We're not really going to trot out that rubbish about needing to use nukes against Japan, are we?
Depends on your definition of "need". Truman was faced with the choice between using the nukes, or mounting an invasion. His duty was to defeat Japan with the minimum number of Allied casualties. The fact that he saved a lot of Japanese lives as well was a bonus.
Japan was so defeated that the US could park battleships off the Japanese coast and shell at will -- without response.
That was the case in the invasion of Okinawa and several islands before that as well, yet the Japanese managed to inflict heavy casualties on the landing troops.
We dropped nukes on Japan in WWII for two reasons: to see them work in action and, more importantly, to show the USSR that we can and would use them.
In your opinion, some sixty years after the event. Since it was Truman, not Groves, who gave the order, Groves' opinion is quite beside the point. Truman said he ordered the use of the atomic bomb to end the war, and I take him at his word.
Even after the bombs, the "let's fight to the last man, woman or child" faction still came dangerously close to taking over the Japanese government.
Yes, I'm sure we can all be proud of having found a way to killing millions with a single weapon. Hallmark of civilization, right there.
Those weapons saved millions of Allied (and Japanese) lives, by ending the war. You can second-guess all you want, but I have several relatives that I got to meet, because they weren't killed on the beaches of the Japanese home islands. Truman did the right thing.
Compare it to the Duoplasmatron thrusters that Kaufman developed in the 1960's, not to chemical rockets. This is for very long-duration thrust, not high-impulse thrust.
Typically the extra trading costs for puts (very wide spreads and higher than stock commissions) would require a move like that to just break even.
I don't know who your broker is, but it sounds like you're paying too much in commissions on options trades. I'm paying $7.74 per contract. As for the spreads, they tend to get closer once the underlying is moving towards the strike price.
I don't suppose you have anything like say, an alternative to offer? Perhaps the country should simply be ruled by a committee of condescing twerps like yourself?
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We're not really going to trot out that rubbish about needing to use nukes against Japan, are we?
Depends on your definition of "need". Truman was faced with the choice between using the nukes, or mounting an invasion. His duty was to defeat Japan with the minimum number of Allied casualties. The fact that he saved a lot of Japanese lives as well was a bonus.
Japan was so defeated that the US could park battleships off the Japanese coast and shell at will -- without response.
That was the case in the invasion of Okinawa and several islands before that as well, yet the Japanese managed to inflict heavy casualties on the landing troops.
We dropped nukes on Japan in WWII for two reasons: to see them work in action and, more importantly, to show the USSR that we can and would use them.
In your opinion, some sixty years after the event. Since it was Truman, not Groves, who gave the order, Groves' opinion is quite beside the point. Truman said he ordered the use of the atomic bomb to end the war, and I take him at his word.
Even after the bombs, the "let's fight to the last man, woman or child" faction still came dangerously close to taking over the Japanese government.
-jcr
you cannot say that using the bomb saved allied lives by making an invasion unnecessary.
I can and I did, because that's exactly what happened.
-jcr
Anyway, I'm not sure there will be any such thing as privacy in the near future.
I'm sure that there will be remailers and web anonymizers as long as anyone cares to use them.
-jcr
Yes, I'm sure we can all be proud of having found a way to killing millions with a single weapon. Hallmark of civilization, right there.
Those weapons saved millions of Allied (and Japanese) lives, by ending the war. You can second-guess all you want, but I have several relatives that I got to meet, because they weren't killed on the beaches of the Japanese home islands. Truman did the right thing.
-jcr
A nuke can be used for only one thing - cause destruction
Not so. A nuke could also be used for nudging an asteroid off a collision course with the earth.
Using a nuke is evil. Period.
I'm glad it was Harry Truman and not you who made that decision in 1945.
-jcr
Compare it to the Duoplasmatron thrusters that Kaufman developed in the 1960's, not to chemical rockets. This is for very long-duration thrust, not high-impulse thrust.
-jcr
-jcr
Burn them to a cd every week or so. You have to keep them, you don't have to keep them on line.
-jcr
Typically the extra trading costs for puts (very wide spreads and higher than stock commissions) would require a move like that to just break even.
I don't know who your broker is, but it sounds like you're paying too much in commissions on options trades. I'm paying $7.74 per contract. As for the spreads, they tend to get closer once the underlying is moving towards the strike price.
-jcr
Actually the shareprice went up, rendering your (fictional)put options worthless.
Today was a blip. January $35 puts look really good. They're twenty-five cents right now, and they could easly be double that in a week.
They Use windows and claim their systems are safe and tamperproof.
Exactly. At some point, those pigeons will come home to roost.
-jcr
Yeah, and give money to a company that is fleecing you of your basic right to a secure vote? No thanks.
Read what I wrote again, and then ask someone to explain to you what a "put" option is.
-jcr
Looks like a good time buy some puts on Diebold.
Man, I wish I'd heard about this while the market was open.
-jcr
You are an expert in operating system kernels.
Not hardly. He's an expert in one operating system kernel. Check his exchange with Shapiro about EROS to see Torvalds out of his depth.
-jcr
I could log on to wiki.gov and add new laws and edit existing ones at will, but so could anyone else.
You can almost do that today, but you have to be a lobbyist with an expense account to grease the congresscritters.
-jcr
Real men use their Swiss Army Knife to punch holes in punch cards.
Umm... Real Men call them Hollerith cards.
-jcr
The only type of person who could make use of the information apart from Microsoft is a criminal.
On what do you base this assertion?
-jcr
Close, but that's DHMO with additional contaminants.
-jcr
real men use ed
No, real men use cat, and get it right the first time!
-jcr
You know, I've met some pretentious twits in my time, but you really take the cake.
-jcr
In another 10 years, I expect that they will call out the HAZMAT team for any reported spills of dihydrogen monoxide.
Who wants to bet on the date of the first DHMO call that actually gets a Hazmat team to respond?
-jcr
If you're a female, you're required to be perky all the time, at least around me.
How's that policy working out for you? Any takers yet?
-jcr
Ah, the ancient "no alternative" fallacy.
I'll take that as a "no", then. Thanks for playing, but you're useless.
-jcr
I don't suppose you have anything like say, an alternative to offer? Perhaps the country should simply be ruled by a committee of condescing twerps like yourself?
-jcr
You say that as though there is a functional difference between the two.
Wow, aren't you clever?
-jcr
I'm no fan of democracy as all I see in democracy is the ability to manipulate the vote to further the interests of the elite.
That's election fraud, not democracy.
-jcr