letting them run Studio on low-end hardware more in budget for such markets. Any modern Mac can have their disk wiped and Mac OS X replaced with 64-bit Intel architecture Linux or FreeBSD. And believe me, that Mac will sprout wings and FLY. (metaphorically speaking) I am tempted, once all my apps are patched for Snow Leopard, to partition the hard drive to be able to dual boot Mac OS X and Debian GNU/Linux. My BF did that with a dual-proc G4 Mac minitower for me, and the contrast between Tiger and Debian is startling.
Apple is not perfect, and Snow Leopard is not the Second Coming of Jeebus(tm). However, give some Mac users more credit, kthxbai.
WORSE than VZ? Wow, that really MUST suck!
And at what point did they agree that Pure Evil looks like Henry Rollins? Jeez, I know Henry. He's not a bad guy at all. One wonders if ex LA Police Chief Daryl Gates had something to do with this project...he certainly gave Black Flag a hard time when he was chief and punk rock was just in its infancy in LA.
Netbook size and battery life but released in 2000. It could use more modern ports and a better processor (240 has a PII-class mobile Celeron) and more room for RAM, but it's serviceable. The keyboard is a nice clicky old-school Thinkpad keyboard. And it has a trackpoint, glory be!
Srsly, Lenovo needs to look at this old-school model for some inspiration.
...and it struck me as having the air of a place like DeVry. Basically a glorified trade school.