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From: dmn@stiatl.UUCP (Michael Nowacki)
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Subject: Re: Do dogs love their humans (was: Can machines think....)
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Date: 6 Mar 90 19:17:37 GMT
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article <1990Mar6.035358.1081@cs.umn.edu> thornley@cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes:
>>Western culture has been built, like all surviving modern cultures, on 
>>superior weapons of war -- you may choose to consider this as superior
>>thinking ability. If our weapons weren't better than the German and
>>Japanese weapons, German and Japanese would be the dominant languages.
>
>Our weapons were not better than the German and Japanese weapons.  The Allies
>won by the simple means of drastically out-producing the Axis.  German Panther
>tanks were overwhelmed...

a.) Hitler started the war, and he lost it thru incredibly stupid policys.
(he was, after all, crazy.)i have seen a documentary about no less than 6 
operational jet aircraft 
that were flyable by 1944. and we were lucky ike's gamble on a landing point
for d-day worked.
b.) yamamoto, or whichever admiral commanded the pearl harbor raid, threw
away an _easy_ victory by his odd reticence to continue to the mainland. he
probably could have occupied the entire west coast before meeting any serious
resistance.

both these points are non-obscure.

consider, prior to the 20th century, the remnants of the other great cultures.

the west is dominant merely by default.

the fact that it is on a global scale is unique to 20th century technology.

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