[gameprogrammer] Re: PC game Outsourcing

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 00:31, grant hallman wrote:
> At 09:26 AM 29-04-04 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>  [snip]
> 
> 
> >You know... I am rather fond of the atomic bomb. My father was in the
> >invasion fleet on the way to Japan when it was first used. If it hadn't
> >been used I most likely would not have been born. The last I read the US
> >expected to lose several million men in that invasion and they expect to
> >have to kill pretty much all the Japanese. As horrible as the bomb is,
> >the world is a better place for it. All the world has had to grow up and
> >become a little more sane because of it.
> 
> Since we're venturing a little afield, i'd add this: i grew up during that
> "sanity" period, i was in 1st year U of Toronto when the Cuban Missile
> Crisis had us all wondering how good the Russian missiles were, and how
> many targeted our city - expecting a major nuclear exchange any day. This
> was the acute phase of a chronic threat that went on for 30+ years. The
> "defense" policy was oficially called "MAD" (Mutual Assured Destruction).

This is far afield and we should wind this up...

I was in grade school at the time living in an area that was out of
reach of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, but easily in reach for their
ICBMs. I think of that times as the "growing up" period. Not the sane
period. The sane period didn't get started for at least 10 years after
that. When the US finally figured out that we couldn't kill them so we
had to compete in other ways.

We are still learning, but the fact that nuclear weapons have only been
used twice says something very positive about the human species. Sadly,
I feel that they had to be used before anyone could conceive of how
horrible they are. Sort of like teaching a child not to touch fire. I
have two children, one could be taught not to touch the fire, the other
had to touch the fire...

> 
> We (western civilization) got thru it, in large part because the BGs had
> infrastructure and population to protect too. It's not like u can
> undiscover nuclear bombs, but we are now in a new phase, where the new BGs
> don't have such limitations, nor a state to moderate their excesses, nor
> even a return address, accurate to within three countries.
> 
> I predict, boys & gals, that by 2012 or earlier we'll see NYC sucessfully
> attacked with a smuggled nuclear bomb - not one of those dirty-bomb
> chemical explosives, i mean 20 to 80 kt blast, with casualties between one
> and 6 million. If u wanna see ObL sweat, give him just one nuke, and ask
> him, NYC or Tel Aviv?
> 
> And there are worse scenarios, like pre-placed nukes in 20 US cities, and
> anonymous demands to pull US armed forces out of any non-US territory, or
> one US city per day goes up. Think it'd be impossible to smuggle nukes into
> US? Just tuck 'em in the bottom of the daily drug run from Columbia, which
> has not noticeably abated due to stepped up border security. "Fond"? - ok...
> 
> We now return to the regularly-scheduled problem of job outsourcing... this
> was just a test... bzzzap...

I really hope that doesn't happen. I hate to imagine how many people
would be killed before the US regained its sanity.

                Bob Pendleton


> 
> cheers - grant
> 
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