End of Surplus?

[John Foust]

At 06:02 PM 4/26/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Joe R. wrote:
>>    Any thoughts on this?
>Yeah: Fuck the DHS.

Careful, there may be DHS spies on this list, sent here to make 
sure that no third-world terr-ist gets ahold of any surplus antiquities.
Not that they'd shoot first at the ones with the furr-in names
or anything like that.  Nothing to see here, please move along.

At 06:55 PM 4/26/2005, Tony Duell wrote:
>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...)

Last winter I read Nigel Slater's "Toast" and learned a tremendous
amount about English cooking and boyhood.  My word, it's different
over there! 

At 08:08 PM 4/26/2005, Joe R. wrote:
>Sorry but that won't work. After the first couple of generations of the
>chain reaction it simply blows itself apart and the chain reaction dies.

Define "work".  If your intent is to simply spread the dust of some
highly radioactive industrial waste around a city, you don't 
need fission, fusion, a surplus computer or even a bucket.  

- John