Please cite some sources for killing 3 million people inside of two weeks.
This is a red herring. If the atomic bombs saved even one American life more than conventional warfare would have cost, then they were worthwhile. War is not about accounting for the other side's losses--the Japanese certainly recognized that, or they wouldn't have attacked everyone.
Next time you state that the atomic bombs saved lives -- without any room for question or flexibility, I'll meet you at the Peace Park in Nagasaki. We'll walk across the street together to the Atomic Bomb Museum. You just hold your head high knowing the US made the right decision. Watch how the Japanese react to your confidence. Cast aside everything inside as propaganda, because that's what it'll take not to put your American / European education into perspective.
I'm sure that they'll understand my point of view when I show up with my Rape of Nanking t-shirt. I bet the Japanese really respect your self-loathing.
Now how many lives did it cost by dragging the war out an extra month by demanding an unconditional surrender, as suggested by then-Secretary of War Henry Stimson?
What a dumb move that turned out to be, what with all the wars Japan has fought with its neighbors since 1945. You know, we demanded an unconditional surrender from the European members of the Axis, too, or do you only make Sino-Euro equivalency arguments when you want to make the USA look mean?
Another standard industry practice is to charge musicians for the audit to find any missing royalties. That's a big incentive to musicians getting anything, because they have to pay to get paid. I suspect that this practice was part of why Donnelly (the musicians' lawyer in the original article) brought the case to the NY A.G. to begin with. The A.G. was able to investigate without the artists being penalized.
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That's only the labour origin of the day in Europe. The labor origin of the day in the USA is from three years earlier, in 1886, when about 800 American strikes were called in (out of 1,600 that year).
Although, one of those 1886 May Day strikes resulted in the Haymarket incident, the US labor movement stuck to its movable Labor Day in September, because a guaranteed weekday off with a three-day weekend each year was preferable to a holiday that sometimes falls on the weekend.
So, USA Labor Day, 1884
USA (Labor) May Day, 1886
Europe (Labour) May Day, 1889.
Of course, the significance of May 1st, itself, with Maypoles, pagans, and whatnot is much, much earlier than all this.
For all of his talk, Socrates is another figure who left no writings of his own. He is known to us by his disciples (e.g., Plato) and by his critics (e.g., Aristophanes).
Steve Jobs isn't a particularly staunch fan of GNU/Linux, nor of software freedom. He sees an opportunity to close out a rival (Linux) before it threatens him, kill off a competitor or five (SGI and a dozen small Linux rendering solution companies), and to do so while our attention is occupied by SCO and Microsoft.
The Apple model is the sale of hardware. The proof of this was when Jobs killed the clones. Software freedom has meant: more apps for the Mac. I don't think Jobs is against that.
Surely, I am not the only one who noticed that the US Army group that got him was called Task Force "Wolverine," and that the codename for the extraction was "Red Dawn." . The US capture of Saddam name-checked a Patrick Swayze movie. Bow before our Dirty Dancing!
Wait until task force Julie Newmar nabs Bin Laden in Operation To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything!
Is this May announcement of the NGE live movie the same thing that was announced back in March vis-a-vis the new box set? I can't be the only one that remembers this.
AnimeFringe (read down to "There is no end to Eva")
Or are there going to be TWO live versions?
This new announcement makes it sound like the live movie is not yet in production, but the earlier announcement talked about a film that was unreleased, which implies that one live film was already made.
I hope that it's better than the live confusion at the beginning of "The End of Evangelion."
Perhaps they didn't respond to your letter because of your own racism.
1) You did not complain about the lack of so-called "arabs" in the other combat scenarios. This means that you cherry-pick racial situations.
2) *You* made the racist assumption that the "terrorists" must be "arabs." That's a hell of leap given the blurry skins used in the game. I'd like to know what real, hard evidence you had that the "terrorists" weren't persian or turkomen or semites or armenian, or any other middle-eastern group.
> In 1988, DEC
laid many on David N. Cutler's team and nuked both projects. >He was fairly ticked off and left Digital only to be hired by Microsoft, >bringing quite a few former DEC guys with him.
I'm surprised that any DEC people left. I mean, what with so much on the team getting sex at work. Gives new meaning to getting "screwed by corporate."
Moreover, this was already tried and it failed. After the French Revolution, they forced decimal time on everyone. (Take a read through any good book on calendars; it's usually mentioned as a curiosity.)
No one liked it except the theorists. Workers hated it. Employers hated it.
Think about using it. I mean really think about how it will affect you.
A ten day week. How many days do you plan to work?
Eight on, two off? Ridiculous work amount.
Seven on, three off? Every weekend is three days, but do you really want to work seven days in a row?
Six on, four off? Too much idle time.
You'd think people would read history books once in a while.
Well, there is that little matter of the Square. And the Gong, and the corruption that results in collapsing buildings, collapsing bridges, and collapsing coal mines at a rate that makes capitalist countries seem positively humane.
In truth, Warner Bros. was lazy and let a significant amount of cartoons slip into the public domain. Some of them they intentionally did not renew because they are considered racially insensitive and WB no longer wanted to be associated with them. Further muddying the waters, is the fact that MGM wound up with the classic "Golden Age" 30-40's ones, while WB only retains ownership of the slicker, later ones 50's-60's.
Jones himself was smart enough to start his own production company, and did make money selling images (cels and retreads) of the cartoons he had previously created. It would take WB another decade or two to catch on to that one.
So, we have a case where the company in charge sold or last half of the pertinent copyrights, and then was late to the table to remarket what remained. Not every company is the exploitation machine that Disney is.
Check out Dave Mackey's WB cartoon filmography. It's the first WB cartoon-related website to have a blurb. I'd expect something from chuckjones.com and WB/looney tunes soon, though.
It may be shocking to see an MS-owned subsidiary release "open source" code, but it is not a new development from Bungie, per se. Just before they were purchased by MS, Bungie released the source code to their previous software dynasty called Marathon (see, Marathon Open Source for news on how that has worked out).
Since Bungie started out as more or less a Mac-only developer, there was a lot of vocal panic in the Mac community when Bungie was bought by Microsoft. Bungie's CEO and other employees insisted that MS had bought them with an understanding that they would not change Bungie's working culture, and would give Bungie a good deal of latitude to do things how they'd always done them--just do them for MS first.;-)
Bungie open sourced a legacy game before being absorbed by MS, now they've open sourced a legacy game afterwards. So, it's probably not a radical change in MS policy, like some people are wondering. What this does do is lend more credibility to the Halo on PC/Mac promises that Bungie has made--after the X-Boxes have shipped enough units.:-)
>You also want to have an infrastructure for automatically loading software
>on computers, perhaps booting off the network... none of this is available on
>that PDF. Perhaps even not possible.
Damn, and I have been so hoping that someone would create a PDF document that had the ability to load software and boot my machines off the network. I guess PDF is still just a read-only solution. Phew, good thing that there's also Mac OS X Server!
>In a nutshell: if you need a high-performance computing cluster, you need
>to go with a Linux-based beowulf cluster. Perhaps on Apple hardware, perhaps
>on Alpha, probably on x86.
>If, on the other hand, you want a toy that can run a fractal program really fast
Macs are "toys?" How was this guy's post of guesses, "perhaps"es, and slurs modded (5) "insightful?" Most people I know use their x86 machines for games and email, but I don't call them toys, and it wouldn't be insightful to say so, but maybe my experience is atypical.
>So when just another lone hacker kid defaces five
>Web sites, it justifies "surrounding and raiding
It's a mistake to characterize this as a "hacker" incident, whether or not he hacked. His agenda, in his own words, was the violent overthrow of the United States. Hacking is merely among the things he claims to have done to further these ends, and website defacement in and of itself doesn't appear to have been chief on the minds of the Feds.
If someone you didn't know lived in your town and was defacing websites advocating the violent takeover of your house/condo/apartment, was giving out bomb-making instructions with the hope that someone would carry through, and trying to hack your home computer to screw with it, I doubt you'd ask the police to just give him a phone call and tell him to cut it out.
It's nice to see more commercial development packages coming to Linux. I would imagine that every step like this brings more developers to consider Linux developing as less and less it's own world. It's some good news to balance off the Loki happening.
I don't know if they were foolish. A few years ago, everyone was all talk about all the perks you could get working in the dotcom field. There were many stories about college drop-outs going into the dotcom field and doing better than their parents financially (at least on paper), in addition to the "fun" work environments.
I would imagine that MIT wanted to prevent a talent exodus or, indeed, plain-old non-enrolment, by offering as much "fun" and "excess" as they could. Colleges get a good deal of their money from donations from their successful graduates and the companies of their graduates.
If MIT thought that it might risk such a loss of future funds if bright minds were going directly into industry, it seems a reasonable thing to do what they can to remain attractive. Now that dotcomming isn't so attractive itself anymore, it again makes sense that MIT would cut back.
Moreover, as a publicly traded company, RedHat could also be subject to a buy-out without management's consent (a so-called "hostile" bid). Once a company goes public, it's the shareholders (or more accurately, large institutional investors) that ultimately approve or disapprove these things. Only in closed corporations (i.e., non-public) is there usually a unity between controlling stock interests and management.
One wonders how the majority of Red Hat stockholders might feel about getting AOL/TW stock.
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This is a red herring. If the atomic bombs saved even one American life more than conventional warfare would have cost, then they were worthwhile. War is not about accounting for the other side's losses--the Japanese certainly recognized that, or they wouldn't have attacked everyone.
I'm sure that they'll understand my point of view when I show up with my Rape of Nanking t-shirt. I bet the Japanese really respect your self-loathing.
What a dumb move that turned out to be, what with all the wars Japan has fought with its neighbors since 1945. You know, we demanded an unconditional surrender from the European members of the Axis, too, or do you only make Sino-Euro equivalency arguments when you want to make the USA look mean?
Now we can be overcharged and underserviced by fewer corporations.
Read down to "accounting practices" in this almost two-year old article from USA Today. Even paid royaties are often off by 10-40 percent.
- 15 -artists-rights_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09
Another standard industry practice is to charge musicians for the audit to find any missing royalties. That's a big incentive to musicians getting anything, because they have to pay to get paid. I suspect that this practice was part of why Donnelly (the musicians' lawyer in the original article) brought the case to the NY A.G. to begin with. The A.G. was able to investigate without the artists being penalized.
That's only the labour origin of the day in Europe. The labor origin of the day in the USA is from three years earlier, in 1886, when about 800 American strikes were called in (out of 1,600 that year).
Although, one of those 1886 May Day strikes resulted in the Haymarket incident, the US labor movement stuck to its movable Labor Day in September, because a guaranteed weekday off with a three-day weekend each year was preferable to a holiday that sometimes falls on the weekend.
So, USA Labor Day, 1884
USA (Labor) May Day, 1886
Europe (Labour) May Day, 1889.
Of course, the significance of May 1st, itself, with Maypoles, pagans, and whatnot is much, much earlier than all this.
For all of his talk, Socrates is another figure who left no writings of his own. He is known to us by his disciples (e.g., Plato) and by his critics (e.g., Aristophanes).
The Apple model is the sale of hardware. The proof of this was when Jobs killed the clones. Software freedom has meant: more apps for the Mac. I don't think Jobs is against that.
You mean "gay hacker" does not mean what I thought it meant?
Surely, I am not the only one who noticed that the US Army group that got him was called Task Force "Wolverine," and that the codename for the extraction was "Red Dawn." . The US capture of Saddam name-checked a Patrick Swayze movie. Bow before our Dirty Dancing!
Wait until task force Julie Newmar nabs Bin Laden in Operation To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything!
Actually, Al Gore is involved. He's on the Apple Board of Directors.
Is this May announcement of the NGE live movie the same thing that was announced back in March vis-a-vis the new box set? I can't be the only one that remembers this.
AnimeFringe (read down to "There is no end to Eva")
Or are there going to be TWO live versions?
This new announcement makes it sound like the live movie is not yet in production, but the earlier announcement talked about a film that was unreleased, which implies that one live film was already made.
I hope that it's better than the live confusion at the beginning of "The End of Evangelion."
Perhaps they didn't respond to your letter because of your own racism.
1) You did not complain about the lack of so-called "arabs" in the other combat scenarios. This means that you cherry-pick racial situations.
2) *You* made the racist assumption that the "terrorists" must be "arabs." That's a hell of leap given the blurry skins used in the game. I'd like to know what real, hard evidence you had that the "terrorists" weren't persian or turkomen or semites or armenian, or any other middle-eastern group.
--Ross
Moreover, this was already tried and it failed. After the French Revolution, they forced decimal time on everyone. (Take a read through any good book on calendars; it's usually mentioned as a curiosity.)
No one liked it except the theorists. Workers hated it. Employers hated it.
Think about using it. I mean really think about how it will affect you.
A ten day week. How many days do you plan to work?
Eight on, two off? Ridiculous work amount.
Seven on, three off? Every weekend is three days, but do you really want to work seven days in a row?
Six on, four off? Too much idle time.
You'd think people would read history books once in a while.
Well, there is that little matter of the Square. And the Gong, and the corruption that results in collapsing buildings, collapsing bridges, and collapsing coal mines at a rate that makes capitalist countries seem positively humane.
In truth, Warner Bros. was lazy and let a significant amount of cartoons slip into the public domain. Some of them they intentionally did not renew because they are considered racially insensitive and WB no longer wanted to be associated with them. Further muddying the waters, is the fact that MGM wound up with the classic "Golden Age" 30-40's ones, while WB only retains ownership of the slicker, later ones 50's-60's.
Jones himself was smart enough to start his own production company, and did make money selling images (cels and retreads) of the cartoons he had previously created. It would take WB another decade or two to catch on to that one.
So, we have a case where the company in charge sold or last half of the pertinent copyrights, and then was late to the table to remarket what remained. Not every company is the exploitation machine that Disney is.
Check out Dave Mackey's WB cartoon filmography. It's the first WB cartoon-related website to have a blurb. I'd expect something from chuckjones.com and WB/looney tunes soon, though.
Another sad day, but oh, what memories.
It may be shocking to see an MS-owned subsidiary release "open source" code, but it is not a new development from Bungie, per se. Just before they were purchased by MS, Bungie released the source code to their previous software dynasty called Marathon (see, Marathon Open Source for news on how that has worked out).
Since Bungie started out as more or less a Mac-only developer, there was a lot of vocal panic in the Mac community when Bungie was bought by Microsoft. Bungie's CEO and other employees insisted that MS had bought them with an understanding that they would not change Bungie's working culture, and would give Bungie a good deal of latitude to do things how they'd always done them--just do them for MS first. ;-)
Bungie open sourced a legacy game before being absorbed by MS, now they've open sourced a legacy game afterwards. So, it's probably not a radical change in MS policy, like some people are wondering. What this does do is lend more credibility to the Halo on PC/Mac promises that Bungie has made--after the X-Boxes have shipped enough units. :-)
>You also want to have an infrastructure for automatically loading software
>on computers, perhaps booting off the network... none of this is available on
>that PDF. Perhaps even not possible.
Damn, and I have been so hoping that someone would create a PDF document that had the ability to load software and boot my machines off the network. I guess PDF is still just a read-only solution. Phew, good thing that there's also Mac OS X Server!
>In a nutshell: if you need a high-performance computing cluster, you need
>to go with a Linux-based beowulf cluster. Perhaps on Apple hardware, perhaps
>on Alpha, probably on x86.
>If, on the other hand, you want a toy that can run a fractal program really fast
Macs are "toys?" How was this guy's post of guesses, "perhaps"es, and slurs modded (5) "insightful?" Most people I know use their x86 machines for games and email, but I don't call them toys, and it wouldn't be insightful to say so, but maybe my experience is atypical.
>So when just another lone hacker kid defaces five
>Web sites, it justifies "surrounding and raiding
It's a mistake to characterize this as a "hacker" incident, whether or not he hacked. His agenda, in his own words, was the violent overthrow of the United States. Hacking is merely among the things he claims to have done to further these ends, and website defacement in and of itself doesn't appear to have been chief on the minds of the Feds.
If someone you didn't know lived in your town and was defacing websites advocating the violent takeover of your house/condo/apartment, was giving out bomb-making instructions with the hope that someone would carry through, and trying to hack your home computer to screw with it, I doubt you'd ask the police to just give him a phone call and tell him to cut it out.
It's nice to see more commercial development packages coming to Linux. I would imagine that every step like this brings more developers to consider Linux developing as less and less it's own world. It's some good news to balance off the Loki happening.
I don't know if they were foolish. A few years ago, everyone was all talk about all the perks you could get working in the dotcom field. There were many stories about college drop-outs going into the dotcom field and doing better than their parents financially (at least on paper), in addition to the "fun" work environments.
I would imagine that MIT wanted to prevent a talent exodus or, indeed, plain-old non-enrolment, by offering as much "fun" and "excess" as they could. Colleges get a good deal of their money from donations from their successful graduates and the companies of their graduates.
If MIT thought that it might risk such a loss of future funds if bright minds were going directly into industry, it seems a reasonable thing to do what they can to remain attractive. Now that dotcomming isn't so attractive itself anymore, it again makes sense that MIT would cut back.
Moreover, as a publicly traded company, RedHat could also be subject to a buy-out without management's consent (a so-called "hostile" bid). Once a company goes public, it's the shareholders (or more accurately, large institutional investors) that ultimately approve or disapprove these things. Only in closed corporations (i.e., non-public) is there usually a unity between controlling stock interests and management.
One wonders how the majority of Red Hat stockholders might feel about getting AOL/TW stock.