At 4:43 PM -0800 11/10/00, Tim May wrote:
Noted presidential historian Michael Beschloss just had a very interesting point on the "Lehrer News Hour" on PBS. He thinks it fairly likely now that the spreading litigation, recounts, and marches in the streets will lead to a situation much like a nuclear war.
By "like a nuclear war" he meant, and I mean, like the escalation scenarios for a nuclear war. Not the damage effects, unless things get _really_ weird. This was clear from his context, and from general game-theoretic discussions over the years about nuclear war. For example, "use them or lose them," counter-force," "scorched earth," and similar scenarios and metaphors. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.