The total casualty estimates if we had invaded Japan, based on the island hopping campaign so far in the war, were over 1 million allied and as many as 10 million total Japanese. We were planning on using gas, including captured Nazi nerve gas to cut down on allied casualties.
Even if we had not invaded Japan, any potential non-nuclear outcome would have been MUCH worse.
Japan depended heavily on inland water craft for transport. We had decimated this system and were in the process of finishing it off. Their railway system was very vulnerable to air attack and we were working on that two.
Almost all agriculture in Japan at the time was FAR from most of the population. If we had simply continued to bombard Japan from the air, the Japanese people would have starved to death. The estimates run as high as 60% of the population in less than a year (1944 and 1945 were bad rice years to begin with). The Japanese leadership did not care. This did not take into account the fact that ALL allied prisoners would have died, along with possibly millions in China and other parts of Asia.
Also, the USSR would have invaded more of the northern islands if the war had not ended when it did. If you think Berlin was a mess, think how bad THAT would have been.
When Comcast took over here, I had to hold my nose and switch to AT&T DSL. So far, so good...
The way Comcast handles customers stinks. They had a app that is supposed to switch your email address and set up your account in Outhouse. It does a dandy job of changing your homepage and putting a bunch of tool-bar trash in IE, but can't quite handle the email part. It just dies at that point. I had to go clean up after it on my mom's computer.
Smegging Comcrap tried to spin the email address change as a good thing in their commercials, "Oh, goody, time to change your email!".
What is so special about the Apple phone that it needs "special" service fee?
It's the "Apple Fanboy Fee". See, apple users are used to being screwed over, price-wise. AT&T knows this (hell, they are willing to cough up $600 for a phone) and being the greedy POS they are, they are tacking on a $199 fee.
If you think that is bad, just wait until you see the rate plan the poor fanboys will be stuck with.
Luckily, most fanboys dwell in their Mom's basement, so they won't have to chose between their new toy and luxuries like rent and food. Money for dating, of course, isn't an issue.
I have AT&T DSL now. It was them or ComCrap and AT&T bribed me more. I have their 6Mbs connection.
The main reason I have such a fast connection is P2P. If they block it, why would I need a connection that fast? I could then move to a slower connection and pay half what I am paying now.
If AT&T does this, it will hurt their bottom line. THAT will get these asshole's attention!
But, other than The Faithful, who is going to buy one of these now?
Is this some kind of Jobsian plot, I wonder? There has to be a reason for all this silliness. Apple and AT&T seem to be doing all they can to kill the iPhone before it even comes out.
I actually RTFA and I can't fathom why Dell would pull something this dumb. You pay extra for this warranty, right? Dell must make something off the warranty, or they wouldn't offer it.
I bet this comes down to somebody frakking up the screen to disallow it. Never attribute to malice that which can more readily be attrubted to incompetance, or however that saying goes.
The whole back and forth with the phone agent about how M$ was a partner and all was a hoot.
Yeah, we have to have it running. It's "windows messenger".
As I said, it is at work. I don't have a choice.
With email, someone sent it and went on with other things. With IM, they are sitting there waiting for a reply. A lot of time they are in meetings or on conference calls and need some info RIGHT THEN. Hard to ignore that.
Email beats the shit out of IM. At least you can ignore email for a little while.
Not so with IM. When that frakking window pops up and starts flashing, it is almost impossible to ignore. I don't even have ANY IM software installed at home, but at work it is mandatory.
You see a pretty extreme temperature shift in the middle east desert. Not that extreme, but not too far off. They see up to 120 by day, quickly dropping to below freezing at night.
The problem with "peer review" is the "peers". If the individuals doing the review have a bias, the approved, reviewed information will reflect that bias.
I don't aggree with Gore's "case closed" statment. I think human activity has an effect on the climate, anybody who thinks we have no effect is either ignorant or a fool. However, I don't know that we are the determining factor. We simply don't have enough information yet. There is a LOUD chorus of individuals who claim to be sure, and they drown our the scientists that say we need more study.
I am WAY more worried about more serious pollutants. We are pumping materials many times more toxic than CO2 into the air and water. I think we will face problems like rising cancer rates, mutations and sterility that will effect us decades before this minor (yes, minor) climate change.
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The total casualty estimates if we had invaded Japan, based on the island hopping campaign so far in the war, were over 1 million allied and as many as 10 million total Japanese. We were planning on using gas, including captured Nazi nerve gas to cut down on allied casualties.
Even if we had not invaded Japan, any potential non-nuclear outcome would have been MUCH worse.
Japan depended heavily on inland water craft for transport. We had decimated this system and were in the process of finishing it off. Their railway system was very vulnerable to air attack and we were working on that two.
Almost all agriculture in Japan at the time was FAR from most of the population. If we had simply continued to bombard Japan from the air, the Japanese people would have starved to death. The estimates run as high as 60% of the population in less than a year (1944 and 1945 were bad rice years to begin with). The Japanese leadership did not care. This did not take into account the fact that ALL allied prisoners would have died, along with possibly millions in China and other parts of Asia.
Also, the USSR would have invaded more of the northern islands if the war had not ended when it did. If you think Berlin was a mess, think how bad THAT would have been.
If young Kirk/Spock and old Kirk/Spock are in it, this movie will either be about flashbacks or time travel.
AND, we all know which is more likely...
Do you throw your wooden shoes into the machinery at work? :-)
IIRC, Apple didn't release a SDK because AT&T is afraid of some buggy app crashing their network.
Which is stupid. Did they REALLY think the iPhone wouldn't be hacked? Now they have no control over it.
Hell, I have seen those wimpy-assed things knocked down by an MP5.
Hey, it works when fired from a satellite! [imdb.com]
B1 Bomber, not a satellite. The "sales clip" was of a little shuttle-like craft, but the actual test used a B1.
When Comcast took over here, I had to hold my nose and switch to AT&T DSL. So far, so good...
The way Comcast handles customers stinks. They had a app that is supposed to switch your email address and set up your account in Outhouse. It does a dandy job of changing your homepage and putting a bunch of tool-bar trash in IE, but can't quite handle the email part. It just dies at that point. I had to go clean up after it on my mom's computer.
Smegging Comcrap tried to spin the email address change as a good thing in their commercials, "Oh, goody, time to change your email!".
*pulls the battery out of his macbook and throws it at the OP*
Where it *EXPLODES*, killing everyone in the room...
(Or was that the Sony batteries?)
Mmmm, pie...
Unless that was some kind of sexual reference.
Either way: Mmmm, pie...
Good point.
Where I work, they hire by way of one of those weird-ass personality tests.
I'm still trying to figure out how I got hired...
Why all the anger at Apple 'enthusiasts'??
"Anger"? No.
"Laughter"? Yes.
What is so special about the Apple phone that it needs "special" service fee?
It's the "Apple Fanboy Fee". See, apple users are used to being screwed over, price-wise. AT&T knows this (hell, they are willing to cough up $600 for a phone) and being the greedy POS they are, they are tacking on a $199 fee.
If you think that is bad, just wait until you see the rate plan the poor fanboys will be stuck with.
Luckily, most fanboys dwell in their Mom's basement, so they won't have to chose between their new toy and luxuries like rent and food. Money for dating, of course, isn't an issue.
Good thing you are an AC, or the Legions of Apple Faithful around here would...
OH SHIT! They're at my door! With torches, pitchforks and icons of The Steve...
I have AT&T DSL now. It was them or ComCrap and AT&T bribed me more. I have their 6Mbs connection.
The main reason I have such a fast connection is P2P. If they block it, why would I need a connection that fast? I could then move to a slower connection and pay half what I am paying now.
If AT&T does this, it will hurt their bottom line. THAT will get these asshole's attention!
Hopefully he did not mean the USS Yamato (NCC-71807).
Now THAT ship had computer issues...
But, other than The Faithful, who is going to buy one of these now?
Is this some kind of Jobsian plot, I wonder? There has to be a reason for all this silliness. Apple and AT&T seem to be doing all they can to kill the iPhone before it even comes out.
This HAS to be about money, obviously. But how?
I actually RTFA and I can't fathom why Dell would pull something this dumb. You pay extra for this warranty, right? Dell must make something off the warranty, or they wouldn't offer it.
I bet this comes down to somebody frakking up the screen to disallow it. Never attribute to malice that which can more readily be attrubted to incompetance, or however that saying goes.
The whole back and forth with the phone agent about how M$ was a partner and all was a hoot.
Yeah, we have to have it running. It's "windows messenger".
As I said, it is at work. I don't have a choice.
With email, someone sent it and went on with other things. With IM, they are sitting there waiting for a reply. A lot of time they are in meetings or on conference calls and need some info RIGHT THEN. Hard to ignore that.
Email beats the shit out of IM. At least you can ignore email for a little while.
Not so with IM. When that frakking window pops up and starts flashing, it is almost impossible to ignore. I don't even have ANY IM software installed at home, but at work it is mandatory.
I HATE IM!!!
There was a recent poll of young Muslims in the US. It seems 26% approved of suicide bombings to "defend Islam".
That is scary, but not as scary as UK teachers censoring history for those idiots.
It is beginning to look like WWII, when Europe fell to the barbarians. Only this time, the UK will fall first.
This WILL be a nuclear conflict before it is finished. I have my radiation detectors, do you?
You see a pretty extreme temperature shift in the middle east desert. Not that extreme, but not too far off. They see up to 120 by day, quickly dropping to below freezing at night.
My wife calls it "The Hitler Channel".
So what do we buy if we want to kill babies?
Democratic Votes?
A tarp?
A soup pot?
A COMFY CHAIR?
Elderberries?
The problem with "peer review" is the "peers". If the individuals doing the review have a bias, the approved, reviewed information will reflect that bias.
I don't aggree with Gore's "case closed" statment. I think human activity has an effect on the climate, anybody who thinks we have no effect is either ignorant or a fool. However, I don't know that we are the determining factor. We simply don't have enough information yet. There is a LOUD chorus of individuals who claim to be sure, and they drown our the scientists that say we need more study.
I am WAY more worried about more serious pollutants. We are pumping materials many times more toxic than CO2 into the air and water. I think we will face problems like rising cancer rates, mutations and sterility that will effect us decades before this minor (yes, minor) climate change.
But I also hate the frakking heat.
Obviously, this is all Bush's fault. It's obvious. You mean you don't see it? You must be an EEE-Vil NEOCON!
Funny how you always think of the Republican party as the vote manipulative one. Compared to the Democrats, they are bunch of amateurs!
We REALLY need a viable third party here. Otherwise you can't hold your nose tight enough to vote.