Re: OT: Canada Hopes Not to be Missile Target

From: Terry Given (my_name_at_ieee.org)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:36:37 +1300

Spehro Pefhany wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2005 01:01:55 GMT, the renowned Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov.>
> wrote:
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>>Pacifism doesn't work.(ask the Jews of WW2 about that)
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> How well did militarism work for Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany?
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>>> - does the system encourage an arms buildup in response to simply
>>>overcome the system by numbers(this is the reason ABMs have
>>>classically been banned, and research discouraged).
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>>Or would the arms buildup occur anyways?
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> Nope.
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> Best regards,
> Spehro Pefhany

perhaps we should just kill people who design weapons. uh-oh, indirectly
that takes out most of our profession. I'm guilty of building military
UPS that saw service in GW2 (he says, looking nervously over his shoulder)

Cheers
Terry

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