I find it hard to accept the figure of 1 million US casualties for an invasion of mainland Japan.
"Years after the war, Secretary of State James Byrnes claimed that 500,000 American lives would have been lost - and that number has since been repeated "authoritatively", but in the summer of 1945 US military planners projected 20,000-110,000 combat deaths from the initial November 1945 invasion, with about three to four times that number wounded."
It saved the lives of approximately One Million US Service Personnel,
Bullshit. "Years after the war, Secretary of State James Byrnes claimed that 500,000 American lives would have been lost - and that number has since been repeated "authoritatively", but in the summer of 1945 US military planners projected 20,000-110,000 combat deaths from the initial November 1945 invasion, with about three to four times that number wounded"
Also, killing civilians to save soldiers is hardly ok.
Oh, and according to the conventions, even civilians are legal targets if they're contributing to the war effort. To that end, if you're producing bullets, bombs, arms, vehicles, etc, you're a legal. You're still legal even if you're producing food, clothing, etc for military use.
Thus, the point that the cities were being used for military purpose made them targets.
A saner perspective, IMO, than labeling an entire country. Making the jump from individuals contributing to a war effort to the entire city where they live is still not ok with me.
Many of them were "civilians", as much as that existed in wartime Japan.
On the other side, we have the entirety of the US armed forces, PLUS the population (civilian and otherwise) of Japan. The dictum was total war, by any means necessary, complete devotion to the Emperor until everybody on one side or the other was dead.
How can anyone still believe in propaganda like this? That the entire population of a country is evil, that they are freedom-hating fanatics who will fight to the last man, woman and child?
Every evening, the father of the house comes home from his evil job (probably cooking nerve gas or clubbing cute baby seals) and beats up his evil wife (because he's evil). Then they have a family dinner of clubbed baby seals (killed in front of the evil children just to make them cry). Then the evil kids are sent to bed without dessert, after a severe beating, just because they're evil.
Killing hundreds of thousands innocent civilians is bad, but it's ok if they are evil civilians.
Why isn't 'Goatse' on that list?
Yes, that hot_goatse_xxx_action.exe virus I got was really annoying. I mean, I was innocently expecting this "Goatse" guy I've heard so much and then this huge close-up pic of Britney Spears pops up!
Boy, was I embarrassed. My co-workers couldn't stop laughing.
Why do you need the end user to set up his own machine and a relative to provide technical support?
To achieve this elusive "Linux on the desktop" breakthrough, someone needs to realize that 99% of humanity just wants to pay, carry the computer home and have it work for email, web browsing and word processing as soon as you plug in the cables.
A company that would set up a standardized (cheap and nice looking) box with a basic (simple and nice looking) distro could make a non-Windows alternative. Apple does, and they aim for the high-end price range. There is no cheap alternative yet.
The author did the proper thing, he wrote what he heard and added sic because it wasn't a real word. If he had written it out properly as elite, despite the kid's mangling of the word, then sic wouldn't be needed.
Someone mispronounced "leet" as "lete"? I find it much more likely that the original troll misspelled "leet" as "lete" and the copy/paster wanted to point that out without violating the original troll's intellectual property rights by changing his work.
6) It turns out that the Bible is right, and that human ancestry can be traced back to a biological bottleneck about 6,000 years ago, known as mitochondrial Eve.
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You didn't think that the people dead in Madrid were killed by unhappy Spaniards, did you?
ETA were a possibility. They do fit the description "unhappy spaniards" rather well.
Grandparent: many levels each filled with (i have no number so we call it 1^100) atoms on each level
Parent: Actually the information needed to describe a system of let's say N atoms grows exponentially.
Actually, you are both right. To describe n atoms you need n * 1^n atoms.
I'd hate to be the guy who has to burn it all to cd-r when management realizes thay need backups.
Someone points out a usability problem with something and it gets modded as Troll. No wonder Linux/OSS usability is going nowhere!
You must be new here. The standard answer for an end user who has a complaint is "Fork it!".
I find it hard to accept the figure of 1 million US casualties for an invasion of mainland Japan.
"Years after the war, Secretary of State James Byrnes claimed that 500,000 American lives would have been lost - and that number has since been repeated "authoritatively", but in the summer of 1945 US military planners projected 20,000-110,000 combat deaths from the initial November 1945 invasion, with about three to four times that number wounded."
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It saved the lives of approximately One Million US Service Personnel,
Bullshit. "Years after the war, Secretary of State James Byrnes claimed that 500,000 American lives would have been lost - and that number has since been repeated "authoritatively", but in the summer of 1945 US military planners projected 20,000-110,000 combat deaths from the initial November 1945 invasion, with about three to four times that number wounded"
Also, killing civilians to save soldiers is hardly ok.
Oh, and according to the conventions, even civilians are legal targets if they're contributing to the war effort. To that end, if you're producing bullets, bombs, arms, vehicles, etc, you're a legal. You're still legal even if you're producing food, clothing, etc for military use. Thus, the point that the cities were being used for military purpose made them targets.
A saner perspective, IMO, than labeling an entire country. Making the jump from individuals contributing to a war effort to the entire city where they live is still not ok with me.
Looks like it goes right through Canada, quite a bit of America, and China(?)
The last part isn't China; it's the eastern tip of Siberia. Not a lot of population there.
Many of them were "civilians", as much as that existed in wartime Japan.
On the other side, we have the entirety of the US armed forces, PLUS the population (civilian and otherwise) of Japan. The dictum was total war, by any means necessary, complete devotion to the Emperor until everybody on one side or the other was dead.
How can anyone still believe in propaganda like this? That the entire population of a country is evil, that they are freedom-hating fanatics who will fight to the last man, woman and child?
Every evening, the father of the house comes home from his evil job (probably cooking nerve gas or clubbing cute baby seals) and beats up his evil wife (because he's evil). Then they have a family dinner of clubbed baby seals (killed in front of the evil children just to make them cry). Then the evil kids are sent to bed without dessert, after a severe beating, just because they're evil.
Killing hundreds of thousands innocent civilians is bad, but it's ok if they are evil civilians.
Why isn't 'Goatse' on that list? Yes, that hot_goatse_xxx_action.exe virus I got was really annoying. I mean, I was innocently expecting this "Goatse" guy I've heard so much and then this huge close-up pic of Britney Spears pops up! Boy, was I embarrassed. My co-workers couldn't stop laughing.
Why do you need the end user to set up his own machine and a relative to provide technical support?
To achieve this elusive "Linux on the desktop" breakthrough, someone needs to realize that 99% of humanity just wants to pay, carry the computer home and have it work for email, web browsing and word processing as soon as you plug in the cables.
A company that would set up a standardized (cheap and nice looking) box with a basic (simple and nice looking) distro could make a non-Windows alternative. Apple does, and they aim for the high-end price range. There is no cheap alternative yet.
Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future
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Ironicly, I just got Viagra Spam that used that exact same phrasing...
Reality is getting closer to hentai anime than science fiction. A frightening thought, yet strangely compelling.
The author did the proper thing, he wrote what he heard and added sic because it wasn't a real word. If he had written it out properly as elite, despite the kid's mangling of the word, then sic wouldn't be needed.
Someone mispronounced "leet" as "lete"? I find it much more likely that the original troll misspelled "leet" as "lete" and the copy/paster wanted to point that out without violating the original troll's intellectual property rights by changing his work.
6) It turns out that the Bible is right, and that human ancestry can be traced back to a biological bottleneck about 6,000 years ago, known as mitochondrial Eve.
This is not true.