The original research was not how to cause an epidemic disease. The resarch was about the virus transmission and reproduction systems.
This knowledge can be used to make a cure or an epidemy
Any scientific knowledge can be used for good or bad. If someone starts to cencor scientific publications based on their potential for evil we will go back to the dark ages... Powder should never come to public!!!
Electricity can be used to fry people in a chair!
Germ theory can lead to biological warfare!
the wheel can be used to build war vehicles
the pointy stick can be used to make a spear
THE FIRE CAN BE USED TO BURN YOUR HOUSE!!!
the list can be endless!!!
>You end the war when your enemy accepts unconditional surrender
unconditional surrender is something very rare in a war, usually, when the army is drawn out the government agrees to a cease-fire. or a conditional surrender. It is less fancy than a complete and unconditional surrender, but is more effective in avoiding unnecessary blood spilled.
>you don't stop fighting until your troops control every inch of their soil because otherwise neither they nor their people feel beaten and like with Germany, in a couple of decades you'll be fighting the war all over again.
this is naive. the german call to arms had a lot more reason than simply leftover grudge for the ww1
Keep in mind that fighting to the last man and rebuilding entire armies to continue a losing war only happens in videogames. Countries have economies to run and population to support.
Dont be fooled by the stereotypes that are sold to us all the time like "the japanese were samurais that yould never surrender", sure there were ppl like this, but not in numbers to depose the emperror and drive a nation to a mass suicide/berserk situation.
Exactly because war is not a video game that when your allies fall, you dont continue the war, usually war is a costly and messy thing that you cant do alone for much time.
In the long run, a war will exaust your economy and the support of your population. when you fight "to the last man" usually you end in what is called a "Pyrrhic victory" that is a win that cost so much that is not much different from a loss.
The japanese army was already in no contition to do much damage to anyone, specially US since their support fleets were already destroyed (so they couldn't attack american territory effectivelly) and only US had in that time aircraft carriers (I think it was 4 of them at the time).
So the bombs were not "tools to end the war with minimum pain and casualties". That would have happened without them. It was only a way to show off the international community that US have a big gun and is not to be messed with (this and some other factors created the perfect environment for the cold war later, but that is another issue). As a bonus whey could teach in the history classes that ww2 ended with this attack and the D day operation (kudos for US, yay!) and ignore the battle of berlin.
Maybe you had better history classes than me and known this for a long time, but I wasnt aware of the nuances of the ww2 until much later than high school.
I think the AC is trying to tell that WW2 was not against the Japanese, but against the Axis, and with German out, the war was already lost. The bombs were completely unnecessary as a tool of war, but great as a propaganga of "we finished the war" and "we can blow anyone into dust"
Your way of thinking can e used by theists to impose "treatment" on atheists since this treatment would "help the 'sick' person live a happier, more fulfilling life." according to their point of view.
I would like to prefer only to treat ppl that are a threat to himself or others
dont think so.
if in a course of 7 years all your cells are replaced by new ones, it says that you are a diferent person that the one 7 years ago?
if you have a perfect copy of an object, how can you say who is the original and who is the copy? even if the original is still alive!
My opinion is that memory dumping/uploading enables not only personal imortality but personal multiplexing too
sny star trek fan knows that at warp 10 you can do time travels, enabling the CPU to process all the frames at the same time.
any doubts, see star trek 4
I don't think a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU embedded in a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive a bad configuration.
Here in Brazil it is a standard low end configuration.
I only would put in a smaller box and sell it as a media center. it would surelly substitute my dvd here.
a torrent and emule client directly connected to my TV.:P
"The people making the device you modded have done so on the assumption that they can sell complimentary products for it (games)"
they have this assumption, but it is not true for everyone... if I own the hardware I can do anything with it.
as an example, large companies are making clusters of PS3's to make complex calculations that huge mainframes cant to as efficiently. Are they doing something illegal?
"Armies of highly trained computer scientists are available in India, Sri Lanka and China. The expertise is easily off-shored. In India, over 100,000 new IT graduates a year are ready to support an off-shored IT industry."
So, if it's an army of well trained computer scientists, Computer science is not dead.
Why these guys keeps thinking US is the entire world?
we pay the distributors to distribute the musics, paying the cost of the media and the logistics associated to get the media to us plus a fair margin of profit.
Since most of us use p2p networks to do the distribution, they dont deserve a dime (we are doing their work better than they are).
The musicians? They must make money, I agree! They must make money by playing their musics at shows... The more people have their mp3, the more pelople will go to the show, making more money to them. So p2p mp3 distribution is good for the musicians.
Now I must go, I think my new discography just finished the download:)
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The original research was not how to cause an epidemic disease. The resarch was about the virus transmission and reproduction systems.
This knowledge can be used to make a cure or an epidemy
Greater understanding about the virus you recerached can be used to create a epidemy (by accident or on purpose) or to find a cure
Any scientific knowledge can be used for good or bad. If someone starts to cencor scientific publications based on their potential for evil we will go back to the dark ages... Powder should never come to public!!!
Electricity can be used to fry people in a chair!
Germ theory can lead to biological warfare!
the wheel can be used to build war vehicles
the pointy stick can be used to make a spear
THE FIRE CAN BE USED TO BURN YOUR HOUSE!!!
the list can be endless!!!
So you are saying that no oncologyst dies of cancer?
>you don't stop fighting until your troops control every inch of their soil because otherwise neither they nor their people feel beaten and like with Germany, in a couple of decades you'll be fighting the war all over again. this is naive. the german call to arms had a lot more reason than simply leftover grudge for the ww1
Keep in mind that fighting to the last man and rebuilding entire armies to continue a losing war only happens in videogames. Countries have economies to run and population to support.
Dont be fooled by the stereotypes that are sold to us all the time like "the japanese were samurais that yould never surrender", sure there were ppl like this, but not in numbers to depose the emperror and drive a nation to a mass suicide/berserk situation.
and now we got completely off-topic, I love /.
In the long run, a war will exaust your economy and the support of your population. when you fight "to the last man" usually you end in what is called a "Pyrrhic victory" that is a win that cost so much that is not much different from a loss.
The japanese army was already in no contition to do much damage to anyone, specially US since their support fleets were already destroyed (so they couldn't attack american territory effectivelly) and only US had in that time aircraft carriers (I think it was 4 of them at the time).
So the bombs were not "tools to end the war with minimum pain and casualties". That would have happened without them. It was only a way to show off the international community that US have a big gun and is not to be messed with (this and some other factors created the perfect environment for the cold war later, but that is another issue). As a bonus whey could teach in the history classes that ww2 ended with this attack and the D day operation (kudos for US, yay!) and ignore the battle of berlin.
Maybe you had better history classes than me and known this for a long time, but I wasnt aware of the nuances of the ww2 until much later than high school.
I think the AC is trying to tell that WW2 was not against the Japanese, but against the Axis, and with German out, the war was already lost. The bombs were completely unnecessary as a tool of war, but great as a propaganga of "we finished the war" and "we can blow anyone into dust"
I would like to prefer only to treat ppl that are a threat to himself or others
dont think so. if in a course of 7 years all your cells are replaced by new ones, it says that you are a diferent person that the one 7 years ago? if you have a perfect copy of an object, how can you say who is the original and who is the copy? even if the original is still alive! My opinion is that memory dumping/uploading enables not only personal imortality but personal multiplexing too
sny star trek fan knows that at warp 10 you can do time travels, enabling the CPU to process all the frames at the same time. any doubts, see star trek 4
And you are making the assumption that there is any woman scientist...
I think we are coming back to the dark ages....
pidgem supports voice chat?
The Ghostbusters had a nuclear reactor that was the size of a backpack!!!!
I don't think a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU embedded in a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive a bad configuration. Here in Brazil it is a standard low end configuration. I only would put in a smaller box and sell it as a media center. it would surelly substitute my dvd here. a torrent and emule client directly connected to my TV. :P
3rd world country dorms dont have internet access. Only at the university's labs.
"The people making the device you modded have done so on the assumption that they can sell complimentary products for it (games)"
they have this assumption, but it is not true for everyone... if I own the hardware I can do anything with it.
as an example, large companies are making clusters of PS3's to make complex calculations that huge mainframes cant to as efficiently. Are they doing something illegal?
maybe you will get excited with the promisses of ease to deploy desktop applications for the next releases...
At sun tech days people talked a lot about it...
8 years ago the 3d movies inside disney used these plastic polarized glaases, and not the colored paper ones.
What's the news?
I want the premium positronic version!
the emulator is witten in java or u have a KVM inside the robot? will it be cdc or cldc?
ok, may fault...
:(
I really get annoyed when someone just ignores ppl just because they are from other places, reces, religions, etc... Thats medieval to my eyes.
But my own prejudice has shown up, since I automatically presumed that was an US person talking.
"Armies of highly trained computer scientists are available in India, Sri Lanka and China. The expertise is easily off-shored. In India, over 100,000 new IT graduates a year are ready to support an off-shored IT industry."
So, if it's an army of well trained computer scientists, Computer science is not dead.
Why these guys keeps thinking US is the entire world?
tight immigation policies doesn't impact outsourcing programming jobs, only bringing the programmer to work inside the US (totally unnecessary).
..."
"They'll go for cheap over quality
you are saying that bangalore programmers are inherently worse than US programmers?
Saying that US IT professionals are having a bad time because gates doesn't donates is nonsense
the psp uses the same OS as the PS3.
Thanks to dark alex we have a custom firmware that enables psp owners to do a lot of neat stuff.
I wonder how long will it take to someone make custom firmwares for the PS3?
Thats a very good strategy/RPG game.
I'm waiting for the PSP version
we use the musicians product!
:)
we pay the distributors to distribute the musics, paying the cost of the media and the logistics associated to get the media to us plus a fair margin of profit.
Since most of us use p2p networks to do the distribution, they dont deserve a dime (we are doing their work better than they are).
The musicians? They must make money, I agree! They must make money by playing their musics at shows... The more people have their mp3, the more pelople will go to the show, making more money to them. So p2p mp3 distribution is good for the musicians.
Now I must go, I think my new discography just finished the download