The Empire of Japan still had a large and powerful land force in Manchuria in August 1945.
Hiroshima bombed Aug 6 '45 Red Army engages Imperial Army in Manchuria Aug 9 '45 Nagasaki bombed Aug 9 '45 Hirohito surrenders Aug 10 '45 Red Army completes rout Aug 12 '45
If you are going to assign a mercenary reason for nuking, perhaps a simpler one would be keeping the SovUnion out of Asia. If Japan surrendered to both the US and Soviets, then they get to split up the spoils (all of Asia). As it happened, the US got to decide the fates (for better or worse) of the "liberated" territories.
They cleared out a few blocks of Times Square one Sunday morning for dawn +/- 15 min. FYI, since TS got Disney-fied, it's pretty much empty there anyway. It's not exactly the business district.
Besides, if they can shut down parts of the city to raise money, maybe they won't raise the cigarette taxes by $1.50 and start a new generation of bootleggers.
In the off chance you are not a troll, here is the relevant portion of the article. The company Ccnow.com destroys all transaction records in six months, even in cases of KNOWN FRAUD. For me, who has to save his tax returns for seven years when I wasn't complicit in a crime, this seems odd.
excerpted below:
The fraudulent credit card transactions were processed by a company called Ccnow.com, which acts as a middleman for Internet merchants.
When I contacted the Delaware-based company, an official refused to identify the merchant who had sold "me" the rifle scopes.
"But this was fraud," I said. "You must be required to maintain business records."
Lorenzo Anderson, an e-commerce consultant at Ccnow, said the company has a policy of destroying all transaction records after six months - even in instances of known fraud.
"You will never know who the supplier was," Mr. Anderson said. "You would know if you placed the order yourself. But if you didn't place it yourself you would never know because (in fraud cases) we just give the money back and we end things right there."
Ccnow says it has a confidentiality agreement with Internet merchants. Such an agreement, in effect, also serves as a firewall that could protect merchants who might either knowingly or unknowingly facilitate fraudulent purchases and shipments.
One really noticable difference is the simple refillable glass bottle.
Below from http://www.incpen.org/html/german_draft_ord.htm
The German government argues that deposits will promote refillables because retailers will want to avoid having to operate two systems (refillables and non-refillables). However, experience from the US indicates that mandatory deposits on all beverage containers are more likely to discourage refill systems.
It is easier for retailers to throw cans and plastic bottles in a sack for recycling than to place refillable glass bottles carefully in crates. The result was exactly the opposite of the law's intention - glass bottles disappeared from the market.
Industry uses refillable, returnable systems when they make environmental and economic sense. Refillable bottles are still used in the bar trade, and reusable packaging is increasingly used for business-to-business (for example, collapsible crates are often used to ship components to an assembly plant).
However, because refillable containers have to be strong enough to withstand repeated journeys and fillings, they are heavier and take up more space than single trip containers. This means that they often use more resources and energy.
Choice of container system depends on a huge range of technical, social and environmental considerations, including the nature of the distribution systems used and consumer behaviour and preferences. The new proposals will interfere with industry's ability to determine when it makes environmental sense to use a refillable or a non-refillable system.
Re-Design of Ford River Rouge Plant: http://detnews.com/2000/autos/0011/01/a01- 142597.h tm http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com/projects/p_fo rd_r ouge.html
Nat'l Press Club speech by WM (really interesting, but long ~50 min): http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/020424.wmcd onough. html
I agree with this post, but think the intent of leaving out the developing world is slightly different. The industrialized world will have to be innovative and invent and adopt new technology to meet Kyoto. The third (and 2.5) world will incorporate these new methods as they develop
As an aside, saying Kyoto will disable the economy is either ignorant or deceitful. Just as every industry (and frequently OSHA too) estimate of the cost of new health and safety regulations has been wildly overstated, (sometimes by a factor of 100X), so too with limits on GG. The estimates are based on today's tech. It's far cheaper to hire a couple hundred (!) env., chem., and bio. engineers to invent new tech than to use today's tech. Look at Doc McCoy in Star Trek IV. He considers using old tech as literally barbaric, an atrocity. So should we.
When I saw this article, a mmorpg (how do you pronounce that, anyway?) was the first thing I thought of. How dope would that be? Your gang consists of you, your little brother, a housewife in Denver, and some professor from Belgium. Forget about Camelot, AC, even Star Wars Online, this is the "Killer" App.
But then I thought of the liability insurance Sony would have to carry because of the "Off-line PKing".
Having Korean gangsters shooting at your car is only cool in a video game.
I think that explains it all. A science project or development gets treated as pop culture, a way to make a comment on the state of our society. Typical for Salon.
Cruickshank and most of the responders misunderstand the purpose of the project. The only danger is in deep drilling on top of the repository. You could farm on top of the site to no ill effect. However, if you settled there, 20 generations later, your kids might forget the message. The scary messages are simply to keep initial primitive settlers out to avoid this "terror creep" or acclimatization to the warning. The monument will act as a physical barrier to initial settlers. Would you try to establish a town in between huge, jagged pillars or inside a hulking labyrinth of cubes? You might get curious and check it out, but you not going to raise a family there. Anyone with the ability to perform deep drilling or move 46 ton granite blocks as part of a archaelogical dig would presumably be deterred by the warning.
Furthermore, Cruickshank doesn't really comprehend the magnitude of 100,000 or even 10,000 years. If you think you understand how things are going to be then, you surely don't.
Know your facts. New York State requires a prospective Professional Engineer to have the proper educational background (essentially an accredited Engineering B.S.) plus four years of verified work experience in design before even taking the P.E. test. Inspection and construction xp doesn't count. The test is not rough, but definitely not trivial and not limited to raw engineering stuff. It includes ethics, accounting, project management, etc. Most other states have comparable requirements and reciprocity agreements.
There is a LOT of talk about requiring a Master's for a PE, but nothing has been decided yet.
from http://www.op.nysed.gov/pe.htm
Six years of education/experience credit is required for admission to the Fundamentals of Engineering examination (Part A).
A total of 12 years of education/experience credit is required for admission to the Principles and Practice of Engineering examination (Part B) and for licensure. ((accredited engineering degree counts as eight years))
When Spidey had the alien symbiote (sp?), he didn't need the mechanical web-shooters.
The costume just shot out a little bit of itself and grew back the rest really quickly.
So there is precedent for the organic webshooter.
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Let's not forget that in many developing countries (and industrialized ones too) women don't have a choice in whether to get marry, have sex with their husband, or bear children.
I guess they could choose to get kicked out of their village and starve or get beaten to death...
Unfortunately, the U.S. will no longer support the family planning or education projects of the UN because they promote contraception and sometimes even abortion. Bible-belt congressmen ignore the fact that these projects reduce the number of abortions by reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies.
The bottom line is $1 could be spent on education or $1000 on medication and treatment. I wonder which one is better for the economy.
Oh, and if you think this doesn't affect you because you're ensconced in your anarcho-libertarian techno-lord compound in Northern California, just imagine what will happen when 200,000,000 African children grow up without parents.
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Can someone else testify to the amount of time people spend on the mmorpgs?
My roommate plays daoc roughly 6-7 hrs/day on the weekdays and ~10 on each weekend day, for about 50 hrs/wk.
He's not going to even try to play the pvp server b/c he can't compete with the "hard-core" players and the "uber" chars.
Finally, their model of distributed content serving is laughable since the HTTP protocols do not support file authentication. There is nothing which prevents a misbehaving client from only serving banner advertisements which say "Brilliant Digital and Doubleclick Can Bite My Shiny Metal Ass".
You silly englishmen. The only people in America who don't have driver's licenses are people who have had them revoked for drunk driving. (I think you call it drink-driving or something over there) Even (especially?) illegal immigrants and terrorists have driver's licenses.
If you're from the city or poor, you can get a Non-Driver ID, but everyone will think you're a drunk who ran over a bus full of nuns. (You practically have to kill someone while drag racing stolen cars with a nose full of crystal meth before you get it revoked)
Dude, when he reviewed Rollerball or something he spent like two paragraphs on how he was banging some woman dressed up like catwoman on the hotel bathroom floor.
Take a look at whose using the water (and electricity, but that's another story). Industrial uses dwarf residential ones. Many times industrial processes don't require drinking quality water, but use them anyway. Industry also produces end-products that are more dangerous than any coming out of the home. This disconnect between the user (consumer) and the use keeps all that waste hidden.
Fun water fact: Skipping that burger for lunch three times saves as much water as skipping showers all year.
Sanitary engineers try real hard to make sure that sewer lines are gravity powered, not pressure. Sometimes it is inevitable, though.
Pressure is bad b/c a break is way grosser than a water main break or a phone conduit crack. Also, if the material goes anaerobic, the waste products can corrode your pipe.
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I'd like to point out that the original had some bad bugs that an asshole could exploit to make the game uncool. Guile had the "hand-cuffs" and "shadow-throw" which basically made him unbeatable if exploited right. I'm not sure if this was fixed in Champion or Turbo or was patched.
>>>Not to mention their bid is half of the second lowest bid.
This has been a problem with all gov't jobs in history of gov'ts. Some journalist who wants to make a name for himself (or end up an organ donor) should snoop around and find out who's getting what kicked back.
Unless HK has some stupid law requiring the state to choose the lowest bid regardless of competence or reputation. (That's why our roads suck, ppl)
I am planning to cache some weapons, medicine and silver coins in the nearby graveyard on top of the next guy who gets buried. Then I'll be at least somewhat prepared and can buy a wife after the fall of civilization.
Maybe instead of using 50 nukes to splash all of Iraq and get Saddam, we use 10 nuke bunker-busters, keep the pollution (partly) contained, and avoid killing (some) inoocents.
Please put a stop to the economically-draining witch-hunt against Microsoft. This has gone on long enough.
Microsoft has already agreed to hide its Internet Explorer icon from the desktop; the fact is, this case against Microsoft is little more than "welfare" for Netscape and other Microsoft competitors, with not a nickel going to those supposedly harmed by Microsoft: the computer user.
All form letters. Every doofus who owns one share of msft must have emailed a dupe. All the anti-MS ones I've seen so far are individual and have thought put into them.
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The Empire of Japan still had a large and powerful land force in Manchuria in August 1945.
Hiroshima bombed Aug 6 '45
Red Army engages Imperial Army in Manchuria Aug 9 '45
Nagasaki bombed Aug 9 '45
Hirohito surrenders Aug 10 '45
Red Army completes rout Aug 12 '45
If you are going to assign a mercenary reason for nuking, perhaps a simpler one would be keeping the SovUnion out of Asia. If Japan surrendered to both the US and Soviets, then they get to split up the spoils (all of Asia). As it happened, the US got to decide the fates (for better or worse) of the "liberated" territories.
Eh, that happens all the time in NYC.
They cleared out a few blocks of Times Square one Sunday morning for dawn +/- 15 min. FYI, since TS got Disney-fied, it's pretty much empty there anyway. It's not exactly the business district.
Besides, if they can shut down parts of the city to raise money, maybe they won't raise the cigarette taxes by $1.50 and start a new generation of bootleggers.
In the off chance you are not a troll, here is the relevant portion of the article. The company Ccnow.com destroys all transaction records in six months, even in cases of KNOWN FRAUD. For me, who has to save his tax returns for seven years when I wasn't complicit in a crime, this seems odd.
excerpted below:
The fraudulent credit card transactions were processed by a company called Ccnow.com, which acts as a middleman for Internet merchants.
When I contacted the Delaware-based company, an official refused to identify the merchant who had sold "me" the rifle scopes.
"But this was fraud," I said. "You must be required to maintain business records."
Lorenzo Anderson, an e-commerce consultant at Ccnow, said the company has a policy of destroying all transaction records after six months - even in instances of known fraud.
"You will never know who the supplier was," Mr. Anderson said. "You would know if you placed the order yourself. But if you didn't place it yourself you would never know because (in fraud cases) we just give the money back and we end things right there."
Ccnow says it has a confidentiality agreement with Internet merchants. Such an agreement, in effect, also serves as a firewall that could protect merchants who might either knowingly or unknowingly facilitate fraudulent purchases and shipments.
One really noticable difference is the simple refillable glass bottle.
Below from http://www.incpen.org/html/german_draft_ord.htm
The German government argues that deposits will promote refillables because retailers will want to avoid having to operate two systems (refillables and non-refillables). However, experience from the US indicates that mandatory deposits on all beverage containers are more likely to discourage refill systems.
It is easier for retailers to throw cans and plastic bottles in a sack for recycling than to place refillable glass bottles carefully in crates. The result was exactly the opposite of the law's intention - glass bottles disappeared from the market.
Industry uses refillable, returnable systems when they make environmental and economic sense. Refillable bottles are still used in the bar trade, and reusable packaging is increasingly used for business-to-business (for example, collapsible crates are often used to ship components to an assembly plant).
However, because refillable containers have to be strong enough to withstand repeated journeys and fillings, they are heavier and take up more space than single trip containers. This means that they often use more resources and energy.
Choice of container system depends on a huge range of technical, social and environmental considerations, including the nature of the distribution systems used and consumer behaviour and preferences. The new proposals will interfere with industry's ability to determine when it makes environmental sense to use a refillable or a non-refillable system.
Re-Design of Ford River Rouge Plant:- 142597.h tmo rd_r ouge.html
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http://detnews.com/2000/autos/0011/01/a01
http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com/projects/p_f
Nat'l Press Club speech by WM (really interesting, but long ~50 min):
http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/020424.wmc
Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.0
McDonough Partners Press Room:
http://www.mcdonoughpartners.com/press.htm
NOTE: screwed up URLs, as usual!
As an aside, saying Kyoto will disable the economy is either ignorant or deceitful. Just as every industry (and frequently OSHA too) estimate of the cost of new health and safety regulations has been wildly overstated, (sometimes by a factor of 100X), so too with limits on GG. The estimates are based on today's tech. It's far cheaper to hire a couple hundred (!) env., chem., and bio. engineers to invent new tech than to use today's tech. Look at Doc McCoy in Star Trek IV. He considers using old tech as literally barbaric, an atrocity. So should we.
When I saw this article, a mmorpg (how do you pronounce that, anyway?) was the first thing I thought of. How dope would that be? Your gang consists of you, your little brother, a housewife in Denver, and some professor from Belgium. Forget about Camelot, AC, even Star Wars Online, this is the "Killer" App.
But then I thought of the liability insurance Sony would have to carry because of the "Off-line PKing".
Having Korean gangsters shooting at your car is only cool in a video game.
I think all the low battery warnings should be like that sad Russian bear crying in "Red Planet."
I think that explains it all. A science project or development gets treated as pop culture, a way to make a comment on the state of our society. Typical for Salon.
Cruickshank and most of the responders misunderstand the purpose of the project. The only danger is in deep drilling on top of the repository. You could farm on top of the site to no ill effect. However, if you settled there, 20 generations later, your kids might forget the message. The scary messages are simply to keep initial primitive settlers out to avoid this "terror creep" or acclimatization to the warning. The monument will act as a physical barrier to initial settlers. Would you try to establish a town in between huge, jagged pillars or inside a hulking labyrinth of cubes? You might get curious and check it out, but you not going to raise a family there. Anyone with the ability to perform deep drilling or move 46 ton granite blocks as part of a archaelogical dig would presumably be deterred by the warning.
Furthermore, Cruickshank doesn't really comprehend the magnitude of 100,000 or even 10,000 years. If you think you understand how things are going to be then, you surely don't.
Know your facts. New York State requires a prospective Professional Engineer to have the proper educational background (essentially an accredited Engineering B.S.) plus four years of verified work experience in design before even taking the P.E. test. Inspection and construction xp doesn't count. The test is not rough, but definitely not trivial and not limited to raw engineering stuff. It includes ethics, accounting, project management, etc. Most other states have comparable requirements and reciprocity agreements.
There is a LOT of talk about requiring a Master's for a PE, but nothing has been decided yet.
from http://www.op.nysed.gov/pe.htm
Six years of education/experience credit is required for admission to the Fundamentals of Engineering examination (Part A).
A total of 12 years of education/experience credit is required for admission to the Principles and Practice of Engineering examination (Part B) and for licensure.
((accredited engineering degree counts as eight years))
When Spidey had the alien symbiote (sp?), he didn't need the mechanical web-shooters.
The costume just shot out a little bit of itself and grew back the rest really quickly.
So there is precedent for the organic webshooter.
I guess they could choose to get kicked out of their village and starve or get beaten to death...
Unfortunately, the U.S. will no longer support the family planning or education projects of the UN because they promote contraception and sometimes even abortion. Bible-belt congressmen ignore the fact that these projects reduce the number of abortions by reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies.
The bottom line is $1 could be spent on education or $1000 on medication and treatment. I wonder which one is better for the economy.
Oh, and if you think this doesn't affect you because you're ensconced in your anarcho-libertarian techno-lord compound in Northern California, just imagine what will happen when 200,000,000 African children grow up without parents.
Can someone else testify to the amount of time people spend on the mmorpgs?
My roommate plays daoc roughly 6-7 hrs/day on the weekdays and ~10 on each weekend day, for about 50 hrs/wk.
He's not going to even try to play the pvp server b/c he can't compete with the "hard-core" players and the "uber" chars.
Finally, their model of distributed content serving is laughable since the HTTP protocols do not support file authentication. There is nothing which prevents a misbehaving client from only serving banner advertisements which say "Brilliant Digital and Doubleclick Can Bite My Shiny Metal Ass".
Futurama will live on!!!
Now they have to come up with a space vineyard, a zero-g fermenter and bring a load of Italian peasants with them to stomp the grapes.
They should just bring carbonated merlot in a can.
You silly englishmen. The only people in America who don't have driver's licenses are people who have had them revoked for drunk driving. (I think you call it drink-driving or something over there) Even (especially?) illegal immigrants and terrorists have driver's licenses.
If you're from the city or poor, you can get a Non-Driver ID, but everyone will think you're a drunk who ran over a bus full of nuns. (You practically have to kill someone while drag racing stolen cars with a nose full of crystal meth before you get it revoked)
It's close, that makes it more cleverer b/c they did the math:
1782 ^ 12 = 1.02539783562263E+39
1844 ^ 12 = 1.54572062047814E+39 +
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2.57111845610078E+39
1922 ^ 12 = 2.54121025931480E+39
Lameness filter is powerfully lame.
Dude, when he reviewed Rollerball or something he spent like two paragraphs on how he was banging some woman dressed up like catwoman on the hotel bathroom floor.
I nearly lost my lunch.
Take a look at whose using the water (and electricity, but that's another story). Industrial uses dwarf residential ones. Many times industrial processes don't require drinking quality water, but use them anyway. Industry also produces end-products that are more dangerous than any coming out of the home. This disconnect between the user (consumer) and the use keeps all that waste hidden.
Fun water fact: Skipping that burger for lunch three times saves as much water as skipping showers all year.
Sanitary engineers try real hard to make sure that sewer lines are gravity powered, not pressure. Sometimes it is inevitable, though.
Pressure is bad b/c a break is way grosser than a water main break or a phone conduit crack. Also, if the material goes anaerobic, the waste products can corrode your pipe.
I'd like to point out that the original had some bad bugs that an asshole could exploit to make the game uncool. Guile had the "hand-cuffs" and "shadow-throw" which basically made him unbeatable if exploited right. I'm not sure if this was fixed in Champion or Turbo or was patched.
>>>Not to mention their bid is half of the second lowest bid.
This has been a problem with all gov't jobs in history of gov'ts. Some journalist who wants to make a name for himself (or end up an organ donor) should snoop around and find out who's getting what kicked back.
Unless HK has some stupid law requiring the state to choose the lowest bid regardless of competence or reputation. (That's why our roads suck, ppl)
Word up.
I am planning to cache some weapons, medicine and silver coins in the nearby graveyard on top of the next guy who gets buried. Then I'll be at least somewhat prepared and can buy a wife after the fall of civilization.
Maybe instead of using 50 nukes to splash all of Iraq and get Saddam, we use 10 nuke bunker-busters, keep the pollution (partly) contained, and avoid killing (some) inoocents.
Sound like win-win (except for Saddam)
Please put a stop to the economically-draining witch-hunt against Microsoft. This has gone on long enough.
Microsoft has already agreed to hide its Internet Explorer icon from the desktop; the fact is, this case against Microsoft is little more than "welfare" for Netscape and other Microsoft competitors, with not a nickel going to those supposedly harmed by Microsoft: the computer user.
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All form letters. Every doofus who owns one share of msft must have emailed a dupe. All the anti-MS ones I've seen so far are individual and have thought put into them.