On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:38:43AM -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere wrote:
It all comes down to pretending a PC is a supercomputer,
An ordinary PC, by today's standards average, is defined by US law as a supercomputer, legally a munition ("weapon of war"). Wether you yourself believe the object defined by the pouplar term "supercomputer" is required to habitate a substantially larger space, or substantially larger number of computrons is irrelevant. There is no pretense here, just that I suspect you misunderstand that the term 'supercomputer' is being used as a legal term, not the common term you use in casual language.
pretending that ordinary Syrians, let alone nuclear weapons proliferating Syrians, didn't, in this period, routinely drive from Damascus to Beruit,
That you might be able to buy a cannister of napalm from the grocery store in [Insert random location], doesn't mean the US has to hold all exports of napalm into that location as immune from export controls. Again, there is no pretense here, and there is no need for it. -- David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time, Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again." Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins