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

Tue Feb 13 00:32:46 UTC 2007

>>> On 2/12/2007 at 3:13 PM, "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hmm, let's see.
>>
>> Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet
>>
>> Yup, looks ok.
>>
>> On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <jolsen at 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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