He is a lawyer. A lawyer is someone who has, simply, gone through law school. You become an attorney when you practice law as a profession.

Japan invaded China in July of 1937. The American ultimatum to Japan to withdraw from China did not occur until after the Japanese signed an accord with Vichy France that allowed the Japanese to station troops in Indochina, arguably to help prevent the flow of supplies to nationalist Chinese forces fighting Japan. That occurred in September of 1940. The US had not deign it fit to demand the Japanese withdraw from either location at those times. Then along comes July 1941 when Japanese invade other portions of Indochina. The US immediately embargos Japan and freezes it assets, which is a fine response, but also demands that Japan withdraw their troops not just from the countries they just invaded, but also from Vichy territory in Indochina on top of their troops in China, neither of which the US had previously made a squeak about. Arguably, the Japanese could have also been worried that the US was also including Manchuko in the China element.

The US was not taking a position that was optimal towards achieving peace but rather chose a course that was going to prod Japan along towards war with the US. A more peace-oriented President or Secretary of State could have likely avoided conflict with Japan but Cordell Hull was not interested and FDR was by no means a peace-loving President as it's fairly obvious he was itching to get into the war and side with Britain. There were plenty of people in charge that peace with Japan was going to be a much harder task to accomplish.

The question I had answered was whether peace with Japan was achievable and war could have been avoided. I wasn't addressing whether letting the Japanese continue doing what they were doing in China was a good decision.

The Pacific theater for WW2 is an interesting study. I suggest you read up on it. If FDR had been more anti-war he would have fired Cordell Hull or reigned him in. Among other things, they wouldn't have demanded that Japan withdraw from Indochina and China after Japan occupied French territory in Indochina. Hull and others through the FDR administration had absolutely no understanding of the Japanese psyche and how much losing face impacted their decisions. That is the lead up to Pearl Harbor. The US declined various diplomatic talks with the Japanese because they were insistent on agreements before the meetings occur. A more anti-war President could and should have at least entertained the meetings rather than just tossing them off because some agreement beforehand couldn't be met.

I am in close personal touch with my feelings. Anger is said she's making life hell for others. Sadness is telling me that it feels pity for her. Happiness doesn't have a comment.

I like your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously...

Yes sorry that's exactly it

The networking guys fixed the problem via network configuration a few years back if I remember, the key thing is that hosts monitor the network and learn how to troubleshoot things quick.

Nothing stalls a laddered tournament faster than teams that can't play, especially if it's ranked

Temperature control is absolutely a huge thing, though sometimes you get locked into a venue

For about 5 years we were using the Mayfield Trade Center and the AC kept overloading and dying, that was utter hell, not just for the people but for the hardware too. Trouble is Edmonton can get up to the 30-40ÂC range in the summer (85-100 F) so you have the power load from the event AND the power load from the AC, it turned out the Mayfield had those systems connected together and it was a big ol' mess.

I attend Fragapalooza on a yearly basis and they manage ~200 folks, I've volunteered a few times myself for setup / teardown and over the years some things have become apparent:

1. Power
Having stable power distribution is your top priority, no matter how much you've solved other problems when power goes down it's going to kill everything. Worse yet if you have rolling power issues that's going to put a real kink in your tournament scheduling. The main thing to consider when it comes to power distribution is what kind of hardware is going to show up, if you are using tournament machines where every build is identical then it shouldn't be a problem, if people are bringing their own machines you're going to have to sort out wildly fluctuating power configurations.

2. LAN
Your LAN setup needs to be flawless, monitored and set up to find and eliminate problems. That one person who shows up with DHCP turned on is going to be a cancer, the faster you can find problems like that and solve them the better. You'll also need people to keep an eye out for hacking, tournament play, it happens

3. WAN
Problem 1: You're hosting a LAN style event with a required WAN connection, you can do everything in your power to ensure that you've got the bandwidth to handle X number of simultaneous players as well as whatever the players who aren't in the tournament are playing, even if you handle this perfectly online-only games are a bitch to run tournaments for because if the servers you are connecting to go down your event is over or will drag on way too long. Even checking for potential maintenance windows to ensure there's not going to be downtime during your tournament hours is something important that's easily overlooked.

Other stuff you're going to need to consider is gate security and floor security, not just for things like theft but also for ... conflagrations between players. When people get mad you need to be able to deal with them quickly otherwise things start to escalate, it's bad for your event, it's bad for your attendees.

Anyway, all this stuff probably seems obvious but it's hard to achieve AND maintain

They should have used the term "explore"

and I wish there were more photos from the dive in the article, it's fascinating

I imagine men would still fight over getting others to lick their balls for them.

If you wanted it to be uncomfortable then you should have said "Do you find this as arousing as I do?"

They may need to use a barge to make recovery of the middle 1st stage on the Falcon heavy easier. Since the outer pair of rockets would be jettisons earlier, and return to base, the middle rocket would be much further downrange and returning to land may not be possible.

It would be easier to control physical access so that two of the five people that have access must be present to enter the room.

I wonder if my old(ish) Motorola RAZR is like that as it was the flagship phone at the time, It is still an excellent phone and it has my favorite feature - the slide out keyboard. The size and weight are worth it to me. It is able to take a SIM card too,

And it would make a good excuse to rescue the tower. He could make more selling it for scrap than he'd make selling it to me. I don't know where you live but it is just 100 USD.