-Caveat Lector- nurev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > Robert Tatman wrote: <snip> > > It has occurred to me that there may be method to this madness. Suppose, just > > for the sake of argument, that what is going on here, starting with the > > supercomputer sales to China and continuing with the policy laid out in > > Drudge's story, is not simply cupidity, but is actually designed to gather > > highly-sensitive intelligence. Suppose that deep inside each computer, perhaps > > built into the microprocessors themselves, is a radio transmitter. Suppose > > that this transmitter is set to send a coded message from time to time, > > perhaps to a U.S. satellite, perhaps to an SR-71 or AEGIS destroyer, reporting > > all of the operations that the computer's new owners have carried out on it in > > the past <ump> days. Suppose that U.S. officials have deliberately set out to > > make themselves look like idiots, to draw in and trap other countries into > > swallowing the bait. No, I don't have any evidence for this. But just > > suppose... > > > > Bob > > Bob, you need to start shelling out more for better quality acid. > " American" corporations have a long history of treason. With the > "new" > ideology of globalization, there are fewer rabid nationalists in the > government who give a damn about national sovereignty. > > This treason is not new. Treason is not treason in a capitalist > society > if you can make money. Selling high tech equipment and weapons to an > enemy is very good business. It means that the government MUST spend > more > money to pay for new generations of weapons and computers to develop > and > run them. Thus creating a new market where there wasn't one before. > > Stalin and Krushev said that the Capitalist West will sell them the > rope > to hang us. They understood the pigs running this country much better > than our fellow citizens ever do. > > The Rich are only loyal to the acquisition of more money. > > Know your enemy. > > Joshua2 I won't deny the slipperiness of capitalist ethics. But I do know that the R&D that led to the creation of the supercomputers we're talking about here was funded heavily by the Federal government, including much gelt from the black budget. The computer business is as tied to government for its funding as is the defense industry. (Look at the origins of both the defense industry and the computer industry--both were originally created either directly as government initiatives or with substantial government funding and direction.) Without the Feds stoking the fire, nothing would ever get done on R&D. (BTW, that's not an advertisement for Big Government but a simple statement of historical fact. By itself, industry will concentrate on producing the same thing as the competition in a different package...that's what capitalist competition amounts to.) And if the Feds suggest that a *slight addition* might be made to the chips in the computers, why, who are the captains of industry to say no to a perfectly reasonable request? These deals with China and other "pariah states" are most certainly not the result of operations by rogue companies. They are instead carefully calculated to further specific long-range policy objectives of the Federal government, or rather of certain agencies of the Federal government. IMHO, of course. Bob ================================= Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. 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