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  1. Re:Ok... on Crunching the Math On iTunes · · Score: 1

    iTunes is clearly the product of a long process of trial-and-error where bits spontaneously combine in random orders without direction from any intelligence whatsoever.

  2. Re:Will it really be x86? on Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch? · · Score: 1

    The dev boxes that Apple started selling to developers in June had Pentium IV's in them. They will indeed switch to x86 processors.

  3. Re:And the important question is on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 1

    Google this:

    dnc "free speech zone"

  4. Re:And the important question is on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    They both did.

  5. Re:What was interesting on Supreme Court Rules against Grokster · · Score: 1

    Can you explain the "it should still be illegal" part?

  6. Re:"just following orders" on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ah, the old "think of the children" rouse.
    Sorry, I didn't realize that mentioning dead children would arouse you. You might want to do a little less "thinking of the children" yourself and instead spend some time on cultivating a healthy, adult sexuality. But I digress.

    I understood your post just fine. Believing what you wrote is something else. Reading a post from some indoctrinated-since-birth worker drone does not convince me that Japan was a country of fanatics. It does not convince me that all, or most, of the people killed by nukes in Japan deserved their fate. It does not bring me into accord with the Jenghiz Khan school of warfare that you seem to espouse.

    If you think Japan was unprovoked, please read the McCollum memo.

    If you think that it was absolutely necessary to nuke Japan in order for the US to win World War II, read this. Apparently, General MacArthur did not consider the bamboo-spear-wielding Japanese kids as grave a threat as you would have.
  7. Re:By your logic there weren't many here, either.. on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    Rosie the Riveter is not a legitimate military target. She's a civilian. The fearsome bamboo-spear-wielding Japanese kid is not a legitimate military target. He's a civilian.

    This idea that it's ok to pulverize an enemy's industrial capability without regard to civilian lives in order to spare soldiers the inconvenience of having to take control of some buildings has got to go.

    Even if that were ok with you, the nukes dropped on Japan killed people who did not work in military plants. They destroyed homes and killed babies. If that's ok with you then you have no honor. You are a machine pretending to be a man.

  8. Re:"just following orders" on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    I laugh maniacally!

    So to avoid pitting American soldiers against Japanese kids with bamboo spears, we had to drop nuclear bombs on those kids.

    While you believe that the Japanese had a twisted sense of honor, you claim what for yourself? NO honor?

  9. Re:"just following orders" on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    How you can be certain that the Japanese would not have won the war if the US hadn't nuked them: The Japanese already sued for surrender twice before the nukes dropped.

    Another thing for you students of the Jengiz Khan school of warfare: I do not regard attacks on civilians as worthy of true warriors. If anyone had any doubt over the extreme dishonor of the American military up until the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there are none now.

    Attempts at comparing the American military favorably with others that our educators want us to consider evil (Soviets, Nazis, Maoists, Mongols) simply do not interest me. By sanctioning attacks on civilians, the United States has placed itself in the exact same category as all the other murderers.

  10. Re:Slackware on Beginner's Guide to Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    Hell, yes!

    One of the greatest things about Linux GUI's is convenient access to the CLI.

  11. Re:I turned them off immediately on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign · · Score: 1

    Peter Peter, pumpkin eater
    Had a wife and couldn't keep her
    He put her in a pumpkin shell
    And there he kept her very well