I'm typing this on a MacBook running Ubuntu. I routinely type in a couple different languages, so a while ago I set it up so that when I press the apple key, my keyboard setup toggles between US, German and Russian, which is a lot faster than hitting (and having to remember) a bunch of key combinations. I'd be much obliged if anyone could tell me how to do this on OS X or Windows.
When the President took office, he directed all of his policymakers to develop policies based on science and research, not ideology or politics. So our concern about alcohol is based on what the science tells us about the drug's effects.
According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - alcohol use is associated with addiction, sleep disorders, increased risk for cancer, and motor vehicle accidents. We know from an array of treatment admission information and Federal data that alcohol use is a significant source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms. Studies also reveal that binge drinking alcohol remains common on college campuses, raising serious concerns about what this means for public health – especially among young people who use the drug because research shows their brains continue to develop well into their 20's. Simply put, it is not a benign drug.
Like many, we are interested in the potential alcohol may have in lowering the risk of coronary heart disease for individuals. That is why we ardently support ongoing research into determining what components of alcohol can be used as medicine. To date, however, neither the FDA nor the Institute of Medicine have found alcohol consumption to meet the modern standard for safe or effective medicine for any condition.
As a former police chief, I recognize we are not going to arrest our way out of the problem. We also recognize that legalizing alcohol would not provide the answer to any of the health, social, youth education, criminal justice, and community quality of life challenges associated with drug use.
That is why the President's National Drug Control Strategy is balanced and comprehensive, emphasizing prevention and treatment while at the same time supporting innovative law enforcement efforts that protect public safety and disrupt the supply of drugs entering our communities. Preventing drug use is the most cost-effective way to reduce drug use and its consequences in America. And, as we've seen in our work through community coalitions across the country, this approach works in making communities healthier and safer. We're also focused on expanding access to drug treatment for addicts. Treatment works. In fact, millions of Americans are in successful recovery for drug and alcoholism today. And through our work with innovative drug courts across the Nation, we are improving our criminal justice system to divert non-violent offenders into treatment.
Our commitment to a balanced approach to drug control is real. This last fiscal year alone, the Federal Government spent over $10 billion on drug education and treatment programs compared to just over $9 billion on drug related law enforcement in the U.S.
Thank you for making your voice heard. I encourage you to take a moment to read about the President's approach to drug control to learn more.
If I remember my history, HTML started as a way to store linked information. Then it was badly hacked to be a way to poorly layout documents. Then java script was stapled onto it. Then the whole mess was turned into the kluge that is ajax. Now someone's trying to duct tape 3-D onto that.
I for one look forward to a day when the web is a more dynamic environment, where information is presented more fluidly instead relying on the old metaphor of static published pages, but I can't believe this is a sane way forward. It seems like instead of looking for a better way to present information they're just duct taping crap onto the same old model. Kind of like achieving flight by strapping a rocket motor to horse drawn carriage.
Ok, I have not read tfa (in this case tfp), but I do know a bit about capacitors. Follow along with me here:
You can calculate the energy stored in a capacitor (in Joules) by E =.5*CV^2 where C = capacitance (in Farads) and V = voltage, or
--> V = sqrt((2E)/C)
--> 3500 = sqrt((2*187992000)/52.22) 3500v is a lot. Up until now most comercially available supercapacitors do 5.5v or less and tend to leak energy over time. It's possilbe these guys have really made a stunning break through (the fact they filed for a patent is sure something), but the numbers set off my bullshit detector.
I personally find Linus' pragmatism argument more compeling than all of Stallman's moral arguements. So what's the real meaning of "free" I promiced you?
The devolpers are free to criple and rename a distro as their morals dictate and as a pragmatist I am free to ignor it and carry on with a distro that actually fulfils my needs.
Who fricking watches the keys while typing or gaming?!
In a given week I might use three different international key layouts. I memorize the different layouts as well as I can, but being able to change the printing on the key would be a life saver. I also infrequently use programs like blender which heavily use keyboard shortcuts. If I don't use it for a month I can't remember what all the bloody shortcuts are. Finally I learned how to type on a mechanical typewritter (man does writting that make me feel old) so hard key presses don't bother me one bit. The only reason I'm not getting one of these is the cost. I don't think it's unreasonable for what it is. It's not a mass-market device, it's bleeding edge and small production. But I still don't have that kind of money to spend on a keyboard.
Thank you for that. Both sides of this debate drive me crazy as they're both hanging on to their beliefs with religious fervor. Natural selection IS a theory, and most likely there is still a mechanism for change we don't know about. Likewise we still only see macro exolution in the fosil record and haven't observed it in living animals. The fact that science doen't have all the answers doesn't bother me one bit. It's a process. I don't see the need to get defensive about it. Either the scientific method stands on it's own merrits or it's time to look for something else.
It reminds me of a line from Steven Colbert talking about the "Half Hour News Hour." Something to the effect of "you really need to be on one side or the other because it's hard to be passionately moderate."
I'm buying one of these because I want to have a computer I don't have to worry about. This thing is designed to be dropped, to have stuff spilled on it, to thrown in a bag. I'm buying one of these because I travel a lot and when I travel all I want to do is check my e-mail, read some documents, and maybe take some notes and not worry that every bump or drop of my bag will spell doom for my laptop. And finally I'm buying one because it can do all those things and if I do manage to kill it, lose it or it gets stollen at $400 it's not the end of the world. Call it a toy if you want, but I've wanted something similar for quite a while and I do plan to get a lot of use out of mine.
I honestly think the only reason people are cracking this stuff is the same reason that people climb Mt. Everest: Because it's there. I own DVDs (all legally purchased) from 3 different regions. Not being able to watch the movies I purchased was one of the main motivators that made me start using Linux full time. Aside from the cost I refuse to buy HD movies right now because I have no way to play them (I don't want to have to buy a stand alone player). So although I'm not one of the people actively cracking Blue-ray and HD-DVD I can easily understand their motivations.
In reality, the terrorist threat is a several orders of a magnitude less than being killed by heart-disease. There's a flaw in your logic, you're assuming the goal is to preserve human life. I think financial damage caused by leveling the twin towers and the resulting PR are far bigger motivators. It's not the people on the plane, it's what the plane hits that we care about.
And anyway I don't think it's a question of mixed priorities, the US is full of those (how many uninsured children does live in the US again?). Rather I think it's a simple case of learning the wrong lesson. The government learned that it needs to keep a better eye on people. I learned that a few determined men can do just about anything.
...the most important thing it has that the DSM doesn't is an Intel CPU. The AppleTV will be become the modders box du jour for video because of this fact alone. No. Modders tend to be attracted to equiptment that's underpriced for the hardware (like game consoles, which are generally sold at a loss). I predict that for what the iTV is being sold for moders and DIYers will continue to do what they have been doing: pick up an affordable mini-itx board and throw on a copy of Geexbox (http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html) or something similar. I've been happily streaming video to my livingroom tv for more than a year for about $150 and a couple hours of labour.
Well I currently live in Germany, I have lived on 4 different continents so I can say with some experience that this magical utopia of which I hear doesn't exist. Possibly due to a lack of actually ever having traveled or learned another language, when I was last in America I used to hear a lot of liberals talking about leaving the country as though the rest of the world was a bastian of free thought, moderation and reason. Guess what, you'll make some hefty compramises anywhere you live. Germany for example has some of the worst customer service and burocracy on earth. On the other hand it has good health care and the people are ver straight forward (yes I came here for that world famous German charm). My advise to everyone would be take some time and see the world, every country has at least a few good ideas.
It gets worce than that. How long to you think it'll take for that single atom to tunnel out of there. How embaracing would that be: scientists are finally on the verge of proving string theory in a spectacular, multinational, high precision experament when:
Scientist1 "Sir the clock stopped, we seem to have lost the atom."
Scientist2 "Well look around, it has to be here somewhere."
I hear a lot of people asking why we need this much accuracy. I'll give you a hint, it's not so we'll know the time in 700 million years, it's so we'll know it now. Some years ago an expirament was carried out where an atomic clock was loaded on a plane and flown around for hours. When it landed again the clock on board was compared with a clock on land and the limit of the accuracy of clocks showed a difference predicted by relativity. Now imagine if we could add some decimal points to that difference, not just substantiate current theory, but look for subtle differences. It's a hell of a lot cheeper than building giant ring accelerators or firing off expencive rockets which the nerds (a term of affection) here seem to support.
Personally I don't care what AMD or Intel's exact market shares are, I do however take this as a sign that the market is in a very good place. We have two companies in relatively comparable strong positions and several smaller companies filling out the niche markets (Via, Transmeta...) and they all run the same code. It's also finally gotten to the point where the market dictates the course of the standard instead of just one company (Intel borrowing the x64 extentions from AMD). The companies are proffitable and the customer has choice. I can only wish the OS market looked like this.
Are you a fucking moron? This isn't a new substance, it's just a more tightly packed and more highly organized version of a conventional diamond.
And by the same logic a diamond is just a more tightly packed and more highly organized version of graphite. As it turns out there are a lot of ways to arange carbon, many of which have different names (diamond, graphite, buckminsterfulerene, nano tubes, etc...) this appears to be one more.
For all the people asking how useful this is, take a moment and google for some of comercial applications of diamonds (aside from looking pretty), there are a lot of them. If this stuff can be produced economically there will be a huge market for it.
Making the assumption that both genders and all races are equally smart is not science. If this study turns out to be true does it make you personally any smarter or stupider? No, it would just mean that the average man is slightly smarter than the average woman (argue about the worth of IQ scores all you want). That wouldn't mean there aren't a ton of women more intelligent than me. Now calm down everyone and for the love of Bob keep and open mind.
That is interesting because the same thing happened to me in 7th grade and I memorized Pi in the exact same way (at least for the first 50 digits or so). I was sitting in front of a poster with the first 10000 digits of Pi and managed to memorize the first 250 digits or so in two days before I got bored. Interestingly it's not the numbers I really remember, I just start reciting and they just come out, the beat is the only part I'm really conscious of, like a song.
Also contrary to what some people have said, I've found it quite useful to know. I study physics and being able to remember constants to 14 places or better saves me a lot of time.
Ok, I understand that this is probably a joke (and if not Bob help us all) but has no one noticed that this is a very british centric formula? I doubt Americans think people falling down and highlighting class differences (both in the formula) are nearly as funny as Britons. Anyone who's traveled a lot can tell you not all comedy translates. Actually I'm surprised they didn't add a variable for the number of times male characters dress up as women.
I've personally "liberated" 4 of the one-time-use digicams. Aside from the good old fasion geeky fun of hacking something, I actually use them quite a lot. It's a camera that costs me nothing to use and very little if I lose it. I bring them to parties, camping, all kinds of places where I won't risk a camera that costs real money. I've also given a few away to friends who couldn't aford a better camera.
What absolutely kills me about the Star Wars prequels is that despite all the bitching and moaning I read here about Jar-Jar, and the excessive digital effects and bad dialog and whatever, episodes one and two have still grossed over 1.5 billion. Everyone I know who actually cares enough one way or the other to bitch about the movies has seen both multiple times. I personally feel, and this may just be me, that after you've paid to see a movie for the fifth time you lose the right to complain about how bad it is. So lets just all calm down here and if you don't think you're going to like the Episode III, this may seem drastic, but do keep in mind you're free not not to watch it.
What strikes me as odd is that they claim a 5 hour battery life using it as a computer but only a 4 hour battery life for calls. Are cell phones really that power hungry or are portable computers really that power lean?
John Von Neumann was indeed Hungarian as were Edward Teller, Leo Szilard and many more great, if some times dangerous minds of the 20th century. Von Neumann worked on many vital calculation for the manhattan project including the final and extreemly difficult calculations for the explosive lenses used on Fat Man.
"Why were the atomic bombs dropped onto Japan, not on Germany?"
Germany offically surrendered on May 7th 1945, the first fission bomb test, Trinity was not until July, 16, 1945. July comes after May. As the time machine was not yet invented it proved impractical to use the atomic bomb in the war against Germany. Know your history before you start yelling "racist".
And the fact remains that despite the implications of the work that was done the fact remains that a remarkable amount of physics was discovered, studied and put into practice in an amazingly short period of time to make the bomb possible.
is that the creation of the first fision bomb was probably the greatest scientific achievment in human history. The neutron was only discovered in 1930, fission in 1939. From there the first reactor only went on line in December 1942 and the first fission bomb, Trinity was tested less than three years later. In the interviening time some very smart men had to discover isotope separation (extreemly hard as Uranium 235 and 238 are chemically identical), and figure out how to make large remote controlled factories to produce a new element, Plutonium which durring the designing only existed in microgram quantities. Also let's not forget the problems of explosive lenses, and just dealing with a newly discovered mettle which burns violently in air.
Also for all you out there willing to blame the atomic bombing of Japan on America's megalomania don't forget that this was a joint venture between England, Canada and America. The fact that the bombs were made here was only by virtue of the fact that we were the only country with the economy to do it. Also the whole thing was only possible thanks to some very smart Europeans, notably two Hungarians (Leó Szilárd and John von Neumann) a Dane (Neils Bohr) and an Italian (Enrico Fermi).
It really is a very sad irony that the most explosive growth in the theory and aplication of physics should happen for the aim of killing large numbers of people. However before anyone starts damning anyone though, remember what they were trying to do: stop the most destructive war in human history.
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I'm typing this on a MacBook running Ubuntu. I routinely type in a couple different languages, so a while ago I set it up so that when I press the apple key, my keyboard setup toggles between US, German and Russian, which is a lot faster than hitting (and having to remember) a bunch of key combinations. I'd be much obliged if anyone could tell me how to do this on OS X or Windows.
What We Have to Say About Legalizing Alcohol
By: Gil Kerlikowske
When the President took office, he directed all of his policymakers to develop policies based on science and research, not ideology or politics. So our concern about alcohol is based on what the science tells us about the drug's effects.
According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - alcohol use is associated with addiction, sleep disorders, increased risk for cancer, and motor vehicle accidents. We know from an array of treatment admission information and Federal data that alcohol use is a significant source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms. Studies also reveal that binge drinking alcohol remains common on college campuses, raising serious concerns about what this means for public health – especially among young people who use the drug because research shows their brains continue to develop well into their 20's. Simply put, it is not a benign drug.
Like many, we are interested in the potential alcohol may have in lowering the risk of coronary heart disease for individuals. That is why we ardently support ongoing research into determining what components of alcohol can be used as medicine. To date, however, neither the FDA nor the Institute of Medicine have found alcohol consumption to meet the modern standard for safe or effective medicine for any condition.
As a former police chief, I recognize we are not going to arrest our way out of the problem. We also recognize that legalizing alcohol would not provide the answer to any of the health, social, youth education, criminal justice, and community quality of life challenges associated with drug use.
That is why the President's National Drug Control Strategy is balanced and comprehensive, emphasizing prevention and treatment while at the same time supporting innovative law enforcement efforts that protect public safety and disrupt the supply of drugs entering our communities. Preventing drug use is the most cost-effective way to reduce drug use and its consequences in America. And, as we've seen in our work through community coalitions across the country, this approach works in making communities healthier and safer. We're also focused on expanding access to drug treatment for addicts. Treatment works. In fact, millions of Americans are in successful recovery for drug and alcoholism today. And through our work with innovative drug courts across the Nation, we are improving our criminal justice system to divert non-violent offenders into treatment.
Our commitment to a balanced approach to drug control is real. This last fiscal year alone, the Federal Government spent over $10 billion on drug education and treatment programs compared to just over $9 billion on drug related law enforcement in the U.S.
Thank you for making your voice heard. I encourage you to take a moment to read about the President's approach to drug control to learn more.
If I remember my history, HTML started as a way to store linked information. Then it was badly hacked to be a way to poorly layout documents. Then java script was stapled onto it. Then the whole mess was turned into the kluge that is ajax. Now someone's trying to duct tape 3-D onto that.
I for one look forward to a day when the web is a more dynamic environment, where information is presented more fluidly instead relying on the old metaphor of static published pages, but I can't believe this is a sane way forward. It seems like instead of looking for a better way to present information they're just duct taping crap onto the same old model. Kind of like achieving flight by strapping a rocket motor to horse drawn carriage.
Ok, I have not read tfa (in this case tfp), but I do know a bit about capacitors. Follow along with me here: You can calculate the energy stored in a capacitor (in Joules) by E = .5*CV^2 where C = capacitance (in Farads) and V = voltage, or
--> V = sqrt((2E)/C)
--> 3500 = sqrt((2*187992000)/52.22)
3500v is a lot. Up until now most comercially available supercapacitors do 5.5v or less and tend to leak energy over time. It's possilbe these guys have really made a stunning break through (the fact they filed for a patent is sure something), but the numbers set off my bullshit detector.
I personally find Linus' pragmatism argument more compeling than all of Stallman's moral arguements. So what's the real meaning of "free" I promiced you? The devolpers are free to criple and rename a distro as their morals dictate and as a pragmatist I am free to ignor it and carry on with a distro that actually fulfils my needs.
In a given week I might use three different international key layouts. I memorize the different layouts as well as I can, but being able to change the printing on the key would be a life saver. I also infrequently use programs like blender which heavily use keyboard shortcuts. If I don't use it for a month I can't remember what all the bloody shortcuts are. Finally I learned how to type on a mechanical typewritter (man does writting that make me feel old) so hard key presses don't bother me one bit. The only reason I'm not getting one of these is the cost. I don't think it's unreasonable for what it is. It's not a mass-market device, it's bleeding edge and small production. But I still don't have that kind of money to spend on a keyboard.
Thank you for that. Both sides of this debate drive me crazy as they're both hanging on to their beliefs with religious fervor. Natural selection IS a theory, and most likely there is still a mechanism for change we don't know about. Likewise we still only see macro exolution in the fosil record and haven't observed it in living animals. The fact that science doen't have all the answers doesn't bother me one bit. It's a process. I don't see the need to get defensive about it. Either the scientific method stands on it's own merrits or it's time to look for something else.
It reminds me of a line from Steven Colbert talking about the "Half Hour News Hour." Something to the effect of "you really need to be on one side or the other because it's hard to be passionately moderate."
I'm buying one of these because I want to have a computer I don't have to worry about. This thing is designed to be dropped, to have stuff spilled on it, to thrown in a bag. I'm buying one of these because I travel a lot and when I travel all I want to do is check my e-mail, read some documents, and maybe take some notes and not worry that every bump or drop of my bag will spell doom for my laptop. And finally I'm buying one because it can do all those things and if I do manage to kill it, lose it or it gets stollen at $400 it's not the end of the world. Call it a toy if you want, but I've wanted something similar for quite a while and I do plan to get a lot of use out of mine.
...the most important thing it has that the DSM doesn't is an Intel CPU. The AppleTV will be become the modders box du jour for video because of this fact alone. No. Modders tend to be attracted to equiptment that's underpriced for the hardware (like game consoles, which are generally sold at a loss). I predict that for what the iTV is being sold for moders and DIYers will continue to do what they have been doing: pick up an affordable mini-itx board and throw on a copy of Geexbox (http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html) or something similar. I've been happily streaming video to my livingroom tv for more than a year for about $150 and a couple hours of labour.Well I currently live in Germany, I have lived on 4 different continents so I can say with some experience that this magical utopia of which I hear doesn't exist. Possibly due to a lack of actually ever having traveled or learned another language, when I was last in America I used to hear a lot of liberals talking about leaving the country as though the rest of the world was a bastian of free thought, moderation and reason. Guess what, you'll make some hefty compramises anywhere you live. Germany for example has some of the worst customer service and burocracy on earth. On the other hand it has good health care and the people are ver straight forward (yes I came here for that world famous German charm). My advise to everyone would be take some time and see the world, every country has at least a few good ideas.
It gets worce than that. How long to you think it'll take for that single atom to tunnel out of there. How embaracing would that be: scientists are finally on the verge of proving string theory in a spectacular, multinational, high precision experament when:
Scientist1 "Sir the clock stopped, we seem to have lost the atom."
Scientist2 "Well look around, it has to be here somewhere."
I hear a lot of people asking why we need this much accuracy. I'll give you a hint, it's not so we'll know the time in 700 million years, it's so we'll know it now. Some years ago an expirament was carried out where an atomic clock was loaded on a plane and flown around for hours. When it landed again the clock on board was compared with a clock on land and the limit of the accuracy of clocks showed a difference predicted by relativity. Now imagine if we could add some decimal points to that difference, not just substantiate current theory, but look for subtle differences. It's a hell of a lot cheeper than building giant ring accelerators or firing off expencive rockets which the nerds (a term of affection) here seem to support.
Personally I don't care what AMD or Intel's exact market shares are, I do however take this as a sign that the market is in a very good place. We have two companies in relatively comparable strong positions and several smaller companies filling out the niche markets (Via, Transmeta ...) and they all run the same code. It's also finally gotten to the point where the market dictates the course of the standard instead of just one company (Intel borrowing the x64 extentions from AMD). The companies are proffitable and the customer has choice. I can only wish the OS market looked like this.
For all the people asking how useful this is, take a moment and google for some of comercial applications of diamonds (aside from looking pretty), there are a lot of them. If this stuff can be produced economically there will be a huge market for it.
Making the assumption that both genders and all races are equally smart is not science. If this study turns out to be true does it make you personally any smarter or stupider? No, it would just mean that the average man is slightly smarter than the average woman (argue about the worth of IQ scores all you want). That wouldn't mean there aren't a ton of women more intelligent than me. Now calm down everyone and for the love of Bob keep and open mind.
That is interesting because the same thing happened to me in 7th grade and I memorized Pi in the exact same way (at least for the first 50 digits or so). I was sitting in front of a poster with the first 10000 digits of Pi and managed to memorize the first 250 digits or so in two days before I got bored. Interestingly it's not the numbers I really remember, I just start reciting and they just come out, the beat is the only part I'm really conscious of, like a song. Also contrary to what some people have said, I've found it quite useful to know. I study physics and being able to remember constants to 14 places or better saves me a lot of time.
Ok, I understand that this is probably a joke (and if not Bob help us all) but has no one noticed that this is a very british centric formula? I doubt Americans think people falling down and highlighting class differences (both in the formula) are nearly as funny as Britons. Anyone who's traveled a lot can tell you not all comedy translates. Actually I'm surprised they didn't add a variable for the number of times male characters dress up as women.
I've personally "liberated" 4 of the one-time-use digicams. Aside from the good old fasion geeky fun of hacking something, I actually use them quite a lot. It's a camera that costs me nothing to use and very little if I lose it. I bring them to parties, camping, all kinds of places where I won't risk a camera that costs real money. I've also given a few away to friends who couldn't aford a better camera.
What absolutely kills me about the Star Wars prequels is that despite all the bitching and moaning I read here about Jar-Jar, and the excessive digital effects and bad dialog and whatever, episodes one and two have still grossed over 1.5 billion. Everyone I know who actually cares enough one way or the other to bitch about the movies has seen both multiple times. I personally feel, and this may just be me, that after you've paid to see a movie for the fifth time you lose the right to complain about how bad it is. So lets just all calm down here and if you don't think you're going to like the Episode III, this may seem drastic, but do keep in mind you're free not not to watch it.
What strikes me as odd is that they claim a 5 hour battery life using it as a computer but only a 4 hour battery life for calls. Are cell phones really that power hungry or are portable computers really that power lean?
John Von Neumann was indeed Hungarian as were Edward Teller, Leo Szilard and many more great, if some times dangerous minds of the 20th century. Von Neumann worked on many vital calculation for the manhattan project including the final and extreemly difficult calculations for the explosive lenses used on Fat Man.
"Why were the atomic bombs dropped onto Japan, not on Germany?"
Germany offically surrendered on May 7th 1945, the first fission bomb test, Trinity was not until July, 16, 1945. July comes after May. As the time machine was not yet invented it proved impractical to use the atomic bomb in the war against Germany.
Know your history before you start yelling "racist".
And the fact remains that despite the implications of the work that was done the fact remains that a remarkable amount of physics was discovered, studied and put into practice in an amazingly short period of time to make the bomb possible.
is that the creation of the first fision bomb was probably the greatest scientific achievment in human history. The neutron was only discovered in 1930, fission in 1939. From there the first reactor only went on line in December 1942 and the first fission bomb, Trinity was tested less than three years later. In the interviening time some very smart men had to discover isotope separation (extreemly hard as Uranium 235 and 238 are chemically identical), and figure out how to make large remote controlled factories to produce a new element, Plutonium which durring the designing only existed in microgram quantities. Also let's not forget the problems of explosive lenses, and just dealing with a newly discovered mettle which burns violently in air.
Also for all you out there willing to blame the atomic bombing of Japan on America's megalomania don't forget that this was a joint venture between England, Canada and America. The fact that the bombs were made here was only by virtue of the fact that we were the only country with the economy to do it. Also the whole thing was only possible thanks to some very smart Europeans, notably two Hungarians (Leó Szilárd and John von Neumann) a Dane (Neils Bohr) and an Italian (Enrico Fermi).
It really is a very sad irony that the most explosive growth in the theory and aplication of physics should happen for the aim of killing large numbers of people. However before anyone starts damning anyone though, remember what they were trying to do: stop the most destructive war in human history.