On Sunday 18 January 2004 18:07, Mark Tinka wrote: > Sorry for the OT, but I'm in conflict here; > > http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-0911.shtml says that the > September 11, 2001 hijackings that saw the destruction of the World Trade > Centre have been proven as the costliest man-made tragedy EVER, at an > estimated $30 billion. > > Just wondering, does this surpass the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombings > decades earlier, ordered by the then US president, Truman (man-made) on > August the 6th and 9th, 1945? Mind you, the effects of these bombings are > still being felt by the citizens of these locations, ecnomically, socially, > and in health. > > How can that be quanitified, in billions, if not gazillions? > Not just yet. Believe me, there are worse things to come with people like Bill still around. I've got this feeling that the costliest man-made catastrophe will have something to do with M$. Going by simple statistics, there should be a security loop-hole in Windows that is yet to be discovered, which when exploited, might just be the begining of the extinction of mankind.
We need fewer PC's running M$ software to mitigate the impact of such an adverse happening. Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
