Man, you should really go check out some of the US's declassified documents about the atomic bombings. I just took a course on the atomic bomb, and talk about spin. In the Manhattan Project docs, they make it very very clear that Japan was sending out "peace feelers" and trying to surrender in July. Russia was set to invade along with the United States a week after the bombs were dropped, and the estimated casualties in the Manhattan Project docs were 40,000 Russians and Americans at MOST. The millions of lives lost came from an article by Henry Stimson (Secretary of War at the time) in order to silence critics of the atomic bombings. It worked really, really well, to the point that what you're saying is what most Americans believe even today, and it's what I believed before taking that class and learning about the event for myself. We basically bombed Japan so that we could claim sole credit for their surrender, and so that we could get the first "hit" on Russia in the cold war by showing off our pretty weapons.
And besides all of that, even if what your were saying was correct, you shouldn't associate a country's government with its citizens. Would you be happy if somebody assumed that you completely agreed with everything the Bush administration does? It's not like the Japanese public in general voted to go murder lots of people in Nanjing. Some people were brainwashed, but others opposed the government's actions, but can you really say that brainwashed citizens who don't really know what their government is doing deserved to have atomic bombs dropped on them? And the ones who committed those horrors were not the ones killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most of the men were off to war, so the main victims of the bombs were women and children. The same goes for the US - "we" bombed them, but the American public had absolutely no knowledge or choice in the matter of dropping the bombs, so it was really just our government that bombed them.
Please don't take my word for it - do some research on your own. It's amazing how much spin the US government put on a tragedy like this.
I find it funny that the Ruckus Network's homepage boasts that it "puts an end to Internet bandwidth problems."
I don't understand how encouraging students to download files can put an end to bandwidth problems...
From the article: "The bigger question, the Billion Dollar question is how to deliver content on or to hard drives, regardless of size and capacity, in a way that consumers will enjoy it, and do it cost effectively today?"
That really is the big question...there are many people out there who enjoy DVDs that don't understand enough about computers to mess with hard drives. People generally don't seem to like change, and would probably rather stick with DVDs than switch to a new format. This is all idle speculation on my part though...
I think it's really dumb that pilots are frequently stopped. My dad is a pilot, and sometimes he flies one way trips on other airlines. He has to do that in order to get to whereever the company plane is so that he can fly it. People with one way tickets frequently come up on security lists, so my dad and other pilots are searched very often.
Shouldn't the pilots not have to put up with this? As much as he flies one way, it really annoys my dad...We need a separate system to deal with pilots and flight attendants.
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Man, you should really go check out some of the US's declassified documents about the atomic bombings. I just took a course on the atomic bomb, and talk about spin. In the Manhattan Project docs, they make it very very clear that Japan was sending out "peace feelers" and trying to surrender in July. Russia was set to invade along with the United States a week after the bombs were dropped, and the estimated casualties in the Manhattan Project docs were 40,000 Russians and Americans at MOST. The millions of lives lost came from an article by Henry Stimson (Secretary of War at the time) in order to silence critics of the atomic bombings. It worked really, really well, to the point that what you're saying is what most Americans believe even today, and it's what I believed before taking that class and learning about the event for myself. We basically bombed Japan so that we could claim sole credit for their surrender, and so that we could get the first "hit" on Russia in the cold war by showing off our pretty weapons.
And besides all of that, even if what your were saying was correct, you shouldn't associate a country's government with its citizens. Would you be happy if somebody assumed that you completely agreed with everything the Bush administration does? It's not like the Japanese public in general voted to go murder lots of people in Nanjing. Some people were brainwashed, but others opposed the government's actions, but can you really say that brainwashed citizens who don't really know what their government is doing deserved to have atomic bombs dropped on them? And the ones who committed those horrors were not the ones killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most of the men were off to war, so the main victims of the bombs were women and children. The same goes for the US - "we" bombed them, but the American public had absolutely no knowledge or choice in the matter of dropping the bombs, so it was really just our government that bombed them.
Please don't take my word for it - do some research on your own. It's amazing how much spin the US government put on a tragedy like this.
I find it funny that the Ruckus Network's homepage boasts that it "puts an end to Internet bandwidth problems." I don't understand how encouraging students to download files can put an end to bandwidth problems...
From the article: "The bigger question, the Billion Dollar question is how to deliver content on or to hard drives, regardless of size and capacity, in a way that consumers will enjoy it, and do it cost effectively today?"
That really is the big question...there are many people out there who enjoy DVDs that don't understand enough about computers to mess with hard drives. People generally don't seem to like change, and would probably rather stick with DVDs than switch to a new format. This is all idle speculation on my part though...
I think it's really dumb that pilots are frequently stopped. My dad is a pilot, and sometimes he flies one way trips on other airlines. He has to do that in order to get to whereever the company plane is so that he can fly it. People with one way tickets frequently come up on security lists, so my dad and other pilots are searched very often. Shouldn't the pilots not have to put up with this? As much as he flies one way, it really annoys my dad...We need a separate system to deal with pilots and flight attendants.