CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:58:04AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > As a WarGames movie fanatic I can tell you it goes the opposite way. > > > > DEFCON 5 is complete peace-time (i.e. it has never happened to date). > > > > DEFCON 1 is Global Thermonuclear War. (i.e. it has never happened to date). > > > > DEFCON 4, 3, 2 are the juicy bits in between. DEFCON is `normal' status. > > If you have the DVD and listen to the commentary done by the writers > you'll see that they winged it and guessed cos this was a big secret > and in the end got it the wrong way around. DefCon 1 is peacetime. makes sense otherwise what's next after "Global Thermonuclear War"? when you get to "destruction of planet to make way for inter-planetary bypass"? defcon 0? doesn't have quite the right ring to it. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
