Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:24, cr wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 13:37, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:35:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > > Why? Passenger and freight peacefully coexist on tracks worldwide.
> > >
> > > ...as does airliners and high rises. You both ignore how
> > > war criminals and terrorists work; they _break_ the rules.
> >
> > It's kind of irrelevant though. Causing a serious railway disaster is
> > dead easy - you steal a truck and cause it to fall off a bridge over a
> > 125mph main line. Or you stick a contrivance involving fertiliser and
> > diesel oil under one of the rails of said main line. If you want to
> > make a passenger train hit something really hard, there are much
> > easier choices of obstacle than a freight train.
>
> It probably depends whether the terrorist has been watching enough James Bond
> movies. Never do it the easy simple way if you can do it the hard
> complicated way. ;)
>
> Incidentally, even the truck-on-the-line won't normally cause a huge death
> toll. Trains are remarkably crash-resistant things. If you want to kill
> heaps of people, an airliner's a *much* better bet.
Besides, it *looks* sooo much more dramatic.
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