Why is it moral? You'll have to answer that question on your own; I don't think it was. Why was it perceived to be moral? That would take a book, but there are three possible reasons I can think of, all of which should be seen as merely possibilities, not certainties:
1. The concept of total war had become central to the way WWII was fought. Though a military theorist would no doubt disagree with my characterization, one could say that "Total war" means "civilians are military assets." This is in part due to civilian bombings in Europe, for instance, the (possibly accidental) bombing the first night over Coventry, and the Allied response in bombing civilian targets in Germany. None of the sides in WWII refrained from bombing civilian targets; and of course Germany did not refrain from executing civilians in their own country and in occupied territories who did not meet with their future plans (i.e., those who were nondesirables: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc.).
2. There was a wide-spread assumption that the kamikaze attacks toward the end of the war in the Pacific Theater were a foretaste of a wholly militarized civilian population contesting any US attempt to occupy Japan. Looking back on it today, it seems absurd, but it has to be remembered that in the 1940s many folks thought that "Orientals" had a different "mentality" than "Westerners," and that the Japanese were likely to in effect commit suicide in fighting an occupation rather than simply suffer defeat and get on with life. Remember that Japanese Americans were kept in concentration camps during the war: the idea that all people have certain common values simply didn't have the kind of hold on the imagination that it does today. While it is likely that resistance to an occupation would have been quite forceful, I think we nowadays realize that it would not have been the Iwo-Jima-style nightmare the US military planners thought it would be. So from the point of view of the Trinity folks, they were saving American occupying forces (and they were also perhaps saving Japanese civilians, whom they would have assumed would have died in far greater numbers in a violently contested occupation).
3. On the other hand, in the 30 and 40s, people held the lives of other cultures cheap, and the more unlike a person was to oneself, the more cheaply one held that person's life. Perhaps racism. Is it likely that the bomb would have been used at the same point in the war against Germany if it had been ready? It's possible that it would have been. Obviously this idea conflicts with the idea that it was in part to protect Japanese civilians, but it may not be entirely mutually incompatible.
Anyway, those are most of the arguments in a nutshell. I'd strongly suggest reading this book on the subject, and Heisenberg's War
What "business" software do most people run that can't be run on a mac?
Deltek and other serious accounting software (QuickBooks isn't enough for a medium-size business). Crystal Reports. ADP and other payroll apps. MS Project (there may be Mac and *nix replacements for some of these; indeed, if there are, post them). A lot of stuff that PHBs think are essential.
There's a whole world of stuff beyond Unreal Tournament and MS Office.
HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/) is a very nice Windows alternative. For OS X, I use BBEdit, which ain't cheap, though cheaper than FP, but is quite nice. Only problem is that it uses a Windows component (the same one used in OE) for its "prototype pad", which is what you use to type straight text and get HTML. BBEdit doesn't have a screen like that, I believe.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but FTP security holes don't matter if you're talking about non-sensitive data with non-sensitive user names and passwords. In that case, I'd go FTP, with a backup via HTTP for those who for one reason or another can't access ftp (if say only port 80 is open).
Obviously, the Romans did not invent the road. But they did develop a lot of standardized practices for road building. And no, the Urban Legend about railroad tracks and the width of Roman axles is just an urban legend.
Why in the world don't they just make the roads bigger? Doesn't that seem to be the logical route, rather than rely on high technology?
Too damned expensive to take all that real estate by eminent domain, would increase parking requirements requiring even more real estate to be taken, some of it isn't houses, it's office towers, and even then it wouldn't solve the air quality issue. Singapore has AFAIK been doing pretty much the same thing for a while.
Someone's whoring for humor karma, I see. The only category I can think of for Nemesis is "Best Adapted Screenplay," since it was based so thoroughly on "Wrath of Khan."
Security restrictions? Can I restrict the range of IP addresses that access my music folders? Password access? Encryption? I wanna tweak dammit! The problem with that is that as soon as you make the system more powerful and have all these geek-satisfying options, you need to be able to get down to the nuts and bolts of configuring it. Otherwise you end up in the same mess as MS, with users blindly enabling potentially insecure servers.
Read previous postings. Rendevous is automatic discovery not automatic sharing.
Maybe it will slightly counter the leftist bias from ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, Reuters, and the other media outlets create 95% of all the news stories out there and yet fail to represent their viewers.
The iBooks are like models. They are nice to look at and nice to play with and fondle, but when it comes down to it, they have a lot of flaws and will most likely vomit after every meal and have a weird sexual past
I have no problems with mine. Maybe you've been feeding yours at the wrong four star trattorias?
Is apple falling way behind? How do these systems compete with the 2 and 3 GHz intel systems coming out?
The reviewer stated that this model was much faster than their 450. Well, ya, its double, but its not a 2.4GHz chip or anything....??
My 500 MHz iBook is much faster (at least 1.5X as fast) than my 700 MHz PIII desktop, which also has 1/2 again as much memory. And last I checked, there were no 3 GHz laptops. (Keep in mind, by the way, that [roughly] the higher the clockspeed, the shorter the battery life).
Shippy, before you go spouting off about how it's not so bad as we do have Mono available, will you please read their fucking website? Jeezus, dude, the developer states explicitly that Locutus will not be an open-source app. There goes your portability. It's windoze, and only windoze.
Read further: they explicitly mention that they hope Mono to make it possible for them to make their software available on non-Windows platforms.
Actually, no. E-mail with PGP wastes a lot of disk space in the enterprise that a P2P client won't - with a P2P client, you can just email everyone in a distribution list a path to a WP or other large doc and let those who might have a use for it look themselves. As a matter of fact, this is exactly what I need to solve a problem I'm having...
A Progress could not dock with Columbia; no matching docking ring. Which means EVA.
I also doubt one could make Columbia's orbit: the Russian launch complex is much higher in latitude than KSC, and so their orbits have much steeper angles. It would need a lot of fuel to match orbits, and may not carry enough.
You'd need 3 Soyuz to rescue the crew: Soyuz only carry 3 passengers, and there were 7 aboard. You'd probably also have to have pilots in each Soyuz, since you wouldn't have months to write the encounter software.
Anyway, it would take a VERY long time to get 3 Soyuz prepped for launch. And then there's the same pesky orbit thing.
Celestia is mindblowing, and the Windows version is actually in better shape than the OS X version (unless they've updated the OS X version in the past few weeks).
Ah, nothing's better than having Celestia and XEphem running on my iBook, now that I can't see the damned stars anymore thanks to the smog and light pollution.
That's because your vid card can't handle the hi-res Earth. My iBook does the same thing if I have the settings wrong. Change the settings on Celestia for lower res and the earth should reappear.
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Senators and Congresspersons are just as vulnerable to these insane surveillance proposals as anyone else.
Oh, come on. The president would never do that ...
Ivan, you're right. Unfortunately, there are some in our government who disagree with you.
Why is it moral? You'll have to answer that question on your own; I don't think it was. Why was it perceived to be moral? That would take a book, but there are three possible reasons I can think of, all of which should be seen as merely possibilities, not certainties:
1. The concept of total war had become central to the way WWII was fought. Though a military theorist would no doubt disagree with my characterization, one could say that "Total war" means "civilians are military assets." This is in part due to civilian bombings in Europe, for instance, the (possibly accidental) bombing the first night over Coventry, and the Allied response in bombing civilian targets in Germany. None of the sides in WWII refrained from bombing civilian targets; and of course Germany did not refrain from executing civilians in their own country and in occupied territories who did not meet with their future plans (i.e., those who were nondesirables: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc.).
2. There was a wide-spread assumption that the kamikaze attacks toward the end of the war in the Pacific Theater were a foretaste of a wholly militarized civilian population contesting any US attempt to occupy Japan. Looking back on it today, it seems absurd, but it has to be remembered that in the 1940s many folks thought that "Orientals" had a different "mentality" than "Westerners," and that the Japanese were likely to in effect commit suicide in fighting an occupation rather than simply suffer defeat and get on with life. Remember that Japanese Americans were kept in concentration camps during the war: the idea that all people have certain common values simply didn't have the kind of hold on the imagination that it does today. While it is likely that resistance to an occupation would have been quite forceful, I think we nowadays realize that it would not have been the Iwo-Jima-style nightmare the US military planners thought it would be. So from the point of view of the Trinity folks, they were saving American occupying forces (and they were also perhaps saving Japanese civilians, whom they would have assumed would have died in far greater numbers in a violently contested occupation).
3. On the other hand, in the 30 and 40s, people held the lives of other cultures cheap, and the more unlike a person was to oneself, the more cheaply one held that person's life. Perhaps racism. Is it likely that the bomb would have been used at the same point in the war against Germany if it had been ready? It's possible that it would have been. Obviously this idea conflicts with the idea that it was in part to protect Japanese civilians, but it may not be entirely mutually incompatible.
Anyway, those are most of the arguments in a nutshell. I'd strongly suggest reading this book on the subject, and Heisenberg's War
You don't understand the power of the Dark Side. I must obey my master!
What "business" software do most people run that can't be run on a mac?
Deltek and other serious accounting software (QuickBooks isn't enough for a medium-size business). Crystal Reports. ADP and other payroll apps. MS Project (there may be Mac and *nix replacements for some of these; indeed, if there are, post them). A lot of stuff that PHBs think are essential.
There's a whole world of stuff beyond Unreal Tournament and MS Office.
HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/) is a very nice Windows alternative. For OS X, I use BBEdit, which ain't cheap, though cheaper than FP, but is quite nice. Only problem is that it uses a Windows component (the same one used in OE) for its "prototype pad", which is what you use to type straight text and get HTML. BBEdit doesn't have a screen like that, I believe.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but FTP security holes don't matter if you're talking about non-sensitive data with non-sensitive user names and passwords. In that case, I'd go FTP, with a backup via HTTP for those who for one reason or another can't access ftp (if say only port 80 is open).
> That's like claiming the invention of the road.
tell that to the Romans!
Obviously, the Romans did not invent the road. But they did develop a lot of standardized practices for road building. And no, the Urban Legend about railroad tracks and the width of Roman axles is just an urban legend.
Why in the world don't they just make the roads bigger? Doesn't that seem to be the logical route, rather than rely on high technology?
Too damned expensive to take all that real estate by eminent domain, would increase parking requirements requiring even more real estate to be taken, some of it isn't houses, it's office towers, and even then it wouldn't solve the air quality issue. Singapore has AFAIK been doing pretty much the same thing for a while.
Surely its a better movie than any musical?
Someone's whoring for humor karma, I see. The only category I can think of for Nemesis is "Best Adapted Screenplay," since it was based so thoroughly on "Wrath of Khan."
Two words:
Delta Clipper. Just make sure all the hoses are connected.
Security restrictions? Can I restrict the range of IP addresses that access my music folders? Password access? Encryption? I wanna tweak dammit! The problem with that is that as soon as you make the system more powerful and have all these geek-satisfying options, you need to be able to get down to the nuts and bolts of configuring it. Otherwise you end up in the same mess as MS, with users blindly enabling potentially insecure servers.
Read previous postings. Rendevous is automatic discovery not automatic sharing.
"The Nation" is an extreme left publication (one of those that actually lamented when the Soviet Union fell!).
No, the Nation did not lament when the SU fell.
Maybe it will slightly counter the leftist bias from ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, Reuters, and the other media outlets create 95% of all the news stories out there and yet fail to represent their viewers.
What Liberal Media?. Please mod parent -1 Troll.
The iBooks are like models. They are nice to look at and nice to play with and fondle, but when it comes down to it, they have a lot of flaws and will most likely vomit after every meal and have a weird sexual past
I have no problems with mine. Maybe you've been feeding yours at the wrong four star trattorias?
I don't have any problems with my iBook, either.
The graphical boot loader is part of Apple's firmware, I believe; and I believe it is universal.
Is apple falling way behind? How do these systems compete with the 2 and 3 GHz intel systems coming out?
The reviewer stated that this model was much faster than their 450. Well, ya, its double, but its not a 2.4GHz chip or anything....??
My 500 MHz iBook is much faster (at least 1.5X as fast) than my 700 MHz PIII desktop, which also has 1/2 again as much memory. And last I checked, there were no 3 GHz laptops. (Keep in mind, by the way, that [roughly] the higher the clockspeed, the shorter the battery life).
And if compared to freenet, any benefits?
Read the FAQ.
Shippy, before you go spouting off about how it's not so bad as we do have Mono available, will you please read their fucking website? Jeezus, dude, the developer states explicitly that Locutus will not be an open-source app. There goes your portability. It's windoze, and only windoze.
Read further: they explicitly mention that they hope Mono to make it possible for them to make their software available on non-Windows platforms.
p2p is ftp for idiots.
FTP doesn't have encryption. If you're going to compare it to another method, compare it to WS_FTP server or some other secure FTP server.
Actually, no. E-mail with PGP wastes a lot of disk space in the enterprise that a P2P client won't - with a P2P client, you can just email everyone in a distribution list a path to a WP or other large doc and let those who might have a use for it look themselves. As a matter of fact, this is exactly what I need to solve a problem I'm having...
A Progress could not dock with Columbia; no matching docking ring. Which means EVA.
I also doubt one could make Columbia's orbit: the Russian launch complex is much higher in latitude than KSC, and so their orbits have much steeper angles. It would need a lot of fuel to match orbits, and may not carry enough.
You'd need 3 Soyuz to rescue the crew: Soyuz only carry 3 passengers, and there were 7 aboard. You'd probably also have to have pilots in each Soyuz, since you wouldn't have months to write the encounter software.
Anyway, it would take a VERY long time to get 3 Soyuz prepped for launch. And then there's the same pesky orbit thing.
Celestia is mindblowing, and the Windows version is actually in better shape than the OS X version (unless they've updated the OS X version in the past few weeks).
Ah, nothing's better than having Celestia and XEphem running on my iBook, now that I can't see the damned stars anymore thanks to the smog and light pollution.
That's because your vid card can't handle the hi-res Earth. My iBook does the same thing if I have the settings wrong. Change the settings on Celestia for lower res and the earth should reappear.