Clearly you have some anti-U.S. issues which is clouding your judgement (and also causing you to write some rather incoherent muddled sentences), so I'll leave you to continue your crusade.
The bombs were dropped three days apart. Japan had practically ceased existing at that point. Your comparison is analogous to blowing a bomb in a busy intersection, waiting 10 minutes, and then opening fire on the terrorists/civilians in the area that are still looking for severed pieces of their bodies around the place
Three days is plenty of time to say "I surrender". The Japanese military and impotent Emporer failed the Japanese people for failing to do so.
Your argument would have been acceptable if Japan was still bombarding San Fransisco at the time, and the US was having heavy casualties.
No, it wasn't. Like I originally said, at the time of the incident, the war was pretty much over, and the world was in a state of stupor... no major battles were being fought.
Then Japan should have surrended. Their refusal to do so was an egregious mistake on their part.
It's one thing to justify yourself (as a country) in current political affairs, it's another thing entirely to try and justify facts of 50 years ago when the whole world knows more or less exactly what happened: it makes you look foolish and conceited.
When I read the history books, I see that the U.S. gave Japan warnings to surrender prior to the droppings of both bombs.
Japan refused to heed those warnings.
The U.S. bombed them.
It seems logical to me that Japan forced the U.S.'s hand. History has borne that out as well.
And don't forget, Pearl harbour was a millitary outpost, if Uncle Sam wants to put his soldiers around the globe, he will have to face the risks of doing so...
And if nations want to surprise attack them while engaged in diplomatic talks, then those nations will have to bear the consequences of their actions.
Japan should have immediately surrended after the 1st bomb. They are solely responsible for the 2nd dromb being dropped. They were too busy trying to rally the citizenry to defend the homeland. Rather than protecting their people, they put them in jeopardy.
Right. Somehow I don't think Germany would have been as conservative with its use of the bomb. Russia would probably not exist today, neither would Britain. Most of occupied Europe would have bene spared because of the German expansion.
All in all, the world is very lucky that the U.S. got the bomb first. If the U.S. had designs on ruling the world, they wouldn't have allowed any other nation to develop the bomb.
Right. We'll take your word over Google's chief technology officer. Because your extensive experience and professional analysis most surely trumps that of Google's chief technology officer.
Wasn't Sun in part started by Bill Joy of the *original* BSD fame, of which OpenBSD is an off-shoot? You'd think that Bill would show the OpenBSD guys some love.
Yes, I know Bill Joy creating BSD was a long time ago but there is no need for such duplicity and passive hostility. Let's get it together Sun !
Actually, it appears Howard is sucking up to Big Business. It appears the Australian gov't is no different than any other western style democracy. Those with money get access. Those with access get laws written.
This will become law sooner or later. The media companies lobby politicians heavily and usually get what they want, particularly since users aren't typically as well organzied.
The truth be told, most users are rather ignorant of the politics involved in these areas; Slashdotters are on the oppostite end of the spectrum.
What I would like to see howerver is a repudiation of anti-copy tactics currently in place by media companies. If you're going to charge users a levy tax, we should be free to make copies. There shouldn't be any impediments in our way. This will require a few courageous politicians to step up and go against the grain.
Unfortunately for us, courageous and politician are two words that don't often go together.
You remind me of a friend. The only books he ever read were fantasy books. That's it. He had no other books in his book shelves. As you can guess, he wasn't exactly the most open minded person in the world (not that I'm calling you close minded). He had the same thing with music. Only listened to heav metal. Wouldn't let anyone play any other type of music.
But I think you deny yourself some of life's pleasures by narrowly defining your interests. It's ok to like reading Sci-Fi books, but I can tell you that you are missing out on a lot if that's all you read. I don't consider Tech books to be "reading" books so I won't address that.
Hahahah. To be honest, I really haven't been too proactive in trying to find a way to recover the harddrive. One of these days I'll get off my keister and find a computer repair guy...but for now...I'm too content watching my Farscape DVDs.:)
I remember working on my very first IBM pc. My girlfriend's mother was dating a guy and he gave her an old 8086 computer (this was back in '94 or thereabouts). Well, I started playing with the computer. He had an early version of Norton Utilities on it. I played with the undelete file utility and found that there were lots of deleted files. I recovered some of them and started to read them. Most were boring. One wasn't
This guy wrote about my g/f's mom about how he was banging her for the last 15 years. She had only been widowed for 10 years. He also complained about how she only came around when she needed money and how he was tired of banging her wrinkly ass.
Also, this guy was a principal at an elementary school. He was apparently fucking several women at the school, even getting blowjobs at work!
I was simply amazed. My g/f didn't even really know that this guy was dating her mom (some women are so stupid). She just thought he was a family friend. I couldn't tell her about what I found because I knew she would have been really upset.
I learned from that day on that simply deleting a file was not going to hide anything. I'm actually holding onto a defective laptop thathas been broken for months. I don't want to toss it out until I can either recover the harddrive data myself or until I can safely dispose of the harddrive.
I don't think the Mozilla guys should take Apple's decision as anything more than Apple trying to do what's best for Apple. We users may have the luxury of using political motives in determing which software to use, but corporations have to answer to shareholders. If Apple sincerely believes they made the best choice for them, then I hope it works out well for them.
I'll continue to use Mozilla, if it makes the developers happy!
How sad. The Egyptian guy comes from a nation that has an illustrious history and a civilization that predates yours by oh....a couple thousand years, and you come up with such a stereotypical "joke".
It's no wonder the "2nd World" nations resent the West. We hold them down and put them down at any chance.
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Clearly you have some anti-U.S. issues which is clouding your judgement (and also causing you to write some rather incoherent muddled sentences), so I'll leave you to continue your crusade.
Sublime.
:)
P.S. I'm sure the French don't even see the irony to your post.
The bombs were dropped three days apart.
Japan had practically ceased existing at that point. Your comparison is analogous to blowing a bomb in a busy intersection, waiting 10 minutes, and then opening fire on the terrorists/civilians in the area that are still looking for severed pieces of their bodies around the place
Three days is plenty of time to say "I surrender". The Japanese military and impotent Emporer failed the Japanese people for failing to do so.
Your argument would have been acceptable if Japan was still bombarding San Fransisco at the time, and the US was having heavy casualties.
No, it wasn't. Like I originally said, at the time of the incident, the war was pretty much over, and the world was in a state of stupor... no major battles were being fought.
Then Japan should have surrended. Their refusal to do so was an egregious mistake on their part.
It's one thing to justify yourself (as a country) in current political affairs, it's another thing entirely to try and justify facts of 50 years ago when the whole world knows more or less exactly what happened: it makes you look foolish and conceited.
When I read the history books, I see that the U.S. gave Japan warnings to surrender prior to the droppings of both bombs.
Japan refused to heed those warnings.
The U.S. bombed them.
It seems logical to me that Japan forced the U.S.'s hand. History has borne that out as well.
And don't forget, Pearl harbour was a millitary outpost, if Uncle Sam wants to put his soldiers around the globe, he will have to face the risks of doing so...
And if nations want to surprise attack them while engaged in diplomatic talks, then those nations will have to bear the consequences of their actions.
If you refuse to consider that Linux emulates Unix, an American technology....then yes...Linux is a Finnish technology.
Japan's refusal to surrender forced the use of the 2nd bomb. There really is no other way to look at it.
Sorry.
90% of French and British citizens were against standing up to Hitler when he waltzed into the Sudetenland.
Look where that got us.
No one wants war, but the realists in the world realize that inaction is actually worse in some cases.
Japan should have immediately surrended after the 1st bomb. They are solely responsible for the 2nd dromb being dropped. They were too busy trying to rally the citizenry to defend the homeland. Rather than protecting their people, they put them in jeopardy.
Right. Somehow I don't think Germany would have been as conservative with its use of the bomb. Russia would probably not exist today, neither would Britain. Most of occupied Europe would have bene spared because of the German expansion.
All in all, the world is very lucky that the U.S. got the bomb first. If the U.S. had designs on ruling the world, they wouldn't have allowed any other nation to develop the bomb.
French. Or we'd all be speaking German now. :)
Hello Lamb Chops !!!
This is the best thing about cloning. An endless supply of lamb chops !!!
Right. We'll take your word over Google's chief technology officer. Because your extensive experience and professional analysis most surely trumps that of Google's chief technology officer.
you are so fucking gay.
I would imagine that the studio who made Forrest Gump made sure they paid to use any copyrighted material or just used what is in the public domain.
Wasn't Sun in part started by Bill Joy of the *original* BSD fame, of which OpenBSD is an off-shoot? You'd think that Bill would show the OpenBSD guys some love.
Yes, I know Bill Joy creating BSD was a long time ago but there is no need for such duplicity and passive hostility. Let's get it together Sun !
Actually, it appears Howard is sucking up to Big Business. It appears the Australian gov't is no different than any other western style democracy. Those with money get access. Those with access get laws written.
...amusing when someone mispells...
Is this real irony or Alanis irony?
This will become law sooner or later. The media companies lobby politicians heavily and usually get what they want, particularly since users aren't typically as well organzied.
The truth be told, most users are rather ignorant of the politics involved in these areas; Slashdotters are on the oppostite end of the spectrum.
What I would like to see howerver is a repudiation of anti-copy tactics currently in place by media companies. If you're going to charge users a levy tax, we should be free to make copies. There shouldn't be any impediments in our way. This will require a few courageous politicians to step up and go against the grain.
Unfortunately for us, courageous and politician are two words that don't often go together.
You remind me of a friend. The only books he ever read were fantasy books. That's it. He had no other books in his book shelves. As you can guess, he wasn't exactly the most open minded person in the world (not that I'm calling you close minded). He had the same thing with music. Only listened to heav metal. Wouldn't let anyone play any other type of music.
But I think you deny yourself some of life's pleasures by narrowly defining your interests. It's ok to like reading Sci-Fi books, but I can tell you that you are missing out on a lot if that's all you read. I don't consider Tech books to be "reading" books so I won't address that.
Man, a lot of you people are in some serious trouble!
Go get 'em, Taco !
Hahahah. To be honest, I really haven't been too proactive in trying to find a way to recover the harddrive. One of these days I'll get off my keister and find a computer repair guy...but for now...I'm too content watching my Farscape DVDs. :)
I remember working on my very first IBM pc. My girlfriend's mother was dating a guy and he gave her an old 8086 computer (this was back in '94 or thereabouts). Well, I started playing with the computer. He had an early version of Norton Utilities on it. I played with the undelete file utility and found that there were lots of deleted files. I recovered some of them and started to read them. Most were boring. One wasn't
This guy wrote about my g/f's mom about how he was banging her for the last 15 years. She had only been widowed for 10 years. He also complained about how she only came around when she needed money and how he was tired of banging her wrinkly ass.
Also, this guy was a principal at an elementary school. He was apparently fucking several women at the school, even getting blowjobs at work!
I was simply amazed. My g/f didn't even really know that this guy was dating her mom (some women are so stupid). She just thought he was a family friend. I couldn't tell her about what I found because I knew she would have been really upset.
I learned from that day on that simply deleting a file was not going to hide anything. I'm actually holding onto a defective laptop thathas been broken for months. I don't want to toss it out until I can either recover the harddrive data myself or until I can safely dispose of the harddrive.
I don't think the Mozilla guys should take Apple's decision as anything more than Apple trying to do what's best for Apple. We users may have the luxury of using political motives in determing which software to use, but corporations have to answer to shareholders. If Apple sincerely believes they made the best choice for them, then I hope it works out well for them.
I'll continue to use Mozilla, if it makes the developers happy!
Your knee-jerk stereotyping is no better than the post you're trying to defend.
Nice way to claim the high road.
How sad. The Egyptian guy comes from a nation that has an illustrious history and a civilization that predates yours by oh....a couple thousand years, and you come up with such a stereotypical "joke".
It's no wonder the "2nd World" nations resent the West. We hold them down and put them down at any chance.