It is good

I had it in Japan. Really nice.

If SOuth Park is censored,

Mexican viewers must be puzzled that these strange creatures in South Park only ever beep, and never use any words then

True

but at the same time: why does flickr not have a roll-back system in place to cope with such mishaps?

well precisely.

And neither did the Japanese need to tie up Dutch soldiers who had already surrendered in wicker cages weighted down with stones, and throw them in the sea. Hatred begets hatred, atrocity begets atrocity. QI did not imply the bombs were a good idea, nor do most posts in the forum. Japan can however not solely be portrayed as the victim in this case.

The embassy represents the goverment

does it not?

I have been in Japan twice, like many of the people I met there, found them courteous and helpful, but I do feel many of their official positions on the events in the war are very biased indeed, as I explained above. There are many Japanese individuals who distance themselves (politely) from the official line, but the official line does seem to be very much "don't mention the war!" This is a pity, as Japan would gain a great deal of respect if they owned up to the wrongs that were committed in the past.

As should every imperial(ist) power.

The comment was on being unlucky

or lucky, depending how you look on it. If you saw the actual program as I did, you would at most smile at the wry irony of fate in this man's past. In my opinion, they did not make light of the war or the bomb, they just pointed out an extremely unlikely (and unfortunate) series of events.

not quite correct

You can rely on entropy reduction in the out put of your decryption to be informative as well. The cracking of the Enigma code resulted from knowing the coding mechanisms (it was after all patented) and knowing what letter combinations occur with which frequency in the plain text (assuming it was German). Knowing actual words is a great boon, but not strictly necessary.

If you really need provably uncrackable security on a document: use a properly randomized one-time-pad, i.e. an unguessable password of the same length as the plain text, and doing e.g. a bit-wise XOR. You cannot brute force this, because you need to generate all character sequences of the same length as the document, which leaves you to select which of the 27^N (assuming no caps, digits, or punctuation, with N the number of characters) outputs is the correct one. Apart from all nonsensical N character texts, only one of the sensible N character texts is the right one.

or beavers

for that matter

Check your physics

1: The object brought from the house into a cold car will have been warm

2: Air in a cold car is dry

3: If the temperature of an object is higher than ambient, no condensation forms, even at 100% relative humidity.

4: If you heat up a (cold) car the air becomes dryer.

And even IF condensation forms, electronic circuitry can easily be made robust against that, in particular low-voltage stuff. Actually, just a bit of insulating coating does the trick.

Different food stuffs have different values per kilogram

That can make a BIG difference. Try buying a kilogram of white truffles ;-)

Dead right

Maybe we should create an app for that ;-)

To true

I have an HTC Desire (and like it very much), but the one thing I miss from the old Palm Tungsten T3 is the stylus which allowed me to write (OK Graffiti, but it was easy to learn). Real handwriting recognition is the key to fast input.

When needing something portable to do some writing for a project proposal (during the family holidays) I got myself a new notepad (A4, hardcover, EUR 4.95). Startup-time: zero, battery life infinity, all math fonts available ;-), not nearly as invasive into the holiday atmosphere as the 13.3" laptop, storage space: limited but sufficient. Writing is so much faster than typing. I did have to copy it all over to my desktop machine manually, but I could do that at my leisure on return from vacation.

This is not an argument

this is plain contradiction!

No it isn't!

Can we have a Monty Python icon?

But the cheese should have been

Ilchester

Indeed

there are many options before we STAMPEDE towards the clitoris

Foot-in-mouth disease!!

"Have you been dreaming of that unique custom wheelchair that would not cost you an arm and a leg?"

Reality is stranger than fiction.

Maybe some add-exec thought it that ANY publicity is good publicity.