Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] _happy_ poltical things

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
    >     Tom> Maybe this is just Stephen-bait

    > Nope, I just lost my appetite entirely.  :-)

    > Well, OK, just a nibble.  


Sure.  I don't wish to drag you into your and my dysfunctional
patterns of stupid mailing list conversations.


    > I will admit to having my own fantasy (much
    > less ambitious than your plank #3 since it involves already being in
    > wherever the next one is), in which a lot more resources are devoted
    > to training local police and protecting small business owners and
    > residents from looters and terrorists, less to searching out bad guys
    > and securing "strategic assets" on behalf of clients, and rules of
    > engagement are dramatically tighter in civilian areas.  

No argument from me.  (That's the real source of the dysfunction: we
agree on enough in general that the disagreements wind up being
obscure and pointless.)

-t