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Words which almost weren't heard at all because some parts of the Japanese military attempted to prevent the surrender from being published.

Not to everybody it wasn't. Some Japanese officers wanted to keep fighting even after two cities were wiped out. (Three if you count the firebombing of Tokyo, which you probably sh…

Even after the second bomb, some Japan's military leadership wanted to keep fighting. > The Kyūjō incident (宮城事件, Kyūjō Jiken) was an attempted military coup d'état in the Empire o…

> If the goal is to simply clone google or Facebook in Europe for reasons of politics then I agree - hobbling them would facilitate that. If the goal is to actually produce somethi…

> it may be the case we've simply successfully kept the disease away from places children frequent. That might be true to a degree, however the discrepancy is so huge , 2-3 orders …

Why do you think that? If those companies are hobbled, that will give any EU competitor to them some breathing room.

> and children are dying from this disease, even if at a lower rate than adults (how much lower is a really important question). The data I've found is: Under 1: 15 deaths 1-4: 10 …

> Basically immune That link doesn't really contradict that. It contradicts actually immune, since kids can obviously catch it. However most, particularly young children, don't sho…

...Are they not?

I think we'd all be better off in the long run if the EU did more to hobble American tech companies operating in the EU. Well, all except shareholders of those companies.

That doesn't sound like a recipe for disaster to me. It sounds like a great plan, the EU should do exactly that.

I like the middle-ground; safety razors. They're exceptionally cheap and idiot proof. Mine really doesn't clog like cartridge razors either. Cartridge razors seem like a scam in ne…

Treating SEPT1 as a date is behavior that will be correct for the vast majority of users, be they noob or experienced, and only incorrect for a very tiny minority of users who are …

Be that as it may, I was addressing the curious "if it was my fault, then it wasn't a scam" logic. If scamming isn't scamming when you to it to clueless investors, does that mean E…

Maybe it's your responsibility to not get scammed, but if you get scammed the fact remains that there was scamming going on, regardless of whether or not you were to blame.

All Features are Biased?

> Why in the world is excel the application of choice? Because if it weren't for Excel, most Excel users would have to hire programmers. (And Gnumeric is very obscure, how many non…

Excel is from an era when programs still catered to power users. Tools were made to have learning curves, ideally not particularly steep curves, but curves nevertheless. It wasn't …

Also these "backpack bombs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni... > It was also intended that the munition could be used against targets in coastal and n…

Disable it then, just because you're apathetic to such matters doesn't mean the application should assume everybody is. >inconvenience It's seriously doubtful you or any other user…

You've got it completely backwards. Invert your questions: What cookies shouldn't be deleted, and why shouldn't they be deleted? The continued existence of a cookie requires justif…

> Not to mention Firefox is usually brought to its knees when trying to delete large segments of History/Cookies at once. Nine year old bug related to this: https://bugzilla.mozill…

Ah yes, I recall something about this. They tried to pretend the fans were a safety feature to keep kids/dogs safe in parked cars, except the fans didn't automatically turn on unti…

I agree, national security and privacy are both great reasons for the EU to take action against American megatech corps. Honestly I see little downside at all and I even think Amer…

To easily solve this problem, uninstall all Facebook-owned applications. I know this probably seems absurd and impossible. I promise you that facebook may seem necessary when you'r…