Posted by George Hester on 09/27/05 02:56

"NRen2k5" <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 9/24/2005 1:51:53 PM, "George Hester" wrote:
> >"Hammerer" <hammerer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:z_fZe.2102$7b6.670@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> >> >
> >> > As far as I know RIAA "attcked" nothing. Their lawyers put the
> >> > fear of God into P2P developers. That was all it took. The loss
> >> > in Network as a direct response to RIAA lawyer threats. That is it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes, George. Otherwise known as an RIAA "attck".
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I suppose. But if the P2P developers didn't get cold feet the RIAA
"attack"
> >would have been useless. Wasn't an "attack" it was a "threat." There is
a
> >diference. We threatened Iraq and then we attacked them. I spz we could
> >have just attacked them but then people would say it wasn't a "Just" war.
> >The threat made it Just.
> >
> >--
> >George Hester
> >_________________________________
> >
> >
>
> The threat of war if they didn't destroy *the WMD which they didn't
have*... ? ;)
>
> - NRen2k5

It doesn't matter if the threat has no basis in reality. You must
understand how this country thinks. We in the USA pride ourselves on being a
Just society. So we threaten before we attack. Always have and always
will. But is there any basis in reality of the threat? Moot point it's all
in the threat. It's pretty clear to me that's the way we operate. Do I
agree with it? Hell no but that's the way it is.

--
George Hester
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