begin quoting John Oliver as of Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:16:01AM -0800: [snip] > I really think, bottom line, that this is just more smoke and hot air to > feed yet another burgeoning Federal bureaucracy. As menacing as some of > the provisions seem, they'll stumble over their own feet trying to > implement and enforce, while the terrorists keep doing as they've always > done. A few people may be caught in the labyrinth, but none of these > measures will really accomplish anything. Just like the TSA!
Along those lines, http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.68.html has as the first article "Risk Analysis and the War on Terrorism". http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.68.html#subj1 It refers to an Atlantic Monthly article (subscription required, or knowing someone who has one to give you a 3-day access pass), but presents a useful summary nonetheless. Basically, what is sensible to do in reality is not sensible to do, politically. Both Kerry and Bush have (apparently) pointed out that you can't *prevent* terrorism, you can only reduce it to the level of noise, and both were 'punished' for it. -Stewart "Terrorism only works if you change what you are doing" Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
