The problem isn't the same that you're raising. The problem with the law they proposed is that it violated the first amendment, hence the reason it was struck down. Hell, the people working with those building the law said it wouldn't make it through because it violated the first amendment.
The dropping of the bombs didn't save any lives. This simple idea comes from the many facts hindsight gave us after the war. Japan was readily on the verge of surrender for months before the bombs were dropped, yet no diplomatic routes were taken leading up to the bomb's use.
I'm not saying that more personel would have been killed, but the facts are this. The bombs were dropped on CIVILIAN populations. War factories or not, they were manned by civilians, much like the cities in the US at that time of the war, and killing civilians was against the terms of war the US prided itself on then, and even now. Also, the dropping of the TWO bombs was specifically aimed at the Russians. We dropped 1 to make Japan surrender perhaps, but the day after the 1st bomb was dropped, the Soviet Union started attacking and pushing back Japanese forces in Manchuria and China, hoping to gain a foothold in Asia like it had in Eastern Europe. The US didn't want this, and dropped a 2nd bomb days later to prove to the USSR what power it had, and they didn't have.
The bombs cost more Japanese civilian lives than it could have possibly saved had the US taken much better routes, none of which would have involved wholescale invasion of the Japanese islands.
But hey, let's keep teaching this BS to our kids in school. If they hear it enough, maybe someone will rewrite the history books so it looks like the US never made any mistakes, or hell, commited mass war crimes (that we were never put on trial for).
A few digital cameras use floppies to store images. It might not be as great as plugging your camera into your usb port, but then again, when the folder you downloaded those pics into is gone, you'd still have the floppies with the original pictures on them. I also find it easier to store floppies than rolls of negatives. You can usually find a floppy disk holder for dirt cheap at any local compusa, or even a dirt mall.
They've got uses, enough for me to pay the $10 to order one everytime I build a new comp. I have yet to hear someone say, "I don't need a floppy" when pricing a system either.
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The problem isn't the same that you're raising. The problem with the law they proposed is that it violated the first amendment, hence the reason it was struck down. Hell, the people working with those building the law said it wouldn't make it through because it violated the first amendment.
The dropping of the bombs didn't save any lives. This simple idea comes from the many facts hindsight gave us after the war. Japan was readily on the verge of surrender for months before the bombs were dropped, yet no diplomatic routes were taken leading up to the bomb's use. I'm not saying that more personel would have been killed, but the facts are this. The bombs were dropped on CIVILIAN populations. War factories or not, they were manned by civilians, much like the cities in the US at that time of the war, and killing civilians was against the terms of war the US prided itself on then, and even now. Also, the dropping of the TWO bombs was specifically aimed at the Russians. We dropped 1 to make Japan surrender perhaps, but the day after the 1st bomb was dropped, the Soviet Union started attacking and pushing back Japanese forces in Manchuria and China, hoping to gain a foothold in Asia like it had in Eastern Europe. The US didn't want this, and dropped a 2nd bomb days later to prove to the USSR what power it had, and they didn't have. The bombs cost more Japanese civilian lives than it could have possibly saved had the US taken much better routes, none of which would have involved wholescale invasion of the Japanese islands. But hey, let's keep teaching this BS to our kids in school. If they hear it enough, maybe someone will rewrite the history books so it looks like the US never made any mistakes, or hell, commited mass war crimes (that we were never put on trial for).
A few digital cameras use floppies to store images. It might not be as great as plugging your camera into your usb port, but then again, when the folder you downloaded those pics into is gone, you'd still have the floppies with the original pictures on them. I also find it easier to store floppies than rolls of negatives. You can usually find a floppy disk holder for dirt cheap at any local compusa, or even a dirt mall. They've got uses, enough for me to pay the $10 to order one everytime I build a new comp. I have yet to hear someone say, "I don't need a floppy" when pricing a system either.
....So you can tell all your pals that you got slashdotted.