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Date:         Tue, 26 Mar 2002 21:19:27 -0600
Reply-To:     Chris Mills <scmills@TNTECH.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Chris Mills <scmills@TNTECH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: No Vanagon Content/Macintosh bashing
Comments: To: jbrush@AROS.NET, hcmills@tntech.edu, animal22@earthlink.net
In-Reply-To:  <200203261733.g2QHXX816026@mail.aros.net>
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Holy Smoke you were right!!!!

I thought the Tailhook scandal and a few certain politicians were ruining the Navy. Now this!!! <grin!>

Had a good time in the service (statement made in retrospect of course) but glad to be out.

I guess if Windoze failed a big ship like those, you might have a BIG crash on your hands!!!

What's next - commercial airliners running Windoze?

> >Never heard of a Naval vessel (military) that relied so heavier on > >automation that it couldn't be operated manually in a pinch. > >Well, you just don't stay informed like you should :-) > >This is the second time today folks have questioned my honesty. Tough >afternoon around here :-) > >Check it out: > >http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm >http://www.applelinks.com/articles/1999/04/19990429124515.shtml >http://members.aol.com/rkaphing/ms/nt_crashes.html > >If this billion dollar ship had been involved in active duty, it would >have been sunk in 10 minutes. Completely unable to move itself. > >If we are depending on Windows NT to defend our nation, we are in a bad >way. I know its OT, but all of us who pay our taxes should be aware that >the Pentagon has always had very strict rules on what type of security >computer systems must have in order to be used by the military, for >obvious reasons. NT does NOT qualify under those standards, yet here it >is, being used by the military because billy gates got someone a hooker, >or paid off a few bad debts for a Senator. NT only meets military security >standards when it is NOT connected to a network. Its your money, its your >country. > >I would not even let NT control my vanagon systems (required vanagon >content <g>) > >Regards, > >John > >No Windows, no Macs. Just a PC that actually works.

Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE"> Cookeville, Tennessee

ICQ# 5944649 scm9985@tntech.edu

'78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion


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