You seem to forget that Japan was -and still is, a series of islands. By the time the nukes were thrown over Japan, those islands were already in complete isolation, with no navy, no commerce channels, no iron to build more ships (or planes) and the standing troops at Manchuria broken by the soviets. Yes, of course US command could have chosen just sitting on their pants and wait for Japan to surrender (which most scholars now accept they were already looking for and USA knew about it).
And yet, they refused any discussions of surrender prior to the nukes. After Hiroshima and before Nagasaki, the Japanese offered a surrender that kept the military and civilian leaders in place - it looked similar to a US surrender.
If they were as helpless as you imply, why would they refuse to surrender, or even discuss it seriously? After all, they are the ones that woke the Sleeping Giant.
And if the US was less timid (hadn't begged and pleaded for the USSR to go to war with Japan), then we wouldn't have split Korea into North (Soviet) and South (American) and started the first of many proxy wars.
"the atomic bomb's destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received very little praise from the America public"
From your link
There weren't celebrations in the street about the dead. Oh and you were off massively on the number of dead civilians. The population of Hiroshima at the time was less than that, and there was a 25% kill rate, so you are way way off. But insane nutjobs like you don't care about facts, do you.
Israel was essentially created by Jewish extremists and terrorists, followed by some collective guilt after wwii.
So what, the British, who "owned that territory at the end of WWII are Jewish extremists and terrorists?
Israel could not even exist without support from the US.
Israel was crafted from British holdings. South Korea would not exist without support from the US. I guess that makes South Korea a bunch of terrorists.
I'm old enough to remember when relatively mainstream churches in the US celebrated medical clinic bombings in the name of Jesus. They've since learned "code words" like how "thug" is a socially acceptable way to say "nigger" these days, so they don't overtly praise bombing medical buildings, but instead deplore that such drastic actions were required (not condemning the act, but condemning the people who were bombed).
Have you never heard of the clinic bombings? Or do you just ignore reality when it conflicts with your opinion?
The difference is that I can print one page a week for 5 years on a toner cartridge. With an inkjet, I'd have dried heads, constant cleanings and calibrations and be lucky to make it 30 pages per 1000 page cartridge. So the overpriced laser is still a much better deal for the home user.
Inkjets are the only way to print a photo that looks like a chemically developed photo. Using real ink, rather than melted color dust, is the only way to get some effects and looks.
My only inkjet exists solely because the multifunction printer is now my scanner. I hate them, but I understand them.
All of this is so much shit (not your post, but the industry). I had to work with the marketing people on a logo, and the marketing people took 2 months, and more meetings than I care to remember to work out the exact color and process and such. Then, they place the order. What we get back doesn't match. The marketing team ordered the wrong thing. Turns out none of the people on the marketing team noticed. I had to point out that it wasn't what I remember from the endless meetings before someone looked twice and noticed it was wrong. Months to agree on a standard, then they don't even notice when it doesn't match. Might as well have a blind monkey make color choices and proof printings.
In 50 years, all walls will be "painted" with OLED (or other similar) displays. Off for power saving when people can't see it, on in a flat color, photo, or landscape when people wish. "Frame" will be saved for the Mona Lisa. and other ancient artwork.
Seconded. The home personal use (printing coupons once a month or less for use) can only work with a laser. An inkjet used once a month will never make it to 1/2 rated life before they need to be replaced, whether because of clogs, or ink wasted in constant cleaning cycles/calibrations.
Have you never used an official full "driver" for a Windows multifunction?
You get a 200MB "driver" that locks the device,and all prints, scans, faxes go through the management software. Some of which will shut down all functions in the event of a fault, even if that fault wouldn't affect the process being requested.
Yes, it's possible to download actual drivers in the traditional sense of the word, but that's not the directions in the manual. And we are talking about the official process, not work arounds that may be physically possible.
I've never seen a serious, credible libertarian advocate pure absolute 100% anarchy, just like I've never seen a serious, credible businessperson advocate 100% unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. What I have seen is such people making arguments for a step closer to those things, an alteration or rethinking of the current balance or list of priorities.
So they don't actually want what they advocate, just something slightly closer to it than today.
Next time you are talking to one of those serious credible people, ask them what the ideal would look like. Everyone I've talked to ended up talking about toll sidewalks and such, when evil socialist sidewalks were abolished.
I've never had a Libertarian advocate that didn't have all his arguments simplified by stating "humans have no rights, property does" and restating "rights" under that framework. The libertarian position simplifies to that.
Every credible businessperson wants full on nutjob laissez-faire when it comes to their business, and tightly regulated socialism-based capitalism for all other industries. Look at how the car makers went. Lobbied for so many import protections that nobody could compete with them, and we never got serious efforts by many of the European makers, so the consumer has less choice and higher prices. Oh, and when foreign makers came in and built plants in the US to get around the regulations, they managed to knock the American makes off the top of the sales charts. The regulations worked only until someone paid the money to jump the hurdle, then the complacency of the walled garden had lured them to bankruptcy.
These "baby with the bathwater" excuses for argumentation really get tiresome. They don't remotely represent what any thinking person actually believes. Thus, they are strawmen.
It's not a strawman. I've heard someone say "everyone should be able to get a gun" To which someone said "even kids, felons and dangerously mentally ill?" And he accused them of making a strawman by pointing out the obvious meaning of his words.
That's not a strawman. That's logic 101. The nutcases complain about strawmen because they don't say anything, just imply idiocy, then distance themselves from it when someone points out how it sounds.
It's not a strawman when it accurately reflects what's said, even if it doesn't reflect what they would like to claim they believe (always done in retrospect, and without clarifying what they do believe, just indicating "not that". But you are right, it gets tiresome, discussing politics, economics and government with the mentally ill.
South Korea only exists because the Allies split Korea at the end of the war, and when the Koreans tried to unify on their own, WWIII started, with the first of the cold proxy wars as the world invaded and killed foreigners to secure "freedom" for Americans. The US explicitly handed North Korea to the Soviets. It was a wartime pledge to try to get the Soviets to help more in the Pacific theater. Both North *and* South Korea saw the US military government as a further occupation force. One so despicable, it used Japanese administrators for continuity. The same Japanese occupiers that had been there for years.
Like Vietnam, the US stepped in and destabilized a nation to have a proxy war with Communism.
The US totally fucked over Korea, blocked democratic elections, and instigated a war that is still on today, a long cease fire, but no formal resolution. That's American "stability".
ISIS wants to kill us because we killed them first. Maybe the trick is to not travel around the globe, meeting new and interesting people, and killing them.
Setting aside the Constitution, it's the double standard. We can save you, but we can't even tell you when or how.
The one thing that would save the US government is the elimination of classification. Simple, easy. Nothing secret except for active actions, and none of those allowed over 20 years, and any over 2 years must be disclosed and revealed.
Would that make their jobs harder? Maybe. Just maybe, and if so, only a little. But it would eliminate any doubt over what's going on.
The current rules classifies everything, and for the maximum allowable time. Policies and procedures are classified. Ones that are not classified are classified. TSA traning docs are refused FOIA for "national security" reasons, when clearance isn't required to be trained with those docs. In an abstract sense, the DHS is violating classification by training un-cleared people with documents they claim are classified.
Eliminate it all.
And while doing so, make the US government copyright holder over all materials that are funded with government funds, then have them release all materials into the Public Domain as they are copyrighted (or free and open license to all citizens or some such).
The secrecy is killing the secret organizations. I had a friend who joined the FBI. She thought it would be fun and interesting. Instead, she spent all her time sending people to decades of prison for clerical errors on Katrina relief forms. Her conscience wouldn't let her work as an FBI agent. She was ordered into situations where she was only punishing innocent people, and wasn't "allowed" to find guilty people.
They aren't the good guys. They never were. Hoover was evil, and tainted the FBI with that until the end of time.
You left out Noriega, and internal meddling in Vietnam and Iran, propping up dictators to prevent elections in many places in the world.
The cause of the Vietnam war? Eisenhower ordered US forces to invade Vietnam and block the democratic elections, because there was a fear that fair democracy would lead to the election of a an unfriendly government. Millions dead, and the worst case election of Ho Chi Minh didn't happen. He died of old age before the US abandoned that war.
Nothing destabilizes an area like the US trying to stabilize it.
But the release of those games will be more spread out, and make the server load and such easier to handle. Launch day, it'll simplify things. Perhaps even with a "pre-order" that downloads most of the game before launch, then installs it on live day, upgradable demos and such pre-loaded.
I never said it would solve all problems. You say it'll do nothing, then say I miss your point when I say it will. Now that you got my point and realize you are wrong, you are turning it around to me missing one of your inconsequential middle points. It doesn't matter what your stupid point was.. Pre-loading the console with games would be an improvement.
Not if you contract with a leasing company to get a deal on ex-lease computers. They should be 100% functional, re-imaged as new, and are usually pretty cheap.3-5 year old business computers for under $100,
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You seem to forget that Japan was -and still is, a series of islands. By the time the nukes were thrown over Japan, those islands were already in complete isolation, with no navy, no commerce channels, no iron to build more ships (or planes) and the standing troops at Manchuria broken by the soviets. Yes, of course US command could have chosen just sitting on their pants and wait for Japan to surrender (which most scholars now accept they were already looking for and USA knew about it).
And yet, they refused any discussions of surrender prior to the nukes. After Hiroshima and before Nagasaki, the Japanese offered a surrender that kept the military and civilian leaders in place - it looked similar to a US surrender.
If they were as helpless as you imply, why would they refuse to surrender, or even discuss it seriously? After all, they are the ones that woke the Sleeping Giant.
And if the US was less timid (hadn't begged and pleaded for the USSR to go to war with Japan), then we wouldn't have split Korea into North (Soviet) and South (American) and started the first of many proxy wars.
"the atomic bomb's destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki received very little praise from the America public"
From your link
There weren't celebrations in the street about the dead. Oh and you were off massively on the number of dead civilians. The population of Hiroshima at the time was less than that, and there was a 25% kill rate, so you are way way off. But insane nutjobs like you don't care about facts, do you.
Israel was essentially created by Jewish extremists and terrorists, followed by some collective guilt after wwii.
So what, the British, who "owned that territory at the end of WWII are Jewish extremists and terrorists?
Israel could not even exist without support from the US.
Israel was crafted from British holdings. South Korea would not exist without support from the US. I guess that makes South Korea a bunch of terrorists.
I'm old enough to remember when relatively mainstream churches in the US celebrated medical clinic bombings in the name of Jesus. They've since learned "code words" like how "thug" is a socially acceptable way to say "nigger" these days, so they don't overtly praise bombing medical buildings, but instead deplore that such drastic actions were required (not condemning the act, but condemning the people who were bombed).
Have you never heard of the clinic bombings? Or do you just ignore reality when it conflicts with your opinion?
Every common definition.
I print my art on plotters. Everyone loves the Pinter or Lichtenstein look.
The difference is that I can print one page a week for 5 years on a toner cartridge. With an inkjet, I'd have dried heads, constant cleanings and calibrations and be lucky to make it 30 pages per 1000 page cartridge. So the overpriced laser is still a much better deal for the home user.
Inkjets are the only way to print a photo that looks like a chemically developed photo. Using real ink, rather than melted color dust, is the only way to get some effects and looks.
My only inkjet exists solely because the multifunction printer is now my scanner. I hate them, but I understand them.
All of this is so much shit (not your post, but the industry). I had to work with the marketing people on a logo, and the marketing people took 2 months, and more meetings than I care to remember to work out the exact color and process and such. Then, they place the order. What we get back doesn't match. The marketing team ordered the wrong thing. Turns out none of the people on the marketing team noticed. I had to point out that it wasn't what I remember from the endless meetings before someone looked twice and noticed it was wrong. Months to agree on a standard, then they don't even notice when it doesn't match. Might as well have a blind monkey make color choices and proof printings.
In 50 years, all walls will be "painted" with OLED (or other similar) displays. Off for power saving when people can't see it, on in a flat color, photo, or landscape when people wish. "Frame" will be saved for the Mona Lisa. and other ancient artwork.
Seconded. The home personal use (printing coupons once a month or less for use) can only work with a laser. An inkjet used once a month will never make it to 1/2 rated life before they need to be replaced, whether because of clogs, or ink wasted in constant cleaning cycles/calibrations.
Have you never used an official full "driver" for a Windows multifunction?
You get a 200MB "driver" that locks the device,and all prints, scans, faxes go through the management software. Some of which will shut down all functions in the event of a fault, even if that fault wouldn't affect the process being requested.
Yes, it's possible to download actual drivers in the traditional sense of the word, but that's not the directions in the manual. And we are talking about the official process, not work arounds that may be physically possible.
I've never seen a serious, credible libertarian advocate pure absolute 100% anarchy, just like I've never seen a serious, credible businessperson advocate 100% unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. What I have seen is such people making arguments for a step closer to those things, an alteration or rethinking of the current balance or list of priorities.
So they don't actually want what they advocate, just something slightly closer to it than today.
Next time you are talking to one of those serious credible people, ask them what the ideal would look like. Everyone I've talked to ended up talking about toll sidewalks and such, when evil socialist sidewalks were abolished.
I've never had a Libertarian advocate that didn't have all his arguments simplified by stating "humans have no rights, property does" and restating "rights" under that framework. The libertarian position simplifies to that.
Every credible businessperson wants full on nutjob laissez-faire when it comes to their business, and tightly regulated socialism-based capitalism for all other industries. Look at how the car makers went. Lobbied for so many import protections that nobody could compete with them, and we never got serious efforts by many of the European makers, so the consumer has less choice and higher prices. Oh, and when foreign makers came in and built plants in the US to get around the regulations, they managed to knock the American makes off the top of the sales charts. The regulations worked only until someone paid the money to jump the hurdle, then the complacency of the walled garden had lured them to bankruptcy.
These "baby with the bathwater" excuses for argumentation really get tiresome. They don't remotely represent what any thinking person actually believes. Thus, they are strawmen.
It's not a strawman. I've heard someone say "everyone should be able to get a gun" To which someone said "even kids, felons and dangerously mentally ill?" And he accused them of making a strawman by pointing out the obvious meaning of his words.
That's not a strawman. That's logic 101. The nutcases complain about strawmen because they don't say anything, just imply idiocy, then distance themselves from it when someone points out how it sounds.
It's not a strawman when it accurately reflects what's said, even if it doesn't reflect what they would like to claim they believe (always done in retrospect, and without clarifying what they do believe, just indicating "not that". But you are right, it gets tiresome, discussing politics, economics and government with the mentally ill.
Latency that high is, by definition, a poor connection.
South Korea only exists because the Allies split Korea at the end of the war, and when the Koreans tried to unify on their own, WWIII started, with the first of the cold proxy wars as the world invaded and killed foreigners to secure "freedom" for Americans. The US explicitly handed North Korea to the Soviets. It was a wartime pledge to try to get the Soviets to help more in the Pacific theater. Both North *and* South Korea saw the US military government as a further occupation force. One so despicable, it used Japanese administrators for continuity. The same Japanese occupiers that had been there for years.
Like Vietnam, the US stepped in and destabilized a nation to have a proxy war with Communism.
The US totally fucked over Korea, blocked democratic elections, and instigated a war that is still on today, a long cease fire, but no formal resolution. That's American "stability".
I allowed for that. And it seems strange that you sign your posts "Idiot".
Did they have the games online only? No? Then how could any idiot think that is relevant.
Nice doesn't work in 10 minutes for a many years of interference.
ISIS wants to kill us because we killed them first. Maybe the trick is to not travel around the globe, meeting new and interesting people, and killing them.
Setting aside the Constitution, it's the double standard. We can save you, but we can't even tell you when or how.
The one thing that would save the US government is the elimination of classification. Simple, easy. Nothing secret except for active actions, and none of those allowed over 20 years, and any over 2 years must be disclosed and revealed.
Would that make their jobs harder? Maybe. Just maybe, and if so, only a little. But it would eliminate any doubt over what's going on.
The current rules classifies everything, and for the maximum allowable time. Policies and procedures are classified. Ones that are not classified are classified. TSA traning docs are refused FOIA for "national security" reasons, when clearance isn't required to be trained with those docs. In an abstract sense, the DHS is violating classification by training un-cleared people with documents they claim are classified.
Eliminate it all.
And while doing so, make the US government copyright holder over all materials that are funded with government funds, then have them release all materials into the Public Domain as they are copyrighted (or free and open license to all citizens or some such).
The secrecy is killing the secret organizations. I had a friend who joined the FBI. She thought it would be fun and interesting. Instead, she spent all her time sending people to decades of prison for clerical errors on Katrina relief forms. Her conscience wouldn't let her work as an FBI agent. She was ordered into situations where she was only punishing innocent people, and wasn't "allowed" to find guilty people.
They aren't the good guys. They never were. Hoover was evil, and tainted the FBI with that until the end of time.
You left out Noriega, and internal meddling in Vietnam and Iran, propping up dictators to prevent elections in many places in the world.
The cause of the Vietnam war? Eisenhower ordered US forces to invade Vietnam and block the democratic elections, because there was a fear that fair democracy would lead to the election of a an unfriendly government. Millions dead, and the worst case election of Ho Chi Minh didn't happen. He died of old age before the US abandoned that war.
Nothing destabilizes an area like the US trying to stabilize it.
But the release of those games will be more spread out, and make the server load and such easier to handle. Launch day, it'll simplify things. Perhaps even with a "pre-order" that downloads most of the game before launch, then installs it on live day, upgradable demos and such pre-loaded.
I never said it would solve all problems. You say it'll do nothing, then say I miss your point when I say it will. Now that you got my point and realize you are wrong, you are turning it around to me missing one of your inconsequential middle points. It doesn't matter what your stupid point was.. Pre-loading the console with games would be an improvement.
Not if you contract with a leasing company to get a deal on ex-lease computers. They should be 100% functional, re-imaged as new, and are usually pretty cheap.3-5 year old business computers for under $100,
Calling the low rent area a "prison" and you've changed nothing.
Free market capitalism requires the state to ensure fair play.