It's like recommending that a 120 TTon nuke on TelAviv or Damascus as a solution
to middle-east strife. It would solve a number of problems. The bones of
contention there, including the bulk of the world's oil supply would be
essentially gone, (everything from Tehran to well past Cairo, including parts of
Turkey, etc, would be under about a km of glass), thereby reducing the air
pollution attributable to petroleum use, and it wouldn't be safe to go there for
a couple of thousand years, so folks lucky enough to survive here on Earth would
probably forget about that stuff.
It's possible someone might come up with a solution more compatible with the
interests of the folks who are central to the mid-east struggle, however, but
this would certainly end the fighting.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
>
> > Why aren't the citizens in the U.K. up in arms over this and bashing
> > the cameras with rocks and doing other things to render them
> > ineffective? Why aren't effigies of the politicians who caused this
> > to happen being burned in the streets? Anyone with a few functional
> > brain cells should realize that such a system can easily cause many
> > problems for innocent people.
>
> They should get guns and shoot them down! Oops, Englanders aren't allowed
> to own guns.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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