Just looked it up in the Encyclopedia... It seems to go back and forth. In one sentence it says he "signed up for Starfleet," indicating an enlisted man. Then it says he was the "tactical officer aboard the USS Rutledge" early in his career.
Later he was promoted to "chief of operations" on DS9, whatever the heck that means.
It also says that Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things... show him as the "battle bridge conn officer".
I wonder if this would extend to libraries, since they specifically continue to include Internet access from libraries in PATRIOT stuff.
Does this mean I have to start snooping on my patrons, even if I don't currently? At the moment, I don't even store who's using the machines, let alone browsing habits.
You have an interesting perspective, and it's fun to play "what if."
the American president found that unacceptable -- the Emperor must give up his throne and tell his people he was not a god. (For this culture, that was not negotiable.)
Frankly (even if this is true), that isn't sufficient. That's getting close to the finish line and then stopping. The fact that the Emperor had god-like powers was a major problem with Japan, and the war would have re-surfaced if the job were left unfinished. See Germany, post World War I. The "culture" to which you refer needed to be torn down and rebuilt. I'd say MacArthur and the Japanese people did a damn good job of it.
the Americans knew this and were desperate to save the Japanese from the Communists.
You make this sound like a bad thing. I think they're doing pretty well without having been a Soviet satellite. We saw what Nazi Germany + Japanese Empire did. Picture the Soviet Union + Japanese Empire for the next several decades. No, thanks.
Ah, we have the amazing "jizmonkey" to enlighten us!
You do know that there was no previous offer of surrender, right?
You do know that the actual surrender was, in fact, unconditional, right? We allowed the Emperor to stick around as a figurehead; it wasn't required.
And as far as the calculus: on one side, we have the people killed by the bomb directly. Many of them were "civilians", as much as that existed in wartime Japan.
On the other side, we have the entirety of the US armed forces, PLUS the population (civilian and otherwise) of Japan. The dictum was total war, by any means necessary, complete devotion to the Emperor until everybody on one side or the other was dead.
The correct choice was to end the war ASAP.
The fact that, as you say, "Japan is one of America's closest economic and strategic allies today," shows that we did everything right. What if, after the war, the island had been a wasteland, with 75% of the population dead?
The fact that you can't see that ending the war was a Good Thing shows you have deep anti-American issues. I'm not going to call you an idiot, but it sure seems that you are.
Where on Earth would we get the idea that there are terrorist sleeper cells in the US, biding their time, gathering information, and that one day they may strike and kill thousands of people?
Oh yes? How many Japanese would have been killed by continued blockades, conventional bombing for months, and, most importantly, total war to the last man, civilian or otherwise?
Perhaps one day, you will understand that the world is still governed by the aggressive use of force, and that it's only the right people winning armed conflicts that allows us to simulate otherwise.
They have tours of things like concentration camps, don't they? That's a lot more directly connected to deaths than the place where they built a bomb.
Besides, this is not just a bomb that killed thousands of people. It's a bomb that saved hundreds of thousands of lives. By forcing the Japanese into surrender, a months-long, duke-it-out, land invasion of Japan became unneccessary.
Might as well assimilate now. I have little doubt one day in the not so far future, MS will have their own distro and it will eventually become the most common one.
I see the same thing happening long-term. OSS wins the OS wars, but there's no reason for MS to disappear. They'll still make application software, and still have a lot of street cred with the uninitiated. Their Linux distro could go to #1 immediately upon release.
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Why would it? I think it'll open their eyes to how much "good" Microsoft's bundling does for them.
Just looked it up in the Encyclopedia... It seems to go back and forth. In one sentence it says he "signed up for Starfleet," indicating an enlisted man. Then it says he was the "tactical officer aboard the USS Rutledge" early in his career.
Later he was promoted to "chief of operations" on DS9, whatever the heck that means.
It also says that Encounter at Farpoint and All Good Things... show him as the "battle bridge conn officer".
So who knows; let's call him an engineer.
He's just the puke who runs the transporter. And apparently one of the few on the ship who's not even an officer.
I'm sure there will be .debs available on KDEs site soon though.
I'm not marketing my Slashdot name to PHBs. Although I wonder if that's been tried...
What a dumb name. Even worse than "Debian." At least that one's pronounceable.
Does this mean I have to start snooping on my patrons, even if I don't currently? At the moment, I don't even store who's using the machines, let alone browsing habits.
Cotton needed frequent replacement, and nylon was cheaper than cotton (and didn't wear out). Next time you needed new line, you bought nylon.
It is a burden on taxpayers when people can't pay their medical bills. But note: that isn't a problem with freedom, it's a problem with socialism.
And 3.1 was a black background, but blue graphic.
Because this invention brought an end to the most destructive conflict ever?
the American president found that unacceptable -- the Emperor must give up his throne and tell his people he was not a god. (For this culture, that was not negotiable.)
Frankly (even if this is true), that isn't sufficient. That's getting close to the finish line and then stopping. The fact that the Emperor had god-like powers was a major problem with Japan, and the war would have re-surfaced if the job were left unfinished. See Germany, post World War I. The "culture" to which you refer needed to be torn down and rebuilt. I'd say MacArthur and the Japanese people did a damn good job of it.
the Americans knew this and were desperate to save the Japanese from the Communists.
You make this sound like a bad thing. I think they're doing pretty well without having been a Soviet satellite. We saw what Nazi Germany + Japanese Empire did. Picture the Soviet Union + Japanese Empire for the next several decades. No, thanks.
You do know that there was no previous offer of surrender, right?
You do know that the actual surrender was, in fact, unconditional, right? We allowed the Emperor to stick around as a figurehead; it wasn't required.
And as far as the calculus: on one side, we have the people killed by the bomb directly. Many of them were "civilians", as much as that existed in wartime Japan.
On the other side, we have the entirety of the US armed forces, PLUS the population (civilian and otherwise) of Japan. The dictum was total war, by any means necessary, complete devotion to the Emperor until everybody on one side or the other was dead.
The correct choice was to end the war ASAP.
The fact that, as you say, "Japan is one of America's closest economic and strategic allies today," shows that we did everything right. What if, after the war, the island had been a wasteland, with 75% of the population dead?
The fact that you can't see that ending the war was a Good Thing shows you have deep anti-American issues. I'm not going to call you an idiot, but it sure seems that you are.
I think it's a good thing to keep in mind when dealing with things like nuclear bombs.
What do you suggest? A police state where the government is given unlimited power?
No, but I do think it's wrong to jump on people who ask questions as the original poster asked.
The US is not the only country to suffer from terrorism, the UK has had it for decades
I don't want to end up in that boat. Stamp it out now. Don't give them opportunities to do more harm.
What else could a reasonable observer conclude about their point of view? Every time anything is wrong in the world, it must be the US's fault.
Couldn't happen.
Perhaps one day, you will understand that the world is still governed by the aggressive use of force, and that it's only the right people winning armed conflicts that allows us to simulate otherwise.
Besides, this is not just a bomb that killed thousands of people. It's a bomb that saved hundreds of thousands of lives. By forcing the Japanese into surrender, a months-long, duke-it-out, land invasion of Japan became unneccessary.
One of the reasons I convert my movies is to get straight to the feature, and skip the gawd-awful menu crap...
Twins, eh? Sounds like they'll have a breast apiece.
The advantages of the blanks should be clear enough... It's still not cheap/easy for most folks to record TV any other way.
I see the same thing happening long-term. OSS wins the OS wars, but there's no reason for MS to disappear. They'll still make application software, and still have a lot of street cred with the uninitiated. Their Linux distro could go to #1 immediately upon release.
So, relative to the Earth, the gravity on this planet will be 7.5/(2^2) = 1.875 Earth.
Not even 2x.