From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-25 05:38:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3EA81C8D.B0B6949@raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1051274331 5437 129.241.83.78 (25 Apr 2003 12:38:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:38:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36530 Date: 2003-04-25T12:38:51+00:00 List-Id: Jerry Petrey wrote: > We certainly don�t want to kill innocent civilians in a war, which is > why we build smart weapons to minimize these unnecessary losses. > However, nothing is perfect � there are always unexpected casualties > in a war. No one builds airliners to crash and kill civilians either > but it happens. We try to minimize it but it still happens. Of > course there are plenty of idiots in the world that have no problem > using an airliner full of civilians as a weapon. There are ruthless > dictators like Saddam who have no problem torturing and killing his > own people by the thousands, or his son who uses his penis for a > weapon of torture. I, for one, am proud to be making the weapons that > help rid the world of such trash. I'm proud to be from a country with > the guts to stand up against such people rather than burying their > heads in the sand and talking about �peace and love� while the > murderers continue their sprees. We are not perfect but we try to do > something to help give freedom to those to whom it is withheld. > Unfortunately there is always a price to pay for freedom � but there > is a much greater price to pay for letting it slip away. What does this have to do with what I wrote? I'm talking about using the war as PR for Ada. > I think Ada makes safer systems that minimize loss of civilian lives > in many hi-tech applications (not only weapons). What I am concerned > about is the movement away from it today in so many areas. I think > there will be many more unnecessary losses of lives in the future for > these decisions, however well intentioned they are. As I also said you may find this kind of PR useful in military circles. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/