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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7e6c,4bd72546ed201115,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e6c,public X-Google-Thread: 10f18e,4bd72546ed201115,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f18e,public X-Google-Thread: 1155f8,4bd72546ed201115,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1155f8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,630c12e823d1bdf4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-10 04:35:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!area.cu.mi.it!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.hostname.nl!newsfeed.zip.com.au!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail From: faust Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,soc.culture.australian,aus.religion,aus.religion.judaism Subject: Making bombs after graduation ( was Re: Hijacking a Thread was RE: New Ada compiler for .NET) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:33:40 -0800 Organization: Cthulhu Fthagn Reply-To: The Elder Gods Message-ID: References: <1040653133.613605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3e18f3f3_1@news.tm.net.my> <6KwmrO7CZtnj@eisner.encompasserve.org> <1041910244.361888@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E1E5604.5030209@nospam.adrianhoe.com> <1042177570.752923@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.81.163 X-Trace: 1042202061 7812 210.49.81.163 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32878 soc.culture.australian:79881 aus.religion:13818 Date: 2003-01-10T23:33:40-08:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen , emitted these fragments: >Back in engineering school we would occasionally joke about going >to work making bombs after graduation. The issue never really >arose for me since I went into programming, and I've always worked >on stuff that had nothing to do with weapons systems. True story follows: A Rabbi I know worked at a shul attended by many senior figures from Los Alamos National Laboratory's applied theoretical and computational physics section ( the nuclear weapons design division ) . He was a young man then and was anti-war and anit-nuke. One Friday, he let lose with a firey sermon about the evils of warmongers. He has intended it to be a call to repentance addressed to the nuclear designers in his shul. After the service, he was approached by several of them. They congratulated him sincerely on preaching such a "anti-Russian" sermon. I heard him recount this rather ruefully as an example of how we practice self delusion. -- natsu-gusa ya / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato summer grasses / strong ones / dreams site Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldier's dreams (Basho trans. Stryk)