Well, seeing as an unemployment rate of 3% or less is considered "full employment", this story is just another bullshit blown-out-of-proportion negative hit piece. Everyone gathers around to say it's so horrible, the government ought to do something, etc. I would ordinarily write this kind of crap off due to Slashdot's ridiculously bad editors, but in this case it seems it is another 'jobs' story required by Dice.com to add value to this website by helping to gather data. The article represents nothing but meaningless noise on a graph.
The Japanese were NOT close to surrender. You know who was close to surrender? The same Emperor who allowed his troops to run wild, again and again, without restraining them. The surrender depended on HIM making a stand, after he had failed and failed again to do so. Even after the Japanese military itself had murdered leader after leader who took any kind of conciliatory position. It's bizarre how these people just show up with one thought: AMERIKKKA BAD and will not be dissuaded from this conclusion. Suddenly everyone's an expert historian. Funny these historians never seem to run across any contrary facts.
As late as surrender time-even after the A-bombs had been dropped-a staff lieutenant colonel, related to the War Minister himself, was fervently convinced that even if the whole Japanese race were all but wiped out, its determination to preserve the National Polity would be forever recorded in the annals of man; whereas a people who sacrificed their will upon the altar of physical existence could never deserve resurrection. It would be useless for the people to survive the war, anyhow, if the structure of the State itself were destroyed. It was better to die than to seek ignominious "safety".
At a climactic last Imperial Conference, War Minister Anami was still talking about going on with the war, of meting out a terrible blow to the enemy and achieving a good opportunity to end the war. Japan must press forward courageously, seeking Life in Death: certain victory was not assured, but neither was utter defeat. The terrain was working in favor of the defenders, and so was the inflexible national unity. But just in case a massive blow against the enemy proved not possible, it seemed appropriate for the name of Nippon to be inscribed forever in history by the annihilation of her 100 million loyal subjects, etc., etc. And tears welled into the eyes of the earnest War Minister.
When the Emperor, by a thrilling act of personal courage, opted for peace-and surrender-he too was weeping. He reminded his stunned auditors that ever since the outbreak of the war there had been frequent cases when Army and Navy actions differed from plans. Now the armed forces were preparing for decisive battle in the homeland and were claiming that the prospects of victory were satisfactory.
He was profoundly troubled, continued the Emperor. What would happen if Japan plunged into decisive battle under such circumstances? The entire race would be obliterated, and this would be a betrayal of the trust of ancestors and the duty toward posterity, lest Japan never again rise. Continuation of the war, then, could only serve to cripple Japan, extinguish civilization, and bring misfortune to mankind.
The Japanese Emperor's decision to end the war, under enormous external and internal pressure, obviated the American landings and the hemorrhage that was bound to occur soon on the beaches of Miyazaki, Satsuma, and Ariake. Not only would five US ground divisions, etc., be saved from the destruction at sea which the Japanese resolutely promised them, but untold thousands of Japanese would not die either-such as squadrons of kamikaze pilots and sailors with one way tickets to the shrine of heroes at Yasukuni; or the women and children clutching pitiful staves and bamboo spears.
-- Dr. Alan C. Coox, "Olympic vs. Ketsu-Go", Marine Corps Gazette, August 1965, Vol. 49, No. 8.
...and this is how it begins. Once people have been judged to be so disgusting as to be beyond any protection, they can be subject to anything. Quick question: when in history has this ever happened before, and how did it turn out?
I love the implicit assumptions in your post that aren't even stated: (1) CARS R BAD MMKAY, and (2) this evil is so great that we need flat-out tyranny to get rid of it. The power to tax is the power to destroy. If people hate it, well they don't get a voice. Why? Dumbocracy is a failure because it occasionally results in outcomes that don't agree with your unstated assumptions.
Huh? I think you don't understand how flight numbers work. MH means Malaysian Airlines, genius. Airlines regularly retire flight numbers associated with crashes. http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
No, that is HOMICIDE. Murder is illegal, homicide is a general term. Justifiable homicide is a legal concept with a lot of cases behind it.
What we're looking for here isn't homicide, it's intimidation. Keep them shaking in their boots and make them consider the risks before doing shady stuff. This is happening to the families of US military men right now. If this was a gay family who was being intimidated by some local rednecks it would be headline news across America and protests would be held in major cities demanding action. But it doesn't fit the narrative, so it just gets on the local news once and that's it.
We could try to intimidate SOPA advocates the same way, but nobody really cares about piracy that much to do it. Look at the strength of belief that those Muslims have in the story above: they believe so firmly in their cause that they are willing to intimidate powerless women and children. Nobody cares about software piracy in the same way. It ain't gonna happen. Anyone who advocates homicide against SOPA advocates is just another internet tough guy social justice warrior.
No, it's just the incompetent Slashdot editors and their tenuous grasp of English once again.
PS nobody will ever re-use a flight number like MH 370 ever again. I wonder what a marketing firm would tell you would be the negative value of that brand.
You're not thinking like Microsoft, which was the point of my post. That's what I imagine THEY thought. It makes sense to me. It doesn't matter how many Windows Phones sell. The point is that Microsoft felt threatened by Nokia and then took what it considered to be appropriate steps to eliminate the threat.
So, everything was fine until Microsoft somehow (the article doesn't say) determined that goodwill was worth only $116 million instead of $5.4 billion. That's huge. This is the crucial piece that makes it all "make sense".
Microsoft bought their rival and destroyed them. It's all done now, Nokia isn't coming back. Microsoft can rest easy now, the threat to Windows Phone has been eliminated. It cost billions, but that's OK. Plenty more where that came from. What's the point of being a huge corporation if you can't do things like this from time to time? It's time to stroke a Persian cat and sip a snifter of brandy. The Company has been saved.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
US "paranoia" didn't "start" this at all. It's not paranoia when they really are out to steal your tech. Chinese domestic tech sucks, the Chinese know it, everyone in the world apparently knows it but you. Why else are they trying so hard to steal? Chinese are terrible at inventing things. From an early age their creativity is stifled and they are taught only the great masters could invent, the best that students can do is copy perfectly.
Where were all these people years ago? Apparently peanuts are so lethal that they are banned from public schools. When I was in school, students weren't dropping dead left and right from peanuts. So what happened?
Well, he seems to be saying a lot here The myth of startup success is just that: a myth. Declining infrastructure, a confluence of events, absolutely requiring the Big Lie merely for Silicon Valley to function. His conclusion is devastating and disheartening. So, seeing that he has proven his point, why don't we just give up? Silicon Valley is a failure. We need to change to a sustainable, workable system that provides benefits to everyone over the long run, instead of enriching a few people. Let's start turning the lights off and winding things down, everyone. It's over.
You right-wing nutbags make me laugh, shaking your tiny fists in rage at your holy Constitution being violated like an altar boy after Mass. African-Americans had no voice in its creation, it's invalid by definition. The people who wrote it were slaveowners. It's time for your kind to fade into history. There, there, Grandpa, put down your gun, TEH COMMIEZ aren't going to get you, it's nap time now.
What you say is a total lie. Multiculturalism is learning to live with other cultures in peace. It makes the entire nation stronger because of diversity. Diversity is a strength, not a punishment.
Hey, if it gets you laid, go with it. We have to use what works, not what we wish would work in a Utopia. It's a big shit sandwich, and we're all going to have to take a bite. When you reward a behavior, you get more of it. This is science.
Newsflash: places with machine shops need to fabricate objects, so they use the latest technology available. Surprise to uneducated people: US Navy ships have machine shops on-board, because they often need to fabricate objects while at sea. The surprising twist: when you're at sea, you can't just order from Amazon, you have to make it right then and there. Crazy, eh?
This is a technical solution to a social problem. I learned this on Slashdot. The problem isn't urine, it's the fact that filthy people - sorry, MEN - are pissing all over the city. All the paint in the world won't fix that. Installing clean, publically accessible bathrooms would fix the problem permanently. Men who already piss everywhere aren't too worried about a little splashback.
I've been wondering for the past few years when the new wave of laser-caused blindness will strike the world. There are already plenty of lasers that won't burn a hole through you, but they will irreparably damage your eyes in a few milliseconds. Still, the rash of blindings hasn't happened. I'm not talking about airline pilots being temporarily flashed by some asshole on the ground, I'm talking about people being permanently blinded by lasers, either in war or criminal activity.
Now if anyone knew what BSG was, your comment might make sense. No, we do not all watch the same anime movies that you do. Please express your thoughts in plain speech, thanks!
It doesn't matter. What are you going to say, some random stranger on an internet forum explained things to you the right way, and suddenly you changed how you think about nuclear power? That's never, ever gonna happen. It's a deeply-seated belief, and you'll never give it up, because to do that you'd have to re-examine your entire self. Anti-nuclearism is a religion, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how many citations from Wikipedia I throw in, you'll never, ever change your mind. Hell, if you actually did, you'd be socially ostracized by friends you've had for decades. You might even get fired if you work at an NGO or somesuch.
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Well, seeing as an unemployment rate of 3% or less is considered "full employment", this story is just another bullshit blown-out-of-proportion negative hit piece. Everyone gathers around to say it's so horrible, the government ought to do something, etc. I would ordinarily write this kind of crap off due to Slashdot's ridiculously bad editors, but in this case it seems it is another 'jobs' story required by Dice.com to add value to this website by helping to gather data. The article represents nothing but meaningless noise on a graph.
The Japanese were NOT close to surrender. You know who was close to surrender? The same Emperor who allowed his troops to run wild, again and again, without restraining them. The surrender depended on HIM making a stand, after he had failed and failed again to do so. Even after the Japanese military itself had murdered leader after leader who took any kind of conciliatory position. It's bizarre how these people just show up with one thought: AMERIKKKA BAD and will not be dissuaded from this conclusion. Suddenly everyone's an expert historian. Funny these historians never seem to run across any contrary facts.
...and this is how it begins. Once people have been judged to be so disgusting as to be beyond any protection, they can be subject to anything. Quick question: when in history has this ever happened before, and how did it turn out?
I love the implicit assumptions in your post that aren't even stated: (1) CARS R BAD MMKAY, and (2) this evil is so great that we need flat-out tyranny to get rid of it. The power to tax is the power to destroy. If people hate it, well they don't get a voice. Why? Dumbocracy is a failure because it occasionally results in outcomes that don't agree with your unstated assumptions.
Huh? I think you don't understand how flight numbers work. MH means Malaysian Airlines, genius. Airlines regularly retire flight numbers associated with crashes. http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
No, that is HOMICIDE. Murder is illegal, homicide is a general term. Justifiable homicide is a legal concept with a lot of cases behind it.
What we're looking for here isn't homicide, it's intimidation. Keep them shaking in their boots and make them consider the risks before doing shady stuff. This is happening to the families of US military men right now. If this was a gay family who was being intimidated by some local rednecks it would be headline news across America and protests would be held in major cities demanding action. But it doesn't fit the narrative, so it just gets on the local news once and that's it.
We could try to intimidate SOPA advocates the same way, but nobody really cares about piracy that much to do it. Look at the strength of belief that those Muslims have in the story above: they believe so firmly in their cause that they are willing to intimidate powerless women and children. Nobody cares about software piracy in the same way. It ain't gonna happen. Anyone who advocates homicide against SOPA advocates is just another internet tough guy social justice warrior.
No, it's just the incompetent Slashdot editors and their tenuous grasp of English once again.
PS nobody will ever re-use a flight number like MH 370 ever again. I wonder what a marketing firm would tell you would be the negative value of that brand.
You're not thinking like Microsoft, which was the point of my post. That's what I imagine THEY thought. It makes sense to me. It doesn't matter how many Windows Phones sell. The point is that Microsoft felt threatened by Nokia and then took what it considered to be appropriate steps to eliminate the threat.
So, everything was fine until Microsoft somehow (the article doesn't say) determined that goodwill was worth only $116 million instead of $5.4 billion. That's huge. This is the crucial piece that makes it all "make sense".
Microsoft bought their rival and destroyed them. It's all done now, Nokia isn't coming back. Microsoft can rest easy now, the threat to Windows Phone has been eliminated. It cost billions, but that's OK. Plenty more where that came from. What's the point of being a huge corporation if you can't do things like this from time to time? It's time to stroke a Persian cat and sip a snifter of brandy. The Company has been saved.
I'm old enough to remember on Slashdot when people were automatically knee-jerk anti government. Until January 20, 2009, it was.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
US "paranoia" didn't "start" this at all. It's not paranoia when they really are out to steal your tech. Chinese domestic tech sucks, the Chinese know it, everyone in the world apparently knows it but you. Why else are they trying so hard to steal? Chinese are terrible at inventing things. From an early age their creativity is stifled and they are taught only the great masters could invent, the best that students can do is copy perfectly.
Where were all these people years ago? Apparently peanuts are so lethal that they are banned from public schools. When I was in school, students weren't dropping dead left and right from peanuts. So what happened?
Did you just assume with zero justification that everyone has a laptop? Seriously WTF.
Well, he seems to be saying a lot here The myth of startup success is just that: a myth. Declining infrastructure, a confluence of events, absolutely requiring the Big Lie merely for Silicon Valley to function. His conclusion is devastating and disheartening. So, seeing that he has proven his point, why don't we just give up? Silicon Valley is a failure. We need to change to a sustainable, workable system that provides benefits to everyone over the long run, instead of enriching a few people. Let's start turning the lights off and winding things down, everyone. It's over.
You right-wing nutbags make me laugh, shaking your tiny fists in rage at your holy Constitution being violated like an altar boy after Mass. African-Americans had no voice in its creation, it's invalid by definition. The people who wrote it were slaveowners. It's time for your kind to fade into history. There, there, Grandpa, put down your gun, TEH COMMIEZ aren't going to get you, it's nap time now.
What you say is a total lie. Multiculturalism is learning to live with other cultures in peace. It makes the entire nation stronger because of diversity. Diversity is a strength, not a punishment.
Hey, if it gets you laid, go with it. We have to use what works, not what we wish would work in a Utopia. It's a big shit sandwich, and we're all going to have to take a bite. When you reward a behavior, you get more of it. This is science.
Newsflash: places with machine shops need to fabricate objects, so they use the latest technology available. Surprise to uneducated people: US Navy ships have machine shops on-board, because they often need to fabricate objects while at sea. The surprising twist: when you're at sea, you can't just order from Amazon, you have to make it right then and there. Crazy, eh?
I was deliberately being misandrist.
This is a technical solution to a social problem. I learned this on Slashdot. The problem isn't urine, it's the fact that filthy people - sorry, MEN - are pissing all over the city. All the paint in the world won't fix that. Installing clean, publically accessible bathrooms would fix the problem permanently. Men who already piss everywhere aren't too worried about a little splashback.
I knew someone from Google Maps would stop by to comment.
Pressing shift one time is the least destructive way to wake up a computer that may be in screensaver or sleep.
I've been wondering for the past few years when the new wave of laser-caused blindness will strike the world. There are already plenty of lasers that won't burn a hole through you, but they will irreparably damage your eyes in a few milliseconds. Still, the rash of blindings hasn't happened. I'm not talking about airline pilots being temporarily flashed by some asshole on the ground, I'm talking about people being permanently blinded by lasers, either in war or criminal activity.
Now if anyone knew what BSG was, your comment might make sense. No, we do not all watch the same anime movies that you do. Please express your thoughts in plain speech, thanks!
It doesn't matter. What are you going to say, some random stranger on an internet forum explained things to you the right way, and suddenly you changed how you think about nuclear power? That's never, ever gonna happen. It's a deeply-seated belief, and you'll never give it up, because to do that you'd have to re-examine your entire self. Anti-nuclearism is a religion, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how many citations from Wikipedia I throw in, you'll never, ever change your mind. Hell, if you actually did, you'd be socially ostracized by friends you've had for decades. You might even get fired if you work at an NGO or somesuch.