--- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat > him to death...
Too bad for you that I cannot say the same about what you write. > > I have a different threat model. > > I've reached more or less the same conclusion. Or at least, incompetence > may > not be deliberate per se, but the byproduct of a system that needs to > appear > to care but is otherwise silently incented not to. Checking bags in the > NYC > transit system is the ultimate example of this: Completely, absolutely > pointless in the face of a determined foe. (Meanwhile, of course, > there's > all sorts of state shennanegins that are possible through such an > arrangement.) No fucking shit. Thanks for pointing this out to me. > The obvious question is how much 9/11/01 is an example of this. For me, > the > conspiracy theories just don't quite add up (close though) but a > moderately > sharpened Occam's razor leads one to believe that some 'deliberate' > holes > were left open, which bin Laden, et al exploited. (I actually still > believe > that Bush didn't expect that level of damage, however.) I don't know Bush, personally, and so I feel that it would be improper to suggest that his unspoken cost-benefit analysis resulted in a particular set of actions. > As for the integrity of the money supply, I must succumb to temptation > and > question whether the Stalinst model of a demand economy (servicing an > endless war on terror) hasn't been looked at by folks such as Wolfowitz, > Cheney and so on. Suckkumb all you want. Regards, Steve __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca