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Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was "RE: Every incident is an opportunity")
- From: Alexander Harrowell
- Date: Mon Feb 12 18:43:01 2007
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Causality? WW2=>nukes, cold war=>arpanet=>internet, surely?
On 2/12/07, micky coughes <[email protected]
> wrote: Hmm, let's see.
Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet
Yup, looks ok.
On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <[email protected]> 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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