[94908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was "RE:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Mon Feb 12 19:36:59 2007
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:32:46 -0800
From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark@globalstar.com>
To: "nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480702121513g70d26fd3o51dc4c52b463e3cb@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>> On 2/12/2007 at 3:13 PM, "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> Causality? WW2=3D>nukes, cold war=3D>arpanet=3D>internet, surely?
Hitler=3D>WW2=3D>...
Godwin!
Please?
Anyway, we all know Al Gore invented the Internet.
> On 2/12/07, micky coughes <coughes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hmm, let's see.
>>
>> Nukes =3D> cold war =3D> arpanet =3D> internet
>>
>> Yup, looks ok.
>>
>> On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <jolsen@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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