I think they already have that, it's called moe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

Actually an invasion of Japan might have ended up in the murder-suicide of the entire population. No less a person than Kurosawa Akira recorded as much in his memoirs. The Japanese public were basically told, from the beginning of "The Pacific War," that the Emperor would, in the event of an invasion of Japan, order the suicide of all Japanese. I say murder-suicide because parents would have been ordered to dispatch their children before taking their own lives. Most families had knives for this purpose, and usually kept in a place of honor in their residence.

However, the results of the two atomic bombings of Japan are staggeringly horrific. So much so that it took until 1968 before footage taken by the Japanese Army's Documentary Corps was released as the documentary Hiroshima-Nagasaki August 1945. I am just finishing up a class on the history of documentary film, and I've watched some pretty hard-to-take footage. The clips from this documentary are perhaps the hardest to watch of anything I've seen.

Thermonuclear weapons are absolutely horrifying. We must endeavor never, ever, to use them again. However, considering what the Japanese were prepared to do to themselves and to their children if an invasion occurred, the atom bomb saved an entire civilization from self-destruction.

I wouldn't exactly call him either conservative (he was a radical corporatist) or harmless. He and Josef Stalin decimated the population of Europe between them.

Yes, the very one.

IBM has not defined what a PC is for decades now; they even abandoned it for a while back in the PS/2 days, with the whole MCA and OS/2 debacle. Not to mention they sold their PC division to Lenovo.

"IBM compatible" these days is something running System z.

It's not surprising that a veteran iPhone hacker was able to root the iPad right away. After all, they have very similar hardware.

Maybe we should switch to hand controls for the gas and brake.
Or get rid of steering wheels entirely and use a motorcycle type steering/gas/brake system.

If the problem is "user error," we should change the user interface.

Goddess, this has been up for minutes and nobody's made the obvious comment...Chii!!!!

And if you don't get the ref...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEvyHXNhHAc

So this is an argument that because most of the people on the Titanic were White, they behaved one way, and because most of the people in Haiti are Black, they behaved another? Just an observation...

I have to admit that I don't know how far the modern car depends on electronics when in motion. I'd like to see a study on what happens to cars if their electrics and electronics die (or get fried) suddenly at speed, till then I'll assume that there is potential for disaster.

BTW, it is an electromagnetic device by definition; it induces current in a distant conductor. If it is adequately directed, that is one thing, but then the question was what else could be in that direction. I've no idea about the camera of course, maybe it was an old style hand cranked roll film camera immune to all EMP!

(ps. not only is universal health care a good thing, it is socialist also.)

FAIL. I've been a 'professional radio operator', and you are confusing skill with procedure. We worked with numerous volunteer HAM operators with years of experience who basically showed us how it's done in the field. Yes, there are tons of agency-specific rules and procedures that you have to practice 40+ hours a week to have down. But when technology (inevitably) went sour, the HAM operators were the ones able to keep working.

For games with a beginning, middle and end - I'm grateful if they're short. 8 hours or so is good. So dollars/hour is not a good metric for me. I'd rather quality than quantity.

Replay value is always welcome, of course - but it depends on the type of game. I'm all for something I can buy, *really* enjoy for 8 hours, then trade in.

For me $10/hour of actual fun, is better than $1/hour of tedious grinding. Of course some people enjoy grinding... weirdos.

Exactly. More like 13GB at NTSC specs.

That's why I opted for 10-100GB.