Enough with the "they only got involved because of oil". If the US wanted any countries oil they could take it anytime they want. The "international community" couldn't find a pair of balls at an NBA all star game so they wouldn't interfere. What would be really interesting is if the major powers in the world sit down and split up evenly all of the oil fields across the world and take over their current management. The citizens of those countries would most likely benefit a hell of a lot more than they do now from the revenue generated. People are always applauding whenever a country "nationalizes" maybe we need to start thinking about "Globalizing" these types of assets? Instead the US helped Kuwait win back their country and the oil contracts in Iraq were all grabbed up by European firms. The US just wants to ensure that the oil supply is stable and reliable and this benefits every country on the planet not only the US. I don't recall ever hearing of any US oil firms backing up their oil tankers in some oil producing country and filling them up for free. And the plain fact is oil is probably the one thing worth fighting over. Fighting over religion differences, political differences, or arguing over a few hundred acres of land are hardly worth fighting for but that has never stopped anyone. And as far as human rights go, the only rights you really have are those you can defend. If you are not willing to fight and die for your rights don't complain once you lose them. Ordinary citizens dramatically outnumber their own countries military forces so if change is what they want then go for it. Even the most advanced militaries would be overwhelmed if faced with millions of their own countrymen charging the barricades. Mass suicide wave attacks on key objectives would take down any government. Hell, Iran used children with bombs strapped on their backs to take out Iraqi tanks and their artilliary and turned the tide of that particular conflict. The death count would certainly be high but you will get your rights back. Once the US is weened off oil, and this is going on right now but the process is slow, oil will become less important and we will find something else to fight over. Fighting is embeded in our DNA and we have been using it since there were enough of us walking around to chose up sides and hit each other over the head with clubs for a bigger cave.
The citizen groups in the US at the time of WW2 make today's anti-war groups look like gung-ho war supporters. At the time the vast majority did not give a damn what happened in the old country that most of them and their relatives had fled from in the first place in the not to distant past. FDR risked impeachment and violated all kinds of laws just to get aid to Britain. The Japanese attack on Pearl guaranteed US reprisal. Even if they had got the carriers that would have only slowed the US mobilization efforts. The attack on Pearl made those in the US supporting anti-war policies look like enemy collaborators. The attack was saw as a personal affront and someone was going to get their ass kicked. I don't really think it mattered who but someone was going to pay with more than an apology and promise not to do it again. Just look at the 9/11 attack. It's ridiculous we let that one event get us involved in non-ending conflicts across the world but our government was able to use the citizens anger and motivation for payback to politically support their war operations. When international relations devolve into insults and accusations between the general populace of the warring countries the governments end up getting a free hand to do anything they want. Syria and Egypt have been governed for the past 30+ years under an national emergency power acts that have let the governments basically do whatever they want in the name of national security. The US does the same thing whenever they want albeit for shorter time periods.
Japan offered a cease-fire but not "unconditional surrender" which the allies were demanding. After all the killing and destruction just a cessation of hostilities was unacceptable. Those of us who did not live through that era have no idea the level suffering all sides endured and looking back now and saying they should have did this or they should have done that from our modern perspective is pointless. More people died in a single day of battles in Europe and the pacific then have been killed in 10 years of war in Afghanistan. The US had 2 bombs and there were concerns one of them may have not worked so wasting one on a demonstration would have been idiotic.
We would live in a different world today if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor. That decision has to rank near the top of the biggest war blunders list in human history. Hitlers attack on Russia would also have ended up right underneath it on the list as well.
The attack on Pearl Harbor turned on the US war machine and we have not turned it off since then.
"Old fogies" and "unsophisticated users" represent a very large percentage of worldwide web users. Most people, even the young and technically adept, just want to USE their computers instead of endlessly obsessing on the abstract tech implementations under the hood.
Your sacrifice safety the minute you access the internet, browser type be damned. For someone with enough time,experience,knowledge, and patience any existing browser and OS can be compromised. However it is usually the human interface creating the security vulnerabilites in the first place. I have not heard of anyone using IE9 or even IE8 to root or otherwise compromise the underlying OS.
OS integration enables IE9 to take advantage of the advances in their OS and new hardware and provide a level of optimization that is hard to come by if you have to target several different types of OS's. If your company creates their own OS why would you not want to make sure their browser product takes full advantage of the OS capabilities for puposese of performance and safety. They have purposely sacrificed backwards capatibility to do this instead of trying to only include only the browser enhancements that could be supported on their older OS's and older hardware. They have isolated and sandboxed the browser processes sufficiently to protect the underlying OS. To each his own when picking a browser but all of the existing browsers do a pretty good job for the vast majority of users. Using abstract level tech implementation differences to declare one product superior to another is sort of shortsighted. Besides I have always noticed it is the websites I visit that determine the browser performance and not the browser itself.
Non, Now, don't start posting facts you will only confuse all those fine folk rooting for Chinese domination and US destruction. People also love spouting how China owns the US because of loans but they fail to grasp that China holds about 6% of the US securities and China invests in US bonds because they get a good return on the investment.
Raw human intelligence is the one human trait that is evenly distributed across the planet regardless of country or racial barriers. However those who posess the intelligence need the opportunities to take advantage of their skills and gain applicable knowledge. The opportunities available ARE based on country and sometimes race. A lot of Irans top scientists left Iran for other countries after 1979 and a lot of Iranian students do not return home after attending school in a foreign country. Missile and drone technology is not hard to replicate after you have seen someone else do it. In the case of drones the most difficult part would be the software and satellite technology. The US pays for the research and development needed to advance their technology and alot of countries then try to duplicate the results with varying degrees of success. Look at China's new stealth jet. They didn't need a large R&D budget once they got a look at the F-22 capabilities. Whether they can duplicate the computer technology and exotic materials is an open question.
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Believe it or not most users just want to USE their computer not dither over the underlying abstract architecture endlessly.
Enough with the "they only got involved because of oil". If the US wanted any countries oil they could take it anytime they want. The "international community" couldn't find a pair of balls at an NBA all star game so they wouldn't interfere. What would be really interesting is if the major powers in the world sit down and split up evenly all of the oil fields across the world and take over their current management. The citizens of those countries would most likely benefit a hell of a lot more than they do now from the revenue generated. People are always applauding whenever a country "nationalizes" maybe we need to start thinking about "Globalizing" these types of assets? Instead the US helped Kuwait win back their country and the oil contracts in Iraq were all grabbed up by European firms. The US just wants to ensure that the oil supply is stable and reliable and this benefits every country on the planet not only the US. I don't recall ever hearing of any US oil firms backing up their oil tankers in some oil producing country and filling them up for free. And the plain fact is oil is probably the one thing worth fighting over. Fighting over religion differences, political differences, or arguing over a few hundred acres of land are hardly worth fighting for but that has never stopped anyone. And as far as human rights go, the only rights you really have are those you can defend. If you are not willing to fight and die for your rights don't complain once you lose them. Ordinary citizens dramatically outnumber their own countries military forces so if change is what they want then go for it. Even the most advanced militaries would be overwhelmed if faced with millions of their own countrymen charging the barricades. Mass suicide wave attacks on key objectives would take down any government. Hell, Iran used children with bombs strapped on their backs to take out Iraqi tanks and their artilliary and turned the tide of that particular conflict. The death count would certainly be high but you will get your rights back. Once the US is weened off oil, and this is going on right now but the process is slow, oil will become less important and we will find something else to fight over. Fighting is embeded in our DNA and we have been using it since there were enough of us walking around to chose up sides and hit each other over the head with clubs for a bigger cave.
The citizen groups in the US at the time of WW2 make today's anti-war groups look like gung-ho war supporters. At the time the vast majority did not give a damn what happened in the old country that most of them and their relatives had fled from in the first place in the not to distant past. FDR risked impeachment and violated all kinds of laws just to get aid to Britain. The Japanese attack on Pearl guaranteed US reprisal. Even if they had got the carriers that would have only slowed the US mobilization efforts. The attack on Pearl made those in the US supporting anti-war policies look like enemy collaborators. The attack was saw as a personal affront and someone was going to get their ass kicked. I don't really think it mattered who but someone was going to pay with more than an apology and promise not to do it again. Just look at the 9/11 attack. It's ridiculous we let that one event get us involved in non-ending conflicts across the world but our government was able to use the citizens anger and motivation for payback to politically support their war operations. When international relations devolve into insults and accusations between the general populace of the warring countries the governments end up getting a free hand to do anything they want. Syria and Egypt have been governed for the past 30+ years under an national emergency power acts that have let the governments basically do whatever they want in the name of national security. The US does the same thing whenever they want albeit for shorter time periods.
Japan offered a cease-fire but not "unconditional surrender" which the allies were demanding. After all the killing and destruction just a cessation of hostilities was unacceptable. Those of us who did not live through that era have no idea the level suffering all sides endured and looking back now and saying they should have did this or they should have done that from our modern perspective is pointless. More people died in a single day of battles in Europe and the pacific then have been killed in 10 years of war in Afghanistan. The US had 2 bombs and there were concerns one of them may have not worked so wasting one on a demonstration would have been idiotic. We would live in a different world today if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor. That decision has to rank near the top of the biggest war blunders list in human history. Hitlers attack on Russia would also have ended up right underneath it on the list as well. The attack on Pearl Harbor turned on the US war machine and we have not turned it off since then.
"Old fogies" and "unsophisticated users" represent a very large percentage of worldwide web users. Most people, even the young and technically adept, just want to USE their computers instead of endlessly obsessing on the abstract tech implementations under the hood.
Your sacrifice safety the minute you access the internet, browser type be damned. For someone with enough time,experience,knowledge, and patience any existing browser and OS can be compromised. However it is usually the human interface creating the security vulnerabilites in the first place. I have not heard of anyone using IE9 or even IE8 to root or otherwise compromise the underlying OS.
OS integration enables IE9 to take advantage of the advances in their OS and new hardware and provide a level of optimization that is hard to come by if you have to target several different types of OS's. If your company creates their own OS why would you not want to make sure their browser product takes full advantage of the OS capabilities for puposese of performance and safety. They have purposely sacrificed backwards capatibility to do this instead of trying to only include only the browser enhancements that could be supported on their older OS's and older hardware. They have isolated and sandboxed the browser processes sufficiently to protect the underlying OS. To each his own when picking a browser but all of the existing browsers do a pretty good job for the vast majority of users. Using abstract level tech implementation differences to declare one product superior to another is sort of shortsighted. Besides I have always noticed it is the websites I visit that determine the browser performance and not the browser itself.
Non, Now, don't start posting facts you will only confuse all those fine folk rooting for Chinese domination and US destruction. People also love spouting how China owns the US because of loans but they fail to grasp that China holds about 6% of the US securities and China invests in US bonds because they get a good return on the investment.
Raw human intelligence is the one human trait that is evenly distributed across the planet regardless of country or racial barriers. However those who posess the intelligence need the opportunities to take advantage of their skills and gain applicable knowledge. The opportunities available ARE based on country and sometimes race. A lot of Irans top scientists left Iran for other countries after 1979 and a lot of Iranian students do not return home after attending school in a foreign country. Missile and drone technology is not hard to replicate after you have seen someone else do it. In the case of drones the most difficult part would be the software and satellite technology. The US pays for the research and development needed to advance their technology and alot of countries then try to duplicate the results with varying degrees of success. Look at China's new stealth jet. They didn't need a large R&D budget once they got a look at the F-22 capabilities. Whether they can duplicate the computer technology and exotic materials is an open question.