Well, I try not to read it, because whenever I pick it up I find either lightweight journalism (like this Teller 'interview') or an article that misses the point of some 'new' development that I already read about a year ago, or an article that totally gets something wrong.
It's true that most of their articles are harmless, but a couple of stinkers like that per issue makes me wonder about the articles I'm not qualified to judge.
you seem quite enthusiastic to wipe out the commies. Do you seriously think that would have been a smart move? Keep in mind that you'd be killing children who have no clue about your ideology.
Who said anything at all about their civilian populations, or 'wiping out', for that matter? But Communism and it's happy adherents in Russia were responsible alone for the murder of about 60 million people internally! (see Soviet historian Robert Conquest). Do you think those people might have wanted some relief from their murderous government? How about Eastern Europe? Two generations of brutal repression could have been easily avoided with comparatively little loss of life if Eisenhower had continued to push Allied forces East in 1945.
In addition, it was quite possible to fight Communism effectively without 'killing children'. For example, the MX missile could find a target to an accuracy of 100 yards. This made it easy to choose specifically military targets.
Excellent point. This was nothing like the sort of interview one would want with somebody as interesting as Teller. One gets the impression that he didn't last long in Teller's office.
I have been around Physicists and Chemists for over a decade and have never heard anybody reading or discussing that magazine. Like Discover, Scientific American is for half-educated wannabes. Their 'news' is always something we've known of for months or years, and their depth of understanding is usually low.
This article is typical modern solipsistic journalism. We get to hear about the author's own memories of the Cold War, and his musings as he walks down the street (is this why I would read SciAm?). Then there is the obligatory that-building-is-phallic comment about some tower at the Hoover Institute. (I'm glad to see our author took Psych 101 - 'Half-Assed Fruedian Commentary For The Poorly-Educated'. I wish that Isidore I. Rabi had instead mused that 'It would have been a better world without Freud')
The most absurd part of this article is the suggestion that the USSR lost the Cold War because the US makes Macintoshes, biotech, and Pentium computers. The Soviets could never compete with America's electronic weaponry he says, forgetting that a handful of Soviet ICBM's could wipe California off the planet. Teller was working to make that less likely. The Soviets never needed to surpass the US technologically, they just needed sufficient technology, which they happily stole.
This journalist doesn't know his ass from a Nuclear Crater in the ground.
When you're an incredibly successful physicist, and you have been helping to shape vital Cold-War defense policy of the United States, maybe a bunch of half-educated weenie journalists yapping "Dr. Strangelove! Dr. Strangelove!" seem annoying and stupid.
It seems Teller was lucky to have had such strong formative experiences in Hungary, seeing that fascist and communist regimes were so abhorrent and morally indistinguishable that they must both be fought at all costs.
It's unlikely Georgia has the ridiculous restrictions you are describing. Lack of fussy laws like that is part of the reason for the incredible hi-tech economic boom in Atlanta.
It begins to memorize the right answers, and has them fixed too firmly in mind when encountering new situations. It gets rigid, sort of like a dumb person with one idea in his head.
-Matt
Yeah. It helps to have competition.
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Yeah, I remember how much I hated the phones there. BT needs competition. You can see the results in the US in long-distance service, where a zillion companies compete to sell you 5 to 9 cent a minute long distance service to anywhere in the country. I suspect when BT was privatized there were huge barriers placed to entry of competition from other companies.
The US is an incredibly self-sufficient country, and we lead the world in many (of course not all) technological areas. Did you know that Microsoft has a market capitalization greater that that of the entire GNP of Spain? That's just one company! If California were a separate country, it would have the sixth-largest economy in the world. That's just one state!
Of course we don't think we're the only computer users in the world. But look at any graduate science program at any college here, and you'll see it's filled with non-US citizens. Now, do US citizens go to Finland, India, Russia, or China to get their degree in CompSci? Hardly.
And as far as you in Europe having "technologies that...americans will only dream of and will never touch", umm... name one?
You may be surprised to know that your mobile digital cell phones are quite popular here, too. I know Europeans have a high rate of cell phone usage, but that's because your local residential service charges by the minute - unheard of in the States for residential service. You need to ditch your lazy-assed State-run telecos and allow private companies to compete for the service.
What sort of strange intense rage is it inside of Europeans that just busts out whenever a US citizen lazily refers to the rest of the US as 'everybody else'. If only you guys could work up that sort of intense rage over fascism, or high taxes, or your crappy little socialist beaurocracies, then you'd be onto a good idea.
This is utterly hilarious. Because "I haven't used a floppy drive in almost 5 years..." you think they are obsolete. I congratulate you for your technological foresight, but you can be assured that millions of us use floppies every day. There is no other removable media at 60 cents per disk.
Furthermore, Windows 9x and NT can boot off any device connected to it as well. I boot NT off a Castlewood Orb and 98 off a Zip.
The iMac is a success because of gullible non-technical families with a little extra dough to waste.
This bill has just been offered in committee by a minority-party senator. It has not been passed even there! Senator Hollings has zilcho influence over final Senate Legislation. Majority leader Trent Lott won't even schedule a vote on this bill (assuming it would make it out of committee, which it wouldn't.)
Why is slashdot so often a place where we can read about things that have not happened?
Today a wretched bill was not passed in the Senate or the House, and wasn't passed or even scheduled for a vote in its originating committee. Furthermore, these things will likely not happen.
How's that for a more accurate headline?
This is almost as ridiculous as the story posted earlier about how there was no news last week from Amiga. Thanks!
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It's true that most of their articles are harmless, but a couple of stinkers like that per issue makes me wonder about the articles I'm not qualified to judge.
Who said anything at all about their civilian populations, or 'wiping out', for that matter? But Communism and it's happy adherents in Russia were responsible alone for the murder of about 60 million people internally! (see Soviet historian Robert Conquest). Do you think those people might have wanted some relief from their murderous government? How about Eastern Europe? Two generations of brutal repression could have been easily avoided with comparatively little loss of life if Eisenhower had continued to push Allied forces East in 1945.
In addition, it was quite possible to fight Communism effectively without 'killing children'. For example, the MX missile could find a target to an accuracy of 100 yards. This made it easy to choose specifically military targets.
Excellent point. This was nothing like the sort of interview one would want with somebody as interesting as Teller. One gets the impression that he didn't last long in Teller's office.
This article is typical modern solipsistic journalism. We get to hear about the author's own memories of the Cold War, and his musings as he walks down the street (is this why I would read SciAm?). Then there is the obligatory that-building-is-phallic comment about some tower at the Hoover Institute. (I'm glad to see our author took Psych 101 - 'Half-Assed Fruedian Commentary For The Poorly-Educated'. I wish that Isidore I. Rabi had instead mused that 'It would have been a better world without Freud')
The most absurd part of this article is the suggestion that the USSR lost the Cold War because the US makes Macintoshes, biotech, and Pentium computers. The Soviets could never compete with America's electronic weaponry he says, forgetting that a handful of Soviet ICBM's could wipe California off the planet. Teller was working to make that less likely. The Soviets never needed to surpass the US technologically, they just needed sufficient technology, which they happily stole.
This journalist doesn't know his ass from a Nuclear Crater in the ground.
It seems Teller was lucky to have had such strong formative experiences in Hungary, seeing that fascist and communist regimes were so abhorrent and morally indistinguishable that they must both be fought at all costs.
It's unlikely Georgia has the ridiculous restrictions you are describing. Lack of fussy laws like that is part of the reason for the incredible hi-tech economic boom in Atlanta.
-Matt
Yeah, I remember how much I hated the phones there. BT needs competition. You can see the results in the US in long-distance service, where a zillion companies compete to sell you 5 to 9 cent a minute long distance service to anywhere in the country. I suspect when BT was privatized there were huge barriers placed to entry of competition from other companies.
The US is an incredibly self-sufficient country, and we lead the world in many (of course not all) technological areas. Did you know that Microsoft has a market capitalization greater that that of the entire GNP of Spain? That's just one company! If California were a separate country, it would have the sixth-largest economy in the world. That's just one state!
Of course we don't think we're the only computer users in the world. But look at any graduate science program at any college here, and you'll see it's filled with non-US citizens. Now, do US citizens go to Finland, India, Russia, or China to get their degree in CompSci? Hardly.
And as far as you in Europe having "technologies that ...americans will only dream of and will never touch", umm... name one?
You may be surprised to know that your mobile digital cell phones are quite popular here, too. I know Europeans have a high rate of cell phone usage, but that's because your local residential service charges by the minute - unheard of in the States for residential service. You need to ditch your lazy-assed State-run telecos and allow private companies to compete for the service.
What sort of strange intense rage is it inside of Europeans that just busts out whenever a US citizen lazily refers to the rest of the US as 'everybody else'. If only you guys could work up that sort of intense rage over fascism, or high taxes, or your crappy little socialist beaurocracies, then you'd be onto a good idea.
It's probably a transcript of a conversation. Blame the transcriptor.
Like, because some of us like to be cranky.
And stuff.
>>Peace and harmony is what I'm all about~
That's nice, but what about the turgidity and dissonance contingent? Were people, too!!
Furthermore, Windows 9x and NT can boot off any device connected to it as well. I boot NT off a Castlewood Orb and 98 off a Zip.
The iMac is a success because of gullible non-technical families with a little extra dough to waste.
He could have at least put a pretty girl in the chair.
If you really believe what you wrote, I have a huge space-chicken farm I'd like to sell you...
Just wondering. Stupid vegetarians.
Why is slashdot so often a place where we can read about things that have not happened?
Today a wretched bill was not passed in the Senate or the House, and wasn't passed or even scheduled for a vote in its originating committee. Furthermore, these things will likely not happen.
How's that for a more accurate headline?
This is almost as ridiculous as the story posted earlier about how there was no news last week from Amiga. Thanks!