Explain why the US Government was so reluctant to join the war earlier then? Surly economists proved that war would have reviatalized the American economy. Isolation got your economy started, war bloated it.
>Sigh Study history before running your mouth. The US helped bankroll (through 'selling' arms, etc. on credit) the Brits and the French through the first part of the second world war. It was a very fine diplomatic line that the US walked to help the allies while not pissing off the Germans to the point where they'd declare war on us before we were ready to fight them. FDR knew that the US *would* be entering the war. That was obvious. But he knew he needed two things in order to successfully engage the axis: Public Support and Time, which he had by the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If you listen (or read the text) of the 'fireside chats' from the late 30s and early 40s, you can very clearly see it in the works. (Hindsight is 20/20. heh.)
As for this thing, the amount of US bashing is amazing, and uncalled for. This is not the bombing of the Chinese Embassy. This is not the sinking of a Japanese fishing trawler. (Both of which, while accidents, are clearly the fault of the US.) In this, however, only the most irrational of minds can paint the US as the bad guys. (Unless you think that the world is a happy little place where such surveillance (It is NOT spying. Everyone involved knows what everyone else is up to, there are no secrets here.) is not needed, because the peace loving Chinese would *never* do the same thing to us, and if they did, we wouldn't tolerate it. (...even though we clearly have a history of tolerating it with the Russians))
For anyone interested in the mindset of the powers that be in China, I would suggest: China Wakes : The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn, Nicholas D. Kristoff.
For those interested in the Second World War, I would suggest: The Second World War by John Keegan
Windows NT is one of the (if not THE) most advanced operating systems ever made. It supports multiple processors which NO version of OS/2 ever did. It has TCP/IP capability out of the box, which OS/2 didn't have until version 4.
actually, os/2 died just about the time multi-processor boards were becoming widely available, and there was a smp version in the works... i've even seen bootlegs of its beta. I seem to recall doing the internet thing quite well on version 3, before it became mainstream... what was that wretched browser that came with os/2? it was my first.:) let's also not forget that os/2 is built on the code of windows nt, and the fdisk that came with early versions of nt made no distinction between hpfs and ntfs....and to compare os/2 to win2k is laughable. it's like comparing amigas and athlons.
Windows NT is one of the (if not THE) most advanced operating systems ever made. It supports multiple processors which NO version of OS/2 ever did. It has TCP/IP capability out of the box, which OS/2 didn't have until version 4.
actually, os/2 died just about the time multi-processor boards were becoming widely available, and there was a smp version in the works... i've even seen bootlegs of its beta. I seem to recall doing the internet thing quite well on version 3, before it became mainstream... what was that wretched browser that came with os/2? it was my first.:) let's also not forget that nt is built on the code of windows nt, and the fdisk that came with early versions of nt made no distinction between hpfs and ntfs....and to compare os/2 to win2k is laughable. it's like comparing amigas and athlons.
Here it is: If someone leaves a Mr. Microphone on and it gets kicked under the couch while still on... when is it not an accident or an oversight of a child but outright spying?
Haha! I find this quite amusing! When I was 13 and got a Mr. Microphone, the first thing I did was disassemble it from the plastic casing to make a smaller footprint and hide it in the living room where my sisters would hang out with their boyfriends after a date. It got to the point where the first thing they'd do would be to search the entire room for my 'bug'. I had no idea I was such a criminal... (and it wasn't even worth breaking the law over...I never got to hear anything interesting, anyway...)
it's actually pretty simple. take a population of say, 50. half of the 50 are men, and half are women.
kill 20 of the men, leaving you with a population of 5 men and 25 women. the war is over, and it's time to repopulate. not a problem. but if it's the other way around, and you're left with 5 women and 25 men, you're s.o.l.
by the very nature of human reproduction, women become far more valuable to the population as a whole after a massive conflict that ends up depopulating an area. likewise, children have a longer breedling life in front of them than older humans.
we're not as removed from the chimps as we'd like to think we are...
P.S. Those dead students? What's a bigger tragedy, dozens of students dead, or dozens of students being asked to leave their high school a year before they graduate because some yahoos shot up the school in their outfit, were weird, and made the cheerleaders nervous?
Are you completely insane?!? I don't care how many people they unjustifiably throw out of school, it's only a fraction of the tradgy of a dozen kids getting murdered!
I'm speechless... doumbfounded... agast that you would think something like that...I'm going to just presume that you weren't thinking too well when you said it.
I think that a dozen kids being killed is only a fraction of the tradgedy that our society could produce two kids who couldn't come up with a better way of dealing with the issues that motivated them other than to go on a shooting rampage...
Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for the families, but I really think it's about time we (humanity) start working together as a team, or we're destined to fade cheerfully into obscurity. Part of working as a team means acknowledging the fact that we as a society are responsible for things like Columbine, instead of placing all the blame on the attackers and their families.
I don't see a computer analyzing program as much of a solution. It strikes me as another means to avoid talking to kids (whether you're their parent, sibling, uncle, pastor, coach, teacher, whatever.) This reminds me of that program I heard on NPR about the hourly grading system where a school system in the midwest set up a voice-mail system so parents can call in and check their kids grades every hour. Whatever happened to asking your kids about their grades? Bah...
i think the old cliche still applies. no buck rogers, no bucks. nasa needs to send humans to make it glamerous enough to make joe sixpack not bitch too much about the cost of it. personally, i think sometimes the human race, just like an individual, needs to do things just so it can say, 'hey! i can do that!' i think a manned mission to mars is a good thing. my two cents worth.
reminds me of the good ol' days when lord british released ultima 4 (i *think* it was 4) and said that no one would *EVER* be able to bypass the copy protection scheme of the game... i think the warez kiddies of the day had it on every warez bbs the same week it was released.
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Explain why the US Government was so reluctant to join the war earlier then? Surly economists proved that war would have reviatalized the American economy. Isolation got your economy started, war bloated it.
>Sigh Study history before running your mouth. The US helped bankroll (through 'selling' arms, etc. on credit) the Brits and the French through the first part of the second world war. It was a very fine diplomatic line that the US walked to help the allies while not pissing off the Germans to the point where they'd declare war on us before we were ready to fight them. FDR knew that the US *would* be entering the war. That was obvious. But he knew he needed two things in order to successfully engage the axis: Public Support and Time, which he had by the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If you listen (or read the text) of the 'fireside chats' from the late 30s and early 40s, you can very clearly see it in the works. (Hindsight is 20/20. heh.)
As for this thing, the amount of US bashing is amazing, and uncalled for. This is not the bombing of the Chinese Embassy. This is not the sinking of a Japanese fishing trawler. (Both of which, while accidents, are clearly the fault of the US.) In this, however, only the most irrational of minds can paint the US as the bad guys. (Unless you think that the world is a happy little place where such surveillance (It is NOT spying. Everyone involved knows what everyone else is up to, there are no secrets here.) is not needed, because the peace loving Chinese would *never* do the same thing to us, and if they did, we wouldn't tolerate it. (...even though we clearly have a history of tolerating it with the Russians))
For anyone interested in the mindset of the powers that be in China, I would suggest: China Wakes : The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn, Nicholas D. Kristoff.
For those interested in the Second World War, I would suggest: The Second World War by John Keegan
Windows NT is one of the (if not THE) most advanced operating systems ever made. It supports multiple processors which NO version of OS/2 ever did. It has TCP/IP capability out of the box, which OS/2 didn't have until version 4.
:) let's also not forget that os/2 is built on the code of windows nt, and the fdisk that came with early versions of nt made no distinction between hpfs and ntfs. ...and to compare os/2 to win2k is laughable. it's like comparing amigas and athlons.
actually, os/2 died just about the time multi-processor boards were becoming widely available, and there was a smp version in the works... i've even seen bootlegs of its beta. I seem to recall doing the internet thing quite well on version 3, before it became mainstream... what was that wretched browser that came with os/2? it was my first.
Windows NT is one of the (if not THE) most advanced operating systems ever made. It supports multiple processors which NO version of OS/2 ever did. It has TCP/IP capability out of the box, which OS/2 didn't have until version 4.
:) let's also not forget that nt is built on the code of windows nt, and the fdisk that came with early versions of nt made no distinction between hpfs and ntfs. ...and to compare os/2 to win2k is laughable. it's like comparing amigas and athlons.
actually, os/2 died just about the time multi-processor boards were becoming widely available, and there was a smp version in the works... i've even seen bootlegs of its beta. I seem to recall doing the internet thing quite well on version 3, before it became mainstream... what was that wretched browser that came with os/2? it was my first.
Here it is: If someone leaves a Mr. Microphone on and it gets kicked under the couch while still on... when is it not an accident or an oversight of a child but outright spying?
Haha! I find this quite amusing! When I was 13 and got a Mr. Microphone, the first thing I did was disassemble it from the plastic casing to make a smaller footprint and hide it in the living room where my sisters would hang out with their boyfriends after a date. It got to the point where the first thing they'd do would be to search the entire room for my 'bug'. I had no idea I was such a criminal... (and it wasn't even worth breaking the law over...I never got to hear anything interesting, anyway...)
Women and children first... (why?)
it's actually pretty simple. take a population of say, 50. half of the 50 are men, and half are women.
kill 20 of the men, leaving you with a population of 5 men and 25 women. the war is over, and it's time to repopulate. not a problem. but if it's the other way around, and you're left with 5 women and 25 men, you're s.o.l.
by the very nature of human reproduction, women become far more valuable to the population as a whole after a massive conflict that ends up depopulating an area. likewise, children have a longer breedling life in front of them than older humans.
we're not as removed from the chimps as we'd like to think we are...
P.S. Those dead students? What's a bigger tragedy, dozens of students dead, or dozens of students being asked to leave their high school a year before they graduate because some yahoos shot up the school in their outfit, were weird, and made the cheerleaders nervous?
Are you completely insane?!? I don't care how many people they unjustifiably throw out of school, it's only a fraction of the tradgy of a dozen kids getting murdered!
I'm speechless... doumbfounded... agast that you would think something like that...I'm going to just presume that you weren't thinking too well when you said it.
I think that a dozen kids being killed is only a fraction of the tradgedy that our society could produce two kids who couldn't come up with a better way of dealing with the issues that motivated them other than to go on a shooting rampage...
Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for the families, but I really think it's about time we (humanity) start working together as a team, or we're destined to fade cheerfully into obscurity. Part of working as a team means acknowledging the fact that we as a society are responsible for things like Columbine, instead of placing all the blame on the attackers and their families.
I don't see a computer analyzing program as much of a solution. It strikes me as another means to avoid talking to kids (whether you're their parent, sibling, uncle, pastor, coach, teacher, whatever.) This reminds me of that program I heard on NPR about the hourly grading system where a school system in the midwest set up a voice-mail system so parents can call in and check their kids grades every hour. Whatever happened to asking your kids about their grades? Bah...
Where is Chad C. Mulligan when you need him?
i'm as smart as he is...
NASA seems obssesed in "manned" missions.
i think the old cliche still applies. no buck rogers, no bucks. nasa needs to send humans to make it glamerous enough to make joe sixpack not bitch too much about the cost of it. personally, i think sometimes the human race, just like an individual, needs to do things just so it can say, 'hey! i can do that!' i think a manned mission to mars is a good thing. my two cents worth.
reminds me of the good ol' days when lord british released ultima 4 (i *think* it was 4) and said that no one would *EVER* be able to bypass the copy protection scheme of the game... i think the warez kiddies of the day had it on every warez bbs the same week it was released.
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