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In article <87ioob5g7v.fsf@debian.uxu>, Emanuel Berg
<embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> David Harmon <source@netcom.com> writes:
> 
> >> I never said that computers didn't play a role.
> >
> > Yes, actually, you said "nothing to do with computers
> > whatsoever".
> 
> I said: "in a war in which millions lost their lives in
> warfare that had nothing to do with computers
> whatsoever".
> 
> Which is true.

You really don't have a clue, do you. D'ye really think that the
near-real-time decryption of a large fraction of German signals traffic
was unimportant? The battle of the Atlantic would certainly have been
lost with that. There would have been no second front at all without
that.

-- 
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
 lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores 
 the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them
 into it in the first place."                             - Douglas Adams

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70 years ago today Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-06 13:20 +0000
  Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-06 16:26 +0200
    Re: 70 years ago today Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-06 14:31 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-06 16:59 +0100
    Re: 70 years ago today Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-06 16:45 +0000
    Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-06 18:13 +0100
      Re: 70 years ago today Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-06 17:20 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-06-06 18:10 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-06 22:26 +0200
        Re: 70 years ago today Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-06 21:15 +0000
          Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-06 23:40 +0200
            Re: 70 years ago today Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-07 17:53 +0000
            Re: 70 years ago today Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-06-07 23:27 +0000
              Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-08 18:30 +0200
                Re: 70 years ago today David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2014-06-08 12:38 -0700
                Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-08 21:55 +0200
                Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-08 23:46 +0100
                Re: 70 years ago today Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-06-08 19:42 -0600
                Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-09 10:42 +0100
                Re: 70 years ago today Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-06-09 14:19 -0500
        Re: 70 years ago today Philip Shaw <jnufcvyvuc@tznvy.pbz> - 2014-06-10 14:47 +0000
    Re: 70 years ago today greymausg@mail.com - 2014-06-06 17:59 +0000
      Re: 70 years ago today Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-06-07 18:58 +0100
        Re: 70 years ago today Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> - 2014-06-08 00:15 +0200
        Re: 70 years ago today Jon Lane <jon@dorsal.tk> - 2014-06-25 17:15 +0000
  Re: 70 years ago today MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2014-06-07 15:16 +0200
  Re: 70 years ago today Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-07 18:46 +0200
  Re: 70 years ago today hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel Hammerschmidt) - 2014-06-08 20:13 +0200
  Re: 70 years ago today RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-09 10:16 +0000
    Re: 70 years ago today MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2014-06-12 13:15 +0200
      Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-12 15:07 +0100
        Re: 70 years ago today MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2014-06-12 23:14 +0200
          Re: 70 years ago today Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-12 22:41 +0100

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