I was watching a documentary about that not too long ago. Well, tangentially related. See, the Australians don't want it back. They've got it, they mine it, and no you can't send it back when you're through with it. They had a politician who wanted to take it back ("We've got the bloody bush. Nobody goes there." - Not Verbatim) but no, nobody really liked that idea. The politician tried the bit about how they were kind of responsible for it but nobody was buying that either. He even tried the whole bit about how they could make money on it. Nope. That didn't go anywhere either.
So, that's where they mine most of the uranium that you're talking about and they play the no-givesies-backsies-game. Maybe stuff it in some other mine?
I will be rolling back on 10 E to hit 95 N as it's actually faster than any route I've found up through GA. Hmm... I may just have to take you up on that.;-) I'll have the missus with me but she's a dainty thing and doesn't eat much.:P
I do only have two pistols with me but I've had shit time for the range down here (and the range master's an idiot at the local here). I don't drink very often but maybe one or two. (I used to drink too much.) Hmm... The food, I'm down for too. Oh hell yeah... I've been retired to Maine for a long time now (6+ years). They put ketchup on some shit they threw on a grill and call it BBQ. Imma stab a bitch eventually. (Yeah, it's gonna be a minute before the Floridian wears off.)
I am going to miss the food. Man, am I going to miss the food. Then again, back home it's mostly game and beef/pork from the neighbor's farm and I've learned to do the cuts myself. Meh, if I screw up a cut it's still edible. If I could somehow combine the two (our deer are 250-350 pounds and we have tasty moose) then I think I might be in heaven.
Remind me some time to tell you the story of my Floridian wild boar hunt. I've got video and a scar to prove it. You can, in fact, go hunt wild boar in Florida with a battle axe. They taste like ass, however. Aggilator is good. I didn't make it down to the 'Glades this time - if I go back through GA then I'm going to hit the swamp up there and eat - I know a small diner on the way in from the western side. I did get some fish into my belly. Oh man, necks are good eats. Yup... I've been in Florida for too long.
I used to spend way too much time down here. I kind of fell in love with the place - and the stupid (but lovable) sons of bitches who populate it. No, not all Floridians are stupid. However... A good many of the smart ones ran the hell away - or they're on probation. No, I am not leaving on probation - despite the unofficial State Motto. I did sneak off to Alabama and Mississippi for a few days but I didn't get past there this trip. I generally don't stay in Mississippi for long. Invariably, some big black lady makes me eat more than I should and I have to waddle my way back to the hotel - but I do like the Delta region (Natchez).
I've got a few friends to see on the way back north so I'll be going slow. My retarded ass is going back home to finish a run for District 17, Maine State Senate. *sighs* I got suckered into it. That doesn't sound much like retirement to me but, truth is, I'm getting kind of bored. So, it'll do me some good to be busy for a little while but I'm not willing to do a second term and there's a huge potential barrier that might stop my run (familial related - I've a sibling that's thinking about going into hospice and justifiably so) so I'm not sure what I'm returning to.
Yup... (I'm thinking of things to add - I hit my 50 daily posts.) I haven't hit the 50 mark in a while.;-) (I've been busy.) No matter how high your karma goes - there's a hard limit of 50. I'm told they are going to fix it but the new owner told me he thought they fixed it already. It turns out, they have not. So, hopefully I posted late enough last night to get in a few more replies. I was slow replying today - too many ACs for me to count and some of them aren't too bright. Some of them are brilliant but the odds are really slim.
Nope... Not yet... Lemme see.... Ah yes... I got a new Slashdot Award today. 10 years. Yup... You get an award every year you're here. I actually had an older account but did I mention I used to drink? Yeah... So, I drank a lot back then. I know the email address to that account. I bet I know the password for that account. I don't have a clue what the username was nor do I have access to the email. It was my old company email (I sold and retired) and that went with the business. I'm thinking they're not going to want to let me access the server and dig it out or whatnot. It'd be nice if they'd forward it to me but it was used for more than just my stu
You're still off a little. They *can* do so. The question is it politically expedient or (in rare cases) an injustice to not do so. They're got a shitton of leeway. Go watch your local court sometime. On very RARE occasions, you'll even see it after they've been indicted by a Grand Jury - which, if I understand Floridian courts, is what has happened. So it *can* be done. It just usually isn't.
Not a chance.;-) They're usually at my house, after all. Shit, I'm not proud - I also bring the very best of party favors. So no, I'm not alone or even unhappy. Hell, I'm probably twice as pretentious in real life. *snickers*
No, we don't worship libraries - nice try but no. Still, does Bush have one yet? I really haven't kept track. Note: I don't even *like* Bush - so I don't worship him. If anyone does worship him, I'll call them dangerous and idiots. Probably dangerous because they are idiots.
Dude, I don't even LIKE Obama and I still approve of him more than I do of Reagan. Why the hell would you even equate the two? C'mon now... Try Clinton or something. (I have no idea what his approval ratings were at this time.)
Reagan? I don't think anyone liked Reagan while he was in office. (He took a strange turn, in public opinion, sometime after his presidency. I have no idea how - it's not like they even revised history much.)
Shit, by this time in Reagan's presidency he was a babbling freak who'd already forgotten he had a pet monkey. I disliked Reagan MORE than I disliked Carter.
Carter, oddly, has accomplished more since he was president than any other president and more than when he was president. How the fuck is he not dead yet, anyhow? I love Carter as ex-President, by the way.
There might be a shard of validity for a subset that still engage in their ancestor worshiping of convicted war criminals. It's not just the old - sometimes it pops up on the news when they're laying wreaths and whatnot. There's a disturbing number of younger people - it used to be just the old folks would show up and lay them. And yeah, we're talking people that did things like lead Unit 731. Not really worship material, in my opinion.
Still, there's no need to hate a group of people without some evidence. Most of the folks alive had not a damned thing to do with it and sure as hell aren't worshiping war criminals. It is disheartening to see the number of young people, that are in the videos/stills, increasing instead of going down. I don't give a shit who you are, those are not people to be put on a pedestal and worshiped.
No real numbers but the Japanese were still in other areas - not just on their isolated islands. Surely, the atrocities would have continued - if not escalated as panic set in.
To those who read my above post. See? I told you there'd be one. *sighs*
Yes, you're RIGHT because there were no atrocity committing Japanese anywhere else on the globe but on that island! Sure thing, you brave warrior cum historian you! Sure thing.
*sighs* I should know better than to go to these threads.
There are a few documentaries on the subject - one named Hiroshima (strangely enough) where such sentiments are expressed. One lady seemed only to regret that we studied her like a bug afterwards and made her stand naked, barely pubescent, in front of a bunch of doctors and non-doctors - and did so a number of times as we studied the progress of the folks who were in the area.
However, there are other such sentiments being expressed in a number of the recap documentaries. You can probably pick any two and find one of them with someone in there mentioning it. I'd suggest also Hirohito's War. I don't know if it will give you any insight in that direction but it will actually give some information as to why the war ended when it did and how it did.
It's a myth to say that the bombing made it happen. It's a myth to say that it didn't hasten the choice. It's a myth to discount the Russians stomping down across Manchuria and taking some islands (angry Russians are angry). It's a myth to say that Japan was trying to surrender.
Really, it's rather complicated - as it usually is. People like simple so they remain stupid and polarized and you get threads like this where people who have only chosen one source are adamant about what they believe. The reason I suggest the latter is because much of it is from the Emperor himself. I don't know but I think we can count that as authoritative, don't you?
I believe that the Emperor expressed sorrow at having forced the American's hands. There are those who say we should have staved them out but that's probably the most retarded thing I've ever heard - on the subject. It discounts the continued atrocities and soldiers elsewhere and the blind devotion to war that they had going on. I'm sure (I've not made it far into the thread) that someone will suggest that. It's almost always present in every one of these threads.
I am not, technically, a historian or anything but I'm going to wager that I'm fairly well versed in the history and have opted to get my history from myriad sources and not just the US versions. There are inherent biases so it's important to get as much information as one can and go from there.
I don't know, I think most of the Japanese are appropriately sorry for what they did. Why'd you ask? 'Cause there's not many, only a few, that still worship their war criminals. So, I'd say the Statute of Limitations has passed and the average Japanese citizen needn't worry any more. Funny that you mention it though.
Eh? Now, I really didn't like Bush but are you actually trying to blame your inability to make money on him? 'Cause, I gotta tell you, I did just fine - thanks.
I usually stay well clear of this type of conversation - though I read them. I am, after all, long since retired/retarded/out of touch.
But, if you're doing non-commercial work - have you looked into SmartGit? It is, I should say, a bit resource hungry but it is otherwise not intolerable.
I can't actually say I've found a GUI client that I like. But SmartGit doesn't make me want to smash things with a rock and murder people. So, there's that.
Someone above mentioned 4.0.0.2. Don't ask why I remember. I don't even have an Android phone and I'm just in the thread being an ass to celebrate. (I'm just a helpful ass.)
I see you too are in the thread for much the same reason as I. Come, let's make pointless comments and share mindless drivel together fine Anon! Let us make merriment and proclaim our lack of interest - or even insight. Let us not say one thing of merit but disrupt the conversation flow for our own amusement.
No, he told you that that's how he bought his home in Malibu and his yacht. Can't you read? Sheesh!
Don't mind me - I got an email informing me of my 10 year Slashdot anniversary (now if only I still new my first account) so I'm gonna burn another fatty and make bad jokes for the rest of the night.
Up above people are saying it's $2.99 and that the paid version has no ads. Well, one AC says it has ads and then calls people names but registered users are asserting it has no ads.
Err... I... I umm... I use Windows Phone so I don't actually know if there *is* a File Manager app in the store? (It comes with a functional file manager.) There probably is but I can't help with that either. No, no I'm not that helpful. I'm not even sure why I'm in the thread. Morbid curiosity, I suppose. But, it's dirt cheap if you want to have no ads. Why Android doesn't have a decent file manager built in is something more that I do not know.
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I was watching a documentary about that not too long ago. Well, tangentially related. See, the Australians don't want it back. They've got it, they mine it, and no you can't send it back when you're through with it. They had a politician who wanted to take it back ("We've got the bloody bush. Nobody goes there." - Not Verbatim) but no, nobody really liked that idea. The politician tried the bit about how they were kind of responsible for it but nobody was buying that either. He even tried the whole bit about how they could make money on it. Nope. That didn't go anywhere either.
So, that's where they mine most of the uranium that you're talking about and they play the no-givesies-backsies-game. Maybe stuff it in some other mine?
I will be rolling back on 10 E to hit 95 N as it's actually faster than any route I've found up through GA. Hmm... I may just have to take you up on that. ;-) I'll have the missus with me but she's a dainty thing and doesn't eat much. :P
I do only have two pistols with me but I've had shit time for the range down here (and the range master's an idiot at the local here). I don't drink very often but maybe one or two. (I used to drink too much.) Hmm... The food, I'm down for too. Oh hell yeah... I've been retired to Maine for a long time now (6+ years). They put ketchup on some shit they threw on a grill and call it BBQ. Imma stab a bitch eventually. (Yeah, it's gonna be a minute before the Floridian wears off.)
I am going to miss the food. Man, am I going to miss the food. Then again, back home it's mostly game and beef/pork from the neighbor's farm and I've learned to do the cuts myself. Meh, if I screw up a cut it's still edible. If I could somehow combine the two (our deer are 250-350 pounds and we have tasty moose) then I think I might be in heaven.
Remind me some time to tell you the story of my Floridian wild boar hunt. I've got video and a scar to prove it. You can, in fact, go hunt wild boar in Florida with a battle axe. They taste like ass, however. Aggilator is good. I didn't make it down to the 'Glades this time - if I go back through GA then I'm going to hit the swamp up there and eat - I know a small diner on the way in from the western side. I did get some fish into my belly. Oh man, necks are good eats. Yup... I've been in Florida for too long.
I used to spend way too much time down here. I kind of fell in love with the place - and the stupid (but lovable) sons of bitches who populate it. No, not all Floridians are stupid. However... A good many of the smart ones ran the hell away - or they're on probation. No, I am not leaving on probation - despite the unofficial State Motto. I did sneak off to Alabama and Mississippi for a few days but I didn't get past there this trip. I generally don't stay in Mississippi for long. Invariably, some big black lady makes me eat more than I should and I have to waddle my way back to the hotel - but I do like the Delta region (Natchez).
I've got a few friends to see on the way back north so I'll be going slow. My retarded ass is going back home to finish a run for District 17, Maine State Senate. *sighs* I got suckered into it. That doesn't sound much like retirement to me but, truth is, I'm getting kind of bored. So, it'll do me some good to be busy for a little while but I'm not willing to do a second term and there's a huge potential barrier that might stop my run (familial related - I've a sibling that's thinking about going into hospice and justifiably so) so I'm not sure what I'm returning to.
Yup... (I'm thinking of things to add - I hit my 50 daily posts.) I haven't hit the 50 mark in a while. ;-) (I've been busy.) No matter how high your karma goes - there's a hard limit of 50. I'm told they are going to fix it but the new owner told me he thought they fixed it already. It turns out, they have not. So, hopefully I posted late enough last night to get in a few more replies. I was slow replying today - too many ACs for me to count and some of them aren't too bright. Some of them are brilliant but the odds are really slim.
Nope... Not yet... Lemme see.... Ah yes... I got a new Slashdot Award today. 10 years. Yup... You get an award every year you're here. I actually had an older account but did I mention I used to drink? Yeah... So, I drank a lot back then. I know the email address to that account. I bet I know the password for that account. I don't have a clue what the username was nor do I have access to the email. It was my old company email (I sold and retired) and that went with the business. I'm thinking they're not going to want to let me access the server and dig it out or whatnot. It'd be nice if they'd forward it to me but it was used for more than just my stu
You're still off a little. They *can* do so. The question is it politically expedient or (in rare cases) an injustice to not do so. They're got a shitton of leeway. Go watch your local court sometime. On very RARE occasions, you'll even see it after they've been indicted by a Grand Jury - which, if I understand Floridian courts, is what has happened. So it *can* be done. It just usually isn't.
Not a chance. ;-) They're usually at my house, after all. Shit, I'm not proud - I also bring the very best of party favors. So no, I'm not alone or even unhappy. Hell, I'm probably twice as pretentious in real life. *snickers*
Now that you make me think about it - it's more meta than that. It's a Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut novel-writing character) novel.
I understand.
*pets his Windows Phone lovingly while thinking about gay sex*
What? I'm trying to fit in. Hmm... Your UID is similar to mine. I got my 10 year retard-chip today. 10 years I've been putting up with your ass. ;-)
You're implying Americans read? Ha!
No, we don't worship libraries - nice try but no. Still, does Bush have one yet? I really haven't kept track. Note: I don't even *like* Bush - so I don't worship him. If anyone does worship him, I'll call them dangerous and idiots. Probably dangerous because they are idiots.
Dude, I don't even LIKE Obama and I still approve of him more than I do of Reagan. Why the hell would you even equate the two? C'mon now... Try Clinton or something. (I have no idea what his approval ratings were at this time.)
Reagan? I don't think anyone liked Reagan while he was in office. (He took a strange turn, in public opinion, sometime after his presidency. I have no idea how - it's not like they even revised history much.)
Shit, by this time in Reagan's presidency he was a babbling freak who'd already forgotten he had a pet monkey. I disliked Reagan MORE than I disliked Carter.
Carter, oddly, has accomplished more since he was president than any other president and more than when he was president. How the fuck is he not dead yet, anyhow? I love Carter as ex-President, by the way.
Meh... Biological agents do that already.
There might be a shard of validity for a subset that still engage in their ancestor worshiping of convicted war criminals. It's not just the old - sometimes it pops up on the news when they're laying wreaths and whatnot. There's a disturbing number of younger people - it used to be just the old folks would show up and lay them. And yeah, we're talking people that did things like lead Unit 731. Not really worship material, in my opinion.
Still, there's no need to hate a group of people without some evidence. Most of the folks alive had not a damned thing to do with it and sure as hell aren't worshiping war criminals. It is disheartening to see the number of young people, that are in the videos/stills, increasing instead of going down. I don't give a shit who you are, those are not people to be put on a pedestal and worshiped.
No real numbers but the Japanese were still in other areas - not just on their isolated islands. Surely, the atrocities would have continued - if not escalated as panic set in.
I thought you weren't retarded?
To those who read my above post. See? I told you there'd be one. *sighs*
Yes, you're RIGHT because there were no atrocity committing Japanese anywhere else on the globe but on that island! Sure thing, you brave warrior cum historian you! Sure thing.
*sighs* I should know better than to go to these threads.
There are a few documentaries on the subject - one named Hiroshima (strangely enough) where such sentiments are expressed. One lady seemed only to regret that we studied her like a bug afterwards and made her stand naked, barely pubescent, in front of a bunch of doctors and non-doctors - and did so a number of times as we studied the progress of the folks who were in the area.
However, there are other such sentiments being expressed in a number of the recap documentaries. You can probably pick any two and find one of them with someone in there mentioning it. I'd suggest also Hirohito's War. I don't know if it will give you any insight in that direction but it will actually give some information as to why the war ended when it did and how it did.
It's a myth to say that the bombing made it happen. It's a myth to say that it didn't hasten the choice. It's a myth to discount the Russians stomping down across Manchuria and taking some islands (angry Russians are angry). It's a myth to say that Japan was trying to surrender.
Really, it's rather complicated - as it usually is. People like simple so they remain stupid and polarized and you get threads like this where people who have only chosen one source are adamant about what they believe. The reason I suggest the latter is because much of it is from the Emperor himself. I don't know but I think we can count that as authoritative, don't you?
I believe that the Emperor expressed sorrow at having forced the American's hands. There are those who say we should have staved them out but that's probably the most retarded thing I've ever heard - on the subject. It discounts the continued atrocities and soldiers elsewhere and the blind devotion to war that they had going on. I'm sure (I've not made it far into the thread) that someone will suggest that. It's almost always present in every one of these threads.
I am not, technically, a historian or anything but I'm going to wager that I'm fairly well versed in the history and have opted to get my history from myriad sources and not just the US versions. There are inherent biases so it's important to get as much information as one can and go from there.
I don't know, I think most of the Japanese are appropriately sorry for what they did. Why'd you ask? 'Cause there's not many, only a few, that still worship their war criminals. So, I'd say the Statute of Limitations has passed and the average Japanese citizen needn't worry any more. Funny that you mention it though.
Eh? Now, I really didn't like Bush but are you actually trying to blame your inability to make money on him? 'Cause, I gotta tell you, I did just fine - thanks.
I usually stay well clear of this type of conversation - though I read them. I am, after all, long since retired/retarded/out of touch.
But, if you're doing non-commercial work - have you looked into SmartGit? It is, I should say, a bit resource hungry but it is otherwise not intolerable.
I can't actually say I've found a GUI client that I like. But SmartGit doesn't make me want to smash things with a rock and murder people. So, there's that.
I somehow doubt that you've tried them or that you're able to be objective. Who'd you think you're fooling?
I don't have an Android either. WTF are either of us doing in this thread besides shitting it up?
Someone above mentioned 4.0.0.2. Don't ask why I remember. I don't even have an Android phone and I'm just in the thread being an ass to celebrate. (I'm just a helpful ass.)
I see you too are in the thread for much the same reason as I. Come, let's make pointless comments and share mindless drivel together fine Anon! Let us make merriment and proclaim our lack of interest - or even insight. Let us not say one thing of merit but disrupt the conversation flow for our own amusement.
> It's from China. What do you expect?
Great integration, tight code, privacy, security, ideal function, efficiency, and good looks.
Why'd you ask?
No, he told you that that's how he bought his home in Malibu and his yacht. Can't you read? Sheesh!
Don't mind me - I got an email informing me of my 10 year Slashdot anniversary (now if only I still new my first account) so I'm gonna burn another fatty and make bad jokes for the rest of the night.
> So by all intense and purposes ...
Really? Really? C'mon now.
It's porpoises, obviously.
Intense?
I should know better than to go into phone threads. ;-)
Up above people are saying it's $2.99 and that the paid version has no ads. Well, one AC says it has ads and then calls people names but registered users are asserting it has no ads.
Err... I... I umm... I use Windows Phone so I don't actually know if there *is* a File Manager app in the store? (It comes with a functional file manager.) There probably is but I can't help with that either. No, no I'm not that helpful. I'm not even sure why I'm in the thread. Morbid curiosity, I suppose. But, it's dirt cheap if you want to have no ads. Why Android doesn't have a decent file manager built in is something more that I do not know.
I haven't seen him in a while so this is the best I can offer...
Apps are for cows. Only cows use apps. You app using cow. Mooo!!!
Here's to you, cow man!
Imma post this bitch logged in.
That's where you are mistaken. They *have* been governing.
Just not very well.