End of Surplus?

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:55 PM
>
>> of it goes overseas. Supposedly this is coming from the Department of
>> Homeland Security and has something to do with 9/11. (Have you noticed 
>> that
>> every new, rediculous requirement is in response to 9/11?) This is a
>
> When the terrible events of 9/11 occured, one of my first comments was 'I
> fear the reaction of the governments more than I fear the terrorists'.
> Govenments have a habit of over-reacting, particularly if it means they
> can impose more restrictions on the public...
>
> Over here, you can be arrested for 'possessing information of use to a
> terrorist'. Let's looks along my bookshelves...
>
> The 555 timer data sheet
> Data sheets on various other timing chips
> Electronic magazines with timing circuits in them
> Various books on mechanical and electronic clocks (clocks have long since
> been an interst of mine)
> Books on chemistry
> Books on nuclear and particle physics (not suprising as I did a Ph.D. i
> the latter)
> Books on metalworking
> A London street map
> A London underground railway map
>
> Care to explain why those are not of use to terrorists. For that matter a
> cookery book is of use to a terrorist (presumably they have to eat
> sometime...)
>
> -tony


A friend of mine was a weapons office on a USN sub, one day we were talking 
about terrorists making a bomb.  He started by saying the technology is 
above their heads.  My response was get a bucket and put enough fissionable 
material in it and boom.

He said it wouldn't be efficient and you wouldn't no when it would blow, I 
said who cares if you have a nuclear explosion in a major city that's 
terrorism.


Randy
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