Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:24:56 +1200,
cr <cr@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
<[🔎] 200309010945.h819irTw007555@dbmail-mx2.orcon.co.nz>:
> 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.
...or this list. ;-)
> 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.
..in the open, I agree, train impact survivors just escape into the
neighborhood or the surrounding terrain. Now, try that in a tunnel,
and then consider the common major metropolitan rush hour numbers.
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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