From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 4 4:14:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C92E37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:14:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5475B43E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 3B53F536F; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:14:47 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Terry Lambert Cc: "f.johan.beisser" , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WTC Payoff [11 september] From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:14:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3E3FA575.92A5B49@mindspring.com> (Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:35:17 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <20030204005427.Q63914-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <3E3FA575.92A5B49@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > More likely, we would have used fuel-air explosives. They have > the benefit of being in the same tonnages as small nuclear > weapons, without the nasty stigma of radioactivity, or the > political problems from people who are or think they are down > wind. We dropped so much tonnage on Dresden in WWII trying to > destroy German industrial capacity that the destruction was much > worse than Hiroshima, but we keep appologizing for Hiroshima, > and not for Dresden. s/German industrial capacity/a single lousy vitamin factory/ AFAIK DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message