Re: [school-discuss] [offtopic] Re: Future War - Sorry did I miss something? - yup

[Malc <malcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:01:08PM -0700, Malc wrote:
> > Sorry did I miss something. What has this to do with S'forge?
> 

--- Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think there _is_ some connection: those who might be more
> prudent not to stick heads in sand could be also brave enough 
> to tell children that our problems are *us*, not *them*, most
> of the time.  

Malc comments:

> I've read one lengthy thread on airliners.net
> on F-22 "vs" Sukhoi and MiG machines, and there was something
> incredibly stupid in some of officers' comments: implication 
> that "Russians will invade us".  As if they've studied history
> and knew what happened in 1943 last time of many times.
> 

Yup, I read those comics too.

> Yep, it's up to free software and plain old education as well 
> as up to urban battles, as seen in Iraq or Chechnya.

That me be, but I am a bit worried about the "plain old education" bit.

To me, that seems the problem.

> 
> I've posted quite offtopic links to Paul Graham 

Looks like bad news...

(who's likely
> an IT/society philosopher by now) regarding geeks; maybe those
> even had helped some children since then.  


As I thought...

There are rare things
> that are worthy offtopic in worthy communities... hope teachers
> do have honor and tact to generally keep the line fine.
> 

Ah! Everything is clear!

> > --- Joel Kahn wrote:
> > > Here are links to two of the most chilling documents that I
> > > think you are likely to see:
> 

I bet he wish he hadn't!

M.

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