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Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA

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Re: Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA

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Post by jsilence »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #52

I keep seeing talk about this, but it never seems to go beyond talk. It doesn't seem necessary to disable services entirely to get people's attention. Just adding a banner or link would have a huge impact. Consider the impact of adding a link to Google's front page or the Facebook top banner, or even a modified logo, with a link to a page which makes it easy to contact Congress (and which can handle the load). Why do…

And with Google Ads Google has a mechanism to very efficiently injecting the message into a plethora of websites.

Re: Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA

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Post by jacques_chester »

nasmorn wrote: post #59
jacques_chester wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One theory for why two bombs were dropped was to intimidate Stalin into thinking there was a production line of such weapons -- ergo, he should stay out of western Europe.

I always thought it was because little boy was made if uranium which japanese intelligence had a pretty good idea of how much the US could produce in a year. Fat man was based on the more readily available plutonium but the detonation was more uncertain. Thus the test bomb produced by the manhattan project was also a plutonium bomb trying out the implosion detonation mechanism. Although never tested before the physic…

Thanks, I didn't know that. As usual it's probably a mix of factors.
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