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Fadamor
I seriously doubt the Iranians could get the encryption codes to override the drone on their own. The Chinese, however... There's been an enormous amount of hacking and viruses eminating from within China's borders. I could see them offering some encryption data to Iran as a token of "friendship".
As for the request, that's just SOP. No one expects a FedEx delivery from Iran. You make the request just so that it goes on the public record that you are claiming it and it is not "salvage". The U.S. might one day actually get it back, but not until it has been disassembled and examined in detail by Iranian and Chinese engineers. The U.S. will get a big square box of the pieces from Iran with "Some Assembly Required" on the outside.
Posted in: Obama requests Iran to give back downed U.S. drone
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Fadamor
Interesting that the dad only "believed" his daughter was being bullied, yet the police are so sure that the bullying happened that they are able to declare that the kid who was punched was not involved in it.
Posted in: Charges filed against man for punching schoolboy during class
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Fadamor
They did, but the radar operators caught flak anyway for not being able to tell the difference between a flight of B-17's and a full Japanese attack force. When you're looking at a rudimentary CRT, details like the number of targets detected are extremely hard to figure out.
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Getting away from the whole "he said, she said" that this thread has devolved into: This sounds like kids who are bored. They need an activity to keep them occupied. Something like manual labor on a chain gang sounds good.
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Fadamor
To be fair, the submarine the U.S.S. Ward attacked hadn't "attacked" anything yet. It was just a sub where there shouldn't be one - and even then the Ward wasn't sure what they had because the minisub was so much smaller than your typical fleet boat.
The newly established radar station on the island detected a big blob of planes, but lacked the definition of today's radar. It really WAS just a blob. Unfortunately, they were expecting a flight of B17's from the mainland that day and assumed they were early. The radar operators took a lot of flak over the mistake, though there really wasn't much they could have done differently with the expected B17's coming in.
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
First of all, 40 is not "old".
Second of all, there's nothing in the article that said the guy "ran". In fact, there's nothing that says the guy left the scene even at a brisk walk.
Posted in: Man attacks 14-year-old boy with umbrella in Hiroshima
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Fadamor
First of all, the actions of criminal fisherman cannot be attributed to the entire country of China. Give China a chance to respond before you start ranting about the Chinese government. For all we know, they may say, "Hang the murderer for us."
That said, the Chinese fishing fleet DOES seem quick to try and ram authorities' vessels. They did so with the Japanese Coast Guard and now with the S.K. Coast Guard. I wonder who's giving them this advice to do so. Whoever it is, they need to stop.
Posted in: Chinese fishing boat skipper kills S Korean coast guard officer
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Fadamor
To be fair, Mr. Zhang would probably face arrest if he tried to film that movie. Mr. Bale would probably be all-to-happy to work in another historical film regardless of the subject.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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Fadamor
Follow on comment (Mods, attach it to the above post if necessary):
If the child was discovered already on the porch roof after having fell, how do they know what floor he fell from?
Posted in: Boy, 5, falls to death from 6th floor of Gunma apartment building
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Fadamor
I work at a couple of elementary schools as the computer geek. 5-year-olds (and even most 7-year-olds) really aren't ready to be on their own without a supervising adult. I don't automatically blame the parent of the child because the parent of the child's friend might have been the one who was "watching" them. But SOMEBODY needed to be watching them and in this case this boy was not watched well enough.
Posted in: Boy, 5, falls to death from 6th floor of Gunma apartment building
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Fadamor
LOL. It's that "we're right and everybody else is wrong" attitude that got Japan into all its difficulties in the first half of the 20th century. Don't tell me it's resurfacing again! While I have no doubt that China has inflated its claims regarding the massacre, I have no trouble believing a massacre happened based on the Japanese Army's actions against civilians during the WWII years.
As for all the "dredging up ancient history" comments: It IS history and they have every right to make a movie about it. When movies came out in the U.S. about government-sanctioned slavery prior to the conclusion of the American Civil War, there was no huge outcry from Americans to the tune of, "We don't do that anymore! Stop trying to incite unrest!" Japan should act similarly. Hopefully they have learned from their past mistakes and will vow to not let something similar happen again.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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Fadamor
Even if the other four ARE corporate shills, you can't survive long in D.C. with a "my way or the highway" attitude. You have to at least PRETEND that you're listeneing to other people's views. Sounds like this guy hasn't learned that yet.
Posted in: Jaczko's response to Japan crisis criticized by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Fadamor
HEY! Who are you calling "old"?! I'm older than this guy and I'm not old! (SHEESH! Young whippersnappers these days have NO respect for their elders!)
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose
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Fadamor
Patrick is correct. Gordon Prange wrote an excellent book on the Pearl Harbor attack titled "At Dawn We Slept". He was able to access documents from both the U.S. and Japan shortly after the war in order to piece-together a detailed description of the views and actions on BOTH sides of the Pacific leading up to the attack and the reasons why things happened the way they did. Yet even he wasn't given access to things that were still classified at the time. Items declassified in the years subsequent to the publication of his book reveal that SOME of his conclusions would have been different had he been given access to the newly declassified data.
Yuri is also correct. Even if the Japanese Embassy had not delayed the delivery of the war declaration and had delivered it just prior to the attack - as intended - the U.S. still would not have been able to mount any sort of Hawaiian defense in time. The timing was planned so that the attack would occur only minutes after the declaration of war was handed to U.S. officials. Washington would have had to send a telegram, then have the telegram delivered to the base commanders before the defenses could be activated. It IS a puzzle as to why neither the submarine piers, nor the oil tank farm were targeted during the attack. The shipyard WAS attacked, but they appeared to concentrate on the ships in drydock, rather than the drydock facilities themselves. This lapse in the attack allowed the U.S. to send out their submarine fleet virtually unscathed and the shipyard was able to perform some amazing repairs in record time only months after the attack. The intact oil farm meant that the surviving ships didn't have to wait until tankers from the mainland arrived before they could disperse.
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Foxie, the U.S. didn't interfere with Russia's election. It was Putin's "United Russia" (yeah, right!) party that interfered with the election through election fraud. Clinton's comments came AFTER the election.
Posted in: Putin accuses Clinton of instigating protesters
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Fadamor
kwatt is a perfect example of someone believing what they want to believe regardless of the facts presented. (Must be a Republican)
Fiction: "the US already knew the approach of the J navy to Hawaii."
Fact: The U.S. knew Japanese Carrier Force One had sailed, but its location was unknown after it left port and its destination wasn't known until the planes descended on Pearl. The Carrier Force's route intentionally took it out of the commonly used commercial routes in order to avoid detection.
Fiction: "US highest ranking officers got an information that J navy fleets were approaching to Hawaii. US Admiral decided the carrier fleet to move out of the Bay in case of Japanese attacks."
Fact: Both the Army and Navy Commandants on Oahu received a message from Washingtion stating "War Warning: Take appropriate action" The first question they asked themselves was, "What the heck is a 'War Warning" and what would be an appropriate action?" The Army General incorrectly guessed that sabotage was the highest threat and lined all his aircraft up out by the runway - away from buildings and fences that saboteurs could use as cover. This, unfortunately, made them ridiculously easy to destroy in a few strafing runs by fighter aircraft. If they knew the carriers were coming, why make it easier for Japanese A6M Zeros to destroy our defenses? As for the U.S. carriers, you have to know that in 1941 carriers were NOT the primary naval vessel in the fleet. That role was still retained by the battlewagons. It wasn't until the middle of WWII that tactical doctrine shifted from the battleship being the highest value ship of a fleet to the carriers being the highest-value ships. So if the navy really DID know the attack was forthcoming, then the BATTLESHIPS would have been at sea ahead of any carrier sorties.
Posted in: U.S. marks 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Meh. If the vessels and/or processing facilities were damaged during the tsunami, then OF COURSE some of the donated funds will go towards restoring the businesses. This is a non-issue to me.
Whales are food for animals higher in the food chain. As long as a particular species of whale is not endangered, there should be no limits on hunting for food. People keep trying to impart some special status to whales when the truth is that they're not that intelligent. If they were as smart as people try to make them out to be, then pods would avoid ships of ANY kind after the first of their pod is taken. It's not like thse ships are stealthed and can sneak up on a pod undetected.
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid
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Fadamor
Genkigonzo, JT didn't write it. It was written elsewhere and distributed by the Associated Press, of which JT is a subscribing news service. I suppose you could give JT kudos for deciding to run THIS particular AP release over the dozens of others that AP releases every day.
I have to laugh at their copyright disclaimer at the bottom, though. It seems they left something off:
Considering that the AP's entire BUSINESS is built on subscribers being able to redistribute the AP's work, methinks they forgot the part at the end that says "without written permission from the Associated Press".
About the meat of the article, I have to wonder if this is another one of those Japanese things where something is ambiguously said, but the meaning is clear to a native speaker. That's one of the harder aspects I've found in trying to learn the language. The direct translation may be having "deep emotion" but the full meaning actually means more? Perhaps a native speaker can weigh-in on this possibility?
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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Fadamor
Okimike oversimplified things a bit. There are circumstances that must be met before you could "legally" shoot someone on your property: The primary circumstance is the owner has to demonstrate a reasonable fear of bodily harm from the intruder. In the case of this story, a 9-year-old "intruder" isn't going to be a threat to an adult to the point where the adult could claim self-defense.
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose
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Fadamor
I work PART TIME as a football referee and because I work high school games, I have to go through a criminal background-check with the State Police EVERY YEAR. People who are employed to work with vulnerable people need to be verified through criminal background checks, not just rely on their honesty.
Posted in: Kyoto hospital worker jailed for tearing toenails off elderly patients