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Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was "RE: Every incident is an opportunity")


From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark () globalstar com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:32:46 -0800


On 2/12/2007 at 3:13 PM, "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com> wrote:
Causality? WW2=>nukes, cold war=>arpanet=>internet, surely?

Hitler=>WW2=>...

Godwin!

Please?

Anyway, we all know Al Gore invented the Internet.

On 2/12/07, micky coughes <coughes () gmail com> wrote:


Hmm, let's see.

Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet

Yup, looks ok.

On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <jolsen () devry com> wrote:

Of course, but the point was the goal of that targetting. The
US public by and large believed, and seems to still believe
       [snip]
If anniliation is the goal than it's of no importance, just
bomb the densest population centers.

To borrow from snarky comments past:

Unless Vendor C has introduced a "no nuclear-apocalpyse" command that I
need to enable in IOS, it seems that this thread has wandered far from
the flock and subsequently lost most any relevance to the listserv
and/or topic that spawned it.  Cold War strategy is fascinating and all
(I do mean that in a non-snarky way) but does it really belong on NANOG
after it has seemingly dropped any pretense of being an analogy for
anything list-relevant?

-Feren
Sr Network Engineer
DeVry University






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