My favorite is ass clown. Not sure where the hell that came from or what it means but, hey, ass and clown in the same insult. What more could you want?
Other than the obvious demoralizing effect that it, hopefully, would have on the enemy, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were very lightly defended. Due to the preciousness of the two original bombs, the US did not want to risk flying the Enola Gay into whithering the AAA fire they would have encountered over most industrial and military targets. They were relatively convenient targets.
Moral? Many thousands of American lives were saved by avoiding an invasion of mainland Japan. The Japanese started the fight. We finished it while trying to minimize our loss of life. Moral enough for me.
I find it interesting that the successful tactic used by the defense was "Yes, we know we made software that cracked copyright protection but we didn't intend for it to be used illegally" instead of "We are a Russian company and not subject to American law". This seems to have a number of implications:
1. Why was Elcomsoft under US jurisdiction? Do they do business here and thus are subject to US laws? If not, it seems that the US feels it can prosecute any business anywhere in the world for anything we feel violates our laws. It will be interesting to see how US businesses feel about it the first time the tables get turned.
2. This should set good precedent (assuming it survives appeal) for other technolgies that can be used for potentially illegal actions such as P2P. From the article "After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law"
I am a big fan of the blackberry. I think I use it more for a PDS than for e-mail. Since I wear it all the time anyway, I use it to remind me for appointments and such. It is also nice to be able to send myself reminders no matter where I am and I think the blackberry is more portable than many other PDAs because of its "pager" form factor.
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I wouldn't quite say that Gartner has always been an advocate:
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My favorite is ass clown. Not sure where the hell that came from or what it means but, hey, ass and clown in the same insult. What more could you want?
Other than the obvious demoralizing effect that it, hopefully, would have on the enemy, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were very lightly defended. Due to the preciousness of the two original bombs, the US did not want to risk flying the Enola Gay into whithering the AAA fire they would have encountered over most industrial and military targets. They were relatively convenient targets.
Moral? Many thousands of American lives were saved by avoiding an invasion of mainland Japan. The Japanese started the fight. We finished it while trying to minimize our loss of life. Moral enough for me.
I find it interesting that the successful tactic used by the defense was "Yes, we know we made software that cracked copyright protection but we didn't intend for it to be used illegally" instead of "We are a Russian company and not subject to American law". This seems to have a number of implications:
1. Why was Elcomsoft under US jurisdiction? Do they do business here and thus are subject to US laws? If not, it seems that the US feels it can prosecute any business anywhere in the world for anything we feel violates our laws. It will be interesting to see how US businesses feel about it the first time the tables get turned.
2. This should set good precedent (assuming it survives appeal) for other technolgies that can be used for potentially illegal actions such as P2P. From the article "After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful," the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate the law"
I am a big fan of the blackberry. I think I use it more for a PDS than for e-mail. Since I wear it all the time anyway, I use it to remind me for appointments and such. It is also nice to be able to send myself reminders no matter where I am and I think the blackberry is more portable than many other PDAs because of its "pager" form factor.