[ExI] anger

[Dylan Distasio]

An EMP is a much bigger threat.   If China (or another actor) miscalculated
and released one, I would suspect it would lead to nuclear annihilation.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1549/1

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:35 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I have wondered if WWIII would start by someone destroying certain
> satellites.  Must be a nightmare for the Pentagon.   bill w
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> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 2:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] anger
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>> >…The way to handle anger:  forgiveness…
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>> Definitely.  Most stuff you can just blow off.  Happy people are good at
>> forgiveness.
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>> >…Forgive yourself…
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>> No way!  I am such a bastard, I will get even with me if it’s the last
>> thing I do.  I have a saying:  I’ll get me, my pretty, and my little self
>> too!  But until then I can cut me some slack I suppose.  I just need to
>> walk a mile in my own shoes.
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>> >…ATand T has screwed me more than once.  What should I do?  Go out and
>> pull some of their cables down?  We don't need anger.    bill w
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>> Agree.  The local internet company went down this morning.  It was
>> horrifying: I had to read a book.  An actual paper book.  It wasn’t too bad
>> until I realized it wasn’t just me: most of the town was out of luck
>> because most of us have Comcast.  The students couldn’t go to school.
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>> I have a mobile hotspot on my phone, so we went over there, which is how
>> I am posting this.  But our school’s Wifi is also thru Comcast, so many of
>> the students are out of luck today.
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>> If a bad guy wants to burn down the US, she wouldn’t need to do it with
>> firebombs.  It would be done by somehow taking down the internet.  We
>> cannot operate without it.
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>> spike
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