WWII hadn't ended when Japan got nuked. Germany had been defeated, America was getting tired of war yet there was an undefeated enemy that was just as nasty as Germany. Failure to defeat Japan would have meant their military would re-arm and they'd be plenty pissed, ready to start the next war.
You are the President. Your advisors tell you it will take from 250,000 (MacArthur) to 1,000,000 (Nimitz) men to take down Japan's home islands. Your people want it over, they've lost several hundred thousand country men. You hear about a fantastic new weapon that could obviate the need to slaughter at least another 250,000 of your own people and at least that many in Japan, but probably a lot, lot more. What do you? You don't have time to string it out. Japan was also known to have a nuclear program.
Truman chose. You would have chosen differently, but don't act like your choice wouldn't have severe costs.
I very much doubt the Chinese have quantum radar, however devaluing science in the U.S. is an active administration policy. Science produces facts, anathema Republicans and the Evangelical nutjobs who have sold their souls to him. And science doesn't sit well with many Democrats either.
You are assuming the Chinese are telling the truth about what they've done and not performing a tail wiggling exercise for their State and its funding.
Re the fundamentalist Christian state, let me remind you the fundamentalists have a direct line to G-d through the Archangels....Gomer and Goober.
Yeah, but the new bozo is from the coal industry. Musical chairs, nothing will change...well, the environment will get worse because of these two clowns.
Only if we get to send Musk's ass to Mars first off, just as a test. We'll come and collect him or his remains in 10 years and that will tell us whether we should proceed. And we get 10 years of no Musk to pollute our conversations down here while we wait.
And there are a lot of Chinese students who stayed in the U.S., became scientists and engineers, and are happily increasing the industrial and scientific might of the U.S.
I see, so American companies hollowed out the U.S. economy while everyone was down at Wally World stocking up on the cheap toilet paper. You want the White House to run the economy. See the Soviet Union and how well that worked out for them.
But it is government's business what the business two private parties do. The SEC (before it was defanged by Bush) was supposed to right shotgun over Wall Street. They didn't and the Great Recession ensued. Your friendly neighborhood drug company would gladly sell you bags of doxie dropping claiming they'll cure what ails you...were it not for the FDA telling them they cannot. You airlines would like to apply cost benefit analysis to plane crashes, i.e., how many a year before it hits our bottom line, were it not for the FAA and NTSB. The EPA, before becoming a tool of industry in the current alleged administration is supposed to keep your drinking water safe (among other things). Now we can look forward to, "Well, it only killed 10 poor suckers...they shouldn't have drank the water."
You clearly do not work in Mathematics or Physics. Go ahead and let AI "learn" from the Mathematicians and Physicists, it will produce nothing of value. AI doesn't create anything new, it merely optimizes what's already known.
The books will live on and are much better than the movies. I saw the first three movies and they steadily went down the rat hole. At least the books allow you to use your imagination instead supplanting it by corporate imagination...the latter being above intelligence like a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (to reuse a phrase from Douglas Adams).
Yep, China and Russia and Iran would never have figured out how to use the interwebs to do espionage with the NSA and CIA showing them how it's done. Geeze, what a bunch of dolts.
Launched the campaign on his own dime? Oh, I expect we'll need to overlook all the pac money he got, the wealthy donors he slimed. About halfway down the page at https://www.opensecrets.org/ne... shows his campaign donors. And his own money was in the form of loans if memory serves correct.
Yep, all those unemployed people can now be retrained as computer programmers...or something. They've merely been hiding their skills for this new opportunity.
No, you'll just have an RFID implanted in one of the anterior lobes of your posterior. You need not do anything to be validated, it will all be handled for you. Oh, and don't get a suntan back there, it tends to make the RFID go a bit haywire and a red flag pops out just to let you know you have a problem.
And periodically your shopping history will get exported to those nice lads from Nigeria along with your credit credentials. It's nice that they'll have it all in one package and not have to scour the internet for more details. Hell, MS ought to put a price on the service, no sense in providing it for free.
It hasn't been used to the extent it is now displacing coal with fracked gas. It is quite new to energy production companies that must spent for new equipment to use gas.
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WWII hadn't ended when Japan got nuked. Germany had been defeated, America was getting tired of war yet there was an undefeated enemy that was just as nasty as Germany. Failure to defeat Japan would have meant their military would re-arm and they'd be plenty pissed, ready to start the next war.
You are the President. Your advisors tell you it will take from 250,000 (MacArthur) to 1,000,000 (Nimitz) men to take down Japan's home islands. Your people want it over, they've lost several hundred thousand country men. You hear about a fantastic new weapon that could obviate the need to slaughter at least another 250,000 of your own people and at least that many in Japan, but probably a lot, lot more. What do you? You don't have time to string it out. Japan was also known to have a nuclear program.
Truman chose. You would have chosen differently, but don't act like your choice wouldn't have severe costs.
Damn, you caught'em. Please relay your theory to Fox News, they love that sort of thing.
I very much doubt the Chinese have quantum radar, however devaluing science in the U.S. is an active administration policy. Science produces facts, anathema Republicans and the Evangelical nutjobs who have sold their souls to him. And science doesn't sit well with many Democrats either.
Well, not a country, just the fake president of a country.
You are assuming the Chinese are telling the truth about what they've done and not performing a tail wiggling exercise for their State and its funding.
Re the fundamentalist Christian state, let me remind you the fundamentalists have a direct line to G-d through the Archangels....Gomer and Goober.
Yeah, but the new bozo is from the coal industry. Musical chairs, nothing will change...well, the environment will get worse because of these two clowns.
So, basically you are talking out of your ass and have no information on the matter.
Only if we get to send Musk's ass to Mars first off, just as a test. We'll come and collect him or his remains in 10 years and that will tell us whether we should proceed. And we get 10 years of no Musk to pollute our conversations down here while we wait.
Yes, and somewhere there are pink unicorns frolicking in the meadow. The Universe is big enough to generate just about anything, right?
And there are a lot of Chinese students who stayed in the U.S., became scientists and engineers, and are happily increasing the industrial and scientific might of the U.S.
I see, so American companies hollowed out the U.S. economy while everyone was down at Wally World stocking up on the cheap toilet paper. You want the White House to run the economy. See the Soviet Union and how well that worked out for them.
But it is government's business what the business two private parties do. The SEC (before it was defanged by Bush) was supposed to right shotgun over Wall Street. They didn't and the Great Recession ensued. Your friendly neighborhood drug company would gladly sell you bags of doxie dropping claiming they'll cure what ails you...were it not for the FDA telling them they cannot. You airlines would like to apply cost benefit analysis to plane crashes, i.e., how many a year before it hits our bottom line, were it not for the FAA and NTSB. The EPA, before becoming a tool of industry in the current alleged administration is supposed to keep your drinking water safe (among other things). Now we can look forward to, "Well, it only killed 10 poor suckers...they shouldn't have drank the water."
And yet, Conservatives (sic) in Congress still have no balls, even the women.
You clearly do not work in Mathematics or Physics. Go ahead and let AI "learn" from the Mathematicians and Physicists, it will produce nothing of value. AI doesn't create anything new, it merely optimizes what's already known.
The books will live on and are much better than the movies. I saw the first three movies and they steadily went down the rat hole. At least the books allow you to use your imagination instead supplanting it by corporate imagination...the latter being above intelligence like a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (to reuse a phrase from Douglas Adams).
I am the walrus, kookoo ka choo.
Yep, China and Russia and Iran would never have figured out how to use the interwebs to do espionage with the NSA and CIA showing them how it's done. Geeze, what a bunch of dolts.
Launched the campaign on his own dime? Oh, I expect we'll need to overlook all the pac money he got, the wealthy donors he slimed. About halfway down the page at https://www.opensecrets.org/ne... shows his campaign donors. And his own money was in the form of loans if memory serves correct.
Errr...because people have sons, daughters, grand-children, great-grand children, humanity, non-human critters, etc.?
Wow, I guess we don't have to worry about adding any extra warmth then.
Yep, all those unemployed people can now be retrained as computer programmers...or something. They've merely been hiding their skills for this new opportunity.
No, you'll just have an RFID implanted in one of the anterior lobes of your posterior. You need not do anything to be validated, it will all be handled for you. Oh, and don't get a suntan back there, it tends to make the RFID go a bit haywire and a red flag pops out just to let you know you have a problem.
For the moment...
And periodically your shopping history will get exported to those nice lads from Nigeria along with your credit credentials. It's nice that they'll have it all in one package and not have to scour the internet for more details. Hell, MS ought to put a price on the service, no sense in providing it for free.
It hasn't been used to the extent it is now displacing coal with fracked gas. It is quite new to energy production companies that must spent for new equipment to use gas.