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From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: problems with Star Wars #2 (part 2: the crux)
Message-ID: <1236@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 09:58:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 09:58:51 1985
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Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <5772@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>....
>I have discussed elsewhere the interesting reasoning: "because some
>types of SDI systems would be very dangerous, any SDI system would be".

But your article, from which this last comment is extracted, is using the
mirror image reasoning:  "Because we do not have (or may not have) grounds
to fear Star Wars in general, we should therefore not fear the current
actual Star Wars proposal."

Just think of it as a giant Berklix in the sky, Henry.  The first time you
hit funny code, bam!  we're all dead.  Or maybe the second time.  Or the third.

Plus, while you're installing it, the people from Xenix (can't hardly equate
the Roossians to Bell Labs, can we?) are getting nervous, and if you can't
get BSD up inside 30 minutes, they're going to replace your PDP-11 with a
PC XT.

-- Jim

(How's that for adaptive analogizing?  "Survival of the fittest analogy",
I always say.)