halogamer1989 said:
HappySqurriel said:
Fear mongering isn’t limited to one end of the political spectrum ...
Where progressive politicians and conservative politicians differ is on what they use to evoke fear and who they try to make afraid. To see progressive fear mongering all you have to do is look at how Global Warming (or Climate Change) is being sold to people ... The most extreme projections from a variety of questionable studies are cherry picked to create the feeling of immanent doom so that people will accept massive changes without question.
Back to the OP ... While a nuclear strike in the United States would be awful, I don't think that terrorists really need to go to such extremes to get the kind of reaction they want. Most cities in North America have critical infrastructure (like the electrical power grids) which can be knocked out using a stick of dynamite or a simple denial of service attack ... If this was timed correctly (right as a long deep-freeze started) and was well planned widespread fear could be built quite easily.
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You are referring to a fire sale Happy which is extremely hard to pull off given redundent systems for exactly such a scenario. Thanks, btw, for staying OT and not trashing me as a POS racist, just another one of them, rich, redneck "Repugs". (I don't know what I did do deserve that)
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I think you put far too much faith in the existence of redundant systems ... Work on a SCADA project and you will see that "Security through obscurity" is often the only protection in the system, and you will learn that critical pieces of physical infrastructure have very little redundancy and take a long time to repair because there are no "extras" and these items take a long time to repair.
akuma587 said:
HappySqurriel said:
Fear mongering isn’t limited to one end of the political spectrum ...
Where progressive politicians and conservative politicians differ is on what they use to evoke fear and who they try to make afraid. To see progressive fear mongering all you have to do is look at how Global Warming (or Climate Change) is being sold to people ... The most extreme projections from a variety of questionable studies are cherry picked to create the feeling of immanent doom so that people will accept massive changes without question.
Back to the OP ... While a nuclear strike in the United States would be awful, I don't think that terrorists really need to go to such extremes to get the kind of reaction they want. Most cities in North America have critical infrastructure (like the electrical power grids) which can be knocked out using a stick of dynamite or a simple denial of service attack ... If this was timed correctly (right as a long deep-freeze started) and was well planned widespread fear could be built quite easily.
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Global warming doesn't cause people to invade other countries...
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No, but it does make us drive up the cost of food to a level where 80% of the world's population has amazing difficulty eating ...
