OT: Whirled Peas (was Re: Malware "best practices")

[Jon maddog Hall]

> Humans will never learn to live in peace (I pray that I am wrong here). Oh 
> well. Perhaps the way to induce peaceful living would be to give the 
> cyber-equivalent of the thermonuclear bomb to everyone. Kinda like giving 
> everyone a lit match whilst standing in a pool of petrol.

If everyone were sane, this might have a chance.  Unfortunately there are quite a few
insane people in the world, and with this scenario it only takes one.

How many times have you seen pictures of people who set themselves on fire to protest
something?  It is even a smaller step if they thought they could take the people
they blame their plight on with them.

There is a reason for the locks, double locks, cross-over locks, etc in the missle
bunkers that we have.  And we will probably never know how many times at least one
of the sets of hands needed to launch a missle went "bonkers" and tried to "end it
all".

No, I think the way to "world peace" is to beat the swords into plowshares, make sure
everyone has enough to eat, a decent life for themselves and a better life for their
children.  To make life so sweet that people will be loath to give it up.  And when
old men want to fight, they do it themselves, face to face, hand to hand, instead of
sending young men off to die.

md
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